EZLN Communiqué: GENERAL REDALERT

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• 22 June 2005, 16:16

  Well that is a cause for RED alrert. Perhaps the mindless corporations backed regime is planning another failed attack on the people and their right to living on the earth in peace. Perhaps their delusional greed and lust for false power has led them to this state of mind. Perhaps you need to stop complying with their money system and the exploitation of the banks and teach these people that if the enforce the corporations exploitation agenda they are cutting their own throats and those of their own brothers and sisters. If they believe that corruprt corporations are going to take care of them after they take what they want they need to take a closer look at the histories of those who sign their slave paychecks to be in that stupid corporation backed army in the first place.

  Perhaps they need to help the people rather than submiting to the will of the idiots with the stupid bags of money.
  Perhaps they need to realize that it is the WORKING person, the EDUCATED PERSON, and the EARTH is WHAT SUPPORTS LIFE
  – and not the GUN, the paycheck or the mindless BANKER whose money is just an excuse for creating FINANCIAL SLAVES!
  – WAKE UP - teach ALL the people this truth and unite under the brotherhood of supporting earth life support system for ALL
  and NOT JUST the bankers who enslave us all. REMEMBER THAT BROTHER!

  MONEY IS JUST FINANCIAL SLAVERY to those that ISSUE and CONTROL the MONEY! Issue the Money of Freedom
  as Benjimin Franklin did READ the following and UNDERSTAND IT!

  Colonies were more prosperous than the home country

  Before the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the war that followed, the colonized part of what is today the United States of America was a Crown possession of England. It was called New England, and was made up of 13 colonies, which became the original states of the great Republic.

  In 1750, this New England was very prosperous. Benjamin Franklin wrote: "There was abundance in the Colonies, and peace reigned on every border. It was difficult, even impossible, to find a happier and more prosperous nation on all the surface of the globe. Comfort prevailed in every home. The people, in general, kept the highest moral standards, and education was widely spread."

  When Franklin went over to England to represent the interests of the Colonies, he saw a completely different situation; the working population of the home country was gnawed by hunger and plagued by inescapable poverty. "The streets are covered with beggars and tramps," he wrote. He asked his English friends how England, with all its wealth, could have so much poverty among its working classes. His friends replied that England was prey to a terrible condition; it had too many workers! The rich said they were already overburdened with taxes, and could not pay more to relieve the needs and poverty of this great mass of workers. Several rich Englishmen of that time actually believed what economist Thomas Malthus later wrote, that wars and epidemic disease were necessary to rid the country from "manpower surpluses."

  People in London asked Franklin how the American Colonies managed to collect enough money to support their poorhouses, and how they could overcome this plague of unemployment and pauperism.

  Thanks to debt-free money issued by the colonial governments

  Franklin replied; "We have no poorhouses in the Colonies, and if we had some, there would be no one to put in them, since in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed person, not a beggar nor a tramp."

  His friends could not believe their ears, or understand how this could be. They knew when the English poorhouses and jails became too cluttered, England shipped the wretched inmates like cattle, to be dumped on the quays of the Colonies if they survived the filth and privations of the sea voyage. (In those days English debtors went to jail if they could not pay their debts, and few escaped, since in jail they could not earn money.)

  Franklin’s acquaintances, in view of all this, asked him how he could explain the remarkable prosperity of the New England Colonies.

  Franklin told them: "Why, that is simple! In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It’s called ’Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it to pay the government’s approved expenses and charities. We make sure it’s issued in proper proportion to make the goods pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In other words, we make sure there is always adequate money in circulation for the needs of the economy.

  "In this manner, by creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay, to anyone. You see, a legitimate government can both spend and lend money into circulation, while banks can only lend significant amounts of their promissory bank notes, for they can neither give away nor spend but a tiny fraction of the money the people need. Thus, when your bankers here in England place money in circulation, there is always a debt principal to be returned and usury to be paid. The result is that you have always too little credit in circulation to give the workers full employment. You do not have too many workers, you have too little money in circulation, and that which circulates, all bears the endless burden of unpayable debt and usury."

  English Bankers impose poverty on the Colonies

  Franklin should not have been so free with his advice, which soon came to the attention of the powerful English Bankers. They quickly used their influence to have the British Parliament pass a law that prohibited the Colonies from using their Colonial Scrip money. The new law ordered them to use only credit redeemable in gold and silver coins that were provided in insufficient quantity by the banks of England. And so began in America the plague of debt-based money, which has ever since brought as many hardships to the American people, as it has to Europeans.

  The first law regulating Colonial money was passed by the British Parliament 1751, then expanded by a more restrictive law in 1763.

  Franklin reported that only one year after implementation of the prohibition on Colonial Scrip, the streets of the Colonies were filled with unemployed and beggars, just like those he had seen in England, because there was not enough money to pay for their goods and work. The English Banker’s new laws had reduced the circulating medium by half.

  Franklin added that this was "the original and true cause of the American Revolution;" and not the tax on tea or the Stamp Act, as has been taught our children for generations in "history" books. The Financiers (bankers) of every generation manage to have removed from school books any information that can throw light on their own schemes and fraudulent actions that protect their power over the people.

  Franklin, one of the chief architects of American independence, put it clearly: "The Colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been for the poverty created by the bad influence of the English Bankers on the Parliament, which has caused in the Colonies hatred of England and the Revolutionary War."

  Other great statesmen of that era, including Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and George Jackson confirmed this point of view held by Franklin; and later by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy both issued sovereign money, James Garfield tried, and all three died in office.

