The Banking Cartel From Jekyll Island - Individualism vs. Collectivism

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G. Edward Griffin, author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island", explains in an interview published by Rick Stanley, who were the people meeting in secret on this idyllic patch of land off the coast of Georgia back in 1910 to create the US version of a central banking system that has our economy firmly in its grip today.

Griffin makes an important point in saying that it is all good and fine to know. You can even to send copies things to your friends, but it won't be enough - the truth will not set us free unless we do something positive to bring about the change we want - and of course we first need to know what change we would like to have, what better system we'd like to substitute for the old one lest we find - like so many times in the course of history - that we have replaced one bad system with another that is equally bad or even worse!

Politics, he says, is really all about concepts; our currentpolitical ideologies mask the issues rather than allowing us to change things.

Thanks to Tom and Rick for forwarding this interesting discussion.

From: tom@cyberclass.net
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:31:29 -0500 (EST)
Subject: An Interview with G. Edward Griffin ...

Rick Stanley
Constitutional Activist
Phone: 303-329-0481
E-mail: rick@stanley2002.org

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Rick Stanley, Constitutional Activist, former U.S. Senate candidate, Enemy of the State, and self-avowed extremist on the order of our forefathers of America, presented the following media release for your use:

STANLEY NOTE: G. Edward Griffin sounds a lot like me, when discussing the Federal Reserve CORPORATION. Of course, what I have learned about the Federal Reserve CORPORATION has come from men like G. Edward Griffin, and I have read his book, so you see, I am parroting him, not the other way around. Good article. Good interview. More at the www.stanley2002.org website on the Federal Reserve CORPORATION and the IRS income tax which are inter-related.

WING Spotlight Interview: G. Edward Griffin (The Creature from Jekyll Island)
by Victor Thorn & Lisa Guliani

Victor Thorn: There's an old saying that I'm sure we've all heard. It goes: “Follow the money.” And that's exactly what we're going to do with G. Edward Griffin, who wrote quite possibly the best book ever about the Federal Reserve System. It's called The Creature From Jekyll Island - and that's what we're going to do - follow the money. To truly understand the way the world works, the first thing we have to do is understand money. That's at the core of everything. The controllers, the elite that run the world, use money as the stranglehold over all of us - via money and the creation of money. In my book, The New World Order Exposed, I devoted four or five chapters to the Federal Reserve System, but after reading Mr. Griffin's book, I was very humbled by everything he knows. Mr. Griffin starts off this book by saying that the Federal Reserve System is not federal, it has no reserve, and it's not even a bank. It's really fascinating how intricate and involved it is and how crucial the Federal Reserve and the creation of money is to the people who run not only this country, but the world. Mr. Griffin, why don't you tell us how you became involved with researching the Federal Reserve?

G. Edward Griffin: Well, I'm just a guy that got interested in recent history. I never was much interested in history when I went through school, but when I got into the real world, I began to see things around me that went counter to what I had thought was reality. So I began to do some research and got into all of these upstream topics at a very early age. Basically, I'm a reader. I read books and I interview people and I dig into library archives. I love to go through microfilm and a lot of old documents. It just seems to be the pond I was meant to swim in. So, a long time ago, I got into this business of being what they now call a researcher and a writer. But basically, I'm just an investigator. I dig these things up and I write books on them, and much to my amazement, people actually buy the books and read them and tell me they like them - which really is amazing to me, because some of these topics, like the Federal Reserve System, sound as though they're pretty dull and boring. My job has always been to get people into the topic a little bit so they can realize that it's not so boring after all. The Creature From Jekyll Island is a second look at the Federal Reserve System - that is really like a “whodunit”. It's a mystery story of what they've done with our monetary system. I just began to write books and produce television documentaries - very low budget things because I funded everything. I never did anything for the networks or the major stations. I always did everything for my own edification where no one else could tell me what to do or what to say or what slant I had to take. My job was to tell it the way I saw it. So I’ve been doing that since about 1960. And I formed a little company a few years after that called “American Media” that is still very much alive and well. We produce educational documentaries, we publish books, and we produce audio recordings. We have a name as far as our marketing arm is concerned. It's called “The Reality Zone”. Of late, I've become very concerned with the practical side of these things. For years, I have been writing and speaking on all of the things I find that I consider to be problems in our society - things which do not look well for the future of America. So I had been one of these people who went around saying, “Gee everybody, don’t you see what's going on? Don't you care about the future? Let's do something about it.”

