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Updated 12/01/02

From Helen – Sent by the Lt. Col. (ret.)

"Those silver tongued Marines....y'gotta love 'em!"

 France meets the USMC, or, at least a typical Marine Lieutenant Colonel in Bosnia:

"A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel. A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count of the support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the  Cold War,
their  ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface at some  point in the near  future anyway. That is partially why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of faggots for soldiers.  I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support was only for show anyway. Just like in all NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.  He began to get belligerent
at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and beat his ass in full view of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.  He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?"

From Ken –

Good Speech

For those of you who don’t know who General Hawley is, he is a newly retired 4-star general who commanded Air Combat Command. These are good words and true. Speech from the former ACC commander (now retired and not restricted to being politically correct), Gen Hawley:

”Since the attack, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You’ve heard them too.  Here they are:

1) “We’re not good, they’re not evil, everything is relative.”  Listen carefully: We’re good, they’re evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying “We’re good” doesn’t mean, “We’re perfect.” Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, and opportunity, affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens. In about half a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the United States would look like one giant line to see the  Producers.

2) “Violence only leads to more violence.”  This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here’s the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already:
Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half-measures lead to more violence.  However, complete, fully thought-through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That’s right, dead. Not “on trial,” not reeducated,” not “nurtured back into the bosom of love.”    Dead.     D-E—Well, you get the idea.

3) “The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has failed us.” For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter, appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites.  “After all,”
they reasoned, “you can see a license plate from 200 miles away.”  This is very helpful if you’ve been attacked by a license plate.  Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here’s the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can’t
just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break’93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say “Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella.  “Well, you can, but all you’d be doing is giving the bad guys a story they’ll be telling for years.

4) “These people are poor and helpless, and that’s why they’re angry at us.”  Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer’s frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers  they tortured and murdered to stay in
power.   Mohammed  Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds (I’m sorry, one of the “alleged hijackers,” according to   CNN-they    stopped using the word “terrorist,” you know), is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the sixties and seventies, all the  pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. At least, that was my excuse. It’s the same today. Take the Anti-Global-Warming (or is it World Trade?  Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell -they-want demonstrators) They all charged  their black outfits and plane tickets on dad’s credit card before driving to the airport in their SUV’s.

5) “Any profiling is racial profiling.”  Who’s killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too  much Drakkar. I’m crushed. I
think we’re all crushed. Please come back.  With a cherry on top? Why don’t they just change their names, anyway?  It’s happened in the past. Think about it. How many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly after that, I remember watching TV with my jaw on the floor as a government official actually said, “That little old   grandmother from Sioux City could be carrying something.” Okay, how about this:  No, she couldn’t.   It would never be the grandmother from Sioux City. Is it even possible?  What are the odds? Winning a hundred Powerball lotteries in a row? A   thousand? A million? And now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and we’re all supposed to cry about it because he’s an Arab?  Didn’t it have the tiniest bit to do with the fact that he filled out his forms incorrectly- - three times? And then left an Arab history book on his  seat as he
strolled off the plane? And came back? Armed? Let’s please all stop singing “We Are
the World” for a minute and think practically. I don’t want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say,  “Well, at least we didn’t offend them.”

SO HERE’S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter’s political science professor says, we didn’t start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, “No More Hiroshimas”? I wish I had one that says,  “You First. No More Pearl Harbors.”       Dick Hawley

Also From Ken -

Malachi 3:3 says: “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.”

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study. That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn’t mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities. The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot then she thought again about the verse that says: “He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.”

She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time the silver was being refined. The man answered that yes, he not only had to

sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, “How do you know when the silver is fully refined?”

He smiled at her and answered, ”Oh, that’s easy—when I see my image in it.”

The answer came easily.

From Alan –

DEMOCRAT TAX REFUNDS

If you don’t understand the Democrats’ version of tax cuts (and you are not alone), this will help explain it for you:

50,000 people go to a baseball game, but the game was rained out. A refund was then due.

The team was about to mail refunds when the Congressional Democrats stopped them and suggested that they send out refund amounts based on the Democrat National Committee’s interpretation of fairness. After all, if the refunds were made based on the price each person paid for the tickets, most of the money would go to the ticket holders of the most expensive tickets. That would be unconscionable.

The DNC plan says:
People in the $10 seats will get back $15, because they have less money to spend. Call it an “Earned” Income Ticket Credit”. Persons “earn” it by demonstrating little ambition, few skills and poor work habits, thus keeping them at entry-level wages.

