Let me tell you a story about the first day of the end of days of The Federal reServe...
I had a few drinks on Nov 8th and came up with this wild idea, BtM should have coverage of
this event and we should get it from as many cities as we possibly can. This poor guy I
know gets up at 5:00 am everyday but I didn't know that so I called him at 11:00 pm and
said "Dude!", the reply "tired", I said "here's what we need to do", "tired" was the reply
again. With a bit more back and forth I had the We Are Change chapter in Colorado Springs
on board. BtM was next.
Off goes a long email with the subject "ASAP response required" to poor overworked Shelly.
Couple of days later she says something along the lines of "We have been planning coverage
of that event but adding in many other cities sounds pretty cool." Today was Nov 22nd,
exactly two weeks after the first thought, and we had coverage from many different cities
with additional call ins from the rallies all over this great nation! In two weeks!
Many thanks to Shelly for getting the central platform dialed in. Many thanks to the hosts
and engineers that helped all day today (forgive me if I miss anyone or name someone that
had other obligations and couldn't make it today but helps out all the time) but kudos go
to Rahn, Shelly, SockPuppet, Kurt, Rick, Non_Serviam, all the speakers across the country,
all the members of the liberty groups in attendance, and everyone involved. A significant
part of this effort was put together in the IRC channels on
irc://irc.breakthematrix.com
so I should send some special shouts that direction with SockPuppet, Uncle_Rahn, and
Non_Serviam at the top of the list for getting everyone's gear functional via IRC; Mark
and Shelly for setting up the systems, and the many others for passing the word around;
we all made it work. Thanks. Thanks to everyone that made today great but to be honest
I haven't seen the video yet and am not sure who made it work from behind the scenes but
Kudos anyway.
Now let me tell you about the goings on in Denver, we setup a few blocks away from the
Denver Mint, in front of The Federal Reserve, a few minutes behind schedule but I shall
blame that on first time field work. I get there a few minutes before my counterpart
Chris (a/k/a InTheoryTV) and call him. "I'm right down the street", he said so off I
headed. I find Chris with gear strewn all over the car, around his feet, and wrapped
around his head. "I'm trying to get it configured, hang on.", was my greeting.
Smiling I said "Let's get up there and then setup." Shortly after we were in front of
the Federal Reserve building and streaming live on BtM. (Great work Chris/InTheorryTV
and thanks for all the trial runs.)
Our first broadcast and we were lucky enough to have the two people actually associated
with Campaign for Liberty (C4L) in Colorado: Jeff Wright (southern) and Carl Bruning
(northern). They each did an interview and explained the problems with The Federal
Reserve; what an incredibly awesome way to start our day off! I must admit to cheating
a little here as Jeff is in our local Ron Paul meetup group a political mastermind; he
teaches us so well. It was easy to get him for an interview. Chris is a member of the
Ft. Collins meetup as is Carl so he might have cheated too. :) It's all good. In
fact it was great! Anyway, after roaming the crowd for a few minutes before a couple
of great interviews and a quick camera pan of the activities we concluded the first
segment of our broadcast.
We may have been on at another point but I was off doing other things if we did. The
last segment came after realizing a problem and trying to correct it. Electricity
doesn't grow on trees. We had some issues arise so we retreated to the car where we
had some solid power and recharged the system for an hour or so. A couple of pale
geeks, sitting in lawn chairs behind a car in a parking lot with gear strewn all over
the top of it, waiting upon physics, the world, existentialism, and enlightenment.
Batteries++, guys you can't have too much power for things. Anyway, after the laptop
was allowed to suckle off the car for a while we were back to the Bank of Enslavement.
There we were met with the Miller Light argument: Taste Great / Less Filling! One
side of the street was yelling "End the Fed" and the other yelling "Bailout me out".
An awesome sight. After a bit of setup we were back up and online where we got to
interview a number of people for the show. Although we couldn't find a passer-by that
was interested in going on camera we suckered more than a few of the people from the
various groups to be cannon fodder. We even got the elusive battlemaiden (Heidi) to
grace us with her presence. She'll kill me for calling her Ms. Derivatives 2008 but
the GDT folks will understand.
/me pauses while the GDT folks laugh
The problem is that she is dead on right. The Fed is trying to monetize the derivatives
and give their buddies a way out of the fly-trap they have stepped upon. A sticky
little trap but my fellow Americans voted to let them slide on giving the banks $700B
in a "No Bankster Left Behind" bailout bill that turns over all of your credit card
purchases to the government. You did that! Do not dodge the fact that you, the
American people, only chose to fire 3 people of almost 500 in CONgress for sending all
your money to the banks on Wall St.. You did that. Make no mistake, the uninformed
public chose to tell CONgress that "No matter how hard you screw me I will listen to
your last minute smear campaign and vote for the same guy on the slight chance that
he is less evil than the new guy.
Welcome to American politics. This must change! If it does not then we can expect
to get screwed in perpetuity. Not exactly an unlikely scenario. Come n people, wake
the hell up! I guess if you are reading this you aren't asleep but do help to wake up
your friends. What happened today was a mere starting point, we have much farther to
go, and the goal can only be attained is by informing the electorate. Your friends,
your neighbors, everyone. This is the time, this is the final call to duty, this is
the call to support our Constitution!
