Chapter 17 -  What You Need To Know About Real Estate & Terrorism Risk

Chapter 18 -  Solutions To New Regulatory Burdens and Risks
Case Study # 10 Inadequate Due Diligence
Case Study # 11  Be Careful When Banking Offshore
Case Study # 12  The Snitch Factor

Section Five - How To Build Safe Protected Wealth

Chapter 19 - New & Enhanced Post 9/11 Wealth Planning & Protection Techniques

Chapter 20 - How To Choose an Investment Or Wealth Planning Advisor 

Chapter 21 - The Swiss Inner Circle

Chapter 22 - Other Global Consultants, Publications & Organizations 

Section Six - You’ve Protected Your Wealth Now Restore Your Liberty 
 
Chapter 23 -  Back To The Articles: Restoring the Republic With the Swiss Confederation Institute     

Chapter 24 – FreedomFest: Where Free Minds Meet  

Chapter 25- Don't Delay: Start Today To Preserve Your Wealth & Liberty  

Chapter 26 - Are You Willing To Pay the High Price For Freedom?  

Case Studies  

Resource Guide  

About the Author  

 

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Chapter 11 - Paradise Lost: What Happened to the American Dream?

Talking Points:  The original American Republic with limited powers, state sovereignty, and individual freedom was built on the guarantees of liberty and secure wealth. Today, due to past political actions during wars and financial emergencies, we have exchanged much of the original American Dream for today's big government.  With this big government comes an inefficient bureaucracy, permanent military conflicts, and federal government power grabs. Will the existing American political system continue to defend your wealth and liberty in the future?  I believe the answer is no.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day.  But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of reducing us to slavery."                     -- Thomas Jefferson

We have Lost Our Guarantees of Liberty, Limited Government, Private Property and Secure Wealth

       Our patriot Founding Fathers created the American Dream in a war of secession and independence that lasted for seven years. Sadly, during the late 20th century and new 21st century, it is taking our politicians and special interests only a few decades to destroy the greatest example of individual liberty and self government that has existed for so long.

       In the Declaration of Independence, our nation's most cherished document of liberty, Thomas Jefferson eloquently expressed the conviction in the minds and hearts of the American people when he stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…"

       It is apparent that our nation has moved far from the foundations on which it was established on July 4, 1776.  To George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, the American Dream was more ideological than material.  It meant maximum individual liberty, the sanctity of private property, and a very limited, decentralized representative government for the sovereign states in these united states. Their goal was a limited republic structure at the federal level that would protect the States from foreign invasion, provide a court system, and levy minimal taxes, tariffs or fees for these services. Most other group-oriented functions or needed services needed by society would be handled at the state, local, or private individual and church level.

       Thomas Jefferson also warned future generations not to let government become their provider lest it also become the policymaker.  He once wrote; "We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."

       This was, in essence, the patriot dream of our nation's Founding Fathers. Regrettably, their dream of liberty and justice for all is now turning into a nightmare for millions of productive Americans. The utmost fear of these great men was the rise of a central authority that would threaten and destroy individual freedom, the powers reserved to the sovereign states, and the sanctity of private property. I believe their fears are now being realized and will likely come to pass in the United States.

       Today individual freedoms and civil liberties are falling by the wayside as a result of actions by the federal government and parasitic bureaucracies. Private property and wealth are now at real risk to government and legal actions in our failing political and legal systems. Overall taxation at every level of government and government revenues continue to rise year after year and your wealth and liberty is at risk..

       With taxes taking over 50% of the annual income from wealthy Americans each year plus we have comparable representation to that of our colonial Founding Fathers over 225 years ago.  Such representation drove them to seek secession and independence from the British Crown.  The original form of representative voting and political action established in our republic with limited powers has been turned into a free-for-all of special interests and lobbyist groups all out to take as much as they can get from productive elements of society. We have indeed lost the American Dream and original vision of our patriot Founding Fathers.

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back

       The case can certainly be made in early American history that during times of war and economic upheaval, our government flirted with tyranny by excessive attacks on our economic rights and personal liberties. Still, history shows that generally these threatening measures have been temporary in nature, and usually the rights and powers of the people and representative government have reasserted themselves after these attacks on the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and individual liberties. The history of America has been one of temporary excesses by government followed by a partial pullback to more appropriate measures after the crisis. It is the partial retention of more power and authority by the federal government in recent years that has helped to weaken and destroy the American Dream.

       Few would question the premise that governments have the legitimate right to take extraordinary, albeit temporary, actions during times of real crisis or threats to the citizenry in order to defend the nation. However, one should question the retaining of severe emergency legislation, like Presidential Executive Orders, and other government intrusions which then become a permanent part of government and regulatory policy.  These have controlled and limited personal and financial freedoms to a greater degree every decade.

The Hidden History of Washington Emergency and Wartime Attacks on Wealth

       During the Lincoln Administration’s War Between the States, extreme excesses such as the imprisonment of political enemies without trial, the closing of newspapers that editorially spoke out against the administration and the war, and the suspension of habeas corpus were enacted against Northern political and press opponents. Lincoln even imprisoned the grandson of Francis Scott Key, author of The Star Spangled Banner, in Fort McHenry, where the song was originally inspired. However, actions like these were mostly discontinued in the North at the end of the war and after the long period of Reconstruction in the conquered and destroyed Southern states.

