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 "Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the electric power companies facing bankruptcy before the rate hike the last week of March, was told in a 1982 meeting between SCE and the Sierra Club that the environmental organization had no intention of finding a solution to California's energy needs. Just the opposite. They were implementing the no-growth, one-world, collectivist agenda of the Club of Rome. Their intention was to shut California and the nation down. In other words, the reason for the California energy crisis has been well known for nearly twenty years! It has nothing to do with deregulation, as popularly promoted by the mainstream press, and everything to do with a global agenda.""[T]he Sierra Club leadership had no interest in protecting the environment, but [instead] in advancing an earth-worshiping, anti-human agenda bent on creating a world government so a small global elite could control the rest of the world." "Aurelio Peccei, the founder and past president of the Club of Rome [said, in the Club of Rome's 1991 publication the First Global Revolution], 'In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine, and the like would fit the bill . . . . All of these are caused by human intervention. . . The real enemy, then is humanity itself.'" -- Excerpts from "Sierra Club/Club of Rome Behind California Energy Crises?", by Michael Coffman, Discerning the Times Digest, April 2001, page 3. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Fax: 207-942-6455. E-mail. Website. "One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices -- 545 human beings out of 283 million -- are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country . . . ."When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise complete power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. "If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in Lebanon, it's because they want them in Lebanon. "There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take it. "Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exist disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. "Those 545 people and they alone are responsible. They and they alone have the power. They and they alone should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses -- provided they have the gumption to manage their own employees." -- Excerpts from "The 545 People Responsible for ALL of America's Woes," by Charley Reese, The Oil Patch, May 2001, page 1. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "The long Reagan expansion was a casualty of the Y2K scare. The Federal Reserve, thinking that Americans would withdraw a tremendous amount of cash to protect themselves against computer crashes, added excess liquidity during 1999. But Americans did not hoard cash. Consequently, the liquidity found its way into stock prices."With the smooth transition to the year 2000, the Fed realized that it had made a policy mistake by pumping up the monetary base to inflationary levels. Reacting to its own prior miscalculation, the Fed withdrew the excess liquidity. The result was higher interest rates and lower stock prices. "When the Fed takes money out of the economy, it depresses economic activity, just as adding money can put a head of steam on a boom. The price of the Fed's Y2K mistake is a slowdown and, most likely, a recession." -- Excerpts from "Federal Reserve Transformed U.S.," by Paul Craig Roberts, Middle America News, May 2001, page 22. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. "For the past fifty years the public school system has had an utter inability to distinguish between what is important and what is unimportant. This is promoted as a 'failure,' but the evidence shows that it is not an accident. The universities tell us that what students bring to their higher education, in passions, curiosities, longings, and especially previous experience, has changed, because their elementary and secondary education has changed. Almost every student entering the university believes, or says that he believes, that truth is relative. If this belief is put to the test one can count on the student's reaction: he will be uncomprehending. The danger he has been taught to fear from absolutism (certainty; exactness) is not error, but intolerance. Relativism ('one idea is as good as another') is necessary to openness, and openness is the only essence which all primary education for more than fifty years has dedicated itself to inculcating."Students of relativism, of course, cannot defend their opinions when they have been indoctrinated with it. They cannot understand the issues, so they are easy to propagandize when everything is 'open and relative.' . . ." -- Excerpts from "The Decay of the Family and an Education System that Is Doing Exactly What It Is Designed To Do," by Virginia Birt Baker, The Florida Forum, Winter 2000, pages 9, 12. Address: Florida Pro-Family Forum, PO Box 1059, Highland City, Florida 33846-1059. "Two geopolitical meetings in Europe in November and December have provided the playing field for a major geopolitical power struggle over who will control the creation of the long-awaited world government. . . [T]he US-British (Anglo-British) faction or axis won by a nose over the Socialist-European faction or axis. . . [I]t now appears that while the world government will be fascist-socialist, it will not be as feudalistic as it could have been, and will be based on and controlled by the Western ideals of capitalism. . . .“Britain and the US want to keep the emerging world government secret until they are ready to fully implement their one-world plans, and then secure it as quickly as possible to minimize disruption to their financial and business interests. Conversely, Germany and France, along with the rest of socialist Europe under the strong influence of the Socialist International, are attempting to create a European Superstate superior to the US, and are insisting that a socialist world government be instituted immediately. . . . “Ironically, while most Americans are totally unaware that a world government is just around the corner, such news is making major headlines in England, where prime minister Tony Blair is openly being accused of treason by joining the rest of Europe in creating a European superstate and world government that will destroy British sovereignty. Yet, those accusations are only partially true. Blair does want a unified EU, an EU Army and a world government, but one where a capitalist-socialist ideology would dominate governments and the peoples of the world, not the socialist-feudal superstate envisioned by Germany and France who lead the Socialist Europeans." -- Excerpts from "Titans Battle Over Who Controls the Formation of World Government," Discerning the Times, December 2000, pages 1, 6. