Chalcedon Blog

Prior to his appointment and election as vice-president of the United States, Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton. Not long after his appointment, the country was engaged in wars that benefited primarily Mr. Cheney's former company. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "They're just lucky, I guess." The profiteering of Halliburton came as a result of a national crisis, and Cheney called for expansive federal powers to fix the crisis.

Now, the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, is using yet another crisis--the collapse of the financial markets--in order to demand plenary power to fix the problem. He wants more than a $700 billion bail out (at taxpayer expense, mind you). He wants authority that cannot be challenged by either Congress or the American people. And if they lose all your money, he wants it written in that they cannot be sued.

And like Mr. Cheney, Mr. Paulson just happens to be the former Chairman of Goldman Sachs and one of the men most responsible for creating the housing crisis that is bankrupting investment banks.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have absolutely no idea what is about to transpire. This is checkmate. From this point on, full dictatorial authority of the American financial system will rest squarely in the hands of elite financiers. At that point, they can do whatever they like, and you, nor the Congress, can say a single word. It's as the dynastical banker, Lord Rothschild, once said, "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."

We, as the American people, were asleep at the wheel. We were ignorant of the structure of the American financial system, or "racket." We thought that because it was named "The Federal Reserve," that is was an official government institution like the Department of Transportation. It's not. As some have said, "It's as federal as Federal Express."

In 1797, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects of the Constitution or Confederation; not from any want of honor or virtue, as much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

My brothers and sisters, the issue of international banking and the coining of money has ALWAYS been the greatest threat to the security of the American people. It's the force behind statism because the apparatus of the state is used by the financiers to create their fuedal monopoly over the citizenry and property of the U.S. That's why the men holding the highest offices in the country were all former heads of big oil, international banks, or defense contractors. Even the beloved George W. Bush has a rich family history in international banking through his grandfather, Prescott Bush (Brown Brothers Harriman), big oil, while his own father profited handsomely through his involvement in the Carlyle Group--defense brokers.

Statism does not operate in a void. It's tyranny and abuse receives power from somewhere. In our case, the power behind the state is not Lenin or Hitler. It's international finance and the powerful multinational corporations whose profits exceed the GDP of many sovereign nations.

THEY WANT POWER OVER THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM. And Henry Paulson is demanding that you and I give it to them. If we don't act now, the whole system will implode and we'll be a third-world nation in a month. Don't think, he insists, just give us the power now. We'll fix it.

Again, our greatest threat is not Arab terrrorists, Islamofascism, or some other manufactured enemy. That's so patently ridiculous I cannot believe men holding PhDs actually argue with me about it. They say, "Mr. Ortiz, haven't read anything by Mark Steyn? He'll demonstrate beyond doubt that Islamofascism is about to envelop the world, and our only solution is American imperialism." Yea, right, like I'm going to listen to a Jewish Zionist tell me the truth about Arabs!

Our greatest threat is from the financial sector. It's from the multinational corporations owned by those same financiers. It's their goons (Cheney, Paulson, Bush, Neo Cons, et al.) that are bullying the American people into submission in order to usher in their controlled society-- this is how they'll insure their ability to remain in power while avoiding investigation or prosecution. In fact, they'll prosecute you. Remember, the bankruptcy laws have changed. You won't be able to Chapter 13 yourself out of giving them their money.

Here's a snippet from Paulson's plan:

Sec. 8. Review. - Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

And, echoing the hoopla over the Patriot Act, Sec. 9 promises to terminate SOME of this authority after two years:

Sec. 9. Termination of Authority. - The authorities under this Act, with the exception of authorities granted in sections 2(b)(5), 5 and 7, shall terminate two years from the date of enactment of this Act.

Two years was also the term limit for the Patriot Act. Thankfully, the American people resisted the expansion in Patriot Act II. However, with each crisis, power accrues to the state. If Mr. Paulson can sustain the fact that the crisis is not over, then two years will become four, and so on. The point is that we should NEVER trust the state to fix anything. We should NEVER grant them absolute authority with the promise that they'll give it back. We should stick to the Constitution, which is nothing but a treatise dedicated to suspicion and distrust of the power of civil government.

Are we listening yet? Or, do we want to talk more about the ACLU, "Liberals," or the fact that Gov. Palin is a woman?

Someone wrote to me recently that had the audacity to claim that addressing the gender issue of Gov. Palin was "seeking first the Kingdom of God." They claimed that I had MY priorities out of order. Hmmm. Someone else claimed that I was comfortable with feminism because I was a Gen-Xer. Of course, I had no idea how to respond to such ridiculous statements.

But the oddities are not isolated to our constituency. The far Left is also up in arms about Gov. Palin except they're worried--AGAIN--that we're headed for a theocracy because of her ties to dominionism. Both sides are equally negligent, in my opinion. The American system is facing one of it's worst moments at the hands of financial criminals and the far Left and Right are whining about a woman.