G. Edward Griffin: A Pessimistic Scenario

This is the twenty-fifth installment in a series of chapter summaries from G. Edward Griffin’s must-read book The Creature From Jekyll Island.  This book may be the most important “red pill” available and we highly recommend that you read the full book.  Buy it today at RealityZone.

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Note: This chapter remains exactly as first published in 1994.  The original whimsical look into the future has become an incredibly accurate portrayal of many real events since then.  A banking crisis and massive bailouts have already come to pass.  The still unfolding scenario includes hyperinflation, collapse of the economy, a new global currency, domestic violence, U.N. “Peacekeeping” forces in the U.S., and the arrival of high-tech feudalism.

A pessimistic scenario of future events includes a banking crisis, followed by a government bailout and the eventual nationalization of all banks.  The final cost is staggering and is paid with money created by the Federal Reserve. It is passed on to the public in the form of inflation.

Further inflation is caused by the continual expansion of welfare programs, socialized medicine, entitlement programs, and interest on the national debt.  The dollar is finally abandoned as the de facto currency of the world.  Trillions of dollars are sent back to the United States by foreign investors to be converted as quickly as possible into tangible assets.  That causes even greater inflation than before.  So massive is the inflationary pressure that industry and commerce come to a halt.  Barter becomes the means of exchange.  America takes her place among the depressed nations of South America, Africa, and Asia — mired together in economic equality.

Politicians seize upon the opportunity and offer bold reforms.  The reforms are more of exactly what created the problem in the first place: expanded governmental power, new regulatory agencies, and more restrictions on freedom.  But this time, the programs begin to take on an international flavor.  The American dollar is replaced by a new UN money, and the Federal Reserve System becomes a branch operation of the IMF/World Bank.

Electronic transfers gradually replace cash and checking accounts.  This permits UN agencies to monitor the financial activities of every person.  A machine-readable ID card is used for that purpose.  If an individual is red flagged by any government agency, the card does not clear, and he is cut off from all economic transactions and travel.  It is the ultimate control.

Increasing violence in the streets from revolutionary movements and ethnic clashes provide an excuse for martial law.  The public is happy to see UN soldiers checking ID cards.  The police-state arrives in the name of public safety.

Eventually all private dwellings are taken over by the government as a result of bailing out the home-mortgage industry.  Rental property is also taken, as former landlords are unable to pay property taxes.  People are allowed to live in these dwellings at reasonable cost, or no cost at all.  It gradually becomes clear, however, that the government is now the owner of all homes and apartments.  People are living in them only at the pleasure of the government.  They can be reassigned at any time.

Wages and prices are controlled.  Dissidents are placed into work armies.  There are no more autos except for the ruling elite.  Public transportation is provided for the masses, and those with limited skills live in government housing within walking distance of their assigned jobs.  Men have been reduced to the level of serfs who are subservient to their masters.  Their condition of life can only be described as high-tech feudalism.

There is no certainty that he future will unfold in exactly that manner, because there are too many variables.   For example, if we had assumed that there will not be a banking crisis, then our journey would be different.  We would not see long lines of depositors or panic-buying in the stores or closing of the stock market.  But we would still witness the same scenes of despair in the more distant future.  We merely would have traveled a different path of events to get there.  That is because the forces driving our society into global totalitarianism would not have changed one iota.  We still would have the doomsday mechanisms at work.  We would have the CFR in control of the power centers of government and media.  We would have an electorate which is unaware of what is being done to them and, therefore, unable to resist.  Through environmental and economic treaties and through military disarmament to the UN, we would witness the same emergence of a world central bank, a world government, and a world army to enforce its dictates.  Inflation and wage/price controls would have progressed more or less the same, driving consumer goods out of existence and men into bondage.  Instead of moving toward The New World Order in a series of economic spasms, we merely would have traveled a less violent path and arrived at exactly the same destination. 

See other parts below:
PART 1: The Journey to Jekyll Island
PART 2: The Name of the Game is Bailout
PART 3: Protectors of the Public
PART 4: Home, Sweet Loan
PART 5: Nearer to the Heart’s Desire
PART 6: Building the New World Order
PART 7: The Barbaric Metal
PART 8: Fool’s Gold
PART 9: The Secret Science
PART 10: The Mandrake Mechanism
PART 11: The Rothschild Formula
PART 12: Sink the Lusitania!
PART 13: Masquerade in Moscow
PART 14: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy 
PART 15: The Lost Treasure Map
PART 16: The Creature Comes to America
PART 17: A Den of Vipers
PART 18: Loaves and Fishes and Civil War
PART 19: Greenbacks and Other Crimes
PART 20: The London Connection
PART 21: Competition is a Sin 
PART 22: The Creature Swallows Congress
PART 23: The Great Duck Dinner
PART 24: Doomsday Mechanisms