Special Alert Newsletter - October 2010
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 Dear Friends:
The other morning I found an attractive, well laid out advertisement in my mail box. Obviously, a lot of thought and money had gone into its production and mailing. It was from the Republican National Committee, 310 First Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20003. During the run up to the mid-term elections such fliers and political ads are a dime a dozen. A visit to the trash bin at my local post office indicated that many of my fellow Oregonians believe that such mailings are just that: TRASH — junk, scrap, rubbish!
And for good reason! Experience has shown that the content of such advertisements (a written form of political rhetoric) bears little if any resemblance to political and financial reality. As George Orwell (Eric Blair, 1903-1950) observed so truthfully in his 1945 essay, Politics and the English Language, political rhetoric varies “from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, homemade turn of speech. When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases ... one almost always has the curious feeling that one is not watching a human being but some kind of dummy, a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speakers’s glasses and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses this kind of phraseology has gone some distance towards turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in (a catholic) church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favorable to political conformity.”
Elsewhere in the essay Orwell wrote,“Political language — and this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind...”
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues. And politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer...”
Now, with this basic understanding of politics and the English language, we return to the political advertisement. It boldly proclaimed: “Your share of the national debt is : $44,000. At $13 trillion and counting, let’s put a stop to the debt. President Obama and the Pelosi Congress have been on a spending binge during the last two years, handing out big bailouts to special interests.... That’s money that could be used for college tuition, to pay off a home mortgage or to be saved for retirement. But it’s lost forever because the liberal politicians in Washington couldn’t stop spending your money on failed big government programs....
“Pelosi and Obama are blowing up the debt. Say no to runaway spending, higher taxes and more debt. Vote Republican on November 2.”
The ad ignores the fact that the two highest increases in the national debt occurred under “republican” presidents: Reagan and Bush II.
STOP! THINK! Is there anything basically false with anything stated in this Republican advertisement? Essentially, No! But that’s not the point. The simple truth is that the American public — especially those who pride themselves on being “conservative” — have been on the receiving end of the same kind of mindless rhetoric at regular intervals since the “liberals” took over almost full control of our nation’s capital in 1964. Yet, as Orwell so truthfully observed, the messages from politicians, whether in person or in advertisements “are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, homemade turn of speech. When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases ... one almost always has the curious feeling that one is not watching a human being but some kind of dummy...”
Is it not possible that dumbed-down American “conservatives” are the ones who are been treated as “dummies” by the conartists who control the Republicon power bases in Washington and in state capitals nation wide? Their political leaders utter what seem to be the “appropriate noises,” but the dummies — the “party faithful” — are unable to see that their alleged “conservative” leaders are just going through their paces. Their brain is not involved, they may be almost unconscious of what they are saying... And this reduced state of consciousness is at any rate favorable to political conformity. It is regrettable that these are the type of mindless automatons who are leading the gullible American sheeple over the cliff into the feudalistic new world order planned by their puppet masters.
And so the political beat goes on! And the more things seem to be on the verge of changing, the more they remain the same. As Dr. Carroll Quigley, one of Bill Clinton’s mentors, stated, “both parties (are) almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound change in policy. The policies ... are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in details of procedure, priority, or method.” Those who object to such a nationally-destructive situation, and who may object to the foreign policies espoused by both main parties (policies that are basically foreign to America’s best national interests) are maligned. Their “neo-isolationist discontent is a revolt of the ignorant against the informed or educated ... against the insoluble problems” of the present, of the Midwest of Tom Sawyer against the cosmopolitan East of J.P. Morgan and Company, of old Siwash against Harvard ... of simple absolutes against complex relativisms, of immediate final solutions ... in favor of a nostalgic return to the simplicities” of a previous era. These are “neurotic impulses” that have to be purged from society (Tragedy and Hope, Macmillan, 1966, pgs. 1247-48,979-80).
