Forum Post: A few modest suggestions
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 3:31 p.m. EST by FreeDem
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Withing days of Obama being elected I posted a list of Ideas I thought should be considered, if not a priority. Too long to post here I hope that the link will survive the posting http://freedemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/11/few-modest-suggestions.html
I believe it is relevant to what OWS is about, and perhaps points usually not considered
I submit that the very concept of owing money to institutions like banks and credit card money constitutes a form of slavery, or at least indentured servitude, which would be a violation of the 13th Amendment. If corporations insist on being recognized as individuals and accorded individual rights by the 14th Amendment, then they should be bound by the same rules as the rest of us. And the Constitution states that no individual may own another...
How can we stop this?
This will continue until the American people understand just how they are being robbed and what they can do about it. A new monetary system has to be established to protect the freedom our Founding Fathers meant us to have---and keep.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010225021123/http://www.go-oaktree.com/LarsonFed.htm
I would say this to you, ladies and gentlemen. We must re-establish the kind of constitutional money system in this country that Jefferson wanted. He said that only the Treasury of the United States should create and issue legal tender money. He said that all money should be redeemable either in gold or in silver. That's the reason our Founding Fathers put into the Constitution a provision that no state shall make anything but gold and silver tender in the payment of debts. (In other words, the states may not issue legal tender money, and no private bank should either!)
If we go back to that kind of system and do away with fractional reserve banking, we may be able to re-establish a constitutional government in the United States. Wake up America!