{"id":41130,"date":"2018-12-01T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41130"},"modified":"2018-12-01T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:39:21","slug":"the-criminalization-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41130","title":{"rendered":"The Criminalization of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/globalintelhub.com\/the-criminalization-of-politics\/\">The Criminalization of Politics<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">The system is crooked.\u00a0 So why bother, right?\u00a0 Most Americans don\u2019t vote don\u2019t care.\u00a0 Up to 30% don\u2019t file don\u2019t pay taxes.\u00a0 That\u2019s real freedom!\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.splittingpennies.com\/\">As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies \u2013 the world is not as it seems.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Personally, I watched the fixing of the 2000 election from ground zero in Palm Beach County Florida.\u00a0 The registration of dead voters, the confusion over the chads, getting prisoners to vote Republican.\u00a0 Gore should have won by a much larger margin (not that I wanted Gore to win, I\u2019m speaking like an objective observer).\u00a0 Being a trader, I wasn\u2019t much interested in voting or politics which was unusual, as I went to a school where Dan Quale and George Bush Sr. were visitors at our mock political rallies, friends of mine were some of Bush\u2019s biggest donors (that was in the year he lost, of course).\u00a0 Barbara Bush came to one of my baseball games, I had the photo where I shook her hand on my bedroom wall for years (I was 8 years old I thought it was significant like meeting the Queen).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">But knowing these people intimately, hanging out with some Kennedy\u2019s from time to time on the Island (or at least, seeing an altercation between them and police at the piano bar), seeing the weirdo stuff, the manipulations of other people, using money to silence people, illegal side businesses, their mafia friends when they needed to \u2018get things done\u2019 \u2013 I realized that there are 2 parallel worlds.\u00a0 There is the world as I called it \u2018As seen on TV\u2019 and then there\u2019s the real world.\u00a0 ZH readers know this well, but as a young child one doesn\u2019t manifest this vision automatically.\u00a0 It takes experience seeing this evil, or in my case both \u2013 it was later confirmed by the extensive research into the financial system. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Criminalization of Politics The system is crooked.\u00a0 So why bother, right?\u00a0 Most Americans don\u2019t vote don\u2019t care.\u00a0 Up to 30% don\u2019t file don\u2019t pay taxes.\u00a0 That\u2019s real freedom!\u00a0\u00a0As we explain in our book Splitting Pennies \u2013 the world is not as it seems. 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