Wizard of Oz
"We believe that the right to coin money and issue money is a function of government [all the people]... I stand with Jefferson... the issue of money is a function of the government and the banks should get out of the governing business. When we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible. Until that is done, there is no reform that can be accomplished."
William Jennings Bryan
Just as you can read "between the lines" in the newspaper on any given day and discover clues issued by the "Powers That Be", if you look hard enough at what is actually going on, such notice can also be found in popular culture.
The classic fairytale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, was first published in 1900. It was written at a time when American society was consumed by the debate over the financial questions regarding the creation and circulation of currency. The 1890s were plagued by an economic depression that was nearly as severe as the Great Depression of the 1930s. In every presidential election between 1872 and 1896, there was a third national party running on a platform of financial reform. Typically organized under the auspices of labor or farmer organizations, these were parties of the people, not parties of the powerful business interests. They advocated reform of the banking and financial system. The characters in the story represented those deeply involved in the debate:
The Scarecrow
The Scarecrow represented the farmers. Farmers lived like serfs on their own land because they were in debt to the bankers, having mortgaged their farms, their equipment and sometimes even the seeds that they needed for planting.
The Tin Woodsman
The Tin Woodsman represented the industrial workers. In the cities, unemployed factory workers were as frozen as the Tin Woodsman, from the lack of a free-flowing supply of currency to "lubricate" the wheels of industry.
The Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion represented the isolationist William Jennings Bryan. Bryan was a powerful orator whose roar was as mighty as a lion's, but he had been branded as a coward by his opponents because of his pacifist and anti-imperialist positions at a time of American expansion in Asia.
Dorothy
Dorothy represented the archetypical American. The average person was profoundly strong and good, but was up against powers that were stronger than any one individual. She represented the people, who were powerful, but needed to work together in order to take advantage of their strength in numbers.
The Scarecrow represented the farmers. Farmers lived like serfs on their own land because they were in debt to the bankers, having mortgaged their farms, their equipment and sometimes even the seeds that they needed for planting.
The Tin Woodsman
The Tin Woodsman represented the industrial workers. In the cities, unemployed factory workers were as frozen as the Tin Woodsman, from the lack of a free-flowing supply of currency to "lubricate" the wheels of industry.
The Cowardly Lion
The Cowardly Lion represented the isolationist William Jennings Bryan. Bryan was a powerful orator whose roar was as mighty as a lion's, but he had been branded as a coward by his opponents because of his pacifist and anti-imperialist positions at a time of American expansion in Asia.
Dorothy
Dorothy represented the archetypical American. The average person was profoundly strong and good, but was up against powers that were stronger than any one individual. She represented the people, who were powerful, but needed to work together in order to take advantage of their strength in numbers.
Who was "The Wizard of Oz?"
Like almost everything else, it's right out there in the open for you to see if you will just look closely enough. "Oz" is an abbreviation of "onza," the Italian word for "ounce," or "ounces," the unit of measurement of gold, silver, and other precious metals. No matter how large the quantity of gold or silver being discussed, the amount is always expressed in ounces. Rather than "hundreds of tons" of gold, it's "so many million ounces" of gold.
The "Wizard of Oz" was the Wizard of Ounces. The controller of the money supply. Many commentators have held that Marcus Hanna, the power behind the Republican Party, was the person who controlled the mechanisms of finance during the McKinley administration. Today, the Wizard could easily be represented by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
The master of illusion who presents himself as "all-knowing and all-powerful", rules bombastically by decree, frightens us into blind obedience, controls our beliefs through showmanship, and is believed to be able fulfill our every desire, if we just do what he tells us to do.
The Wizard is very frightening and very powerful, but only because we do not realize who and what he really is and, more importantly, because we do not fully understand who and what we are!
The Wizard of Oz is "The Man" hiding behind the curtain.
Who was the Wicked Witch of the West?
In the first part of the film her counterpart was "Almira Gulch," who, according to Aunt Em, "owned half the county." Miss Gulch alleged that Dorothy's dog, Toto, had bitten her. She came to the farm with an "Order from the Sheriff" demanding that they surrender Toto to her custody. When Miss Gulch defied them to withhold Toto and "go against the law," dear old Aunt Em dutifully succumbed to the pressure and counseled Dorothy reluctantly:
"We can't go against the law, Dorothy. I'm afraid poor Toto will have to go."
When Dorothy refused to surrender Toto, Miss Gulch lashed out:
"If you don't hand over that dog I'll bring a damned suit that'll take your whole farm!"
Today, 70% of all attorneys in the world reside in the West - America, to be exact - and 95% of all lawsuits in the world are filed under U.S. jurisdiction. The Wicked Witch of the West and Miss Gulch represent judges and attorneys. The American legal system (including the attorney-run U.S. Congress), are the primary henchmen for transferring all wealth in America - everything - from the people over to the government and then to the banks.
What does the word "Toto" mean In "attorney language?" Toto means "Everything!" Miss Gulch (The Government) wants everything you have! Americans had settled the continent, and Big Government was beginning to take control...
