We must draw a clear line between ourselves and the enemy.
-Mao
We are not believers in armed or violent struggle. Throughout this conflict, a conflict that has ebbed and flowed for many hundreds of years between the powerful and the meek, a conflict that began its dramatic escalation during a period of industry and profit, we have seen many factions, rebellions, militias and radicals that have taken up arms and violent forms of protest against the pigs that oppress and murder in order to line their own pockets. While we cheer on the ideology and are sympathetic toward the plight of our comrades in Palestine, Europe, the Africas and Latin Americas, we do not believe that armed or violent resistance is either productive or effective.
The pigs have the media and the subdued conscience of the masses at their disposal. Violent acts committed by the people are easily manipulated by those that pull the strings and as history has proven, what may be rooted in heroic and noble motivations, what may stem from a deep sorrow of the suffering of the world's proletariat...this is in the end only seen by the masses in the terms in which the pig presents them. The struggles of the people are so easily compartmentalized and rationalized into descriptions of "terrorism", "radicalism", "communism", "socialism", etc. when the vehicle to present their grievances is one of violence.
We reject violent acts, but do not consider ourselves neutered or insignificant. We believe that by taking up no arms and proceeding with the struggle with organized, structured and vocal civil disobedience and peaceful protest that much more may be accomplished. We believe it is possible to facilitate extraordinary social change without the MP-5 or the AK-47 or the bomb.
To those that question or may scoff at the idea of an un-armed struggle, to those that consider relinquishing the fire arm or the Molotov Cocktail for the pen and the march to be acts of cowardice or compromise, we ask that the peaceful means in which institutionalized oppression have been taken on throughout history to be considered. We ask that the futility and counter-productive nature of violent acts and how that has played out througout history to be considered. We ask those that doubt to consider how effective and resiliant and what good has emerged from prison cells and caves in the wake of acts of terrible violence. We say to you that more times than not, what has been accomplished through violence has better served the pig than the oppressed, in that the pig convinces the masses that we are a source to be mightily feared and rejected lest a wicked society emerge in our wake. Violence is the tool of the pig, not the oppressed, and should be understood accordingly.
The crisis isn’t the result of the stagnation of development, but of development itself. Since the aim is to increase profit, development encourages parasitism and waste, harming whole social sectors, multiplying needs that it cannot satisfy, and accelerating the disintegration of social life. A monstrous apparatus is necessary to control, by means of manipulation and open repression, the tensions and revolts which it itself often provokes.
-Il Manifesto: The Necessity of Communism, extract from Thesis 33
We subscribe to many of the fundamental ideas of Marx and Mao, King and Gandhi, Meinhof and Arafat, Blanqui and Fawkes. We see the struggle of the oppressed. We see their displacement, their death, their enslavement and their suffering. We understand the nature and the reasons for their struggle, and we know who is to blame. We intend to hold the pig accountable and to dismantle their rotten, corrupt system and promote tangible equality, the re-distribution of wealth and human rights for all. We consider imperialism, apartheid, racism and misogyny to be our enemies. We consider those that rape and exploit the people of the world and their resources to be our enemies. We consider it to be our obligation and our duty to face such enemies and expose them to the face of the world and to be held in judgment of their crimes. Our aim is Justice. Our aim is global Liberty.
Consider how the pig has so effectively and thoroughly convinced the masses to blame the victim. The apartheid occurring in Palestine, for instance, and those that have fought the oppression bestowed upon them by the agents of a Western financed, hostile and religious government are almost universally considered by the Western public to be little more than brutal, animalistic and bloodthirsty figures whose goal is some kind of dark Islamic world domination. While some of these descriptions may be justifiably attributed to some that have fought such an oppression, it does not serve their cause in any case to inflict death and terror to voice their grievances or meet their goals.
We consider death and terror to be the weapons of the pig, employed by his bombs and invasions and his footsoldiers. We see a time in which the masses accurately perceive the true enemy and the true threat to their welfare and Liberty as the brutality of the State and their corporate masters, not the misguided or desperate act of the starving father. We see a time in which the masses accurately perceive the bombing of a neighborhood or the invasion of a city with deadly airstrikes and tanks and M-16's as acts of death and terror, not the perpetual cry of the impoverished or the tears of a motherless child. We see a time in which the nature of the State is exposed as the truly barbaric one, the real animal and the inevitable creators and source of bloodthirsty figures whose goal is indeed a dark world domination...not the exploited and manipulated masses or those that stand for their Liberation.
