There is a
short roster of
approved personalities at CP’s site (I read them; they are
sharp
characters) but the fellow is an editor by trade and may have been
flustered as he couldn’t edit (delete content from) my
essays. How can a post be rejected when submitting it to
oneself? He did his part in underscoring Treasury’s
claim
to being able to seize gold and silver http://www.gata.org/node/5606
(“and everything else”); the purpose of THIS
documentary is
to PREVENT that from transpiring! If anything in this
documentary
“includes much more politics than GATA's charter
allows”
there are two reasons for it; it needs to be said and it’s
remarkably bigheaded to project that once a duo crafts a charter,
everyone in the PM community should ipso facto be governed by it http://gata.org/node/7424
!
It’s wonderful being a maverick! What about everyone else
who isn’t a member of GATA, which likely includes MOST precious
metals investors? It should not be assumed that they therefore
aren’t exerting themselves in various ways to help the cause of
free markets and sound money; that can be done without being under
anyone’s thumb and without raving about a personality parade. We
are a community
of
equals, not a community of elitists. In almost 8 years of
monthly
essays and being one of only two bullish commentators to ever
be cited by the Silver
Users Association, no one else on the
long side of metals expressed fault with the presentations and a half
dozen leading names told me by E-mail of their high esteem.
How is it that one man found notable fault when others, including some
arguably of higher standing than him, did not? This includes one
of the largest metals dealers in these United States. It took
Powell several years to get on the silver bandwagon; he was not on it
from day one; a lack of perception may take place in multiple areas.
Lee
Marvin in
“The Dirty Dozen” (1967) remarked in red to a
critic in blue---
"I
didn't write those reports! Just what is that
supposed to
mean? It means I don’t agree with
what’s
in them!
I don't like it and I think it stinks! Maybe
you’d
like to write your own reports? No
thanks!
I’m interested in results, not embroidery!"
Additionally, I praised this organization multiple times in essays
before receiving the crass demerit from their information
gatekeeper. I’ve also heard from his rank and file
members
as to the quality of my research; one of his board members gave public
credit to my work calling me one of “two
of the most prolific writers about silver on the Internet” (which
I did as a labor of love and for no remuneration because I care about
the PM community); the knock against me came from one person
only. Keep in mind this organization did not offer this
present
documentary; yours truly did because he cares about your property
rights. Everyone whose work is denigrated deserves
opportunity to
defend it. No details herein are
“tangents;” they are
ramifications which present a glimpse into the operations of The Silver
Stealers, who are also The Gold Stealers. No one else gives
you
details to this extent as a charitable work. Very strangely,
the
slap to my work stayed up when 2 days later the apex silver
commentator, Ted Butler, publicly
apologized to me after I told
him privately to skip it. The
common denominator was references to President Johnson’s
negative
actions in silver. I requested retraction from Connecticut
and
was denied because not everyone has the class of a Ted
Butler. It
is to be hoped that any discord in the hard money movement
won’t
be exploitable by the bad boys. The organization has done
good
work and deserves continued support; I was shocked that its gatekeeper
would toss a dart at an ally. There can be no better way to
protect our property rights than by ripping the cover off the central
organization responsible for over a century of attacks on precious
metals, their prices and the private ownership rights thereof.
It’s also possible my “mistake” was not
joining and
being a financial contributor; it could have immunized me from being
painted with a depreciating brush. He also was aware that my
work
was hosted by Silver Investor; that its proprietor was a GATA
member/contributor and supporter; and in deference to those facts,
could have chosen to avoid the cutting remarks. I
don’t
“fly off” onto anything---that’s what
birds do.
As long as Node 7424 and http://news.goldseek.com/GATA/1242579600.php
and the copy at 24 Hour Gold stay up, I have to be able to answer
it. I was minding my own business when I was
broadsided.
This is no attempt to draw anyone into a conflict and it
isn’t a
feud; it’s a call for considering the other
person’s
feelings before detracting. The fight for our property rights
is
millions of times more important; this is a bagatelle but even a crumb
on the floor gets noticed.
