E BY ABDALGHANY AOUESKHANOV
zra Pound was the leading figure in the “Imagist Movement”
and remains one of the most esteemed poets of the 20th century. Four of his protégés – Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats and James Joyce – had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, after they had been edited by Pound.
America’s iconoclastic poet is remembered by many for his literary output but very few know him as one of the greatest Mujahid of his time against Riba. The clarity of his grasp of the matter of Usury is as stunning as his courage to speak it on record at the height of WWII. Here are some excerpts from his famous speeches given over Italian Ministry of Popular Culture’s radio channel from 1941 – 1944.
« This war didn’t begin in 1939. It is not a unique result of the infamous Versailles Treaty. It is impossible to understand it without knowing at least a few precedent historic events, which mark the cycle of combat… This war is part of the age-old struggle between the usurer and the rest of mankind: between the usurer and peasant, between the usurer and producer, and finally between the usurer and the merchant… »
« Usurers provoke wars to impose monopolies, so that they can get the world by the throat. They provoke wars to create debts, so that they can extort the interest and rake in the profits resulting from changes in the values of monetary units. A nation that will not get into debt drives the usurers to fury. This war is a chapter in the long and bloody tragedy which began with the foundation of the Bank of England in far away 1694, with the openly declared prospectus: ‘The bank hath the benefit of the interest on all monies which it creates out of nothing’. »
« Usury has gnawed into England since the days of Elisabeth. First it was mortgages, mortgages on earls’ estates; usury against the feudal nobility. Then there were attacks on the common land, filching of village common pasture. Then they developed a usury system, from Cromwell’s time, ever increasing… They are working day and night, picking your pockets. Every day and all day and all night picking the Russian working man’s pocket. »
« I do not want my compatriots from the ages of 20 to 40 to go get slaughtered to keep up the Sassoon and other British Jew rackets in Singapore and Shanghai… No Roschild is English, no Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Kahn, Schiff, Sieff or Solomon was ever born Anglo-Saxon. And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you murdered your Empire… »
« Wars are destructive to nation-states but profitable for the special interests. International bankers, Jewish bankers in particular are those who are the primary beneficiaries of the profits from war. Sometime the Anglo-Saxon may awaken to the fact that nations are shoved into wars in order to destroy themselves, to break up their structure, to destroy their social order, to destroy their populations. »
«Understanding of usury is central to understanding of history. Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing whatever of international wrangles. »
« There is no freedom without economic freedom. Freedom that doesn’t include freedom from debt is plain bunkum. It is fetid and foul logomachy to call such servitude freedom…»
Ezra Pound’s spiritual dimension and engagement in the dynamics of the day was by far more Islamic than of modern so-called muslim Ulama who believe in “la hawla wa la quwwata illa Central Bank” more than in “la hawla wa la quwwata illa Billah”. Had Ezra Pound been alive today he would be most certainly disgusted with the Muslims being busy “islamizing” banks and stock markets.
In April 1945 Ezra Pound was arrested by Communist partisans in Italy and shipped to USA where he was put in jail in Washington D.C. The US government indicted Pound for violation of the Treason Statute by the way of treacherous radio broadcasts from Italy during war-time. For the next seven months Ezra’s life was in balance; his enemies tried their best to put Pound on trial which would have almost certainly resulted in his execution but the government finally didn’t dare to try in public the most influential individual of the generation for the rather controversial indictment. He was declared mentally ill and put into St. Elizabeth Mental Hospital in Washington D.C. where he would spend next 13 years of his life.
The greatest Mujahid against Riba of our age, Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, said a few days ago: “We are either mad or right”.
«God hath put me here
In earth’s goodly sphere
To sing the song of the day
A strong glad song
If the road be long
To my fellows in my way
So I make my song of the good, glad light
That falls from the gate of the sun,
And the clear, cool wind that bloweth good
To my brother, everyone.»