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by
Steve Holder
American Patriot & Defender Of The U.S. Constitution
3 - Introduction
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Introduction
In this book you will read about some things you already knew – or at
least suspected. Also, you will learn some things you never
suspected. I’m sure it’s no surprise to you if I tell you that things are
not always what they seem to be. There are people and
organizations that go to a lot of trouble to keep you in the dark and to
use you for their gain. I’m going to be telling you about a few of these
people and organizations. I’m also going to teach you how to help us
turn things around.
All my life I’ve heard America referred to as the “land of the free” but I
fear that will not always be the case. I see things happening that
make me very concerned.
The United States government and our police forces are getting more
and more aggressive when it comes to arresting people for reasons
of “national security.” Our rights are of no consequence. Anything
goes now, all they have to say is that it’s a matter of national security
and that supposedly justifies anything and everything.
and not in a good way. I believe we are tolerating too much, and we
are afraid to stand up to the powers that be. We’ve seen too many
cases where people have been taken into custody and locked up
without being formally charged, and they are held indefinitely without
assess to an attorney. That is not the America I love. That is
fascism, and I hate it.
Considering all the above, there are a few things I believe every
American needs to know. We need to wake up in America and do
all we can to save our great nation – and I’m not talking about
saving it from the foreign terrorists, I’m talking about saving it
from the politicians, the bankers and the big business tycoons.
They are the real threat and they are just as ruthless.
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Fact # 1
One thing I want to make perfectly clear is that the United States
government is not your friend. I hope that does not offend or shock
anyone. I’m thinking that many of you said “well duh” after reading
that. I want every American to be well informed about this point. If
we are under the impression that the government is our friend then
we will be expecting it to be making decisions and doing things that
will actually be for our good – and then we will get disappointed.
Just in case you are under the impression that Uncle Sam is crazy
about you and wants to help you I will give a little evidence to back up
my claim. I hope it will then be crystal clear to everyone who reads
this.
First of all, let’s consider the income tax. Do you think it’s fair? Of
course it isn’t; it is too much of a burden on the poor and does not
take enough taxes out on the rich. If you are rich I suppose you may
take issue with that, but otherwise I believe you will agree. If ole
Uncle Sam was our friend he would not treat us like that, now would
he?
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How about the way the politicians spend our money? Does the term
“bailout” ring a bell? At the time of this writing (summer of 2009) we
are already into the trillions of dollars spent on bailouts. Trillion is a
word I have a hard time wrapping my brain around. That’s a lot of
zeroes. I can assure you that a true friend would not use trillions of
my dollars without consulting me and getting my permission
(assuming I had trillions of dollars).
How about the way they keep infringing on our rights? That certainly
isn’t very friendly, now is it? As long as they use the words “national
security” they seem to think they can do anything, at any time, to
anyone – no questions asked.
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How about the Constitution? Our forefathers made it very special so
we can keep our government working smoothly, and to make sure
our rights are protected. It doesn’t get much attention these days –
except when the big attorneys look for ways to get around it, or
reinterpret it in a way that totally changes the original intent of its
authors. A friendly government would have more respect for our
Constitution, in my humble opinion.
Let’s not forget the way they keep printing money that has no real
value, and making the dollar virtually worthless. I can recall a time
when every cent had to be backed with real gold. Not so anymore;
it’s just paper, and more paper can always be made, and any
denomination can be printed on it. If you or I did that we would be
arrested and prosecuted for counterfeiting. How come it’s all right for
ole Uncle Sam to do it anytime he pleases?
wars could have been spent to help our own citizens. What a radical
thought – actually helping our own!
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Fact # 2
We believe the federal government has grown too centralized, too intrusive,
and too expensive. We believe in constitutional limits, smaller government,
civil liberties, federalism, and low taxes. We want to end laws and programs
that don't work, cause harm, and violate the Constitution. We want to
restore the full force of the 9th and 10th amendments, which reserve most
social functions to the people and the states.
