Chat Room Losers & Trolls
by Victor Thorn
The biggest losers on the Internet (and maybe in the entire world) are the low-life trolls who continually hang-out in the various “patriot” chat rooms and message boards and don't do anything else. Not only are these places cesspools, but they’re notorious for being infiltrated by government spooks, agents, plants, shills, and losers.

Now don’t get me wrong: there are people who participate in certain online groups for one specific reason: to get and share valid news and information. These people genuinely seek knowledge, and they're the reason why discussion forums were originally created. So, please note that this article isn’t directed at them.

Instead, I’m talking about the lurkers, keyboard commandoes, and bottom-feeders who act as cancers in these little chat rooms and discussion forums. I mean, don’t any of these guys have jobs, girlfriends, or lives? Well, we know Phil Jayhan doesn’t have a job; that’s why he’s constantly begging for money in his little chat room. And incredibly, there are idiots who are stupid enough to give him their hard-earned money. It’s mind-blowing; but P.T. Barnum was right: there’s a sucker born every minute.

What these guys remind me of is Star Trek trekkies, or teenage video game addicts with their cute little nicknames (i.e. Snaggle Dog, the Enforcer, Commander Pod, etc); or maybe they simply live in their mother’s basement and geek-out all day long on the pathetic message boards because they don't have anything else to do.

Worse, many of these sites were actually created by the CIA in the first place, and the jerk-offs who linger in them are paid by intel agencies to promote their agenda. So, whenever somebody criticizes Alex Jones or Jeff Rense, these trolls circle their wagons and pounce on them with a vengeance. And you know its true because the same cretins are in all these different forums operating under the same exact modus operandis.

Can you imagine how pitiful the payroll CIA slithering worms must be who lurk in these chat room sewers? All day long they sit and watch, making sure nobody questions or exposes their infiltrator colleagues. I can’t think of a worse fate, and I can't help but wonder: how can these judas goats live with themselves? No wonder they're all so miserable. Who wouldn't be?

What these guys (they’re almost invariably male) who lurk in the little chat rooms remind me of are sixteen year-old high-school girls who sit around gossiping all day on their cell phones. Think about it. These are grown men acting like teenage groupies, swooning over their “heroes.” And for some reason I thought people in the patriot movement were supposed to be independent-minded. But these losers are the epitome of GROUP THINK where their “leader” sets the tone for a particular topic and all the other obedient lemmings follow suit.

It’s nothing but a groupie mentality, and the worst part is: even the people who run these sites think the lemmings are losers and useful idiots. They’re laughing at them, thinking, “I can’t believe these suckers are stupid enough to do my dirty work for me.” You’re their sheep that they pat on the head like obedient little zeroes. But hey, at least they’re part of a GROUP, regardless of how pathetic and inane it is.

In all honesty, these guys are even worse than Rush Limbaugh’s Ditto-Heads. Here’s an example why. We recently heard about a thread on Phil Jayhan’s panhandling site where the baby boys were crying, “What would we do if Alex Jones ever died? How would we survive?”

Can you even for one second believe it? What would they do? Here’s a suggestion: GROW UP! Become your own person. Get a life of your own instead of sucking on Alex Jones’ teet.

Listen: you’re adult, grown men whose highest aspiration is to be what … a sycophant? My God, how can you wake up in the morning and look yourselves in the mirror?

These people aren’t patriots … they’re SHEEPLE! They’re followers, just like the goobers who sit in front of their TVs and watch CNN or FOX. They’re potatoes, roots, slugs, mold, and infected diseases all wrapped up into one. And on top of that, they’d rather accept the BIG LIE than face reality – that way that don’t have to be alone. They'll still have their group of other losers who are equally as sorry, worthless, and wretched.

I could continue, but I have a suggestion for all the little chat room groupies and plants. Get a big black magic marker, and then write in huge capital letters across your forehead:

LOSER

Then, every day when you’re sitting in your mama’s cellar geeking out on your miserable little message boards, take your magic marker and write LOSER over and over again on your forehead until it finally sinks in.

Grow up and quit being so worthless.

John F. Kennedy
vs
The Federal Reserve


June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree, Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business. The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and Library of Congress. We can now safely conclude that this Executive Order has never been repealed, amended, or superceded by any subsequent Executive Order. In simple terms, it is still valid.

When President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - the author of Profiles in Courage -signed this Order, it returned to the federal government, specifically the Treasury Department, the Constitutional power to create and issue currency -money - without going through the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11110 [the full text is displayed further below] gave the Treasury Department the explicit authority: "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This means that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation based on the silver bullion physically held there. As a result, more than $4 billion in United States Notes were brought into circulation in $2 and $5 denominations. $10 and $20 United States Notes were never circulated but were being printed by the Treasury Department when Kennedy was assassinated. It appears obvious that President Kennedy knew the Federal Reserve Notes being used as the purported legal currency were contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America.

"United States Notes" were issued as an interest-free and debt-free currency backed by silver reserves in the U.S. Treasury. We compared a "Federal Reserve Note" issued from the private central bank of the United States (the Federal Reserve Bank a/k/a Federal Reserve System), with a "United States Note" from the U.S. Treasury issued by President Kennedy's Executive Order. They almost look alike, except one says "Federal Reserve Note" on the top while the other says "United States Note". Also, the Federal Reserve Note has a green seal and serial number while the United States Note has a red seal and serial number.

President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and the United States Notes he had issued were immediately taken out of circulation. Federal Reserve Notes continued to serve as the legal currency of the nation. According to the United States Secret Service, 99% of all U.S. paper "currency" circulating in 1999 are Federal Reserve Notes.

Kennedy knew that if the silver-backed United States Notes were widely circulated, they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve Notes. This is a very simple matter of economics. The USN was backed by silver and the FRN was not backed by anything of intrinsic value. Executive Order 11110 should have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level (virtually all of the nearly $9 trillion in federal debt has been created since 1963) if LBJ or any subsequent President were to enforce it. It would have almost immediately given the U.S. Government the ability to repay its debt without going to the private Federal Reserve Banks and being charged interest to create new "money". Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S.A. the ability to, once again, create its own money backed by silver and realm value worth something.

