by Melvin Sickler
November 22, 2003 marks the
40th anniversary
of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and a majority of Americans still believe that there was a conspiracy
behind this assassination. Both Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated while they held the high office of President
of the United
States. Both of these former presidents had also created their own money system
to run the United States while they were in office.
Is this just a coincidence?
Why assassinate a President?
Why must everything be kept so covered up? What are they trying to hide from the American people? The facts will speak for
themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
During the Civil War (1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money
to finance the War from the North. The Bankers were going to charge him 24% to 36% interest. Lincoln was horrified and went away greatly distressed,
for he was a man of principle and would not think of plunging his beloved country into a debt that the country would find
impossible to pay back.
Eventually President Lincoln was advised to get Congress to
pass a law authorizing the printing of full legal tender Treasury notes to pay for the War effort. Lincoln recognized the great benefits of this issue.
At one point he wrote:
“... (we) gave the people
of this Republic the greatest blessing they have ever had – their own paper money to pay their own debts...”
The Treasury notes were printed with green ink on the back,
so the people called them “Greenbacks”.
Lincoln printed 400 million dollars worth of Greenbacks
(the exact amount being $449,338,902), money that he delegated to be created, a debt-free and interest-free money to finance
the War. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. He printed it, paid it to the soldiers, to the U.S.
Civil Service employees, and bought supplies for war.
Shortly after that happened, “The London Times”
printed the following: “If that mischievous financial policy, which had its
origin in the North American Republic, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own
money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce.
It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth
of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed,
or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.”
The Bankers obviously understood.
The only thing, I repeat, the only thing that is a threat to their power is sovereign governments printing interest-free
and debt-free paper money. They know it would break the power of the international Bankers.
In retaliation
After this was published in "The London Times", the British
Government, which was controlled by the London and other European Bankers, moved to support the Confederate South, hoping to defeat Lincoln and the Union, and destroy this government which they said had to be destroyed.
They were stopped by two things. First, Lincoln knew the British people, and he knew that
Britain would not support slavery, so he issued
the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that slavery in the United States was abolished. At this point, the London Bankers could not
openly support the Confederacy because the British people simply would not stand for their country supporting slavery.
Second, the Czar of Russia sent a portion of the Russian navy
to the United States with orders that its admiral would operate under the command of Abraham Lincoln. These ships of the Russian
navy then became a threat to the ships of the British navy which had intended to break the blockade and help the South.
The North won the War, and the Union was preserved. America remained as one nation.
Of course, the Bankers were
not going to give in that easy, for they were determined to put an end to Lincoln's
interest-free, debt-free Greenbacks. He was assassinated by an agent of the Bankers shortly after the War ended.
Thereafter, Congress revoked
the Greenback Law and enacted, in its place, the National Banking Act. The national banks were to be privately owned
and the national bank notes they issued were to be interest bearing. The Act also provided that the Greenbacks should be retired
from circulation as soon as they came back to the Treasury in payment of taxes.
In 1972, the United States Treasury Department was asked to
compute the amount of interest that would have been paid if that 400 million dollars would have been borrowed at interest
instead of being issued by Abraham Lincoln. They did some computations, and a few weeks later, the United States Treasury
Department said the United States Government saved 4 billion dollars in interest because Lincoln had created his own money. So you can about
imagine how much the Government has paid and how much we owe solely on the basis of interest.
The Federal Reserve Act
There were changes in the money and banking laws for the next
fifty years. Finally, in 1913, the Bankers were able to get their Federal Reserve Act passed through Congress which replaced
the National Banking Act that had earlier replaced the Greenback Law. If the Government would have continued the policy of
Abraham Lincoln, the warnings given in “The London Times” would have come to pass. America would be a debt-free nation, the most prosperous
in the world. And the brains and the wealth of the world would have come to America.
But with this Federal Reserve
Act being passed, Congress gave up Its power to create its own money that it was given in the United States Constitution,
and gave this power over to private Bankers who called themselves the Federal Reserve. The Bankers had achieved their ultimate
goal, for now the United States
operated under a central bank that was privately owned. They now had the power to run the country by controlling the creation
of the money, and were free to charge the interest they so desired.
As Mayer Anselm Rothschild
once said: “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws...”
