Federal Income Tax and Terrorism
War is terrorism with a bigger budget.
Who said “those who hate government should not govern”? Those who hate government have long and passionately de-regulated, yet they hypocritically and frantically regulate when they find themselves in trouble. The corporate welfare system is blatantly exposed every time the Fed steps in to manipulate interest rates and to take out financial institutions like Bear Sterns so that others like JPMorgan Chase can engage in a feeding frenzy.
The truth is that the Fed’s panicky regulating only sweeps huge systemic problems under the rug where they will spawn bigger, stronger tentacles in the dark and will further weaken the the languishing dollar.
We’re fast approaching tax season when the corporate government forces Americans to send their pound of flesh to the IRS to pay for illegal wars, and we’re looking at a $3 trillion war in Iraq.
Conscripted taxes pay for war. They pay for CIA assassinations. They pay for the School of Americas to train foreign military personnel to violently oppress their own people. They pay for the genocidal development and possession of nuclear weapons, declared illegal by the World Court. When a million people demonstrated against nuclear weapons in Central Park on June 12, l981, Alexander Haig (who served MacArthur, Nixon, Kissinger, Ford, and Regan) looked out his window and said,
If you haven’t seen it yet, rent, borrow, buy, or steal Freedom to Fascism made in 2006 by the late Aaron Russo. It’s a controversial film about the illegality of federal income tax. You may not buy into everything Russo presents. Although his film does suffer from some inaccuracies, it also captures an increasing torrent of weariness and wariness throughout North America over paying for illegal wars with federal income tax. It further fuels the pervasive anti-war, anti-fascist, anti-corporate terror sentiment.
Here’s an excerpt about Freedom to Fascism from Wikipedia:
According to the film, the Federal Reserve System operates by manipulation of what is sometimes referred to as the business cycle of economic expansion and retraction by putting new notes into circulation to increase the ease of obtaining credit, which devalues the currency, then compounds inflation by increasing interest (prime) rates. This manipulation, according to the film, is responsible for a 96% devaluation of American currency since it was made possible to increasingly sever the link with gold backing by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The film says that this process of creating new money and adding it to the money supply is known as debasement and is a cause of inflation. In this way, the film asserts that the Federal Reserve System simultaneously controls the supply of money and its value.
And finally, Chris Hedges, a war reporter, most recently for the New York Times, has written and spoken extensively about the disillusionment we call war that is, in fact, state-sanctioned terrorism. His work includes War: Realities and Myths and War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
