Lo Pan Rants
Seriously, WTF has happened to our country!?!? For the record, I am not republican, I am not a democrate, I am not an independent. I'm just an a-hole and so are you and everybody else. Here's my beef. The party system has destroyed American democracy and turned it into a tool for power and greed. The party system has turned this country into a bunch of sheep. A flock of mindless dolts who will religiously hold strong opinions on matters they know nothing about, all because their political affiliation tells them to. Well, I heard on Fox news... Oh, the other day this guy on NPR said... And it doesn't matter what the topic or issue is? People will just go which ever way the wind blows. So screw your political affiliation, if just for a moment. Forget what some prime time dickhead told you to think. Let go of what what your party stance is supposed to be on the issue and consider this:
Lo Pans list of f$%#ed up sh1t
We are torturing people
Oh, but their bad people you may say! Oh, but it's to protect our country they tell you. It's not really torture, it's an enhanced interrogation technique...
FACT: After WWII, the Tokyo Tribunal was basically the Nuremberg Trials for Japan. Many Japanese leaders were put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture. And among the tortures listed was the "water treatment," which we nowadays call waterboarding. The judgment describes this water treatment, and I quote, "the victim was bound or otherwise secured in a prone position; and water was forced through his mouth and nostrils into his lungs and stomach." One man, Yukio Asano, was sentenced to fifteen years hard labor by the allies for waterboarding American troops to obtain information.
Now honestly ask yourself, "How is what we have done any different?"
Most of our nations debt and taxes goes to PRIVATE BANKS
Hmmm.... The Federal Reserve eh? I thought you said private banks Lo Pan. Just in case you didn't know the Federal Reserve is a private company of bankers with twelve branch banks that confiscate our money and they have been doing this for almost a hundred years. They are NOT part of the United States Government, yet today they collect hundreds of billions of dollars from American taxpayers every year.
As of April 24th, 2008, the national debt stands at 9.3 trillion dollars. The American taxpayers have paid the FED banking system $173,875,979,369.66 in interest on that debt in just five short months. No con artist or group of con artists in history has ever perpetrated a scam that even approaches the scope of this one. The 16th amendment, which created the IRS, was never properly ratified, not even by one state! So in a very real sense the income tax isn't legal, as many have proclaimed, but try not paying it and see how far you get before the Feds come after you and confiscate everything you own.In the nearly 100 years of the existence of the Fed, it has NEVER been audited and they don't pay income tax on the billions of dollars they take from us.
It was Alexander Hamilton who lobbied for the first private Federal Bank, and in 1789 Congress chartered the bank. Thomas Jefferson was adamantly opposed to the idea of a privately owned federal bank and said " I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies". In 1811, under President James Madison, Vice President George Clinton broke the tied vote in congress to cast the bankers out refusing to renew the charter for the bankers. Unfortunately it was President Madison who proposed a second United States privately owned Central bank and it came into existence in 1816. However, in 1836 President Jackson, overriding Congress, closed it commenting, "The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it." (We now have another one like it).The first two Federal Reserve Systems lasted about 20 years each and we are now almost a hundred years into the third one.
The year is now 1913, the year after Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States. Prior to his election he needed financial support to pay for his campaign, so he reluctantly agreed, that if elected, he would sign the Federal Reserve Act, in return for that financial support. In December 1913 while many members of Congress were home for Christmas, the Federal Reserve Act was rammed through Congress and was later signed by President Wilson. At a later date, Wilson admitted with remorse, when referring to the Fed."I have unwittingly ruined my country". We didn't have nor did we need an income tax until we got the bankers back. The income tax was only needed to pay interest to the bankers for our money that they loan to our government. Yes, you read that right, the Fed, mostly on paper and computer, creates money or pays the treasury a small printing fee for currency, and then loans this money to our government. Our taxes pay them interest on this loan that cost the FEDS virtually nothing to make, what a sweetheart of a deal they have going for them.
Now, honestly ask yourself, "Why have I never heard of this?"
Food for thought. Look, theres not going to be any magical wand that waves through the air and fixes everything. We unfortunately have to play the cards we've been dealt. But don't let others spoon feed you your opinions. Don't take what I'm saying at face value even. Find out whats going on in the world around you and most importantly, CARE. Ah, hell, Lo Pan's going all sentamental, but seriously, care and speak up.
“Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hi-jacked. Brothers and sisters, all of our total freedom in this country is over, so long as it is controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans!”
Zach De La Roacha