People in the $25 seats will get back $25, because that’s only fair.

People in the $50 seats will get back $1, because they already make a lot of money and don’t need a refund. If they can afford a $50 ticket, then they must not be paying enough taxes.

People in the $75 luxury seats will have to pay another $50, because they have way too much to spend.

The people driving by the stadium who couldn’t afford to watch the game will get $10 each; even though they didn’t pay anything, they need the most help.

Now do you understand? If not, contact Representative Richard Gephardt or Senator Tom Daschle for assistance.

From Alan –

My son, Nicholas, was in kindergarten that year.  It was an exciting season for a six year old. For weeks, he’d been memorizing songs for his school’s “Winter Pageant.”  I didn’t have the heart to tell him I’d be working the night of the production. Unwilling to miss his shining moment, I spoke with his teacher.  She assured me there’d be a dress rehearsal the morning of the presentation. All parents unable to attend that evening were welcome
to come then.

Fortunately, Nicholas seemed happy with the compromise.  So, the morning of the dress rehearsal, I filed in ten minutes early, found a spot on the cafeteria floor and sat down.  Around the room, I saw several other parents quietly scampering to their seats. As I waited, the students were led into the room.  Each class, accompanied by their teacher, sat cross-legged on the floor.  Then, each group, one by one, rose to perform their song.  Because the public school system had long stopped referring to the holiday as “Christmas,” I didn’t expect anything other than fun, commercial entertainment - songs of reindeer, Santa Claus, snowflakes and good cheer.

So, when my son’s class rose to sing, “Christmas Love,” I was slightly taken aback by its bold title.  Nicholas was aglow, as were all of his classmates, adorned in fuzzy mittens, red sweaters, and bright snowcaps upon their heads.  Those in the front row- center stage -held up large letters, one by one, to spell out the title of the song.

As the class would sing “C is for Christmas,” a child would hold up the letter C.  Then, “H is for Happy,” and on and on, until each child holding up his portion had presented the complete message, “Christmas Love.” The performance was going smoothly, until suddenly, we noticed her; a small, quiet, girl in the front row holding the letter “M” upside down – totally unaware her letter “M” appeared as a “W”.

The audience of 1^st through 6^th graders snickered at this little one’s mistake. But she had no idea they were laughing at her, so she stood tall, proudly holding her “W”.  Although many teachers tried to shush the children, the laughter continued until the last letter was raised, and we all saw it together.  A hush came over the audience and eyes began to
widen.

In that instant, we understood - the reason we were there, why we celebrated the holiday in the first place, why even in chaos, there was a purpose for our festivities.   For when the last letter was held high, the message read loud and clear:
“CHRISTWAS LOVE”

And, I believe, He still is.  Maybe it wasn’t a mistake after all.

From Connie –

MOM   -  Job Description

POSITION: Mother, Mom, Mommy, Momma
JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports
tournaments in far away cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES: The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5 or turns 21.  Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical
challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple
homework projects.  Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half
million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.  Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality
of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION: Virtually none. Your job is to
remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION: Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS: While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs & kisses for life if you play your cards right.

From Roland –

http://investigativejournal.com/stories/chemtrailscuppett.htm

Why so many rumors?
Foreign military on U.S. soil and in the skies

From Roland –

a. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

b. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

c. Colt: The original point and click interface.

d. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.

e. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

f. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.

g. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

h. If you don’t know your rights you don’t have any.

i. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

j. The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights reserved.

k. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand?

l. The Second Amendment is in place in case they ignore the others.

m. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

n. Guns only have two enemies: rust and liberals.

o. Know guns, know peace and safety. No guns, no peace nor safety.

p. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

q. 911 - government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.

r. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

s. Criminals love gun control - it makes their jobs safer.

t. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.

u. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control
them.

v. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for.

w. Enforce the “gun control laws” we have, don’t make more.

x. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.

y. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

z. “...a government of the people, by the people, for the people...”

From Alan –

http://www.alighthouse.com/flag.htm

Ragged Old Flag by Johnny Cash

From Roland –

http://www.rense.com/general31/horowitzVacInjuryhomeland.htm

From Helen –

Clinton whitehouse sold info also, to save the grid of the North Koreans from going down, what is wrong with both the Republicans and the Democrats?  Where will they live if their friends destroy America?

