I sense a spirit in the air tonight…a spirit we Americans know very well.

When tyranny threatens our Republic, this spirit awakens!

When fascism intimidates our people, this spirit arises!

When despotism jeopardizes our rights, this spirit attacks!

This spirit searches American hearts, including yours and mine, looking for patriots…not just any patriots…but THE patriots.

THE patriots, who’re willing to wake up when tyranny threatens our Republic.

THE patriots, who’re willing to rise up when fascism intimidates our people.

THE patriots, who’re willing to stand up when despotism jeopardizes our rights.

These patriots are ready…ready to heed the call of the spirit of independence…ready to put on the mantle of liberty…ready to defend our country, our freedom, our people, from any and all threats!

We face a dire challenge in America today…that threatens to destroy our liberty…that same liberty preserved for us by patriots of past…with their sweat…and with their tears…and with their prayers…and…with their blood!

Aren’t you tired of hearing the news talk about Cap N T8ors…I know I am…I want the headlines to talk about THE True Patriots.

You know who I’m talking about…they are willing to spend their sweat…their tears…their prayers…and their blood…to preserve liberty for this generation and those generations still to come!

What danger we find our liberty in tonight! Our Republic is teetering on the edge of destruction for many reasons. Unfortunately, people seeking real solutions are few…and don’t happen to work in our government.

If we are going to find real solutions, we must acknowledge the root of the problem.

In Our Holy Bible, Paul, got to the root of our problem when he wrote, “…the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.”

Our love for money has led us into a several major problems that are dismantling our Republic. I want to focus tonight on just one thing that our love of money has brought upon us…the inflation epidemic.

What exactly is inflation? It’s technical definition is that it is a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in (listen to this) the loss of value of currency.

Sadly, inflation is not natural! Inflation only exists when money is printed or coined without a steady standard. In ancient Rome, the coins at one time were filled with precious metals. Over time, the Romans (while going broke) began to fill the coins with lead instead.

Unfortunately, this didn’t solve the Roman financial problem. It created hyperinflation and helped destroy the Roman Empire.

In America, we have done the same. Our Constitution gives Congress the authority…the right…to “coin” our money. It is a common belief that many of our founding fathers were ill-disposed to the notion of a paper currency due to its’ tendency to loose its value over time.

Andrew Jackson seemed to be drawing upon that sentiment when he said that, “If Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”

In this statement, Jackson reflects two sentiments.

Firstly, that the preferred currency be valuable coins, not worthless paper.

Secondly, that Congress alone should have the right to coin our currency…that this right was not to be delegated to any individual or corporation.

Why did he feel this way? He knew exactly what international banker Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild money dynasty knew.

Rothschild said defiantly, “Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws!”

He understood that a nation could do nothing without money. He also understood that manipulation of the money supply can be used as a means to control the people and their government.

We shouldn’t be surprised that a representative from the Rothschild banking dynasty, Paul Wharburg, who hailed from England and France, played a vital role in the formation of a central banking system in the United States…the Federal Reserve System, also known as the FED.

The FED is the result of reactionary politics run amok. In the early 1900s, the economy would face a cyclical inflation due to the annual harvest. It was a seasonal inflation.

Investors, at the same time, were over-leveraged in the copper market. Their investments went bust and suddenly we had the Panic of 1907!

Reactionary politics always erode our Constitutional rights!

Basically, it’s a private…not public…central banking system of debt and controlled inflation. The Federal Reserve is neither federal, nor a reserve…it is a system of control.

It’s called a fractional reserve because each bank is required to keep on hand, in print, a fraction…10%...of the total value it holds in deposits.

Every dollar that is in print supports ten dollars in an electronic ledger…that’s right…90% of our “wealth” exists only on a balance sheet.

This creates part of the inflationary pressure that is on the paper currency. The other inflationary pressure comes from the money supply itself.

Inflation occurs when the supply of money increases at a greater pace than the demand for products and services. The law of supply and demand…if there is more money to buy the same amount of products, people will be willing to give more money to buy the products.

Putting these two factors together, the FED estimates that we experience an annual inflation of 3 to 5%. That means one dollar last year would only purchase about 95 cents worth of products and services today! That is the Inflation Tax.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own calculator, you would need $21.60 today to purchase what $1 would purchase in 1913 when the FED was created.

