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John F Kennedy III
10-25-2011, 01:35 PM
Robin Hood Tax: Occupy Movement now marching straight into the globalist trap

Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
October 25, 2011

It was inevitable that a movement which has struggled to agree on a manifesto, would in the end, do the bidding of the very elite globalist powers that they are demonstrating against to begin with.

Instead of achieving freedom from Central Bank debt enslavement, naive Occupiers appear to have taken the bait, pulling the mob towards endorsing a global taxation system, and one to be administered… by a brand new global government body.

As the Occupy Movement sets its sights on the upcoming G20 Summit in France on November 3-4, its globalist handlers behind the scenes have succeeded in carefully directing its crowds towards the Holy Grail of all socialist super-states - the celebrity supported, trendy “Robin Hood Tax”, also known as a Tobin Tax, a financial transaction tax levied on all transactions involving shares, bonds and derivatives. It’s likely that such a blanket tax will eventually end up on the end of things like cash withdrawls and the like.


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The resulting funds, they claim, counted in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year, would go toward popular Bono-led liberal heart-string fantasy causes like ‘reducing poverty in the third world’, social programs and surprise, surprise… “combating climate change” and perhaps even saving polar bears – a move that would surely please desperate men like Al Gore (but a complete waste of money seeing that man-made global warming has already been thoroughly discredited).

The rallying cry for this globalist wet dream is coming directly from the supposed brain-child of the Occupy Movement, the globalist foundation-funded organization, Ad Busters, quietly shepherding its flock towards one of the biggest revenue spinning and control scams ever conceived.

Reuters reported yesterday:

“Canada-based Adbusters wants the Occupy Wall Street protest movement against economic inequality to take to the streets to call for a 1 percent tax on such deals ahead of a November 3-4 summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in France.

“Let’s send them a clear message: We want you to slow down some of that $1.3 trillion easy money that’s sloshing around the global casino each day — enough cash to fund every social program and environmental initiative in the world,” the activist group said on its website, www.adbusters.org.

Adbusters put out the initial call for Occupy Wall Street and since protesters set up camp in a park in New York City’s financial district on September 17, they have inspired solidarity demonstrations and so-called occupations around the world.”

In many ways, the Robin Hood Tax is an identical transaction-tax scam to the one proposed by globalists at the 2009 UN COP15 Climate Summit in Copenhagen, where a number of new taxes on financial transactions and new carbon taxes would be put into a giant “slush fund” to be handled by none other than the World Bank.

Ultimately, any Robin Hood Tax will most likely end up in a giant fund to “ensure that banks are adequately capitalized”, and one which will be used to bailout, or insure big bank losses and trillions in gambling derivative bets gone bad.

In reality, a Robin Hood Tax does just the opposite of what its name represents. Rather than stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, it is designed to steal more money through taxation from working people- money which will end up directly in the hands of institutions like the US Federal Reserve and its cartel of Wall Street banks.

OWS losing the plot

It’s very easy for the throngs of young protesters to fall into an obvious socialist, or collectivist trap, as many naive young Americans are unable, or unwilling, to liberate themselves from the Hegelian dialectic which tells them that the government must raise taxes and spending in order to achieve any social progress.

It’s obvious that the number one and two problems in America are a lack of jobs and creeping inflation, a duel plague which is fueling poverty- and ultimately dissent in the US. Occupiers are not asking why their government allowed US corporations to ship millions of American jobs off shore, and why it never bothered to offer incentives to foreign corporations to relocate in the US. Likewise Occupiers have not identified that their own Federal Reserve is robbing them every day by creating artificial scarcity, driving the kind of boom and bust cycles which ultimately rob Americans of their life saving and assets.

Rather than demand an additional new monster system of taxation, Occupiers should first be asking if any government can be trusted to spend their tax revenue responsibly. Certainly today it seems that pork rules in Washington and Obama’s Administration is presiding over the biggest budget deficit in the history of the US. This should be cause for alarm, yet, it’s hardly mentioned by the Occupy crowd.

They might also consider asking their beloved government in Washington – and elsewhere around the globe too, where all their tax revenue actually goes right now. If they understood that at present, their Federal Income Tax(in some cases, collected at gunpoint by the IRS) goes directly to paying off the debt which their government owes on each and every dollar printed by the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank… then Occupiers would surely be wary of allowing a Federal or global government to erect a new massive taxation system.

The OWS has, to their credit, urged protesters to close their bank accounts and transfer their money to credit unions with a bank transfer day on November 5th, certainly a step in a positive direction. But is it enough?

Disengage with the financial system

OWS protesters should be talking about taking steps to completely disengage from the system that enslaves them- this might include removing their hard-earned liquidity from the system by canceling all credit cards, not taking out student loans, or pointless car and electronic loans.

