"Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed."

-- Arthur S. Miller (George Washington University Professor of Law)

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

"From the days of Sparticus, Wieskhopf, Karl Marx, Trotsky, Rosa Luxemberg, and Emma Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."

-- Winston Churchill 1922

"The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements, arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds' central banks which were themselves private corporations. The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups."

-- Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton said Quigley was his mentor during 1993 Inaugural Address)

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"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen. It seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection. At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties, write political platforms, make catspaws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business. These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country."

-- John F. Hylan, New York City Mayor 1922

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. "

-- British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876 - First Prime Minister of England

"Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."

-- J. P. Morgan

"When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is - The Fed has usurped the government!!"

-- Louis T. McFadden

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men."

-- Woodrow Wilson, reflecting on passage of the Federal Reserve Act

Sometime during the last half-century, someone stole our culture. Just 50 years ago, in the 1950s, America was a great place. It was safe. It was decent. Children got good educations in the public schools. Even blue-collar fathers brought home middle-class incomes so moms could stay home with the kids. Television shows reflected sound, traditional values.

Where did it all go? How did that America become the sleazy, decadent place we live in today -- so different that those who grew up before the '60s feel like it's a foreign country? Did it just 'happen'?

It didn't just 'happen'. In fact, a deliberate agenda was followed to steal our culture and leave a new and very different one in its place. The story of how and why is one of the most important parts of our nation's history -- and it is a story almost no one knows. The people behind it wanted it that way.

What happened, in short, is that America's traditional culture, which had grown up over generations from our Western European, Judeo-Christian roots, was swept aside by an ideology. We know that ideology best as 'political correctness' or 'multi-culturalism'. It really is cultural Marxism.

Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms goes back to World War I. Cultural Marxism has become the ruling ideology of America's elites. The No. 1 goal of that cultural Marxism, since its creation, has been the destruction of Western European culture and the Christian religion.

In 1917, a Communist revolution occurred in Russia. But attempts to spread that revolution to other countries failed because the workers did not support it.

Marxist theorists had to ask themselves the question: What went wrong? As good Marxists, they could not admit Marxist theory had been incorrect. Instead, they said that Western European culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true Marxist class interests that a Communist revolution was impossible in West Europe until both could be destroyed. That objective, established as cultural Marxism's goal right at the beginning, has never changed.

A new strategy was laid out for destroying Christianity and Western European culture, one that has proven all too successful. Instead of calling for a Communist revolution up front, as in Russia, Marxists in West Europe should take political power last, after a 'long march through the institutions' -- the schools, the media, even the churches, every institution that could influence the culture. That 'long march through the institutions' is what America has experienced, especially since the 1960s.

One of its main components was introducing sex education into schools. Destroying the country's traditional sexual morals would be a giant step toward destroying traditional morals and Christian faith.

In 1923, the Marxists set up a new think tank at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany called The Frankfurt School. Originally it was to be called the 'Institute for Marxism', but the cultural Marxists realized they could be far more effective if they concealed their real nature and objectives by calling it a neutral-sounding name, the 'Institute for Social Research'.

The Institute for Social Research would become the place where political correctness, as we now know it, was developed. The basic answer to the question 'Who stole our culture?' is the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School.

The institute discarded conventional Marxist issues such as the labor movement and pioneered work on further developing cultural Marxism into a full-blown ideology.

They broke with Marx's view that culture was merely part of society's 'superstructure', which was determined by economic factors. On the contrary, culture was an independent and very important factor in shaping a society.

Frankfurt School members decided that the key to destroying Western European culture was to cross Marx with Freud. They argued that just as workers were oppressed under capitalism, everyone lived in a constant state of psychological repression. They realized that psychological conditioning offered them a far more powerful tool than just philosophy.

Today, when Hollywood's cultural Marxists want to 'normalize' something like homosexuality (thus 'liberating' us from 'repression'), they put on television show after television show where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual. Cultural Marxism makes powerful use of tools like radio, film and later television to psychologically condition the public. It is no accident that the entertainment industry is now cultural Marxism's most powerful weapon. That is how psychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.

The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness. Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. Since the Nazis hated Marxism, the Frankfurt School with its leading members decided to leave Germany and re-established in New York City with help from Columbia University in 1934. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional Western European culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It would prove all too successful.

The Frankfurt School developed a powerful tool it called 'Critical Theory'. The theory was to criticize every traditional institution, starting with family, to endless unremitting criticism to bring them down, being careful never to define what it was for, only what it was against (notice current political opposition). Critical Theory is the basis for the 'studies' departments that now inhabit American colleges and universities, the home turf of academic political correctness.

