From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Homestead] Ron Paul
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:44:17 -0500
I got this in my email this morning:
November 20, 2008
Right now, Americans are looking for answers as our nation undergoes another
economic crisis. It is a key component of our message that the Federal
Reserve system lies at the heart of these financial problems. This weekend,
activists will gather at Fed branches across the country to call for the end
of the Federal Reserve System and for a return to sound money.
Ron Paul will be speaking around 12:30 pm central at the Houston "End the
Fed" rally on Saturday, and while these rallies are not C4L-sponsored
events, we wanted to make sure you were aware of this grassroots effort. The
organizers of "End the Fed" have provided us with event background and
website information, which is included below.
While enjoying the festivities if you are able to attend, please keep in
mind that the organizers are promoting a peaceful event. Anything along the
lines of vandalism or violence will only discredit the movement and set back
our efforts to reform our nation's monetary system.
The battle to reclaim our Republic is just beginning, and it is a fight that
we can and will win if we stick together and work hard.
Matt Hawes
Campaign for Liberty
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On the night of November 22, 1910, a group of bankers met at an elite resort
at Jekyll Island, Georgia.
So began the dark conception of the Federal Reserve System, which many
economists argue is responsible for devouring the political and financial
wealth of America. The U.S. Dollar has seen a better than 98% decline in its
purchasing power since that time.
G. Edward Griffin summarizes here: "The purpose of this meeting on Jekyll
Island was...to come to an agreement on the structure and operation of a
banking cartel. The goal of the cartel, as is true with all of them, was to
maximize profits by minimizing competition between members, to make it
difficult for new competitors to enter the field, and to utilize the police
power of government to enforce the cartel agreement. In more specific terms,
the purpose and, indeed, the actual outcome of this meeting was to create
the blueprint for the Federal Reserve System." From "The Creature from
Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin
On November 22, 2008, ninety-eight years later, End the Fed! will announce
the initiation of a grassroots, unfunded, transpartisan citizens movement
for Sound Money with rallies at every Federal Reserve Bank and office in the
country. Activists will demand an end to private banker control over the
nation's money supply and the return to a hard, commodity backed monetary
system. Their slogan is simple and direct: "End the Fed! Sound Money for
America!"
End the Fed! activists believe that the Federal Reserve Bank, through its
inflation of the money supply and the distortion of free markets resulting
from its intervention, is responsible for the current financial and economic
crisis. They also hold that the current round of "bailouts" and federal
government nationalization of large segments of the financial sector further
inflates the US dollar and disrupts the proper functioning of the markets
and will ultimately serve to plunge the nation into an even more severe
crisis, quite possibly even into a serious depression.
End the Fed! supports the passage of Representative Ron Paul's legislation
which would repeal the Federal Reserve Act, H.R. 2755.
Rallies will be held in the following 39 cities:
Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Pittsburgh, Richmond, Baltimore, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham,
Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis,
Little Rock, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Helena, Kansas City, Denver,
Oklahoma City, Omaha, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, San Antonio, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Washington, D.C.