TITLES OF NOBILITY
In seeking to rule the world and destroy the United States, bankers committed many crimes. Foremost among these crimes
were fraud, conversion, and plain old theft. To escape prosecution for their crimes, the bankers did the same thing any career
criminal does. They hired and formed alliances with the best lawyers and judges money could buy. These alliances, originally
forged in Europe (particularly in Great Britain), spread to the colonies, and later into the newly formed United States of
America.
Despite their criminal foundation, these alliances generated wealth, and ultimately, respectability. Like any modern member of
organized crime, English bankers and lawyers wanted to be admired as "legitimate businessmen". As their criminal fortunes
grew so did their usefulness, so the British monarchy legitimized these thieves by granting them "titles of nobility".
Historically, the British peerage system referred to knights as "Squires" and to those who bore the knight's shields as "Esquires".
As lances, shields, and physical violence gave way to the more civilized means of theft, the pen grew mightier (and more
profitable) than the sword, and the clever wielders of those pens (bankers and lawyers) came to hold titles of nobility. The most
common title was "Esquire" (used, even today, by some lawyers).