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SYNOPSIS AND OPINION
There have lately come to our hands, peradventure, certain papers, which we have been asked to read and, if we consider them suitable, to place appropriately for publication. Very strange, unexpected and disquieting documents they have turned out to be.
To be frank, on first scanning, their content suggested something so preposterous and malign as to be unworthy of consideration, and we were prepared to discard them as a cruel joke in poor taste. Then one of our number, more perceptively, said simply, "But what if...." We might well now ask, what if she had not? We spent most of the next few hours re-reading them and then much of the next few days just looking at one another as we came to perceive that what they tell is indeed the cruellest of all jokes. But the joke is on us: on all of us.
If you read these papers, and we recommend that both you and your readers do, persist with them. You have not the slightest idea what the author has to tell you, and, until you finish, we doubt that you can have any suspicion even of the existence of this, probably the most monstrous and heinous of crimes ever, perpetrated openly all these years under our very noses. You will never have read a book like this, and now we know why, as will you.
Re-reading reveals, in deceptively innocent form, what the author purports to be, and we have now come to see nothing to permit us to judge otherwise, the simple financial techniques by which a few people have been operating the planet to their benefit and against the interests of the rest of us, to the point where the progressive extinction of our nations, even of our species seems, if we allow it, a likely and quite incidental consequence. This is the very effective attempt of a few to get rid of the rest of us.
"Here it all is," as the author puts it, how a few come to have all the industries and the power, the secret manipulations of 'leveraging', the reality of those 'loan guarantees', the main secret causes of 'inflation', and what that inflation really means to those on the losing end: finance revealed as never before, red in tooth and claw, all here in a few precisely-pointed, well-informed stories, stretching across pages which, even as we read, grow as wide as the travailing planet itself, which, perhaps he needs to remind us, is the only world we all have to inhabit.
A latecomer likened it, wittily enough, to little more than a man in pyjamas at the door of a concert hall screaming at a full choir and symphony orchestra to stop their racket. But with time for reflection, which he had not then had, we were able to explain that the melody is a threnody, no less for him than for the rest of us; this is the voice of the planet itself crying out against its persecution, and of its poor dumb creatures against their (and our) impoverishment and destruction, and he joined us in our thoughtful silence. We cannot yet tell, of course, but history may show that the information conveyed in these seemingly innocuous and haphazard stories makes this unlikely little volume a book of all books. We jib at calling it a Rosetta-stone of human progress, but ... well, look and see for yourself; what else can you call it?
Their author previously was not known to us. We have a name: Ephraim Leitner, though in truth we cannot vouch for its authenticity, not having met with it before; but clearly, though no grand poet, this is still a writer of power, authority and experience and, as clearly, a person of great financial acuity and insight. And we have our instructions.
The stories themselves, often hilarious, occasionally excoriating, always readable, are ingenuous and entertaining enough, written mostly in an engagingly mock-classical form with a lingering echo of the European 'voice'. We cannot guarantee you will like them all, of course; at times this man's spade is a bloody bulldozer, at others he is infantile or tiresomely tendentious, but for how long we have needed the revelation of his devastating conclusion. The stories can be read separately, or more properly as a progression within a common theme: the imposition of coin upon us all and, by its manipulation, our subjection to those who choose thus to exercise control over us. And what a bloody scandal that is!
The stories progress (despite their seemingly abstruse subject, none are difficult) from the introduction of their common outrageous protagonist, by way of the invention and imposition of money, through the incidental destruction of .... but you wait and see what ..., a new and piquant recipe for sausages, how countries are bought and sold and continents subjected, even how, quite routinely and legitimately, to take a hundred billion dollars per day? from the world's financial systems, to the eventual domination and exploitation of the planet thereby made possible. We have to admit, they made our collective blood run cold, then boil, as they opened our eyes to what has been going on around us all these years, to which we only now realise, perhaps the worst of it, we previously have been kept (kept politically, and by whom, and why!) lamentably unaware.
Only occasionally does Mr. Leitner froth and spume, presumably to ensure that we do not mistake all his writings for mere fun. Then in his grimmer mood he savages us all, those culpable, for their predatory greed, us for our stupidity in letting them victimise us. And if there is any truth in his tales and, looking at the world with freshly-opened eyes, increasingly we suspect that there is little else, then why should any of us be thus exempt? He lays bare the anatomy of this monstrous, on-going crime being perpetrated against us all in the name of..... Well, read and judge for yourself. We can quite imagine this book will not be universally popular in some quarters. We should all be enraged by its contents, but a few will be infuriated by its merest existence. Now we understand why.
Mr. Leitner does not offer much by way of alternative, other than his nice, personal dream of Utopia...but perhaps justifiably. After all, why should he? Can you seriously expect a man screaming, "Murder!" simultaneously to concern himself much with the murderer's feelings or his exoneration and rehabilitation into society? He just wants to stop the killing. And who of us does not want that? - Who, indeed? -
Perhaps Mr. Leitner will enlarge on his alternative in a later book. We hope we have not heard the last from him, are sure he has more to say and await with fascination and some trepidation what else he may yet have to reveal of the "mammonites'" strategies in their long-term management of our human 'resource'. Clearly he has more information than we, of a world of which even we, with our all-too-compendious knowledge of human cupidity and frailty, previously were totally ignorant. Now, for us too, the 'civilised' world is suddenly a different and infinitely more hostile place. Your readers and you, too, must read and become aware.
The 'life-changing' element in the stories may well be that, through them, perhaps our lives will be permitted to persist. Now, we know! And when you read them you, too, will know! The consensus is that we are grateful to have had the opportunity of access to such inner-sanctum intelligence regarding this hitherto closely withheld expertise. So much so, that we judge the facts conveyed in the stories make them required reading for all economists, and for all of us with families and a natural need of their survival. We feel that, if our very species is to continue, then without this indispensable information our education has been grossly and, Mr. Leitner has it, "strategically" incomplete.
We further believe the information contained within these stories should be put before the public of all the world just as it has been put before us. All people deserve to know what is being done to them, in this greatest, most shameful crime in human history. To this end, we submit these papers to you with the recommendation that you publish them as cheaply as possible, without a comma changed, and let be damned those who deserve it.
(Be welcome to quote selectively from this letter if you so wish. No names, of course.)
JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL - GENEVA - 1998