  A remarkably honest English historian, John Twells, speaking of the money of the Colonies, their Colonial Scrip, wrote: "It was the monetary system under which America’s Colonies flourished to such an extent that Edmund Burke was able to write about them: ’Nothing in the history of the world resembles their progress. It was a sound and beneficial system, and its effects led to the happiness of the people.’ "

  John Twells added: "In a bad hour, the British Parliament took away from America its own scrip money, forbade any further issue of such bills of credit, these bills ceasing to be legal tender, and ordered that all taxes should be paid in British coins. Consider now the consequences: this restriction of the medium of exchange paralyzed all the industrial energies of the people. Ruin took place in these once flourishing Colonies; most rigorous distress visited every family and every business, discontent became desperation, and reached a point, to use the words of Dr. Johnson, when human nature rises up and asserts its rights."

  Another historical writer, Peter Cooper, expressed himself along the same lines. After saying how Franklin had explained to members of Parliament the reason for the prosperity of the Colonies, Cooper wrote: "After Franklin gave explanations on the true cause of the prosperity of the Colonies, the Parliament enacted laws forbidding the use of this money in the payment of taxes. This decree, clearly in the interest of the British bankers who stood behind the Crown, brought so many drawbacks and so much poverty to the people that it was the main cause of the Revolution. The supression of the Colonial money was a much more important reason for the general uprising than the Tea and Stamp Acts."

  DANGER! The Scrip of the Bankers has Taken over America

  Today, in America as well as in Europe, we are under the regime of the Scrip of the Bankers instead of the scrip of the sovereign nations. Hence the enormous public debts, everlasting interest (usury) charges, taxes that plunder purchasing power and rob the production of the people, with the result being more and more consolidation of the financial dictatorship.

  Where shall we start to correct the fraud of the bankers?

  The first step in the monetary reform being advocated by more and more action groups of educated and intelligent people is precisely the replacement of the banks’ debt money by debt-free money issued by the Constitutionally mandated sovereign government of the nation, the United States Congress, and elsewhere, the British Parliament, and similar governments. It is the duty of those governments to serve and protect their people, not allow financial robber barons to destroy them.

  We must end the dictatorship of the moneyed interests!

  It will soon become clear to you that we need to abolish the Federal Reserve Banking System as a privately owned central bank controlled partly by foreign interests. Check clearing must be taken over by the U. S. Treasury Department, and the commercial banks of our system must no longer be permitted to create and issue debt money by fractional reserve deposit expansion. A debt money system never provides money to pay interest, so the banks ultimately acquire all the People’s property by foreclosure, as Thomas Jefferson said they would.

  the above is political satire! - right?

  p e a c e VII.Bee

  • 22 June 2005, 18:54

    You should have posted this directly. I thought it was a brilliant piece!

• 22 June 2005, 21:50

  Are they close to the Halls of Montezuma yet?

  They should, and get rid of these bribe-taking mother f---ers. It should be a nationwide movement and be continuing, not like it was in 1911.

  Unbeknowst to these racistas, it is the Mexican Government that is the SOURCE of the undocumented aliens coming over here. Until the Mexican Government is still riddled with a corrupt economy, and corrupt politicians, IT NEEDS TO BE OVERTHROWN!!

• 23 June 2005, 15:04

  What is a "Good Government Junta"? Anyone?

  Mexico is a basket case, though the Mexicans are good people. Tal vez Sr. Marcos tiene razon, but he sure doesn’t look very "indigenous", if that matters.

  Are they still selling Marcos dolls to rich American tourists getting off of cruise ships in Mexico?

  • 23 June 2005, 15:07

    For all I know, Marcos is a good guy, but the glamor shot posted with his article isn’t going to do him any good. Reminds me of this:

    http://www.che-mart.com/store.php

• 5 July 2005, 02:28

  In Support of the Zapatistas, or more importantly, Humanity-at-Large

  REASON FOR CHANGE

  Great scarcity exists on many levels in today’s world. This scarcity is a result of something called “The Big Lie.” A major component of the Big Lie is that scarcity will somehow be magically eliminated in the near future, if we only work a little harder. Work harder while we continue to follow the commands issued by our puppet masters, without question.

  In truth there no is no scarcity. Life is abundant. The only lack is that which mankind creates and accepts as real through slothful attitude and dull witted action. The creation of scarcity is a social engineering ploy. Scarcity is used as a tool. The intention and design of this social engineering revolves around the need of a handful individuals to maintain power and elitist control over the lives of the many. This is accomplished by keeping the masses enslaved in untruth and ignorance, yet, at the same time, creating the illusion in the people’s minds that they are somehow free and blessed by god as chosen.

  Our system of government, soon to be “officially” global, is labeled a “democracy.” A democracy where it is the “will of the people” that is always implemented by our governmental masters. However this is simply another component of the Big Lie. Its fabric and banner is manufactured illusion. In the USA we do not live in a true democracy as existed in the days of Pericles in ancient Greece. We live in a form of democracy called representative democracy. Representative democracy is not controlled by votes, as many would believe. It is controlled by money combined with limitation of choice. We possess the best government money can buy. We are seeing that fact graphically in action as these latter days unfold in dramatic fashion.

  Those with the most money control all important aspects of this form of government, i.e., the military industrial complex, large global corporations, the banking system itself, insurance industry, educational system, corporate food production and distribution, most important aspects of the media, the medical field, scientific research and, very importantly, the key component, the Federal Reserve Bank, Inc. It is through the shareholders of the private Federal Reserve Bank, Inc. that the strings of real national and global power are maintained and manipulated. All in full view of the public and under the support of the political “leadership” of our country.

  Today’s fear-based-reality-society can best be expressed with the simple motto of our time:

  "War is Good for the Economy"

  There is a solution to the above plight. That is a subject to be taken up at a later time… but ask yourself, just who are the original shareholders of the Federal Reserve Bank, Inc.? Then find out who are the actual shareholders of the Bank of England? Then find out who the shareholders are of the other Central Banks of Europe…You may find that they are the very same families.