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated, 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. E-mail. Website. "Under the guise of 'peace and safety' the United Nations seeks to disarm entire populations. Never mind that disarmed populations invariably invite tyranny and genocide!""'Communism is almost boring, it's so predictable,' former Rhodesian freedom fighter Michael Peirce remarked to The New American. 'It proceeds in stages, and disarmament of the demonized population is one of those stages. And this inevitably leads to a stage in which the Communists kill a lot of people.' For that final stage to occur, he points out, 'the Communists have to take the guns away from their victims.'" "'Rhodesia before it was turned over to the Communists was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth, and it was far more civilized and peaceful than some parts of the United States are today.'" "The UN has an obvious interest in taking away our weapons -- not just those in Africa or elsewhere, but those owned by Americans as well. Make no mistake about it: They are after our guns, and heaven help us if we don't wake up and stop them before it's too late.'" -- Excerpts from "Disarmament and Destruction," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, March 26, 2001, pages 14, 19. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "No public conversation in America is more polluted by mendacity and hypocrisy than that on race. A once noble Civil Rights movement has become a Civil Rights Industry that functions as an arm of the Democratic Party and the social services and educational bureaucracies. 'Liberal racism' and its policies such as affirmative action have institutionalized the idea of black inferiority, reducing African-Americans to petulant children chronically indulged and obsessed over, deformed as they presumably are by slavery and Jim Crow through some Lamarckian process of inherited characteristics. Worse, the dream of the Civil Rights movement -- enshrined in Martin Luther King's oft-quoted but everywhere ignored wish that his children be 'judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin' -- has disappeared. Black people are relentlessly judged and identified on the basis of race by well-meaning whites who see, not complex individuals, but what Thomas Sowell has called 'mascots,' symbols of white guilt and superior sensitivity."Unfortunately, as [John H.] McWhorter writes [in his book, Losing the Race, Self-Sabotage in Black America], today 'black is Victimology, and this is a grave detour from the path to the mountaintop. Condemned by Victimology to wink and let failure pass, to choke in performance, and recreate racism where was receding, we will never savor . . . freedom.' Thus blacks 'have replaced the shackles whites hobbled us with for centuries with new ones of our own.'" -- Excerpts from "Tales Out of School," (a book review) by Bruce S. Thornton, Heterodoxy, January/February 2001, page 15. Address: PO Box 67398, Los Angeles, California 90067. E-mail. Website. "The President of the United States is responsible for purely military duties after being called into service by Congress. He has nothing to say about the declaration of war or its purposes and intent. That power belongs exclusively to the House and Senate, as was so forcefully stated by Henry Clay."The title of commander in chief is a temporary title conferred by Congress, which only lasts until the military objectives are reached or the war ends, at which time the title is taken back by the Congress and that is the end of it. The President of the United States does not retain the title of commander in chief indefinitely. "Only Congress can confer the title upon the President when it calls him into actual service, and this can only be done after a Constitutional Declaration of War. A Declaration of War is a deliberately complicated procedure. It is a secretive procedure designed to curb hotheaded presidents from rushing the U.S. into a war. It also requires Congress to specify what kind of war it intends to declare." -- From "War Powers," The Oil Patch, April 2001, pages 8-9. 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"The IRS is not who you think they are. IRS agents are neither trained nor paid by the United States Government."Pursuant to Treasury Delegation Order No. 92, the IRS is trained under the direction of the Division of Human Resources United Nations (U.N.) and the Commissioner (International), by the office of Personnel Management. "In the 1979 edition of 22 USCA 278, 'The United Nations,' you will find Executive Order 10422. The Office of Personnel Management is under the direction of the Secretary of the United Nations. "Pursuant to Treasury Delegation Order No. 91, the IRS entered into a 'Service Agreement' with the US Treasury Department (See Public Law 94-564, Legislative History, pg. 5967, Reorganization [BANKRUPTCY!] Plan No. 26) and the Agency for International Development. This agency is an international paramilitary operation and according to the Department of the Army Field manual (1969) 41-10, pgs 1-4, Sec. 1-7 (b) & 1-6, Sec. 1-10 (7) (c) (1), and 22 USCA 284, includes such activities as, 'Assumption of full or partial executive, legislative, and judicial authority over a country or area.' "The IRS is also an agency/member of a 169 nation pact called the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, found at 22 USCA 263a. The memorandum of Understanding, (MOU), between the Secretary of Treasury, AKA the corporate governor of 'The Fund' and 'The Bank' (International Monetary Fund, and the