Digg! James Grant Suggests Life In Prison for Bernanke in WSJ - 'Requiem for the Dollar'
Digg! James Grant Suggests Life In Prison for Bernanke - WSJ.com
By James Grant | WSJ
December 5, 2009
Ben S. Bernanke doesn't know how lucky he is. Tongue-lashings from Bernie Sanders, the populist senator from Vermont, are one thing. The hangman's noose is another. Section 19 of this country's founding monetary legislation, the Coinage Act of 1792, prescribed the death penalty for any official who fraudulently debased the people's money. Was the massive printing of dollar bills to lift Wall Street (and the rest of us, too) off the rocks last year a kind of fraud? If the U.S. Senate so determines, it may send Mr. Bernanke back home to Princeton. But not even Ron Paul, the Texas Republican sponsor of a bill to subject the Fed to periodic congressional audits, is calling for the Federal Reserve chairman's head...
Not to be a spoiler, but the closing lines of the article reads:
...one more thing: Return to the statute books Section 19 of the 1792 Coinage Act, but substitute life behind bars for the death penalty. It's the 21st century, you know.
James Grant was going to be Ron Paul's Treasurer
When Ron Paul was running for President, he mentioned that James Grant would be The Secretary of the Treasury. Comparing Grant to Geithner is major league to little league, genius to 80 IQ, and honest to corrupt .
Jim Grant: Ben Bernanke Is Lucky He Hasn't Been Hanged
Joe Weisenthal|Dec. 7, 2009, 7:46 AM
"hangman noose gallows execution death hangingInterest rate guru and uber inflation hawk Jim Grant lays out a message in the Wall Street Journal to Ben Bernanke that's more chilling than anything Jim Bunning or Ron Paul have ever said to the Fed chief:"
Ben S. Bernanke doesn't know how lucky he is. Tongue-lashings from Bernie Sanders, the populist senator from Vermont, are one thing. The hangman's noose is another. Section 19 of this country's founding monetary legislation, the Coinage Act of 1792, prescribed the death penalty for any official who fraudulently debased the people's money. Was the massive printing of dollar bills to lift Wall Street (and the rest of us, too) off the rocks last year a kind of fraud? If the U.S. Senate so determines, it may send Mr. Bernanke back home to Princeton. But not even Ron Paul, the Texas Republican sponsor of a bill to subject the Fed to periodic congressional audits, is calling for the Federal Reserve chairman's head.
Grant goes on to rue the loss of the gold standard:
http://www.businessinsider.com/jim-grant-ben-bernanke-is-luc...
Simple Solution:
Just send everyone responsible for the debt that they created to their debtors, the Chinese etc. Let the debtors liquidate all of their holdings and take the rest out of their hides, problem solved.
If heads are gonna roll it certainly shouldn't just be Bernake!
If Bernake goes then ALL the 'family' owners must go with him.
We need to stay focused on the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. This bogus charter was a complete fiction from the get go because Congress DIDN'T have the power to transfer any responsibility to coin the money IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! The Constitution outlines that only 'Congress' has oversight of the money, weights and measures etc., and there was no provision for Congress to 'transfer' its responsibilities for the coining of money. So the Act was/is bogus!
Not only were they printing 'counterfeit' money all this time but no one 'stopped' them. The loudest voice in Congress in 1912-1914 was Congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr.(6th-MN). He wrote a book 'The Banking and Currency Money Trust'. He was soooo silenced by the media and the bankers' thugs. They bought up his books in all the book stores so no one would get to read them. He was threatened, ridiculed in the press so bad most people believed he was a nut. His grandchild was stolen and murdered in the 1933. I mean this guy really took a hit for all of our ancestors. Very few joined voices with him so the Fed went ahead on schedule.
If we are going to talk about 'heads rolling', forget the 'strawman' get the real buggers behind the curtain!
Those are the most serious criminals ever.
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amen . . .
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
Download and repost this comic about the Fed
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Let us call the spade... a spade!
Even the good and most qualified presidential candidate in over one hundred years, Dr. Paul, refers to the Fed making money... "...out of thin air"! On this issue I take exception with him, though I doubt he would disagree.
A comment below states that the "...Fed is simply counterfeiting money." True, they are, in every sense of the word.
The comment states further ... "THAT is what you call printing of money backed by nothing."
If this were the case then the good doctor would be correct. However, such money is never made of nothing, and nothing could be further from the truth. Just examine carefully the coinage Act again...
Section 19 of this country's founding monetary legislation, the Coinage Act of 1792, prescribed the death penalty for any official who fraudulently debased the people's money.
Consider the last line of this statement... "...fraudulently debased the people's money...". Is it not obvious that any counterfeiting in any way shape or form, is not creation of money, BUT, it is the THEFT of money. Hence the phrase "...debased the people's money..."!!!
The government can produce nothing at all! Remember, from "The Revolution, a Manifesto", Paul states that the "... first fact to be remembered in all social discussion, is that the state cannot get a cent for any man, without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it! This latter is the forgotten man..."!
The creation of more money takes it's very existence as store of value from the wealth of existing holders of money or wealth. By this act they are defrauded... they are robbed. Since fiat creation of money steals on such a large scale, it is quite correct to consider offense of such enormous magnitude, a capital offense!
