Faith Restored: Chris Savvinidis--A Smart OWS Protester!

As I have mentioned many times before, my faith in humanity has taken a serious nosedive over the past few years. With every passing day, it seems as though America, along with the rest of the world, seems to be losing its mind. But now and then there appears a small silver lining in the cloud that restores what little faith I have. Today, I’ll be highlighting a few of those silver linings.

While they may have their hearts in the right place by protesting the powers that be and screaming ‘we’re not going to take it anymore’, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are mostly clueless, misguided hipsters who haven’t the slightest idea what they’re protesting, let alone whom exactly to protest (hint: take 1-90 south until you reach Washington).

They seem to think that capitalism has failed (even though crony capitalism is to blame), that we need more taxes and regulations (even though the rich already pay their fair share and regulation has already been increasing), and that the government should guarantee $20 minimum wages, forgive all student loans, and offer free healthcare, Internet access, and cell phone service for all while the rich foot the bill (even though that would bankrupt the country more than it already is now).

But among the insane asylum, there has proven to be a few rational individuals who base their beliefs and convictions on logic, reason, and evidence rather than blind socialist ideology.

One such protester is Chris Savvinidis who offered the following motivational speech against the Federal Reserve, fractional banking system, and fiat currency (in other words, the real culprits, not Wall Street).

A whole continent wide cannot control a federal government with a banking system that prints money like its paper. You can’t even call it money anymore. Gold is money. Silver is money. Green dollars are not money. They’re using inflation as a hidden tax to fuck the people. Prices go up. Do your wages go up? No. My wages didn’t go up. But prices went up, gas goes up, milk goes up, trades go up. How am I supposed to live? And this is all because our government prints too much money, starts too much wars, so they can sell their tanks, their guns, their missiles. That’s all America exports is guns, missiles, and tanks. That’s it. We need to bring production back to America. End the Federal Reserve.

His YouTube video has made such an impact, receiving over 95 thousand hits. He's even garnered the attention of media figures like Judge Andrew Napolitano, whom interviewed him in the following appearance on Freedom Watch.



Of course, he's also garnered some negative attention as well. Glenn Beck twisted his words in order to make it seem as though he was attacking capitalism rather than crony capitalism. Here is his reply:

If you’re asking me if I want to end the current system, I do, because that’s crony capitalism. It’s not real capitalism. Government’s hiding behind the name capitalism. What we have in this country are corporations who lobby in millions and millions of dollars to politicians and buy their votes for the highest bids…and Washington no longer speaks for us, they speak for all the big corporations and whoever has the most money.

And when I made the comment about guns, missiles, and tanks, I obviously didn’t mean those were all of the exports. I meant that, in this country, we have a military-industrial complex. We have over 700 bases in 150 countries. So, and this all stems back to having an elastic currency. Congress has this idea that they can keep spending trillions of dollars on these wars because they can keep printing money to fund it. But what they’re really doing is debasing our currency and driving prices up and the power of the people is going down, and that’s what really everyone should be upset about.

Amen, Chris. If we had more protesters like him, we could really fight against the real problems in this country.

Feel free to visit his website What About Liberty?, his Twitter account, and Facebook page.