This is the same editor by trade who, while not directly
acclaiming my work, did link one of my monthly essays on June 9, 2004,
which concerned a corrupt official of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission http://www.gata.org/node/2494/print
Yes, Mr. Powell committed a spelling error when he gave the title of my
offering as “Michael Gorham’s Paper Money Job,” when
the correct version is “Michael Gorham’s Paper Money
Mob.” Being correct still matters! After almost five
years, couldn’t Chris remember he earlier thought my work was
worth linking?
Bill Murphy “himself” notified me on November
30, 2004, 1:56PM Central time that he also posted the link. My
work has not changed in character since then.
On February 6, 2011, major figure in silver
commentary
from North of the border publicly stated in regard to his work which
GATA had “ignored it for the 2nd time.” GATA can
easily respond that it selects only the cream de la crème; we do
dispute this as valid in all cases. Does it give the editor a
sensation like walnut hulls scratching his corneas to review this
criticism?
There are other instances of precious metals longs sniping at
others on the same side of the ideological divide from the paper money
mob. Instead of looking for basis for acidic relations, we
would
be better served to unite to fight the common enemy. Just
check
out the facts offered. If they stand up, disregard those who
refuse to link this documentary or refuse to accept paid advertising
for it! Your independent researcher, commentator and
historian,
who is eminently content to not be governed by anyone’s
charter,
gave up having a social life for most of the past ten years, including
vacations, to find time to research for you---all
noncompensated.
Our collective property rights immeasurably overshadow perceptions of
relative prestige attributed to personalities, personalities, and
personalities!
Powell may eventually post comments about my remarks. In
the event Powell commits the serious error of playing the “mental
illness” card (“something is wrong with his mind because he
leveled criticism at me”), you should dismiss him entirely.
Persons who by upbringing, association or worse motive instantly
disregard all conspiracies are the biggest block to progress anyone
ever faced. “Tinfoil hat league” is a
phrase GATA has
often cited. It dates to 1927 and is a mocking
scorn of
those who distrust the government, academia, Wall Street and the
establishment and strongly suggests “mental
illness”
on the part of the distrustful. On December 31, 2010, I was
stunned to see a TV commercial in which lesbian celebrity Ellen
DeGeneres bumped about and gaped at the viewer. The
commercial
was sponsored by the National Institute for Mental Health (2010
taxpayer funding---$1,474,676,000) spouting off that “1 in 6
Americans has a mental illness.” When the NIMH
hooks up
with the American Bankers Association they’ll say precious
metals
fans are “disordered.” Psychiatry used to
define
lesbians as “mentally ill;” now not so.
In real
medicine, an illness remains an illness regardless of any change in
social attitudes. Meaning, psychiatry deals with fake
illnesses. It calls activities, viewpoints and beliefs
“disorders” when they are nothing of the
kind. I
won’t profane this web page by posting this
shot of the
“clinically normative” DeGeneres; look at
your own risk. That is strictly their business but the parallels
between the mental health movement and the medieval Inquisition are
totally striking. The Fed isn’t the only agency
that needs
to be scrapped! When someone tries to play the “mental
illness” card to trump an adversary in an argument by saying
“there’s something wrong with your mind” or
“you’re obviously psychotic,” the 100% win goes to
the target of the attempted dirty trick! The accuser cannot
justify his position and attempts reliance on what equates to
witchcraft and heresy accusations people made against those they
disliked centuries ago; today they resort to fake “medical”
accusations to get an upper hand! Mark these words well---anyone
from the “mental health” movement will side with the
government against those who advocate sound money!
I’m no “international journalist” http://gata.org/node/9473
but how
come I got to this before he did? You want to allege the
globe
straddling titans I’m talking about are just stumblebums?
I’m one of two (2) people in the entire world who have
written extensively about the organization described in The Silver
Stealers. The other is European researcher Joel Van Der
Reijden. My work is ignored, then depreciated, then again placed
on ignore and I’m treated like Cinderella because GATA’s
gatekeeper has a personality clash against me. Because he
doesn’t have space in his newspaper to go into great depth in any
subject does not signify that I am in error to do so in my own
sphere! Meantime, the group I describe in great detail remains
the major threat to metals ownership and profits therefrom.
