[GJM] Fwd: AMI Christmas message of peace, understanding and action

[robert searle]

--- AMI <ami at taconic.net> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:09:58 -0500
> From: AMI <ami at taconic.net>
> To:  ami at taconic.net
> Subject: AMI Christmas message of peace,
> understanding and action
> 
> *Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute,
> Here is our
> *
> 
> *Christmas Message for Peace, Understanding, and
> Action*
> 
> *_Our Money & Banking system causes warfare. Two
> important steps can fix 
> this:_* (From Stephen Zarlenga's welcome address at
> the 2006 AMI 
> Monetary Reform Conference)*__*
> 
> *"We often focus on the problem of interest payments
> on debt money 
> created privately out of thin air. *Yes it's a huge
> injustice, 
> concentrating wealth and power into fewer and fewer
> hands - mainly 
> undeserving hands. This pressurizes life and
> de-humanizes society ... 
> *But an even bigger question is control over where
> the money goes* *- 
> what gets funded and what doesn't - misdirecting
> humanity into warfare, 
> death and destruction.* Who is doing this? We get a
> clear view from time 
> to time of the secular and religious gangs
> involved...**
> 
> *_HOW and WHY does a private money system lead to
> warfare?_*
> 
> Raise your hand if you think you know.
> 
> *Yes - it provides a huge motive for war!*
> 
> Here's a real life example: It is March, 2003 and
> $15 billion is needed 
> to repair the levees protecting the city of New
> Orleans. Public TV 
> documentaries (NOVA) have authoritatively warned of
> the danger that New 
> Orleans would be flooded with over 100,000 dead.
> Millions of viewers 
> have seen and believe the documentary. But under a
> private money system, 
> the government must either go into more debt, or
> raise taxes to get the 
> money. Both of these prove politically impossible.
> The levees fail in 
> August 2005. Thousands die and $400 billion of
> property damage results.
> 
> *_OR_**    ** _It is March, 2003._*  Under a major
> deception purposely 
> designed to rush America headlong into war, an
> administration catering 
> to financiers, religious maniacs and other
> warmongering elements rushes 
> into warfare, and under a barrage of fear mongering
> and war hysteria 
> even its Democratic opposition is completely unable
> to vote against 
> wasting what will eventually total over a $ trillion
> dollars on a 
> losing, and clearly immoral war! The money comes
> from borrowing. Over 
> 600,000 Iraqi civilians and 3,000 American soldiers
> lose their lives for 
> no good reason.
> 
> U.S. Government debt balloons because of a
> combination of these war 
> expenditures and pernicious tax cuts to the already
> obscenely rich. The 
> usurers get their risk free loans to government and
> the ability to get 
> secure interest on their vast wealth. The debt based
> money system that 
> empowers them is protected.
> 
> *With a private money system the motive for Warfare
> is that it forces 
> the government into ever more debt - paying interest
> to financiers on 
> privately created money and increasing their
> influence. This hogties our 
> government, the only organizational form that can
> protect the nation 
> from the thieving "Enrons" of the world. Under
> wartime conditions, the 
> opposition is neutralized and the people are left
> unprotected and more 
> vulnerable to their predations!*
> 
> The financial controllers could have thrown their
> considerable political 
> power behind a drive to build levees, or to provide
> universal health 
> care, or to fund a decent educational system. With
> their control of 
> media, they might still have forced the government
> into more borrowing 
> from them. But then the people of our nation would
> have received some 
> infrastructure, some health care, and some
> educational benefits, albeit 
> under a continuing unjust and pernicious private
> money system... */so it 
> appears evident that the preponderance of the
> "financial controllers" 
> don't want to improve the nation./*  If they did,
> we'd see improvement, 
> not merely the concentration of great wealth into
> their hands. They 
> don't want the nation to be able to defend itself
> from their parasitical 
> predations; they don't want the people and the
> economists to see and 
> learn from concrete examples, how government
> expenditures can be 
> properly used to benefit the population.**
> 
> That would undermine the very ethos of the class
> warfare system their 
> class invented and nurtures, known as "economics,"
> which almost openly 
> defines its purpose as doing whatever it can to harm
> and weaken their 
> opposition; to keep the victims of their economic
> theories - the people 
> of our country - in bondage. That's why it usually
> does more harm than 
> good, to co-operate with them. That's why mankind is
> better off to let 
> events run their course and to then decisively
> remove this millstone 
> from humanity's neck. Continuing under their control
> with nuclear 
> weapons, ultimately is humanicide."
> 
> End of Excerpt.
> 
> What is the better way? To realize that our
> government can raise 
> revenues by creating its own money, instead of
> borrowing it or taxing 
> it. History shows that done properly, this is by far
> a superior source 
> of funding, and need not be inflationary.
> 
>  There are two kinds of action necessary to remove
> the scourge of 
> *warfare for profit *from the brow of humanity:
> 
> *_First:_** this war must be ended now, plain and
