"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32... and also chiseled into the marble entrance of the CIA Central Intellegience Agency... how's that for irony!
Most of what you believe about your government is a lie, an elaborate illusion to keep you ignorant of the truth. To the extent to which you buy their lies and the propaganda of the major media you are deluding yourself. "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So, citizen, are you going to take the blue pill or the red pill ? As Morpheus said, "all I offer is the truth and nothing more".
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies.... They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory from a longer continuance of the war. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and the name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void and ineffective for any purpose since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it; an unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed... An unconstitutional law is void. (16 Am. Jur. 2d, Sec. 178)
“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.” Doug Stanhope
There's a fine line between the American dream and the American nightmare. Don Henley
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. - Ayn Rand
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~ T. S. Eliot
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles De Gaulle
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. - H. L. Mencken

Money & Banking

The following video programs are not in any way affiliated with Piercing the Illusion but to understand how the current economic mess came to be these are mandatory stops in your journey to understanding.

Money as Debt.

These video animations tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created.  With this video you will piece the vale that politicians and bankers do not want you to see.  On line video may be available through this web site or you may purchase video here.

FIAT EMPIRE.   59 minutes

Find out why the Federal Reserve System is a the greatest scam in human history and is in violation of the U.S. Constitution.  Discover why experts agree the Fed is a banking cartel that benefits bankers and their clients in need of easy money and a Congress that would rather increase the National Debt than raise taxes.  Watch the Video

Aaron Russo's America: From Freedom to Fascism.    1 hour 49 minutes

The movie that arguably started the Tea Party movement!  The scariest damn film you may ever watch. It will leave you staggering, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.'  After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered.  Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution.  This is shocking stuff.  You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut.  Watch the Video

The man who predicted the current crisis and a parade of idiots

Peter Schiff is president of Euro Pacific Investments and has been a lonely voice predicting the economic disaster that is now unfolding.  In the video that follows some enterprising citizen strung together numerous TV segments in the last few years where various financial "experts" predicted the great times to come.  Notice how they react to Peter Schiff's accurate predictions of the future which is now the present.

Go to Peter Schiff's YouTube Channel to see and read more.