Let the Silver Stealers content stand on its own merits without regard
to personalities! The organization whose maharajah* faulted
me
has done great work; I praised it many times; yet to my knowledge, mine
is the only long side voice to have been depreciated. Can he
show
any of my documentation in error? An
“us four
and no more” stance wrongfully minimizes invaluable
contributions
of those who got handed no olive wreath. In all events,
it’s the rank and file who hand out olive wreaths, not their
leaders. It’s the rank and file that matter more
than all
else. Fighting for your silver and gold property rights,
Charles
Savoie. (There are dozens of men by this name; I know none of
the
others; I’m the ex-gymnast who presented a historical series
on
silver.)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DC133AF933A2575BC0A964958260
mentioned “Powell’s vituperative pen” and
“20
years of caustic editorials.” The Manchester
Connecticut
Journal Inquirer had a circulation of 50,000 as of this August 10, 1992
New York Times story. The update
on the Inquirer’s circulation as of January 2011 lists
42,888 subscribers, a decline of about 14.5% as most newspapers are
obsolescing due to the Internet. Business losses often result
in
stress.
Ask Connecticut Chris (who submits articles to himself) why he
doesn't
link The Silver Stealers, he runs a closed mutual popularity clique of
the same personalities over and over and over like a merry go round
with painted hobby horses. They're good, but haven't
explained
who's causing these problems, because they don't KNOW. None
of
them has come within a billion miles of offering this
documentary. We have to know who has, and is, causing these
financial dislocations. Powell treats my groundbreaking work as
“tacenda,” things to be passed over in silence and denied
mention!
London is very important in gold; however, if most 2011 Gold
Rush GATA
participants come from the USA and Canada, they're doing a disservice
to the many who won't be able to attend due to transatlantic travel
costs. I hope this doesn’t demonize me to point it
out! It suggests they care more about bigger investors than the
average size investor who are being excluded due to travel price
barriers and people who avoid molestation by Transportation Security
Administration personnel. Why not hold it in the District of
Columbia to get more domestic attention? London and European big
shots could afford the air travel. $800 for admission to the
conference? Is this somewhat of a profit venture for speakers
involved? I saw the list, talented people. However, this
documentary is completely free. I’m one of two (2) people
on Earth offering extensive details on the world’s premier
financial organization, The Pilgrims Society. If this one
organization can be neutralized our fiscal problems end! That
$800 might be better spent, along with travel and accommodation costs,
in buying silver. Free, free and free versus pay, pay, and
pay! Who’s working harder for you?
In his October 6, 2011 edition, Ed Steer a GATA director
stated---“Writing for the Internet site of Centennial Precious
Metals in Denver, USAGold.com, New York lawyer David L. Ganz, who
specializes in precious metals and numismatic law, has produced a
detailed and fascinating history of gold confiscation in the United
Sates and commentary on the applicability of current U.S. law to gold
ownership. This is another GATA release where Chris has already
done extensive heavy lifting in the preamble.”
Once again GATA ignores the General Sherman Redwood tree in
favor of raving about someone’s elm sapling, so to speak.
Chris did “extensive heavy lifting” and Ganz went into
detail about metals confiscation? Compare to The Silver Stealers
and http://cache.silver-investor.com/charlessavoie/cs_summer09_PreciousMetalsConfiscation.pdf
Yes, GATA has a personality clash against me and keep in mind it was
Powell alone who started it all by himself in May 2009 with the
unwarranted swipes he took at me http://www.gata.org/node/7424
That was 2 days after Butler apologized to me over something that was
extremely minor by contrast. Steer used to have glowing praise
for my work—proof remains in my E-mail---but he has to be rubber
stamp for Powell or be “invited” to exit GATA board.
Ed told me on June 25, 2011 he couldn’t link my research because
it’s “too long;” that’s a disclaimer Ed, and
you know it! You can’t link it because if you did, Chris
would take offense! He also mentioned constraints placed on him
by Casey Research, and that he has no control over what goes into GATA
dispatches. We wonder why a man would agree to be known as a
director of an organization into which he has little, if any, input;
additionally, how about letting people decide for themselves
what’s “too long?” In a notice about the
Homeland Security Department meeting with the Silver Users Association,
which appeared at www.24hgold.com on October 19, 2007, Ed again spoke
of my work as shoulder to shoulder with that of Ted Butler and
remarked---
“If you wish to read Savoie’s essay, my advice is to buy a
six-pack or a couple of bottles of wine and then pack a lunch, as his
essays are more like small novels. I would advise spending some time
there, as there is some really incredible information in it.”