> simple.* As long as 
> the warmongers keep us at war, they will use the
> threat of mortal danger 
> as an excuse to move against our own Constitution.
> Every sort of crooked 
> deal and vicious agenda is protected under the tent
> of wartime 
> emergency. These agenda's have nothing in common
> with true American 
> interests.
> 
>  The "Neo-Conservatives" have done more harm to
> America than anything 
> you can name. Its finally being understood that
> their war of choice has 
> been the greatest catastrophe in American foreign
> policy, and it can get 
> worse - a lot worse! Find out how they got the label
> 
> "neo-conservatives," how their leaders switched from
> destructively 
> (anti-American) liberal to destructively
> (anti-American) conservative in 
> the late 60s/early 70s, and which of their beliefs
> they did not change, 
> in that process. That will tell you who and what
> they truly serve. They 
> are now beginning the long term process of switching
> back toward 
> "liberal" in this "game" of pushing the social
> pendulum much too far in 
> alternating directions.
> 
>  What interests does it serve? Ultimately none, as
> the people of our 
> country rise in indignant opposition to being told
> until a few short 
> weeks ago that the war was going well. Indeed this
> war will be stopped!
> 
>  How? By politics. The writing is already on the
> wall. The first 
> anti-war candidate-Democrat Dennis Kucinich a
> longtime opponent of the 
> war has entered the Presidential race. Take a look
> for yourself at the 
> excitement building at http://www.kucinich.us
> <http://www.kucinich.us/> 
> and at http://www.myspace.com/kucinich2008 . Then
> look up the website of 
> new Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont 
> (http://bernie.org/?p=65) who adamantly opposes
> sending more troops to 
> Iraq. Shortly we'll be able to direct you to some
> Republican lawmakers 
> who are now getting ready to oppose this war. This
> is a multi-partisan 
> effort because it is an American issue.
> 
>  We do not endorse partisan campaigns, but we can
> support important 
> issues such as ending this war and we pledge to draw
> similar attention 
> to all lawmakers or Candidates of whatever party who
> seriously oppose 
> the war!
> 
> *_ Second and more important than stopping one
> war:_**  We must begin a 
> program to remove the financial motivation for
> warfare by reforming our 
> monetary and banking system. *The MONEY POWER, the
> privilege to create 
> what we use for money in this system must be removed
> from private hands 
> and re-established within the U.S. Treasury. It's
> well enough known how* 
> *to do that without inflationary effects. What's not
> so well realized is 
> that this will remove a major incentive for
> unnecessary warfare.
> 
>  Otherwise stopping this war will have only a short
> term benefit for 
> humanity. The structural faults favoring warfare now
> built into the 
> system must be eradicated. This is accomplished with
> the American 
> Monetary Act, a comprehensive reform of our monetary
> and banking system 
> that places the Federal Reserve System within the US
> Treasury, and 
> removes the private privilege to create money. (see 
> http://www.monetary.org/amacolorpamphlet.pdf ) This
> Act has its best 
> chance for enactment in the next financial crisis
> (or the */next/* one). 
> A smaller step in this direction is taken with the
> Monetary Transparency 
> Act which requires the present Federal Reserve
> System to provide 
> transparent information on how the money system is
> affecting our nation. 
> This will assist legislators in making important
> public policy 
> decisions. The Monetary Transparency Act can be
> passed in the new 
> Congress. We'll post its final form on our website
> soon.
> 
> What can you do individually?
> 
> Get more people to read The Lost Science of Money
> book and to support 
> the American Monetary Institute with donations. Then
> attend the AMI 
> Monetary Reform Conference at Roosevelt University
> in Chicago, September 
> 27-30, 2007 where we will discuss this legislation,
> and focus on how the 
> present monetary system facilitates warfare. Please
> see 
>
http://www.monetary.org/2007%20conference%20announcement.html
> 
> There is an early registration discount ($195,
> instead of $295) for all 
> conference registrations postmarked by January 21,
> 2007. Hotel 
> accommodations are as low as $31 per night at the HI
> Chicago Hostel, 
> across the street from Roosevelt University. Please
> take a look at the 
> announcement, and act now - it helps us to organize
> this important event.
> 
> Then join a local AMI Chapter and when your
> knowledge level is 
> comfortable, visit your national and state
> lawmaker's offices to help 
> them understand that there are known workable
> solutions to their most 
> pressing problems.
> 
> Finally, your tax deductible donation to the
> American Monetary Institute 
> can still count for 2006.  We promise to use it
> intelligently. Please 
> send your check to us at
> 
> PO Box 601,    Valatie,     NY 12184.     Tel.
> 518-392-5387
> 
> Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings to all!  Give
> Peace a Chance.
> 
> Stephen Zarlenga
> 
> Director, American Monetary Institute
> 
> 
> 
> 


Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: warfare and the money system.doc
Type: application/msword
Size: 47104 bytes
Desc: pat1567889451
Url : /pipermail/discussion_globaljusticemovement.net/attachments/20061224/2df38a3d/attachment-0001.doc