If I Ruled The World...

Robert Klassen Archives (LRC) via LewRockwell.com Home Page ^ | September 20, 2002 | by Robert Klassen

[vannrox]

If I wanted to rule the world, where would I begin? Foremost, I would want to control the money supply, for if I could control the money supply, then I would control whole governments, whole populations, and whole economies. I would not want to own them, mind you, for that would give me a bad name, but to control them still.

Let’s say that four hundred years ago a clever man earned a fortune in financing merchant ships and wholesaling imports. He made so much money that the King came to him and asked him to finance a war. This, he discovered, was a whole new way to make money, and where was the risk? The King would tax the people to pay him back, with interest to boot. Ah, but the King might lose his war, so the smart thing to do was to finance the King’s enemy as well.

This clever man brought others into the business, then moved them to other Kingdoms, where they became bankers to merchants and Kings. These expanded the business even further and they became powerful people wherever they went.. They financed Kings and their wars, and they harvested the taxes from the people.

Then a newfangled thing came along, the American Revolution, and although there was no King on one side to promise to pay them, a committee of prominent people did promise to pay them, later, out of taxes. So they financed the war, but to be safe, they financed the King as well. The revolutionaries won their war, as we know, but they had not established a means to tax the people to pay for it. The bankers did not like that, so they pressed the leaders to change the rules, which they did with a brand new Constitution.

Naturally these people were no secret, for they were the leaders of society, but who could keep track of them generation after generation? Names change, after all, and some promising young man with an unpronounceable name might marry into the business, and allow it to grow in a new direction unknown to the people in general.

Some societies were easier to control than others, and the new republican forms of government sometimes spun out of control. People who believed that they were free and independent were particularly troublesome; unauthorized innovation could result in unimagined sources of wealth that could only be corralled with the greatest difficulty. Legislation was the solution, of course, but it always lagged behind new technology, and some of the wealth always got away – for a while.

The American Revolution was laid to rest easily, while the Industrial Revolution nearly escaped, but those who control the money always gain control of the rest in the end. Some bold and clever men saw that the key to controlling republican forms of government was a strong central bank that belonged to them. Impossible dream? The Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913, and the US State became their own.

If I were the leader of this group, what would I want to do today? Corral innovation in information technology, and crush independent fledgling companies. Corral the Internet, and crush independent free flow of information. Entangle the whole population with rules and regulations and taxation, making true independence of thought and action nearly impossible for the common individual. Keep up the drumbeat of constant threats of war, terrorism, and financial failure to break the spirit of liberty and independence; strip that Bill Of Rights from the Constitution, and return it to its original intent. If I controlled the State, I would want the people to serve it, and to pay for it, diligently, and without complaint.

Whew! What a mad agenda! I am so glad that I only want to rule myself.

September 20, 2002

Robert Klassen [send him mail] is a medical technician and writer. Here's his web site.

Copyright © 2002 Robert Klassen

Robert Klassen Archives

[vannrox]

...hum... good read.

[r9etb]

If I wanted to rule the world, where would I begin? Foremost, I would want to control the money supply, for if I could control the money supply, then I would control whole governments, whole populations, and whole economies. I would not want to own them, mind you, for that would give me a bad name, but to control them still.

I got this far and stopped. The man has no clue.

I recall a WSJ article from the early '80s, discussing the Polish economy. The official currency of Poland was the zloty, which was worthless. The working currency was vodka and cigarettes. All real payments were rendered with these.

He'd never be able to control the money.

[Cultural Jihad]

[fporretto]

In his science fiction classic Dune, Frank Herbert has the Padishah Emperor say, "Control the coinage and the courts. Let the rabble have the rest." It's a home truth.

Once people have become dependent on a fiat currency, it takes an extraordinary effort to wrench themselves free of it. Granted that it happens now and then, when other commodities can be used in trade, but in many cases, including Weimar 1923 and China 1947, the suffering populace has had no choice at all but to try to work with a rapidly deteriorating fiat currency. The end is always ruin.

Fiat currencies are so dangerous to economic health and property rights that they should be Constitutionally forbidden. However, they're so useful to the cause of the Omnipotent State that they never, ever will be. Coin clipping is a lot harder than running a printing press, after all.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com

[Technocrat]

Control Information Technology?!? Bah. Any truly competent programmer, apart from being at least a little bit insane, is so far out of the herd that they can clearly hear the sirens of anarchy and Libertarianism. Those who would control us are not even smart enough to keep up with us. We see them coming and cheerfully toss oil slicks out the back to greet them. Let them adapt to the game - we'll just create a completely new game, in unexplored places that they haven't the wit to conceive of.

[RISU]

If you go to www.2012.com.au

then to UPDATES and scroll down to

NESARA Update
The 2nd most important announcement
in 10,000 years!
there is a link to the NESARA bill (pdf) at the top

[Cicero]

If I . . .

This isn't a single "I." It's a fiction. It's presumably based on some Rothschild or similar figure, then it's a Rockefeller, then it's . . . well, somebody or other . . . .

Sure, people like to take control behind the scenes. But it seldom works very well, and then they die. Conspiracies are basically inefficient, and where would you find a perpetual gang of conspirators selflessly willing to cooperate like this?

Some people like to imagine a line of conspirators controlling the world for hundreds of years, but life just doesn't work that way. There's always infighting, competition, accidents, stupidity . . . and eventually anyone who succeeds dies after a while.

[Steve0113]

If I Ruled The World...

... I would have mandatory prison terms for fat people who wear spandex.

[x]

He doesn't even answer the question he sets. This isn't about "If I ruled the world, what would I do?" It's about "If I wanted to rule the world, how would I achieve that goal?" What you basically get in the end is ruling the world to rule the world, controling the money supply to control the money supply, with no talk of what the end or goal of such a process would be.

And given the resilience of the market, if you tried to manipulate the money supply in any striking way to achieve a particular goal, you would likely bring ruinous inflation or depression on your economy. So what you end up with in the end, isn't ruling the world, so much as managing the money supply in order to manage the money supply. If it's your desire to create havoc, you can do it by playing with the money supply, but that's not the act of a "world ruler." In other words, something -- the reason for or result of "ruling the world" -- is missing from the article.

And taxation probably has far more consequences than monetary policy. I can put my picture on the money and play with it as much as I like, I won't achieve the kind of real power to get specific things done that comes from writing the tax code.

[anniegetyourgun]

And I for fat boys and old men who wear earrings.

[A Navy Vet]

If I ruled the world...Babs, Baldwin, Asner, Rosie, Kennedy, etc. would be exiled to Zimbabwe, and the UN building would be demolished to make way for an industrial complex. That would be in my first hour as King...

[hoosierskypilot]

"...fat boys and old men who wear earrings."

And middle-aged men with ponytails.

And teen-aged boys who have their pants pulled 3/4 down their rears.

And women with crew cuts and/or purple hair.

And everybody who was stupid enough to vote for Gore.

[anniegetyourgun]

I'm with you all the way. The really sad thing about these types is that they actually think these things make them "sexy." As if a nose ring on an overweight 15 year old boy could transform him into a stud.

Having said that, however, I do wish Al Gore would grow a purple ponytail, pierce his tongue, drop his drawers by 1/4, and get a Chelsea Clinton tattoo on his hairless chest. Now that would be an improvement. Not to mention, it would become increasingly difficult for the world to deny that the man is insane.

[martian_22]

....and ye shall be as gods....

I know an old con line when I see it.