JFK-Attempted to Disband FED
On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve
 Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that 
day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that 
returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without 
going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy's order gave the Treasury
 the power "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, 
silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This meant that for
 every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government 
could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought 
nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of
 this bill are enormous. 
With
 the stroke of a pen, Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal 
Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver 
certificates were to come into circulation they would have eliminated 
the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver 
certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not 
backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the 
national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have 
given the government the ability to repay its debt without going to the 
Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new 
money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own
 money backed by silver. 
After
 Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, no more silver 
certificates were issued. The Final Call has learned that the Executive 
Order was never repealed by any U.S. President through an Executive 
Order and is still valid. Why then has no president utilized it? 
Virtually all of the nearly $6 trillion in debt has been created since 
1963, and if a U.S. president had utilized Executive Order 11110 the 
debt would be nowhere near the current level. Perhaps the assassination 
of JFK was a warning to future presidents who would think to eliminate 
the U.S. debt by eliminating the Federal Reserve's control over the 
creation of money. Mr. Kennedy challenged the government of money by 
challenging the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to
 drive up debt - war and the creation of money by a privately-owned 
central bank. His efforts to have all troops out of Vietnam by 1965 and 
Executive Order 11110 would have severely cut into the profits and 
control of the New York banking establishment. As America's debt reaches
 unbearable levels and a conflict emerges in Bosnia that will further 
increase America's debt, one is force to ask, will President Clinton 
have the courage to consider utilizing Executive Order 11110 and, ifso, 
is he willing to pay the ultimate price for doing so? 
Executive Order 11110 AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289 
AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, it is ordered as follows: 
Section 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended, is hereby further amended- 
By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following subparagraph (j): 
(j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43 of the Act of May 12,1933, as amended (31 U.S.C.821(b)), to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denomination of such silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary silver currency for their redemption
and -- 
Byrevoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof. 
Sec.
 2. The amendments made by this Order shall not affect any act done, or 
any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or commenced
 in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order but all 
such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said 
amendments had not been made. 
John F. Kennedy The White House, June 4, 1963. 
Of course, the fact that both JFK and Lincoln met the the same end is a mere coincidence. 
Abraham Lincoln's Monetary Policy, 1865 (Page 91 of Senate document 23.) 
Money
 is the creature of law and the creation of the original issue of money 
should be maintained as the exclusive monopoly of national Government. 
Money possesses no value to the State other than that given to it by circulation. 
Capital
 has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of 
men should be recognised in the structure of and in the social order as 
more important than the wages of money. 
No
 duty is more imperative for the Government than the duty it owes the 
People to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, and of 
regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labour will
 be protected from a vicious currency, and commerce will be facilitated 
by cheap and safe exchanges. 
The
 available supply of Gold and Silver being wholly inadequate to permit 
the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible 
into coin in the volume required to serve the needs of the People, some 
other basis for the issue of currency must be developed, and some means other than that of convertibility into coin must be developed to
 prevent undue fluctuation in the value of paper currency or any other 
substitute for money of intrinsic value that may come into use. 
The
 monetary needs of increasing numbers of People advancing towards higher
 standards of living can and should be met by the Government. Such needs
 can be served by the issue of National Currency and Credit through the 
operation of a National Banking system .The circulation of a medium of 
exchange issued and backed by the Government can be properly regulated 
and redundancy of issue avoided by withdrawing from circulation such 
amounts as may be necessary by Taxation, Redeposit, and otherwise. 
Government has the power to regulate the currency and creditof the 
Nation. 
Government
 should stand behind its currency and credit and the Bank deposits of 
the Nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through 
depreciation or inflated currency or Bank bankruptcy. 
Government
 possessing the power to create and issue currency and creditas money 
and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from 
circulation by Taxation and otherwise need not and should not borrow 
capital at interest as a means of financing Governmental work and public
 enterprise. The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the 
currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the 
Government and the buying power of the consumers. The privilege of 
creating and issueing money is not only the supreme prerogative of 
Government, but it is the Governments greatest creative opportunity. 
By
 the adoption of these principles the long felt want for a uniform 
medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of 
interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public 
enterprise, the maintenance of stable Government and ordered progress, 
and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical 
administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as 
safe as their own Government. Money will cease to be master and become 
the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money 
power. 
Some
 information on the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve, a Private 
Corporation One of the most common concerns among people who engage in 
any effort to reduce their taxes is, "Will keeping my money hurt the 
government's ability to pay it's bills?" As explained in the first 
article in this series, the modern withholding tax does not, and wasn't 
designed to, pay for government services. What it does do, is pay for 
the privately-owned Federal Reserve System. 
Black's
 Law Dictionary defines the "Federal Reserve System" as, "Network of 
twelve central banks to which most national banks belong and to which 
state chartered banks may belong. Membership rules require investment of
 stock and minimum reserves." 
