[GJM] Ron Paul and the Federal Reserve

[Rodney Shakespeare]

Steve,
You wrote:-
"Binary Economics seems to believe that we need MORE centralized power."   

More centralized power?  What makes you think that?

Binary economics spreads  economic power.  Binary democracy is the usual vote plus economic democracy i.e. the control over your everyday life which comes from having an independent economic base.

Trying clicking on www.binaryeconomics.net or visit the Wikipedia page on binary economics.  When you've done that, we can discuss further if you want.

Rodney Shakespeare.



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Consilvio 
  To: discussion at globaljusticemovement.net 
  Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:27 PM
  Subject: [GJM] Ron Paul and the Federal Reserve


  What would Ron Paul replace the Federal Reserve with?  This is the same arcane idea that occurred 200 years ago between the First and Second National Banks.


  He will replace the old bank with a new bank, and pretend that the new one is "different."


  Mind you, I sometimes joke that Osama missed his target.  He should have hit the Fed, not the WTC.  Who knows, maybe that is where the fourth plane was going, but I doubt it.


  In any case, the Fed only creates currency; it is "we the people" that create values (including inflation.)  It is the valuation of items that is the problem, not the currency being used in the valuation, and that is done privately.  We the People already have control of our destiny, but what is regarded as commonsense (profit) is actually nonsense.  2+2=5?


  Even the terrorists are good capitalists.  The problem is not the existence or non-existence of organizations, but rather the ideas that drive them.  Ironically, profit is a grand consensus in business, in government, in non-profits (Orwellian named) and our in personal lives.  Financial profit is regarded as "normal" as the sunrise.  Unfortunately, this consensus is a grave error.


  Changing the faces on the currency and changing the rules of who issues it does not change our inter-personal relations.  Imagine if a mother charged her infant to nurse on her breast.  That is essentially what ANY currency system creates.  It is the theater of the absurd, and we have all been indoctrinated to believe it is "normal."  Of course, it could be worse. A father or a stranger could force the child to pay for suckling his/her own mother.  That is probably closer to the situation we are in.  Nobody owns their own bodies, everybody is living in fear.  Even the slave-masters are living in fear.


  Intellectually, revolution is a dead end.  What the world needs is enlightenment.  Historians often claim that the American Revolution came out of The Enlightenment or The Great Awakening.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  The rebel is a blind man.  And American Democracy is based on the visions of the blind.  Nothing can be reformed without going back to the source and starting all over, the way that Solon tried to in Athens. He was not a rebel, he was chosen because of his wisdom.  It isn't enough to abolish the Federal Reserve, we need to abolish the entire legal system and the ideas that prop it up.


  The big question is if anyone is willing to change their view of things, or if they will clutch to their old ways like straws while they drown in the consequences of their own choices.


  One idea can change the world, just as one idea can destroy it.  The growth of the Fed idea is the World Bank, the WTO, etc., a huge Big Brother-like apparatus based on the belief that centralized control is better than decentralized control.  Multi-national corporations and world-wide NGO's are a reflection of the Big Brother banking/currency system.  This isn't a web of equals, it is a slave system without the harsh elements of racism and chains.  Numbers are the new chains.  


  Binary Economics seems to believe that we need MORE centralized power.  If people can't use the power they have now wisely, then why would more power make them wiser?  Like a computer, power amplifies mistakes.  If there is no wisdom in the person, then there will be no wisdom in the choices, regardless of how much or little power they have.  Rather, we must use the power we now have wisely, and build from there.


  peace,
  steve
  www.behappyandfree.com






  On Aug 9, 2007, at 11:23 AM, discussion-request at globaljusticemovement.net wrote:


    Rep. Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who supports abolishing the Federal Reserve.





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