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564 THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
government and the media. We would have an electorate which is
unaware of what is being done to them and, therefore, unable to
resist. Through environmental and economic treaties and through
military disarmament to the UN, we would witness the same
emergence of a world central bank, a world government, and a
world army to enforce its dictates. Inflation and wage/price
controls would have progressed more or less
the same, driving
consumer goods out of existence and men into bondage. Instead of
moving toward The New World Order in a series of economic
spasms, we merely would have travelled a less violent path and
arrived at exactly tine same destination.
Chapter Twenty-Six
A REALISTIC
SCENARIO
What must be done if we are to avert the
pessimistic scenario; a list of specific measures
that must be taken to stop the monetary binge; an
appraisal of how severe the economic hangover
will be; a checklist for personal survival— and
beyond.
The pessimistic scenario presented in the previous chapter is
the kind of narrative that turns people off. No one wants to hear
those things, even if
they are true—or we should say especially if
they are true. As Adlai Stevenson said when he was a candidate for
President: "The contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable
fact is unequal. Americans are suckers for good news."
So, where is
the optimistic scenario in which everything turns
out all right, in which prosperity is restored and freedom is
preserved after all? Actually, it is not hard to locate. You can find it
every day somewhere in your newspaper. It is the shared faith of
almost all politicians, experts, and commentators. If that is what
you want to hear, you have just wasted a lot of time reading this
book.
There is no optimistic scenario. Events have progressed too far
for that. Even if we begin to turn things around by forcing
Congress to cut spending, reduce the debt, and disentangle from
UN treaties, the Cabal will not let go without a ferocious fight.
When the Second Bank of the United States was struggling for its
life in 1834, Nicholas Biddle, who controlled it, set about to cause as
much havoc in the economy as possible and then to blame it on
President Jackson's anti-bank policies. By suddenly tightening
credit and withdrawing money from circulation, he triggered
full-scale national depression. At the height of his attack, he
declared: "All other banks and all the merchants may break, but the
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