As viewed by the two party establishment, all such “neurotic impulses” — such as are manifested by the many core members of the Tea Party — have to be neutralized as quickly as possible. Conservative leaders in the Republicon Party have paid lip service to some of the concerns voiced by these traditional “America firsters.” Tragically, this pure political cant is for the consumption of the gullible party peasants who, in their political naivete, are much more impressed by cheap words than by real actions. They swoon and are greatly impressed when some lowlife politician pats them on their pointed little heads, telling them how wonderful they are and how much their support is appreciated. Then these same politicians go and do the exact opposite of what they had apparently agreed to. To “advance” or rise towards the top in today’s political cesspool, one has to be chameleon. The Oxford English Dictionary defines such a creature as “a reptile ... distinguished ... by their power to change color.” Nuff said!
Two recent examples: On January 4, 2007, on becoming the first female Speaker of the House of Representative, Nancy Pelosi declared: ”After years of historic deficits this 110th Congress will commit itself to [1] a higher standard. [2] Pay as you go. [3] No new deficit spending....
“America will [4] provide unlimited opportunities for future generations, [5] not burden them with mountains of debt.” Those 38 words, spoken while repeatedly pointing with a single finger at the 435 House members, contained 5 clear, unreserved promises — all of which were blatant lies. Pelosi’s prior House record, and the events of the last (almost) four years, prove that fact. The actions of the Democrat-controlled House show that they never had any intention of fulfilling those promises. As Jesus Christ declared, “Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits [not their politically motivated words] (Matthew 7:15,16, 20).
Regardless of parties, we all need to be fruit inspectors, not blind followers of soft-spoken, four-flushing political con artists who fit the Orwellian profile. Remember, in Orwellian doublespeak lies are truth, war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength, right is wrong, good is bad.
As pointed out in our September letter, on the supposed other side of the political aisle we find Newt Gingrich who is considering a possible run for president in 2012. When Speaker of the House in 1994, Gingrich deliberately conned the majority of Americans into voting “republican” by publishing his phony “Contract With America.” The equally phony “Republican Revolution” promoted by Bob Dole and Dick Armey during the same campaign didn’t even get off the ground. Within a few weeks of the phony “revolutionaries” gaining control of Congress with promises to dismantle many of the socialist programs enacted earlier under the FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society welfare state, and to slash the size of government, they reneged on their promises. In direct violation of their pledges, they enacted anti-American trade treaties (NAFTA etc.) which later helped destroy American industry by sending multiple millions of jobs overseas. They also sent $50,000,000,000 in American taxpayer money to Mexican politicians and bureaucrats to bail out their self-generated financial mess. On the home front, virtually nothing was accomplished. What deceit! What hypocrisy! Read again those earlier quoted observations by George Orwell. They weren’t just “words.” They were an expression of political reality.
Decade by decade the betrayal of the American Republic continues. As Dr. Quigley observed 44 years ago, “both parties (are) almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound change in policy. The policies ... are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in details of procedure, priority, or method.”
STEAMROLLER OF DESTRUCTION
The hideous financial mess in which America finds itself developed incrementally over the last 60 years. Since the abandonment of a lawful, Constitutional money system in the 1960s, the “steamroller of destruction” predicted by economist C.V. Myers has been systematically leveling what was, at the end of Word War II, the freest, most productive, and wealthiest nation in history. Decade by decade, all the members of Congress have had knowledge of the numerous government policies responsible for and instrumental in this demolition job. Yet, decade by decade, their leaders not only routinely aided and abetted America’s catastrophic plunge toward national oblivion, but piled many such additional programs on the backs of taxpayers. Only a small handful of members of Congress voiced any serious opposition to this suicidal political agenda
The government’s regulation of the mortgage and banking industries illustrates the utter worthlessness of their alleged controls. Despite warnings by Alan Greenspan and others regarding the ultimate destructiveness of the welfare statists’ assault on Constitutional money, little was done in recent decades to even address the escalating problems. In fact measures were taken that only worsened the problem. Hence America’s current fourteen trillion ($14,000,000,000,000) national debt — that’s $43,000 for every man, woman and child in the nation. What a political legacy!