We consider the path to such a reality to be best accomplished through the revolution of the public conscience, rather than the violent, cumbersome armed revolution of the flesh, which has again, been proven to be vulnerable and susceptable to the lies of the pig. We consider the truth to be our weapon, rather than force or aggression. We see that in this era, the passages of information and truth can be realized with ease and stubborn persistance. We realize that we have the tools to speak, and speak loudly to the people of the world to both those that are oppressed and those that would choose to grind a boot-heel onto the throats of the oppressed. We realize that we should not take action that will lead us to be feared by our comrades or potential comrades...but rather take action that will lead us to exposing the pig...whose only real source of fear is the notion that the trough he sucks from to fatten himself may not be as full tomorrow as it is today. We indeed intend to create circumstances that will deplete their overflowing troughs.
We intend to spread truth, but we will not do so carelessly or with half-measures. We must be persistent, and we must be consistent. We ask our comrades and those that would participate in our struggle to understand that lies, deception, terror, greed and temptation are the tools and the weapons wielded by the pig. In return, we shall employ the use of truth, intellectual courage, altruism, selflessness and goodwill to sear through their weapons, disarm them and expose them for the paper tigers they are.
We ask our comrades, particularly those in the West and enjoying the fruits of an industrialized State, to consider the terrors they toil under daily. We ask them to consider to what extent they have become numb to their oppression and have had their perceptions subdued and co-opted. The pig quietly and deviously presents a low-grade threat to the Liberties of all, shackling the docile citizens of the West into perpetual servitude. From the glowing screens of monitors emitting from the cubicles...our prisons...we are told to participate, to serve the pig. To feed the pig. To be an agent and accomplice to the greed of the pig...or else. Or else you will lose your health care. Or else we will take your home. Or else you will end up in prison. Or else you will be impoverished. Or else you will sacrifice the welfare of your family and children. Or else you will be outcast. Or else you will not be beautiful. Or else you will not get fucked. Or else you will not be happy. Or else you will be ugly. Or else, or else, or else.
Justice is the justice of the ruling class. Faced with a justice system that speaks in the name of the ruling class—and speaks dishonestly—we can’t be bothered defending ourselves."
All power to freedom! Faced with a justice system that defends property and possessions better than it does human beings, we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
Faced with a justice system that makes laws against the people rather than for them, we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
...faced with a justice system that doesn’t see crime as a social phenomenon and which passes sentences that serve no social function...we can’t be bothered defending ourselves.
...faced with such a justice system, I can’t be bothered defending myself, and we can’t be bothered defending ourselves. Imprison the state prosecutors. Where is the state prosecutor who will indict the state?
Workers of the world unite!
Venceremos!
-Thorwald Proll
We have spent long enough accepting a status quo that terrifies the masses into submission through such means. We reject being beaten any longer at the end of a corporate leash that promotes the consumption of their worthless products as the only path to normalcy. We reject the universities and the intellectual communities of the West that have turned their institutions into slave mills for the banking cartels. We reject the exploitation of home owners living in fear of their homes being repossessed, and the deceptive, serpentine manner in which the pig has manipulated such fears into the subjecation of the people. We reject an unsustainable system of debt that currently dominates our culture and grips millions by the throat like an iron vice. We reject the circumstance of our health and welfare being wielded over us like weapons, the idea that only the burgeoise are deserving of adequate medicine, clothing and shelter.
Further, we reject the violent exploitation of the third world and its people by the military industrial complex of the West. In most cases, the people of the third world do not have the luxury of the distraction and hypnosis enjoyed by the people of the West. Their enslavement is not veiled or placed upon them through manipulation or deceptive maneuvers. The people of the third world feel the physical lash of pig's whips and the cold steel of the pig's chains. The face of the pig is unmasked and the true brutality of his nature is revealed on the backs of millions...perhaps billions that would otherwise dwell peacefully on the soils of their homelands. We reject the terrorism of Western military installations and warthings that poc the landscape of the planet. We call for the collective voice of our comrades to cry out against this terrorism, this exploitation, this enslavement...this ongoing travesty.
Never believe us! (lol) ...or any information we share, as truth without checking the information independently! We ask to be proven wrong, as we subject ourselves to the light and scrutiny of truth and truth alone.
