Resist Evil - Money

Resistance. I am often asked, "but what can I do?" A lot more than you think.

Introduction

I ended my last post, It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over, with this:

We in the United States in particular, are wedded to the notion that people are inherently good, ourselves of course included. I regret having to inform you that it just ain’t so, and never has been.

The same, sort of, goes for evil. I think we think, that true evil exists only in some other realm, the spiritual realm in particular. While true that evil exists in the spiritual realm, it also exists in the world.

Ezekiel 28:15-17 New International Version

¹⁵ You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.
¹⁶ Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
¹⁷ Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.

That is Satan, Lucifer, being written of. So. Evil is here, and has been since shortly after the beginning. Eve was tempted by Satan, and that’s pretty early.

What I want to do here then, is three things: 1) Compare the goingson in the country to our founding documents, including the Constitution, the supreme law of the land; 2) compare those things to the body of laws contained in the Bible; and 3) suggest effective, and peaceful, acts of resistance.

But one might ask then, what, if it exists, is the connection between government, as defined in our founding documents, and the Bible? Those are the foundations I’m comparing the current state to after all. Good question. The answer lies in Romans 13:1-7; in effect, We the People have delegated the punishment of evil to government, the “higher powers.”

Romans 13:4

For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Let’s face it though, government wouldn’t be necessary if we humans were all angels of the good sort, and our government is made up of the same stock as we, which includes the not-so-good sort and the downright evil sort of angel. What then?

The Declaration of Independence covers that possibility, nay, probability:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Come to think of it, this is not unlike God expelling a former “guardian cherub,” Satan, out of heaven! Even good angels can become evil; Satan being Exhibit A.

What we just saw with the election of Trump, is a majority of the people at the polls having found the evils to be no longer sufferable. Pray, earnestly, that the “long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object,” is curtailed, peacefully. Ā way to curtail the abuses and usurpations is to resist.

I’ll have to break this subject, Resistance, into multiple posts, but let’s get started with money.

Money

1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version

10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Hmmm. Seems like a good place to start. Notice that it is not money per se, it is rather the love of money.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

Washington Irving, 1855 Wolfert's Roost,'The Creole Village'

I’d venture to guess that even “The Creole Village” has been overcome at this late date. And if how we spend our most precious resource, time, is any indication, I think it’s clear that culturally we do indeed worship the "Almighty Dollar.” There seems to be covetousness to a particularly extreme degree in those who lord over us as mere subjects. That shows up I will argue, in part at least, as fiat money.

What Does It Mean “to Coin Money?”

U.S. Constitution Article 1: Section 8

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures

Where does it say that “to coin Money” includes issuing slips of paper that represent IOUs, i.e. debt? Or worse yet, digital forms of the same IOU? It’s amazing actually, how the higher powers can seemingly make the Constitution say anything they want. And, We the People have allowed (perhaps “enabled” is a better word) the destruction of our Money.

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States is the instrument of said destruction. While it is not federal, and holds no reserves worth noting, it is a bank, and a privately held bank at that. Like the “money” itself, the reserves are created from nothing, and backed only by the “full faith and credit” of the federal government. Do you realize what the “full faith and credit” is, in fact? It is the federal government’s ability to take your money and use it to repay its debts, and to pay for its “unfunded liabilities,” like Social Security and Medicare, which are by definition of course, not funded. These two programs, and much, much more, are Ponzi schemes, where new “investors” are providing the “return on investment” to previous investors; these programs are the largest Ponzi schemes ever perpetrated on a People. And We the People have not only allowed it, we’ve demanded it; “it” being that our children, their children, and perhaps our great-grandchildren, fund our retirements and our terminal disease care. That’s who We the People have become. And no. It’s not pretty. And it’s nothing I’m proud of having been a part of. I don’t think our status quo is what the Founders had in mind.

Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.

Proverbs 20:10

A fiat currency is an “unequal weight.” In fact, the dollar’s value was backed by gold once upon a time, and a particular weight of gold. Then, our currency was actually a form of money. Now, the value of the dollar in terms of its equivalent weight in gold becomes worth-less. Every. Single. Day. When FDR confiscated gold from We the People in 1933, he paid $20.67 per troy ounce, which means that a dollar represented 0.048 ounces of gold, almost 1/20th of an ounce. After he had Our gold, he reset the value of a dollar to $35 per troy ounce, so the “new” dollar represented only 0.029 ounces of gold. In other words, he stole 40% of the value of the dollars he had just paid Us for the gold he took from Us. That was the work of Our beloved FDR; the only monument to this guy should be a tombstone, just like the rest of us. Fast forward to today, at $2,688 per ounce of gold, a dollar represents just 0.000372 ounces, about 4/10,000ths of an ounce.

…money is a store of value. This means that it has and maintains a certain value that supports ongoing exchanges.

Money is also referred to as a unit of account. That means it can be used to account for changes in the value of items over time.

Investopedia

I’m going to stop right here and make a bold claim: The “currency” that is the U.S. Dollar (USD) has not been a form of “money” since 1933. The USD is not money, per se, because it is not a store of value, and alone, it cannot be used to account for changes in value over time.