Again, according to our own research, just five months after Kennedy was assassinated, no more of the Series 1958 "Silver Certificates" were issued either, and they were subsequently removed from circulation. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to all future presidents not to interfere with the private Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. It seems very apparent that President Kennedy challenged the "powers that exist behind U.S. and world finance". With true patriotic courage, JFK boldly faced the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt:

1) war (Viet Nam); and,

2) the creation of money by a privately owned central bank. His efforts to have all U.S. troops out of Vietnam by 1965 combined with Executive Order 11110 would have destroyed the profits and control of the private Federal Reserve Bank.

Executive Order 11110

AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289 AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended - (a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j): "(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended (31 U.S.C. 821 (b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denominations of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption," and (b) By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof. SECTION 2. The amendment made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.

JOHN F. KENNEDY THE WHITE HOUSE, June 4, 1963

Once again, Executive Order 11110 is still valid. According to Title 3, United States Code, Section 301 dated January 26, 1998:

Executive Order (EO) 10289 dated Sept. 17, 1951, 16 F.R. 9499, was as amended by:

EO 10583, dated December 18, 1954, 19 F.R. 8725;

EO 10882 dated July 18, 1960, 25 F.R. 6869;

EO 11110 dated June 4, 1963, 28 F.R. 5605;

EO 11825 dated December 31, 1974, 40 F.R. 1003;

EO 12608 dated September 9, 1987, 52 F.R. 34617

The 1974 and 1987 amendments, added after Kennedy's 1963 amendment, did not change or alter any part of Kennedy's EO 11110. A search of Clinton's 1998 and 1999 EO's and Presidential Directives has also shown no reference to any alterations, suspensions, or changes to EO 11110.

The Federal Reserve Bank, a.k.a Federal Reserve System, is a Private Corporation. Black's Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as: "Network of twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of stock and minimum reserves." Privately-owned banks own the stock of the FED. This was explained in more detail in the case of Lewis v. United States, Federal Reporter, 2nd Series, Vol. 680, Pages 1239, 1241 (1982), where the court said: "Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds of each Bank's nine member board of directors".

The Federal Reserve Banks are locally controlled by their member banks. Once again, according to Black's Law Dictionary, we find that these privately owned banks actually issue money:

"Federal Reserve Act. Law which created Federal Reserve banks which act as agents in maintaining money reserves, issuing money in the form of bank notes, lending money to banks, and supervising banks. Administered by Federal Reserve Board (q.v.)".

The privately owned Federal Reserve (FED) banks actually issue (create) the "money" we use. In 1964, the House Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, at the second session of the 88th Congress, put out a study entitled Money Facts which contains a good description of what the FED is: "The Federal Reserve is a total money-making machine. It can issue money or checks. And it never has a problem of making its checks good because it can obtain the $5 and $10 bills necessary to cover its check simply by asking the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving to print them".

Any one person or any closely knit group who has a lot of money has a lot of power. Now imagine a group of people who have the power to create money. Imagine the power these people would have. This is exactly what the privately owned FED is!

No man did more to expose the power of the FED than Louis T. McFadden, who was the Chairman of the House Banking Committee back in the 1930s. In describing the FED, he remarked in the Congressional Record, House pages 1295 and 1296 on June 10, 1932:

"Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government Board, has cheated the Government of the United States and he people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the maladministration of that law by which the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it".

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions, departments, or agencies. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully placed upon this country by bankers who came here from Europe and who repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions.

The FED basically works like this: The government granted its power to create money to the FED banks. They create money, then loan it back to the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note that the Federal Reserve Act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. The incredible power of the FED over the economy is universally admitted. Some people, especially in the banking and academic communities, even support it. On the other hand, there are those, such as President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, that have spoken out against it. His efforts were spoken about in Jim Marrs' 1990 book Crossfire:"

Another overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. currency.

Kennedy's comptroller of the currency, James J. Saxon, had been at odds with the powerful Federal Reserve Board for some time, encouraging broader investment and lending powers for banks that were not part of the Federal Reserve system. Saxon also had decided that non-Reserve banks could underwrite state and local general obligation bonds, again weakening the dominant Federal Reserve banks".

In a comment made to a Columbia University class on Nov. 12, 1963,

Ten days before his assassination, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy allegedly said:

"The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight."

In this matter, John Fitzgerald Kennedy appears to be the subject of his own book... a true Profile of Courage.

This research report was compiled for Lawgiver. Org. by Anthony Wayne

What is the Federal Reserve Bank?

What is the Federal Reserve Bank (FED) and why do we have it?

by Greg Hobbs November 1, 1999

The FED is a central bank. Central banks are supposed to implement a country's fiscal policies. They monitor commercial banks to ensure that they maintain sufficient assets, like cash, so as to remain solvent and stable. Central banks also do business, such as currency exchanges and gold transactions, with other central banks. In theory, a central bank should be good for a country, and they might be if it wasn't for the fact that they are not owned or controlled by the government of the country they are serving. Private central banks, including our FED, operate not in the interest of the public good but for profit.

There have been three central banks in our nation's history. The first two, while deceptive and fraudulent, pale in comparison to the scope and size of the fraud being perpetrated by our current FED. What they all have in common is an insidious practice known as "fractional banking."

Fractional banking or fractional lending is the ability to create money from nothing, lend it to the government or someone else and charge interest to boot. The practice evolved before banks existed. Goldsmiths rented out space in their vaults to individuals and merchants for storage of their gold or silver. The goldsmiths gave these "depositors" a certificate that showed the amount of gold stored. These certificates were then used to conduct business.