International Bank for reconstruction and Development), indicated that the Attorney General and its associates are soliciting and collecting information for foreign principals; the international organizations, corporations, and associations, exemplified by 22 USCA 286f. "According to the 1994 US Government Manual, at page 390, the Attorney General is the permanent representative to INTERPOL, and the Secretary of Treasury is the alternate member. Under Article 30 of the INTERPOL constitution, these individuals must expatriate their citizenship. They serve no allegiance to the United States of America. The IRS is paid by 'The Fund' and 'The Bank.' "Thus it appears from the documentary evidence that the Internal Revenue Service agents are 'Agents of a Foreign Principle' within the meaning and intent of the 'Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938' for private, not public, gain. "The IRS is directed and controlled by the corporate Governor of 'The Fund' and 'The Bank'. The Federal Reserve Bank and the IRS collection agency are both privately owned and operated under private statutes. The IRS operates under public policy, not Constitutional Law, and in the interest of our nation's foreign creditors. "The Constitution only permits Congress to lay and collect taxes. It does not authorize Congress to delegate the tax collection power to a private corporation, which collects our taxes for a private bank, the Federal Reserve, who then deposits it into the Treasury of the IMF. "The IRS is not allowed to state that they collect taxes for the United States Treasury. They only refer to 'The Treasury.'" -- From "Meet The IRS - America's Enemy Within," , provided by D. J. Logan. Sent to me via e-mail. Thanks, Marilyn. "Between 1973 and 1983, 87 percent of all cases of polio (excluding imported cases) were caused by the [polio] vaccine. More recently, every case of polio in the U.S. since 1979 (excluding five imported cases) was caused by the vaccine.""[I]n the waning days of the year 2000, members of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) unanimously voted for an end to all government-mandated childhood vaccines. AAPS Executive Director Jane M. Orient, MD, said, 'Children face the possibility of death or serious long-term adverse effects from mandated vaccines.'" "Measles . . . which declined by more than 95 percent before the [measles] vaccine was introduced, is 14 times more likely to be contracted by the vaccinated than by unvaccinated persons." "Dr. Viera Scheibner, author of Vaccinations: 100 Years of Orthodox Research, sums up the position of researchers not funded by pharmaceutical companies: 'There is no evidence whatsoever that vaccines of any kind . . . are effective in preventing the infectious diseases they are supposed to prevent. Further, adverse effects are amply documented and are far more significant to public health than any adverse effects of infectious diseases. [Vaccinations have] caused more suffering and more deaths than any other human activity in the history of medical intervention.'" -- From "Are Vaccines Really Safe and Effective?", by Jock Doubleday, Media Bypass, March 2001, page 20. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "Imagine an America in which a specific 'ruling principle' was created to decide proper societal conduct for every citizen. That principle would be used to consider everything you eat, what you wear, the kind of home you live in, the way you get to work, the way you dispose of waste, the number of children you have, even your education and employment decisions."And imagine that all of these decisions were called 'voluntary,' but also imagine that the administration ruling over the vast apparatus of federal government would use its full power to induce what it deems 'correct behavior.' "On June 29, 1993, President Clinton issued Executive Order 12852 to create the President's Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development is that 'ruling principle' for the implementation of what Al Gore calls the 'wrenching transformation' we must all suffer through in order to purify our nation from the horrors of the Twentieth Century's industrial revolution. "Consequently, Sustainable development calls for changing the very infrastructure of the nation, away from private ownership and control of property to nothing short of national zoning. It drives us away from personal vehicles and highways to light rail train systems and bike paths. Using the guidelines of Sustainable Development, suburban housing, air conditioning, high meat consumption, frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil foods and kitchen appliances are not sustainable. "Sustainable Development programs are even used in the creation of national education standards and high school graduation criteria. It establishes partnerships among federal, regional, state, local and tribal levels of government -- and with business. These programs oversee development of private property, housing design, transportation patterns and the establishment of government data banks. When fully implemented, Sustainable Development will result in the complete transformation of the American way of life." -- Excerpt from "Green Agenda Is Devouring America's Private Property," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese Report, April 2001, page 11, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. "It is the slow leeching of the dollar's value through the operations of the Federal Reserve that explains why the dollar in a baby boomer's pocket is worth but the nickel in his grandfather's purse. This means that on top of all the taxes -- income, usage, death, import, excise and licenses and fees -- that three generations of Americans have paid, they have been assessed an additional 95 percent which the silent, unfelt hand of currency debasement collected from them -- thanks to the Fed.""The Federal Reserve System pumps money out before a presidential election (beginning usually 18 months before the polling date) to create a happy Wall Street carnival that is most usually blown away by inflationary winds at some point in the newly elected president's four-year term. Auburn University's Roger Garrison explains the