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It was 1933. America was descending into a depression. FDR issued Executive Order 6102:
"All persons are hereby required to deliver on or before May 1,
1933, to a Federal Reserve Bank or branch or agency thereof or
to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System all gold coin,
gold bullion and gold certificates now owned by them or coming
into their ownership . . .
"Whoever willfully violates any provision of this Executive Order . . .
may be fined not more than $10,000, or, if a natural person, may
be imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both . . ."
Note that the penalties were quite severe, and that all the gold was
literally to be turned over, not to the US Treasury, but to the private banking Federal Reserve System.
The plan was not rolled out because of an unexpected crisis. A full decade earlier, a new Federal Reserve Building was constructed, in 1923. In Cleveland. It was designed to contain the largest bank vault in the world and machine gun turrets on its exterior because it was to hold that confiscated gold.
Precious in the sight of the LORD Is the death of His godly ones.
Psalm 116:15
Rod Dreher asks, "I don’t understand why the government doesn’t deploy the army and shoot rioters until they stop. Philippe Lemoine, a Frenchman, says it’s not that simple."
Excerpt:
"We have let things rot for so long that, at this point, relying primarily on force to restore order would require a degree of violence far greater than what people realize and what is politically feasible.
It's possible to contain a riot using only moderate force when the number of police officers is high relative to the number of rioters, but when riots are so widespread and involve so many people because you have allowed this kind of things to happen for so long, that's just not possible and you have to use extreme violence to make up for the lack of manpower.
I know people on the Internet will say that it doesn't matter and that we should just do it, but the reality is that most of the people in charge are not prepared to use that kind of force and neither would most ordinary people if they saw ...
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