Simply stated, the FED is responsible for a 95% loss in value for our currency in less than a century.

Since Congress cannot raise our taxes at such a pace, they instead choose to have the FED print more money to give the appearance of created wealth to pay for its pet projects.

Every single time the FED prints money, you essentially are taxed with the loss of your money’s buying power. I’m frightened to see how devalued our money is when all proposed spending from Stimulus bills and Health Care reform are added…not to mention the impact of Cap and Trade!

Inflation is also taxed…I bet you didn’t know that, did you? Congress taxes inflation when it taxes capital gains.

Congress taxes capital gains in full, without reducing for inflation. So if you have an investment or savings, you need to make at least an 8% gain per year just to break even after inflation and taxes! How many of your investments are doing that well? The same rule applies to property.

Do you realize that they are hiding their rip off scheme right in front of your face?

Capital gains taxes are the biggest rip off! They are a tax on the inflation of your money. Congress creates inflation through the FED!

If Madoff is a criminal, then by comparison, Congress and the FED are a crime syndicate…a banking cartel…akin to the oil cartels of the Middle East that control oil prices…and the drug cartels in Central America that create crime…the FED is a banking cartel controlling the value of money.

I think that’s reason enough to vote out every member of Congress and put an end to the FED?! What do you think?

Let’s continue our discourse, our grievance, over their long train of offenses.

Take our dollar, it is actually called a Federal Reserve Note, as it says right their on that piece of paper you call money. How many of you have a car “note” or a house “note”? Those are debts you owe, correct?

You pay for them with reserve notes! You pay for your debt with debt. You don’t own any money, you own debt.

Money is debt and debt is money! If we as a people and a nation get out of debt, we would have no money!

The FED agrees with me. A former Governor of the FED said, “If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money.”

Every dollar you “own” whether it be in your wallet…in your checking or savings account…in your investments…is “owed” to the FED, at interest!

If the FED prints our money at interest, how will we ever pay back the interest? We would have to request more money from the FED…at interest also!

Don’t you see it? We are trapped! Slaves in a system of debt!

We owe an $11.5 million debt. Guess who we owe it to? We owe the Fed 50% of it! We owe foreign investors 28% of it! Americans own about 22% of our debt.

Who really owns and runs our country? Apparently, the FED does, it has a majority share.

The FED was “supposed” to stabilize the currency from inflation and secure the economy from recession. Yet, since the FED came into existence, our money is worth 95% less than it was when they started…and our economy has seen 15 downturns…13 recessions…2 depressions…including the current depression we are now enduring.

What should frighten each of you is that the FED is totally unaccountable to Congress for its monetary policy! The FED’s monetary policies have never seen one audit in nearly a century of existence.

Alan Greenspan said that the relationship between the FED chairman and the President of the United States is irrelevant because the FED is a private entity and acts independently of Government oversight!

The FED is above the LAW! I don’t believe that is right and I definitely don’t believe that is American!

President Andrew Jackson, while speaking of the central bank that he put out of business in his day, could very well have been speaking of the FED today when he said, so long ago, “The bold efforts the present bank has made to control the Government are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution, or the establishment of another like it.”

The central bank in President Jackson’s day used money manipulation and bribery to control the government.

We have been “deluded”, as he would say, into allowing the Fed to exist. The Fed allows this money manipulation to occur…and it is robbing us all.

Why should we allow the Fed to print our currency for us at interest when Congress has the authority to do so interest free?

Congress delegated this right. In doing so, Congress is allowing a system of debt that is a threat to our security as a nation.

What does the bible say about debt? It says that, The borrower is slave to the lender. So, if we are all borrowers, then whom is our lender?

The FED! We are all the slaves of the Federal Reserve System!

He said, “If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

He wouldn’t have been surprised to see the bankers and the companies deemed “too big to fail” get bailed out while everyone else goes without.

Nelson Aldrich, and the financial interests backing him, took control of America in 1913.

States would be controlled through contrived crises designed to manipulate the opinion of the populace.

People would be controlled through manipulative direct taxation designed to enslave them. Such was forbidden by the Constitution to prevent just such an outcome.

