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I hardly know where to start on this vast subject! It is the most
important release so far, and yet the part most likely to cause you problems.
Why? Because the confidence trick of money runs very, very deep in your
subconscious mind. Your conditioning in this matter covers more than one
lifetime. It is centuries old. Your parents and their parents, and their parents
before them received the same conditioning, and they have faithfully passed it
down as received wisdom, through the generations, until it has arrived at you.
You have probably swallowed the con-trick wholesale, without the
slightest question or hesitation - and
who could blame you? Do you question that the world is round, or that the
sun is the centre of the solar system? Of course not. These things are common
knowledge, shared by most of humanity. Similarly (but mistakenly) you probably
have not questioned the money con.
What is this con-trick? It has many facets which we will explore in
depth, but we have to begin somewhere, so let me start with a statement which
underpins the money ‘con’: Statement
"It is somehow 'OK' for the government to remove a significant
percentage of your wealth and then spend it as they see fit, on projects which
may, or may not, meet with your approval. It is also somehow 'OK' for this same
government to throw you in jail if you refuse to hand over your wealth."
End
of statement.
I know that we have given this subject an airing in the section on
government, but I feel it is worth exploring further. Perhaps we should put it
under the heading of: Force
(Weapon # 1)
The most dangerous, violent and greedy ‘thief’ you are likely to
encounter in your lifetime is your own government. Armed robbers, extortion
agents, con-men and muggers pale into insignificance when compared with the sheer
damage your own government will do to your wealth-creating efforts during your
lifetime. If you are very unlucky, you might get robbed once or twice in
your life by a conventional criminal. Crime will then most likely leave you
alone for the rest of your life! In contrast, the government mugs you over and
over again from the day you draw your first wage packet until the day you die -
and even after! Yet we consider this to be ‘acceptable’.
The average person pays over approximately 50% of everything he or she
produces (when you consider ‘hidden’ taxes like VAT, duty, N.I. etc.). That
is one half of everything you earn! In the old days, the tithing principle
of giving one tenth of your crop to the landlord was considered outrageously
hard and punitive, and yet we willingly stump up fifty percent of our
hard-earned cash! Furthermore, we do this without
asking where the money goes! Not that we even have a right to know in most
cases.
Without wishing to be crude, the government simply pisses away most of
this money on handouts to people too lazy to work, crazy projects, defence, vast
subsidies to farmers to ensure that they don’t produce anything, third-world
aid, propping-up failed industries, jingoistic and gung-ho military sorties,
funding the truly massive bureaucracies set up to spend your money, and a host
of other half-baked schemes, fantasies and enterprises. Only
a tiny fraction of your taxes go to finance ‘sensible’ centralised
expenditure.
What people object to (or at least they should object to) is the forcible
removal at source of half of their money! Just think about that for a moment
or two. You don’t even get to see this money! It is removed from you before you get your hands on it. After all, you
can’t really be trusted not to spend it can you? Your money is then redistributed
on your behalf to other people who have not worked to earn it. Forget any
notions of a ‘benign’ government politely asking for this money. They have absolute
dictatorial powers to remove this money from you by force.
If, for example, you should be unfortunate enough to attract the
attention of the Inland Revenue, you will pretty soon feel their power, because
if they think that your lifestyle cannot be supported by your declared income,
then they can simply send you a large
bill for several years of back-tax
on what they think you’ve earned. Whether you actually did earn this money or
not is up to you to prove. Furthermore, it is then up to you to either roll over
and pay up, or prove that you have not earned this money. In other words you are found guilty and have to prove your innocence. This is the
absolute reverse of normal law where you must be proved guilty of a crime in
order to be punished.
Furthermore, the IR can seize all of your assets, that is your house,
your car, your bank account(s) plus anything else they fancy, as payment for
this real or imaginary debt. If that doesn’t give them enough money, they can
then toss you in jail and throw away the key until you pay. Try proving that you
didn’t earn £150,000 five years ago, whilst you are languishing
in prison!