Privately-owned
 banks own the stock of the Fed. This was explained in more detail in 
the case of Lewis v. United States, Federal Reporter, 2nd Series, Vol. 
680, Pages 1239, 1241 (1982), where the court said: 
Each
 Federal Reserve Bank is a separate corporation owned by commercial 
banks in its region. The stock-holding commercial banks elect two thirds
 of each Bank's nine member board of directors. 
Similarly,
 the Federal Reserve Banks, though heavily regulated, are locally 
controlled by their member banks. Taking another look at Black's Law 
Dictionary, we find that these privately owned banks actually issue 
money: 
Federal
 Reserve Act. Law which created Federal Reserve banks which act as 
agents in maintaining money reserves, issuing money in the form of bank 
notes, lending money to banks, and supervising banks. Administered by 
Federal Reserve Board (q.v.). 
The
 FED banks, which are privately owned, actually issue, that is, create, 
the money we use. In 1964 the House Committee on Banking and Currency, 
Subcommittee on Domestic Finance, at the second session of the 88th 
Congress, put out a study entitled Money Facts which contains a good 
description of what the FED is: 
The
 Federal Reserve is a total money-making machine.It can issue money or 
checks. And it never has a problem of making its checks good because it 
can obtain the $5 and $10 bills necessary to cover its check simply by 
asking the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving to print them. 
As
 we all know, anyone who has a lot of money has a lot of power. Now 
imagine a group of people who have the power to create money. Imagine 
the power these people would have. This is what the Fed is. 
No
 man did more to expose the power of the Fed than Louis T. McFadden, who
 was the Chairman of the House Banking Committee back in the 1930s. 
Constantly pointing out that monetary issues shouldn't be partisan, he 
criticized both the Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt 
administrations. In describing the Fed, he remarked in the Congressional
 Record, House pages 1295 and 1296 on June 10, 1932, that: 
Mr.
 Chairman,we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions 
the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the 
Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government Board, 
has cheated the Government of the United States and he people of the 
United States out of enoughmoney to pay the national debt. The 
depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the 
Federal reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough 
money to pay the national debt several times over. This evil institution
 has impoverished and ruined the people of the UnitedStates; has 
bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has
 done this through the maladministration of that law by which the 
Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed 
vultures who control it. 
Some
 people think the Federal reserve banks are United States Government 
institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private 
credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for 
the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and 
domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money 
lenders. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who 
would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are 
those who send money into States to buy votes to control our 
legislation; and there are those who maintain an international 
propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us and of wheedling us into the 
granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their 
past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime. 
Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally 
foisted upon this country by bankers who camehere from Europe and who 
repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. 
The
 Fed basically works like this: The government granted its power to 
create money to the Fed banks. They create money, then loan it back to 
the government charging interest. The government levies income taxes to 
pay the interest on the debt. On this point, it's interesting to note 
that the Federal Reserve act and the sixteenth amendment, which gave 
congress the power to collect income taxes, were both passed in 1913. 
The incredible power of the Fed over the economy is universally 
admitted. Some people, especially in the banking and academic 
communities, even support it. On the other hand, there are those, both 
in the past and in the present, that speak out against it. One of these 
men was President John F. Kennedy. His efforts were detailed in Jim 
Marrs' 1990 book, Crossfire: 
Another
 overlooked aspect of Kennedy's attempt to reform American society 
involves money. Kennedy apparently reasoned that by returning to the 
constitution, which states that only Congress shall coin and regulate 
money, the soaring national debt could be reduced by not paying interest
 to the bankers of the Federal Reserve System, who print paper money 
then loan it to the government at interest. He moved in this area on 
June 4, 1963, by signing Executive Order 11,110 which called for the 
issuance of $4,292,893,815 in United States Notes through the U.S. 
Treasury rather than the traditional Federal Reserve System. That same 
day, Kennedy signed a bill changing the backing of one and two dollar 
bills from silver to gold, adding strength to the weakened U.S. 
currency. 
Kennedy's
 comptroller of the currency, James J. Saxon, had been at odds with the 
powerful Federal Reserve Board for some time, encouraging broader 
investment and lending powers for banks that were not part of the 
Federal Reserve system. Saxon also had decided that non-Reserve banks 
could underwrite state and local general obligation bonds, again 
weakening the dominant Federal Reserve banks. 
A
 number of "Kennedy bills" were indeed issued - the author has a five 
dollar bill in his possession with the heading "United States Note" - 
but were quickly withdrawn after Kennedy's death. According to 
information from the Library of the Comptroller of the Currency, 
Executive Order 11,110 remains in effect today, although successive 
administrations beginning with that of President Lyndon Johnson 
apparently have simply ignored it and instead returned to the practice 
of paying interest on Federal Reserve notes. Today we continue to use 
Federal Reserve Notes, and the deficit is at an all-time high. 
The
 point being made is that the IRS taxes you pay aren't used for 
government services. It won't hurt you, or the nation, to legally reduce
 or eliminate your tax liability.
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