g. edward griffin is our guest on booktv on c-span2. >> host: we continue our coverage of freedomfest 2012 from las vegas the libertarian gathering held annually in this city. talking with authors introducing new right now wendy mcelroy with her book the art of being free. tell us about herself. >> i am active in the birch areas of sense -- about 40 years and this is my reaction to 9/11. when it have been dae started to rethink everything about my a belief system. i wondered had i wasted my life working freedom for the decades i had? but we gave up our freedom all of that moment. i thought about my relationship to the state, how important it was, and that responsibility of life is what used to be called the business of living. i wrote a book that gave the theory, history, psychology behind my response to the whole system of thinking after 9/11. i am tired to be seen as a distraction. i am not disrespecting anyone who wants to debate liberty. i want to be free of my own lifetime especially of what i consider the police state. >> host: what did you change in your thinking after 9/11? what di

g. edward griffin, the creature from jekyll island in its 302nd printing, the founder and president of freedom force internationa

and the author is g edward griffin. he's joining us on booktv on c-span2 in laughings. who is the creature from jekyll island? what is the creature. >> what is the creature. yeah. i thought if anybody saw they might think it was a se sequel to the jurassic park. the creature is the federal reserve system. the reason for the jekyll connection is one of the most interesting things about the federal reserve it was created on jekyll island. it's a real island. off the coast of georgia. and it was on that island back in 1910 that a small group of men gathered and it was their mission to draft what became the federal reserve act. and you're going show the pictures. those are the guys, and the funny thing about the piece of history is that the federal reserve bill was being sold to the american people as a piece of legislation that control the bad, big bankers. what they didn't realize are the bankers are there great power center ofbacking. they were the ones busy bringing the bill that was supposed to control. >> who are the six gentleman? >> well, they are represents. >> you