You will only know the truth of this if you are ever investigated by the
IR. The average Johnny Jobsworth, earning £200/week and dutifully paying his
tax at source, never has to face this dark side of the tax-collection agents.
Tax collectors would love us all to be like Johnny Jobsworth and pay up without
protest or question. Needless to say the Initiate takes whatever steps he
considers necessary to prevent theft of his resources.
We are so used to the idea of taxes, after centuries of successful
conditioning, that we hardly ever question the basic principle underlying them. The
Tax Rip-off
Think for a moment. One group of men have ganged
together and decided that they will
remove 50% of everything you earn
and spend it on various crazy projects as they see fit. If you object, they will
put you in jail! Does this sound reasonable?
Put like that, it starts to sound a bit like a con doesn’t it?
The most common argument which will be trotted out at this stage is the
‘democracy’ myth. The argument goes that the government have been elected by
the people to carry out the wishes of the people, and collecting taxes for the
common good is one of those wishes.
Hopefully you are not so far gone that you believe this hogwash! If you
are, consider the following: 1. Governments rarely represent more than 50%, or half
of the adult population. This leaves at
least 50% (usually 60% or higher) of the population disenfranchised. 2. The government do not carry out the ‘wishes of the
people’- perish the thought! They are elected
by mindless sheep responding to jingoistic slogans and shallow political logic.
MPs tow the party line, even though this
might be against the wishes of their constituents. 3. Even if the government were elected by 99% of the
population, this would still leave 1% of the population who do not agree with
the government. In the ‘democracy’ theory, it is considered 'OK' for the 99%
to impose their will by force on the 1%. The typical government, of course, more
truly represents around 40% of the population imposing their will on the
remaining 60%.
99% of the population ganging
together to make a law does not make that law ‘right’. They could, for
example, get together and agree that all gypsies should be removed from the
countryside and placed in concentration camps. Is this ‘democratic’ decision
correct? Or they could get together and decide that all people in wheelchairs
should be killed because they were a drain on resources. Would this democratic
decision be ‘right’? Government
Theft
Why do the government want your money? Don’t forget that ‘the
government’ is simply a bunch of people on a power-trip. The power they enjoy
is that of controlling other people’s lives. If they can do it by
legalised force and extortion, then so much the better. They masquerade, of
course, as altruistic ‘servants of the people’. To play their power games,
they require vast sums of your hard-earned cash. Power games are expensive!
The Ministry of Defence needs billions of pounds to play boy-soldier war
games. The Department of Social Security likewise needs billions of pounds of
your money to hand out to unproductive people sitting at home, the Ministry of
Agriculture needs billions of pounds to give away to the powerful farming lobby
by way of subsidies, ‘incentives’ and handouts, and the Health Service need
billions more to prop up the ailing health of a nation largely responsible for
its own ill-health. Hundreds of millions are poured into the Police force and
‘law and order’, yet crime rises inexorably. There is also the money that
must be spent on vast impressive organisations to enhance the feelings of power
of those who run them.
A good exercise here is to imagine your hard-earned 50% of cash, along
with billions of pounds of other people’s cash, simply swirling away down some
giant social drain!
Is government all bad and totally wasteful? No. Probably 25% of what the
government do is useful and aids society; the remaining 75% is pure
unadulterated wastefulness. In conclusion, the government represents the
strongest and most dangerous force you are likely to encounter during your
lifetime. If you cross the government, they can, and will, use
extreme force and violence to bring you back into line - because they want your money. Your money gives them power because it
allows them to play their various games. How
The Initiate Protects His Financial Resources
How safe is your money?
The answer to that question depends on where your money is tied up. Most
people’s total wealth is divided between their bank, their building society
and their property, with a percentage of people also owning some company equity
(shares, PEPs, etc.). Do you consider your money to be safe? You probably do -
after all, banks don’t go bust (or do they?), and house prices usually
increase or at worst stay stable (or do they?). Unfortunately your total wealth
could easily be wiped out overnight! Are you prepared for this (albeit fairly
unlikely) eventuality? Well, you should be! The
Big Bang
What could happen to your money?