Another obvious trap of the Robin Hood Tax is that it would target all transactions – including pension funds. Occupiers should instead consider not paying in their pensions and 401K’s into stock market-indexed retirement funds. For older protesters, it might be a case of shifting their IRAs into gold and silver-backed retirement funds, disallowing the speculators and gamblers on Wall Street to decimate their life savings any further.

Has their been any call for a mass protest against the IRS, who continue to defy the US Constitution by robbing each and every working American of their labor and property in order to service their national debt to the Federal Reserve cartel? Certainly this would rock the establishment overnight. The Occupy Movement would have struck the most serious- and the most obvious blow imaginable, one which would finally call into question the legitimacy of a national income tax.

Or even better, Occupiers might consider taking the total expenditure of the US military- domestically and overseas , and divide by the number of working Americans, giving them an individual figure of money which each protester will refuse to hand over to the Federal government- a peace protest combined with an intelligent liberty move by free men and women.

Sadly, none of these kind of truly revolutionary ideas have come out of the Liberty Square protests. Instead, all they could manage in the end up with is to latch on to one of the most misleading and tyrannical ponzi schemes, the Robin Hood Tax, where the 99% end up giving the 1% even more of their hard earned cash over to the banks. Ironic, but this is the current direction which the angry, but naive mob is being led.

If any of the 99% truly believe that the top tier banks would happily give away trillions per year to the new Robin Hood Taxman, then think again. Their new tax will likely be imposed most stringently on small to medium size institutions and fund managers in an effort to drive out any competition to the mega banks- who already enjoy cuts to corporate income tax, and in some cases, pay no tax at all. Big banks are safe, but smaller competition will surely be hit hard by a Robin Hood Tax- ensuring the current hierarchy stays exactly as it is. This has always been the way when blanket government regulations and punitive taxes come into play.

In typically disingenuous fashion, when a mob has no clear objective it normally plays follow the leader. In this case, the leader is foundation-funded Ad Busters, who have supplied the directionless, vague OWS movement with the master plan to its own demise.

sevin
10-25-2011, 03:47 PM
The elite are stealing our money!

so...

Let's give them more money!

torchbearer
10-25-2011, 03:51 PM
in the time of robin hood the rich were the nobles who were stealing their labor in the form of taxation. the nobles didn't produce anything- they were leeches on the people. same as our government.
i think the simpleton view of robin hood as stealing from rich to give to poor is incorrect. robin hood was reclaiming the taxes the nobles has stolen from the serfs.

dannno
10-25-2011, 03:59 PM
in the time of robin hood the rich were the nobles who were stealing their labor in the form of taxation. the nobles didn't produce anything- they were leeches on the people. same as our government.
i think the simpleton view of robin hood as stealing from rich to give to poor is incorrect. robin hood was reclaiming the taxes the nobles has stolen from the serfs.

I think it is not only incorrect, but planned.

When the enemy of poor people is simply wealthy people, then they begin to hate capitalism. When the enemy of everyone are those corrupt individuals in power who steal everybody's money, then the enemy is the power structure.

blabam
10-25-2011, 03:59 PM
in the time of robin hood the rich were the nobles who were stealing their labor in the form of taxation. the nobles didn't produce anything- they were leeches on the people. same as our government.
i think the simpleton view of robin hood as stealing from rich to give to poor is incorrect. robin hood was reclaiming the taxes the nobles has stolen from the serfs.

Even the disney cartoon movie had the theme of stealing back from the government. People are just stupid.

Danke
10-25-2011, 04:02 PM
Hopefully some of this new tax money will go to the arts.

Patrick Henry
10-25-2011, 06:01 PM
Ragnar Danneskjold anyone? It really is crazy how we are pretty much living Atlas Shrugged.

osan
10-25-2011, 06:45 PM
If OWS gets steered this way and gains the minimal traction, it would seem that the people of this nation are going to be forced into choosing between capitulation and physical action. It appears that talking makes no difference - we are simply ignored. Anyone see another possibility, assuming all other action is ignored?

Look at the noises Obama is making about the economy and unemployment - that he threatens to "go around" Congress - whatever that might mean. That this talk is not being met with screaming promises from both sides of the aisle to immediately impeach him is strong evidence that we have few allies in Congress and seems to signal just what a tight corner we are in.

I am so very curious to see what the people of America are going to decide when the choice to fight or fold is presented to them. I am less optimistic as each day passes.

John F Kennedy III
10-25-2011, 07:20 PM
Ragnar Danneskjold anyone? It really is crazy how we are pretty much living Atlas Shrugged.

We are for sure living 1984. Perhaps i should read Atlas Shrugged.

Jandrsn21
10-25-2011, 07:47 PM
The Robin Hood Tax..... hmmmm..... anyone remember "The Patriot Act." Sooner or later they will start calling them "The Don't Read the Fine Line Act"

sevin
10-25-2011, 09:10 PM
We are for sure living 1984. Perhaps i should read Atlas Shrugged.