That sounds good, doesn’t it? After all, the government should not be
allowed to control every area of our lives. Nor should it pretend it has
a right to poke its nose in everything that goes on. Did you ever stop
to consider the purpose of government? I did some research online
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to try and find out what exactly the government is supposed to do. It
didn’t take me long to realize that it depends on who you ask. You
want ten different answers? All you have to do is ask ten people.
Personally I like the view of the ancient Greeks. They said that
government has only one purpose, to improve the lives of citizens.
Wow, isn’t that a great concept? Let me highlight that for emphasis.
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Facts About Big Government
I could go on and on about big government, but surely you get the
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Fact # 3
Rumors have circulated since that time that a good friend of Paul
Warburg, a wealthy banker by the name of J.P. Morgan, actually
helped to cause that financial crisis in order to set the stage for a plan
they had to start a central bank. History records, however, that Mr.
Morgan made a lot of deals at that time (and influenced a lot of
wealthy people to make investments on the spur of the moment) that
actually saved the nation from total financial collapse. Perhaps this
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The plans of Warburg and Morgan to start a central bank came to life
a few years later. In 1910 there was a secret meeting at Jekyll Island,
Georgia - a private resort for the super rich. In fact it was owned by a
group of millionaires. There were seven rich and influential men in
attendance at that private conference. They were…
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Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich (and his secretary Arthur Shelton)
Dr. Abraham Piatt Andrew (Assistant Secretary of the United States
Treasury)
Frank A. Vanderlip (president of National City Bank)
Paul M. Warburg (wealthy banker - partner in Kuhn, Loeb &
Company)
Henry P. Davison (senior partner of J.P. Morgan Company)
Charles D. Norton (president of First National Bank Of New York)
Benjamin Strong (Vice President of Banker’s Trust of New York)
These men spent nine days hidden away on the island to plan their
strategy. Supposedly the true architect of what later came to be
called the Federal Reserve was Paul Warburg. His plan was to make
the whole thing a charade. He knew the American public did not
want a central bank due to the fact that several economies in Europe
failed because of central banks. Also, shortly after the United States
gained its freedom from England, the Rothschilds formed a private
central bank called The First Bank Of The United States. President
Andrew Jackson eventually abolished it with these words:
“The bold effort the present bank has made to control the government, the
distress it had wantonly produced...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.”
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A few years later a Second Bank Of The United States was formed.
By the early 1830s, President Jackson had come to thoroughly dislike
it because of its fraud and corruption. After investigating the bank
thoroughly Jackson concluded “beyond question that this great and
powerful institution had been actively engaged in attempting to
influence the elections of the public officers by means of its money.”
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The idea was eventually presented to then president-elect Woodrow
Wilson in early 1912. At first he did not like the idea, but eventually
came around. After the bill authorizing the formation of The Fed
cleared the Senate and the House of Representatives President
Wilson immediately signed the Federal Reserve Act into law on
December 23, 1913. On October 25, 1914, the formal establishment
of the Federal Reserve System was announced, and it began
operating in 1915.
The control of the economy of the United States was then put in the
hands of the private bankers, a decision President Wilson lived to
regret. In 1919 he said the following:
So we know that way back in 1919 the president of the United States
confessed that he had messed up and gave our country to the
bankers. It would have been nice if President Wilson had listened to
the words of Thomas Jefferson who said in 1802…
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control
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the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them [the banks] will deprive the
people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent
their fathers conquered."
It seems Mr. Jefferson knew what he was talking about. Many people
have had their property taken by the banks when they could not make
the payments that the banks told them they had to make. Many more
have become homeless because the bank took all their money and
left them with nothing.
So now we know how The Fed came into existence. We see that five
bankers, an economist and a US Senator designed it. Now let’s look
and see if The Fed has helped our economy.
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Recessions And Depressions In America Since
Below are listed a few things The Fed is supposed to be doing for us. You can
decide for yourself how they are doing.
The bottom line to all that has been said about the Federal Reserve System is this…
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Fact # 4
The Constitution Is Important
The United States Constitution is the highest law in the land. All of
our laws come from the Constitution. It dictates how the government
works. It tells how we elect the President and establishes term limits
for that office. It dictates how we elect members of Congress. It
creates the Supreme Court. Each state also has a constitution. The
constitutions of the states are their highest law for that state — but
the United States Constitution is higher.