Economic control would be achieved through manipulating the currency, inflation and deflation, to steal the wealth of the nation. I would need $21.60 to purchase what $1 would in 1913. Since the Fed prints all of our currency at interest, how will we ever have enough currency to pay the interest being charged on the currency? We can’t! Perpetual debt has become the new motto of America under the Federal Reserve System.

How have they maintained this control?

The illusion of choice, allows us the opportunity to vote, even though our vote does nothing more than decide the path. The destination is predetermined!

Haven’t you noticed that both major national parties favor a powerful central government? Neither party supports the truly constitutional concept of decentralized government. Don’t you ever wonder why? Big financial interests provided approximately two-thirds of the campaign money for both major Presidential candidate in 2008.

So many of our past Presidents were under the sway of the money manipulators! Few, very few, have not been so inclined.

The Fed, the powers behind it, and those attached to it, have become more powerful than any politician or party in our nation. We have let them have this power by voting for candidates their money supported. I’m not surprised to see lost jobs and homes while banks are being bailed out. We didn’t heed the warning of Thomas Jefferson:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

We can choose to wake up and get active now, or we can choose to stay on the program and awaken one day in our homeland homeless and conquered.

Restoring the Republic

He then headed up a commission of economists that traveled to Europe to study the central banks of Britain, France and Germany. Upon his return to the United States he worked to pass the Federal Reserve Act.

In order to avoid the messy conflict that would occur if another private central bank was proposed, a regional system with a central board was suggested.

December of 1913, the Federal Reserve Act was passed in Congress, establishing the framework upon with the current Federal Reserve System hangs.  The National Monetary Commission was morphed into a bigger, more efficient version of itself.

Congress relinquished control over the currency to the private central bank allowing privately owned institutions to control our currency. The Fed became, as it still is today, the only unregulated private business in the nation.

Aldrich had succeeded into creating an economy after his own image and likeness. The income tax would be used both to control the populace and fund the private central bank. The bank would also control the populace through controlling their currency with inflation and deflation without fear of reprisal from the states.

Capitalizing on the outcry from the Panic of 1907, the economic future of America had just been placed on the auction block. Americans were promised a stable economy and a future without the ups and downs of the economic cycle.

Controlling the economic cycle through speculation and manipulation has led to 13 recessions and two depressions. The Fed’s promise of stability seems a far cry from reality.

Yet in every case, it wasn’t the market manipulation of the financial elite that was brought into question…no, it was the freedom of the market itself!

Before 1913, the United States didn’t get involved in foreign wars. We have been involved in one form or another of global warfare ever since.

Why the sudden shift in the United States policy on conflicts in other nations? Find out in Part 4.

Restoring the Republic

Mark “True Patriot” West

 Several attempts at national income taxes had been thwarted by the courts, most notably in the Pollack case. Government realized that a Constitutional Amendment was the only way to tax individual income.

The income tax amendment, the sixteenth to our constitution, was proposed by President Howard Taft and Congressman Nelson Aldrich. It was passed through Congress and sent to the states for ratification. Proponents of the tax cited a need to prevent economic aggregation into the hands of the wealthy few as the reason to ratify this amendment.

February of 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment was proclaimed as ratified by Secretary of State Philander Knox. Congress could now, for the first time, legally and directly tax the income of individual citizens of the United States.

The first income tax law, on the “rich”, set the tax at 1% for individuals earning $425,000 in 2009 currency. Funding was now accessible as the amendment allowed Congress to directly tax whatever income they desired from whatever means it was derived.

Yet Congress found another hurdle in the States. Further economic centralization, namely for the banking industry, would need to prevent State’s from blocking legislation through their granted balance of powers in the Senate. Senators were elected by State legislatures.

In 1911, citing corruption, stagnant state legislature elections, and laws in some states providing for such already; Congress sent the Seventeenth Amendment to the states for ratification. If ratified, this amendment would have Senators directly elected by the people.

State’s, via the Senate, tended to balk and deliberate over legislation rather than be malleable to public opinion.

April of 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified. Senators could now act without fear of reprisal by their State legislature. Another balance of power removed, removing another block of our Republic and dragging us closer to pure democracy.

Yet, what it would cost the nation in the long term was yet unknown.

Pivotal moments affect every nation. Originating from crises that are both external and internal in nature, these moments demand critical attention.

Unfortunately, history is littered with crisis after crisis contrived only to advance an agenda. An ever-increasing interventionism is at the heart of that agenda. How many politicians have you heard say, “from chaos comes order”?

