How many Americans read the Dixson and Hollingshead cases? Fed- bashers purposely close their eyes and pay no attention to the judicial dicta enunciated in those landmark cases, albeit, it is written in stone that the Fed is in fact – and it is the truth -- a government entity that Congress created it to be.

      Federal Reserve Banks are “federal instrumentalities” also for purposes of immunity from state taxation. This has been decided by the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in 1975, re, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation, 499 F.2d 60, following a remand, and in Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis v. Register of Deeds, 288 Mich. 120, 248 N.W. 667 (1939).

       In still many similar cases, e.g. Land Bank v. Vismarck Lumber Co., 314 U.S. 95, 102, 62 S. Ct. 1, 5, 86 L. Ed. 65 (1941); Rust v. Johnson, 597 F.2d 174, 178 (9th Cir. 1979), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 964, 100 S. Ct. 450, 62 L. Ed. 2d 376 (1979), Reserve Banks “…clearly perform an important governmental function … which further the nation’s fiscal policy.”

       In 1979, the whole Federal Reserve System has also been challenged by radical agnostics in central banking as a non-governmental entity in the case of  Brink’s Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 466 F. Supp. 116 (D.D.C.1979) under the Service Contract Act, 41 U.S.C. § 351. Citing the Boston and Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank cases, the Court ruled that “the Federal Reserve Bank is a federal [**12] instrumentality.”

      There are more of these judiciary proofs where the high courts declared without any iota of doubt that the Federal Reserve is not a private but a government institution. 

      However, no matter how exhaustive the presentation of proof that the Fed is a federal entity and not a “private” agency, a very angry ignoramus or a revolutionary political weirdo would still swear that the United States central bank is a private ruffian cartel run by financial gangsters and purse muggers, just to simulate Jesus Christ’s Calvary in carrying the Cross of evil America. The Cross stands for America’s condemnable wrongdoing and contemptible “sins”, which President Obama himself admitted in the April 2009 American Summit as "errors" of the evil American Empire.   

      Examples of those “sins” are those preposterous accusations that America is controlled by a rogue institution called the Federal Reserve, and that 911 was not the handiwork of Al Qaeda assassins but of Americans themselves! 

       Naturally, normal right thinking Americans are totally outraged by such malicious insult; it is a blatant display of spiteful arrogance; these ideological innuendoes of the radical left I need not assure anyone anymore to dispel any doubt why the public is insuperably mortified with total disbelief!

     Considering that the Fed is a federal entity, all what incensed Fed abolitionists need to do is bring to court any corrupt member of the Central Bank whom they alleged as some kind of a monetary vampire sucking the blood money of the American people, and like those bad guys of the underworld in the Dixson case, the court of the land will consign them to jail to rot the rest of their remaining life on earth.

      I must stress the need to switch on a brighter light to guide readers in the maze of legalism on how to digest this litany of court cases. I must summarize what have been discussed so far, as follows: Notice carefully, that all these court rulings declaring the Fed as a government body have been judicially differentiated from the Lewis case under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

      As the courts stated, governmental function of the Fed is “not determinative in tort claims actions”. The reason for this is that traditional agency principles govern tort liability that requires the showing of control in the performance of the principal’s agent.

     I take the pain of quoting and annotating these landmark court decisions to dispel hate-motivated accusations, which poison the mind of the ignorant into believing, that the nation’s Federal Reserve is a private bank under the control of financial hijackers.

     Our Federal Reserve System – known as one of the best Central Banks in the world [those schooled in the comparative study of monetary economics are aware of this phenomenon] -- is a creation of the United States Congress, not a creation of, in the language of a very angry protester, “slimy crawlers from the bowels of the earth that suck the blood of this nation”. We hear this crap when extremely pissed off anti-Fed ax-welders who lose control of themselves spit the anger off their chest right into the face of those who argue otherwise because they knew better. 

      If it cannot be disputed that the Fed is by law a creation of Congress [only a very angry leftist radical or a crusading oddball among opportunist politicians or the hallucinating mind of a lost street urchin suffering a delusion of grandeur would pose a challenge that the Fed was not created by Congress], then in truth it is you and I who created the Fed because the members of the Legislature that created this government entity, are only representing each one of us – we the American people who, in the exercise of our constitutional prerogative, had voted each one of them to public office.

       Many cranks may cut the nose to spite the face, but it does not alter the fact that it is we, the American people, who created the United States Federal Reserve under our system of democracy.

       There are propaganda videos pointing to very rich bankers whom the Government acting through Congress originally took as “partners” in the creation of the Fed. Their financial expertise is being used to help managed the elaborately established national banking system. 

       But no matter how acerbic the public outcry of the misguided few in pressuring Congress to take over the job of the Fed because it is allegedly a private institution being run by “bandits”, it will never happen because first, the so-called “thugs” to catch are only pigments of the imagination, and second, it is unwise to do so for practical reasons. Congress does not have the needed banking expertise to run the system.

      If Fed officials or employees are “thieves” as irate grouches and teeth-gnashing sulkers pictured them to be, we have the court of law that will decide their fate before a hangman’s noose is put around their neck. But their accusers must act and face them in court, instead of pulling off their hair in tantrum or just quacking like noisy ducklings to attract the attention of CNN, Larry King, New York Times, Lost Angeles Times or The Washington Post.

      It is my honest and sincere hope that this eye-opening expose’ written in the simplest editorial presentation possible, the general public will stop listening to economic saboteurs from the left, or desist from wasting their time patronizing the arguments of smart alecks and shouldn’t listen anymore to disgruntled pen-pushers whose writings exhibit ostentatious or smart-aleckism in their revolutionary campaign against the nation’s Central Bank. One of the visible reasons for this caveat is that obviously, anti-Fed-mongers have a hidden ax to grind.

      To express a protest or dislike for any given reason, is a constitutional right, and so is the right to be intentionally ignorant of what is being disliked or protested, like this nation’s much maligned Central Bank that whirled America’s new millennium of progress from that spaceless life of the 1920s’ depression then, to the depth of outer space, now reaching the edge of the Universe and with the wonders of advance scientific know-how, to discover a new world in another planet.

      In this campaign against the Fed primarily based on false allegation that the Fed is a private institution, the court rulings I have presented that are deliberately ignored, stand as proof that bucket kickers are attacking the Fed with a clandestine agenda. 

      Carrying along a hate-generating baggage I have just shown, is prevalent among politicians coming from both sides of the aisles who would rather suppress the truth, than lose their chance to jump into the limelight and salivate a lie to attract support and patronage.

     We are captives of self-interest, and to the exclusion of others, we lose sight of the commonweal.  Since ignorance, lying and anger aggravate the seriousness of this attitudinal problem, only those who can escape from the captivity of their own self-centeredness can make this hopeless situation reversible.  #

© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad.  FP.com access June 25, 2009.

    [Note: Part II promises more surprises.]

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