       A few decades later during the early months of World War I, President Wilson shut down all U.S. stock and commodity markets for four months.  During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt confiscated all privately held gold in the United States and forced its sale to the Federal government at an artificially low price. He also closed all banks, restricted withdrawals, and even limited the cashing of checks and bank drafts. Roosevelt used his war powers to prohibit the import, export, or holding of currency, securities, and precious metals as the pretext for this massive gold confiscation and theft.

       During World War II, Roosevelt followed in the footsteps of Lincoln by eliminating the right of habeas corpus, jailing and bringing “accused political criminals” before military tribunals for trial and summary execution. This is the same kind of actions now taking place in Cuba at the Guantanimo Naval Base with the "so called" Al-Qaida and Taliban suspects. While I am not much concerned with what happens to the actual Islamic terrorists, once a nation in crisis steps over the line-- like this-- with military tribunals and detentions without legal protections and due process, the next step could be to apply these same unconstitutional actions to American citizens.

       In 1971, Nixon imposed wage and price controls again to defend the dollar.  Subsequent presidents imposed confiscatory and punitive taxes on income or certain foreign investments to support the dollar and hold down the American capital deficits. All of the news today about government torture and the American failure to follow the Geneva Convention clearly suggests where this nation is headed.

       The fate of a nation that does not follow the Geneva Convention was tragically illustrated in what happened between the German Reich and the Soviet Union during World War Two. The Soviets were not signatories of the Geneva Convention—hence, the German treatment of Soviet prisoners of war was deplorable, as was the later corresponding Russian treatment of German prisoners of war. Contrast this with the generally equitable German and American treatment of prisoners during the war on both sides. While the American prisoners suffered the privations of limited food and fuel during the last years of the war, as did the German citizens, for the most part American prisoners were treated fairly in contrast to the inhuman conditions in the camps of Soviet soldiers. Our failure to follow the Geneva Convention even against the Islamic terrorists may well come back to harm our brave soldiers in this conflict and future wars.

Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell, dismayed the administration when he sided with Warner, McCain and Graham. "He said Bush's plan, which would have formally changed the U.S. view of the Geneva Conventions on rules of warfare, would cause the world 'to doubt the moral basis' of the fight against terror and "put our own troops at risk."

       Freezing assets has also been a popular form of American government attack on wealth.  It started when Roosevelt froze Swiss assets held in the United States in 1941, when both Switzerland and the U.S. were still neutral in the war.  The United States has since repeated this action many times over. Just in the last 20 years, Washington has frozen the assets of many nations including Iraq, Iran, Libya, Kuwait, Serbia, Iraq, Nicaragua, South Africa, and Panama.  The U.S. has also frozen the assets of countless individuals.
 

Ron Fact, Book & Video Recommendations For This Page:
Every government exists to take and redistribute wealth to those who support and control the power elite in that particular nation. , is no different and it's secret history is all about wealth confiscation and economic reasons for many of our wars throughout our history beginning with the War Between the States. This was all about tariffs to be paid by the South and northern industrial products which were to be sold to the agricultural Southern states. Our freezing of Switzerland's assets during 1941 when both nations were neutral is a typical case in point. If you remember the Nazi gold controversy, many of the gold trading profits were paid to the Federal Reserve. Read, the Nazi Gold Report below. - Ron Holland

The Politically Incorrect Guide to America  by Thomas E. Woods Jr. Tom offers this guide as an alternative to "the stale and predictable platitudes of mainstream texts." Covering the colonial era through the Clinton administration, he seeks to debunk some persistent myths about American history.  This is a quick read but with sources for readers interested in more what I believe to be the true history of America. Remember, the victors always write the history and this is why the American Articles of Confederation our first government is so short-changed in history texts.

Lincoln Unmasked: What You Aren't Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe by Tom Dilorenzo. He makes the case  that the centralized nation-state that emerged after the war is incompatible with true democracy and Tom provides extensive background information about Lincoln, his unnecessary war and the real causes of The War Between the States. Understanding this war is very important to every American concerned about protecting their wealth and liberties from an out of control federal government because the war was the first major looting and pillage expedition of Washington and the special interests behind the war. The war against your wealth, property and liberties continues to this day and I fear in the next few years the war may well be over when your remaining wealth and freedoms are destroyed in the War on Terror.

President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941 by Charles A. Beard. If you know history, then you've read how Roosevelt campaigned in the 1940 election under the slogan "I hate war" and he made many promises not to send Americans to fight in the Second World War. As soon as Roosevelt won the 1940 election he secretly began to send American sailors, marines, and soldiers into the war zones. Beard's goal was to tell the story of how Roosevelt pushed the USA into World War II before any declaration of war or attacks on the USA by Germany, Italy, or Japan.

Personally, I believe Roosevelt felt it was imperative to get into the war before Hitler defeated the Soviet Union and he probably was right about his less than honest actions for the good of the nation. Still, this very important book shows how Washington politicians can manipulate the public into supporting wars and how the truth can be twisted and events arranged in order to get the job done. This is what happened to cause our involvement in the Spanish American War, the War Between the States, World War One and of course Vietnam and the current Iraq War. For me, the jury is still out on World War Two, the first Iraq Gulf War and the Korean War as I believe these three wars were important for us to fight and win.

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