Never forget our founders warned of this very theft:
Jackson warned that an inflationary monetary policy by means of ‘spurious’ paper currency, is always attended by a loss to the laboring classes.
Senator Daniel Webster maintained that “…of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been found more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money…”!
Further, it was stated...
"It WILL ruin a country. And that's why it was considered traitorous and worthy of a death penalty at the time of our founding."
Most assuredly it will, and for many millions of people since 1913, it already has ruined their lives, their fortunes, and now their country.
What does such an enormous crime need for retribution, and for repayment?
Rest assured that those responsible for all this theft, shall bear their guilt, their debt, and their just punishment, in that great day of reckoning, which for a long time now tarries not!
Indeed…
"Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people." Patrick Henry
And…
"We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone - it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." --Patrick Henry
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bump great article
I hope everyone realizes it's not meant to be taken literally.
The writer is just trying to make a point. No rational person would support Bernanke being executed or sent to prison just for assisting in setting the money supply. As Dr. Paul said, it's the SYSTEM that's bad. He doesn't make things about personalities. Bernanke is just filled a job that was created by Congress. It's like a police officer who arrests someone for drugs. You don't murder the police officer. You try to change the law. He's just doing his job.
So please, no death threats or attempts on Bernanke's life from Ron Paul supporters.
Maybe it goes without saying and I shouldn't have to point this out, but some people here scare me...
I hope you realize the NWO kills people all the time ...
They don't have your hangups. Anyone they consider inconvenient goes. They are responsible for every war in the 20th and 21st centuries. They created the system ... systems don't create the people. Were they unwilling to carry out the system's mayhem, they would refuse to be part of it.
Right now their goal is to eliminate 80 to 90 percent of the world's population.
Get a brain! This is our survival or theirs. They are not going to be good sports about losing. You sound like a guy ... you ought to try being a man.
On the contrary
I think he is quite serious.
No...
generations of our children will be suffering in poverty because of these men. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have died because of these men. These men have killed honest journalism, whistle-blowers, and free thinkers. They're murderers.
And Bernanke is complicit.
yes, but . . . must we have an eye for an eye . . .
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
and a tooth for a tooth?
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
Wrong procedure
Castration would be best so he can't produce more criminals.
Personally, I'm not for the death penalty.
(Though, I doubt punishing/executing all of the bankers would technically be considered an "eye for an eye"... 'an eye for every 30,000,000 eyes' maybe...)
I'm for it in principle.
However, if the state is going to kill someone for a crime, then I demand absolute certainty of the guilt of the accused. There have been far too many examples of DNA exonerating people on death row for me to support the death penalty as a routine punishment.
I would reserve it to cases where there's no doubt at all, and most of those cases would be politicians. Mugabe? Kill him. Kim Jong-Il? I'll happily throw the switch myself. Castro? I'd throw him to a crowd in Miami to give him the Mussolini treatment.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel
I don't much care for the closing line ...
If we could calculate all the murder and mayhem, the lives destroyed, the sufferings of countless millions around the world caused by these creeps, no one here would think twice about sending every one of them -- not just Ben -- to the gallows.
OK, now that some of the euphoria is starting to wear off
(and everyone ran out and got the actual paper) anybody have any thoughts on why this blinding outbreak of truth suddenly occurred and what the effect may be?
SCREW the 21st Century... off with their HEADS!
The Liberty a society retains is inversely proportional to the number of Lawyers in the Government.
The Liberty a society retains is inversely proportional to the number of Lawyers in the Government.
A GREAT article. Very well written and articulate.
The Fed is simply counterfieting money.
THAT is what you call printing of money backed by nothing.
It WILL ruin a country.
And that's why it was considered traitorous and worthy of a death penalty at the time of our founding.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
That is a landmark article.
I am sending it to everyone I know.
Peace
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Thanks, henri!
Your welcome
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how about a 12 cent 9mm bullet? far more cost effective.
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"Human beings with love and compassion are some of the most beautiful creatures in the universe... Those without are a plague on us all."
Wrong. Rope can be used over
Wrong. Rope can be used over and over again. Day and night for weeks on end, depending on ware and tear.
Great Post ...
thanks Michael. I found Dr. Paul because of the global warming issue. He was the only candidate, from both parties, who questioned the science. Since then, of course, I discovered Mises and Llewellyn, and I have read every book Ron Paul has written. Because of Dr. Paul's efforts in the 1980"s; we can now own gold! see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXf8aXdZdTM
!913 was a terrible year; but it has taken almost 100 years since that time to wake up the public to the fraudulent acts of the Federal Reserve. The theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming actually was developed in the 1880's ... then died out for a bit in the 1940's only to resurface again for political reasons in 1979.
See: http://www.john-daly.com/history.htm
It has been more than a hundred years now. As with Bernanke and his fraudulant acts - Hansen(NASA), Mann(Hockey stick guy from Penn State) and Gore, should all be prosecuted. They have cost this country (planet) an enormous sum of misspent money and time (government mal - investments). Instead of dealing with real pollution (mercury, arsenic, So2 etc.) - we have had to listen to Gore and company's hot air on Co2.
The Daily Paul is the best ... keep up all your great work.
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"Because of Dr. Paul's efforts in the
1980's, we can now own gold."
Does anyone have a link or book reference that details how Dr. Paul helped make gold ownership possible for Americans?