In time the goldsmiths noticed that the gold in their vaults was rarely withdrawn. Small amounts would move in and out but the large majority never moved. Sensing a profit opportunity, the goldsmiths issued double receipts for the gold, in effect creating money (certificates) from nothing and then lending those certificates (creating debt) to depositors and charging them interest as well.

Since the certificates represented more gold than actually existed, the certificates were "fractionally" backed by gold. Eventually some of these vault operations were transformed into banks and the practice of fractional banking continued.

Keep that fractional banking concept in mind as we examine our first central bank, the First Bank of the United States (BUS). It was created, after bitter dissent in the Congress, in 1791 and chartered for 20 years. A scam not unlike the current FED, the BUS used its control of the currency to defraud the public and establish a legal form of usury.

This bank practiced fractional lending at a 10:1 rate, ten dollars of loans for each dollar they had on deposit. This misuse and abuse of their public charter continued for the entire 20 years of their existence. Public outrage over these abuses was such that the charter was not renewed and the bank ceased to exist in 1811.

The war of 1812 left the country in economic chaos, seen by bankers as another opportunity for easy profits. They influenced Congress to charter the second central bank, the Second Bank of the United States (SBUS), in 1816.

The SBUS was more expansive than the BUS. The SBUS sold franchises and literally doubled the number of banks in a short period of time. The country began to boom and move westward, which required money. Using fractional lending at the 10:1 rate, the central bank and their franchisees created the debt/money for the expansion.

Things boomed for a while, then the banks decided to shut off the debt/money, citing the need to control inflation. This action on the part of the SBUS caused bankruptcies and foreclosures. The banks then took control of the assets that were used as security against the loans.

Closely examine how the SBUS engineered this cycle of prosperity and depression. The central bank caused inflation by creating debt/money for loans and credit and making these funds readily available. The economy boomed. Then they used the inflation which they created as an excuse to shut off the loans/credit/money.

The resulting shortage of cash caused the economy to falter or slow dramatically and large numbers of business and personal bankruptcies resulted. The central bank then seized the assets used as security for the loans. The wealth created by the borrowers during the boom was then transferred to the central bank during the bust. And you always wondered how the big guys ended up with all the marbles.

Now, who do you think is responsible for all of the ups and downs in our economy over the last 85 years? Think about the depression of the late '20s and all through the '30s. The FED could have pumped lots of debt/money into the market to stimulate the economy and get the country back on track, but did they? No; in fact, they restricted the money supply quite severely. We all know the results that occurred from that action, don't we?

Why would the FED do this? During that period asset values and stocks were at rock bottom prices. Who do you think was buying everything at 10 cents on the dollar? I believe that it is referred to as consolidating the wealth. How many times have they already done this in the last 85 years?

Do you think they will do it again?

Just as an aside at this point, look at today's economy. Markets are declining. Why? Because the FED has been very liberal with its debt/credit/money. The market was hyper inflated. Who creates inflation? The FED. How does the FED deal with inflation? They restrict the debt/credit/money. What happens when they do that? The market collapses.

Several months back, after certain central banks said they would be selling large quantities of gold, the price of gold fell to a 25-year low of about $260 per ounce. The central banks then bought gold. After buying at the bottom, a group of 15 central banks announced that they would be restricting the amount of gold released into the market for the next five years. The price of gold went up $75.00 per ounce in just a few days. How many hundreds of billions of dollars did the central banks make with those two press releases?

Gold is generally considered to be a hedge against more severe economic conditions. Do you think that the private banking families that own the FED are buying or selling equities at this time? (Remember: buy low, sell high.) How much money do you think these FED owners have made since they restricted the money supply at the top of this last current cycle?

Alan Greenspan has said publicly on several occasions that he thinks the market is overvalued, or words to that effect. Just a hint that he will raise interest rates (restrict the money supply), and equity markets have a negative reaction. Governments and politicians do not rule central banks, central banks rule governments and politicians. President Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 with the promise to end the national debt and eliminate the SBUS. During his second term President Jackson withdrew all government funds from the bank and on January 8, 1835, paid off the national debt. He is the only president in history to have this distinction. The charter of the SBUS expired in 1836.

Without a central bank to manipulate the supply of money, the United States experienced unprecedented growth for 60 or 70 years, and the resulting wealth was too much for bankers to endure. They had to get back into the game. So, in 1910 Senator Nelson Aldrich, then Chairman of the National Monetary Commission, in collusion with representatives of the European central banks, devised a plan to pressure and deceive Congress into enacting legislation that would covertly establish a private central bank.

This bank would assume control over the American economy by controlling the issuance of its money. After a huge public relations campaign, engineered by the foreign central banks, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was slipped through Congress during the Christmas recess, with many members of the Congress absent. President Woodrow Wilson, pressured by his political and financial backers, signed it on December 23, 1913.

The act created the Federal Reserve System, a name carefully selected and designed to deceive. "Federal" would lead one to believe that this is a government organization. "Reserve" would lead one to believe that the currency is being backed by gold and silver. "System" was used in lieu of the word "bank" so that one would not conclude that a new central bank had been created.

In reality, the act created a private, for profit, central banking corporation owned by a cartel of private banks. Who owns the FED? The Rothschilds of London and Berlin; Lazard Brothers of Paris; Israel Moses Seif of Italy; Kuhn, Loeb and Warburg of Germany; and the Lehman Brothers, Goldman, Sachs and the Rockefeller families of New York.

Did you know that the FED is the only for-profit corporation in America that is exempt from both federal and state taxes? The FED takes in about one trillion dollars per year tax free! The banking families listed above get all that money.

Almost everyone thinks that the money they pay in taxes goes to the US Treasury to pay for the expenses of the government. Do you want to know where your tax dollars really go? If you look at the back of any check made payable to the IRS you will see that it has been endorsed as "Pay Any F.R.B. Branch or Gen. Depository for Credit U.S. Treas. This is in Payment of U.S. Oblig." Yes, that's right, every dime you pay in income taxes is given to those private banking families, commonly known as the FED, tax free.

