Pardon My Politics

Did White House representatives utilize a well-calculated campaign of fear by threatening to ruin or destroy the reputation of certain companies if they didn’t fall in line? Before providing an answer, let’s look back to an incident that occurred in October 2008 when Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson gathered executives from America’s nine largest banks in a room, then gave each a one-page document and said, “No one is leaving this room until it’s signed.”

Church-going sixteen-year-old N.C. boy held since Feb. 15 in Indiana on domestic terrorism charges.

“Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think that it would be my own government that I would have to protect my children from,” the boy’s mother said. “This is the United States, and I feel like I live in a Third World country now.”

Where did this modern “conservative” movement start? Ronald Reagan. In the last presidential election it seemed all of he Republican Party candidates were bending over backwards to give the impression they were the most loyal disciples of Ronald Reagan. Then I remembered an audiotape I heard years ago by movie director Myron Fagan, called “Red Stars Over Hollywood,” in which Fagan repeatedly called Reagan “Ronnie the Red.”

In the 1980s there was a banking crisis in the US caused by fraud in the Savings & Loan industry. How does today’s crisis compare? Twice as big, five times as big, ten times as big? Try 100 times bigger.

How did it happen? The people at the top of the biggest financial institutions were total crooks. Not a theory. A reality.

If you’re an American citizen, the federal government reserves the right to at any time, for any purpose to compel you by threat of fines and imprisonment to open up every detail of your financial life.

In contrast, the Federal Reserve is legally exempt from audit.

That’s right, the biggest financial force in the world which has absolute authority over the US money supply does not get audited – ever.