{"id":2281,"date":"2014-01-22T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T19:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2018-06-10T10:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T10:55:54","slug":"silver-bullets-not-just-about-vampires-and-werewolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themorganreport.com\/blog\/silver-bullets-not-just-about-vampires-and-werewolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver \u201cBullets\u201d \u2013 Not just about Vampires and Werewolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver \u201cBullets\u201d \u2013 Not just about Vampires and Werewolves<br \/>\nby David Morgan<br \/>\nThe idea that bullets made from silver offered an effective (sometimes only) means of dispatching evil entities from vampires to werewolves, has been around in popular mythology for quite some time.  A Brothers Grimm fairy tale called The Two Brothers, features a supposedly conventional bullet-proof witch being given an attitude adjustment via the use of silver bullets. According to Bulgarian legend, Delyo, a 17th century rebel who led forces against the Ottoman Empire, was immune to injury from either swords or guns, so his enemies cast a silver bullet in order to dispatch him from the scene.<br \/>\nCloser to present day, The Lone Ranger TV series, which ran from 1949 \u2013 57, had the protagonist using silver bullets \u2013 the .45 (Long) Colt &#8211; against Wild West evil-doers.  Well before this, beginning in 1930, tales of the masked man were to become a staple of radio, eventually airing almost 3,000 episodes. An announcer began each one with:<br \/>\n<em>\u201cIn the early days of the western United States, a masked man and an Indian rode the plains, searching for truth and justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when from out of the past, come the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver! The Lone Ranger rides again!\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/silverbullets1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/silverbullets1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"silverbullets1\" width=\"308\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2284\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA New York writer, Fran Striker, is credited with creating The Lone Ranger character. He ascribed to his hero a strict moral code, among the elements as listed in Wikipedia, the following:<br \/>\n\u2022 That to have a friend, a man must be one.<br \/>\n\u2022 That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.<br \/>\n\u2022 Being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for what is right.<br \/>\n\u2022 That a man should make the most of what equipment he has.<br \/>\n\u2022 That &#8216;this government of the people, by the people, and for the people&#8217; shall live always.<br \/>\n\u2022 That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.<br \/>\n\u2022 That sooner or later&#8230;somewhere&#8230;somehow&#8230;we must settle with the world and make payment for what we<br \/>\n  have taken.<br \/>\n\u2022 That all things change but truth, and that truth alone, lives on forever.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/silverbullets2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silver-investor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/silverbullets2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"silverbullets2\" width=\"210\" height=\"218\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2286\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<center><strong>.45 (Long) Colt Silver Bullet Bullion<\/strong> (Courtesy Northwest Territorial Mint)<\/center><br \/>\nIn an interesting twist of terminology serendipity, The Lone Ranger\u2019s sidekick, Tonto, was played by Jay Silverheels, the son of a Canadian Mohawk tribal chief (First Nations) and military officer. Jay\u2019s father was the most decorated Native Canadian soldier in WW I. Silverheels &#8211; Harry Smith &#8211; adopted this screen name from the nickname he had received for his running prowess as a lacrosse player. In 1997, Silverheels was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame, under the name Harry \u201cTonto\u201d Smith.<br \/>\nA few years ago, Michael Krieger, a former macro analyst, who now runs his own investment fund, brought our silver bullet versus the vampires\u2019 analogy fully up to date. In a post on Zerohedge, he stated,<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026vampires are able to come back from the dead and once they have done so they drain the life out of the living while they sleep. Need I say more? The big banks and the Federal Reserve are modern day vampires and they are feeding off what remains of the living (productive) parts of the economy while the majority of Americans are stuck in a reality TV, Prozac induced coma of endless propaganda and brainwashing. Indeed the vampires are feeding off of an American public that still by and large remains \u2018asleep.\u2019 These are ideal hunting grounds for vampires.\u201d<br \/>\nReferring to the too-big-to-fail banks and trading houses building mountains of paper silver derivatives, alongside central banks printing virtually unlimited amounts of fiat paper \u201cmoney\u201d, Krieger comments: \u201cUntil these entities are put out of their misery, restructured and key executives now and from the crisis are prosecuted there will be no sustainable recovery other than repeated phony boosts in aggregate demand created by printing money. More worryingly, the social fabric of the country will continue to deteriorate.\u201d<br \/>\nSilver \u2013 an agent of truth and social justice<br \/>\nWhat to make of all this?  Silver \u2013 both as metaphor and in its physical form &#8211; can be seen not only as an agent of truth and social justice via establishing individual self-sufficiency, but also as setting a standard for purity, equality, clarity, right-behavior, and ultimately the triumph of good over evil.<br \/>\nThink about the travails the citizens of so many nations face today due to government mismanagement, the distortions in the marketplace caused by \u201ccrony capitalism\u201d, the two-way flow of business positions between the regulators and the regulated, and, arguably, the current establishment of a ruling, rather than a governing class. There seems to be a singular lack of leadership in the mold of even one of history\u2019s greats \u2013 be it a Roman Cincinnatus, George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Sun Yat-sen, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Dwight David Eisenhower \u2013 or even (on his better days) a Lycurgus of Sparta.<br \/>\nOne can only hope that the day arrives when enlightened leadership places us on a more sustainable path of both individual and collective growth. Until that time, one would be well-advised to consider the basic tenets embodied in the Lone Ranger\u2019s creed.<br \/>\nIn a recent video interview, available at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/silverguru  along with many others I have done, I stated the following:<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to see more and more people wake up to the reality, that regardless of what the spin-doctors in the mainstream financial press say, things are not really better \u2013 there really isn\u2019t a recovery going on \u2013 so what\u2019s the solution?<br \/>\n\u201cThe solution starts with a change that you can make on a personal basis. For most people, this means acquiring hard assets that are totally outside the banking system.\u201d<br \/>\nKrieger concludes with a message aligning almost perfectly with my own, writing,<br \/>\n\u201cThe people do not want things to stay the way they are and in fact the means of ending it are very simple. Much more simple than voting at the polls for politicians that know nothing and can be bought off within a week. Vote with your money. Buy silver.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nDavid Morgan (Silver-Investor.com) is a widely recognized analyst in the precious metals industry; he consults for hedge funds, high net-worth investors, mining companies, depositories and bullion dealers. He is the publisher of The Morgan Report on precious metals, the author of Get the Skinny on Silver Investing, and a featured speaker at investment conferences in North America, Europe and Asia. 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