Smoking Guns
The blog, Zero Hedge, is one of a growing number of sites not owned, or cowed, by corporate interests, and not afraid to ask hard questions regardless of The Gang’s threats and intimidations. U.S Congressman Ron Paul is one of the few individuals in power sharing that same kind of courage.
Read Zero Hedge’s short piece here, and watch the video clip of Mr. Paul (posted below as well) as he asks Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke a few tough questions. Witness Bernanke’s feigned ignorance, and notice too the implied ‘if you follow those lines of questioning, I’ll paint you as a tin-foil-hatter’.
Then below the video clip, I’d like you to go to two news stories in the mainstream press at the time of two key incidences, which certainly appear to make the Dear Chairman nothing short of a liar and a crook. Huge credit to both Zero Hedge, and commenter Anonymous 253141 for the uncovering of the news links below.
From The Milwaukee Sentinel in 1982
[Police who searched the room the Watergate burglars used found $4,200 in $100 dollar bills, all numbered in sequence. Proxmire asked the Federal Reserve Board where the money came from. As he explained in a letter to the late Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex.), chairman of the House Banking Committee: “I got the biggest run-around in years. They ducked, misled, lied, and gave me the idiot treatment.”]
From the NYT in 2004
[It has been exactly one month since President Bush announced the capture of Saddam Hussein. American officials interrogating Mr. Hussein are obviously interested in what he knows about illegal weapons programs in Iraq, human rights violations and other crimes. Whether he will cooperate remains to be seen.
But there is another line of questioning officials might pursue -- one that depends less on the cooperation of Mr. Hussein than on the assistance of the United States Federal Reserve Bank. Among Mr. Hussein's possessions when he was captured was three-quarters of a million dollars in United States currency in crisp new bills. Whence came the gentleman's stash?]
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