| Subject: | RE: [socialcredit] Re: Article by Richard Cook | | Date: | Monday, December 17, 2007 22:08:35 (+0000) | | From: | John G Rawson <johngrawson @.......com>
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| In reply to: | Message 5139 (written by william_b_ryan) |
Bill, if you are correct, perhaps you can explain why the Constitution placed so much emphasis on the isssue of money?
John R.
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:35:49 -0800
> From: william_b_ryan@yahoo.com
> To: socialcredit@elistas.com
> CC: rickycook21@hotmail.com
> Subject: [socialcredit] Re: Article by Richard Cook
>
> Joe, Richard's thought seems to be a hodgepodge of
> contradictory Greenbacker, Georgist and Social Credit
> elements. For example, Richard's article that you
> link to contains this statement:
>
> "The principle underlying cause of the American
> Revolution was refusal by the British Parliament to
> allow the colonies to issue their own paper money."
>
> In the "monetary reformist" community this is usually
> attributed to Benjamin Franklin, and is taken as an
> article of faith. There is no historical support for
> this attribution, which first appears in Greenbacker
> propaganda from the latter half of the nineteenth
> century.
>
> If it was the "principal underlying cause" it would
> seem that it would have been mentioned in the
> Declaration of Independence, which Franklin helped
> write
> http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/rough.htm
> . But it isn't there. Perhaps our "monetary
> reformist" friends can explain why.
>
> Bill Ryan
>
>
> ---------------original message----------------
>
> Richard Cook forwarded me the following link to a
> recent article on the difference between
> 'progressives' and 'conservatives' in American
> political and monetary history.
>
> Its contents may be of interest to all on this list,
> and perhaps elicit some further comment from those
> more familiar with American history in these two areas
> than am I.
>
> Joe
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7613
>
>
>
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