Like many of you, I had some difficulty with the concept of creating money from nothing. You may have heard the term "monetizing the debt," which is kind of the same thing. As an example, if the US Government wants to borrow $1 million ó the government does borrow every dollar it spends ó they go to the FED to borrow the money. The FED calls the Treasury and says print 10,000 Federal Reserve Notes (FRN) in units of one hundred dollars.

The Treasury charges the FED 2.3 cents for each note, for a total of $230 for the 10,000 FRNs. The FED then lends the $1 million to the government at face value plus interest. To add insult to injury, the government has to create a bond for $1 million as security for the loan. And the rich get richer. The above was just an example, because in reality the FED does not even print the money; it's just a computer entry in their accounting system. To put this on a more personal level, let's use another example.

Today's banks are members of the Federal Reserve Banking System. This membership makes it legal for them to create money from nothing and lend it to you. Today's banks, like the goldsmiths of old, realize that only a small fraction of the money deposited in their banks is ever actually withdrawn in the form of cash. Only about 4 percent of all the money that exists is in the form of currency. The rest of it is simply a computer entry.

Let's say you're approved to borrow $10,000 to do some home improvements. You know that the bank didn't actually take $10,000 from its pile of cash and put it into your pile? They simply went to their computer and input an entry of $10,000 into your account. They created, from thin air, a debt which you have to secure with an asset and repay with interest. The bank is allowed to create and lend as much debt as they want as long as they do not exceed the 10:1 ratio imposed by the FED.

It sort of puts a new slant on how you view your friendly bank, doesn't it? How about those loan committees that scrutinize you with a microscope before approving the loan they created from thin air. What a hoot! They make it complex for a reason. They don't want you to understand what they are doing. People fear what they do not understand. You are easier to delude and control when you are ignorant and afraid.

Now to put the frosting on this cake. When was the income tax created? If you guessed 1913, the same year that the FED was created, you get a gold star. Coincidence? What are the odds? If you are going to use the FED to create debt, who is going to repay that debt? The income tax was created to complete the illusion that real money had been lent and therefore real money had to be repaid. And you thought Houdini was good.

So, what can be done? My father taught me that you should always stand up for what is right, even if you have to stand up alone.

If "We the People" don't take some action now, there may come a time when "We the People" are no more. You should write a letter or send an email to each of your elected representatives. Many of our elected representatives do not understand the FED. Once informed they will not be able to plead ignorance and remain silent.

Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution specifically says that Congress is the only body that can "coin money and regulate the value thereof." The US Constitution has never been amended to allow anyone other than Congress to coin and regulate currency.

Ask your representative, in light of that information, how it is possible for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, and the Federal Reserve Bank that it created, to be constitutional. Ask them why this private banking cartel is allowed to reap trillions of dollars in profits without paying taxes. Insist on an answer.

Thomas Jefferson said, "If the America people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currencies, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their prosperity until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Jefferson saw it coming 150 years ago. The question is, "Can you now see what is in store for us if we allow the FED to continue controlling our country?"

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."

John P. Curran

Source: http://www.roc-grp.org/jfk.html

President John F.Kennedy,
The Federal Reserve And Executive Order 11110





by Cedric X


From The Final Call, Vol. 15, No.6, On January 17, 1996

On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy's order gave the Treasury the power "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of this bill are enormous.

With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver certificats were to come into circulation they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the gevernment the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.

After Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, no more silver certificates were issued. The Final Call has learned that the Executive Order was never repealed by any U.S. President through an Executive Order and is still valid. Why then has no president utilized it? Virtually all of the nearly $6 trillion in debt has been created since 1963, and if a U.S. president had utilized Executive Order 11110 the debt would be nowhere near the current level. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to future presidents who would think to eliminate the U.S. debt by eliminating the Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. Mr. Kennedy challenged the government of money by challenging the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt - war and the creation of money by a privately-owned central bank. His efforts to have all troops out of Vietnam by 1965 and Executive Order 11110 would have severely cut into the profits and control of the New York banking establishment. As America's debt reaches unbearable levels and a conflict emerges in Bosnia that will further increase America's debt, one is force to ask, will President Clinton have the courage to consider utilizing Executive Order 11110 and, ifso, is he willing to pay the ultimate price for doing so?

Executive Order 11110 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289

AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows:

Section 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended-

By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j):

(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12,1933, as amended (31 U.S.C.821(b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denomination of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption

and --

Byrevoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof.

Sec. 2. The amendments made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said amendments had not been made.

John F. Kennedy The White House, June 4, 1963.

Of course, the fact that both JFK and Lincoln met the the same end is a mere coincidence.

Abraham Lincoln's Monetary Policy, 1865 (Page 91 of Senate document 23.)

Money is the creature of law and the creation of the original issue of money should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national Government.

Money possesses no value to the State other than that given to it by circulation.

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognised in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money.

No duty is more imperative for the Government than the duty it owes the People to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, and of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labour will be protected from a vicious currency, and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

The available supply of Gold and Silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other substitute for money of intrinsic value that may come into use.

The monetary needs of increasing numbers of People advancing towards higher standards of living can and should be met by the Government. Such needs can be served by the issue of National Currency and Credit through the operation of a National Banking system .The circulation of a medium of exchange issued and backed by the Government can be properly regulated and redundancy of issue avoided by withdrawing from circulation such amounts as may be necessary by Taxation, Redeposit, and otherwise. Government has the power to regulate the currency and creditof the Nation.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the Bank deposits of the Nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency or Bank bankruptcy.

Government possessing the power to create and issue currency and creditas money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by Taxation and otherwise need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing Governmental work and public enterprise. The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of the consumers. The privilege of creating and issueing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Governments greatest creative opportunity.

