Do you hear what I hear?

In memory of Chester Bennington, the well known front-man for Linkin Park and lesser known OG Ape stacker. Like our forefather Abraham Lincoln for whom the band was named after and who set free the slaves in America, Chester too had a vision of setting all America's debt slaves free through a return to sound honest money, backed by gold and silver as our Founding Fathers had instructed.

Throughout his career, Chester sang about the pains of being a silver stacker fighting the corrupt financial system, but no one was able to grok the true meaning of his songs because he had not yet completed his masterpiece gospel by stitching his complete message together into a single album. That is until now ...

As one of Chester's 13 Ape Apostles, I have studied his songs and undertaken the arduous task of reassembling the jigsaw pieces and translating his lyrics into Ape-speak so that we Apes everywhere may see his musical works in a new light and discover their true meaning hidden deep within! The Book of Chester here below is the knowledge he always intended to share with his followers when the time was right. If you doubt me, then click each link and take another listen to their music from a different perspective within this new context:

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• For decades, apes have been Waiting for the End of this corrupt financial system and for somebody to finally step up and put a stop to the COMEX and LBMA's precious metals price manipulation. The COMEX, LBMA, and paper silver investors are "holding onto what I haven't got". Let that verse sink in for a minute or two. Possession is 9/10 the rule of law in the PM investing world.

• OG Ape stackers have always known that the COMEX and LBMA system is a Castle of Glass ... nothing more than a "paper" tail that wags the "physical" dog of the precious metals markets. Rehypothecation with multiple people claiming ownership of the same physical asset is the name of the game. In any futures market, financial derivative bets are a multiple of the actual transactions involving an exchange of the actual physical commodity. The difference with the PM futures markets is that the ratio of paper bets to actual item exchanges is orders of magnitude higher than the other commodity markets. This allows paper trades with no intent of delivery to completely swamp any price discovery that might be had from actual physical transactions.

• This paper market scam is being used to suffocate the traditional "smoke signal" role that a rising PM price would historically play whenever a government began to trash its own currency. In doing so, it gives the false appearance that all is well in the financial system, it props up the USD as a go-to "safe haven" in times of financial crisis, and maintains the illusion that the "full faith and credit of the US government" backing the currency is unquestionable and the government will always pay their obligations in full. What goes unsaid is that the government will nominally fulfill its promises by resorting to monetary supply inflation with its printing press, but it will not guarantee that the purchasing power of their borrowed currency will maintain its value until the time it is repaid. This allows the US to extract its "exorbitant privilege" from the rest of the world by swapping our worthless IOUs in exchange for real goods and services.

• Naive Apes who initially sought legal refuge in the arms of the CFTC and DOJ captured government regulators now know after years and countless investigations that the motto of these Potemkin agencies is "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil". They have no intention of ever seeking out or stopping all the methods of manipulation. When faced with incontrovertible evidence of wrongdoing, they will only hand out "cost of doing business" slap-on-the-wrist penalty/fine settlements and typically allow the culprit to escape w/o admitting any wrongdoing. They will not enforce their own rules and regulations on the books when they are brazenly broken, or craft special exceptions and loopholes for the most flagrant violators.

• The powered Wall Street financial elite and bought DC revolving door politicians/bureaucrats have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Nobody from their ranks will ever come to aid our cause. Only Wise Apes can take it upon ourselves to enact change by rising up as one against the COMEX and LBMA system if we ever want to be able to Burn It Down and serve a modicum of true justice.

• Therefore, we're left with no other choice, but to pursue the one and only remaining effective solution to this problem. Apes must band together in order to Bleed It (Them) Out of all the phyzz held in both the COMEX and LBMA vaults Until It's Gone completely and resides in our Silver/Gold Diamond Hands.

