b'B OOKR EVIEWBY SCOTT C. TIPSDo Not ComplyTaking Power Back from Americas Corrupt EliteBy Will Witt (ISBN: 978-1546005582; Center Street; 2023, hardcover, 256 pages; $29.00)T his is the book that I should haveIn his chapter on Americas financial written. Instead, 27-year-old Willinstitutions, the author quotes my friend Witt wrote it and did an admira- G. Edward Griffin, when he says, The ble job of covering the diverse and oftenFed has become an accomplice in the sup-complex interplay of the many ways thatport of totalitarian regimes throughout the elites of modern-day America con- the world. Witt then proceeds to skewer trol our lives. The author methodicallythe Feds ham-fisted efforts to manage plows through the soul-destroying cor- an extremely complex economy. He fur-porate institutions in chapters titled Bigther correctly points out that the Federal Pharma, Big Tech, and Big Media.Reserve Bank is not a bank, and there Sadly absent, though, are chapters titledare no reserves. I would add to that Big Government and Big Banks! In- that, as a private institutionowned by stead, the latter two chapters are meeklyprivate shareholders, not the government called Americas Political System and it is no more Federal than is Federal Americas Financial Institutions. Express. All of this discussion brought InthechapterAmericasPoliticalback memories from my own university System there is no real mention of thedays where one of my history professors problemofBigGovernment.Rather,pointed out that the Holy Roman Empire Witt tells us that our government offi- was neither Holy nor Roman nor an cials are nothing more than slaves to theAs Catherine Austin Fitts so aptly put it,Empire. This illustrates the enduring corporations. Very true, but there is sothese days the business motto is, Pass aand fundamental power of names and much more to it than just that. We mustlaw, then start a business. That is notlabels.ask ourselves the question, How didthe free marketthat is State Capitalism.Wittalsocorrectlyimplicatesthe they become corporate slaves?Or, as World Economic Forum (WEF)monster corporation BlackRock as one The answer is surprisingly simple. Ifgoon Klaus Schwab calls it, stakeholderof the prime manipulators of not only the government did not have all of thesecapitalism. Downsize the governmentthe Fed and the WEF, but of world mar-powers to dispense favors, contracts, andand its powers, and you downsize ourkets and global events as well. I couldnt money to individuals and corporations,political and economic problems. agreemorewiththeauthorwhenhe then there would be far fewer lobbyistsStill, Witt scores many points in hisstates that [f]ighting against the WEF and less corporate graft since there wouldchapter on politics, especially when heand BlackRock means doing everything belittletobegained.Corporationstells us that, the only way we change theyou can to be sustainable all on your would have to return to actually servingworld is through real, moral action, andown. Shop at local businesses, grow your the public through free-market compe- the days of hoping someone else swoopsown food, dont take out massive loans tition rather than trying to get a leg upin and saves us are over. This is a themefrom credit card companies, invest your on the competition by political means.that he repeats throughout his book. money in small local banks, buy a house H EALTHF REEDOMN EWS /F ALL2023 29'