A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Twenty-Seven ... Number Forty-Four ... October 31, 1980
THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD
| That to secure (guard, protect, insure) these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; ... |
As this Report is being written the enfranchised citizens of the United States are about to elect, or re-elect, the members of a new company of guardians of our God-given and unalienable rights. We can assume that all citizens will be hoping, and millions praying, that this new company of elected officials of our government will better serve the people, and make greater effort to secure, guard, protect and insure their rights -- and do it with less robbing of their sustenance than has been experienced in the past four years. But it should be understood that new names and new faces will not automatically establish new policies, either foreign or domestic. The same problems will be with us yet, and perhaps our greatest hope should be that government itself will no longer be our greatest civil problem.
As Christians and conversatives, we should be deeply concerned because regardless of who may have been elected to legislative posts, and who may have won the title of President of the United States, there remains this vested and unelected Ruling Autocracy that will continue to govern unless the legislators reclaim and regain their authority under the Constitution, and use that authority for the good of the country and its citizens. As Gary North wrote in a recent newsletter: "Those who are elected by us have got to be constantly reminded that we are still watching, that any attempt on their part to 'join the club' in Washington is going to result in the withdrawl of our support. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Readers will be alerted to opportunities for political reconstruction-- and not partisan reconstruction, either -- over the coming months." We join Dr. North in that pledge, and here are a few reasons why vigilance -- and harassment -- are essential.
In this presidential election there has been much name-calling, many lies and much oratory designed not to present issues but to obtain votes. However, the differences between the two principal candidates, as expressed in debate and declamation, were differences in degree, not in substance, or in opposition. Jimmy Carter's domestic policy seemed based solely on the power of money; windfall taxes to raise money and new programs to spend or distribute money. Ronald Reagan promised to do the same things Carter would do, but with less money and more dependence upon the private sector. But neither of them said anything about the restoration or creation of a money system based on honest dollars, or of any real program that would halt our march toward total socialism. Jimmy would build new programs, Ronny would reduce the size and cost of existing programs. Differences in degree; in volume, not in value; in quantity, not in quality.
As for foreign policy, Jimmy seemed to base his entire campaign on daughter Amy's fear of nuclear bombs. He feared that nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of little nations that promote international terrorism; seldom alluding to the fact that the greatest of the international terrorists, Red China and Soviet Russia, already have nuclear arsenals. Ronald Reagan differed in that he believes that the best defense is not unilateral disarmament, but the best armament. However, neither of them touched upon the dangerous weapons that are actually being used against us at the present time: debt and surrender without violence through encirclement.
In the last, Oct. 31, issue of Herald of Freedom, written just before his untimely and regretted death, Frank A. Capell pointed out one of the great dangers we face as a nation; a danger that was never discussed in election campaigns. We quote from Mr. Capell's last, and final latter:
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Between 1946 and 1978 the U.S. Government has loaned or given away more than $200 billion in foreign aid .. The recent announcement of President Carter of the granting of a $670 million loan to Communist Poland in the form of agricultural credit guarantees is just the latest in a series of steps by which the United States and the free world is assisting the Communist bloc out of its troubles ... Does anyone think the Soviet Union would do us such a favor? Absolutely not, but it appears our Government will continue to sell the rope to hang us with ... Rep. McDonald placed into the Congressional Record an article by James M. Whitmire, entitled "Financing of Soviet Bloc by Western Banks is a Mistake." We quote:
| " ... Everyone assumes the Soviets are plotting ghastly new weapons .. The truth is, one is already in place. But you won't find this new secret weapon in the Red Army's arsenal, because it's not a bomb or a chemical. It's worse. It could devastate the West without a shot being fired. Incredibly, it is a weapon we are not only constructing for the Russians -- but paying for as well. The weapon? Debt. Quietly, assiduously, Western banks since the mid-1970s have allowed the Soviet bloc to pile up $60 billion to $80 billion in outstanding debt. The magnitude of this debt is such that Soviet default might spark a financial panic capable of collapsing the capitalist banking system ... There is growing concern within the international community that Soviet bloc countries will never be capable of generating enough hard currency to repay their debts -- or, more chilling, have no intention of repaying them in the first place. The Soviets are almost certain, at some point, to use the threat of default as a lever to gain political concessions from the West..." (Unquote). |
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Translation: International bankers and monopoly capitalist have, from 1917 until the present, assisted the Communist Bloc in industrial, agricultural and technological development. Bankers and developers such as Armand Hammer, have made contracts with Communist governments and invested or loaned vast sums for the building of modern factories, etc. Certainly there was some risk involved, but the granting of military and political concessions in order to obtain financial and industrial concessions was just part of the gain. Hence, the International Bankers and Monopoly Capitalists cooperate with the Communist bloc nations and, should the predicted financial disaster come, it will come to U.S. Government, to the free enterprise system, and to the American taxpayers, not to the International Bankers, who have been striving for decades to replace traditional capitalism with monopoly capitalism, which is merely a form of totalitarianism.
Because of this spirit of cooperaton, or partnership, the following events occurred during the Trilateral-controlled Carter Administration. These events were detailed in a letter written on Congressional stationary by Congressman Larry McDonald, addressed to President Carter, dates Oct. 16, 1980. Quoted are pertinent paragraphs from the letter:
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Dear Mr. President. Addressing you as a fellow Georgia Democrat, and after conversations with a sizable number of my Congressional colleagues, I would like to pose some questions about the course of your administration, and the prospects for our country, should you be re-elected. Could we anticipate a continuation of your present policies, since you seem to regard them as satisfactory? And if we can, than what will be the situation of the United States of America in the fateful year 1984?
Reflecting upon four years of consistently patterned policy decisions, we ask, cui bono? Who, indeed, benefits? Clearly, the United States has been the victim and not the beneficiary of these policies. What of our friends, and allies? Some friendly governments have been destroyed, and their people turned over to their enemies and ours. Other friendly governments have found themselves crippled and discarded. The dwindling number of friends and allies not yet so used suffer the stunning demoralization which the Japanese call "Carter-shock."
Who, then, benefits? Perhaps the Soviet Empire, which has been enabled to spread across Asia and Africa and make new penetrations in the Americas? Perhaps the Communist government of mainland China, which has been given new status and is being given new economic and military capabilties? Has not even that master of genocide, Pol Pot, benefited from the patronization of your administration?
Mr. President, either you do not know what you are doing, or you do.
Sincerely,
Larry McDonald
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When you first read this Report many names and faces will have been changed but the policies will remain the same and the game will go on and on under the same illegal rules, at least until the next, 97th Congress convened in January. Those we have elected must be watched, supported if they deserve it, or else. We repeat: Eternal vigilence is the price of victory and eternal harassment of elected Congressmen is the price of power.
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