Gold confiscation . . . . . revisited

With gold reaching all-time highs, and yellow metal euphoria looking for it to break the $2,000 ounce barrier, because of world travail soon to cause serious inflation, it occurred to me to revisit the seminal article on confiscation I wrote in Brooklyn Law Review's Winter 1973 issue. Entitled "How Americans Lost Their Right To Own Gold...And Became Criminals In The Process," the lengthy article reminds us how easy it is for government in the name of a "National Emergency" to deprive us of the power to protect ourselves from the fiat "money" being pumped into our economy in a perhaps fatal attempt to survive the financial impact of COVID-19.

The article was last published in its entirety on Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

http://henrymarkholzer.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-americans-lost-their-right-to-own.html.

It might be necessary to past this link into a browser.

HMH

 

We have met.............. Part II

Last Saturday (April 11/20) I posted the following observations:

I have thought from the beginning that there’s a plausible case China deliberately loosed the virus on the world. 

The premise that they did not, is faulty: Namely, that they would not kill so many of their people, and their allies’ people. 

They would, and they have. 

Ask Mao--and Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler and the perpetrators of African genocide.

They are pragmatists, so “whatever works.” 

Whether ground zero was their bio-warfare labs or the wet markets, both were under government control, as they were in previous epi- and pan-demics. 

No American (or anyone else) should have been unaware about the Chinese Communists since the early 1900s, following the failure of the Sun Yat Sen revolution. 

Personally, I learned enough about them as Chief Order of Battle Analyst (CCF) in Korea in the mid-fifties.

We have met the enemy, and he is us. (Quote attributed to comic strip character, Pogo).

My point was that it is arguable that the Chicoms loosed the virus intentionally, to achieve exactly what they have accomplished.

Consider that the CORONA virus emanated from a Chicom lab, that they bottled up the Wuhan population for a little while, that they allowed international flights while bottling up domestic air traffic, that they lied about the truth and substituted disinformation until the virus was spreading throughout the world.

Consider that the World Health Organization -- whose head had once before covered up an epidemic, and was now carrying China's water -- was complicit in furthering China's disinformation campaign.

And consider that according to Professor Bruce Cumings -- "an American historian of East Asia, professor, lecturer and author, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History, and the former chair of the history department at the University of Chicago [who] specializes in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations" -- an estimated 900,000 Chinese soldiers lost their lives in combat during the three-year Korean War.

 

How far a stretch is it to believe that in order to achieve the worldwide human and material devastation experienced in the past few months, the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China would have taken a million or more of their citizen pawns off the competitive economic chess board?

Increasingly, not too far a stretch!

We have met..............

I have thought from the beginning that there’s a plausible case China deliberately loosed the virus on the world. 

The premise that they did not, is faulty: Namely, that they would not kill so many of their people, and their allies’ people. 

They would, and they have. 

Ask Mao--and Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler and the perpetrators of African genocide.

They are pragmatists, so “whatever works.” 

Whether ground zero was their bio-warfare labs or the wet markets, both were under government control, as they were in previous epi- and pan-demics. 

No American (or anyone else) should have been unaware about the Chinese Communists since the early 1900s, following the failure of the Sun Yat Sen revolution. 

Personally, I learned enough about them as Chief Order of Battle Analyst (CCF) in Korea in the mid-fifties.

We have met the enemy, and he is us. (Quote attributed to comic strip character, Pogo).