process, citing three recent examples: 'In 1975 President Ford was told the time had come to start printing money to create the optimal conditions for his reelection, but Ford refused, since he was already presiding over a reasonably satisfactory economy and failed to perceive his own reelection as a cause for inflating the money supply. President Carter, who was elected in lieu of Ford's error, hit the ground printing money. His mistake was that he started the game too early, so that two and a half years later, about the time he should have started printing, we had double-digit inflation. . . He got the cycle so out of whack that the time span normal between stimulation and discipline became so brief that the cycle collapses upon itself. The next president to screw up the cycle was George Bush, who thought with the tremendous approval ratings he'd garnered after the Gulf War in 1991, there was no need for him to pay the game. By the time he brought in James Baker, who knew the game well, it was too late, and the stimulation occurred under Clinton in late January 1993.' And what did these three men have in common? 'They all lost,' Professor Garrison notes." "Social Security was the government's first truly successful attack on the traditional family by breaking the contract of mutual support between generations within families." "Fifty-six years after the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito, and over a decade after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the U.S. federal government is a colossus, and the national debt is not six trillion dollars, but in excess of 20 trillion dollars when the costs of still unfunded, government-provided pension and medical commitments are taken into account. Such perverse results are possibly only because the Federal Reserve System is an empire accountable to no one -- by design." -- Excerpts from "The Fed: How Your Money -- and Life -- Are Controlled by America's Banking System," by Anne Williamson, WorldNet, March 2001, pages 4-26. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. "If someday your children or grandchildren ask you how Liberty died in America and what happened that caused the demise of the Nation, read this and you will be able to answer them. If they ask you why the citizens have been disarmed, you'll know. If you want to know why, go to your local library, no matter where you live in the United States. Tell the librarian to show you where the 'United States Code Books' are shelved. There are 25 books in the set. They are reddish-brown in color. They are printed by the Government Printing Office in Washington, DC. These hard-covered books are printed every 8-10 years. They are updated with annual soft-back supplements each year until a new hard cover issue comes out. At the present time, the 1988 hardbacks are on library shelves."Open Volume 9 . . . Turn to page 651. Here you will find Public Law 87-297 which calls for the United States to eliminate its armed forces. This law was signed for the United States in 1961. John F. Kennedy signed it and every president since has worked to enact its provisions. The government knows you will not approve which is why they want to take away your firearms. . . . "Turn to page 652. Here you will find the definition of what the government means by 'disarmament.' The disarmament calls for the elimination of our armed forces. It also calls for the elimination of weapons of all kinds. . . . "Turn to page 654. Here you will find it stated as item (a) 'Control, reduction and elimination of armed forces...' and as Item (d) ' ...Elimination of armed forces....' What you need to know is that your armed forces are being eliminated and relinquished from national control which, in turn, wipes out our sovereignty as a nation. In two stages, we will have no more army, no more navy, no more air force. In the third stage, we shall have a 'zero' military. Before Stage I closes, all citizen-owned guns are to be banned. . . . "Public Law 87-297 is further explained in the State Department Document called Publication 7277. Your librarian can also furnish you a copy. Also ask the librarian to get you a copy of 'The Blue Print for the Peace Race.' It is a 35-page booklet printed by the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as Publication No. 4 - General Series 3 - Released May of 1962. Publication No. 4 is the unabridged version of State Department Document 7277. "Both of these booklets explain how our military is to be reduced to 2.1 million men. China and the Soviets are to be reduced to that level also. At this point, we are at Stage I at which time we are to transfer (on a permanent basis) one-half of our armed forces to be merged with the Russian and Chinese armies. In Stage II, the remaining one-half of our armed forces is then turned over to this same Security Council of the United Nations. The person in charge of the merged armies must, by agreement, always be a Russian. The world's smaller nations turn 100% of their armies over to the same under-secretary of the Security Council in Stage II. President George Bush and Admiral Wm. J. Crowe [have referred] to this process as being 'in transition.' "Turn to page 655. On this page in Volume 9 of the United States Code, read 'Policy Formation.' The directives there (written in 1963 to pacify objectors) are supposedly to restrain anyone from disarmament, reducing or limiting our armaments, or taking guns away from the people unless it is pursuant to the treaty-making power of the president, or if it is authorized by further legislation by the Congress. (This is title 22, Section 2573.) "Every couple of years the House of Representatives votes to appropriate funds for this on-going program. Since P.L. 87-297 was first passed into law in 961, there have been 18 updates to it - all bad - with no deletions of these issues I lay before you now. The Congress knows that the plan includes the policing of the United States by foreign troops. (The world army they are forming in Europe.) The Congress is allowing our military bases to be closed down, except for those that will be used by the world army. You will find that plan in Publication 7277 and in 'The Blueprint for the Peace Race.' "If the president and