by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | May 8, 2015
Ben Franklin
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” old Ben Franklin –with his balding head, pot belly and a penchant for the fairer sex– was leaving the Constitutional Convention at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when a lady walked up to the good doctor and asked him: “Well Doctor what have we got here, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic . . . if you can keep it.”
Independence Hall BTW, is where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted. Though today the words democracy and republic seem interchangeable in the popular media, they are very different. (Note: If you want to discover the weighty difference between a republic and a democracy read the ClearNFO link HERE.)
Independence Hall
In 1951 Robert Hutchins writes in the preface of the Great Books of the Western World: “We believe that the reduction of the citizen to an object of propaganda, private and public, is one of the greatest dangers to democracy. A prevalent notion is that the great mass of the people cannot understand and cannot form an independent judgment upon any matter; they cannot be educated, in the sense of developing their intellectual powers, but they can be bamboozled. The reiteration of slogans, the distortion of the news, the great storm or propaganda that beats upon the citizen twenty-four hours a day all his life long mean either that democracy must fall a prey to the loudest and most persistent propagandists or that the people must save themselves by strengthening their minds so that they can appraise the issues for themselves.”
Robert M. Hutchins, page xiii
December 1, 1951
Preface to the Great Books of the Western World.
The Great Conversation
So, here in America, we have prospered in our ‘democracy’ –which in fact was never a democracy but a republic– and round about this miracle of human history and achievement, icons like Apple Pie, Patriotism, Baseball, white picket fences and hometown America have emerged implanting themselves permanently into the collective psyche of generations of Americans. We have proud visions of brave young men going off to war risking death, physical and psychological injury to protect our precious America; and I for one, still believe in these ideals. However, at some point we must reconcile our ideals with the massive amount of documented evidence, and start to confront the facts as they exist; thereby leaving the false comfort of what has become a perpetuated myth of the old America. Since Benjamin’s conversation at Independence Hall in 1787, the republic has been under constant assault by those who would be her King. After decades of cloak and dagger finagling and wrangling, a private group of men were finally successful in placing themselves at the pinnacle of America’s power in 1913; thereby subverting the protection of the republic crafted at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This was no accident, but a carefully planned and executed ambush by very powerful and determined men who schemed in secret. The artifacts that testify to the truth of this ambush and successful coup can be found in the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment. The planning, execution and the historical details of this coup have been meticulously documented in G. Edgar Griffin’s ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’.
From 1913 forward, we see President Wilson’s fears that he had ruined America with the Federal Reserve Act and the power bequeathed thereby to these men made manifest to the observant world in geopolitical events, murder and assassinations that followed.
From the unannounced 1913 American Coup, The Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment were created; born of lies and subterfuge and from the enormous power this granted to a handful of private men ushered forth the following sequences of events:
• They lied about the Bolshevik Revolution – America created the Soviet Union from the ashes of the Tsars with their hand-picked and financed agents Trotsky and Lenin. (See Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution.)
• They lied about WWI – We were lied into WWI (See Antony C. Sutton; Carrol Quigley and the Lusitania)
• They lied about WWII – We were lied into WWII (See Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and The Anglo-American Establishment)
• They lied about the assassination of John F. Kennedy
• They lied about Vietnam – Gulf of Tonkin incident and resultant Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which took the lives of 58,000 American boys and millions of Vietnamese.
• They lied about 9/11 and presaged the buildup to 9/11 with PNAC: They caused or allowed the attacks of 9/11 and irrefutably covered up the facts
• They lied about Osama Ben Laden and Al-Qaeda: They gave Osama Ben Laden $3 billion to fight the Russians in Afghanistan and created the myth of Al-Qaeda
• They gave us The Patriot Act which has shredded our Constitution and Bill of Rights
• They gave us NAFTA which has decimated the middle class enriching those in control
• They gave us Open Borders which will damage what is left of the working folks and burden our troubled economy
• They are negotiating treaties like the TPP and others in secret that not even our Congress can see, yet nothing is done to prevent these treasonous acts.
• They have bailed out the banker’s crooked deals with the taxpayer’s money and good credit leaving the average American with the bills to pay
• They lied about the invasion of Iraq
• They lied about the invasion of Afghanistan
• They lied about the invasion of Libya
• They lied about the invasion of Syria
• They lied about the US Takeover and violent putsch of Ukraine
Today’s America is not the republic we were given back in 1787, but a fascistic tyranny in the service of a few evil men.