After the stock market crash and the Depression that followed, The Wizard of Oz was made into a movie, and it served as an allegory for the new state of affairs in America in the 1930s. The setting of The Wizard of Oz, was Kansas: Heartland America, and geographical center of the USA. It began in black and white. Simple, hard times. Toto may have jumped out of Miss Gulch's hold, but it was hard to escape the financial storm that was brewing at the time. In comes the cyclone, the twister, the tornado, i.e. the whirling confusion of the stock market crash, the theft of America's gold, U.S. bankruptcy, the Great Depression -
When they finally land in Oz, Dorothy comments to her little companion:
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Between 1916 and 1933, most of America's gold was rounded up by the private Federal Reserve Bank and shipped off to Fed owners in England and Germany. The reason for this was that Federal Reserve Notes could be redeemed in gold and the use of Federal Reserve Notes carried an interest penalty that could only be paid in gold. We traded gold for (worthless) paper with green ink on it (Emerald City).
Our previous currency, United States Notes, carried no such interest requirement - but such was the bargain that came with the Federal Reserve Notes. When bankruptcy was declared in 1933, Americans were required to turn in all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates by May 1st - May Day (the birthday of Communism in Bavaria in 1776, the birthday of the IRS, and celebrated worldwide as the "International Workers Holiday" - a holy day to the Wizard and his tribe.
Talking to people who were alive at that time, you may find out that the general sentiment toward such thievery bordered on a second revolution. To find the Wizard you had to "follow the yellow brick road," i.e. follow the trail of America's stolen gold and you will find the thief who stole it.
In the 1930s, the (artificial corporate person/commercial entity) strawman, a newly created artificial aspect of the former American sovereigns, had no brain - and Americans were too confused and distracted by all the commotion to figure out what had just happened.
The Scarecrow identified his straw-man persona for Dorothy:
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Of course, I'm not bright about doing things."
And in his classic song, "If I Only Had a Brain," the Scarecrow/Straw Man succinctly argued:
"I'd unravel every riddle,
For every 'individdle,' (Individual)
In trouble or in pain."
Translation: Once you start to think for yourself, you will discover that your strawman exists. When you learn, then all political and legal mysteries, complexities, and confusions are resolved. Once you take responsibility and obtain legal title to your strawman, you can begin to protect yourself from legal trouble.
One of the definitions of "tin" in Webster's is "counterfeit." The Tin Woodsman, or "T-I-N" - Taxpayer Identification Number - Man, was a hollow man of metal, a "vessel," or "vehicle." Just like the Scarecrow/Straw Man had no brain, this Tin Man had no heart. Corporations were required to pay taxes for the privilege of existing. Both corporations and human beings were now defined as "persons". The Tin Man also represented the mechanical and heartless aspect of commerce and commercial law. Just like they say in the Mafia: "Nothing personal - it's just business."
Then Dorothy met the cowardly Lion, who represented the once-fearless American people, who had lost their courage. Some members of society regard people as nothing more than animals, "livestock," to be bred and birthed, herded and harvested, and sold and slaughtered according to the whims of those who run the global plantation. After your first round of battle with IRS, you (and many other Americans) probably lost some of your courage too.
When Dorothy and her new friends emerged from the forest they were elated to see the Emerald City before them, only a short jaunt away. The Wicked Witch of the West, desperate for the slippers that Dorothy was wearing, would have to make her move before our heroes were inside the walls. Her tactic was to cover the countryside with poppy flowers, or "poppies," the source of heroin, opium, and morphine, symbolically drugging them into unconsciousness, and then just waltz in and snatch the slippers.
In other words, the best way to subjugate the American people and boost the goods was to dull their senses by getting them hooked on drugs. The poppies/drugs worked on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto, our flesh-and-blood friends, but had no effect on the Scarecrow or the Tin Man, the artificial entities. The two of them cried out for help and Glenda, the Good Witch of the North, answered their prayers with a blanket of snow - i.e. cocaine, a stimulant - nullifying the narcotic effect of the poppies/opium on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto. Over 50% of the American population is currently taking prescription medications - could that be a means of controlling the population?
When the Wicked Witch of the West threatened to destroy the Scarecrow with fire, Dorothy destroyed the Wicked Witch by melting her with a bucket of water. The Wicked Witch was "liquidated". As one nineteenth century commentator put it...
"Money and debt are as opposite in nature as fire and water.
Money extinguished debt as water extinguishes fire."
Money extinguished debt as water extinguishes fire."
Much like the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes," where it took a child to see what the adults could not, in The Wizard of Oz, it was the dog Toto that saw through the curtain of deception and exposed the fact that the Wizard was not all that he appeared to be.
Much like the story of "The Emperor's New Clothes," where it took a child to see what the adults could not, in The Wizard of Oz, it was the dog Toto that saw through the curtain of deception and exposed the fact that the Wizard was not all that he appeared to be.
The answers are right in front of you, it is just encoded and disguised and camouflaged. Fortunately, the code has been cracked, and there is a way home, just like in the movie.
Will you continue to be conned and worship the Wizard's Light Show, or will you wise up like Toto and "look behind the curtain?"
The answers are right in front of you, it is just encoded and disguised and camouflaged. Fortunately, the code has been cracked, and there is a way home, just like in the movie.
Will you continue to be conned and worship the Wizard's Light Show, or will you wise up like Toto and "look behind the curtain?"