[bvw]

Right on that quoted selection. The Bretton Woods tossing off of the gold standard has hollowed out the US like some old Sycamore -- great and majestic looking, a beatiful bark and foliage, yet the inside is emptied and whatever core is left is rotted. The grand old tree is about to be toppled over by some mucho Knot gusts of a li'l ol' storm.

The TREE that falls is not the Constitutional Republic, however. Not the United States of America.

Let's just call it the "snake skin" being shed.

Liberty or Death. Victory or Death.

May Providence grant that we shall have both Liberty and Victory, so that we keep Justice and Peace in the world.

Welcome to the rough beginnings of the, new, mature America.

[Paul Ross]

The TREE that falls is not the Constitutional Republic, however. Not the United States of America.

Uh, let's hope not, but the same crazies who voted for Gore and want to declare the Clinton's Co-Presidents of the World...will be literally food-rioting when the economy collapses. Don't count on any shred of patriotic feeling or concern for their country. They will do what they always do. Be purely selfish for themselves and whatever 'class' they belong to, in the most egregious way, and then rationalize it as the 'right thing to do'. Meanwhile China's military will not be idle. Nor the Mexican's not-so-slow invasion of California.