This Is My Rifle: Lupe’s Uzi Weighs a Pound

“In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America”. - Lupe Fiasco

I believe my exact response to that quote was, “Yup, that’ll do it”.

Within hours of Lupe Fiasco’s appearance on Trending Topics, a CBS program that I’ve never seen before but I’m guessing showcases current trends in popular culture, the Hip Hop media went batshit crazy over “anti-Obama” remarks made by Fiasco in his interview with host Shira Lazar. Since I don’t pay too much attention to the mainstream media, I was completely unaware of Lupe’s fiasco (see what I did there?) until I came across an article written by fellow RefinedHype writer, Brando. While I agreed with the overall point that Brando made, I feel that the media has taken it upon itself, once again, to unfairly negatively portray a public figure based purely on a misinterpreted statement.

What Lupe Fiasco was trying to draw attention to was America’s disastrous approach to foreign policy. And while I commend him for his attempt, saying that Barack Obama is the biggest terrorist in the United States of America was a little too direct for comfort. What Lupe needed to do was elaborate on his opinion and go further into his reasoning behind the idea that Obama is indeed a terrorist.

The truth is, Barack Obama is merely the face of an organization that has generated more pain and suffering in recent history than any other group on this planet. The American government is without question the sole master of the ongoing international political chess game and they have spent decades playing countries against each other, some ultimately being destroyed, for their own personal interests and ambitions. Whether it’s Barack Obama, George Bush or Bill Clinton, all of these men have little to do with the policies that are put in place during their administrations and they are nothing more than a front for a group of people who really make the decisions. The term “President” is only a title and holds no value within the true circle of power.

When thinking of the American government you have to remove the idea of democratically elected officials who toil day in and day out to guide and protect the country that they serve. In reality, these people sit at the bottom of the food chain and more or less play the role of actors in a sophisticated theatrical production. They are, in essence, well-positioned puppets. The men pulling the strings, the grand masters, are a small group of billionaire bankers that lurk in the shadows behind the scenes, rarely revealing their existence to the public.

They go by many names and have many branches; the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. All of these groups work together and many of the people involved are members of a multitude of these entities. These organizations are the real government; they are the ones in control of the chessboard. From wars to the media to the world economy, they are the creators and purveyors of the world around you. They dictate what information you receive and how you process it. Everything that occurs in your reality is a pre-meditated maneuver to push you in one particular direction.

I know, it sounds ridiculous. Even I have a hard time believing that there’s a real life Legion of Doom sitting in a room somewhere plotting their next move in world domination. But once you take a moment to break down and analyze the system that we live within, it becomes strikingly clear that it has been built and functions with only one purpose; total control of every aspect of humanity.

The Federal Reserve, the most important piece of their complicated puzzle, is a private bank owned and operated by the ruling elite and has absolutely no relation to the American government whatsoever. This is the central bank that is responsible for every dollar in circulation within the United States. They print the money and then loan it to the American government with interest and so as a result the American government is perpetually indebted to them and are literally employed by them to do their bidding. So in actuality, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is just as, if not more, powerful than the President of the United States of America. But of course, neither has to worry about getting in the way of the other because both of them answer to the bankers who run the show.

These same bankers also control the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank of England. Both the IMF and World Bank, which masquerade as international banks created to assist poorer countries in times of need, are really the bread and butter of the entire scheme and made the United States and Britain the world powers that they are today. Here’s how they work:

Control over the World Bank and IMF relies on the size and strength of a particular country’s economy. And so understandably, the United States has always had the major controlling stake in both of these organizations. Both of these banks were created so that when countries find themselves in financial trouble, due to disaster, war, etc., they could go to the IMF and World Bank for aid. The IMF and World Bank then decide if these countries deserve to be helped and just how much help they will receive. This is generally determined by what the country in question has to offer and because the United States has majority control, most of the countries that accept aid from the IMF and World Bank have to agree to terms set out by these organizations. These countries are then sold to multi-national corporations who privatize publicly owned companies and strip them bare while introducing deregulated free markets which drives up inflation and in turn pushes most of that country’s citizens into extreme poverty. In the end, the multi-national corporations (also owned by the bankers and their affiliates) gain billions of dollars and become an even more dominating force than they were before.

This is how it’s been done for over 40 years and this is the United States’ standard foreign policy. What Lupe Fiasco was trying to say was that it’s this system that creates terrorism because it instills an intense hatred for the United States within the inhabitants of the countries unfortunate enough to deal with them. So to say that Barack Obama is the biggest terrorist in the United States is somewhat accurate, but it’s like buying a shirt from Wal-Mart that has a hole in it and blaming it on the store manager. While the manager may work for the company, they’re really not the person in charge. Sure, they can exchange your shirt for a new one but they can’t do anything to change the quality of the t-shirts made by the manufacturer. They can make suggestions but if the owner of the franchise doesn’t want to make a switch, it’s just not going to happen.

The truth about this whole system is that there’s really no way to reverse the damage it’s caused or minimize its impact in the future. The only way to stop it is to tear it down completely and put the control of finance back into the hands of our governments. By eliminating the Federal Reserve we would be effectively removing the root of international political corruption and taking the power out of the hands of the bankers. For the first time in our lives we would be on our way to experiencing total, undeniable freedom.

It’s hard to imagine, isn’t it?

(Jason James is an artist, freelance columnist and writer for RefinedHype.com. You can listen/download his most recent album, "Marvelous World Of Color", here and you can contact him here and here.)