Congress can promote a 'Constitutional Convention' you will find yourself with two new constitutions (communist in structure) which in one states in Article VIII, Section 12: 'No person shall bear arms or possess lethal weapons except the police and members of the armed forces....' "The Congress has praised these documents and is on record in Senate hearings seeking ways to install these constitutions. Ask your librarian for 'Revision of the United Nations Charter - Hearings Before a Subcommittee (Foreign Relations) Feb. 2-20, 1950 U.S.Government Printing Office.' Nothing has changed since. They are still viable. The ultimate goal to be reached in Stage III of the disarmament process is to 'proceed to a point where no state [nation] would have the military power to challenge the progressively strengthened U.N. Peace Force....'" State Department Publication 7277 is available on the Web and in electronic form as file PUB_7277.ZIP on the Paul Revere - San Jose Bulletin Board [408-947-7800 or 408-279-0872], or the Rising Storm Bulletin Board [408-739-8693], or possibly others. -- Excerpt from a Thomas G. e-mail, forwarded to me by Marilyn B. (Thanks, Marilyn.) "'Racial profiling,' of course, isn't an overt act. Nor is it the development of a profile based on race. It is merely criminal profiling, a purely mental exercise of logic to arrive at a usable hypothesis that includes race as a factor -- a process in which a policemen used his experience and knowledge to judge whether or not to be suspicious. To forbid it is to create a thought crime. The roots of the new thought crime lie in the widely-approved laws against 'racial discrimination,' whereby a person's thoughts, not his acts, constitute the crime. Under anti-discrimination laws, for example, refusal to rent to someone is no offense. It is only illegal if the thought behind the act is based on race. Thus, racial discrimination is democracy's first thought crime. Hate crimes and racial profiling are simply new variants."-- From "Thought Crimes," Newsbriefs, Middle America News, March 2001, page 4. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. What follow are excerpts from a January 22, 2001 e-mail from Kent Snyder, The Liberty Committee, forwarded to me by Marilyn (I think). (Thanks, Marilyn.)The International Criminal Court (ICC) is now in session -- and our country will never be the same. "In July of 1998, 120 nations met in Rome and voted to endorse an International Criminal Court [ICC]. According to its own terms, when the treaty is ratified by 60 nations, it will be capable of exerting universal jurisdiction over every human being on the planet. This type of criminal court has been on the wish list of the United Nations since 1947." -- Dr. James Hirsen, 1/5/01. "Once created, the international court will give the U.N. the mechanism it needs to enforce its global 'laws' against American citizens. All Americans concerned with our sovereignty as a nation should be very alarmed by this latest development." -- Congressman Ron Paul, 1/8/01. "In short, the treaty gives the ICC the right to try and imprison U.S. citizens, including our military and other government officers, even [if] we have refused to sign it, let alone ratify it." -- former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, 7/3/00. "On the International Criminal Court treaty, 'the [Defense] Department's position has been clear,' a Pentagon official said. 'We were against signing it and still are.'" -- Washington Post, 1/1/01. "Casey [Lee A. Casey, a former Justice Department official who specializes in international law] said he opposes the creation of the permanent International Criminal Court under the auspices of the United Nations because he believes its powers are too extensive, and could subject American citizens to trial without allowing them the rights and protections they are guaranteed by the Constitution." -- Washington Post, 1/1/01. "National sovereignty, which means that Americans are answerable to no one but their own government and their own laws, should never be compromised. The creation of a permanent, international war-crimes tribunal certainly would compromise the national sovereignty of every country on Earth." -- Charley Reese, 1/11/01. The International Criminal Court will consider itself to be formally and officially established after only 60 of the world's 161 countries ratify the Rome Statute of the ICC. As of today, 27 countries have ratified the treaty. The ICC needs just 33 more ratifying countries, from among the 112 which have signed but not yet ratified, to claim jurisdiction over all 161 countries and their citizens. "It is my fervent hope that ...a large majority of United Nations Member States will have signed and ratified [the ICC treaty], so that the Court will have unquestioned authority and the widest possible jurisdiction." -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 7/18/98. "[By singing the ICC treaty only] hours before the Dec. 31 [2000] deadline, Bill Clinton gave the United Nations its most significant victory so far in its relentless quest for global governance: the International Criminal Court." -- Henry Lamb, 1/3/01. [Note, however, that at present the Senate has not ratified the treaty.] "A July 18, 2000 hearing of the House Committee on Government Reform produced evidence about the health dangers from vaccines containing thimerosal (mercury). Babies who are injected with the vaccines specified on the Universal Childhood Immunization Schedule, which are typically delivered in four to six shots during one doctor's visit, may receive 40 times the amount of mercury that is considered safe under environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines.""Credible testimony [has been given] regarding the possible relationship between symptoms of mercury poisoning and the skyrocketing rate of autism, now occurring in one in 500 children nationwide." "In Utica, NY, parents of 77 middle schoolers were warned in October 2000 that their children would be taken and turned over to Child Protective Services for neglect unless they were vaccinated against hepatitis B within two weeks. There was no emergency, no epidemic of hepatitis B against which children need to be protected, and