By the adoption of these principles the long felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprise, the maintenance of stable Government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own Government. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

Some information on the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve, a Private Corporation One of the most common concerns among people who engage in any effort to reduce their taxes is, "Will keeping my money hurt the government's ability to pay it's bills?" As explained in the first article in this series, the modern withholding tax does not, and wasn't designed to, pay for government services. What it does do, is pay for the privately-owned Federal Reserve System.

Black's Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as, "Network of twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of stock and minimum reserves."

Privately-owned banks own the stock of the Fed. This was explained in more detail in the case of Lewis v. United States, Federal Reporter, 2nd Series, Vol. 680, Pages 1239, 1241 (1982), where the court said:

Each Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds of each Bank's nine member board of directors.

Similarly, the Federal Reserve Banks, though heavily regulated, are locally controlled by their member banks. Taking another look at Black's Law Dictionary, we find that these privately owned banks actually issue money:

Federal Reserve Act. Law which created Federal Reserve banks which act as agents in maintaining money reserves, issuing money in the form of bank notes, lending money to banks, and supervising banks. Administered by Federal Reserve Board (q.v.).

The FED banks, which are privately owned, actually issue, that is, create, the money we use. In 1964 the House Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, at the second session of the 88th Congress, put out a study entitled Money Facts which contains a good description of what the FED is:

The Federal Reserve is a total money-making machine.It can issue money or checks. And it never has a problem of making its checks good because it can obtain the $5 and $10 bills necessary to cover its check simply by asking the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving to print them.

As we all know, anyone who has a lot of money has a lot of power. Now imagine a group of people who have the power to create money. Imagine the power these people would have. This is what the Fed is.

No man did more to expose the power of the Fed than Louis T. McFadden, who was the Chairman of the House Banking Committee back in the 1930s. Constantly pointing out that monetary issues shouldn't be partisan, he criticized both the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt administrations. In describing the Fed, he remarked in the Congressional Record, House pages 1295 and 1296 on June 10, 1932, that:

Mr. Chairman,we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government Board, has cheated the Government of the United States and he people of the United States out of enoughmoney to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the UnitedStates; has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the maladministration of that law by which the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

Some people think the Federal reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into States to buy votes to control our legislation; and there are those who maintain an international propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us and of wheedling us into the granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime. Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this country by bankers who camehere from Europe and who repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions.

The Fed basically works like this: The government granted its power to create money to the Fed banks. They create money, then loan it back to the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note that the Federal Reserve act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. The incredible power of the Fed over the economy is universally admitted. Some people, especially in the banking and academic communities, even support it. On the other hand, there are those, both in the past and in the present, that speak out against it. One of these men was President John F. Kennedy. His efforts were detailed in Jim Marrs' 1990 book, Crossfire:

Another overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American society involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11,110 which called for the issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. currency.

Kennedy's comptroller of the currency, James J. Saxon, had been at odds with the powerful Federal Reserve Board for some time, encouraging broader investment and lending powers for banks that were not part of the Federal Reserve system. Saxon also had decided that non-Reserve banks could underwrite state and local general obligation bonds, again weakening the dominant Federal Reserve banks.

A number of "Kennedy bills" were indeed issued - the author has a five dollar bill in his possession with the heading "United States Note" - but were quickly withdrawn after Kennedy's death. According to information from the Library of the Comptroller of the Currency, Executive Order 11,110 remains in effect today, although successive administrations beginning with that of President Lyndon Johnson apparently have simply ignored it and instead returned to the practice of paying interest on Federal Reserve notes. Today we continue to use Federal Reserve Notes, and the deficit is at an all-time high.

The point being made is that the IRS taxes you pay aren't used for government services. It won't hurt you, or the nation, to legally reduce or eliminate your tax liability.

Anderson's papers contain information on George H. W. Bush's role in Dallas in November 1963. Dubya ordered papers seized and withheld as "classified" U.S. government documents. It is clear that the man standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository and his son have much to be worried about.

April 29, 2006 -- FBI agents lied about what they wanted from Jack Anderson's papers. The FBI agents who, in December, approached Olivia Anderson, the widow of deceased investigative reporter Jack Anderson and more recently, in March, author and researcher Mark Feldstein, who is writing a book about Jack Anderson, were interested in far more than the names of sources in the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) espionage case. That explanation by the FBI did not hold any water since Jack Anderson had not been active in pursuing that particular story -- he had suffered from Parkinson's Disease since 1986. According to individuals close to the FBI fishing expedition, the actual documents the FBI wanted to seize were files Anderson collected in the 1960s that linked George H. W. Bush's activities in Texas in 1963 to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22 of that year. Bush was a friend of George DeMohrenschildt, Lee Harvey Oswald's Belarusian-born contact officer. DeMohrenschildt befriended Oswald and arranged for him to settle in Dallas after leaving the Soviet Union. DeMohrenshildt "committed suicide" shortly before he was due to testify before the 1978 House Assassinations Committee. The elder Bush's name, address, and phone number in Midland, Texas was found in DeMohrenshildt's address book under the heading "Poppy."

In addition, the FBI wanted to remove from future public circulation Anderson documents that point to George H. W. Bush conspiring with the government of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran to keep U.S. hostages imprisoned in Iran until after the 1980 presidential election and avoid an "October Surprise" for Carter. The agreement between the Iranians and Bush (who was working with William Casey) sank the chances for Jimmy Carter's re-election and George H. W. Bush's entry into the White House as Vice President. The hostages were released at the very time Ronald Reagan took the oath of office in 1981. That operation would lay the ground for future Bush-Tehran collusion in the Iran-Contra scandal. Another set of files involve the links between the Bush family and that of Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin John W. Hinckley. Had Hinckley succeeded in killing Reagan, the Bush political agenda would have commenced in earnest in 1981 rather than 1989.

The Bush family has been known to use retired FBI agents as their political heavies and clean up men in the past -- most notably to erase the Bush links to Dallas. George W. Bush's departing Press Secretary Scott McClellan has a close relative who continued to muddy the waters about the JFK assassination. McClellan's father, Barr McClellan, wrote a book claiming it was Lyndon Johnson, not George H. W. Bush, who conspired to kill the president.