This, of course, doesn’t include the multiple trillions of dollars owned by corporation, private businesses, and private individuals. This awesome load of unpayable debt leaves the “Federal Reserve” and its mostly European owners (under whose “expert” guidance the original value of the dollar — 100 cents — has been effectively reduced to 4 cents since its creation in 1913) as America’s puppet masters. This proves the accuracy of Congressman Charles Lindbergh’s assessment of the Fed, made in 1913: “the invisible government of the monetary power (has been) legalized.... The greatest crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking anc currency bill.” Or, as Thomas Jefferson wrote to Thomas Cooper in 1814 when the charter for the unconstitutional, privately-owned First Bank of the United States was up for renewal, “Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined by the deluge of bank money. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital ... in manufacture, commerce and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their own swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs.” And in an 1816 letter to John Taylor, “I believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
We now fast forward to 2010, when the criminal activities of the nefarious money changers and their treacherous, bought-and-paid-for political lackeys on Capital Hill are coming to a head. Their plan, as revealed by Dr. Quigley in Tragedy and Hope (p.324) is to ultimately create a system “controlled in a feudal fashion” by the international bankers.
Those crooks are responsible for every aspect of America’s present financial malaise. Take the mortgage crisis for example. In Congressional testimony just a few years ago, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank both ridiculed the idea that there was anything seriously wrong. They covered up for the unscrupulous banksters who were systematically defrauding hundreds of thousands of would be home owners who had no hope of paying off their loans. The brokers involved were paid huge fees for these fraudulent deals.
Innumerable warnings were issued by state attorney generals across the country. These were all either ignore or brushed aside. William K. Black, former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention, is the author of the book, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One. Interviewed on PBS’s Bill Moyers Journal, he stated that the current meltdown is driven by fraud: “Fraud is deceit. And the essence of fraud is. ‘I create trust in you, and then I betray that trust, and get you to give me something of value.’ And as a result, there is no more effective acid against trust, especially fraud by top elites, and that’s what we have.”
Moyers: “You make it clear that calculated dishonesty by people in charge is at the heart of most corporate failures and scandals... that it was in the boardrooms and CEO offices where this fraud began?
Walker: “Well, the way that you do it is to make really bad loans because they pay better. Then you grow extremely rapidly, in other words, you’re a Ponzi-like scheme. And the third thing you do is to call it leverage. That just means borrowing a lot of money, and the combination creates a situation where you have a guaranteed record profit in the early years. That makes you rich, through the bonuses that modern executive compensation has produced. It also makes it inevitable that there’s going to be a disaster down the road.”
How did they get away with it for so long? “The Bush administration essentially got rid of the regulations, so that nobody was looking, you were able to do this with impunity and that’s exactly what happened.... Even prime loans began to have non verification.”
The investment houses “gutted the verification process” and with these ‘liar loans,’ got triple-A ratings for ‘financial products’ that were little more than pure junk [or what broker Henry Blogett called ‘pieces of s..t.’] Compared to these criminals, “Bernie Madoff was a piker. He doesn’t even get into the front ranks of a Ponzi scheme... The FBI warned in September 2004 that there was an epidemic of mortgage fraud, that if it was allowed to continue it would produce a crisis as least as large as the Savings and Loan debacle.... After 9/11 the Justice Department transferred 500 white-collar specialists to terrorism... But the Bush administration refused to replace the missing agents. Today, this crisis is 100 times worse than the Savings and Loan crisis, but there are one-fifth as many FBI agents as worked on that crisis.” The catastrophic results were a foregone conclusion!
The bottom line is that our political leaders have royally betrayed us, treating with utter contempt their oaths of office: “I ... do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the Unites States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear truth faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office to which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
The once great American Republic was built on the foundation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which all our leaders have sworn, “without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ... (to) support and defend.” Particularly over the last 50 years, these liars have betrayed their Oaths of Office. They have gutted the Republic that was based on immutable biblical Law. They have destroyed its foundations, and turned it into a lawless jungle.
Question: “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” (Psalm 11:3). We need to focus on the long-term by placing their miserable fate in the hands of a Righteous God. Leave these traitors to their preordained fate: “Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord” (Romans12:19).
That is the bottom line!
Best Wishes, Des Griffin
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