The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

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Imagine that the United States decided to implement Griffin’s plan for abolishing the Federal Reserve. In this exercise, you’ll have a chance to contemplate how that might affect you personally. Paul listed Griffin's book on his "Reading List for a Free and Prosperous America". See: Paul, Ron (2007-04-30). The Revolution: A Manifesto. New York City, NY: Grand Central Publishing. pp. 169–70. ISBN 978-0-446-53751-3. In November 1910, six men – Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry Davison, Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg – met at the Jekyll Island Club, off the coast of Georgia, to write a plan to reform the nation’s banking system. The meeting and its purpose were closely guarded secrets, and participants did not admit that the meeting occurred until the 1930s. But the plan written on Jekyll Island laid a foundation for what would eventually be the Federal Reserve System. The Need for Reform Reason 3: It is the supreme system of usury. Griffin defines usury as “the charging of interest on a loan of fiat money”. This distorts a true process of lending as it depends on the creation of debt and money from nothing. The US Constitution forbids states from issuing paper currency but gives the federal government the right to “coin money” or to assign it a value based on an extrinsic commodity such as gold or silver. Conflicts raged among the Founding Fathers over debt and monetary management. Their experiences soured many of them on fiat money. Even in Colonial times, financial interests favoring paper money periodically triumphed. The Bank of North America, the first US central bank, opened in 1781. It enabled deficit spending and enriched bankers, as did the second central bank, the First Bank of the United States, in 1791. Both were hotbeds of fraud and theft; both failed. The Southern states, with their “wildcat banks,” pushed the US into the War of 1812, an unpopular conflict that relied on bank-issued fiat money.

Thomas, Kenn (2002). Popular Paranoia: A Steamshovel Press Anthology. Adventures Unlimited Press. p.298. ISBN 1-931882-06-1. As for history: I've never read a book before that considered Bertrand Russell a member of a conspiratorial league bent on the absolute destruction of freedom before. The easy explanation is that he wasn't. Griffin also states that Russell was a Fabian Socialist. This isn't true. He also states that the Russian Revolution was an inside job organized by bankers to take over Russia. Also not true. B.C. Forbes somehow learned about the Jekyll Island trip and wrote about it in 1916 in an article published in Leslie’s Weekly (October 19, 1916 p. 423), which was recapitulated a few months later in an article in the magazine Current Opinion. In 1917, Forbes again described the meeting in Men Who Are Making America, a collection of short biographies of prominent entrepreneurs, including Davison, Vanderlip, and Warburg. Not many people noticed the revelation, and those who did dismissed it as “a mere yarn,” according to Aldrich’s biographer.Do you ever wonder how the financial system really works? What money is? Where it comes from? You’ll find answers here. Just be careful to distinguish between historical fact and the author’s opinions, the lines between which he intentionally blurs. There are reasonable reasons to want the Fed to be more transparent,” he continued. “But as with any movement, there are people who will look for conspiracy instead.” The report alerted its readers that if the world converged into one government, it would no longer need war to keep people subjugated. Thus, a new threat would have to arise, and it would have to “1) be economically wasteful, 2) represent a credible threat of great magnitude and 3) provide a logical excuse for compulsory service to the government.” After discarding poverty and alien space invasions as insufficiently credible menaces, the report suggested that environmental degradation in the form of global pollution would make people accept any burden, tax or sacrifice “to save Mother Earth.” Citizens would then become pliable in service to environmental concerns, while their “leaders have an entirely different agenda: world government.” a b Giraud, Victoria (May 22, 1995). "T.O.'s Griffin All Booked Up With Writing, Film Projects". Daily News of Los Angeles. G. Edward Griffin, author and documentary film producer, calls himself 'a plain vanilla researcher and writer.' But the projects he has completed don't deal with 'vanilla' subjects. They concern the Federal Reserve, the Supreme Court, cancer and even Noah's ark. Perhaps a better description of Griffin is one he also admits to - 'Crusader Rabbit.' ... From the Penn Central Railroad collapse in 1970 to the banking and auto industries’ bailouts in 2008, taxpayers footed the bill for financial and corporate risk taking and blunders.”

Today, war no longer keeps people patriotic and subjugated; instead, powerful interests use environmental concerns to subdue populations. The US, despite the Founding Fathers’ sanctions against paper money, has suffered the blows of economic instability and political disaster because of the Fed. To read this book, and then listen to Ben Bernanke (current chairman of the Fed) essentially say during Senate testimony on Sept. 2, 2010 that the solution to a recession created by the federal government's central bank is to give the central bank more power and control. One has to conclude that the citizens of this country have no clue as the criminal looting of our national treasury done by the Fed and “related” entities. And Congress is in complete collusion with it as well. There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War was accomplished by the Mandrake Mechanism through the Federal Reserve System,” Griffin writes. “An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money. It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.”The title of this book by G. Edward Griffin might cause you to think of a horror story along the lines of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” However horrible it is, “The Creature from Jekyll Island is not fiction.. Law 2: “To enjoy economic prosperity and political tranquility, monetary powers of politicians must be limited to maintaining the integrity of measures of precious metals.” Ganz im Sinne der Sozialisierung der Verluste und der Privatisierung der Gewinne werden den Verursachern und Profiteuren des Debakels Unsummen in den Rachen geworfen. You can tell because Griffin has no idea on how 'debt' actually works, still less how it translates into how currency works. The fact is that all currency is based on a debt that is transferred from person to person. It doesn't matter what the currency is made of, how it's made, or how this debt was incurred merely that it exists in some fashion. Griffin would like to live in a "debt-free" country where the gold standard reigns supreme. This is not possible. To repay all debt cancels out the basis by which the economy is based upon. No debt=no economy. The Federal Reserve and Global Tyranny. The Federal Reserve plays an important role in a broader agenda of global socialism. Through the IMF and World Bank development loans and the growing footprint of the UN, there is a conscious long-term effort to move towards a world fiat currency (under IMF/World Bank framework) and a world government (under UN framework). Book Notes: The Key Ideas in Detail