This Has Happened Before — And It Didn’t Start With Force In 1933, Americans didn’t wake up to soldiers kicking down doors and looting safes. That’s not how modern power works. They woke up to paperwork. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102, declaring private gold ownership illegal and forcing citizens to surrender their gold at a government-set price. The justification was wrapped in soothing language: a national emergency, financial stability, a “temporary” measure to save the system. The result was anything but temporary. Citizens lost control of their gold, and shortly after, the government revalued it higher—locking in a massive transfer of wealth. The playbook was written. It was tested. And it worked. Confiscation Is the Wrong Word…
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