For instance, nearly all the great war loans demand interest on an unproductive loan. The money was spent in buying goods which were consumed, not in producing more wealth, but in producing no wealth—or even in destroying wealth. It went to support soldiers and sailors who produced no wealth and often actually destroyed wealth. It went to buy guns and ammunition which produce no wealth, but were actively employed in destroying wealth. You spend $100,000 in buying guns and ammunition for knocking down in war and industrial building which, in peace, produced $5,000 worth of wealth a year; and you go on asking $5,000 interest on the money represented by worn out guns, exploded ammunition and a factory that has been destroyed.
- Hilaire Beloc in Social Justice, April 18, 1938
Turning from yesterdays meal, where the usury beast destroyed nations through cultural, material, economic, and all other means in the process of The Machining of Men. Having gorged herself yesterday, Usura needs to gorge again today!
So, call forth the drums of war!
Sound the trumpets!
Time to go raiding and pillaging all the hateful, uncivilized barbarians!
Because that, dear readers,
Is the main reason that Usury was tolerated in the Middle Ages.
War.
That is why Jews were allowed in banking - because Catholics were two faced hypocrites that allowed them to practice usury so that the Catholic kings could go to war.
And yes, I say this as a Catholic, desiring to rebuild Christendom, this time without the usury and all that entails…
But, usury eats at the relations between Governmental neighbors just the same as between you and your neighbor.
The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is just about the most predatory lender on the planet. People whining in the West about Chinese being predatory lenders should know that they learnt it from the West, who taught it to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
We have sent our beast overseas, and then our boys in uniform to follow when needed.
Libya,
Egypt,
Syria,
Haiti,
Iraq,
Afghanistan,
And this isn’t even counting non-state actors we’ve funded, mercenaries we’ve sent, wet works done, or the countless bases we still have going.
Ironically, as
points out in The Courage to Open Fire; the elites are running the Camp of the Saints game on us. Waging a war of immigration and effeminization on our populace, importing police and military like Rome, and relying on Tech to (hopefully) make up the difference!Buy the bombs and military weaponry to make the capitalists money at usurious prices!
With great margins and cheap labor!
Everyone wins but you and I; and maybe them, when they lose the war.
Usura and her offspring are endless.
Ravenous.
Coldhearted.
Out for blood and souls.
Legion.
So, are we born to die at their hands?
Or they at ours?
There are other ways in which the recognition of money’s right to interest, merely because it is money, eats up society, but this one major case of the unproductive loan is sufficient to show the evil that Usury does.
When money lending (“the providing of credits,” as it is called) carries interest as a matter of course, it is an activity which devours mankind.
- Hilaire Belloc: in Social Justice, April 18, 1938.