Helen sends this with a hope that you don't want this and will let the drunk bastard know it.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/international/asia/24KORE.html?todaysheadlines

From Roland –

Good article from Edgar Steele

http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/columns/saddamed.htm

From Roland –

With advances in technology and ever-increasing government surveillance, the situation has worsened since Orwell's imaginings of the future. —John Whitehead, the Rutherford Institute, November 4, 2002

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Despite the self-satisfaction of George W. Bush and John Ashcroft, and the somnolence of the press, there is rising resistance around the country to the serial abuses of our liberties. More Americans are becoming aware of what Wisconsin Democratic senator Russ Feingold prophesied from the Senate floor on October 11, 2001, when he was the only Senator to vote against Ashcroft's USA Patriot Act: "There is no doubt that if we lived in a police state, it would be easier to catch terrorists. If we lived in a country where police were allowed to search your home at any time for any reason; if we lived in a country where the government is entitled to open your mail, eavesdrop on your phone conversations, or intercept your e-mail communications; if we lived in a country where people could be held in jail indefinitely based on what they write or think, or based on mere suspicion that they are up to no good, the government would probably discover more terrorists or would-be terrorists, just as it would find more lawbreakers generally. But that wouldn't be a country in which we would want to live."

Some of that warning has come to pass. What has become more specifically evident is underlined by Lincoln Caplan in the November-December issue of Legal Affairs (A Magazine of Yale Law School): "The [USA Patriot Act] . . . authorized law enforcement agencies to inspect the most personal kinds of information—medical records, bank statements, college transcripts, even church memberships. But what is more startling than the scope of these new powers is that the government can use them on people who aren't suspected of committing a crime."

As then house majority leader Dick Armey—a conservative Republican libertarian—told Georgetown University law professor Jeffrey Rosen in the October 21 New Republic: "The Justice Department . . . seems to be running amok and out of control. . . . This agency right now is the biggest threat to personal liberty in the country." (The Defense Department is an even bigger threat, with its Orwellian plan to place all of us under surveillance—more on that in a later column.)

One sign of the growing fear of losing our Bill of Rights protections against an out-of-control government came from the heartland. On September 8 of this year, the Journal Gazette, a daily newspaper in Fort Wayne, Indiana, published a full-page, five-column editorial—its first such broadside in nearly 20 years. The headline was "Attacks on Liberty": "In the name of national security, President Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, and even Congress have pulled strand after strand out of the constitutional fabric that distinguishes the United States from other nations. . . .

"Actions taken over the past year are eerily reminiscent of tyranny portrayed in the most nightmarish works of fiction. The power to demand reading lists from libraries could have been drawn from the pages of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. . . . The sudden suspension of due process for immigrants rounded up into jails is familiar to readers of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here."

But what is most encouraging is the continued growth in cities and towns throughout the nation of Bill of Rights Defense Committees or their equivalents, a number of which are working with ACLU affiliates. The first BORDC, as reported here, was formed in February this year in Northampton, Massachusetts, when about 300 doctors, nurses, lawyers, students, teachers, and retirees formed a group to protect the citizens of that town from the USA Patriot Act and the subsequent unilateral attacks on our liberties by John Ashcroft.

After the Northampton city council unanimously passed in May a resolution officially supporting the protests of the BORDC, other towns and cities learned how to organize similar committees through the Northampton group's Web site: www.bordc.org.

Fourteen town or city councils—from Takoma Park, Maryland, and Alachua County, Florida, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Berkeley, California—have now passed, sometimes unanimously, similar resolutions originated by local BORDC organizations. Other proposals are pending before local government bodies in 40 more cities and towns, in 24 states. One BORDC is in formation in New York City.

Next week: The details of some of these resolutions that involve city and state police and local members of Congress. The roots of the Bill of Rights Defense Committees, it is important to remember, are in the pre-revolutionary committees of correspondence, initiated by Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty in Boston in 1754.

In 1805, in Boston, there was published Mercy Otis Warren's History of the Rise and Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. A historian, playwright, and political pamphleteer, she wrote in this, her major work: "Perhaps no single step contributed so much to cement the union of the colonies, and the final acquisition of independence, as the establishment of committees of correspondence. This supported a chain of communication from New Hampshire to Georgia that produced unanimity and energy throughout the continent." Sam Adams and other patriots continuously spread the news of attacks on the liberties of these new Americans by the King, his ministers, and his governors and officers in the colonies.

