For over two hundred years, the United States of America has been the beacon of democracy and freedom for the world, or so we have been led to believe. While sadly unbeknownst to many, our democracy was infiltrated long, long ago. If that is a statement that you personally take issue with, you are encouraged to please take the time to read this article and see if there isn’t something hidden that you just might not know about regarding our beloved country. Please consider the following.

First off, it's hard to understand much of our current financial crisis without first knowing how our monetary system came about. Unknown to a great many, the last one hundred years of U.S. history have given rise to changes within our government that are patently offensive to the intent of our founding fathers, as well as being extremely abhorrent to our Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the resulting laws that our forefathers laid out for us over two centuries ago. It all began with the takeover of our nations’ currency, over 90 years ago, but first we have to start at the beginning, when our founding fathers first recognized monetary slavery.

Our forefathers were said to have left England for religious freedom, but many also left to escape the oppression and tyranny of the monarchy, including its interest bearing system of banking. In 1619, the Virginia colonists were given the right to their own self government, but after time, the long arm of oppression from the British government eventually reached back out across the Atlantic (1740) and began to restrict the rights of the colonies to issue their own paper money. By 1764 the British banned the new currency altogether (except when needed for military issue). This forced the colonists to borrow money from the central bank of England, with interest, which soon created debt for the colonists.  

The very same swindle they had escaped from was now being levied on them once again, only this time in the British colonies of America. The colonists were once again slaves to the monetary system of the monarchy.

This struggle between Britain and the American colonies over the right to issue their own paper money was a significant factor in bringing about the American Revolution.

Our forefathers had a specific plan when they founded this country, to not repeat the mistakes that had been made by the monarchy. If they could see today that we have given control of our government back to the elite, they more than likely would all roll over in their collective graves. Make no mistake about it, our forefathers would surely be ashamed of what “we the people” have naively and ignorantly allowed to happen to our country and the precious liberty and freedoms they fought and died for.

In 1783 we earned our independence from England, yet over 200 years later we find ourselves back where we once were when under the rule of King George III. It is morbid irony that George the II (Bush) would eventually be the ruler to take independence away from the people.

The issues we face today are very much the same as back then. One of the more pertinent issues that we share is echoed in this historical statement…

No matter who gets the credit, the idea behind the quote is sound in itself to this day. We now, much to the horror and dismay of our founding forefathers, find ourselves in exactly the same spot as before the American revolution. As the old saying goes…

The truth is, we no longer enjoy our representation “of the people, by the people and for the people.” Our political system is controlled by the rich and elite of our country, the major corporations, special interest groups, lobbyists, and PAC money, all edging the public out, keeping their collective voices from being heard.

The common man no longer has the voice of his elected representatives. That in essence puts us quite squarely back where we were in the 1750s, taxation without fair representation. Over the years our democracy has indeed regressed in many ways that were not intended by the signers of our highly revered Constitution. 

If ever there was a significant moment in history where our country was the most vulnerable, it was clearly during the post-civil war era, the reconstruction period. The animosity from this domestic war certainly didn’t end abruptly overnight with the final  surrender document at Appomattox. Even to this day, we still have residual sentiment left over in the South, so it is not hard to understand that we were not functioning at our political best as a unified government during that time. To coin an old phrase, we were most likely ripe for the picking. 

During this reconstruction period, we had three sitting United States Presidents murdered. Three! All were assassinated within a very short 36 year period. This is a disturbing historical fact which is quite alarming, yet seldom dealt with in American history books. 

It is important to note that Lincoln was greatly disturbed by the banks extremely high interest rates (24% t0 36%), in return for funding of the civil war. This would have plunged the nation into extreme debt, if not a national bankruptcy.

Lincoln said, "The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest."

So Lincoln had a national currency created instead, called greenbacks, which were interest free. Something the bankers did not like at all. This very well may have been the undoing for President Lincoln.

Lincoln is later quoted as saying, "The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few and the Republic is destroyed ... I feel at the moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war."

The London Times wrote about Lincoln's new greenbacks: "If that mischievous financial policy which had its origin in the North America Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without debt. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."

