From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent:
Sunday, August 28, 2005 9:57 PM
To:
John K. Pollard Jr.
Cc: rest;
Enid Enga Pigors - Office of the Chairman & CEO of Coca Cola; Inga Reichenbach - Cornell University - Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development; Jack. Goldblatt Jack.Goldblatt@health.wa.gov.au; Jim Mazza - Cornell University - Campaign Director, Special Projects; Dr. Jonathan Beare; Miriam Ross - Survival International; Mark Gevisser - The Nation's southern African correspondant; Valerie Schulte Esq. - National Association of Broadcasters; Playboy
Subject: RE: chocolATE

 

So now you have a beef with my Motorola “phatso” [sic] cell phone to mention little of just getting back from one incredible meal with 2 rather special women and JoNathan.

 

Given all the light forces along with my limit of 1.5 glasses of great Pinoir wine please help best explain at least some of the following events over at Ill Fornia on Coronado Island where the Navy SEALs train.

 

I made the observation as Danielle drove the 4 of us in the “Dotson” [sic] Pathfinder over Coronado bridge heading west of the signs for potential suicides to call a hotline line and the connecting dots that are obvious to most independent thinkers made up mostly of kids who haven’t turned into “dik-s” [sic] when one looked as far as the eye could see, weapons of war necessary to cull the human population when man interferes with G-D-NAture?

 

Conversation at dinner then progressed to discussing stuff like homosexuality part of the DNA or “environment” something that weakens over time due to inbreeding, “taking hold” after conception, our polluted DNA eventually working itself out by “replicating faithfully” were it not for man intervening with this godly doctor, “Preservation of LONG life and limb” for the rich only increasingly fearful and lazy but expert politicians at most of all trickling down the costs on to the backs of the poor and downtrodden while made up mostly of the masses in the 3rd world breeding like rabbits and dying like flies, helping prop up our house of cards, there are increasing numbers of even our LWWE kids such as Danielle and JoNathan getting up to Light-G-D-Speed with dinner type conversations such as this, topped off by Marie making the observation of the connecting dots between all this “political interference” and the warnings of Alan Greenspan back in 1966, going back that most brilliant essay of his from 1966:

 

It was limited gold reserves that stopped the unbalanced expansions of business activity, before they could develop into the post-World War I type of disaster. The readjustment periods were short and the economies quickly re-established a sound basis to resume expansion.

 

But the process of cure was misdiagnosed as the disease: if shortage of bank reserves was causing a business decline - argued economic interventionists - why not find a way of supplying increased reserves to the banks so they never need be short! If banks can continue to loan money indefinitely - it was claimed - there need never be any slumps in business. And so the Federal Reserve System was organized in 1913. It consisted of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks nominally owned by private bankers, but, in fact, government sponsored, controlled and supported. Credit extended by these banks is in practice (though not

legally) backed by the taxing power of the federal government.

 

Technically, we remained on the gold standard; individuals were still free to own gold, and gold continued to be used as bank reserves. But now, in addition to gold, credit extended by the Federal Reserve banks ("paper" reserves) could serve as legal tender to pay depositors. When business in the United States underwent a mild contraction in 1927, the Federal Reserve created more paper reserves in the hope of forestalling any possible bank reserve shortage.

 

More disastrous, however, was the Federal Reserve's attempt to assist Great Britain, who had been losing gold to us because the Bank of England refused to allow interest rates to rise when market forces dictated (it was politically unpalatable). The reasoning of the authorities involved was as follows: If the Federal Reserve pumped excessive paper reserves into American banks, interest rates in the United States would fall to a level comparable with those Great Britain; this would act to stop Britain's gold loss and avoid the political embarrassment of having to raise interest rates.

 

The "Fed" succeeded: it stopped the gold loss, but it nearly destroyed the economies of the world in the process. The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market - triggering a fantastic speculative boom. Belatedly, Federal Reserve officials attempted to sop up the excess reserves and finally succeeded in braking the boom. But it was too late: By 1929 the speculative imbalances had become so overwhelming that the attempt precipitated a sharp retrenching and a consequent demoralizing of business confidence.

 

As a result, the American economy collapsed. Great Britain fared even worse, and rather than absorb the full consequences of her previous folly, she abandoned the gold standard completely in 1931, tearing asunder what remained of the fabric of confidence and inducing a worldwide series of bank failures. The world economies plunged into the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

 

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold.

 

If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.

 

This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the "hidden" confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.

 

Regards,

 

Still trying to figure out who within my inner circle sent me such a very important document that WILL contribute SIGNIFICANTly to getting this world back on track perhaps starting out this week?

 

Also interesting in anyone else’s observations.

 

G-d willing you will join us for dinner tomorrow, the kids back at school on Tuesday.

 

GG

 

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-----Original Message-----
From:
John K. Pollard Jr.
Sent:
Friday, August 26, 2005 11:17 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: Re:

 

I have it and will leave the Motorola fatso and some double chocolate dream cookie at the tree house in the morning when I hit the beach.  If no one will be there, instruct me otherwise.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Gary S. Gevisser

To: John Pollard

Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 5:58 PM

 

Did I possibly drop  my cell phone in the back of your car?