United States’ pivotal year was 1913, culminating in a Congressional coup-d’état.  Follow me as I detail the takeover timeline.

While breaking from English control, many founding fathers still favored the private central banking construct of London. Beginning with the Bank of North America in 1781, this group led by Robert Morris established the first central bank in the history of the United States.

Four years later the bank was shut down due to massive corruption.

Six years later Alexander Hamilton spearheaded another movement establishing the First Bank of the United States. Strident opposition was found in Thomas Jefferson who knew the danger of corruption involved in financial speculation and manipulation. Five years later Congress chartered the Second Bank of the United States, a copy of the first.

Twenty years later, President Andrew Jackson fought for the American people in destroying this bank with corruption again being the culprit. The ability to manipulate finances through market speculation bred corruption, as Jefferson warned.

A quarter-century of freedom from central banks was enjoyed by the populace until the Congressional coup began with the National Banking Act of 1863 which again centralized national banking operations into private banking institutions.

Prior to this, banking was governed by State banks that would issue currency. Currency issued had to be backed by appropriate reserves and could be exchanged for value with other State banks. The NBA of 1863 centralized this process with a charge to the State banks of 10% for currency exchange effectively eviscerating profitability for these banks.

Imperfections created by the NBA of 1863, namely with liquidity (sound familiar), led to the Panic of 1907. Government economic manipulation led to a crisis. A crisis led to a fervent public outcry for economic stability. Public outcry was capitalized on by the government to intervene and gain more control.

How would they do it?

I couldn’t wait to take part in my first election. Growing up, I often accompanied dad to the voting booth and even occasionally pushed the lever.

My time to vote finally arrived and I thought I was well acquainted with my role in the booth. Yet, I had no clue about the people for whom I was voting. Needless to say, I don’t remember who got my first votes in 1994.

In 1996 I covered the election for my college television show, ASU-TV. I got the opportunity to wait with the candidates as votes were counted at the courthouse and then join them afterward for the watch parties at the hotel for the state and national elections.

Most everybody I knew, except for one goof, was a Democrat so naturally I voted mostly Democrat, except for President and I voted for some third party guy named Phillips.

After realizing the perilous danger spending was putting our nation in, I became captivated by the contract with America. I voted Republican in 1998, 2000, 2002 believing that GOP control of Congress and the White House would result in decreased spending. Newt and Dubya were good at selling, but bad at delivery!

Disenchanted with the spending Republicans and socialist Democrats I voted for the lesser of two evils in 2004, 2006, and 2008. However, something changed in 2004. I met a man named Jim Holt who ran as a Republican, but had the support of a group called the Constitution Party.

Admittedly I had a scant memory of the little public school education I had received on the Constitution, so I began to study. I comprehended the fact that the Federal government I saw in the news was nothing like what the Constitution described.

Our founding fathers gave us a Republic. Our Federal government has been prostituted for political benefit. Republicans spent like crazy when they controlled Congress. The Democrats use that as an excuse to spend even more now that they are in control. Very little of this spending is constitutionally authorized!

Americans deserve the Republic their fathers left them. Not the Oligarchy the Republicrats are building for the financial elite.

In this way Political parties are a lot like Christian denominations. They divide us on issues that aren’t essential. Non-essentials seem to keep the full power of the Christian church divided while Satan runs amok in our world.

Non-essentials likewise keep the full power of the American people divided while sinister forces are dismantling the nation we love. By non-essentials I mean non-Constitutional…those things that the Federal government does outside of the authority of the constitution.

On this note, a preacher was talking about Christian denominations. He said that when Christians get together they first have to identify themselves as Baptist, Pentecostal, Episcopalian, etc. He then asked, why can’t we say, “I’m just a Christian, a Christ follower”?

Have you noticed the latest poll numbers on party identification? I’ll use Rasmussen Reports April 2009 polling because it shows the highest number for both parties. Rasmussen’s polling shows 38.7% Democrat and 32.6% Republican. Do you happen to notice that these don’t add up to 100%?

Nearly one-third of the national viewpoint goes unrepresented in the beltway. And they wonder why voter turnout is so low? When voters can’t identify with the candidates, they will stay home.

Who are the other 28.7% that claim no identification with Democrats or Republicans?