Yours in Liberty,
The River Rat
Groups represented in Denver:
http://www.breakthematrix.com
http://www.restoretherepublic.net/home.php
http://wearechangecolorado.org
http://www.wearechangecoloradosprings.org
http://www.dac4liberty.ning.com
http://campaignforliberty.com
Interesting IRC channels:
irc://irc.breakthematrix.com/BreakTheMatrix
irc://irc.breakthematrix.com/RonPaul
irc://irc.breakthematrix.com/libertarian
irc://irc.breakthematrix.com/WeAreChange
irc://irc.breakthematrix.com/GreenDragonTavern
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This is a response from Jeff Wright to the above article:
Thanks Tres for everything you've done to make it possible, and to all those that helped make the Rally a success. You're right, this is the first day of 'End of Days' for the Fed. I hope to see them gone before my first grandson is born.
There are few times and opportunities where the real people of history, the grassroot patriots and footsoldiers of a movement, have ever been recognized for the contribution they make. Mainline history usually only takes note of the big names and big events of the changes that are recorded at the time. However, it has always been true that it is the grassroots patriots and footsoliders that actually make it happen. Without them, the big names would never be onstage and the big events would never happen. It is only through the willingness of the everyday philosophers, patriots, soldiers and journalists to ACT that makes all of history possible.
For the first time ever, the changes made in history are being recorded at every level. Efforts such as BreakTheMatrix will record this revolution from the ground up. The true history makers will be seen and heard for the first time. Another enormous change will be that the losers as well as the victors will both have their history fully recorded. Every on-the-street video device and every new blog will record much closer to the source events as they unfold. That is significant in a manner I don't think is yet fully appreciated by the upper echelons. To have much more complete history available to all will change the future in many ways.
No matter the final outcome of the coming battle for freedom and liberty against the enormous invisible and centralized power of the crumbling political/financial schema designed a century ago, it will never again appear as opaque and mysterious as in times past. The Great Opening and The Great Awakening is just beginning. More than 2000 years of civilisation is about to be opened and understood as never before. The centralized control of information previously enabled by existing technology is close to the point of being completely eliminated.
We have much to be Thankful for this year and for future years. No matter how difficult the coming changes will be, know that I'm proud to know you everyone in this movement and thankful that history will continue to bring us all together against the tyranny that is beginning to scatter like cockroaches in the light. It is a privilege to be on the road with you for this moment. The mass of our fellow citizens will likely never realize how all this happened until after it's all over.
Thanks
Jeff Wright
Campaign For Liberty
www.campaignforliberty.com
Great! Always good to try and find different ways to try and get things done. You should come into IRC and talk to KurtWallace or Uncle_Rahn about covering this event. Simply click "connect" in the chat window on the right while watching a show in the video window on the left.
RiverRat a/k/a Tres Melton,
Believer in Freedom, Crusader for Liberty, Supporter of Dr. Ron Paul
Congratulations to America, The sleeping giant is awake and up on both feet.
We are united and our network of activists is growing.
It was great to see so many people from all over New England come to Boston.
I love you guys and gals, we are truly the sons and daughters of Liberty.
The continued awareness of the Fed is surely a part of the solution.
But there is more that we can all do.
Unfortunately HR 2755 will probably not ever make it to a vote.
This is a top down approach and as we all know the people on the top love the Fed and despise their constituents.
This is their drug and they are addicted.
It is easy for the Fed Bank to say,” All we are doing is printing more money when congress asks for it”.
This is a dual dependency and our leaders need to spend some time at Betty Ford’s clinic.
Dr. Paul has prescribed the cure, but of course there would be a withdrawal period as we transition from this fiat back to sound money, which will cause much pain for these addicts and all the co-dependants (US).
Like a junkie who cannot kick the habit, our congress is on a runaway train heading towards disaster.
The Federal Reserve System was not designed to last and they know it.
Its days are numbered and good riddance.
Unfortunately the moneychangers have a new plan, which will continue to steal our wealth and allow these central bankers to control populations and countries.
This is all leading to a one world fascist state controlled by a one-world central bank.
Our solution is to regain the control of our own currency and ultimately our own lives.
We must, I repeat MUST take back our currency through the states.
In New Hampshire, State reps Joel Winters and Jim Coffee are reintroducing a gold money bill, drafted by Dr. Edwin Vieira, which almost passed two years ago.
On December 14th, these fine patriots and several others will take the stage at the historic Fanueil Hall in Boston and lay down the plan for implementing competing currencies on the state level.
This is already being done in some communities across the nation.
Interestingly. Rhode Island was the only state that would not ratify the U.S. Constitution and the reasoning was that they did not want federal control of issuing their currency, because RI was content with minting their own money.
I am not discouraging anyone from pushing for HR 2755, because it helps to educate, but the real solutions will come down to the states.
We have a plan, so please come to Boston as we “Dump the Fed” and offer more attainable solutions to restoring sound money.
http://bostonteaparty08.com/