I'm still not sure which one we're living. At the end of Atlas Shrugged the power grid goes down, but it seems the thinkers will return and rebuild a free society. At the end of 1984, the government maintains its power and big brother wins. Which one will happen to us?

JVParkour
10-25-2011, 09:16 PM
I thought Ragnar was more of a guy who was stealing unearned wealth from the government insiders and giving it back to the free market people? This seems opposite from Ragnar's character to me...?

kylejack
10-25-2011, 09:21 PM
Let's not forget that the financial services companies are the ones that destroyed our economy and took trillions of dollars from the people. Sure, of course they should be compelled to pay it back and better the world. Once we're back to even they can go back to free market capitalism.

PaulConventionWV
10-25-2011, 09:25 PM
We are for sure living 1984. Perhaps i should read Atlas Shrugged.

I don't know, are we living Brave New World or 1984?

John F Kennedy III
10-25-2011, 11:26 PM
I'm still not sure which one we're living. At the end of Atlas Shrugged the power grid goes down, but it seems the thinkers will return and rebuild a free society. At the end of 1984, the government maintains its power and big brother wins. Which one will happen to us?

Depends on how soon people wake up. There is a point of no return.

Patrick Henry
10-26-2011, 04:22 AM
I thought Ragnar was more of a guy who was stealing unearned wealth from the government insiders and giving it back to the free market people? This seems opposite from Ragnar's character to me...?

He was. I should have been more clear. He was the one who spoke of the evils of the idea of robin Hood to Rearden.

frodus24
10-26-2011, 07:33 AM
Ragnar Danneskjold anyone? It really is crazy how we are pretty much living Atlas Shrugged.

I finally read Atlas Shrugged this past summer and that book changed my life. Every so often, I would announce to myself that we are living in Atlas Shrugged. We need John Galt, lol.

John F Kennedy III
10-27-2011, 12:05 AM
Who is John Galt?

Bosco Warden
10-27-2011, 12:29 AM
It wouldnt surprise me, they are obviously waiting for SOMEONE to show up and be the leader. Everyone Ron Paul supporter needs to be out there with END THE FED. that should be the SINGULAR message. Period.

willwash
10-27-2011, 01:47 AM
Even the disney cartoon movie had the theme of stealing back from the government. People are just stupid.

Even Ayn Rand recognized this. When the famous pirate Ragnar Danneskyold (whatever I'm not going to look up the spelling) made his first appearance he said something like "Robin Hood" was the reason for the decay of society, but then he caveated that with the disclaimer that in the actual Robin Hood myth, what Hood did was justified because the wealth he was stealing had in fact already been stolen from those who earned it. But the philosophy was warped into a general mantra of "take from the haves, give to the have-nots," which overwhelmingly leads simply to socialism.

It's a delicate balance.

osan
10-27-2011, 07:13 AM
We are for sure living 1984. Perhaps i should read Atlas Shrugged.

Interesting that you mention this. A good 30+ years ago I observed that the world was far closer to Huxley's vision (Brave New World) than Orwell's but speculated that as power continued to coalesce into ever fewer hands, the opposite would slowly come to pass with the former being supplanted by the latter in ever greater proportion.

It appears the speculation was sufficiently astute. With increasing frequency the trespass upon human freedom becomes ever more severe, piling the one upon the other in a great steaming heap of unvarnished, gloves-off despotism. With each passing day we come a step or two closer to a tipping point. Foolishly, I keep wondering how much farther things will go and whether "we" will finally have been served a sufficiently large heap to prompt substantive action.

I suppose that I, too, am part of the problem.

It seems so very curious, however, that "movements" such as OWS appear only to be co-opted by the tyrants and never by anyone else. How is is that "we" have not co-opted OWS? Why is that? Money? Influence? Power? Lassitude? It seems the elites are willing to put money where the rest are not. Pay agents to do a job. Perhaps liberty is not really that valuable as we claim?

EDIT: I must add that the despots do have the advantage of the path of least resistance on their sides. They promise everything that human stupidity, lassitude, and perversion forcefully desires: free stuff and no accountability. That is a hard sale to defeat.

Seriously, look at it in terms of young guys: here on the left you can choose d00r A, a world wherein you will be given everything you need to live for free. You will able to stick you dick anywhere you want and it will be OK. You will be able to act on every impulse that comes to mind and it will be OK. You will be never called upon to account for your actions.

Behind door B you have a world of true human freedom where you will be free to do as you please so long as you trespass not against your fellows. You will be responsible for your own life and fortunes. There will be no safety net. You will be held accountable for your actions. You will have to feed and clothe yourself and you run the risk of failure. And when the girl says "no", it means your willie stays zipped - no exceptions on that. But you will be otherwise free to live as you please.

Which... I way WHICH of these worlds do you think most young men are going to go for?

Please do not be stupidly naive when choosing.