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Remembering 100 Years of Conquered Rule
Monday, October 01, 2012 – by Ron Holland
Ron Holland
"A people should know when they are conquered." Maximus responds, "Would you, would I?" – From the movie, "Gladiator"
One hundred years ago the American republic was overthrown and captured by financial elites and money power during the Taft and Wilson administrations, the first Republican and the second Democrat. Both the Federal Reserve and federal income tax were born and you know the rest of the story consisting of two world wars, the Great Depression and stock market crash, the rise of communism and fascism and the Cold War. Since that time directed current events, history and financial markets have ruled at the expense of free markets and free people.
The minor policy differences with one agenda shared by two different
parties and their presidents back during the Taft and Wilson
presidencies are somewhat similar to Obama and Romney today, should the GOP win this election. The only real
difference is in the political rhetoric preceding the election. The
America and republic established by our founding fathers effectively died 100 years ago and real, productive Americans have been a conquered people since that time.
William H. Taft served as president of the US during the years 1909 to 1913. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt had appointed Taft, his close ally, to Secretary of War in order to
promote Taft as his handpicked presidential successor. In this way the
widespread support for Teddy Roosevelt helped propel Taft to the
presidency in the 1908 campaign.
To some degree Taft continued the imperialist foreign policy of
Roosevelt through his "Dollar Diplomacy" in Latin America and Asia,
buying and supporting corrupt leaders who would advance American
political, international and economic interests. In time, however,
Taft's differences with Roosevelt began to grow. He showed both
decisiveness and restraint regarding a revolution in Mexico but to
former Roosevelt interests and supporters, he appeared blind to the
political considerations at home.
Taft began to alienate many of his former constituencies and elite
supporters with his trust-busting aimed at powerful wealthy elites, the
major reason he was defeated in his attempt to secure a second term as
president. Along with Wilson, Taft will be forever hated and despised
by productive American citizens for passage of the 16th Amendment that
allowed Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it based on
Census results among the states. Second, the Federal Reserve Act was
enacted under President Wilson on December 23, 1913, creating the hated Federal Reserve System and
granting it the legal authority to issue Federal Reserve Notes.
It should be noted that the Federal Reserve Act and the establishment of the Federal Income Tax were criminally crafted and forced on the
American people by both parties during the terms of Republican Howard
Taft and Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Since these acts were passed
Americans have increasingly lost control of their federal government,
the value of the dollar has depreciated by more than 95 percent and now
all Americans suffer under a two-party monopoly that can be neither
controlled nor even impacted by productive Americans.
Our nation's "mob rule" style democracy and closed political system guarantees that ultimate control and policies of the power elites will be enacted and carried forward regardless of public support or
opposition. Thus, since 1913 it really has not mattered which party or
presidential candidate has won the election because both are controlled
and act for the interests of the power elite.
Therefore, in the 2012 election – as has been the case during the
previous 100 years – voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system
totally divorced from the people. Whether readers vote third party or
for either of the two monopoly parties, little of substance will change
despite the propaganda and political rhetoric offered up this year, just like every four years.
It is easy to say Americans should know they are a conquered people
but do we really understand the situation? Like conquered peoples during Roman times believing they might still have power and influence over
those who ruled over then, the answer is sadly no.