no evidence that hepatitis B is being transmitted at school. The 'emergency' was that the school district would lose a substantial amount of state funding if students did not comply with the vaccine mandate. . . ." "Unless the child is born to an infected mother, children under the age of 14 are three times more likely to die or suffer adverse reactions from the hepatitis B vaccine than from the disease itself." -- Excerpt from "Who Decides What Drugs Are Forced on Children?", The Phyllis Schlafly Report, February 2001, pages 3-4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "One of the most revealing yet little known aspects of the plot to kill President Kennedy was the existence of two (or more) Lee Harvey Oswalds. . . ."Richard Popkin wrote a book in 1966 entitled The Second Oswald, in which he documents numerous occasions of a 'duplicate' Oswald in places where later evidence showed the real Oswald could not have been. The 'Second Oswald' would often draw attention to himself by creating a disturbance with outrageous behavior and a conspicuous attempt to be remembered. "On Nov. 9, 1963, and for several days following, when one Lee Oswald would have been at work or with his family, another one using that name appeared at a target range and made a pest of himself by shooting at targets of other patrons. "Yet another fascinating incident took place on the same day. Someone appeared at a Lincoln auto dealership in Dallas to test drive a new car. He drove at high speeds up and down Stemmons Freeway, dropped hints about receiving 'lots of money' in a few weeks, and told the credit manager that if he were not given credit, he would go back to Russia and buy a car. "The most perplexing aspect of this episode is that the Lee Oswald the world was soon to learn about did not even drive. Indeed, it appears over and over throughout the weeks and months prior to Kennedy's murder that many persons unknown were setting one Lee Oswald up to take the fall." More. -- Excerpt from "The Two Oswalds", by Pat Shannan, Media Bypass, February 2001, page 20. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. "The biggest education question is: Will we continue to implement Bill Clinton's two controversial 1994 laws, Goals 2000 and School-to-Work, or will we instead call a halt to the mission and curriculum changes those laws initiated"'School-to-Work' (STW) is bureaucratic jargon for imposing a new paradigm on public schools that deemphasizes traditional academic studies and replaces them with vocational-technical (Vo-Tech) courses for all students. There's nothing wrong with vocational education; that's always been an option for high school students. But School-to-Work is not an option; it's a federal law, quintessentially Clintonian. States that accept STW funds, and all states have accepted them, are subject to STW regulations. "School-to-Work is the mainspring of the Clinton Administration's audacious plan to impose German/Japanese style national economic planning to parallel the 1994 Clinton health care plan to take over the entire health industry, one-seventh of our economy. Indeed, the same schemers were the principal architects of both plans: Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner. "The writings of Clinton's economic adviser, Robert Reich, show that he is a frank admirer of the German model, which exercises government control over the economy by controlling access to the workforce through the schools. School-to-Work is easily sold to U.S. corporations that envy the privileged corporate-government relationship their peers enjoy in Germany and Japan. "The STW paradigm is marketed to public schools all over the country by Marc Tucker's National Center for Education and the Economy, whose letterhead boasts the names of Hillary Clinton, Ira Magaziner and David Rockefeller Jr. The STW paradigm is packaged for Governors by offering them federal funds, a route to bypass state legislatures and school boards, and attractive 'partnerships' with corporations." -- Excerpt from "Is the Republican Congress Moving Left?" The Phyllis Schlafly Report, January 2001, page 4. Address: PO Box 618, Alton, Illinois 62002. E-mail. Website. "President Clinton was able to ride out his impeachment not merely because he has the conscience of a slot machine, but because he and his partisans managed to convince the nation that the matter at issue was not truth but power. Virtually all his arguments were founded upon lies. It was a lie that he did not perjure himself. It was a lie that he did not conceal evidence. It was a lie that he did not conspire to intimidate witnesses. It was a lie that all these things were personal mistakes. It was a lie that the assemblage of raw FBI files on 900 Republicans was not for the purposes of blackmail. It was a lie that these files came to the White House by mistake. It was a lie that Mrs. Clinton did not benefit from guaranteed transactions in commodities trading. It was a lie that this was not a bribe. It was a lie that the president did not receive millions of campaign dollars from China. It was a lie that he did not personally intervene to aid the transfer to China of military technology that China intends for potential use against the United States. It was a lie that these two actions were unconnected. It was a lie that the grounds for impeachment were not mystifyingly narrow. It was a lie that the Senate could not try on political rather than legal grounds. There were so many lies that they were like sand in a sandstorm. They got into everything. You could not see the ground in front of you for all the lies that swirled in the air like brown dust."The President was able to compel these lies because, finally, the Republican Party was unwilling and unable to go into battle to defend American exceptionalism, to defend the idea that our politics depend upon self-evident truth, as once it had gone into battle at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Petersburg, and other places, where hundreds of thousands of men died in defense of principles that the modern Republican Party fails to defend because its leaders are interested not in truth but in power. . . ." -- Excerpt from "The Way Out of the Wilderness," by Mark Helprin, Imprimis, January 2001, page 2. