That Wonderful Word "Beguile"

Written By: Franklin Sanders  |  Posted: Thursday, February 26th, 2015

                We need to revive that wonderful word "beguile." It means "to apply guile, to deceive by trickery, to seduce, betray, or gyp," as in, "Ma Yellen has beguiled the gullible American public into believing she can save them, when really she don't know 'sic 'em' from 'come here'." It's a right useful word, seeing how most the American Establishment in government and finance and of course the Fed, spend most of their time beguiling us mushrooms. 

Another little meditation prompted by the pimping trial of former International Monetary Fund head and erstwhile contender for the French presidency Dominique Strauss- Kahn: I know it's popular and even sophisticated to say as Strauss-Kahn does that he can do whatever he likes in his private life, but that's low grade hogwash. If a man can't be trusted to act right when nobody's watching, he can't be trusted. The measure of integrity is how well a man's public & private acts agree. If he can't even privately control his sexual appetites, how will he handle a public trust? Of course, this is probably one of the most consistently ignored principles in the world today, but that doesn't refute it. Morality doesn't live in sealed compartments, but in one whole heart. If a man tried to seduce your wife, you think he'd balk at picking your pocket? Or lying?
Is THIS the sort of "expert" in charge of much of the world's financial arrangement? Strange job qualifications there at the IMF.
Some folks (not me!) suspect that quite a few of Our Rulers at Mr. Strauss-Kahn's exalted level share his scorn for morality. Some also suspect that Mr. Strauss-Kahn made somebody REALLY big REALLY mad for them to pull the plug on him publicly, since immunity from exposure or prosecution is one of the perks that usually go with high status in that world.
Franklin Sanders lives on a farm in Middle Tennessee by choice, deals in physical gold & silver, and has been writing and publishing The Moneychanger for nearly 26 years.