Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
Darlings and Bastards
"Seven billion will be `spent' this year to guard against terrorism within America's boundaries," says the headless voice behind pictures of a bombed out Murrah Building on my television. Hmmm. Will it really be "spent" to protect us or to further enslave us? With the railroading of McVeigh and Nichols, and many of the media presentations still placing the blame for the OKC multiple blasts on the invisible militia, have American's minds been sufficiently twisted yet to swallow the propaganda? Will you surrender your weapons to the jackbooted thugs, when you finally hear that dreaded knock on your door?
I like to put quotes around corrupted words and terms which carry a twisted, Orwellian meaning - or even no meaning at all. I have a friend and writing mentor who told me years ago while helping me edit my first book, "Sometimes you have to murder your darlings." Those "darlings" are the carefully chosen words and those smooth and well chiseled phrases full of art and beauty and drama and intrigue and mystique. Ahh, we have fallen so deeply in love with these darlings we can see no further than their charismatic and magnetic beauty. That is, not until an editing maniac with a fully automatic pencil shoots them to pieces, circling the whole paragraph with such rude comments such as "Doesn't fit" or "What are you talking about?" Then you have to kill your darlings, if someone else hasn't already.
Other words and phrases are little bastards which should have been aborted at conception but are protected instead by politically correct journalists. Lawyers and politicians, usually one and the same, are the fathers of these illegitimates. Lawful money is a darling. Legal tender is a bastard. Constitutional Republic is a darling. Democracy is a bastard. Lawfulness is a darling from Old Testament law, which teaches that there can be no crime without a victim. Legalisms are bastardized statutes dreamed up lately by man in an attempt to place government above God. And the highway sign which announces, "Unlawful to drive without seatbelts fastened," is a lying bastard.
God's law blesses the victim, curses the criminal, and deters crime. Man's law blesses the criminal, punishes the victim, and makes crime pay.
The darlings carry a certain adorable magnetism about them, not unlike a favorite niece or nephew; and the people are naturally attracted and treat their darlings with special loving care. But the bastards arrive with a forced integration of words along with a government edict which says, "Love me or else." We the People have heard the Electronic Programmer utter these instructions so many millions of times that the tendency has become to mentally reply, "Well, okay `den, if you're really part of the family, I will accept you, but I still don't have to love you." And we start welcoming the little bastards into our living rooms and family reunion picnics as if they really belonged.
"Tax payer's money" and "deficit spending" are magnificent examples of a bastardization of words. (If you can accurately describe to us what government "spends," Media Bypass will send you 100 pounds of it.) Nothing can be paid without lawful money. Legal tender merely retires the obligation without paying anything. So without lawful money, how can there be any tax payer's money? This is subterfuge!
America finally lost its last grip on freedom when the deceptive banker's window (for redeeming lawful federal reserve notes) slammed shut on June 24, 1968. Since then, all "money" has been created from the top, as credit or paper, and is circulated through government checks "payable" to bureaucrats and "loans" to gullible citizens via commercial banks.
We are no longer on the gold standard. We are no longer on the silver standard. We operate our economy on the Imaginary Standard. If you imagine that you have credits in your bank account and your banker agrees that your total is correct, then you do.
It was no accident of history that the plutocrats got their very necessary Income Tax in place - deceptive as the 16th Amendment was, and its dubious ratification notwithstanding -- in early 1913 before the Federal Reserve Act passed on December 23rd of the same year. The two go hand-in-hand as Twins of Deception. The Federal Reserve Bank's carte blanche to create credit at the top was absolutely worthless without the power to remove, or at least drastically reduce, the purchasing power of the consumers. You may acquire a copy of Inflation and Unemployment, at no cost, from the Federal Reserve Bank. From its text we are informed, "After the Black Death killed one third of all workers in Europe, the money supply was not affected and survivors bid prices sky high." Does this stimulate your thinker?
The need for the income tax is obvious. The excess "money" (credit) must be "taxed" away from the people before they can use it in the market place. Without a phony income tax, the "money" supply would be unaffected and "the people would bid prices sky high," thereby creating hyperinflation and collapsing the plutocrat's con game - forcing us back into a barter system of gold and silver. Horrors!
Another government ploy by which excess consuming is controlled is through the elimination of people, macabre as it may be. But by understanding the money issue, we can understand the need for government edicts of abortion at one end of life and euthanasia at the other. Fewer of the non-productive consumers means less "money" being spent back into the system (which would then have to be removed through "taxation"). After retirement, be careful of just what poisons you take labeled as "medicine." The system has a vested interest in your death, not your health.
U. S. Attorneys hoodwink ignorant jurors every day with, "Because this man didn't pay his fair share, you had to pay more last year!" Such hogwash! There is no tax payer's money. There is only government money, with its ability to create all that is necessary. Unless a few suckers are sent to jail every year, the multitudes might lose their fear.
Don't call me a "Tax Protestor." I love taxes! I wish we had a Republic where public office holders were limited by the amount of money they could collect as taxes and borrow for operation. They would then be our servants again. It is the regulations in the God-forbidden, unconstitutional plutocracy masquerading as a democracy that I protest! The constitution formerly controlled the government. Today we are bossed and governed in a nation of gun-toting thugs limited only by their ability to convince us that we are lawfully paid with credit or strips of paper, and by their ability to jail the tiny few who see the truth.
Americans have become entangled in the semantics of their own language, which has made of them slaves which first made them free. As a man thinketh in his own heart, so is he; and if he believes that right is wrong and wrong is right, he is nonetheless zealous in it.
We have met the enemy, Mr. Pogo, and indeed, he is us.