These committees, as Supreme Court Justice William Brennan once told me, were a precipitating cause of the American Revolution. Yet John Ashcroft accuses his critics—among the most active of which are the Bill of Rights Defense Committees—of "capitulating" to the enemy. More Americans are coming to agree with Dick Armey that Ashcroft's Justice Department "is the biggest threat to personal liberty in the country." Who, then, are the American patriots now?

From Roland –

An expose' on NAFTA and GATT..."free trade". A couple of years ago someone wrote, "America will be a Third World country inside of 20 years". I don't believe we have 20 years to our destruction.

Buchanan and the NAFTA CORRIDOR.

Extra links on NAFTA Corridor here - http://www.rense.com/general/naftacanal.htm

And http://www.chalcedon.edu/report/99feb/rose.shtml

While it grinds my soul to put this out since it is Buchanan’s, but what he says is the truth, and needs to be told. There are too many facts here not to forward this on. Get it on to everyone, here is the total honest facts about what your wonderful Congress critters, and Presidents have done to America...NOW tell me they are not traitors to this country...this is the absolute end of what is to come...
..Virginia.

http://i.am/jah/plan.htm


                   To all.    Below Pat talking about the ballooning trade deficit, which has for all practical purposes been blocked from all media outlets.  When was the last time you saw a major network or one of the Sunday talking heads shows mentioning the trade deficit, and the complete failure of Nafta, GATT , WTO, FTAA..ETC..? Virtually nonexistent!    I hope Pat and others will expound and debate loudly and in depth the coming “NAFTA  CORRIDOR”  which is soon to open up this winter ! This may be the biggest change to the fabric of America since Roe  vs. Wade (although there is no comparison ), the one dealing with very life itself, and the other dealing with the very idea and ideals we stand for from a fiscal and sovereignty perspective.  What does this mean in practical terms?   Just this. Mexican truckers will be allowed free reign of our highways and byways. At the present time Mexican truckers must unload their incoming cargo within an approximately ten mile range once they enter the country.  That means they have to transfer to American truckers or trains to have their cheaply made Mexican goods then dispersed throughout the country. Once the corridor opens they will be traveling next to our wives and children with their eighteen wheelers loaded with cheap Mexican goods made with slave labor,..illegal drugs like methamphetamines, cocaine etc..(marijauna is passé), weapons, weapons of mass destruction and illegal immigrants and terrorists!   PRE-APPROVED Mexican trucking companies will have their trucks inspected in MEXICO!   They will then be given bar-coded zip strips to zoom through optical truck scanners.  Does that make you feel safe? And besides all that you may wonder where is the American Teamsters outrage over this???   Well here is the quid-pro-quo.   Sweeny and the “leadership” of the teamsters has cut a deal with Bush and Vincente Fox and the globalists i.e.   they will “allow”  the corridor provided the Mexican Truckers join the “Teamsters” and become Americanized, thus blurring the separation of nations in a most intimate way.  I hope at this point the ‘independent’ truckers do what the farmers did when they drove their tractors on Washington, and organize a convoy and blockade of I-35 thereby effectively blocking the Mexican truckers from coming up the corridor. Perhaps that will put the spotlight on what is going on. If the corridor is allowed to stand it will mean the virtual complete integration of Mexico and the United States. Next to merge integrally with South America. “THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES”! This is talked about openly among international leaders.  I hope it is talked about by our leaders of true conservatism.  If there ever was an group of Americans that have a “network” ,..it’s the truckers. Let’s use them to spread the word. Surely they are not sleeping on the job

The poison fruit of free trade

  In August, the U.S. merchandise trade deficit - the value of goods we import, less the value of the goods we export - hit $42.3 billion, an all-time record for any nation. Our merchandise trade deficit is now running at $507 billion a year, nearly 5 percent of America’s Gross Domestic Product.

  For every $1 billion in exports, Presidents Bush I and Clinton used to remind us, 20,000 jobs are created. A $507 billion trade deficit means 10 million production jobs lost to American workers. No, free trade is not free.

  Watching television the other night, I saw my friend and colleague Larry Kudlow chuckling over the trade deficit. It means we get all those TV sets and cars other people make, laughed Larry. On another channel was a lengthy report about Hathaway Shirts closing its last U.S. plant, in Waterville, Maine.

  That same day, Goodyear announced it is shutting down a Lincoln, Neb., plant and replacing its U.S. workers, who earn $18 an hour, with Mexican workers, who will earn $12.77 a day. By dumping the U.S. workers, Goodyear is slashing payroll by 91 percent.

