‘ \ \: FUNNY MONEY Onca uppn a time there was discovered a new and pleasant land, one that vas oceans Apart from the old and intrigue-infested lands in other areas of the earth. This new and pleasant iand wes in time occupied by industrious and, for the greater part, God-fearing men and women. ‘They severed their old world political and economic, and sometimes their religious ties, battled and won their independence, wrote a new and unique compact called a Constitution, formed a government according to its provisions, and the people prospered as no people had ever prospered since the dawn of history. However, as always seems inevitable in the course of the rise and decline of civilizations, a strange kind of evil began to infest the land. It grew slowly, step by step, Act by Act, so gradual that even today few people realize what has happened to them and their land. Tt began when a small group of New York gnomes began to take control of the Government in Washington. ‘The dictionary defines gnomes as a race of creatures who live underground and guard treasure hoards. Hence the phrase gnomes of Zurich in reference to International Bankers. Such gnome— like creatures are indigenous to the Empire of the City of London, to Wall Street in New York, to the privately controlled Reichsbank in West Germany, the Banque de France, the Bank of Italy, and other tax havens where international banking activities prosper. With government authorization the people of this new and pleasant land were deceived into giving their real money, which consisted of minted pieces of gold and silver, in exchange for little rectangular pieces of greenish paper purporting to be of certain values, but actually worth nothing more than the cost of printing. The year 1913 was the year of the great betrayal. The FEDERAL RESERVE ACT was passed on the twenty-third of December and signed by President Wilson that same night. The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified and became a part of the Constitution, ‘The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified and the States lost their right to appoint Senators to represent them in Washington and had to have thew popularly elected instead, which unbalauced the whole federal system so carefully laid out in the original Constitution, Also in that year tax-exempt foundations and other tax shelters became prevalent anong the gnowes and their associates, so that David Rockefeller could testify before a Congressional committee: " You know, gentlemen, that T do not ove any personal income tax, But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart." But the one act that was perhaps the most monstrous of ail was the turning over of the Nations’ gold to the gnomes of New York, now in charge of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Martin Larson, propably the foremost authority on the Federal Reserve System [outside of its menbers, who seldom talk about it], recently told those attending a Freeman Institute Century Club Banquet: “when Franklin D. Roosevelt went into office in 1933 he followed the desires of the bankers, just as Woodrow Wilson had done before him back in 1913 when he promised in his campaign speech to get the Federal Reserve Act passed. One of the first things that Roosevelt did......was to close all the banks. ‘Then he got the Gold Reserve Act passed in 1934 under which the United States government gave the Federal Reserve System all the gold that was in Fort Knox. They gave it to them as an outright gift. They didn't even ask for a receipt in return for the gold. ‘This was at a time when gold could be produced for about $12 an ounce. Americans who owned gold were told, under penalty of felony, that they had to turn in all their gold coins to the United States government or to the Federal Reserve System. As of 1954, the Federal Reserve System owned about 28,000 tons of gold in Fort Knox--worth sonething like $30 billion at $35 an ounce. Now between 1955 and 1972 this gold was sold to foreign investors at $35 an ounce. Today it is worth several hundred billion dollars. As it was sold, the gold was taken out of Fort