Hansen-1 Congressman Hansen
Back In The Trenches!
Criminal Banks, Corrupted Judges Exposed By Investigative Reporter Edward Snook
Reprinted from the
Oregon Observer for March 1997
with permission
Congressman George Hansen has been America's leading "champion of the people" over the last twenty years.
Hansen won repeatedly even when the federal agencies and their powerful big money special interest groups ganged up on him with contrived criminal investigations and demonizing stories in the press designed to discredit and defeat him. This criminal practice on the part of those "in control" is nothing new. It is witnessed almost daily at The Oregon Observer. Nobody is safe with these government dragons on the loose. The people know it and have stuck with Hansen through years of these wars in Idaho and across the nation. Finally their loyalty and perception might just pay off.
All of this earned Congressman Hansen many devoted followers among American traditionalists, as well as many relentless and even violent enemies. Government bureaucrats who didn't stand for any challenge to their authority hated him, yet their employees looked to Hansen for protection.
One group hated and feared him more than any other. This was the biggest people control group in the world, the nation or the state...the "Megabankers," or "Banksters," as they might be called. Hansen ran into them big time in his many nationwide and worldwide efforts to protect the interests of America and American citizens from the dragons of government. The interplay and power plays between government agencies and big banking interests which manipulated America into all sorts of costly actions and dangerous situations were continuously exposed by Hansen who had become a senior member of the powerful House Banking Committee, and was in the "short line" to become it's chairman.
When Hansen went to Bolivia in 1977 to free Americans improperly held in Bolivian jails on contrived drug charges, he became aware that
He then found the Panamanian dictators, Torrejos and Noriega to be CIA "assets," heavily involved in drug and gun trafficking and money laundering through the international banking system which had been brought to Panama in a deal made between Nelson Rockefeller and Omar Torrejos at a Mexican bullfight. The deal allowed the banks into Panama where they could operate freely outside of U.S. banking laws in return for generous loans to the dictators. This isn't to say that they couldn't operate illegally within the banking laws of the United States, as all they would have needed to do was buy off a few officials or give a call to the Federal Courthouse in Boise and speak with Judge Edward Lodge to obtain the necessary legal protection. Congressman Hansen exposed the Panama Canal giveaway as nothing more than a bank manipulated scheme to turn the revenues and assets of the multi-billion dollar operation over to the dictators at the expense of the American people so that these dictators would be able to pay the bankers the billions they owed. Hansen challenged the bankers on this and the fact that their freewheeling and illegal operations around the world had them seriously in the red and on the Fed's "trouble list."
This caused panic and a counterattack by the bankers and their pit bulls at the Federal Reserve. An officer of the Marine Midland Bank came to the Congressman's office and blustered about how their Panama loan was just a few million out of a huge billion dollar bucket, only to have the Congressman remind him that they had loans like that all over the lesser developed nations of the world, making their billion dollar bucket look like a sieve. The sieve was only going to be plugged as the bankers manipulated Uncle Sam to do so, just as they were doing in Panama. Shortly thereafter and at a great loss the Marine Midland solved its problem by selling out to the Hong Kong Bank. A similar scene took place when an official of the Chase Manhattan Bank came to Hansen's office. The Chase Manhattan Bank was (and still is) controlled by the Rockefellers who were up to their ears in bail out operations with America and many other governments, thanks to their close connections with the Rothschild bankers of Europe. "Fed" Chairman, Arthur Burns, called, complaining of Hansen's revelations about all these big wheeler dealer banks being on the Fed's "trouble list" and warned that such talk could start a run on the banks. Hansen told the Chairman that he was just one congressman from a small state, and could hardly start a panic unless the banks really were in trouble; if they were, they'd better get their accounts in order, and fast.
Then came the "Iran Hostage Crisis," where Congressman Hansen single handedly exposed another huge $12 billion dollar bank manipulation scheme to collect illegal loans made to Iran under the Shah, loans never approved by the Iranian Parliament. David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger of the Chase Bank manipulated the State Department into bringing the Shah into the U.S. for medical treatment knowing it would inflame the Iranian revolutionaries into an attack on our unguarded Embassy, which the Bankers would parlay into a freeze of Iranian assets. President Carter assured this freeze so the big banks could get their money. The bank-induced crisis lasted for 444 days until the Iranian Bank wired the billions to Switzerland and other European banks, resulting in the release of the hostages.