?It is interesting, but not surprising, to note that in all the words written and uttered about the Kennedy assassination, Israel?s intelligence service agency, the Mossad, has never been mentioned. And yet a Mossad motive is obvious. On this question, as on almost all others, American reporters cannot bring themselves to cast Israel in an unfavorable light -despite the fact that Mossad complicity is as plausible as any of the other theories.?

-- US Representative Paul Findley, March 1992

Jack Kennedy, during his term of office as the President of the United States, became a Christian. In his attempt to "repent," he tried to inform the people of this Nation (at least twice) that the Office of the President of the United States was being manipulated by the Illuminati/CFR. At the same time, he put a stop to the "borrowing" of Federal Reserve Notes from the Federal Reserve Bank and began issuing United States Notes (which was interest free) on the credit of the United States. It was the issuing of the United States Notes that caused Jack Kennedy to be "assassinated."
Upon the taking the Oath of Office; Lynden B. Johnson stopped the issuing of the United States Notes and went back to borrowing Federal Reserve Bank Notes (which was loaned to the people of the United States at the going rate of interest of 17%). The US Notes, that was issued under John F. Kennedy, was of the 1963 series which beared a "Red" seal on the face of the "Note."

08/10/2002 Entry: "Bush Family Involvement in Reagan Assassination Attempt"

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Bush Family Involvement in Reagan Assassination Attempt
The Unsolved Mystery of the Bush/Hinckley Dinner Date
by art guerrilla

What was the truth of the matter? The Roman common sense of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (who had seen so many of Nero's intrigues, and who would eventually fall victim to one of them) would have dictated that the person who would have profited most from Reagan's death be scrutinized as the prime suspect. That was obviously Bush, since Bush would have assumed the presidency if Reagan had succumbed to his wounds. The same idea was summed up by an eighth grade student at the Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC who told teachers on March 31: "It is a plot by Vice President Bush to get into power. If Bush becomes President, the CIA would be in charge of the country." The pupils at this school had been asked for their views of the Hinckley assassination attempt of the previous day. [fn 17]

Back at the White House, the principal cabinet officers had assembled in the
situation room and had been running a crisis management committee during the
afternoon. Haig says he was at first adamant that a conspiracy, if
discovered, should be ruthlessly exposed: "It was essential that we get the
facts and publish them quickly. Rumor must not be allowed to breed on this
tragedy. Remembering the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, I said to
Woody Goldberg, 'No matter what the truth is about this shooting, the
American people must know it." [fn 11] But the truth has never been
established.

Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's memoir of that afternoon reminds us of
two highly relevant facts. The first is that a "NORAD [North American Air
Defense Command] exercise with a simulated incoming missle attack had been
planned for the next day." Weinberger agreed with General David Jones, the
chiarman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that this exercise should be
cancelled. [fn 12]

Weinberger also recalls that the group in the Situation Room was informed by
James Baker that "there had been a FEMA [Federal Emergency Management
Administration] exercise scheduled for the next day on presidential
succession, with the general title 'Nine Lives.' By an immediate consensus,
it was agreed that exercise should also be cancelled." [fn 13]

As Weinberger further recalls, "at almost exactly 7:00, the Vice President
came to the Situation Room and very calmly assumed the chair at the head of
the table." [fn 14] According to Weinberger, the first item discussed was
the need for someonme to sign the Dairy Price Support Bill the next day so
as to reassure the public. Bush asked Weinberger for a report on the status
of US forces, which Weinberger furnished.

Another eyewitness of these transactions was Don Regan, whom the Tower Board
later made the fall-guy for Bush's Iran-contra escapades. Regan records that
"the Vice President arrived with Ed Meese, who had met him when he landed to
fill him in on the details. George asked for a condition report: 1) on the
President; 2) on the other wounded; 3) on the assailant; 4) on the
international scene. [...] After the reports were given and it was
determined that there were no international complications and no domestic
conspiracy, it was decided that the US government would carry on business as
usual. The Vice President would go on TV from the White House to reassure
the nation and to demonstrate that he was in charge." [fn 15]

As Weinberger recounts the same moments: "[Attorney General Bill French
Smith] then reported that all FBI reports concurred with the information I
had received; that the shooting was a completely isolated incident and that
the assassin, John Hinckley, with a previous record in Nashville, seemed to
be a 'Bremmer' type, a reference to the attempted assassin of George
Wallace." [fn 16]

Those who were not watching carefully here may have missed the fact that
just a few minutes after George Bush had walked into the room, he had
presided over the sweeping under the rug of the decisive question regarding
Hinckley and his actions: was Hinckley a part of a conspiracy, domestic or
international? Not more than five hours after the attempt to kill Reagan, on
the basis of the most fragmentary early reports, before Hinckley had been
properly questioned, and before a full investigation had been carried out, a
group of cabinet officers chaired by George Bush had ruled out a priori any
conspiracy. Haig, whose memoirs talk most about the possibility of a
conspiracy, does not seem to have objected to this incredible decision.

From that moment on, "no conspiracy" became the official doctrine of the US
regime, for the moment a Bush regime, and the most massivew efforts were
undertaken to stifle any suggestion to the contrary. The iron curtain came
down on the truth about Hinckley.

What was the truth of the matter? The Roman common sense of Lucius Annaeus
Seneca (who had seen so many of Nero's intrigues, and who would eventually
fall victim to one of them) would have dictated that the person who would
have profited most from Reagan's death be scrutinized as the prime suspect.
That was obviously Bush, since Bush would have assumed the presidency if
Reagan had succumbed to his wounds. The same idea was summed up by an eighth
grade student at the Alice Deal Junior High School in Washington DC who told
teachers on March 31: "It is a plot by Vice President Bush to get into
power. If Bush becomes President, the CIA would be in charge of the
country." The pupils at this school had been asked for their views of the
Hinckley assassination attempt of the previous day. [fn 17]

Curiously enough, press accounts emerging over the next few days provided a
compelling prima facie case that there had been a conspiracy around the
Hinckley attentat, and that the conspiracy had included members of Bush's
immediate family. Most of the overt facts were not disputed, but were
actually confirmed by Bush and his son Neil.