Let me give you an example. Let’s say you are an employee, it’s January 2025, and while your pay in USD terms has not declined, you have not received a raise since 2019. Are you as well off as you were in 2019? Of course not! In terms of the value of the goods and services your USD will buy, you are 20% poorer!

Let me see a show of hands from those who have seen raises of 20% or more since 2019. I’m imagining that I see few if any hands.

Now, let’s say that since 2019 you’ve been paid in Gold, a fixed weight of Gold per time period, also unchanged since 2019.

Not only would you have more than held onto your purchasing power in value terms (constant 2019 USD +38%), you would have seen an increase of 72% in current (devalued) dollar terms. Gold is money. Gold is a store of value. The USD is not money. The USD is not a store of value.

If that’s not ‘nuf said, for more on the history of the dollar, check out this post:

And if you want a deeper dive into the fiscal state of the Union, I wrote a 3-part series starting with:

But, What We Can Do?

Resist a Central Bank Digital Currency

Resist centralization in general, and a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in particular. This is just my opinion, but for peaceful change to be successful, a CBDC cannot be allowed. And. A CBDC is one small step from the mark of the beast.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:16-17

In other words, you won’t be able to buy or sell anything, unless you take the mark. No food for your children, or yourself, and so on. The one additional step after a CBDC is implemented, is something akin to China’s “social credit score.” Do what the state says, or your access to money is restricted, or turned off completely. (We saw an example of this during the Canadian trucker protests; no criminal or civil charges required, no conviction required; your access to money is simply turned off for resisting the government.) For all intents and purposes then, the mark of the beast has been accepted. The price of accepting the mark of the beast, and agreeing to worship the image of the beast:

Revelation 14:10–11…describing the fate of someone who takes the mark of the beast, declares,

“He also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.”

gotquestions.org

If you believe. Even if one doesn’t believe, it’s The End of freedom as we’ve come to know it.

Reduce the Need for Money

The government equates money and the “standard of living;” and yes, I’ve got some ocean front property in Colorado I’ll sell you at a discount. Don’t buy either. Don’t buy the 6,000 sq ft McMansion when all you need is is the 1,800 sq ft ranch-style. Think about it; you have to furnish that 6,000 sq ft, you have to insure it, probably pay interest on a huge mortgage, heat it, cool it, you have to maintain it, pay taxes on it, and all the while there are probably rooms you don’t use for months at a time. Now, if you’ve got three families living in it that’d be a different story. Reduce the cost of your lifestyle. Be asset rich, even if not necessarily income statement rich. The McMansion is not an asset; in most cases it’s a seriously long-term negative cashflow drag on the wealth-building endeavor. And when you sell, if you sell, the government takes a huge share by way of capital gains taxes. No thank you.

For more on this, read The Millionaire Next Door; it’s a good primer on how self-made millionaires made themselves millionaires. The millionaire hereabouts is the guy living with his first and only wife in a 60’s vintage modest house that looks like it needs a new roof, driving the 20 year old Silverado with totally rusted out wheel wells, and wearing a sweat-stained John Deere ballcap over a patched Carhartt jacket and jeans.

Use Cash

• Reduces spending

• Spending is localized

• Reduces possibility of identity theft

• Avoids debt and payment of interest charges

• Your privacy is protected

• And because the government doesn’t want you to use cash (the higher powers want more debt not less, more spending not less, and less privacy not more)

Crypto-Currencies

I’d admit that I’m not qualified to discuss digital currencies of any description. Because 1) I’m skeptical of all technological “solutions,” and 2) I don’t know anything about the details of crypto; I cannot see or touch the asset, I cannot decipher the code. Beyond that, as the dollar continues to collapse, eventually reaching a value of zero, the government will not be able to tolerate competition for its currency from any quarter. Having said all that, I might “invest,” but I would limit my investment to what I could afford to lose. Which today means I will not invest. Proceed at your own risk.

2025 Jan 17 Update: Why the Intel Agencies Want to Track Your Every Transaction and Throw Roger Ver in Jail for Life, a Tucker Carlson interview

2025 Jan 27 Update: Bitcoin Jesus: The Prosecution of Roger Ver

De-Bank

Limit your exposure to any and all financial institutions. Wow. Why would I say that, after all, we’ve been taught to pile our money into various financials institutions, providing of course for our retirement, for decades, if not generations? But. Before you continue down that path, you really need to understand a fairly recent innovation of the banksters known as a “bail-in.” So. What is a bail-in?

I’ll give you the gist, and then follow that up with a couple of examples. The gist. You deposit your paycheck in a bank, perhaps also you transfer or directly deposit an amount into a financial institution like eTrade, or Schwab, Vanguard, etc. Naturally, you consider all of it to be your money. It is after all the fruit of your labor. That is where you’d be wrong. In the eyes of the law now, both in the United States and the EU, you have in effect, lent what was your money to the financial institution. That’s right. And, when the bank goes tits up you are considered to be the lowest possible form of creditor; lower than whale shit in fact. Everyone else will be made whole before you receive a penny on the dollar. In the de facto (reality) sense, and the de jure (legal) sense for that matter, the “money” is not yours. Let’s look at a couple of examples of the bail-in.