How is it that such a powerful cabal could become so prevalent so quickly during this reconstruction period? Was it in place all along, with behind the scenes interest or even possible influence in the war? Was it state sponsored, or privately financed from the wealthy? Who had the power to finance and perpetrate a coup such as that? How about the banks that Lincoln had angered with his government issued greenbacks?

Is it possible that all of those assassinations were not separate isolated incidents?

There have been rumors throughout history that the civil war was brought about by the wealthy bankers of Europe in an attempt to divide the nation and then conquer it through its banking system. Their intent was a central banking system which would have total monetary control over the U.S.

Lincoln is quoted as saying at the time, "combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary machinery of peacetime government have assumed control of various southern states."

It would appear that the issues we have been taught about regarding the origins of the civil war are not all as we think. Slavery was merely a guise for motives far more sinister in the division of the union.

President James A. Garfield was also said to understand the danger presented by the wealthy bankers. Garfield is quoted as saying, "Whoever controls the money of a nation, controls that nation." Garfield was then also assassinated in 1881, during his first year in office.

Suspiciously enough, all of those presidential murders coincidentally occurred within a very narrow window of history that was ideal with opportunity for disaster capitalism. The reconstruction period was indeed a period as tumultuous as the war itself.

Three U.S. presidents killed in just 36 years. Was it all just a wild coincidence or was it a calculated criminal collusion for control of the United States?

One thing is without doubt, all of this took place during the weakest moment in our nation’s history, while we were healing, but yet still politically divided. It was the perfect chance for a coup. 

Say what you will, but three American Presidential assassinations within a 36 year period are tough odds for a coincidence.

With this premise in mind, it’s certainly more than appropriate to question whether or not nefarious behind the scenes activity was taking place, a secret coup following the revolution, at a time when our country was undeniably most politically weak and very much still divided internally. Apparently someone saw opportunity in our national disarray, attacking us at our weakest. 

Many would openly agree that three assassinated presidents in a span of 36 years, a period of only nine possible presidential terms, is quite alarming and very notably suspicious. Maybe this cabal was in place all along. Maybe, quite possibly, some of the reasons for the civil war are not as we have been told. Maybe those behind the scenes decided upon a different way to change the course of this country.  

Please consider the following letter, written two years before Lincoln’s assassination, which appears to detail a new “system” being sold to the wealthy elite of our country… 

If you were to witness firsthand the assassination of not one, not two, but three American president’s in your lifetime, specifically a very short 36 year period, you would have to ask yourself, what behind the scenes struggle was taking place at that time in our nation’s history?  

For those old enough to realize the time frame, this period would be the same duration as 1974 until 2010, and yet we grieve for one president killed over 40 years ago in 1963. (No disrespect intended to JFK.)

• 1865 - Assassination of President Lincoln

• 1881 - Assassination of President Garfield

• 1901 - Assassination of President McKinley

This is a startling fact, not explored well enough in American history books and our classrooms, perhaps because of the powerful goliath that grew out of this great turmoil.

We don't study this period as much as we should probably because those who stole the power don't want us to look. They control everything, including the major publishing houses. Certainly one person who understood this concept quite well was Sir Winston Churchill who once said, "History is written by the victors."

Indeed.

And as they say in the marketing world, "perception is reality."

Just nine years after the third presidential assassination, a group of seven very powerful and wealthy men met in a then secret meeting off the coast of Georgia on Jekyll Island, to plan a takeover of this nation's banking and monetary system; in essence, a coup on the United States of America. These men represented a vast majority of the world's wealth, including the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Warburgs and the Rothschilds. They were invited to the 1910 meeting by Senator Nelson Aldrich, under the guise of a duck hunting trip; all of them refusing to use their last names in the hopes of not being found out or implicated in the takeover plan.

As a result of this secret meeting, the Federal Reserve System was born, just a few years later in 1913. It was on Woodrow Wilson’s watch that this coup was perpetrated against our democracy. President Wilson held great remorse over the decision upon leaving office, sadly admitting his gullibility in allowing the Federal Reserve System to take control over our nation’s monetary system. 

