WHY OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT THE FED: "Allow me to control the issue and the nation's money and I care not who makes its law!" This quote has long been attributed to the 18th century, banker Amshell Rothschild. [His blood line controls the FED]. For if one, unscrupulous group is allowed to print a nation's money - it can eventually use that money, to gain control of the press, AND the politicians - and thus gain control of making the nation's laws - and finally - control of the nation itself. (Reference 4)
If you will take the time to read the reference material listed, which has been researched, by Professors of Universities, Congressmen, etc., you will turn up information that might frighten you. For instance, In 1921 the stockholders of the Federal Reserve financed an organization called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Harper's Magazine called this, the most powerful organization in the United States. Ninety percent of the people in the State Department, and key positions in the Executive Branch, are members of the CFR. The CFR publishes a magazine called "Foreign Affairs". Read it ,if you want to know what is going to happen in coming years. (Reference 3)
Congressman Patman re-quoted Thomas Jefferson, showing that our founding fathers knew this banking principle, very well. "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies....". "Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money)," he said, "should be taken from the banks, and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs..." The Constitution is specific about the authority of the people, through their elected officials, to control the money, and thus, the affairs of their government. (Reference 5, P. 32)
Ben Franklin said in his autobiography, "The inability of the colonists to get the power ,to issue their own money, permanently ,out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War. " (Quoted in Reference 4)
Congressman Charles A. Lindsbergh of Minnesota said: "This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages perpetuated by this banking and currency bill." (Reference 5, P. 33)
Napoleon, a sympathizer for the international bankers, turned against them in the last years of his rule. He said: "When a government is dependent for money upon bankers, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes....Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain." (Reference 4)
In 1897, the Supreme Court declared that the U.S. Government can legally issue United States Notes, usury and debt free, just as Lincoln and Kennedy attempted. (Reference 1, P. 233)
FED violates Security & Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. (Reference 17, P. 96-98)
California 9th Circuit Court declared FED banks are private, not government. (Reference 17, P. 273)
A Republican Senator, who preferred to remain unnamed, stated: Congress is too much motivated by fears and anxieties concerning pressure groups and the next election (Reference 1, P. 210)