The primary reason for
the War for Independence was not “taxation without representation”, but the
forced payment of taxes to the King in gold instead of paper money. America
was flourishing by using her own “fiat money” system based only on
production, not a gold-based system that could be manipulated by the King.
The King could not “control” the fiat money system and therefore passed a
law requiring that taxes be paid in gold only. The King had most of the
gold—the colonies had little; so unemployment ensued—and embittered
colonists cried for war. Benjamin Franklin put it this way, "The colonies
would have gladly born the little tax on tea, and other matters, had it not
been that England took away from the colonies their money." Prior to the
Revolutionary War, The Times of London said this regarding
fiat money in America:
"If this mischievous financial policy, which
has its origins in North America, shall become endurrated down to a fixture,
then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay
off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to
carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the
history of the world. The brains and the wealth of all the countries will
go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy
every Monarchy on the globe."
The truth is that the
Revolution failed. You might say that we won a military victory over the
most powerful military force on the planet at the time. However, reading the
Treaty of Paris it is clear that we were not exactly negotiating as equals.
We had won the recall of
British troops but not the bankers. Even though we are taught that we won
our independence from England, we actually were able to remain free from the
international bankers for only a few years at the close of the presidency of
Andrew Jackson. The most visible of the power structure was the East India
Company owned by the bankers and the Crown in London, England. This was an
entirely private enterprise whose flag was adopted by Queen Elizabeth in
1600—thirteen red and white horizontal stripes with a blue rectangle in its
upper left-hand corner. All debts owed before the war were to be collected
by the foreign creditors.
When the creditors of the
new nation found the Articles of Confederation to be inadequate to exact
payment from their young debtor, the Constitution was written and supported
by the bankers through their associates, to increase their control over the
United States of America. Had the Articles of Confederation been completed
and adopted, instead of the Constitution, the bankers would have had far
less control.
Any constitution must
have some prior reference to establish its foundation. The authority for
the American Constitution is based upon the Bible; the Magna Carta, signed
in 1215 by King John; the Petition of Rights, granted by King Charles I in
1628; the English Bill of Rights, granted by William and Mary in 1689; the
right of habeas corpus, granted by King Charles II, and the Articles of
Confederation. Any and every constitution thereafter must have an enabling
clause. From this point onward, no constitution may diminish, in any
manner, those rights already established in the above six documents.
The Declaration of
Independence established that all people are sovereign under God’s Natural
Law. Sovereign people of the various states, created the state governments
for the protection of their rights. They delegated certain authority from
the people’s powers by and through the state constitutions in order that the
three branches of government could properly carry out the dictates outlined
in the State constitutions to protect our rights.
The States then created
the united States.
The American Constitution
created a new structure of government that was established on a much higher
plane than either the parliamentary system or the confederation of states.
It was a people's "constitutional republic," where a certain amount of power
was delegated to the states and a certain amount was delegated to the
federal government. The United States, by way of the Congress of the United
States, has certain powers delegated by the Constitution. So far as the
several States party to the Constitution are concerned, the United States
may not exercise power not delegated by the Constitution. All power not
delegated to the United States by the Constitution is reserved to the
several States within their respective territorial borders—or, to the
people.
British Subversion, Banks, and Treason
Even though the Treaty of
Paris ended the Revolutionary War in 1783, the simple fact of our existence
threatened the "money powers" where it hurts most: financially. The United
States stood as a heroic role model for other nations, which inspired them
to also struggle against oppressive monarchies. The French Revolution
(1789-1799) and the Polish uprising (1794) were, in part, encouraged by the
American Revolution. Though we stood like a beacon of hope for most of the
world, the international bankers regarded the United States as a political infection,
the principle source of radical democracy that was destroying tools of the
money powers
around the world. The money powers realized that if the principle source of
that infection could be destroyed, the rest of the world might avoid the
contagion and the support of the money powers would be saved.
Knowing they couldn't
destroy us militarily, they resorted to more covert methods of political and
financial subversion, employing spies and secret agents skilled in bribery
and legal deception; it was perhaps the first "cold war." In the 1794 Jay
Treaty, the United States agreed to pay £600,000 sterling to King George
III, as reparations for the American Revolution.
The US Senate ratified the treaty in secret
session and ordered that it not be published.
When Benjamin Franklin's grandson published it anyway (perhaps our first
whistleblower), the exposure and resulting public uproar so angered the
Congress that it passed the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) so federal judges
could prosecute editors and publishers for reporting the truth about the
government.
Since we supposedly had
won the Revolutionary War, why would our Senators agree to pay reparations
to the loser? And why would they agree to pay £600,000 sterling, eleven
years after the war ended? It doesn't make sense, especially in light of
the Senate's secrecy and later fury over being exposed… unless we assume
our Senators had been bribed to serve the British monarchy and betray the
American people! That's treason!
From the beginning, the
United States Bank had been opposed by the Democratic-Republicans lead by
Thomas Jefferson, but the Federalists (the pro-monarchy party) won the
vote. The initial capitalization was $10,000,000 -- 80% of which would be
owned by foreign bankers. Since the bank was authorized to lend up to
$20,000,000 (double its paid capital), it was a profitable deal for both
government and the bankers, since they could lend, and collect
interest on $10,000,000 that didn't exist.
However, the European
bankers outfoxed the U.S. government, and by 1796, the US government owed
the bank $6,200,000 and was forced to sell most of its shares. By 1802, our
government owned no stock in the United States Bank!
Thomas Jefferson had
warned,
If the American people ever allow private
banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their
children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.... The
issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to
whom it properly belongs.
Several short-lived
attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United States were
defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson, Jackson,
Van Buren and Lincoln.