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Here are some facts you may find interesting.
* Since its creation over one hundred countries around the world
have used the United States Constitution as a model for their own.
Why do I make such a big deal about the Constitution? It’s what
makes us a free country – if we set it aside we will be giving up
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ALL our liberties. If you want to read the United States Constitution
online you can do so at http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html.
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Fact # 5
You Can’t Trust The Media
What’s your favorite? Fox News? MSNBC? CNN? It doesn’t matter
which one you choose, none of them can be trusted to give you all
the details in a non-biased way. They all have an agenda and they
are constantly putting their opinions in the mix.
I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry when I hear them say on Fox
News that they are fair and balanced. What a laugh! There never
was more of a Republican propaganda agency anywhere on the face
of the earth. And on the other extreme we have MSNBC – the liberal
version of Fox News. Very unfair and extremely unbalanced. Take
your pick, choose your poison. They all have their agenda.
www.drudgereport.com
www.alternet.org
www.rawstory.com
www.canadafreepress.com
www.propagandamatrix.com
www.blacklistednews.com
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Fact # 6
America’s Government Is Getting More
Fascist Everyday
14 POINTS OF FASCISM
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3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
Britt mentioned that fascists regimes like to use the military to assert
national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and
prestige of the politicians and the upper class. We certainly used our
military to assert national goals in Iraq.
5. Rampant sexism
Britt claimed that some fascist regimes kept the mass media under
strict control using economic control, licensing and access to
resources. The result was usually success in keeping the general
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George Bush started this whole thing in America, claiming people
who questioned his administration were unpatriotic. Now, many
democrats have taken up that idea and accuse anyone who doubts
President Obama of being unpatriotic.
We can see that clearly in America. All smart politicians will claim to
be Christian. It is rare to see one live what one would normally
consider a Christian life, but they know how to give it lip service and
use it to their advantage. George Bush was a master of this strategy.
Many conservative Christians lifted him up as if he was some sort of
a god. He could do no wrong in their eyes.
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The working class are treated as property and given very little respect
and practically no control over their environment at work.
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Fact # 7
America Has More Than Two Political Parties
Would you shop at a grocery store that only stocked two items? Of
course not, that would be silly. A store like that could not stay in
business anyway. People want a variety and we like to have a choice
in pretty much everything. So why is it that most Americans pretend
there are only two political parties in our country? I don’t get it.
Almost everyone in America votes either Democrat or Republican.
Many of them do not even consider looking into the other parties to
see what they are all about. I don’t want to offend anyone here, but I
have to say that is totally irresponsible behavior, and that is one of
the reasons our nation is in such a mess.
That should get you started in the right direction. Take the time to
learn about these parties. Find out which one you can vote for with a
clear conscience. Don’t let anyone convince you that you are wasting
your vote if you vote for someone who is not a Republican or
Democrat.
“The only time you waste your vote is when you do not
vote your conscience.”
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Fact # 8
You Can Not Depend On Your Employer
Perhaps you are one of those rare people that have a job you love
and you can’t imagine working anywhere else. First of all, allow me
to congratulate you, because you are truly blessed. Most people are
not particularly happy with what they do, but they tolerate it in order to
make a living. It simply has to be done.
Maybe you are one of those unfortunate people who absolutely hates
what you do, and you think your boss or the company you work for
must be in league with the devil. You know they are rude, wicked
and totally rotten. You would do anything to get out, but you are stuck
there because you can’t find anything better. I want you to know that
I understand that. I’ve been there. It stinks.
Every day in America companies close their doors and leave their
workers out in the cold without an income and without health
insurance. Sometimes they will give the employees a warning but
other times they just close the doors without any notice whatsoever.
Loyal employees will go into work one day and discover the doors are
locked and a sign on the door that says the company has gone out of
business. They are shocked, confused, angry and naturally very
scared. “What will I do now? I have a family to support,” they say.