As one of them, I’ll say that, “I’m just an American, a Constitution follower!”

So we must ask the honest question: How do we get the ‘just Americans’ involved in the election process?

I believe the main issue for them is choice. Our illegitimate two-party system disenfranchises them. It isn’t for lack of common thought, but rather for lack of opportunity. Restrictive laws prevent Americans from getting to honestly evaluate other viewpoints on how Federal government should operate.

Let’s remove the restrictive laws and see what happens when people have the choice. The Republicrats inhibit the ability of third parties and independents to organize through the unnecessary laws they’ve passed to prevent them from doing so.

Of course, the Republicrats would argue that the laws protect the legitimacy of the ballot. Unfortunately, they don’t tell you that they didn’t have to clear the same hurdles when they organized. As usual, those in power keep their power by passing laws to prevent others from encroaching on their power.

Third parties and independents are a threat to the Republicrat establishment. Republicans know this all too well, themselves being a third party response to the failures of the Whig Party in the mid-to-late 1800’s. Have you ever heard of Abraham Lincoln?

Republicans have the most to loose today. Rush Limbaugh is pleading with his listeners to avoid the temptation of joining third parties. He knows, as well as do Republicans, the fear of replacement. The same circumstances that lead to their power will now take them from power.

If you really want a choice this election then support a third party. We know that at least a third of the country wants something different. So why don’t say it with me?

“I am not a Republican or a Democrat, I am just an American!”

Restoring the Republic

Mark “True Patriot” West

What is this “swine” influenza?

A mutation of the H1N1 subtype…yet this is the same subtype as the USUAL flu we deal with every year.

An epidemic… yet  91% of the cases and 100% of the deaths have occurred on the same continent…North America.

A mix…never before seen of bird, swine and human influenza.

 A combo…strangely of European, Asian, and North American swine flu strains.

Yet, no pigs were infected…until Sunday when the first case is confirmed…in Ottowa, Canada!

But wasn’t Mexico City the epicenter?

Strange barely describes what we are witnessing. Don’t be afraid to ask the question…could this flu be manufactured?

Our mainstream media is effectively spreading the hysteria. Did you know that approximately 36,000 Americans DIE of the flu annually? And we are being whipped into hyper-frenzy over ONE in a month?!

This frenzy is so strong that schools, towns, and businesses are being locked down. Aha, we have uncovered the real story…involuntary quarantine.

 This “outbreak” is nominal compared to the regular flu, yet the media has been in a hyperventilating panic. When the media acts this way I find it beneficial seek and find what else is going on. Then I add it all up to get a picture of what I should prepare for next.

What else is out there? The census bureau is going to GPS mark your home. The DHS is cracking down on “right wing extremism”. Certain provocative speech may soon be considered a hate crime.

Combine these with an overblown case of the flu and you have a viral concoction that threatens to sweep our liberties from under our feet in the name of public protection. NorthCom is manned up and ready for helping with crowd control or civil unrest.

Balloon animals play an important role in our society by placating the minds of our children…and some adults. Watching a balloon animal artist, my own term, captivates me because of the delicacy of the process.

Proper inflation is key! Too little air makes a wimpy critter, too much air is a bust! The artist needs a suitable supply of air to make the perfect balloon animal.

“It is an established rule of construction,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “where a phrase will bear either of two meanings to give it that which will allow some meaning to the other parts of the instrument, and not that which will render all the others useless. Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given to them. It was intended to lace them up straightly with in the enumerated powers, and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.”

Huh? Basically, the federal government is intentionally limited by and to constitutional restraints. If a phrase isn’t clear, it is to be interpreted to limit rather than expand federal authority.

Federal government is like a balloon animal. Too little authority makes a wimpy critter, too much authority is a bust! The people need a suitable supply of authority to make the perfect federal government.

Did you know…the federal government is only constitutionally granted the authority to provide for our common defense? Our constitution is violated every time the federal government seeks to provide education, health care, financial aid…anything other than common defense.

The Tenth Amendment gives such priorities are to the States and to the people.

Our federal government is constitutionally given the role of economic promoter, not provider.

It’s shameful that almost every candidate for federal office openly campaigns on promises to violate the constitution and then swear an oath to uphold and defend it. And somehow we keep voting for them rather than holding them accountable.