• However, those COMEX 1k oz bars are a bit too Heavy for a single Silverback Ape to lift all by himself. Unfortunately, the masses by and large are still asleep and blissfully unaware inside the Matrix. Most of those minds are not ready to be unplugged from the system, and are forcibly unwilling to take the Red Pill when confronted with the naked truth. We need to raise a veritable Ape army if we are to stand any chance of pulling this off. (Luckily we now have Apes like Jake from Bison Bullion on our side who are willing to take delivery of COMEX bars and cut them up in smaller sizes for easy carrying!)

• OG Ape stackers remained the only real voice of sanity over this last decade of Central Bank monetary insanity, which has spawned and fueled the Central Banker's "Everything (But PM) Bubble" in financial assets. Because the relative performance of our stacks (measured in their phony fiat currency) has paled in comparison to practically every other asset class (both by being spanked in the bad years and by barely outperforming in the few good ones), Nobody's Listening to our dire warnings of the consequences of wreckless money-printing. All the monetary historical knowledge from our elder generations is being Lost in the Echo. We must never forget humanity's past and its failed monetary mistakes, or we are doomed to repeat them.

• OG Apes have been patiently expecting that the financial madness will eventually pass and our society will come back to its senses. However, that has become waiting for A Light That Never Comes as the Central Bankers invent new ways to do MOAR and MOAR in order to blow and inflate old and new "fool's gold" asset bubbles, each eclipsing the size of the previous one. Unbelievably, their attempts to kick the can further down the road have somehow continued to distract the masses for a little while longer still.

• After all the eye-popping Bitcoin and crypto gains over the last few years while PMs languished even when it was their moment to shine during the Covid pandemic, many OG Apes had almost Given Up on precious metals as a reliable store of value. Attacks between stackers and crypto die-hards escalated as each group challenged the other's understanding of monetary finance. Suffering through the gauntlet and constant mental anguish from the neverending cartel price smashes during a multi-year PM bear 🐻 market is what separates the strong Silverback Diamond Hands 💎👐 from mere mortal fair weather PM investors. Only the truly masochistic ones survive the Bullion Bank mind fuckery.

• Many increasingly frustrated OG Apes and highly esteemed, upstanding financial luminaries began Crawling, questioning their own sanity, and abandoned the precious metals camp one by one in search of greener crypto pastures. Their self-confidence dwindled in their previous logical conclusion based on numerous historical empirical examples that PMs were the best asset to protect their wealth from currency debasement. However, market action was indicating that something was different this time and the methods of old were no longer working. "Fear is how I (PM investors) fall, confusing what is real" and constitutes a reliable store of value. While crypto may indeed prove to be that reliable store of value in the future, a 12 year track record pales in comparison next to the 5,000+ years of accumulated human monetary knowledge and trust in PMs which are being thrown out the window because the constant suppression and smackdowns prevents them from gaining any sustainable price momentum relative to almost every other asset class.

• But then, a strange thing occurred as the WSB movement started to go viral. That Reddit community cast a bright Iridescent light on the ability of social media to incite inconceivable moves in WSB favorite target meme stocks. Curious solitary Apes heard the jungle noises and ventured out to investigate what all the commotion was about.

• After joining and blending into the community, some Wise Apes (like HappyHawaiian) suggested attacking the fraud in the silver markets to the WSB crowd. A few retarded chimps heard the call, and jumped right into the fray by buying paper SLV stonks all the while believing they "owned" the shiny precious. Silly rabbits, Bankster trix are for kids. You have to give them credit, though ... those retarded chimps were able to push the paper spot price up a couple of bucks for a few days in late Jan before the Banksters effortlessly bitch-smacked them down. To cover their criminal asses, the custodians of the SLV ETF made some changes to the fine print in their prospectuses to keep their Lying From You and their paper shenanigan tracks technically covered.

• WSB was too enthralled by GME and AMC to be distracted from their misguided vendetta against low-on-the-financial-totem-pole hedgies. They began to ban anyone who mentioned the word "silver" in their subreddit. On the other hand, Wise Apes knew there were much, much bigger fish to fry. And out of the ashes, the WSS splinter group was resurrected with a sole focus to get the shiny! With WSS, it looks like this Ape has finally found a community of like-minded individuals ... truly Somewhere I Belong.

