By Szandor Blestman: I've been seeing a lot on bullying lately
in the news and on social networking sites. It seems that no one really
seems to like bullying much and everyone loves to see the little guy
stand up to the bully. And yet there seems to be a disconnect when it
comes to those who stand up to the biggest bullies of all. There seems
to be some kind of cognitive dissonance that takes place when someone
feels the bully is doing the bullying for your own good, or for the
right reasons. I don't think bullying is ever good, no matter the
reasons one might dream up for engaging in the practice. No matter how
well intentioned, the ends never justifies the means when the means is
immoral, and an immoral means always taints and corrupts a moral
intention.
When we think of bullying, we often think
of kids. We think of playground antics. We think of stealing milk money,
or a cry for attention, or acceptance, or acting superior due to an
inferiority complex, or of insecurity issues, or someone picking on
someone else because they're different, or someone picking on someone
else simply for the perverse pleasure they might get from instilling
fear in another human being, from watching them squirm in fright. Mostly
one thinks about the strong picking on the weak. It's especially about
the strong picking on the weak.
But why think that these types of behaviors
are limited to children?
Why the belief that once a human being
undergoes this process we know as puberty they suddenly drop the
behaviors of childhood and blossom into adults who only engage in
respectable behavior? In fact, don't we know from our personal lives
that almost the opposite is true? Haven't we all seen adults in our own
lives that act as immature today as they did when they were children?
Doesn't it make more sense that the bullies of the playground might find
an outlet in adulthood where they can engage in bullying techniques and
it's not only respectable, many people might actually applaud it? Well,
there are plenty of jobs in the public/government sector where bullies
are needed to help implement the collectivist schemes of the power
hungry political class.
Some may think about the law and
enforcement arm of this little club of bullies that rules over the
common folk when they read the above and I wouldn't blame them. The
enforcement class, which would include judges and prosecutors as well as
police, are the class that have to deal the most directly with the
public. But these bullies who beat and intimidate with the muscle and
the sheer power of "The Law" are not the biggest bullies on the
playground by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, they likely have
to deal with a different kind of bullying as they go about their work.
No, the biggest bullies, the smartest and most nefarious bullies, are
cleverly hidden. There is a good chance that most people would never
dare to imagine them as bullies because they are so far from the picture
of an archetypical bully that most of us carry around in our heads.
I'm talking, of course, about the
banksters. Many people when thinking about bankers think about mild
mannered, hard working, respectable businessmen. Indeed, when talking
about a community banker, a George Bailey type for instance, this
stereotype may prove true. When talking about central banking families,
those more like Mr. Potter, the ones at the top pulling all the strings,
however, nothing could be farther from the truth. These people are as
notorious, as cold blooded, and as vile as you can imagine. They don't
use muscle to bully so much as they use something much more powerful.
They use money. They use economics, and economics targets everyone, not
just those one wishes to control. Economic bullying is the carpet
bombing of bullying.
These are the people who will threaten
economic chaos should they be denied. These are the people who
threatened congressmen with the spectre of martial law in 2008 unless
they got a bailout. These are the people who can bring a politician's
career to a swift end if they so choose. They are the puppet masters at
the top of the power structure and they use their vast wealth to move
forward with a collectivist agenda where they're in complete control and
you will do as they say, or else.
It
is the central bankers who have connived and plotted to centralize
power in a system where power is supposed to be decentralized and the
individual is supposed to have the power to run his own life. They bully
those with federal power, who in turn bully those with state power, who
in turn bully those with county power, who in turn bully those with
city power, who in turn will bully you, the individual. Their favorite
weapon of choice is fiat currency. They beat people over the head with
the threat of funding removal. Some people might not see that as
bullying, but that just makes it all the more subtle. Central bankers
know all too well the harm that can be caused by crashing an economy.
They count on it. It's all too clear in historical perspective. They
also count on the common folk not understanding this, because no one
likes to be bullied and if the common folk find out in great enough
numbers they might actually do something about it.
So how do we stop such bullying? I believe
the first step is to understand that is indeed what's going on. The next
step is to confront the bullies. An audit of the Fed will initiate such
a confrontation. After such an audit, a determination can be made as to
just how much wealth was stolen from the common folk as a result of
this bullying. Restitution then needs to be paid to the people in the
form of real wealth, real assets and commodities, not paper debt notes
that can be printed at will and have to have laws passed to force people
to accept them as money. From there we should be very careful as to the
rules we create as to what money is and how it drives the economy, with
freedom and individual choice in currency markets taking a central
role, remembering that history has shown us that what is easily given
can be easily taken away.
We
have lived in fear of the bully for far too long. The Feds have made
excuses and covered their mistakes and their asses with their threats
far too often. The system has been corrupted because its foundations
have been corrupted with the insertion of a fiat, fractional reserve
currency. Until we own up to such realizations we run the risk of the
system collapsing around our ears. If we shine the spotlight on the
bullies behind the scenes and expose them as those responsible for
creating the economic mess we're in then maybe, just maybe, we can avoid
economic catastrophe and figure out a way to return to monetary sanity.
Perhaps it's time for the common folk to do a little bullying of our
own. After all, there's nothing a bully hates more than being bullied.