Sic Semper Tyrannis

Here is a video of me explaining my home-made anti-Fed poster at the April 15, 2008 "Grannie Warriors" Ron Paul rally in DC.

The poster puts the anti-Fed movement in historical context: in fact, the United States had two central banks before the Fed: The First Bank of the United States and ... The Second Bank of the United States. The first was effectively shut down by Thomas Jefferson, and the second was knocked off by Andrew Jackson.

Follow up:

My intent is to invoke two thoughts on the part of viewers:

1. there must be something wrong (or un-American) about the idea of a central bank; former US presidents (at least one of whom was a founding father) were vehemently against them.

2. They can be shut down... and were. The economy was fine (if not better, I'd argue). So why not do it again?

The poster then juxtaposes this historical context with the Ron Paul and contemporary anti-Fed movement. Suddenly it all seems a lot less "fringy".

I encourage others to print out their own copies of the poster. Bring them to Fed rallies, and liberty-centric gatherings of any nature. Files are here.

Note: these would be exorbitant to print out in full color on poster stock at Kinko's. What I did was print them out as tiled full (color) pages with Illustrator, then reassemble them by taping them onto a cardboard backing.