  Well, as ex-Budget Director Dick Darman said about U.S.-made computer chips, “If our guys can’t hack it, let ‘em go.” That is the Spirit of the Carlyle Group. And, yes, we have been letting them go.

  A third of our steel is foreign made, an even larger share of our cars, half our machine tools and almost all our shoes, shirts, radios, televisions, cameras, telephones and VCRs. At Tyson’s Corner, Mall of America and Southland shopping centers, U.S. consumers relish their range of choices. Do they know what it is costing their country?

  Since U.S. trade surpluses disappeared in 1971, writes ex-GM executive Gus Stelzer, we have run $3.5 trillion in trade deficits, and the national debt has soared from $408 billion to $6 trillion.

  Is there a link? You bet. You don’t need a Ph.D. in economics to know that every product carries in its final sales price the full cost of the taxes imposed on the company that made that product.
http://i.am/jah/greeneco.htm

  Stelzer estimates that 50 percent of the sticker price of a new Cadillac goes for taxes. That includes the sales tax, Social Security and Medicare taxes of GM workers, federal and state income taxes withheld from wages, GM’s corporate income tax and the property taxes GM pays. When you buy an American-made car, you are contributing to Social Security and Medicare, and to our national defense and national parks, and helping pay for the local police, public roads and public schools.

  This is why exports are better than imports, why trade surpluses are better than trade deficits. When foreigners buy U.S.-made goods, half the price they pay underwrites the cost of our government. But when we buy foreign goods, we contribute taxes to the regimes in the countries where those goods are produced. Keep that in mind the next time you buy goods “Made in China.”

  Free-traders cheer that tariff rates have fallen to almost zero. What they do not understand is that all taxes are tariffs on production. “An income tax is a tariff, so are property, payroll, sales and every other tax,” writes Stelzer. Why? Because all taxes are factored into the final sales price.

  Now that tariffs have been virtually abolished, foreign-made goods carry almost no U.S. tax. But goods “Made in the USA” carry U.S. taxes of 50 percent of their price. Free trade thus makes a mockery of equal protection of the laws.

  Free trade, writes Stelzer, “is the only competitive activity in which the rules are not the same for every competitor even though the lives of millions of people ... are involved. No other competitive activity would tolerate such immoral and unconstitutional double-dealing.” This unjust system will one day kill U.S. manufacturing.

  Once, our farms and factories produced virtually everything we consumed, and we had no income tax. Manufacturers were the geese that laid the golden eggs. Free trade is now slaughtering the geese.

  While conservatives wear Adam Smith ties, they ignore his wisdom:

    When the necessaries of life have been taxed in any country, it becomes proper to tax not only the necessaries of life imported from other countries, but all sorts of foreign goods which can come into competition with anything that is the produce of domestic industry.

  Adam Smith believed in a level playing field.

  Elite America no longer believes that, and because it doesn’t, Middle America is losing its access ramp to the American Dream.

From Cheryl –

Wow.   You do need a Kleenex for this one!
Got a soft spot in your heart??? (and a Kleenex handy)

In Phoenix, Arizona, a 26-year-old mother stared down at her 6 year old son, who was dying of terminal leukemia. Although her heart was filled with sadness, she also had a strong feeling of determination. Like any parent, she wanted her son to grow up and fulfill all his dreams. Now that was no longer possible. The leukemia would see to that. But she still wanted her son's dreams to come true. She took her son's hand and asked, "Billy, did you ever think about what you wanted to be once you grew up? Did you ever dream and wish what you would do with your life?"

Mommy, "I always wanted to be a fireman when I grew up."

Mom smiled back and said, "Let's see if we can make your wish come true."

Later that day she went to her local fire department in Phoenix, Arizona, where she met Fireman Bob, who had a heart as big as Phoenix. She explained her son's final wish and asked if it might be possible to give her six-year-old son a ride around the block on a fire engine.

Fireman Bob said, "Look, we can do better than that. If you'll have your son ready at seven o'clock Wednesday morning, we'll make him an honorary fireman for the whole day. He can come down to the fire station, eat with us, go out on all the fire calls, the whole nine yards! And if you'll give us his sizes, we'll get a real fire uniform for him, with a real fire hat-not a toy one-with the emblem of the Phoenix Fire Department on it, a yellow slicker like we wear and rubber boots. They're all manufactured right here in Phoenix, so we can get them fast."

