The Creature from Jekyll Island[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin
Griffin's 1994 book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, draws parallels between the Federal Reserve and a bird of prey.
He has opposed the Federal Reserve since the 1960s, saying it constitutes a banking cartel and an instrument of war and totalitarianism.[17] Griffin presented his views on the U.S. money system in his 1993 movie and 1994 book on the Federal Reserve System, The Creature from Jekyll Island.[6][note 1] The book was a business-topic bestseller.[2][18][19] The book also influenced Ron Paul when he wrote a chapter on money and the Federal Reserve in his New York Times bestseller, The Revolution: A Manifesto.[20]
Edward Flaherty, an academic economist writing for Political Research Associates, characterized Griffin's description of the secret meeting on Jekyll Island as "paranoid", "amateurish", and "academically suspect".[21] Griffin responded that "until specifics [of error] are brought to my attention, I stand on everything I have written. ... There is nothing about my work that merits being classified as a unfounded conspiracy theory. After all, within the modern context, it is customary to associate the phrase 'conspiracy theory' to a view that, by definition, is without any basis, and therefore could only be held by those who are deeply uninformed, intellectually undisciplined, emotionally unstable, or mentally handicapped. However, the rhetorical tactic of using such emotionally loaded words and phrases to prematurely and summarily discredit the views and the works of inquiry, as done by others, is to be rejected, and seen for what it most often is, deliberate bad faith for the purposes of oppressing the very freedom of conscience of the other. "[22]