Well, the entire banking system could collapse. You doubt that? It very
nearly happened in 1979, and it was only through a series of midnight meetings
and secret negotiations that the system was propped up. The banks currently have
billions of pounds worth of bad debt from third-world countries. Do you think
these countries are going to pay their
debts? Entire currencies can become worthless overnight, and have done so with
monotonous regularity! Can you be 100% certain that the pound will never be
devalued overnight to (say) 10% of its present amount?
Do you remember the collapse of BCCI, a respected overseas bank? UK
depositors did not recover more than £15,000 of any money lodged at the bank.
Businesses went broke overnight as a result of losing their entire deposits, and
private investors, many of whom placed their life-savings with the bank, lost
the fruits of thirty years hard labour. Remember, these people were not
speculators, they had their money on deposit with an
old, established and respected bank -
just like you might have an account with Lloyds or Barclays. You turn up one
morning to cash a cheque, only to find the doors locked and your money stolen.
House
Of Cards
By the way, the failure of even one relatively small bank causes huge
tremors in the banking system as a whole - threatening the total collapse of the
system. Why? It works like this:
One small bank goes down, making a huge media impact. Investors with
other small banks think: "If it
happened to XYZ bank, it could happen to my bank, I’d better withdraw my
money". So people close their deposit accounts with the smaller banks
and building societies. The result is that a few more of these smaller
institutions go broke because of the massive withdrawals. The old investors
think: "Whew! I just got out in time!"
Then investors in the next
largest banks start to get worried. They say: "Look at all these small banks which have gone broke, mine’s not
much larger, I’d better withdraw my money". So they withdraw their
money too, and the effect ripples, bringing the whole system down like a house
of cards. Don’t forget that banks don’t keep your money in vaults any more!
Only about 10% of the money deposited at banks is available at short notice, the
rest is invested in the world market. That £5000 you thought you had in crisp
£50 notes in your deposit account, has actually gone to pay three month’s
wages for an engineer working on a new Brazilian railway line (or whatever else
the bank has invested in). In fact your ‘deposit account’ or even ‘current
account’ for that matter, don’t
really exist except as a figment of some computer’s imagination!
What about your home? A rock-solid investment? Only
if someone wants to buy it, otherwise it is entirely
worthless! And I mean that. If no-one wants to buy your home, your £200,000
house is not worth £1.
Why would no-one want to buy your home at any price?
I can think of several reasons, but for example, how far do you live from
one of the several hundred nuclear facilities (power stations, weapons plants,
reprocessing plants etc.) sprinkled liberally the length and breadth of the
country? Supposing a mini-Chernobyl accident were to occur in one of these
facilities a few miles from your house. How much would your house be worth? If
Russia had a market economy in place, how much do you think a house within a
20-mile radius of Chernobyl would be worth on the open market?
Compensation? Insurance? Forget it. You wouldn’t get a penny. Check the
small print of your house insurance policy!
What else could happen? Well there is the dreaded revolution! This is
where the poor downtrodden masses rise up and decide that they are going to
steal all the money and assets of the ‘ruling’ classes; they might also
chop them into little pieces whilst they are about it.
In these ‘glorious people’s revolutions’, armed gangs of
semiliterate thugs seize power. I know it sounds wildly improbable, but perhaps
these same ultra-left fanatics might then seize your property in the ‘name of
the people’ and redistribute it to some deserving comrades (i.e. themselves)!
Impossible? Hardly! Didn’t it happen once or twice before somewhere....
They would also seize all the
money in your bank account whilst they were at it, on the grounds that being a
filthy capitalist, you must have stolen the money by exploitation of the
proletariat, and so the money really belonged to those who had truly earned it
..... i.e. themselves! This happens so regularly throughout the world it’s
almost boring. Could it happen here? It depends how fed-up the average working
stiff becomes.
Although these are unlikely (but far from impossible) scenarios, the only
safe way to protect your assets is to spread
them around. This also makes detection by those who would seek to steal your
assets, far more difficult.
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