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G. Edward Griffin (born November 7, 1931) is an American film producer, author, and political lecturer.[SUP][1][/SUP] He is perhaps best known as the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), a critique of much modern economic theory and practice, specifically the Federal Reserve System.I read alot so I know alot about history. Read the creature from Jekyl Island it explains why a few paid off Senators and Congressmen decided to tuck us over in 1913. I am talking abour restoring the banking system to the people and not leaving it in private hands that is the only change I am proposing. You act as if I am proposing returning to 1913 technology for crying out loud.
The Creature from Jekyll Island is in many ways a compendium of previous works claiming that the Federal Reserve is a fundamentally illegitimate -- and therefore deeply nefarious -- organization. Most of these theories were deeply anti-Semitic in nature, since they depicted the Fed's bankers as part of a Jewish cabal intent on destroying white American society. What sets Griffin's work apart is that -- like most Birch texts, which assiduously avoided anti-Semitism -- he manages to scrub out the anti-Semitic elements while keeping the paranoid conspiracist elements intact.
Griffin has been a member and officer of the John Birch Society for much of his life[SUP][9][/SUP][SUP][10][/SUP] and a contributing editor to its magazine, The New American.[SUP][[/SUP]
Griffin also advocates the use of Laetrile, a semi-synthetic derivative of amygdalin as a treatment for cancer, often referencing the work of Dean Burk to support the use of Laetrile.[SUP][20][/SUP] Since the 1970s, the use of Laetrile to treat cancer has been described in the scientific literature as a canonical example of quackery and has never been shown to be effective in the treatment or prevention of cancer
Griffin says that the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the World Bank are working to destroy American sovereignty through a system of world military and financial control, and he advocates for United States withdrawal from the United Nations.[SUP][11][/SUP][SUP][39][/SUP]
Edward Flaherty, an academic economist,[SUP][40][/SUP] characterized Griffin's description of the secret meeting on Jekyll Island as "conspiratorial", "amateurish", and "suspect".[SUP][41][/SUP] Griffin's response was that Flaherty had miscategorized the book with other publications and had labeled all criticisms of the Federal Reserve as the results of conspiracy theory.[SUP][42][/SUP]