• The WSS subreddit could be The Catalyst which finally brings these corrupt bullion banksters, central bankers, and their paper charades to their knees, allowing some TRUE price discovery!

• However, after witnessing the half-assed lame WSB failed SLV squeeze, the Battle-scarred Silverback Apes from WSS knew that Breaking the Habit of paper silver investors who invest in financial mirage products was PRIORITY #1. So they organized a PSLV raid to suck out the wind from the SLV sails.

• WSS apes rallied around their chosen Battle Symphony, shouting "OUT OF THE VAULT!!!" each time COMEX registered and eligible silver categories fell with contract deliveries and withdrawals of physical from their rigged system. For all the chimps and freshly minted Apes out there, welcome to the main event. Let's get ready to rumble! 😁

• In parallel, Apes were encouraged to raid LCS, bullion dealers, and mints early and often in order to put further indirect pressure on the limited shiny supply. We shall soon witness the COMEX and LBMA exchanges die a slow death from a million Ape Papercuts.

• Last but not least, Apes maniacally recruit other new apes from all across the jungle to aid in our cause. The COMEX is already One Step Closer, and it's about to break!

• Finally, Apes stand a realistic chance of revealing the bankster's Final Masquerade to the whole world, exposing it for the gigantic scam it is.

• This could mark the Shadow of the Day for the petrodollar and other lesser fiat currencies around the world. "Sometimes solutions (to a global debt problem) aren't so simple. Sometimes goodbye is the only way."

• To the USD, Apes say Good Goodbye and good riddance. We use an unchanging physical item as the yardstick to measure our wealth in ounces stacked, rather than constantly depreciating dollar and how many digits are displayed on a computer screen showing the value of our bank account. Furthermore, without its exorbitant privilege stemming from its status of owning the world's reserve currency, the US will no longer have the keys which enable its military to wage endless, mindless wars across the globe. (No offence intended towards the good servicemen who carry out the orders they're given, but are not responsible for the direction of our country's bellicose foreign policy).

• Some might say that any upward revaluation of the PMs to balance the books so to speak, will cause a great generational wealth transfer from "easy money" debtors to "hard/sound money" savers. If this creates a New Divide beneath who is wealthy and who is not, then so be it. Everyone had an equal opportunity to protect themselves with at least a modicum of the shiny while it has been "on sale" over the last 5 decades.

• Ape society will Leave Out All the Rest of humanity who were foolish enough to believe their politicians' empty promises of "something for nothing" and their central bankers who fooled them into thinking that you can print your way to wealth and prosperity. Apes have no sympathy or love for foolish retards.

• Let's forcibly begin the Great Reset, without the use of force on your fellow neighbors. Apes march to our own drumbeat and will do it on OUR TERMS & TIMETABLE, not according to THEIRS! Society will forgive and let go of What I've (We've) Done once enormous debt loads and ridiculous financial asset values have been slashed and burned by the ravages of hyperinflation.

• Each new WSS Ape member is One More Light keeping an OG Ape from completely throwing in the towel on what to date has appeared to be a futile lost cause. The amazing growth of the WSS community in such a short amount of time is a beacon of hope for OG Apes that the younger generation can still learn a thing or two about economic and monetary history from their elders. OG Silverbacks have a renewed sense of motivation to keep on stacking!

• Always remember that your time on Earth is your most precious commodity and one that you can't get back once spent. So, if Time = Money and your money is supposed to represent the accumulated fruits of your labor, then which form would you choose to store it in ... rock, paper, or air? Apes prefer shiny rocks. In the End, that simple choice does matter a whole lot!

• Off-topic: Did Chester take his own life because he was an OG Ape before his time but w/o a WSS community of like-minded simians who could relate? Despite his legions of fans, did he feel like he was always Talking to (Him) Myself? The world may never know.