Our yearning is as old as humanity itself. Whenever the avarice of some has excluded others from the bounty of creation, the spirit of love brings forth the heroes of history to stand bravely with the least of us in a sometimes losing, always necessary struggle. At its finest moments the push for universal human brotherhood blossoms from below. Other times it's cultivated from the middle, but never decreed from above.
To those who look at the world and only see the possibility for material self-enrichment, the earth is dead to them. They are our sisters and our brothers, but we will never enable them to accumulate at our expense and the expense of future people. To deny another the necessities of life, the basic requirements for survival, is to deny another's own humanity and to close oneself off from a more perfect union with life around us.
Greed is self-imprisonment. Love is the supreme virtue. The American experience, like so many over the epic struggle of time, is the story of righteousness and sin in constant conflict. Let no one deny the unhealed wounds of genocide, slavery, and other forms of intolerable cruelty still haunting the shared conscience of our nation. Yet our story is one of faith in redemption, creating beauty from tragedy, like flowers through rubble.
We are forever evolving into a stronger, more capable people, the unique perspectives of whom combine to form a cultural vibrancy unlike anything in the world. We have never been stagnant, even at our lowest, nor do we desire to ever stop changing, upward, forever reaching out for our shared, glowing vision of opportunity for all in a land of peace and compassion.
This is the American Dream. It has been trampled but it will never die. Try as they have, the forces of privilege cannot break this spirit of hope. It beats in the hearts of us all, and there is no weapon that can destroy it.
Propaganda, both state and corporate, attempts to divide us with fear. Bureaucracy, both public and private, tries to reduce people to objects. Violence is used to eliminate some and intimidate others. But lying at the center of this machine of coercion is the very engine of our modern way of life. It is invisible, but it is everywhere, chaining everything: the system of money itself.
To live, to be truly free in today's world, you must have money. But through an accident of history the power to create it was torn from our hands by a shameless elite now threatening us with destruction. The Constitution grants this power to Congress but over time banking institutions have usurped this fundamental duty of government to the point where today virtually all money is created as private debt.
Forever compounding with interest, this debt-money constantly demands that we consume more and more resources just to remain solvent. When expansion ceases, the system collapses. This is the essence of our subjugation, the wind at our backs on our race to oblivion.
Therefore, to liberate humankind from the crushing burden of corporate tyranny and to save our natural environment from total ruin, to make the American Dream at last real, we must transform the monetary system to serve the people, rather than the brutal and inhuman reverse.
In this time of crisis, like voices in the wilderness our best minds have stepped forward to craft an unprecedented solution. The National Emergency Employment Defense Act, HR 2990, will strip banks of their ability to issue debt freely and restore the money power to Congress at last. The national debt will be eliminated and trillions of dollars will be directly injected into a cash-starved economy repairing our crumbling infrastructure at no cost to the taxpayer. Most importantly, the money supply will be transformed from one of debt recklessly issued by banks to one of transparent management by the people themselves.
With the adoption of this proposal, the fruit of hundreds of years of resistance to social injustice, the violent grip of financial oligarchy will cease and our great project--an economic democracy fit for a political democracy--will materialize and ripple outward, ensuring America's place in history as an immortal monument to the power of love, triumphing over power itself.
Thank you.
To those who look at the world and only see the possibility for material self-enrichment, the earth is dead to them. They are our sisters and our brothers, but we will never enable them to accumulate at our expense and the expense of future people. To deny another the necessities of life, the basic requirements for survival, is to deny another's own humanity and to close oneself off from a more perfect union with life around us.
Greed is self-imprisonment. Love is the supreme virtue. The American experience, like so many over the epic struggle of time, is the story of righteousness and sin in constant conflict. Let no one deny the unhealed wounds of genocide, slavery, and other forms of intolerable cruelty still haunting the shared conscience of our nation. Yet our story is one of faith in redemption, creating beauty from tragedy, like flowers through rubble.
We are forever evolving into a stronger, more capable people, the unique perspectives of whom combine to form a cultural vibrancy unlike anything in the world. We have never been stagnant, even at our lowest, nor do we desire to ever stop changing, upward, forever reaching out for our shared, glowing vision of opportunity for all in a land of peace and compassion.
This is the American Dream. It has been trampled but it will never die. Try as they have, the forces of privilege cannot break this spirit of hope. It beats in the hearts of us all, and there is no weapon that can destroy it.
Propaganda, both state and corporate, attempts to divide us with fear. Bureaucracy, both public and private, tries to reduce people to objects. Violence is used to eliminate some and intimidate others. But lying at the center of this machine of coercion is the very engine of our modern way of life. It is invisible, but it is everywhere, chaining everything: the system of money itself.
To live, to be truly free in today's world, you must have money. But through an accident of history the power to create it was torn from our hands by a shameless elite now threatening us with destruction. The Constitution grants this power to Congress but over time banking institutions have usurped this fundamental duty of government to the point where today virtually all money is created as private debt.
Forever compounding with interest, this debt-money constantly demands that we consume more and more resources just to remain solvent. When expansion ceases, the system collapses. This is the essence of our subjugation, the wind at our backs on our race to oblivion.
Therefore, to liberate humankind from the crushing burden of corporate tyranny and to save our natural environment from total ruin, to make the American Dream at last real, we must transform the monetary system to serve the people, rather than the brutal and inhuman reverse.
In this time of crisis, like voices in the wilderness our best minds have stepped forward to craft an unprecedented solution. The National Emergency Employment Defense Act, HR 2990, will strip banks of their ability to issue debt freely and restore the money power to Congress at last. The national debt will be eliminated and trillions of dollars will be directly injected into a cash-starved economy repairing our crumbling infrastructure at no cost to the taxpayer. Most importantly, the money supply will be transformed from one of debt recklessly issued by banks to one of transparent management by the people themselves.
With the adoption of this proposal, the fruit of hundreds of years of resistance to social injustice, the violent grip of financial oligarchy will cease and our great project--an economic democracy fit for a political democracy--will materialize and ripple outward, ensuring America's place in history as an immortal monument to the power of love, triumphing over power itself.
Thank you.