They accuse traditional attitudes to be 'prejudice'. They incorporated into their cultural Marxism the 'transvaluation of all values'. What that means, in plain English, is that all the old sins become virtues, and all the old virtues become sins. Homosexuality is a fine and good thing, but anyone who thinks men and women should have different social roles is an evil 'fascist'. That is what political correctness now teaches children in public schools all across America. (The Frankfurt School said it did not matter if school children learned any skills or any facts. All that mattered was that they graduate from the schools with the right 'attitudes' on certain questions taught by teachers certified for Cultural Marxism.)

The Frankfurt School again departed from orthodox Marxism, which argued that all of history was determined by who owned the means of production. Instead, they said history was determined by which groups, defined as men, women, races, religions, etc., had power or 'dominance' over other groups. Certain groups, especially white males, were labeled 'oppressors', while other groups were defined as 'victims'. Victims were automatically good, oppressors bad, just by what group they came from, regardless of individual behavior.

Who would replace the working class as the agents of Marxist revolution? In the 1950s it was decided it would be a coalition of students, blacks, feminist women and homosexuals -- the core of the student rebellion of the 1960s, and the sacred 'victims groups' of political correctness today.

They further took one of political correctness's favorite words, 'tolerance', and gave it a new meaning. They defined 'liberating tolerance' as tolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the left, and intolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the right. When you hear the cultural Marxists today call for 'tolerance', they mean 'liberating tolerance' (just as when they call for 'diversity', they mean uniformity of belief in their ideology.

The student rebellion of the 1960s, driven largely by opposition to the draft for the Vietnam War, gave them a historic opportunity. The Frankfurt School's cultural Marxism was injected into the baby boom generation. Of course, they did not understand what it really was. As was true from the Institute's beginning, the few people 'in the know' did not advertise that political correctness and multi-culturalism were a form of Marxism.

But the effect was devastating: a whole generation of Americans, especially the university-educated elite, absorbed cultural Marxism as their own, accepting a poisonous ideology that sought to destroy America's traditional culture and Christian faith. That generation, which runs every elite institution in America, leaders of unions, education and government, now wages a ceaseless war on all traditional beliefs and institutions. They have largely won that war. Most of America's traditional culture lies in ruins.

I will merely repeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with all our might, to wrest this mysterious political force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states of our world. And all the time we are denying with our lips what we are doing with our hands....

— Arnold J. Toynbee
Historian, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1931
(Source: The War on Sovereignty)

The Book of Mormon makes numerous references to secret combinations and that secret combinations overthrew the Nephite government and caused the destruction of their people.  Mormon and Moroni also warned that secret combinations would seek to overthrow the freedom of all lands in the latter days.  I've often wondered what the word combination means.  In looking at Webster's dictionary of the 1828 version around when Joseph translated the Book of Mormon, the word combination has a direct reference to conspiracy and conspiracy has a direct reference to combination.

Isn't some agency required to "manage the money" and "stabilize the economy"?

John Birch Society Founder Robert Welch famously stated that there has never been honesty in the management of money. History proves him correct. If money is a commodity, it needs no more management than any other commodity (tools, autos, basketballs, etc.). Stabilization of the economy should never be the task of any person or organization; it should be accomplished by the market place. If the Fed were abolished, a step very much needed, there would have to be some entity established for check-clearing. But no agency, government or otherwise, should have power to set the value of the currency, the amount in existence, the interest rates for borrowing it, and the ability to inflate--which is what the Fed does today.

Doesn't the Constitution supply authorization to the federal government to issue money?

No, the Constitution granted power to Congress to "coin money." Coining money is the action of a mint and Congress created one almost immediately after the Constitution became ratified. Early leaders of the United States recognized the need for a standardization of the size, weight, and purity of coinage. The mint they established took metals from individuals and stamped them into coinage of a fixed size, weight, purity, etc. This stimulated commerce at a time when foreign coinage of varying size, weight, and purity was circulating in our infant country, and there was abundant confusion, even worry, about its worth. Individuals actually paid a fee to the mint to have their metal coined. Nor was there ever any intention to have government store money. When coins were produced at the mint, they did not belong to the government. The government's role in making them served only as a reasonable guarantee that the coins were honestly made (purity, etc.). This is all the Founders wanted of government. Nowhere did the Constitution authorize government to issue currency, and nowhere is there any authorization to delegate nonexistent power to a private entity.

"Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack ... To win we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoise will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will jump at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fists."

- Lenin Law School on Political Warfare, Moscow, 1931.

"The sovereignty fetish is still so strong in the public mind, that there would appear to be little chance of winning popular assent to American membership in anything approaching a super-state organization. Much will depend on the kind of approach which is used in further popular education."

-- Council on Foreign Relations, 1944

"The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the American Branch of a society which originated in England... (and) ...believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established."

Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, says that a coup has occurred in the United States where we "a steady assault on every fundamental of our Constitution" has created a state where the Executive Branch now rules by decree as in a dictatorship. It's a very interesting article...

(Thanks to Ken for the article)