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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 11 Num. 12
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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FRENZIED FINANCE -- IV
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[Synopsis of *Frenzied Finance* by Thomas
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W. Lawson. New York: Ridgway-Thayer, 1905]
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-+- The "Magic" of Finance -+-
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The majority still regard the world of finance as the world of
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magic. "The magic of finance" is one of the artifices with which
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tricksters, since the beginning of the world, have imposed upon
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the people.
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The average American would consider it a huge joke should his
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grocer undertake to induce him to buy one-hundred times more
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sugar than he could use, on the ground that he might find in the
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sugar bags, when he reached home, gold and diamonds. And so it
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goes in every business but finance. In that business, the
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business into which is merged all other businesses, the most
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hard-headed of Americans are done out of their savings by the
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veriest "come-ons."
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[CN: A more recent version of the racket was seen in the S&L
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debacle of the 1980s. In that scheme, American savers were
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robbed, but the robbery was smoothed over by FSLIC "insurance."
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*But who was made to pay to cover that insurance?* Not the
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robbers, but the American people.]
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Look up and down Wall Street at the great office buildings.
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These are huge hives of expensive bees who, from New Year's to
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New Year's, do not *produce* a dollar. The hundreds of millions
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spent each year for the expense of running the "System's" game,
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and the millions which the game-makers flaunt, are derived from
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the men and women who *produce*.
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It is the phenomenon of the age that millions of people come each
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year (or each cycle), of their own free will, to the shearing
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pens of the "System," so that the "System" may go through their
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pockets, and they then depart peacefully home to dig and delve
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for more money that they may have the debasing operation repeated
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on them in the next cycle.
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You may ask if I desire to convey the idea that the great
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financial institutions and trusts of this country, which have
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their head centre in Wall Street, are all concerned in a
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conspiracy to rob the people of their savings. I desire to go on
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record right here in declaring that all financial institutions
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which in any way are engaged in taking from the people the money
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that is their surplus earnings or their capital, for the
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ostensible purpose of safeguarding it, or putting it in use for
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them, or exchanging it for stocks, bonds, policies, or other
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paper evidences of worth, are a part of the machinery for the
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plundering of the people.
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I do not mean to say that all the men who handle and control the
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different institutions I mentioned have guilty knowledge of the
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bearing of their actions. They do not know that the relation
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between their own minor institution and the general financial
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structure constitutes the former an agency for the "System,"
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which controls and has organized the general financial structure
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into an instrument for converting the money of the public to its
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own purposes. In fact, the "System" has cunningly possessed
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itself of the financial mechanism of the country and is running
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it for the benefit and personal profit of its votaries. And so
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the vast correlated organization of banks, trust companies, and
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insurance corporations has become an agency for transferring the
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people's savings to the control of unscrupulous manipulators.
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It is only a matter of simple mathematics to ascertain the day
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when ten men will be as absolutely and completely the legal
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owners of the entire United States and all there is of value in
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it, as John D. Rockefeller is the absolute legal owner of the
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large section of it which he today possesses.
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When that day is here, the people will legally be the slaves of
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these ten men.
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The American people have been lulled to sleep by the "System"
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until they have but a dull appreciation not only of existing
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conditions but of their coming consequences. It is almost
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incredible that a people as intelligent as the American people
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can be so deceived and juggled with. However, when one looks
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about and notes the degradation and dishonor to which public
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opinion is seemingly indifferent, nothing is incredible.
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The "System" has so far been able to keep the public in ignorance
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of its doings. On the surface there is nothing to suggest that a
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set of vampires have captured the high places of finance and are
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sucking away the life-blood of the nation. Our banks and trust
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companies all present a fair exterior and apparently are the same
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safe and honorable institutions they were before the canker
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fastened on them. Only its votaries know what the "System" is,
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and their way is the way of silence and darkness. A tie,
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stronger and more effective than the oath of the Mafia, binds
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them to its service, and woe be to him who dares divulge its
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methods. And even if the being be found who will venture an
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expose' of the conspiracy, he will find it strangely difficult to
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get his story past the traps and pitfalls which will be placed
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between it and the public.
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For related stories, visit:
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http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
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http://feustel.mixi.net
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Aperi os tuum, decerne quod justum est, et judica inopem et
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pauperem. -- Liber Proverbiorum XXXI: 8-9
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