That's Senator Dick Durbin's assessment of who runs Washington during an appearance on a Chicago radio station last week.

The Huffington Post is somewhat farther down our daily reading list, so we did not see their story from April 29th on Durbin's remarks until this weekend. If one U.S. Senator can figure out that bankers are running our government, how hard can it be for the other 99 to figure out? Please. These guys know what is going on.

While many are intrigued that a long serving, high ranking Senator would out the bankers like this, Durbin didn't get as honest has he could have. We are not dealing with "bankers" and a "banking lobby." We are dealing with somethine more akin to gangsters and a crime syndicate.

Case in point: AIG's Maurice "Hank" Greenberg makes Bernard "Bernie" Madoff look like a piker. Yet, when it comes time to loot hundreds of billions from U.S. taxpayers, who gets the call from our government to oversee the shake down? The Blackstone Group — the outfit run by Greenberg's co-board member/conspirator at the Council of Foreign Relations, Peter G. Peterson that also happens to be partly owned by the Chinese government. Honestly, this did not just happen because the Blackstone group had a corruption free track record for doling out hundreds of billions of other people's wealth.  

Since the banking and financial system bosses control our judicial system about as well as they do the U.S. Senate, what are our options here? We could just sit back and complain. But, of course, that doesn't really do anything to fix the problem. A better approach would be to topple the system as it currently exists and replace it with one that is built on honest money. This won't be nearly as easy as complaining -- it will take hard work and lots of it. Millions of patriotic Americans are going to have to pay attention to legislation beging bandied about in the House and Senate now, and when election day comes, those same millions will have to throw out the statists and elect Senators and Representatives who will adhere strictly to the Constitution. If a majority of Consitutionalists could be put in office, a return to the free market, honest money, and Constitutionally limited government would dry up our current plague of corruption in no time flat. 

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danwhitehead1 said:

	Book W. Cleon Skousen has some information and some answers in his book from the early '70s titled "The Naked Capitalist". It can be had for $11.00 from the following website: http://www.skousen2000.com/pol...alist.htm
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danwhitehead1 said:

	The link to the book It looks as though the link to the book won't copy/paste correctly. Just type "The Naked Capitalist" into Google and click on "The Naked Capitalist" link which will take you to the Skousen website.
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Citizen Joe said:

"The sack of these United States is the greatest crime in history" "The sack of these United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history." Congressman Louis T. McFadden, who served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for more than ten years. On May 23, 1933, Congressman, Louis T. McFadden, brought formal charges against the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank system, The Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of United States Treasury for numerous criminal acts, including but not limited to, CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON. The petition for Articles of Impeachment was thereafter referred to the Judiciary Committee and has YET TO BE ACTED ON. So, this ELECTRONIC BOOKLET should be reprinted, reposted, set up on web pages and circulated far and wide. Copy and paste the following link into your web browser for incredible charges against The Federal Reserve Bank many decades ago. http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html Citizen Joe

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Thomas Paine said:

The existance of the High Cabal We continue to get new revelations about this sinister group. It is a crime sindicate as evidenced by 911 (Architects and Engineers for Truth). We will be forced to play the 911 fraud card, as the proof is all over the place and the numbers of people in the know are growing expotentially. We will be forced to go head on with these crooks during this administration, as they are planning total fascist takeover next time.

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Bliss Tew said:

... Of course the great book on the topic of banksters was first published by The JBS in 1994, THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND- A SECOND LOOK AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE, by G. Edward Griffin. The Society does not publish the book any longer, Mr. Griffin's organization does, but The JBS still offers it through www.shopJBS.org Yes, it takes some reading as it's over 600-pages, but the reading is as interesting as a good crime novel and you'll learn something on every page. It's not repetitious. Also, in the early 1970s the Society published NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY and then in 1988 the Society published THE SHADOWS OF POWER- THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AND THE AMERICAN DECLINE, by James Perloff, both of which gave good information about the CFR's controlling influence in our economy. Especially James Perloff's book looked at the origins of the Federal Reserve System, covered the causes of the great depression, and told of the origins of the IMF and world bank long before most people had an inkling of this important information. I recommend these books, along with the out of print book by John F. McManus, FINANCIAL TERRORISM, that I believe came out in 1993 or 1994 as well.

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Pat Henry said:

	How to "topple" Even if no legislation is passed or rescinded, if businessmen and communities will begin to trade in specie, the Federal Reserve Note will become practically irrelevant. For a practical calculator based on daily market prices, see www.silverandgoldaremoney.com Solari.com has more information, both background and practical how-to.
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