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Categories - Copywriting - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services Articles: Government - Warnings Unheeded We are now seeing the results of many of the things that our more scrupulous leaders have warned us against. Thomas Jefferson warned us many times against the establishment of a central bank. He said, "The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered". Benjamin Franklin warned us against giving up our freedom to protect ourselves when he said, “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Woodrow Wilson, after signing the Federal Reserve Act into existence, lamented, “I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country... Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. "We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” Dwight Eisenhower warned us by saying as he left office, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
You can watch President Eisenhower give his speech here. There were many other warnings by prominent leaders in state and local government, but perhaps the most eloquent and frightening came from President John Kennedy just prior to his assassination. “The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society. And we are, as a people, opposed to secret societies, secret oaths, and secret proceedings. We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice,. It is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, economic, diplomatic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not public. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned. No secret is revealed. That is why the Athenian lawmakers decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. I am asking your help with the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. Confident that, with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent. “
You can listen to President Kennedy's speech here. While most of us did not understand or stop to ponder these words, we now know what they were saying.
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