Your Money is the Hammer That Gov't Holds Over You

By Ron Ewart
July 1, 2015
NewsWithViews.com

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”—Carl Sagan

The concept of coined money goes back over 5,000 years to the time of the Sumerians of Mesopotamia in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in present day Syria and Iraq. Prior to coinage, the acquisition of goods andservices was handled primarily by bartering, mostly by exchanging something of value for something of equal value. One of the ways to measure value at the time was by a certain weight of wheat. That certain weight was called a Shekel, where the “She” meant wheat.

At that time in man’s history, societies were ruled either by a high priest, or by a secular person who took on the trappings of the God’s the priests were promoting. The temples occupied by the priests were the storehouses of the wheat. The farmers brought their crops of wheat to the temple as their social and religious obligations. The power of the priest to distribute the wheat to the masses was the power of life and death. This is a power tyrants have been using for millennia. (Stalin starved to death over 7,000,000 Ukrainians by doing just that.)

The idea of coinage came about at this time as an easier way of exchanging goods for value and also determining the actual value of a person’s wealth, not measured in domestic animals or other items of value but measured in the amount of coins that person had accumulated.

The first Sumerian coin was made of bronze (a mixture of copper and tin) and contained a sheaf of wheat on one side and the image of Ishtar, the goddess of fertility, on the other side. Besides the practical, the coin carried the symbol of a deity, giving it the power of a God, the King’s or the Priest’s power.

But with coinage another benefit came to those who accumulated coins. They could lend out the coins at interest, and conversely the people could borrow the coins from the lender, at interest. Alas, the curse of the moneychanger was born. If you borrowed money from the moneychanger and couldn’t pay it back, the moneychanger could take everything you own and leave you coin-less, if not homeless and in some cases, lifeless.

And so from early civilization times, through the time of Christ, through the fall of Rome, through the dark ages, through the renaissance, to the Magna Carta, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and the birth of American freedom and on to present day, the moneychangers have and are still ruling the world.

President James Madison is quoted as saying: “History records that the moneychangers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.”

This historical observation is supported by the famous quote of Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild in the mid 1800′s, “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws.”

A government, any government, cannot operate or function without money. Government must tax the people in order to pay for those operations and functions, whether a dictatorship, a democracy, or a Constitutional Republic. If it cannot tax enough to pay for these functions, like in a time of war, it must borrow the money from the moneychangers. Today moneychangers are encapsulated in the innocuous and benign name of “Central Banks.” You don’t see the individual names of the moneychangers any more so you can’t pin the blame on an individual or a cabal for their crimes.

The Founding Fathers knew all this and tried to set up a system of banking that did not lend itself to the historical abuses caused by the moneychangers. But as usual, the moneychangers won out with the passage of the 16th Amendment that created the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service. The newly constituted Federal Reserve once again, opened the door to those historical abuses. The Internal Revenue Service became the collector of the money to pay back the loans made by the moneychangers to government and the lifetime earnings of the people became the collateral for those loans.

So it follows that: “Your Money is the Hammer That Government Holds Over You.” Money can be used as a tool or a weapon. Government has become very adept at using money as a weapon.

But without your money, the government is virtually powerless. It cannot make laws. It cannot hire people to administer or enforce those laws. It cannot make war. It cannot build roads and bridges. It cannot pay back the loans to the money changers. It cannot protect the masses from all enemies, foreign or domestic. But further and most important, it cannot waste and abuse your money, which it does with reckless abandon.

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