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

 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.