Example #1 The Cyprus story: Remember when the IMF had to step in and be the lender of last resort for Cyprus? Fifteen years ago now, and the beginning of the bail-in.” All money in excess of €100,000 (like our FDIC insurance limit) was lost to the bail-in. And keep in mind that in the United States, there are virtually no insurance funds to reimburse depositors, this isn’t like real insurance; the banksters will simply print from thin air the evermore worthless currency to make you “whole.”

A new strategy has been unveiled around the world, with the first test run in Cyprus. Despite early denials, the "bail-in" strategy for insolvent banks has already become official policy throughout Europe and internationally as well.

At first glance, the "bail-in" resembles the normal capitalist process of liabilities restructuring that should occur when a bank becomes insolvent. Equity investors and most-junior creditors lose everything; less-junior creditors get a debt/equity conversion, and senior creditors get 100%. The bank can remain in operation, and does not have to liquidate any assets. No public money is required.

The difference with the "bail-in" is that the order of creditor seniority is changed. In the end, it amounts to the cronies (other banks and government) and non-cronies. The cronies get 100% or more; the non-cronies, including non-interest-bearing depositors who should be super-senior, get a kick in the guts instead.

Forbes, 2013

As a reminder, you and I are non-cronies.

But hey, that was the EU; let’s look at something a little closer to home.

Example #2: Dodd-Frank

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 states in its preamble that it will “protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts.” But it does this under Title II by imposing the losses of insolvent financial companies on their common and preferred stockholders, debtholders, and other unsecured creditors, through an “orderly resolution” plan known as a “bail-in.”

A general deposit is a loan made to a bank. This means that the bank is the general depositor’s debtor, but that the bank has legal title to the funds deposited; these funds may be commingled with the bank’s other funds. All the general depositor has is a general, unsecured claim against the bank …

… bail-ins do not apply to deposits under $250,000, which are protected by FDIC insurance. That is true in theory, but as of September 2021, the FDIC had only $122 billion in its insurance fund, enough to cover just 1.27% percent of the $9.6 trillion in deposits that it insures.

Global Research

That’s what passes for “consumer protection” in federal bureaucratic circles. In short, you and I are part of the “other unsecured creditors.” In other words, we’re toast. No one is coming to save you or me. I don’t know about you, but I consider this armed robbery, because the fruits of our labor are taken from us under the barrels of government guns. I hope that’s clear. You and I will have no recourse. None. Again, proceed at your own risk.

Hard Assets

I’m going to put this as simply as I can; hard assets are where it’s at. I want the vast majority of my actual “money,” my assets, under the barrels of my guns. If I can’t put it in my sights, it’s too far away.

Real estate, wood furnaces for heating, solar arrays for producing electrical energy, standby and backup generators, gold, silver, guns, ammo, tractors, maple syrup evaporators, sawmills, food animals, etcetera. Most of those assets produce positive cash flow, or reduce negative cash flow, some are stores of value. All of them are within range of a good rifle.

I know I just mentioned this, but …

Hoard Silver and Gold

This is a case where you might consider following the lead of the Central Banks. Below are partial results from my browser’s AI:

• Record-breaking demand: Central banks set a new first-quarter record in 2024, purchasing 289.7 tonnes of gold, a 1% year-over-year increase from Q1 2023 (286.2 tonnes).

• Global diversification: Central banks are diversifying their reserve assets, driven by concerns over the global financial system and geopolitical tensions.

• Gold’s appeal: Central banks view gold as a hedge against market and global risk, as well as a way to rebalance their reserve portfolios and diversify their assets.

The italics are mine. Of course we peons don’t buy gold by the ton, but the Central Banks’ reasons apply also to Us; concerns over the global financial system, as a hedge against market and global risk, and to diversify our assets. I recommend hoarding some gold for wealth preservation, and some silver for spending money, should the shtf. And it will, sooner or later. So. Central Banks are hoarding gold, which makes sense for a nation-state; I see no reason why we shouldn’t be hoarding gold and silver. And toilet paper, of course.

Barter

• Limited possibilities; I have to have what you want, and you have to have what I want

• Avoids the use of “money” altogether

• Skills are barterable, services, as are a myriad of goods

Due to the limitations above, I don’t do as much bartering as I’d like. But, I do it when I can.

The Debt

I know that’s a lot of doom and gloom. But I want to put the situation in perspective.

Just a snapshot from usdebtclock.org. Top left yellow, $36T and rising in debt, seven times that in unfunded liabilities (lower right corner). We’ll just stick with the debt; unfunded liabilities (largely Social Security and Medicare) can be done away with by the stroke of a legislative pen if necessary. But let’s say the feds are approaching default, and must retire some or all of the debt quickly; where will they get the dollars? I suggest for your consideration, that debt can only be retired by taking from the “Household Assets” bucket, which currently sits at $164T. Those would be “our” assets. How that might happen has a lot to do with the “bail-in” previously discussed; if you want to know more check out The Great Taking on YouTube.

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