Three days later Fireman Bob picked up Billy, dressed him in his fire
uniform and escorted him from his hospital bed to the waiting hook and
ladder truck. Billy got to sit on the back! of the truck and help steer it back to the fire station. He was in heaven. There were three fire calls in Phoenix that day and Billy got to go out on all three calls. He rode in the different fire engines, the paramedic's van, and even the fire chief's car.

He was also videotaped for the local news program. Having his dream come true, with all the love and attention that was lavished upon him, so
deeply touched Billy that he lived three months longer than any doctor
thought possible.

One night all of his vital signs began to drop dramatically and the head nurse, who believed in the hospice concept that no one should die alone, began to call the family members to the hospital. Then she remembered the day Billy had spent as a fireman, so she called the Fire Chief and asked if it would be possible to send a fireman in uniform to the hospital to be with Billy as he made his transition. The chief replied, "We can do better than that. We'll be there in five minutes. Will you please do me favor?
When you hear the sirens screaming and see the lights flashing, will you
announce over the PA system that there is not a fire? It's just the fire department coming to see one of its finest members one more time. And will you open the window to his room?"

About five minutes later a hook and ladder truck arrived at the hospital and extended its ladder up to Billy's third floor open window. 16 firefighters climbed up the ladder into Billy's room. With his mother's permission, they hugged him and held him and told him how much they loved him. With his dying breath, Billy looked up at the fire chief and said, "Chief, am I really a fireman now?"

"Billy, you are, and the Head Chief, Jesus, is holding your hand," the chief
said.

With those words, Billy smiled and said, "I know, He's been holding my
hand all day, and the angels have been singing." He closed his eyes one last time.

Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead tell your storm how big your GOD is.

From Helen –

http://www.dojgov.net/

You will enjoy this be ye Liberal or Conservative, and don't forget to reenlist in the Militia, i.e., the people that vote, write and call their congress and assembly critters.  Let Tom, and George know that you are not happy.  Both Larrys are harping on the same issue!  Pratt of GOA and
Frankel, formerly head of Pa. ACLU who has stepped down and been replaced by the new Executive Director: David DiSabatino are decrying the loss of liberty by the Homeland Security bill.

Sincerely hope you vote and complain,
Helen

From Roland –

The Birth Certificate

http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/resource.html

From Helen –

Interesting!

"http://starbulletin.com/2002/11/25/news/index3.html

Newborn Metabolic Screening Program
http://www.state.hi.us/health/resource/family/genetics/screening.html

From Echo –

New Immigrants Masters at Food Stamp Fraud

Thursday, November 28, 2002

By Matt Hayes

http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,71629,00.html

From Roland –

http://www.mirror.co.uk/printable_version.cfm?objectid=12377231&siteid=50143

From Roland –

ASPARTAME PLEASE READ!
An E-Mail That I received and Am Passing on.
Diet Coke or Not

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick, she had  stomach
spasms, she was having a hard time getting around, to walk was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed, she was in so
much pain. By March 2002,she had undergone biopsies, and was on 24 various prescription medications.

The doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her. She was in so
much pain, and so sick, she knew she was dying.  She put her house, bank
accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughters name, and made sure
her younger children were to be with her oldest daughter. She wanted her
last hooray, so she planned a trip to  FL (basically in a wheelchair) for
March 22nd.

On March 19th I called her to ask her how one of her tests went, and she
said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I
thought, oh, my....then I recalled an article a friend of mine emailed to
me...and I asked her....Do you drink Diet pop? She told me yes, as a matter
of fact she was getting ready to crack one open that moment, I told her not
to open it, and stop drinking the diet pop....and I emailed her the following article.

She called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she stopped drinking the diet pop, and she can walk...she went up the stairs, and the muscle spasms went away.   She said she didn't feel 100% but sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctors with this
article and would call me back when she got home.  She called me, and her doctor was amazed, he is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweetener.

In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the aspartame in the diet soda, dying a slow death. When she got to FL March 22nd, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for poisoning....she is well on her way to
recovery.....and she is walking! No wheelchair!  This article saved her
life!   The life saving article: If it says "SUGAR FREE," on the label, DO
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME" marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful'. In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, that it was hard to understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was the lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to Formaldehyde and  then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants.  The methanol toxicity mimics among other conditions multiple sclerosis. People were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use, aggravating the lupus to such a degree that it may become life-threatening. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptomatic once taken off diet sodas. In the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear.

We've seen many cases where vision returned and hearing improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus. During a lecture I said "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss-you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!"

