The Patriots and the Pernicious Paymasters
By Charles Shaw, September 2006
"Aaron Russo’s documentary America: From Freedom to Fascism, a frightening examination of the real power that makes the world go around: the Federal Reserve Bank and the central banking/credit system. In a pastiche of some of the core ideological pillars of the Far Right—a group that includes libertarians, constitutionalists, Rockefeller republicans, and yes, even the militias—we are told that the income tax is illegal under the Constitution, which prohibits a direct unapportioned tax on the people or their labor, and that the 16th Amendment providing for the graduated income tax was actually never ratified, and that our government knowingly and willingly deceived the people by claming the amendment had passed. We learn that the Federal Reserve Act, also passed in 1913 under highly suspicious circumstances, is in violation of the Constitution, in that only Congress has the power to mint currency. Then again, only Congress has the ability to declare war, and, well, you know the rest."
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