Is Ed his own man, or has he compromised that status by subordinating
what he can say and what he can link to the perceived prestige of being
a Casey Research personality and an (ersatz) director of Gold
Anti-Trust “Action” Committee? Casey is another
advocate of placing your physical wealth outside American territory,
where you may not be able to access it later! I do hope
Ed’s advice suggestive of going on a drinking binge was
disregarded by his readers. Ed formerly advised to spend some
time reading my research, now he has bonded with people consumed with
arrogance and shy of controversy and rubber stamps them in giving me
the silent treatment. It’s with little regret that I
identify this behaviour as what is known colloquially as
“brown-nosing.” The ladder climber turns his back on
a former friend so as to be allowed on a totem pole constructed by
puffed-up personalities. The Bible is a much longer read than The
Silver Stealers, but no minister makes himself a fool by refusing to
recommend it because “it’s too long.” Compare
what GATA and Casey Research offer as history on silver and the Secret
Society back of metals suppression to The Silver Stealers. They
don’t even offer a microbe by contrast. Perceived prestige
over principle is typical human failing. What a bunch of
limelight hogs! The lawyer’s book has a price; my work is
all free access because our property rights matter more than my making
a buck off you!
In his Casey Research column for September 26, 2012, Ed
Steer again publicly genuflected before Chris Powell---
“Not surprisingly, Chris Powell put in by far the
best showing of the three of us.”
Ed, since you imply Chris so greatly transcends your
abilities, why not just stand aside and let him have the entire
platform to himself? Why would anyone seek out any information
source other than the Sovereign Imperial Potentate, Chris Powell?
It’s just not surprising that Chris Powell would put in by far
the best showing of anyone! He’s probably also researched
and written more on the history of silver than Charlie Savoie!
(See http://www.silver-investor.com/archives/index.html
109 Essays of the Month, “Britain Against Silver III” alone
was 90,850 words; see also the contents of this site and www.nosilvernationalization.org
) Chris probably did more legislatively for silver than Silver
Senators like Key Pittman, Patrick McCarran and William Borah!
Chris probably did more to build a silver mining conglomerate than
Robert Quartermain! Chris probably did more to popularize silver
in Mexico than Salinas Price! Powell doesn’t lavish turgid
encomiums on himself; he uses snivelers like Ed Sneer to do it!
And Ed is NOT the only one in this “mix” of
snivelers! Anyone get the hint? After reading (not
“skimming over”) The Silver Stealers, ask Chris
Powell, “WHY IS GOLD ANTI TRUST ACTION COMMITTEE REFUSING
TO ALLOW MENTION OF THE PILGRIMS SOCIETY AND ITS APEX ROLE IN PRECIOUS
METALS SUPPRESSION?”
“As I said in an essay posted over at GATA on this
subject many years back, one would never be picked for this position if
your stated aim was to get to the bottom of the 25-year silver price
management scheme.”—Ed Steer column November 24 2011.
The silver price management scheme dates back only 25 years?
Huh? It dates back centuries! Even if the only timeline
used is the founding of the CFTC, as of fall 2011 the duration was 36
years! Simple math, anyone?
Bill Haynes of CMI Gold & Silver in Phoenix expressed
disagreement with the thrust of the book by Ganz http://www.cmi-gold-silver.com/gold-confiscation-1933.html
and I stoutly agree with Haynes. Haynes has been mentioned by
GATA; it would be useful when GATA cites an alleged expert they should
preface by stating “another expert disputes these
contentions.” Haynes is a more prominent figure in metals
business than Ganz; I was very pleased with multiple metals
transactions with Haynes. Ganz advocates numismatic coins, an
area full of risk for neophytes. Instead of taking the chancy
rare coin route, buy common date silver coins. Rarities are VERY BAD CHOICES in emergency
environment! You’d be faced with trying to convince someone
to accord 500 to 3,000 times more for a 1916-D Mercury dime as a 1964-D
Roosevelt; when the silver content is the same. Smaller
increments of value allow for vastly increased purchasing
flexibility! Why would Chris overlook such a pivotally important
aspect? It reeks of political capitulation---“we’re
going to be nationalized in metals again, so only hold rare
coins!” Why should we accept defeat as inevitable?