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268. "We the People of the United States actually have two national flags, a military flag and a civil flag for peacetime. They have several important distinctions and meanings. Almost all Americans think of the Stars and Stripes, 'Old Glory,' as their only flag."The Continental Congress first authorized an official U.S. flag on June 14th, 1777, for use on military installations and in battle, directing that a U.S. flag consist of 13 stripes, alternating red and white; that a union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation. "Through usage, horizontal stripes were adopted for use over military posts, and vertical stripes adopted for use over civilian establishments. The Civil Flag, intended for Peacetime usage in civilian settings, had vertical stripes with blue stars on a white field. By the Law of the Flag, this design denoted civil jurisdiction under common law as opposed to military jurisdiction under admiralty law. . . . "The Civil Flag used by the cutter service [a service instigated to enforce tariff laws] was modified, placing the Coast Guard insignia on the strips in the field, and was adopted under Coast Guard authority, losing its original significance of civilian authority, which by then had long been forgotten. As the Federal government acquired more control over the States and their citizens during and after World War II, by 1951 the original Civil Flag had been phased out completely, its existence left as an artifact of time in a few old photographs and a rare mention in old books. . . . "The U.S. government hasn't flown the civil flag since the Civil War, as that war is still going on. Peace has never been declared, nor have hostilities against the people ended. The government is still operating under quasi-military rule. "Before 1940, no U.S. flag, civil or military, flew within the forty-eight states except in federal settings and installations. Only state flags did. Since 1935 and the Buck Act of 1940 [see below] by clever legal maneuvers the feds entirely circumvented the U.S. Constitution, [and brought] Federal territory jurisdiction on the sovereign States, bringing them under the admiralty/military jurisdiction of law merchant. "Since then the U.S. military flag appears beside, or in place of, the state flags in nearly all locations within the states. All of the state courts and even the municipal ones now openly display it, and in the last half century [the government] has more openly declared the admiralty law jurisdiction with the addition of the gold fringe to the flag, the flag of the Commander-in-Chief. . . ." -- Excerpt from "The United States Civil Flag of Peacetime," The Oil Patch, January 2001, pages 6-8. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "[T]he United States of America . . . includes the 50 sovereign and independent states [that] are freely associated together in a union. It does not include the 'District of Columbia,' which was created by the Constitution of the Union as the legal home of the 'federal' government. That government was intended to be a 'servant' to the Union States, not their 'Master!'"In order for the Federal Government to tax a Citizen of one of the several states, [it] had to create a contractual nexus. This contractual nexus is called 'Social Security.' The Federal government always does everything according to principles of laws. "In 1935, the federal government instituted Social Security. The Social Security Board then, created 10 Social Security Districts which covered the several states like an overlay. "In 1939, the federal government instituted the 'Public Salary Tax Act of 1939,' which is a municipal law of the District or Columbia, taxing all Federal and State government employees and those who live and work in any 'Federal area.' "Now, the government knows it cannot tax those Citizens who live and work outside the territorial jurisdiction of Article I, Section 8, Clause 17, or Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2. "So in 1940, Congress passed the 'Buck Act' 4 U.S.C.S. 104-113. In Section 110(e), this Act allowed any department of the federal government to create a 'Federal Area' for imposition of the Public Salary Tax Act of 1939. . . . "As a result, the Federal Government created Federal 'States' which are exactly like the Sovereign States, occupy the same territory and boundaries, but whose names are capitalized versions of the Sovereign States. (Remember that Proper Names and Proper Nouns in the English language have only the first letter Capitalized.) For example, the Federal 'State' of ILLINOIS is overlaid upon the Sovereign State of Illinois. Further, it is designated by the Federal abbreviation ['IL']. So too is Arizona designated 'AZ' instead of the lawful abbreviation of 'Ariz.', 'CA' instead of 'Calif.', etc. If you use a two-letter CAPITALIZED abbreviation, you are declaring that the location is under the jurisdiction of the 'federal' government and that . . . every area is a 'Federal Area' . . . . "Thus, the question comes up, what is a 'Federal area?' A 'Federal area' is any area designated by any agency, department, or establishment of the federal government. This includes the Social Security areas designated by the Social Security Administration, any public housing area that has federal funding, a home that has a federal bank loan, a road that has federal funding, and almost everything that the federal government touches [with] any type of aid. . . . "This 'Federal area' [designation] attaches to anyone who has a social security number or any personal contact with the federal or state governments. Thus, the federal government has usurped Sovereignty of the People and state Sovereignty by creating these federal areas within the boundaries of the states under the authority of the Federal Constitution, Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 . . . . "Under the 'Buck Act' 4 U.S.C.S. sections 105-110, the federal government has created a 'Federal area' within the boundaries of all the states. This area is similar to any territory that the federal government acquires through purchase or conquest, thereby imposing federal territorial law upon those