The Hansen-led "Friendship Delegation" to Taiwan was another confrontation with the big banks. The banks stood to benefit greatly in their hour of over extension with the access achieved over the recognition of Red China, neverminding the treacherous betrayal of our old friend and trading partner (sixth largest), The Republic of China.
The IRS, OSHA, INS and foreign policy fights involved highly charged confrontations with big banking interests, but the straw that broke the camel's back was Hansen's trip to Seattle, Washington to warn public power users and bond investors of a multi-billion dollar hoax to fleece the public. The hoax was set up by Wall Street Underwriters and Justice Department lawyers. Hansen appeared before the group with his staff attorney to predict the largest bond default in history (some $27 Billion), tied directly to the financing of five nuclear power plants, knowingly being built on falsely projected power needs with bonds criminally rated "AAA" by the bankers and government lawyers. Hansen told his audience that the conspiring bankers and government lawyers ought to be in jail for this and sure enough, ten years later the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) was declared dead and became the "largest bond default in history." Again it was the American people who paid dearly and lost fortunes, while the "banker robbers" and their government lawyers made millions.
Needless to say, Hansen returned to Washington, D.C. and caught the fury of the Justice Department and their shadows among the big banks. He was then indicted on the puniest and most contrived of charges (later to be thrown out by the U.S. Supreme Court), then railroaded out of Congress and into jail.
Hansen still only lost the next election by 170 votes. Richard Stallings, the Democrat who defeated him in l984 said the conviction was the key. "George could have had the 2nd District as long as he wanted. If he hadn't gotten into trouble, he'd probably be Chairman of the Banking Committee."
That was precisely what the Justice Department and big bankers set out to do, ambush Hansen to prevent his continuous blows to their free wheeling interests. Hansen's Supreme Court victory could not even undo his assassin's handiwork.
Hansen's prison odyssey is an unbelievable story unto itself, but suffice it to say that the Justice Department wasted no time in slamming the door on his rights to appeal, racing him into jail as if he were a major threat to public safety, and intimidating his lawyers into abandoning any further appeal efforts. Hansen's friends on Capitol Hill knew the Justice Department had run wild with Hansen, so when he returned home they held a big welcoming party headlined by the Capitol Hill Newspaper as a "Hero's Welcome."
Hoping to capture the potential for instant reaction offered by the new electronics age of television, computers, and satellites, Hansen set out to develop a Congressional Accountability Program (CAP), which would give the public instant and effective reaction to the daily actions of their representatives in Congress, even allowing public sentiment to surface before votes were taken on key issues (something never before possible). Hansen set up the necessary organization, developed the needed support, worked out an effective television format based on a 900# self-financed phone service and successfully test marketed a pilot program nationwide. He had certified results from professional "New York Ad Men" that the program was not only self-supporting, but that it was yielding a 400 percent return. Hansen had borrowed heavily for this unusually big project, as he had done for so many successful projects in the past. He had firm assurances from the most reliable of people that they would come in with money to replace the seed money at a certain date when the project was on line.
Along came the war in the Persian Gulf and with it a big change in political priorities at the Congressional and Presidential level, and with it the interference of the Idaho State Department of Finance, operating with clear and hostile political signals from the Governor's Office. This surfaced with the illegal employment of former IRS special agents who were specifically used as criminal investigators during the IRS witch hunt against Hansen ten years earlier. The result? The IRS, at that time had to give George Hansen a refund of over $10,000, and these agents were forced into "early retirement" for not getting something on Hansen for the federal prosecutors who were frothing at the mouth. The Dept. of Finance with their renegade IRS agents told Hansen that the temporary borrowing program he'd used for years in fighting the "high rolling" banks and federal agencies was illegal without a securities license, which caused him to have to cease operations immediately to avoid enforcement action. This caused severe financial dislocation right in the middle of an already sensitive situation and was further complicated by rumors that were spreading publicly about the contrived State Finance
Hansen struggled to pull things back together, but finally declared bankruptcy to hold things in place long enough to explore for new solutions. The bankruptcy caused a major disruption in a temporary daily loan program with his major bank. This produced a large loss, which Hansen was attempting to restore when the Justice Department and related agencies swooped in like hungry vultures to criminally taint a bankruptcy where there was amazingly little contention between the parties...just a desire to pick up the pieces and get people paid back. Of course, the intrusion by the Feds put everything into an impossible light, because "getting George Hansen" again was all consuming to them and the government was not the least bit interested in giving people a chance to get their money.