People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've got some of these
symptoms: Is it reversible?"

Yes! Not drinking diet sodas and keeping an eye out for aspartame on food labels, yes!  We have a very serious problem. A stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and me and said: "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, etc. ARE NOT  DIET PRODUCTS!

The Congressional Record states that it makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Once off these products with no significant increase in exercise, etc., Dr. Roberts in his lecture stated that he had patient who lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.  Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics!!!

We found that physicians would believe that they have a patient with
retinopathy, when in fact the symptoms are caused by aspartame. The
aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer
acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are
neurotoxic without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it passes
the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain, causing
in diabetics (as well as in patients not suffering from diabetes) various kinds of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, rage, violence. (The Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.) Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects i.e. mentalretardation if taken at the time of conception and early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NOT be given NutraSweet.

I can relate different case histories ofchildren having mal seizures and other disturbances being on NutraSweet. Unfortunately it is not always
easy to convince a mother that aspartame is to blame for her child's illness.
Only by trial and success will she be able to warn other mothers to take
their children's health in their own hands.Stevia, a sweet herb, NOT A
MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, which helps inthe metabolism of sugar (which would be ideal for diabetics) has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA.

For years the FDA has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to
MONSANTO. Books on this subject are available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS - written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) and
DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - written by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist. These two doctors will be posting a position paper with some casehistories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet.

According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians "we are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly
poison." Here is the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when
aspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initial
hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothing
has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!

Scary!

From Connie -

LIPIDLEGGIN’
F. Paul Wilson
[Editor's note: This story was first published in 1978 by F. Paul Wilson.
Then it was probably considered rather "out there". Today it's a prescient look at what is close to becoming a reality as the Food Police continually try to foist their "good-for-you" policies on individuals. We're pleased to bring this story to our audience.]

Butter.

I can name a man's poison at fifty paces. I take one look at this guy as he walks in and say to myself, "Butter." He steps carefully, like there's something sticky on the soles of his shoes.
Maybe there is, but I figure he moves like that because he's on unfamiliar ground. Never seen his face before and I know just about everybody around. It's early yet. I just opened the store and Gabe's the only other guy on the buying side of the counter, only he ain't buying. He's waiting in the corner by the checkerboard and I'm just about to go join him when the new guy comes in. It's wet out---not raining, really, just wet like it only gets up here near the Water Gap-and he's wearing a slicker. Underneath that he seems to have a stocky build and is average height. He's got no beard and his eyes are blue with a watery look. Could be from anywhere until he takes off the hat and I see his hair: It's dark brown and he's got it cut in one of those soup-bowl styles that're big in the city. Gabe gives me an annoyed look as I step back behind the counter, but I
ignore him. His last name is Varadi--sounds Italian but it's Hungarian--and he's got plenty of time on his hands. Used to be a Ph.D. in a philosophy department at some university in Upstate New York till they cut the department in half and gave him his walking papers, tenure and all. Now he does part-time labor at one of the mills when they need a little extra help, which ain't near as
often as he'd like.

About as poor as you can get, that Gabe. The government giraffes take a big chunk of what little he earns and leave him near nothing to live on. So he goes down to the welfare office where the local giraffes give him food stamps and rent vouchers so he can get by on what the first group of giraffes left him. If you can figure that one out...

Anyway, Gabe's got a lot of time on his hands, like I said, and he hangs out here and plays checkers with me when things are slow. He'd rather play chess, I know, but I can't stand the game. Nothing happens for too long and I get impatient and try to break the game open with some wild gamble. And I always lose. So we play checkers or we don't play.

The new guy puts his hat on the counter and glances around. He looks uneasy. I know what's coming but I'm not going to help him out. There's a little dance we've got to do first.
"I need to buy a few things," he says. His voice has a little tremor in it and close up like this I figure he's in his mid-twenties.