in this 'Federal area.' [Jurisdiction under] federal territory law [is] evidenced by the Executive Branch's yellow-fringed merchant law flag . . . flying in schools, offices, and all courtrooms. "So, when you send mail using the two-letter CAPITAL abbreviation for the state, you are addressing the corporate shadow state created by the Buck Act as an extension of the federal District of Columbia, and you are accepting the jurisdiction of the FEDERAL Government within the borders of the Sovereign States! "Then, to really lock down [its] control, the federal government created an artificial PERSON to whom they could address all of their demands. This person is YOUR NAME in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS! Whenever you receive a letter from the government addressed in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS (such as 'JOHN SMITH' instead of the proper English language, 'John Smith') they are addressing a legal fiction, a 'straw man,' whom they assume they OWN. . . . "Since they are going on the assumption that they OWN this 'straw man' (which they actually do not . . .) they assume that whatever money comes in to the property ('straw man') belongs to the master (government). "What you are experiences is an unprecedented GRAB for power by the 'federal' government! In fact, Agents of the 'federal' government have NO jurisdiction within the borders of these separate and sovereign united States, or over the 'straw man' -- unless you give it to them!" -- Excerpt from "The Story of the Buck Act," by Bob Hardison, The Oil Patch, January 2001, page 1. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website. "Most of the time, republics and the people who move their politics tend to think that if they make a law 'A' one day, and a law 'B' that contradicts 'A' the next day, the newer law supersedes the old. What is unusual about the Constitution is that this rule is completely reversed in respect of it. The oldest law is the most authoritative, and is indeed the only law that 'the people' as such have ever passed. Other law is statute law, law made by representatives of the people. Thus every other law needs to be adjudged in light of the only law that is genuinely ours, the Constitution."Creating this new category of law, the Constitution, which is created by 'we the people' and yet ascends above us, was a great breakthrough in political science and a great achievement of the American Founders." -- Excerpt from "Civility and Citizenship in Washington's America and Ours," by Charles R. Kesler, professor of Government and director of the Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont McKinna College, Imprimis, December 2000, page 2. Address: Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan 49242. Phone: 800-437-2268.
"In the original Constitution, people were not American citizens per se but were instead citizens of their respective states. The Constitution stipulated that each state would grant to the citizens of other states the rights and privileges it granted to its own. It's difficult to understand the War Between the States without understanding the loyalty Americans -- North and South -- felt for their respective states."But what is relevant for us today is that the people in the American Republic (1787-1860) understand that the powers of the federal government were strictly limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and that the Constitution would be interpreted literally and narrowly. And, most important, that the states themselves would be the final judge of the federal government's actions. "In the North, however, there arose new feelings of nationalism and a belief that a strong central government should provide economic benefits -- tariffs and infrastructure, for example. Southerners disagreed; hence the split. Because the North prevailed and amended the Constitution to expand the powers of the federal government, that's what we live under today." -- Excerpt from "'I Love the Union and the Constitution. . ." by Charley Reese, The Oil Patch, October 2000, page 7. Published by Cole Publications, The People's Choice, PO Box 9747, Longview, Texas 75608. Phone: 903-663-4079. E-mail. Website.
"[S]ince the birth of the UN in 1945, the world body has generated more than 500 treaties, conventions, covenants, and other instruments of 'international law' . . . ." [With each piece of world legislation, a slice of U.S. sovereignty is cut away. How will we get them back? Will we ever get them back?]-- Excerpt from "Building World Order," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, July 3, 2000, page 4. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. "The U.S. government is pursuing a long-term plan to make the UN so powerful that no nation -- including the United States -- would be able to challenge it." -- Excerpt from "New World Army," by William F. Jasper, The New American, July 3, 2000, page 10. "UN environmental proposals, like the World Heritage Convention and Agenda 21, are socialist instruments that reflect the world body's ongoing drive to destroy property rights." "President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and others insist on using weasel-word definitions to conceal the fact that their environmental agenda represents a full-fledged attack on sovereignty." -- Excerpt from "The United Nations' Big Green Machine," by Representative Helen Chenoweth-Hage, The New American, July 3, 2000, page 26. "Underneath its sheep's clothing of 'humanitarianism' the UN is a ravenous predator ready to coerce sterilization, force abortion, commit infanticide, and execute eugenics programs reminiscent of Nazi Germany -- all on a global scale." -- Excerpt from "Wold in 'Humanitarian' Clothing," by Julie Makimaa, The New American, July 3, 2000, page 35. "The United Nations intends to build not only the structures of world governance, but also the form and substance of a new, occultic world religion." -- Excerpt from "Creating the New World Religion," by Steve Bonta, The New American, July 3, 2000, page 38.  Must-Read items for March-May 1999. June-August 1999. September-December 1999. Must-Read items for January-April 2000. May-August 2000. September-December 2000. The way back home. |