Here is Ellen Brown's response to my criticism of a bogus quote from Nathan Rothschild:
11. A bogus quote from Nathan RothschildYou're quoting from an old edition. My current edition says:
Nathan Rothschild, who controlled the Bank of England after 1820, is quoted as declaring:
I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.
This is quite true, as you note; you got 40,000 hits on it yourself.
She is a lawyer. She cannot resist using lawyer's tricks.
Trick: she says that I am quoting from an old edition. This seems to make me look bad.
Fact: What I quoted, except for one word, was exactly what she writes in her latest edition. Here is what I wrote:
If you want to excite readers of pulp fiction conspiracy books, offer a quotation from a Rothschild. Ellen Brown wants her readers to get excited.Nathan Rothschild, who controlled the Bank of England after 1820, notoriously declared:I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.[Web of Debt, p. 65.]
As you can see, what I quoted from the 2008 edition is almost exactly what she says she wrote in her 2010 edition. All she did in 2010 was to add the adjective "notoriously."
Trick. She asserts, without any support: "This is quite true, as you note; you got 40,000 hits on it yourself."
Fact: I wrote the following:
She offers no footnote.To help her out, I hereby offer tens of thousands of footnotes. I got them from Google. I searched for "Rothschild" and "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England." I got over 40,000 hits.
I did not look at all of them. I looked at several dozen. There was no footnote to a primary source document.
Take a look at the academic quality of these sites. See which ones you would trust. There may be one. I did not spot it.
By the way, he did not control the Bank of England. There is no primary source evidence that indicates that he did. His grandson did sit on the board of directors, beginning in 1869.
Once again, lawyer Brown is putting the shuck on the rubes: her readers.
I say it again: "Once again, lawyer Brown is putting the shuck on the rubes: her readers."
In her response, she did not offer a citation from a primary source document that indicates that he ever said this. She merely repeated what I had noted: there are many cases of this quotation on the Web. My point was simple: they are bogus, too.
She has also not responded to my claim that Nathan Rothschild had no connection to the Bank of England.
She is obviously desperate. She is so desperate that she offered this really silly response to my original critique of her use of a bogus quote. She did not need to offer this self-incriminating verbal smoke screen to prove me wrong. She needed only two things:
1. Primary source evidence that Rothschild said this.
2. Proof that he controlled the Bank of England.
Ellen Brown is faking it. She faked it in Web of Debt, and she is faking it in her responses.
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