So I've been pointing with alarm for a lot of years, and it finally dawned on me that it really doesn't make any difference what we know about these problems if we don't do anything about it. And that led me to the question: what is it that one can do about these things? And up until that time, I had been pretty much following the line that, well, if we are just informed, the truth will set us free. And it finally dawned on me: that is a myth. The truth alone is not going to set anybody free. Truth is often shackled in chains by a tyrannical system. It’s up to the people who know the truth to get off their chairs and do something about it.

Victor Thorn: We’ve spent a lot of time speaking about that very point. We've said: We already know what's going on. We know what's wrong, we know what needs to be changed, but if we’re all in front of our computer screens or in front of our televisions and not doing anything about it, then it’s exactly like you said. Nothing is going to change.

G. Edward Griffin: Reading another book or attending another seminar or sending carbon copies of letters or emails around to our friends - while that's all very good and exhilarating, it still doesn't change anything. So about two years ago, I began to change my orientation. Out of that came an organization, which we call Freedom Force International. The purpose of this organization is to actually show people how they CAN do something to turn events around. How they cannot just be complainers, but actually become “doers”.

Lisa Guliani: Mr. Griffin, in an earlier writing, you discuss that the best chance we have to change the system is through its weakest point - which is public opinion. Can you address that?

G. Edward Griffin: That sounds like one of my earlier writings, and I really question that today. There’s no doubt in my mind that we do need to change public opinion, because as long as the public doesn't realize there’s a problem, as long as they support the programs, for whatever reason they think these programs that are devastating to our freedom - that they think are necessary - for example, to protect us against terrorism, or necessary to protect us against drug dealers, or necessary to protect us against crime, or necessary to protect us against child pornography - all these excuses that are thrown out to convince people that these increasing rules and regulations in our lives are “necessary” for our own good. As long as people buy into that nonsense, it’s going to continue. So I’m really not saying that public opinion is not important. But what I would like to add to that now is what I was mentioning a moment ago - that once we’ve got public opinion on our side, then what?

Just having the majority of people or a large number of people coming from the same point of view does not translate into political action unless those people are smart enough and dedicated enough to get involved in political action and translate their political opinion into actual deeds. What I'm really talking about is that our nation (or any nation) is really controlled by what sociologists call the power centers of society. The power centers are those groups and organizations through which people work and act, and in many cases they actually think homo sapiens are a kind of herd animal. He has this “herd” instinct. We have leaders and we seek leaders and we follow leaders. And leaders pretty much tell us what to do. In many cases, they tell us what to think. If we are led to believe that consensus is important, and if somebody does a poll and they say “Well, 60% of the population is all for this measure,” we have a tendency because of our nature, to say, “Well, if 60% of the population is for it, it must be okay. I should be for it, too.” That’s the way people think. So, what I’m driving at is that the collectivists who have really captured control of most of the governments of the world today have done so not by military means, and they don’t even represent a large percentage of the population. They represent, in most cases, less than three percent of the population - and in some cases, even less than one percent of the population. Yet, they can dominate the whole nation because they are in control of the power centers of society. I’m talking about the political parties, labor unions, church organizations, schools - all the organizations that add up to the sum total of power in a nation. And if you've noticed, in many cases these organizations have leadership with a point of view or an agenda, which is totally removed from the point of view of the rank and file members. And the members often wonder, “How did this guy get to be the president?” Or, “Where did these people on the board of directors come from? They don’t represent me and my way of thinking.” Well, this happened because there were people who had an agenda for many decades now. They've known that in order to put their political views into place and to dominate a society, they had to control those power centers. They use their energies, their time, and in many cases, huge amounts of money in order to capture control of the power centers. The reason I mentioned that is because I believe the best way - the only way - to reverse this trend is to recapture control of the power centers. Public opinion is important, yes. But it is NOT the complete formula because unless we can convert public opinion into actual control of the power cent