Are these the persons you look to for leadership? My role is to
supply information; I suggest you lead yourself!
On September 14, 1813, Andrew Jackson was seriously wounded
in a duel with Thomas and Jesse Benton and almost bled to death
http://www.adena.com/adena/usa/hs/hs23.htm However, Benton
became a U.S. Senator and was known as “Old Bullion,” for
his hatred of bank note currency. And, Jackson and Benton
actually reconciled for the good of the nation and Benton was one of
Jackson’s best supporters in Congress! This little spat is
hardly anything compared to the Jackson-Benton events! Except
GATA would have you remain unaware as to the matter of organization of
the anti-free market, anti-precious metals ownership and use as
currency, price suppressing Pilgrims Society! Why would they
oppose your knowing about it by censoring The Silver Stealers, refusing
coverage?
In 2002 I had an item called “Silver Supernova” at
Silver Investor, which I.M. Vronsky of Gold Eagle wanted to post; I
said fine, only condition is, don’t edit it in any way.
Vronsky agreed to leave it as is, then posted it with EDITING! I
immediately contacted him demanding he take it down and informed him we
weren’t joined at the hip! Vronsky seemingly remembered
that episode of about 9 years earlier (in which HE was the offending
party, not me), and didn’t post the my November 2011 interview by
Jeff Nielson of Bullion Bulls Canada. Vronsky posted the items
Jeff produced before and after the interview with me, and left out the
interview. Vronsky is an objectionable personality and editors in
general are disgraceful because they’re avid censors. And
it’s lamentable that certain figures in the PM community are so
blasted PETTY, and thereby prevent many investors from accessing a free
read with tons of info exclusive to The Silver Stealers. What I
want most is to protect our property rights. The way to do it is
to expose The Pilgrims Society as the thieves behind suppression of
gold and silver, because they ARE those thieves using the government to
make us poor, and to use Federal power to wreck our investments if we
start getting ahead, they just change the rules and make false appeals
to national emergencies, which they engineer!
The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), whose dispatches
seem to
be decided on exclusively by one person, has
“educated”
itself away from use of the word
“conspiracy.” At
some point they decided to use the word “cabal” as
a
strategy to blunt criticism from mainstream news sources.
That’s an unnecessary evasion! It’s a
synonym
somewhat less known by the public. Just call a spade a
spade! If something is a conspiracy, it’s best to
resolutely so state. If you call something
“unbifurcated,” you’re saying it isn’t split
into two sections, but you’re losing clarity, because many
don’t perceive your meaning. Many also don’t know
what “cabal” means. Gee! Word games are
hokey. Be straightforward; don’t engage in
“wordsmithing.” The word “conspiracy” has
an electrically charged negative effect on many folks because they
aren’t realists. So be it. “Collusion” is
a more effective substitute than “cabal.”
*From
auto-café-webmaster@lemetropolecafe.com dated 10/1/2009---
“My
colleague Chris Powell will be there in all his glory and
splendor!”
Modesty, anyone?
The January 12, 2010 dispatch had an admirer from Queensland,
Australia
likening GATA’s two top honchos to “a little Kirk
and Spock
respectively.”
(I
saved these in printed form)
What’s next? Will we hear they’re the reason diamonds
sparkle?
Too
bad personality issues (and limelight hogs) have to be in the way of
cooperation as the importance of property rights overshadows all
else! There is an organization behind attacks on gold and silver
prices and private ownership rights, and Gold Anti-Trust Action
Committee leadership refuses to touch this extensive documented body of
facts!
******I have nothing
further to state
regarding this matter******
Please do not E-mail me regarding this.
Copyright
© 2011 by Charles Savoie