Think about having the power to control a nation's currency. Seriously. How much power would you have at your fingertips? Think about the concept of that kind of power, not in the hands or control of government, but in the hands of a private corporation. That is exactly what we have under the Federal Reserve Act.  

The opposition to creation of the Federal Reserve is well noted by past Congressman and even former President John F. Kennedy who is said to have wanted to break away from the Federal Reserve system. On June 4th, 1963, President Kennedy signed into law presidential Executive Order number 11110, which amended Executive order 10289 of September 19th, 1951. Executive Order 11110 was said to give the treasury the power to create and issue currency, without having to go through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Treasury Department was given the new authority to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury. Kennedy was assassinated only five months later.

Kennedy’s sentiment regarding the Federal Reserve still echoes to this very day. Brave Congressmen such as Dennis Kucinich (D) and Ron Paul (R), both from opposite sides of the political spectrum, are very much opposed to the Federal Reserve System scam on the American people. 

The turnover of our nation’s monetary system to the Federal Reserve in 1913 was the first step in losing our country. Handing over the power to control our national monetary policy has cost us our national sovereignty and the democracy that our forefathers fought and died for. A great financial power over our country has been given to the wealthy banking elite.  

Another little known fact among the general public is that the Federal Reserve is not owned by the US Federal Government. It is a private institution with rich owners of the banking community. When those of great financial wealth hold that much control over our monetary system, a power far greater than that of nations is created. Our country is a slave to their interests as long as we remain part of the Federal Reserve “system.” 

Our money is no longer backed by anything other than faith. It is literally a rich man’s shell game. There is no longer gold or silver backing every dollar. Our money is now called “legal tender.” It is a manufactured currency.

So essentially, for all intents and purposes, all of our money is simply worthless paper, with no gold backing, at least not for domestic usage.

Take a look at our money. At the top of each bill it says, "Federal Reserve Note."

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It also says, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private."

Its interesting to note the enormous amount of gold that is held at the Federal Reserve, with none of it backing our currency. In light of our abandonment of the "gold standard," it's not backing our domestic currency, one can only assume that the gold is there more for international backing and foreign exchange. What it comes down to is this; if you control the domestic currency market, the only entities that you need to worry about are the international markets and their exchanges.

Our monetary system is literally a faith-based money system, manipulated by the rich bankers of the Federal Reserve. Considering that we don't own this economic monolith, it could truly be hard to get an accurate accounting on the amount of bills produced, Considering the volume of old and damaged bills that are burned, the capability exists to tremendously exploit this monetary system of good faith that we've come to know, trust and accept as money.

The gold standard meant that for every note issued, there was gold in the bank to back that note. Paper currency had real value because of this. Today, our money is no longer backed by gold or silver. It is for all intents and purposes, worthless paper.

Thomas Jefferson had this to say about banks, while warning us of the danger in giving away the control of our nations’ currency… 

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." -Thomas Jefferson, US President.

Many notable American Congressman have had much to say about the Federal Reserve System and have given dire warnings over the years regarding it.

"From now on, depressions will be scientifically created." -Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913

The Federal Reserve soon became a dark omen for the democracy that our forefathers envisioned and shaped for us. They understood implicitly the result of such an entanglement, because they went through exactly the same situation with England.

Sadly, because of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the money tax from the wealthy bankers was back. Servitude to the bankers and their money was king once again.

Other notables throughout history have weighed in on the subject of the banking industry and its involvement with government and the control of a society…

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." -Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter 

Our money system has clearly been taken away from “we the people.” The manipulation of markets and economies is now in the hands of only a few, yet many in this country live in darkness and aren’t aware of this basic fact of our vaunted financial system. 

To be clear, the Federal Reserve does not belong to the US Government. It is a privately owned institution that controls our money system. It is and always has been a threat to the United States of America, our Constitution and our democracy.

It's time that Americans learned the truth about the shackles that bind and control our government and "we the people." But don't take this author's word for it. Research for yourself and find out the truth about the privately owned Federal Reserve.

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