On Tuesday, March 31 the Houston Post published a copyrighted story under
the headline: "BUSH'S SON WAS TO DINE WITH SUSPECT'S BROTHER, by Arthur
Wiese and Margarte Downing." The lead paragraph read as follows:

Scott Hinckley, the brother of John Hinckley Jr., who is charged with
shooting President Reagan and three others, was to have been a dinner guest
Tuesday night at the home of Neil Bush, son of Vice President George Bush,
The Houston Post has learned.
According to the article, Neil Bush had admitted on Monday, March 30 that he
was personally acquainted with Scott Hinckley, having met with him on one
occasion in the recent past. Neil Bush also stated that he knew the Hinckley
family, and referred to large monetary contributions made by the Hinckleys
to the Bush 1980 presidential campaign. Neil Bush and Scott Hinckley both
lived in Denver at this time. Scott Hinckley was the vice president of
Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, and Neil Bush was employed as a land man for
Standard Oil of Indiana. John W. Hinckley Jr., the would-be assassin, lived
on and off with his parents in Evergreen, Colorado, not far from Denver.

Neil Bush was reached for comment on Monday, March 30, and was asked if, in
addition to Scott Hinckley, he also knew John W. Hinckley Jr., the would-be
killer. "I have no idea," said Neil Bush. "I don't recognize any pictures of
him. I just wish I could see a better picture of him."

Sharon Bush, Neil's wife, was also asked about her acquaintance with the
Hinckley family. "I don't even know the brother," she replied, suggesting
that Scott Hinckley was coming to dinner as the date of a woman whom Sharon
did know. "From what I know and have heard, they [the Hinckleys] are a very
nice family...and have given a lot of money to the Bush campaign. I
understand he [John W. Hinckley Jr.] was just the renegade brother in the
family. They must feel awful."

It also proved necessary for Bush's office to deny that the vice-president
was familiar with the "Hinckley-Bush connection." Bush's press secretary,
the British-born Peter Teeley, said when asked to comment: "I don't know a
damn thing about it. I was talking to someone earlier tonight, and I
couldn't even remember his [Hinckley's] name. All I know is what you're
telling me." Teeley denied that Bush had revealed that he knew Hinckley or
the Hinckley family when he first heard the assassin's name; the vice
president "made no mention of it whatsoever." Bush, repeated Teeley,
"certainly didn't indicate anything like that."

Chase Untermeyer of Bush's staff, who had been with him throughout the day,
put in that in his recollection Bush had not been told the assailant's name
through the time that Bush reached the Naval Observatory in Washington on
his way to the White House.

On April 1, 1981, the Rocky Mountain News of Denver carried an account of a
press conference given the previous day in Denver by Neil Bush. During most
of the day on March 31, Neil Bush had refused to answer phone calls from the
media, referring them to the vice presidential press office in Washington.
But then he appeared in front of the Amoco Building at East 17th Avenue and
Braodway in Denver, saying that he was willing to meet the media once, but
then wanted to "leave it at that." As it turned out, his wishes were to be
scrupulously respected, at least until the Silverado Savings and Loan
scandal got out of hand some years later.

The Rocky Mountain News article signed by Charles Roos carried Neil Bush's
confirmation that if the assassination had not happened, Scott Hinckley
would have been present at a dinner party at Neil Bush's home that very same
night. According to Neil, Scott Hinckley had come to the home of Neil and
Sharon Bush on January 23, 1981 to be present along with about 30 other
guests at a surprise birthday party for Neil, who had turned 26 one day
earlier. Scott Hinckley had come "through a close friend who brought him,"
according to this version, and this same close female friend was scheduled
to come to dinner along with Scott Hinckley on that last night of March,
1981.

"My wife set up a surprise party for me, and it truly was a surprise, and it
was an honor for me at that time to meet Scott Hinckley," said Neil Bush to
reporters. "He is a good and decent man. I have no regrets whatsoever in
saying Scott Hinckley can be considered a friend of mine. To have had one
meeting doesn't make the best of friends, but I have no regrets in saying I
do know him."

Neil Bush told the reporters that he had never met John W. Hinckley, Jr.,
the gunman, nor his father, John W. Hinckley, president and chairman of the
board of Vanderbilt Energy Corporation of Denver. But Neil Bush also added
that he would be interested in meeting the elder Hinckley: "I would like [to
meet him]. I'm trying to learn the oil business, and he's in the oil
business. I probably could learn something from Mr. Hinckley.

Neil Bush then announced that he wanted to "set straight" certain
inaccuracies that had appeared the previous day in the Houston Post about
the relations betyween the Bush and Hinbckley families. The first was his
own wife Sharon's reference to the large contributions from the Hinckleys to
the Bush campaign. Neil asserted that the 1980 Bush campaign records showed
no money whatever coming in from any of the Hinckleys. All that could be
found, he argued, was a contribution to that "great Republican," John
Connally.

The other issue the Houston Post had raised regarded the 1978 period, when
George W. Bush of Midland, Texas, Neil's oldest brother, had run for
Congress in Texas' 19th Congressional district. At that time Neil Bush had
worked for George W. Bush as his campaign manager, and in this connection
Neil had lived in Lubbock, Texas during most of the year. This raised the
question of whether Neil might have been in touch with gunman John W.
Hinckley during that year of 1978, since gunman Hinckley had lived in
Lubbock from 1974 through 1980, when he was an intermittent student at Texas
Tech University there. Neil Bush ruled out any contact between the Bush
family and gunman John W. Hinckley in Lubbock during that time.

