Re: [A-List] On the Role of Gold

["Anne Williamson" <annewilliamson@xxxxxxx>]

The playing field is never going to be level at any
given time.  In any chosen moment, various players
will have the advantage due to the ebb and flow of
other factors -- but their advantages are temporary
so long as a free play of forces is allowed.  It's
the same as the deliberate misinterpretation of
the phrase, "all men are created equal" - well, they
certainly aren't, as is obvious.  What liberty and
justice require is that all are equal before the law,
no state-imposed advantage to any individual or group.
And mercantilism was definitely an early version of
our corrupt contemporary system of "managed trade"
rhetorically clothed as it is in the stolen and
deliberately misunderstood garb of "free trade."

----- Original Message -----
From: Henry C.K. Liu <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: [A-List] On the Role of Gold


> Mercantilism operated with gold-backed currencies. Yet is was as much a
scam as
> dollar hegemony in the sense that the plyaing field was never level.
>
> Henry C.K. Liu
>
> Anne Williamson wrote:
>
> > No, a gold-back dollar would undermine the very
> > swindle you identify.  The "bait" as you put it,
> > is the counterfeit.  Sound currency would return
> > the system to one of normal, mutually beneficial
> > trade transactions instead of the giant, destructive
> > scam it is.
> >
> > Anne
>
>
>