-GAF, December 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The Great American Fraud; Part II
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In 1913 the congress of the United States passed what is known as the Federal Reserve Act. This act was signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, and its purpose was to grant authority to a central banking system to print and issue legal tender, regulate the economy (broadly speaking), and provide financial services to banks, the US government, and foreign institutions.
Prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the United States had no central banking system. Before 1913, monetary policy, while often flawed, still presented mechanisms for issuing loans and distributing wealth and money that were for the most part, anchored in tangible, real assets, such as gold. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was in fact not the first time the United States had tried using a centralized banking system. Attempts were made during the Washington administration, prior to the Constitutional convention of 1787, to centralize the banking and monetary policies for the United States, and then again a centralized banking system was implemented from 1791 to 1811, ending with president Madison's refusal to renew the charter. Then, between 1816 and 1836, yet another manifestation of a centralized banking system was employed, and then eradicated in similar fashion by president Andrew Jackson. In his veto statement, president Jackson eerily predicted the following:
"The entire control of the institution would necessarily fall into the hands of a few citizen stockholders, and the ease with which the object would be accomplished would be a temptation to designing men to secure that control in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a president and directors would then be able to elect themselves from year to year, and without responsibility or control manage the whole concerns of the bank during the existence of its charter. It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people...
...Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? The president of the bank has told us that most of the State banks exist by its forbearance. Should its influence become concentered, as it may under the operation of such an act as this, in the hands of a self-elected directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the independence of our country in war?" [emphasis is the author's]
[http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/04/06/andrew-jacksons-veto-of-the-central-bank-1832/]
...and this is precisely what has been happening since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed.
Not surprisingly, the architects of the Fed were in fact powerful commercial bankers with obscene lobbying and political influence.
Look up the astonishing and quite public historical record of one Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator from Rhode Island, leader of the Republican party during the early 20th century, architect of the federal income tax amendment and visionary of the Federal Reserve Act. Senator Aldrich indeed had very close ties to powerful commercial bankers such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
In (jaw-dropping) fact, Aldrich's daughter married the son of John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Aldrich and Rockefeller Sr.'s grandson, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (I mean...are you kidding me?!), was the Vice President of the United States of America under Republican President Gerald Ford.
The economic and legislative influence of Senator Aldrich is but one clear example of an increasing culture of political/corporate incest in the United States power structures throughout this era. It is viewed by an increasing number of us as an example illustrating the establishment of a loosely governed, corporate-central oligarchy.
Others may view these historical circumstances as what for all intents and purposes were the beginnings of an aggressive "economic coup d'état". We are hard-pressed to find any distinguishable difference, either way.
Regardless, what is more than apparent is that the Fox is undoubtedly guarding the hen-house.
Andrew Jackson's warnings have been so hauntingly and so fully realized, that one may actually guess as to whether or not his veto statement unintentionally became a sort of an ironic, historical blueprint for the imminent and eventual takeover.
Since the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913, the dollar has lost over 96% of its value, or buying power. This is because the Federal Reserve and its function is an inherently inflationary mechanism.
We view such central banking cartels as systems clearly implemented to ensure the scarcity the world's resources. When resources are scarce, they are valuable, and precisely as Jackson warned, the wealth of the world is today managed and passed between the hands of a very few. It is bewildering to listen to capitalist apologists describe the Fed's function. They frequently use the analogy of the Fed as some kind of economic "water faucet", increasing and decreasing a sort of financial valve. It's amazing how appropriate and accurate that analogy actually is. It's a tremendous insight, really.
Here is an excellent summary of how the Federal Reserve and huge banking corporations swindle us and keep all of us within their grip. We urge every part of our audience to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ&feature=related
What's so bewildering about it is that despite the fact they seem to understand that the banking behemoths are very much opening and closing the valves of economic resources at their whim (and with less and less incentive to widen that valve), they for unfathomable reasons support this system, by and large. And systems such as the Fed and its function of controlled scarcity regulates global demand, and demand, as a result of a capitalist free enterprise system, creates debt...and debt, is what turns the gears of the whole fucking thing.
Another word for debt is "slavery", and this is an appropriate comparison of terms because it is debt that creates mammoth, consolidated industries that otherwise would have no need to exist, employs millions, and keeps millions chained to their cubicles, steadfastly performing the labor demanded by their masters.
