June 18, 1999
In response to the latest Grand Jury report listing numerous improprieties in local government, Mayor Susan Golding, the San Diego City Council and the San Diego Taxpayers Association are all issuing vehement denials of any wrongdoing on their part. The Mayor and others even have the gall to accuse the Grand Jury of having some nefarious "agenda."
Why the unusually shrill response? Perhaps the Establishment is panicking because this Grand Jury is an independent government watchdog agency examining their actions, an agency not manned by the usual cabal of sycophants the politicians routinely appoint to government committees.
The Establishment is used to appointing its own "fact finding" commissions, such as the two task forces assigned to rubber-stamping the "need" and location for the new ballpark. Now there was an agenda! Often the flunkies on such commissions get their implicit marching orders at their first meeting, if not before. The outcome is a foregone conclusion.
In contrast, the Grand Jury is a true "citizens" group, unencumbered by ties to the politicians, billionaire team owners, developers and others who think they own this town. Sometimes such a Jury gets away from the local "guidance" provided by their government-assigned legal advisors, turning over rocks that the Establishment thought were safely hidden away.
It is an open question whether or not further legal actions will be forthcoming as a result of this latest Grand Jury expose. But one thing we as citizens can do is to remember the names of these rogues when next they run for office. In the next election we should put an end to these bought-and-paid-for politicians feasting at the public trough.
Richard Rider
San Diego
(Comment: Rest assure that if Mayor Susan Golding, George Stevens, Juan Var-gas, Barbara Warden, Judy McCarty, Harry Mathis, Christine Kehoe, Casey Gwinn, City Attorney get serious about running for public office that La Prensa San Diego will bring it to the attention of our 65,000 readers, and 100,000 Web site readers. That is the function of every responsible media.)
Federal Reserve System: A Privately Owned System
Ordinary folks, like you and I, are forced to work off our butts day and night to earn money. The Federal Reserve Bankers, in contrast, spurn such burdensome work obligations. They make money the direct easy way. They simply issue massive amounts to themselves through the Fed.'s money channels.
Most Americans know very little about the Fed even though it is the most powerful institution in the United States....
The Federal Reserve Banking System is NOT a part of the of the U.S. Government. Although most people firmly believe it is. It is in fact no more `Federal" than the Federal Liquor Store around the corner! The FED is owned and operated lock, stock and barrel by powerful U.S. and Foreign Bankers!
The FED is the undisputed center of power in the U.S. money and banking system! The FED'S power over the U.S. economy and over our lives is greater by far than the combined powers of the President and Congress! The Federal Reserve Act, through which the "System" was created, was written secretly by BANKERS and sneaked through a befuddled Congress on December 23, 1932, after most members had gone home to their districts for the year-end recess. President Woodrow Wilson, who had initially supported the Act, later admitted ruefully that, in signing it into law, he had "unwittingly betrayed my country."
Bankers snapped up the entire stock issue in the Federal Reserve System when it was incorporated NO OTHERS WERE PERMITTED TO BUY OR OWN AS MUCH AS A SINGLE SHARE! In the process they took from the U.S. Government its greatest Constitutional power: THE POWER TO CREATE AND ISSUE MONEY! They literally hijacked the entire U.S. money system!!
EPILOGUE
Through their vast Federal Reserve Act Powers, during the past 80 years, the private Bankers have issued over five (5) trillion dollars to themselves which they then "rent" out to the rest of us at their phony interest rates. Not just once but over and over. Collecting fat interest rates.
From each and every borrower on each and every loan they collect fat interest payments all flowing into the pockets of the Federal Reserve Bankers... They call this FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING.
Worse yet, by controlling the phony money supply they determine THE LEVEL. OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THE U.S. thereby controlling interest rates thereby plundering the STOCK MARKETS!...
W. John Richardson
(Comment: due to the length of Mr. Richardson's letter it was abridged).
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