Video: Barney Frank vows to “wall off” Fed from monetary scrutiny, warns Bernanke to brace for audit
November 12th, 2009
Barney Frank warns Bernanke that he might be forced to embrace a compromised version of Ron Paul’s ‘Audit the Fed’ bill; promises to “wall off” attempts to examine monetary policy
Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
November 12, 2009
The NY Times reports that House Financial Chairman Barney Frank has met in private with Ben Bernanke to plan strategies for bracing against the overwhelming popular demand to audit the private Federal Reserve, voiced– piercingly for Bernanke– in Rep. Ron Paul’s bill, now with some 300 co-sponsors.
Frank’s part in meeting was to urge Bernanke to face reality– “Mr. Frank warned that he might have to embrace a version of Mr. Paul’s bill,” wrote the Times– now it was time to consider compromises.
However, responding to Bernanke’s top concerns, Barney Frank “vowed” that:
“he would “wall off” deliberations on basic monetary policy, and delay the release of information about the Fed’s financial operations to prevent traders from capitalizing on its moves”
Bernanke’s “apocalyptic” fear of H.R. 1207 and the accompanying rise in public interest in the Fed, as the NY Times describes it, underscores the drastic survival mechanism of an institution that has historically relied on the secrecy provided by its bland exterior.
Mr. Bernanke initially reacted to the bill in almost apocalyptic terms. The G.A.O. audits, he told a House hearing in late June, could lead to a Congressional “takeover” of monetary policythat would be “highly destructive to the stability of the financial system, the dollar and our national economic situation.”
Why this fear has lingered overhead for so long may be simply because he knows that his thin-air empire can’t withstand a Constitutional examination. Bernanke worries about a “takeover” by Congress because he knows that it alone has the Constitutional authority to oversee the issuance of currency.
As Alex Jones’ Fall of the Republic reveals, Ben Bernanke told Congress in no uncertain terms, that an examination of its monetary policy would amount to a ‘takeover’ and instilled the fear that it would trigger further economic devastation.
The Federal Reserve should not have “independent” autonomy to direct the financial commitments of a nation, print its money at will and risk its stability.
Of course Congress’ constitutional power over money is enumerated in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution:
The Congress shall have power… To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
If Bernanke is looking over its shoulder, it is because he knows the Fed’s days are numbered, and that any light (via even a soft audit) will only serve to further expose the improper occupation of the nation’s financial instruments by a private, self-interested global banking cartel.
“The Fed faces populist anger from left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans about its power and secrecy… It was alarming enough that… “End the Fed,” had just landed on the best-seller lists.”
Bernanke and his masters are obviously very unsettled by such a significant public outcry, and, as theNY Times notes, the fact that Ron Paul’s ‘End the Fed’ has reached the best-seller list.
Source: InfoWars.com
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November 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Anyone with a modicum of real knowledge of the history of central banking, knows that congress abolishing the Federal Reserve, is the only possible cure for our now terminally ill U.S. economy. Although I don’t see it happening. Congress has neither the motive, inclination, principle, fortitude nor the humility to yeild to a document (the constitution) it has for so long held in contempt. It was an act of treason for congress to relinquish it’s enumerated authority to regulate money to a foreign owned, central bank in the first place. This was done so they would have an unlimited credit line to inact their agenda without coming to We the People. They merely request the money from a bank, that is all too willing to creat it out of thin air. For this “ad fiat” (out-of-nothing) money they extort interest payments from the American people by taxing an individual’s labor via another quasi-government agency, the federal mafia aka Internal Revenue Service.
“Banks are more dangerous than standing armies…If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency…the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“It is well that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”.
- Henry Ford
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815