It can be extremely difficult for well fed, comfortable and amused people to conceive of a system of plunder that they, their parents and grandparents were born into along with the plunderers, their parents and grandparents, yet such failure to see does not prove the nonexistence of that system, it only insures that it will continue until the people are stripped of all of their wealth and reduced to serfs. Throughout history, governments have plundered their citizens. Ancient governments clipped the edges of coins and melted the clippings to make new coins, which also were clipped. The serrated or milled edge of coins was intended to prevent that practice. As time passed, the plunderers progressed to debased coinage, that is, base metals were switched for all or part of the precious metals in the coins. Still later, non-redeemable paper currency was used to steal the fruits of men’s labor.
The most sophisticated plunder yet inflicted on trusting citizens combines the use of controlled news media; paper and metal tokens; credit (monetized debt) and imaginary taxes. The news media and schools deceive the people to believe that copper tokens and credit are “money;” that prices are inflation and that some of the “money” must be returned to the plunderers as taxes even though the plunderers have access to unlimited “money.” The plunderers’ creation and financing of foreign “enemies” helps to convince the victims that taxes are needed to support government while largesse to the most robbed poor buys votes to perpetuate the plunder. The ancient Chinese carved in stone, “Disperse the money, collect the people.” As the Romans had bread and circuses, we today, have food stamps, football, foosball and fools on TV ad infinitum. We must be distracted at any cost.... Dave Wilber, economics writer, quoted in Archibald Roberts, The Most Secret Science, 101 (page ix in my book).