The previous day, elder son George W. Bush had been far less categorical
about never having met gunman Hinckley. He had stated to the press: "It's
certainly conceivable that I met him or might have been introduced to him."
"I don't recognize his face from the brief, kind of distorted thing they had
on TV, and the name doesn't ring any bells. I know he wasn't on our staff. I
could check our volunteer rolls." But now Neil was adamant: there had been
no contact.

Neil was a chip off the old block, and could not resist some hypocritical
posturing at the end of the press conference: "Let me say that my heart goes
out--as does the heart of every American--to the people suffering in this
tragedy." He mentioned Reagan, Brady, the wounded Secret Service agent and
District of Columbia policeman. "And the Hinckley family, for the tremendous
pain thbey must be suffering now." And finally: "I only ask now that we can
try to put this behind us and move forward in dealing with the problems."

Neil Bush's confirmation of his relations with Scott Hinckley was matched by
a parallel confirmation from the Executive Office of the Vice President.
This appeared in The Houston Post, April 1, 1981 under the headline "VICE
PRESIDENT CONFIRMS HIS SON WAS TO HAVE HOSTED HINCKLEY BROTHER" by Post
Washington Bureau Chief Arthur Wiese. Here the second-string press
secretary, Shirley Green, was doing the talking. "I've spoken to Neil," she
said, "and he says they never saw [Scott] Hinckley again [after the birthday
party]. They kept saying 'we've got to get together,' but they never made
any plans until tonight." Contradicting Neil Bush's remarks, Ms. Green
asserted that Neil Bush knew Scott Hinckley "only slightly."

Shirley Green described the Tuesday night dinner appointment as "a bizarre
happenstance, a weird occurence."

Later in the day Bush spokesman Peter Teeley surfaced to deny any campaign
donations from the Hinckley clan to the Bush campaign. When asked why Sharon
Bush and Neil Bush had made reference to large political contributions from
the Hinckleys to the Bush campaign, Teeley responded, "I don't have the
vaguest idea." "We've gone through our files," said Teeley, "and we have
absolutely no information that he [John W. Hinckley Sr.] or anybody in the
family were contributors, supporters, anything."

A summary of this material was made generally available through the
Associated Press, which published the following short note on March 31:

The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is
acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large
contributions to his political campaign....Scott Hinckley, brother of John
W. Hinckley Jr. who allegedly shot at Reagan, was to have dined tonight in
Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the Vice President's sons....The
Houston Post said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of
his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil
Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In
1978, Neil Bush served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush,
the Vice President's eldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress.
Neil lived in Lubbock, Texas, throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley
lived from 1974 through 1980.
It is not known how many newspapers chose to print this AP despatch; it
would appear that the Washington Post for one did not do so. The electronic
media also do not appear to have devoted much attention to this story. Once
the cabinet had decided that there had been no conspiracy, all such facts
were irrelevant anyway. There is no record of Neil Bush, George W. Bush, or
Vice President George H.W. Bush ever having been questioned by the FBI in
regard to the contacts described. They never appeared before a grand jury or
a Congressional investigating committee. No special prosecutor was ever
appointed. Which is another way of saying that by March, 1981, the United
States government had degenerated into total lawlessness, with special
exemptions for the now ruling Bush family. Government by laws had dissolved.

The media were not interested in the dinner date of Neil Bush and Scott
Hinckley, but they were very interested indeed in the soap opera of what had
gone on in the Situation Room in the White House during the afternoon of
March 30. Since the media had been looking for ways to go after Haig for
weeks, they simply continued this line into their coverage of the White
House scene that afternoon. Haig had appeared before the television cameras
to say:

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President, and
the Secretary of State, in that order, and should the President decide that
he wants to transfer the helm he will do so. He has not done that. As of
now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the
Vice President and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would
check with him, of course.
This led to an immense hue and cry, mightily stoked by the Bush networks, on
the theme that Haig wanted to usurp the presidential succession. More than
this garbled statement by Haig, Bush was certain to have been disturbed by
Haig's refusal a few seconds later to rule out conspiracy a priori :

Q: Any additional measures being taken --was this a conspiracy or was this
a....
Haig: We have no indication of anything like that now, and we are not going
to say a word on that subject until the situation clarifies itself. [fn 18 ]

But when Bush returned, the cabinet soon decided otherwise.

The "I'm in control here" story on Haig was made into the Leitmotif for his
sacking, which was still a year in the future. Reagan's own ghostwritten
biography published the year after he left office gives some idea what Baker
and Deaver fed the confused and wounded president about what had gone during
his absence:

On the day I was shot, George Bush was out of town and Haig immediately came
to the White House and claimed he was in charge of the country. Even after
the vice-president was back in Washington, I was told he maintained that he,
not George, should be in charge. I didn't know about this when it was going
on. But I heard later that the rest of the cabinet was furious. They said he
acted as if he thought he had the right to sit in the Oval office and
believed it was his constitutional right to take over-- a position without
any legal basis. [fn 19]
This fantastic account finds no support in the Regan or Weinberger memoirs,
but is a fair sample of the Bushman line.

What did interest the media very much was the story of John W. Hinckley
Jr.'s obsession with the actress Jodie Foster, who had played the role of a
teenage prostitute in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver. The prostitute is
befriended by a taxi driver, Travis Bickle, who threatens to kill a senator
who is running for president in order to win the love of the girl. Young
John Hinckley had imitated the habits and mannerisms of Travis Bickle.

When John Hinckley Jr. had left his hotel room in Washington DC on his way
to shoot Reagan, he had left behind a letter to Jodie Foster:

Dear Jodie,
There is a definite possibility that I will be killed in my attempt to get
Reagan. It is for this reason that I am writing you this letter now. As you
well know by now, I love you very much. The past seven months I have left
you dozens of poems, letters, and messages in the faint hope you would
develop an interest in me. [...] Jodie, I'm asking you to please look into
your heart and at least give me the chance with this historical deed to gain
your respect and love.

I love you forever.

[signed] John Hinckley [fn 20]