No Treason · Chapter
XVIII explained
The chapter argues that the U.S.
What happens
The chapter argues that the U.S. government lacks any valid contract, as the Constitution was never signed and voting is conducted via secret ballot, making no one openly responsible. It contends that real rulers are those with the will and money to kill, and that wealthy moneylenders like the Rothschilds finance governments to murder and enslave people for profit, turning rulers into mere tools of blood-money lenders.
Themes in this chapter
Secret Government and Secret Ballot
The secret ballot prevents individual responsibility, allowing a hidden band of robbers and murderers to rule.
Economic Exploitation and War Profiteering
Blood-money lenders like the Rothschilds profit by financing governments to murder and enslave people.
Individual Natural Rights
The chapter asserts the right of individuals to defend themselves against secret rulers who rob and enslave them.
Characters to notice
- a man
The individual who is robbed, enslaved, and murdered by the secret government.
- Unknown
The narrator who poses rhetorical questions about the identity of the real rulers.
- these men
The secret band of robbers and murderers who constitute the real governing power.
- Congress
The legislative body that acts as a tool of the wealthy moneylenders.
- the Rothschilds
Representative blood-money lenders who finance governments to murder and enslave people for profit.
- any member of Congress
An example of a nominal ruler who is actually a tool of the moneylenders.
Key passages
“Who are the men, the responsible men , who rob us of our property? Restrain us of our liberty? Subject us to their arbitrary dominion? And devastate our homes, and shoot us down by the hundreds of thousands, if we resist?”
Who are the actual individuals responsible for stealing our property, restricting our freedom, imposing tyranny, and destroying our homes and killing us en masse when we resist?
The author questions the identity of the secret rulers.
“These moneylenders, the Rothschilds, for example, say to themselves: If we lend a hundred millions sterling to the Queen and Parliament of England, it will enable them to murder twenty, fifty, or a hundred thousand people in England, Ireland, or India; and the terror inspired by such wholesale murder, will enable them to keep the whole people of those countries in subjection for twenty, or perhaps fifty, years to come; to control all their trade and industry; and to extort from them large amounts of money, under the name of taxes; and from the wealth thus extorted from them, they (the Queen and Parliament) can afford to pay us a higher rate of interest for our money than we can get in any other way.”
The Rothschilds calculate that lending money to the British government enables mass murder, which terrifies the population into submission, allowing the government to control trade and extract taxes, from which they can repay the loan with high interest.
The author explains the profit motive behind blood-money lending.
“And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen.”
Those who lend money to governments to facilitate robbery, enslavement, and murder are some of the worst criminals in history.
The author condemns war financiers as villains.