Cashing in your right to vote

The editor who wrote the Opinion article on Oct. 9, titled "Ballots are the currency of a democracy" is right. There's no excuse for any citizen to remain on the sidelines. You must register. You must vote.

At the same time, with all due respect to this writer, saying that ballots are the currency of a democracy is double speak. Our currency, the way our money works is what's destroying our free society. Our Constitution mandates a decentralized issuance of currency. The founding fathers knew. They had suffered the corrupt centralized control of the Bank of England.

Fast forward to today. We have been subjected to over 75 years of centralized control of our nation's currency. Expansion and contraction of the availability of currency over these 75 years has effectively removed all power of issuance from local and state control. The Federal Reserve holds our entire nation hostage to its control of our debtbased currency. We are suffering exactly the same kind of corruption our founding fathers suffered when they chose revolution.

The difference today is that we do not need to bear arms to revolt. All we need to do is demand a return to our rule of law.

I say the game is up. It is time to tell our government that we want our money back.

You must vote this election year. But listen to the alternative voices. Neither Obama nor McCain has any intention of changing how money works. Listen to the voices calling for us to "end the Fed." Mary T. Ficalora Agoura Hills