By: Martin A. ArmstrongFormer Chairman of Princeton Economics International, Ltd.
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Copyright April 6
th
, 2011
all rights reserved.
t has been a hard battlejust to write. We tend tothink that we live in acountry that is free and wehave all these rights. Nothingcould be further from thetruth. For you see, theyturned the constitutionupside down. Instead of youhaving rights, you have toprove they exist. Thegovernment does whateverit damn well pleaseswhenever. It is your burdento prove you have any rightsat all and whatever actionthey then claim violates theconstitution. This is whyTHEY appoint the judges forthey hold the keys toeverything.Perhaps lost in the maze of information was the shockingpublic announcement of theretirement of CFTC JudgeGeorge Painter lastSeptember 2010. Heconfirmed what everybodybehind that curtain reallyknows is going on
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it
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salways them against thepeople. He wrote:
“
There are two administrativelaw judges at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission:myself and the Honorable Bruce
Levine. On Judge Levine’s first
week on the job, nearly twenty years ago, he came into my office and stated that he had promised Wendy Gramm, thenChairwoman of the Commission,that he would never rule in a
complainant’s favor. A review of his rulings will confirm that
he
has fulfilled his vow. Judge
Levine, in the cynical guise of enforcing the rules, forces pro secomplainants to run
a
hostileprocedural gauntlet until theylose hope, and either withdrawtheir complaint or settle for apittance, regardless of themerits of the case. See MichaelSchroeder,
If You ’ve Got a
Beef With a Futures Broker, This
Judge Isn ’t for You
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In Eight Years at the CF TC, Levine HasNever Ruled in Favor of anInvestor,
Wall
St. J ., Dec. 13,
2000.”
This is why we are in suchtrouble. Everything is aboutkeeping the game going
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not about making societybetter. Take the currentbudget battle. TheRepublicans demand NPR is
no longer funded. This isn’t
even a tenth of a tenth of atenth of a penny in thescheme of things. It ispolitical because they do not,and have never once,respected any independentreporting. This is no differentthan any other governmenttrying to silence truth. The socalled private press is alwaysat the pleasure of government. Look at PayPal,Visa and MasterCard allstopped sending money to
WikiLeaks
. Who picked upthe phone and told them todo that?This is why everything iscollapsing. There is just nohope because everyone justwants to keep that power. It
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