Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. General Andrew Jackson and his rag tag army including the so-called gentleman pirate Jean Lafite and his pirate crew defeated a British force superior in numbers. Little did Old Hickory know that the politicians had already capitulated, destroying his great victory, by agreeing to peace terms detrimental to the US of A. Yes, the treaty was signed two weeks before the battle. It called for re-establishing the central bank, which had been ended in 1811. The war WAS over the bank you know. We are taught in history class that we won that war. We did not. We are also taught in history class that it was about impressment of sailors, trade with the Indians and a few other relatively trivial matters. While those things may have been factors, the war was, I reiterate, about the bank. We lost and agreeing to re-establish the bank was the price we paid. Later President Andrew Jackson succeeded in killing the bank again. He was quoted as saying the bank wants to kill me but Im going to kill it.. A political cartoon of the day showed a heroic Jackson driving a wooden stake into the heart of the vampire-like bank, which had risen from the dead once before. There was an assassination attempt on him but it failed because the would-be assassins two pistols both failed to fire. The man who was head of the bank, one Nicholas Biddle, did everything possible to disrupt the economy and punish Jackson for ending the bank. Biddle failed and Jackson succeeded. Oh there was some upheaval for a while but the economy recovered and prospered. Attempts to re-establish private central banking, controlled by international bankers who for the most part are not even Americans, never ceased. They succeeded again in 1913, by perfidy, and now we are once again at the mercy of greed-driven international bankers who want literally to own the entire earth and everyone in it including YOU.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 06:38:08 +0000
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