Calling All Angels

Publisher’s Foreword

O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength,
But it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

-Isabella, Measure for Measure

To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

– Iago, Othello

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

– Horacio Castellanos Moya

What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

 – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stephen Requa, because of fate and history had “things” that the “powers-that-be” wanted … making his life a holy hell. Matter-of-fact “they” murdered his great grandfather because of things that they wanted … “to control.”

When first confronted with corruption primarily we chalk it up to greed, apathy, or other basic human foibles. But the more you look under the rug, around corners and behind curtains, one finds a concerted, directed effort that goes beyond the basic seven deadly sins and leads to institutionalized evil: The subjugation of human beings by other human beings through deceit, technology, and flimflam using many techniques that are abhorrently inhumane. 

It is criminal. 

This activity doesn’t happen in a vacuum, the collateral damage is all of us: our future, our lives, our children and theirs, our heritage, our country … our world.

Stephen had his life rudely interrupted, while working in the family’s main business – mining. The U.S. shift from a gold-backed currency to Saudi-American petrodollars commenced a consolidation of interests and intrigue. The Requa family had been in mining for generations, Stephen’s great-grandfather, Issac L. Requa made two fortunes in gold, one in California and another in Nevada. He was the president of the Central Pacific Railroad for many years, and related by marriage to Jane Stanford. Issac’s son and Stephen’s grandfather, Mark worked with Stanford alumnus, President Herbert Hoover in collecting the most detailed information on mining, especially gold mining, in the Americas.

The Requa/Hoover files detailed thousands of gold properties from Alaska to Bolivia; the files contained the most plentiful untapped geological data available anywhere for use in finding new gold mines in the U.S. and Central America. These files comprised an enormous body of data that the Requa family had acquired through 150 years of historic gold-mining developments with players including former U.S. President Herbert Hoover. The Requa/Hoover Files comprised the most complete information available on American gold prospects and deposits.

Gee, wonder why anyone would want that? The shenanigans, death-threats, etc. that followed are chronicled in Requa’s book, The Great American Gold Grab. Stephen became the unwillingly victim of his birth and occupation, for he had continued the family tradition, as had his father, and continued to expand the fortuitous files. And as Dr. William Pepper wrote in the foreword to that book:

In the annals of history, the classic David-and-Goliath encounter has been many times duplicated. Almost every culture passes down to its children inspiring tales of the courage of a single individual who achieved an unlikely victory over much more powerful opponents. Such heroes have gone against the tide of popular opinion or the interests of the powerful of their time, in the furtherance of principle, simple justice — or just the truth. And almost without exception, those undertaking such efforts have paid a price.

Here in Calling All Angels, we learn how and why the ultimate price paid by Jane Stanford was covered up … by upstanding citizens.

Power and control, because they could and the wanted to – the action advanced their interests. The killing of Jane Stanford and her relation Isaac Requa left Stanford University defenseless – to be used and abused, as it’s new owners saw fit. These were turbulent times with change in the air, and as history moved on, the influence of Stanford has been mighty. 

My good friend, Professor Antony Sutton, while working at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, ran directly into the “powers-that-be.” They said, “Tony don’t break your rice bowl.” Tony became a David. 

So has Stephen.

Onwards to the Utmost of Futures!

Peace,

Kris Millegan

Publisher

TrineDay

July 4, 2016

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