The ongoing marriage between this corporate empire and the functions of the US government are apparent in both circumstance and in personnel. The CEO's of the nation's largest businesses, particularly in banking and finance, move through a revolving door of government positions and appointments and back into the private sector, with each instance strengthening and ensuring the oligarchy that the people endure, seemingly without batting an eyelash.
We advocate, first and foremost, for the people to truly begin accessing the information that is readily available in which the details of these unfortunate circumstances are plotted.
We have found that when the economic history of the United States is thoroughly researched, what you discover, particularly throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, is that our government has become less and less a government "for the People by the People", and has increasingly become a government "for the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans, FOR the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, Merrill Lynches, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans."
In what essentially amounts to the representatives of little more than 1% of the population, we have seen quite clearly that their opinion of us is one of contempt. To them we are little more than figures of labor and the driving investors behind the 85% slice of the "wealth pie", in which they arrogantly and unabashedly will never, ever share with any of us...
Expropriate their wealth! If you have a bank account with Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America or Morgan/Chase CLOSE THE ACCOUNT and open an account elsewhere (if you must have a bank account). If your home is financed by any of these conglomerates, re-finance. Boycott to the best of your ability funds or wealth that goes to these entities.
Additionally, if you consume network news of any kind, from MSNBC to Fox, STOP! You have in front of you at this very moment a portal to nearly every shred of information in the world. Disconnect from the gate-kept, corporate propaganda distributed by these very forces and independently discover and verify this information on your own. Take ownership and responsibility of the information you consume. This is impossible if you are a disciple of Fox News, CNN or MSNBC, for each of these "news" outlets are mere henchmen to the forces that hold all of us, and to a large extent the world, in their well designed, intentional and greedily established slavery...
And finally, at all costs, protect the freedom of information that can be attained via the Internet. Powerful forces such as in every way described above are as you read this contemplating how to limit your access to the Internet and the wealth of information it provides. Protect this free flow of information and access to the globe's full story above all. It is essential that we keep unlimited access to the Internet and the information that it can provide.
-Green Army Faction, 2010
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In 1913 the congress of the United States passed what is known as the Federal Reserve Act. This act was signed into law by president Woodrow Wilson, and its purpose was to grant authority to a central banking system to print and issue legal tender, regulate the economy (broadly speaking), and provide financial services to banks, the US government, and foreign institutions.
Prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the United States had no central banking system. Before 1913, monetary policy, while often flawed, still presented mechanisms for issuing loans and distributing wealth and money that were for the most part, anchored in tangible, real assets, such as gold. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was in fact not the first time the United States had tried using a centralized banking system. Attempts were made during the Washington administration, prior to the Constitutional convention of 1787, to centralize the banking and monetary policies for the United States, and then again a centralized banking system was implemented from 1791 to 1811, ending with president Madison's refusal to renew the charter. Then, between 1816 and 1836, yet another manifestation of a centralized banking system was employed, and then eradicated in similar fashion by president Andrew Jackson. In his veto statement, president Jackson eerily predicted the following:
"The entire control of the institution would necessarily fall into the hands of a few citizen stockholders, and the ease with which the object would be accomplished would be a temptation to designing men to secure that control in their own hands by monopolizing the remaining stock. There is danger that a president and directors would then be able to elect themselves from year to year, and without responsibility or control manage the whole concerns of the bank during the existence of its charter. It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people...
...Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? The president of the bank has told us that most of the State banks exist by its forbearance. Should its influence become concentered, as it may under the operation of such an act as this, in the hands of a self-elected directory whose interests are identified with those of the foreign stockholders, will there not be cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in peace and for the independence of our country in war?" [emphasis is the author's]
[http://politicalinquirer.com/2008/04/06/andrew-jacksons-veto-of-the-central-bank-1832/]
...and this is precisely what has been happening since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed.
Not surprisingly, the architects of the Fed were in fact powerful commercial bankers with obscene lobbying and political influence.
Look up the astonishing and quite public historical record of one Nelson W. Aldrich, United States Senator from Rhode Island, leader of the Republican party during the early 20th century, architect of the federal income tax amendment and visionary of the Federal Reserve Act. Senator Aldrich indeed had very close ties to powerful commercial bankers such as J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.
In (jaw-dropping) fact, Aldrich's daughter married the son of John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Aldrich and Rockefeller Sr.'s grandson, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (I mean...are you kidding me?!), was the Vice President of the United States of America under Republican President Gerald Ford.
