Where's the Fed in Federal?

Here's some more jaw-dropping news I heard as a "rumor" and a "conspiracy theory" a while back. America: Freedom to Fascism is a recent documentary from Aaron Russo, the director of Trading Places and The Rose (not that that gives him extra credit, but the money and connections he made didn't hurt). This doc is about the payment of federal income tax.

After exhausting the brains of leading economists, tax attorneys, IRS employees and groups that are vocal in their opposition to paying federal income taxes, the conclusion is a strange one. The argument against paying F.I.T. is that there is no law requiring it in the first place. In 1913, a 16th amendment clarification was made that taxes must be paid for profits, but not for what we earn as laborers. Our labor is our property. In fact, several dozen people have successfully won tax cases because the IRS cannot produce any law on which their side is based! The mainstream press is silent, as usual.

Readers: Google Joe Lewis and the IRS and you'll find yourself fascinated but saddened.

Did anyone know that the Federal Reserve is not "federal" at all, but is a private bank that Congress somehow manufactured to print money and to put federal money into, but the taxpayer never sees a penny of profit from? I never knew that. And I am SO justified in being a conspiracy theorist now!

The newer generations flock to credit so they can be part of the American "culture." We've now gone from freeholder to employee to serf. Now we're all up to our necks in debt, but we've got a new mini-van. In March of 2005, reporter Abid Aslam wrote that "Millions of Americans could be plunged into financial ruin (from) a bill giving credit companies relief from unpaid loans." It's three and a half years later...the entire Congress, working with the Federal Reserve and banks, has enslaved the nation because they chose to ignore inconvenient facts.

Why did the congress give the authority to print money to a private entity (the Federal Reserve)? How can they prove they have the "gold" to back it up? Why have we the people allowed them to do this? Because we are so zombified by American Idol and the right kind of shoe? While we weren't looking, the Federal Reserve has taken all our gold and traded it for, as T. Jefferson said, the "ghost of money - paper." NO media, again. Congress MUST take it back. Gah. The more I learn, the more disgusted I feel. If I've got it right, the Federal Reserve is just a cartel of private banks, headed by someone the president selects from a list of names the banks give him! Somebody tell me I'm crazy!

Now here's a subject that really gets me fired up, and most people look at me like I'm a wingnut. Actually implanting a glass tube with a microchip and antenna inside (about the size of a grain of rice) may still be some years off - though the technology is in place - but putting a tiny microchip on products (described by an "expert" as perhaps being the dot on the "i" in the fine print on a shampoo bottle) is being introduced already without public knowledge. Next, they'll stick a chip on cash, so that money is not even anonymous. Soon, they'll know every tiny detail about us and our private lives - our medical records and communications with each other are already easily spied on. This IS Orwellian.

In a scene from this same documentary, we are treated to a congressional hearing about these "injectable devices." "Oh, yes, sir," the junior salesman answers jovially. "We're ready to start putting them in any time." A family of four from Florida are featured on Good Morning America as the first U.S. family to try the chip. Mom declares that it's all in defense of "terrorism." Sure, terror that your leaders and their corporate pals are going to make you into BOTS.

In a segment on vote rigging, we see another congressional hearing on the evil "black box" voting machines produced by some of GWB's biggest supporters (I bet). A congressman (I can't see who) asks if, using their technology, a vote could be stolen. "Absolutely," the employee answers. "And no one would ever know!" Of course, those of us who have seen Hacking Democracy know all about this.

The Governmental Accountability Office themselves have been quoted as saying, "The integrity of 2006 elections cannot be ensured." And, why is that? Because a 12 year old could hack into a system that cannot be examined because "security" falls under Diebold's (and others') secrecy clause.

I hope, dear reader, that you are alarmed.

Mussolini said: "Fascism should be called Corporatism, more properly, because it's the perfect merger of power between the corporation and the public."

Henry Ford said: "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

Just a couple of quotes for you.

So what do we mere citizens do? Force Congress to use their legal authority to shut down the Federal Reserve? I agree with Russo that we the sheeple must demand that the American people's gold be audited, and make certain that it has not been stolen, right?

And computer voting is just the scariest thing ever.

My brain hurts a lot today.