Dear Pensiamento,

Since 1777 the US classified our country as First World – leading in all things.  So true! Today she is leading in crime and corruption while claiming sanctimonious virtues and declaring the rest of the world as either second-rate citizens with diminished privileges, or else as third world with almost no privileges.

You know that right from the time of the arrival of the founding fathers this country has been hell-bent on becoming, and now is, the epitome of what constitutes a third-world that is under increasing condemnation for the most High Sovereign power.

When in 1777 we separated from Britain we accused them of corrupt use of unlawful power.  It was the monarchy and all its agents we so much detested.  Ever since the enactment of the Statute of Monopolies in 1623 the Crown of the United Kingdom effectively took ownership of all people and businesses by restricting unto itself the sovereign right to grant monopolies. Do some research on this act – its so pervasive. The British Crown offers protection in return for levies and fealty. Today we call this arrangement Intellectual Property Rights. Ha! It was a novel extension of the Feudal system.

As early as 1779 wealthy northern US Businessmen were already rumbling with discontent regarding the independence of businessmen in the south.

In 1789 the US Congress enacted a Tariff act. This was extended in 1816 and 1824 by adding protectionist goals, and then in 1828 established and enacted the Tariff of Abominations that levied up to 49% duty on certain goods. See: “F. W. Taussig, The Tariff History of the United States, 8th ed. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931), pp. 63.”

It was these tariff acts that led to the Civil War of 1861-1865 – not slavery or emancipation!  The US Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said this in its 2002 report: “… Smoot-Hawley taught us trade’s lesson the hard way – protect and destroy. Today we’re learning it the right way – compete and prosper.” See: “Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Annual Report, 2002, p.23, Exhibit 14.”

The Merchant Marine Act of 1970 effectively sabotaged the US shipping industry – it has never recovered. The bill of goods sounded so good – too good to be true.  It served a few wealthy power brokers well at the cost of US citizens.

The actions taken by the Nixon administration to “protect the US Steel Industry” was a mere license to put American steel industry workers out of work and instead to reap huge financial harvests from inflated pricing of monopoly-controlled steel from Brazil, sold into the booming building industry in New York.

“Rationalizing the differences between intellectual property rights as defined and enforced in the United States and those of our trading partners has emerged as a seminal issue in our trade negotiations.” Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Intellectual Property Rights, “At the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Economic Summit, Stanford, California, February 27, 2004.”

Greenspan was a corrupt negotiator who knew how to wield a powerful club. He was a tool in the hands of corrupt financial power brokers who control US and global trade and assets, Likewise, Henry Kissinger was a corrupt tool in the hands of the US elite well to do.

The history of the liberation of America from Britain is littered with corrupt politicians, policies, and with one example of the flagrant abuse of US citizens after another.  Most of this abuse is done under the color of law (See: 18 CFR 242 and 42 USC 1983) – forgive me for saying this, but our country has almost perfected the systematic tyranny of abuse of a people who in the main have respected laws out of religious convictions.  Those convictions have changed, and thus the tyranny has been stepped up.  Corruption is more overt and more sinister now that the public see it.

What holds the nation back from holding corrupt men to account?  Something to ponder and to fear.

Sincerely,

Smarter Than The Average