The economic and legislative influence of Senator Aldrich is but one clear example of an increasing culture of political/corporate incest in the United States power structures throughout this era. It is viewed by an increasing number of us as an example illustrating the establishment of a loosely governed, corporate-central oligarchy.
Others may view these historical circumstances as what for all intents and purposes were the beginnings of an aggressive "economic coup d'état". We are hard-pressed to find any distinguishable difference, either way.
Regardless, what is more than apparent is that the Fox is undoubtedly guarding the hen-house.
Andrew Jackson's warnings have been so hauntingly and so fully realized, that one may actually guess as to whether or not his veto statement unintentionally became a sort of an ironic, historical blueprint for the imminent and eventual takeover.
Since the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913, the dollar has lost over 96% of its value, or buying power. This is because the Federal Reserve and its function is an inherently inflationary mechanism.
We view such central banking cartels as systems clearly implemented to ensure the scarcity the world's resources. When resources are scarce, they are valuable, and precisely as Jackson warned, the wealth of the world is today managed and passed between the hands of a very few. It is bewildering to listen to capitalist apologists describe the Fed's function. They frequently use the analogy of the Fed as some kind of economic "water faucet", increasing and decreasing a sort of financial valve. It's amazing how appropriate and accurate that analogy actually is. It's a tremendous insight, really.
Here is an excellent summary of how the Federal Reserve and huge banking corporations swindle us and keep all of us within their grip. We urge every part of our audience to watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmPchuXIXQ&feature=related
What's so bewildering about it is that despite the fact they seem to understand that the banking behemoths are very much opening and closing the valves of economic resources at their whim (and with less and less incentive to widen that valve), they for unfathomable reasons support this system, by and large. And systems such as the Fed and its function of controlled scarcity regulates global demand, and demand, as a result of a capitalist free enterprise system, creates debt...and debt, is what turns the gears of the whole fucking thing.
Another word for debt is "slavery", and this is an appropriate comparison of terms because it is debt that creates mammoth, consolidated industries that otherwise would have no need to exist, employs millions, and keeps millions chained to their cubicles, steadfastly performing the labor demanded by their masters.
The ongoing marriage between this corporate empire and the functions of the US government are apparent in both circumstance and in personnel. The CEO's of the nation's largest businesses, particularly in banking and finance, move through a revolving door of government positions and appointments and back into the private sector, with each instance strengthening and ensuring the oligarchy that the people endure, seemingly without batting an eyelash.
We advocate, first and foremost, for the people to truly begin accessing the information that is readily available in which the details of these unfortunate circumstances are plotted.
We have found that when the economic history of the United States is thoroughly researched, what you discover, particularly throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, is that our government has become less and less a government "for the People by the People", and has increasingly become a government "for the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans, FOR the Kennedys, Bush's, Rockefellers, JP Morgans, Paulsons, Clintons, Citibanks, Merrill Lynches, AIG's, Chases, Wall Street Elites and Reagans."
In what essentially amounts to the representatives of little more than 1% of the population, we have seen quite clearly that their opinion of us is one of contempt. To them we are little more than figures of labor and the driving investors behind the 85% slice of the "wealth pie", in which they arrogantly and unabashedly will never, ever share with any of us...
Expropriate their wealth! If you have a bank account with Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America or Morgan/Chase CLOSE THE ACCOUNT and open an account elsewhere (if you must have a bank account). If your home is financed by any of these conglomerates, re-finance. Boycott to the best of your ability funds or wealth that goes to these entities.
Additionally, if you consume network news of any kind, from MSNBC to Fox, STOP! You have in front of you at this very moment a portal to nearly every shred of information in the world. Disconnect from the gate-kept, corporate propaganda distributed by these very forces and independently discover and verify this information on your own. Take ownership and responsibility of the information you consume. This is impossible if you are a disciple of Fox News, CNN or MSNBC, for each of these "news" outlets are mere henchmen to the forces that hold all of us, and to a large extent the world, in their well designed, intentional and greedily established slavery...
And finally, at all costs, protect the freedom of information that can be attained via the Internet. Powerful forces such as in every way described above are as you read this contemplating how to limit your access to the Internet and the wealth of information it provides. Protect this free flow of information and access to the globe's full story above all. It is essential that we keep unlimited access to the Internet and the information that it can provide.
-Green Army Faction, 2010
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