The Creature From Jekyll Island, A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

The Creature From Jekyll Island, A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, Fourth Edition June 2002, by G. Edward Griffin, book reviews: I have assembled a sample of 270 book reviews from Amazon.com beginning with the lowest rating (1 star) and going to the highest (5 stars). On July 21, 2010, there were 22 1 star (8%), 4 2 stars (1%), 10 3 stars (3%), 34 4 stars (12%) and 200 5 stars (74%) reviews. I give his book 5 stars. There is room for disagreement. You can read the reviews at http://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserve/product-reviews/0912986395/ref=sr_1_1_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 or I can email you the sample I did.

There is plenty of material that shows the sleazy things bankers have been getting away with since the creation of the Federal Reserve. As an honest citizen, this will likely make you very angry that Congress went along with the corruption and the cover ups. What a dirty business, and the American taxpayer footed the bill.

There was one aspect to the bankers’ actions that disturbed me *greatly* as an Army veteran. The bankers provided funding to *both sides* of a war! [Emphasis mine.] This is an example from WW2 and there are examples from other conflicts. Page 295: “From the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power, German industry was heavily financed by American and British bankers… It was Farben that staffed and directed Hitler’s intelligence section and ran the Nazi slave labor camps…” And “During the Allied bombing raids over Germany, the factories and administrative buildings of I. G. Farben were spared upon instructions from the U.S. War Department.”

Page 297 discusses the international bankers themselves: “These men are incapable of genuine patriotism. They think of themselves, not as citizens of any particular country, but as citizens of the world. They can do business just as easily with bloodthirsty dictatorships as with any other government—especially since they are assured by the transfer mechanism that the American taxpayer is going to make good on the deal.” There are examples of funding both sides and/or political manipulation by bankers to gain interest on loans on virtually every conflict, or event including planned famine and genocide since and including the Boer War.

Even the Evil Empire is not crumbling, as most Americans have been led to believe. Page 298: “The hard fact is that American unknowingly have been making monthly bank payments on behalf of Communist, socialist, and so-called Third-World countries for many years.” Yesterday’s “Communists” are now called “Social Democrats” and the game goes on, playing off people’s ignorance and indifference.

Bruce