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The bottom line is you just can’t trust your employer. They are in
business for one purpose – to make a profit. Even if you have been
with the firm for fifty years you are still a tool – a means to an end. As
soon as the company decides you are not profitable you will be
terminated and replaced. You need to accept this as fact, because it
is. Don’t make your plans based on a false assumption that you will
always have that job. It could change tomorrow.
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Conclusion & Call To Action
Now that I’ve come to the part where I’m supposed to wrap this all up
and hopefully leave the reader with a good impression, I feel that
more could have been said, and perhaps more should have been
said, but then I would have had to put far more into this work than
what I had intended.
I basically just wanted to wake people up, and get them to thinking
that things are not all right in America. I want people to see that the
America we live in now is not the America our grandparents lived in.
In fact, the America they thought they lived in was not what it was
presented as being. When President Wilson sold us out to the
Federal Reserve System our country started on a downhill slide, and
most folks just thought everything was okay. They worked hard and
did as they were told. They were loyal to their country and to their
employers and, believe it or not, most of them trusted those two
entities.
I’m not so sure our grandparents would have even wanted to live in
our America. We aren’t as free as they were. Sure we have things
they did not have – we have TV, internet, cell phones, computers and
all sorts of modern technology they could not have even imagined,
but they had the American Dream. They were told that if they got a
good education and worked hard that they could make a better life for
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themselves and their children and much of the time that actually
worked out that way.
Can we ever get back that American Dream? Many Americans living
today actually believed in it at one time. We worked hard, got a great
education (and went deep in debt while getting it) only to find that the
payoff did not materialize. We came out of it all feeling used, abused
and angry. We were conned, and we fell for it. The odds were
against us all along. Somebody stacked the deck, and we got left
with a bad hand. We have a right to be angry, and we have a right to
want to do something about it. Do we dare? Or perhaps the better
question is “do we dare to do nothing?”
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What if we choose to do nothing and let things go in the direction they
are going in now? Then our grandchildren will indeed live in a totally
fascist society. Is that what you want? If so, just try to forget all
you’ve read and go on your merry way. Do whatever you normally do
to ignore reality and watch our society go to hell. But if you want to
see our country get back to something positive then I have some
suggestions on how you can help. It will take a lot of us going in the
same direction.
I hope I’ve gotten your attention in this essay. I hope I’ve angered
you somewhat – not anger toward me, but anger at those who have
used and abused us for so long. Are you angry at how the
government keeps taking away our rights? Are you angry at the way
big business and the government are always working together to
screw the working man and woman? Are you angry at the big
banks that run the country and The Fed that keeps printing money
that has no value? Are you angry with those Americans who seem to
bury their head in the sand and choose to “not get involved in
politics?” Are you angry with greedy employers who care nothing
about their workers? If you are like me and many other Americans
you will have to answer, “yes” to every single one of those questions.
stuck in the sand. Some people still believe that if only the right
people are in Washington things will be better. Even though that is
true to a certain extent what we really need is a radical change – both
in Washington and all across America. We need to change the way
we think. If American citizens do not educate themselves about what
is really going on in America, and become willing to take action, then
we don’t have much of a chance, but if we will rise up and do the
things I recommend then maybe we can save America. But we all
need to realize that the politicians are not going to be our saviors.
We need to lead the way.
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There Are Things We Can Do
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What Can I Do? I’m Only One Person
Perhaps you are saying, “What can I do? I’m only one person, and I
have no influence in Washington.” Well I’m going to list a few things
you can do. It may not seem like much, but if you choose to work
with me on this project we actually can make a difference. You’ve
hung with me this far so hang on just a little longer. Here is where
you find out where you fit in. If you will commit to these five simple
things it will make a difference in the future of our great nation.
3) Vote for candidates that are in favor of small government, and the
other things I mentioned on the previous page.
country.
The End
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I truly hope you’ve enjoyed reading my essay. Please get involved.
If you want to distribute in any other way feel free to contact me.
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If any group or publisher would like to publish this work I would love
to hear from you. I want the message to get out.
George Washington
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