Originally posted by Redneck from Hell
Excellent thread, really interesting.
Quite thought provoking.
Will save this for later, but I have a question.
If men like Eishenhower knew about the fact that a few men control the US, why couldn't he do somthing about it. If a group of bankers controls my
country, and I'm the president, what stops me from putting an end to it?
The positions these " few men " hold are as imaginary as the president, in a sense that the power is given to them by us. So why couldn't he do
anything about it!!!?
There is a movie made back in 1990 called Millers Crossing that starred Gabriel Burns and Albert Finney. Finney was the Irish mob boss in charge of
New Orleans back during the prohibition era. He is at war with the Italian mob boss. Burns as an adviser tells Finney to give in on the others
demands for now because he's crazy and you don't win a war with crazy people. Also (this is real important), he says that "You only have power if
people think your powerful and in charge, an when they don't think it your not in charge". That is what's happening to the presidency in the US
from Eisenhower (really earlier) up to now. He's in a very very gilded cage, and I do believe that it's more gilded than it was back then (try
seeing the presidents now saying what Eisenhower said today). You think that its the best job and your going to do this or that and be the top dog,
and then find out the real deal.
Which is you have to do that or this and your freedom is curtailed. Also everything has to be done thinking of the political ramifications to you and
to the country and to the party you belong. Also I've always wondered this and maybe you agree. Whats to stop the intelligence agencies of our
country from bugging the presidents in his private quarters, I don't think nothing can stop them really. The machinations of state and the govt. as
a whole has superseded the actual job of the president. With the help of private business and banks, they essentially have taken over the important
parts and let the presidents and the others to run around and mess with the usual (gay marriage, abortion, religion).