Not only was the government on another witch hunt for Hansen, they even got the case for criminal prosecution assigned to the "Bank Commando" of Idaho Judges, Edward Lodge. Lodge, the sure protector of the big banks, Idaho's own "Roy Bean," with a special brand of "frontier justice," who hog ties anyone daring to challenge the banks, especially his own West One Bank aka US Bank. Federal Judge Edward Lodge has a perfect 16 for 16 record of giving West One Bank the green light as they squeeze one good customer after another into financial disaster. After the squeeze, the bank has shown the habitual tendency (each time with Judge Lodge's blessings and "rulings") to walk away with their customer's cash and their assets. Many public figures won't cross the banks because of fear or intimidation...they don't want to lose a business relationship or they don't want to close doors to possibilities for loans or similar "favors."
People like Judge Lodge have gone much farther, to a sort of vested interest or ownership type status, where they become guardians of the bank (and even the banking industry), and lose all perspective in their zeal. Judge Lodge manages to "hog" a certain class (or classes) of bank cases where he can be very effective in protecting their interests, witnessed by the series of premature loan-calling cases, and the Hansen case. The Judge was so hell bent to preside in those cases that he arrogantly refused to step aside despite his blatant and obvious conflicts of interest. Judge Lodge has finally been ordered by the Federal Court of Appeals to cease his unethical violations.
There is a major reason why the Banks never lose when Judge Lodge presides, and it's all in the ruthless way he allows witnesses and testimony to be presented. Anyone civilly or criminally in contention with the banking system finds himself at a severe disadvantage in presenting his case in Judge Lodge's Court...almost a guarantee to failure. The sixteen West One cases complained bitterly about this, and the same was glaringly true in the Hansen Case. It's bad enough to deal with unfair prosecutors and law enforcement people, but getting a zealot for a judge is a nightmare, and totally disastrous if you get an Edward Lodge who destroys people and businesses like the grim reaper. With absolutely no remorse, Lodge routinely perverts any semblance of ethics or justice...insuring that big bankers always win. An attorney who has followed the story of Judge Lodge, the bank and their corrupted actions said it all when he stated, "All of Judge Lodge's rulings, both criminal and civil should be suspect."
Why did Judge Lodge want Hansen in prison? Why was the congressman vindicated? Why were the fines he was ordered to pay, returned to him? Why should citizens and even congressmen be afraid to confront the banks and their "in house" federal judges such as Edward Lodge. What part does Federal District Judge Winmill have in all this and what is the connection between Lodge and Winmill? Don't miss part two of this in-depth article on Congressman George Hansen. Find out the details of a fight he has yet to finish and the part that a corrupt system, aided by a corrupted and compromised Judge Edward Lodge played in their attempts to destroy a Congressman who had the courage to stand up. Read about those who have stood by and watched this corruption without acting and find out about those individuals who should be in prison for their illegal and unconscionable actions. Just possibly, America has finally found its dragon slayer.
Given all that has been written about Judge Edward Lodge and his "banking buddies," The Oregon Observer is left with yet one more question: Why hasn't even one of the degraded, immoral and corrupted individuals in Idaho asked for a retraction after reading our series of detailed articles (beginning in December of 1996) on big banking and federal court corruption? Isn't it clear, as the record plainly indicates, that Lodge and his "bedfellows" are guilty beyond doubt?
Forest Glen Durland asks that you alert your Congress Persons to this information. Copies of the article can be obtained from the Oregon Observer for a very nominal fee. Forest obtained twenty copies of the entire issue and is distributing them to his Congressional representatives as well as to local schools and colleges.
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