"Well, this is a general store," I reply, getting real busy wiping down the counter, "and we've got all sorts of things. What're you interested in? Antiques? Hardware? Food?"
"I'm not looking for the usual stock."
(The music begins to play)
I look at him with my best puzzled expression. "Just what is it you're after, friend?"
"Butter and eggs."
"Nothing unusual about that. Got a whole cabinet full of both behind you there."
(We're on our way to the dance floor)
"I'm not looking for that. I didn't come all the way out here to buy the same shit I can get in the city. I want the real thing."
"You want the real thing, eh?" I say, meeting his eyes square for the first time. "You know damn well real butter and real eggs are illegal. I could go to jail for carrying that kind of stuff."
(We dance)
Next to taking his money, this is the part I like best about dealing with a new customer. Usually I can dance the two of us around the subject of what he really wants for upwards of twenty or thirty minutes if I've a mind to. But this guy was a lot more direct than most and didn't waste any time getting down to the nitty-gritty. Still, he wasn't going to rob me of a little dance.
I've got a dozen years of dealing under my belt and no green kid's gonna rob me of that. A dozen years... doesn't seem that long. It was back then that the giraffes who were running the National Health Insurance program found out that they were spending way too much money taking care of people with diseases nobody was likely to cure for some time. The stroke and heart patients were the worst. With the presses at the Treasury working overtime and inflation getting wild, it got to the point where they either had to admit they'd made a mistake or do something drastic. Naturally, they got drastic.
The president declared a health emergency and Congress passed something called the National Health Maintenance Act which said that since certain citizens were behaving irresponsibly by abusing their bodies and thereby giving rise to chronic diseases which resulted in consumption of more that their fair share of medical care at public expense, it was resolved that, in the public interest and for the public good, certain commodities would henceforth and hereafter be either prescribed or strictly rationed. Or something like that. Foods high in cholesterol and saturated fats headed the list. Next came tobacco and any alcoholic beverage over 30 proof. Ah, the howls that went up from the public. But those were nothing compared to the screams of fear and anguish that arose from the dairy and egg industry which was facing immediate economic ruin. The Washington giraffes stood firm, however--it wasn't an election year--and used phrases like "bite the bullet" and "national interest" and "public good" until we were all ready to barf.
Nothing moved them.
Things quieted down after a while, as they always do. It helped, of course, that somebody in one of the drug companies had been working on an additive to chicken feed that would take just about all the cholesterol out of the yolk. It worked, and the poultry industry was saved. The new eggs cost more--of course--and the removal of most of the cholesterol from the yolk also removed most of the taste, but at least the egg farmers had something to sell.
Butter was out. Definitely. No compromise. Too much of an "adverse effect on serum lipid levels," whatever that means. You use polyunsaturated margarine or you use nothing. Case closed. Well, almost closed. Most good citizen-type Americans hunkered down and learned to live with the Lipid Laws, as they came to be known. Why, I bet there's scads of fifteen-year-olds about who've never tasted real butter or a true, cholesterol-packed egg yolk. But we're not all good citizens. Especially me. Far as I'm concerned, there's nothing like two fried eggs--fried in butter--over easy, with bacon on the side, to start the day off. Every day. And I wasn't about to give that up. I was strictly in the antiques trade then, and I knew just about every farmer in Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. So I found one who was making butter for himself and had him make a little extra for me. Then I found another who was keeping some hens aside and not giving them any of the special feed and had him hold a few eggs out for me.
One day I had a couple of friends over for breakfast and served them real eggs and toast with real butter. They almost strangled me trying to find out where I got the stuff. That's when I decided to add a sideline to my antique business. I figured New York City to be the best place to start so I let word get around the antique dealers there that I could supply their customers with
more than furniture. The response was wild and soon I was making more money running butter and eggs than I was running Victorian golden oak. I was a lipidlegger.
Didn't last, though. I was informed by two very pushy fellows of Mediterranean stock that if I wanted to do any lipid business in Manhattan, I'd either have to buy all my merchandise from their wholesale concern, or give them a very healthy chunk of my profits. I decided it would be safer to stick close to home. Less volume, but less risky. I turned my antique shop up here by the Water Gap--that's the part of New Jersey you can get to without driving by all those refineries and
reactors--into a general store. A dozen years now.
"I heard you had the real thing for sale," the guy says.
I shake my head. "Now where would you hear a thing like that?"
"New York."
"New York? The only connection I have with New York is furnishing some antique dealers with a few pieces now and then. How'd you hear about me in New York?"
"Sam Gelbstein."
I nod. Sam's a good customer. Good friend, too. He helped spread the word for me when I was leggin' lipids into the city.
"How you know Sam?"
"My uncle furnished most of his house with furniture he bought there."
I still act suspicious--it's part of the dance--but I know if Sam sent him, he's all right. One little thing bothers me, though.
"How come you don't look for your butter and eggs in the city? I hear they're real easy to get there."
"Yeah," he says and twists his mouth. "They're also spoiled now and again and there's no arguing with the types that supply it. No money-back guarantees with those guys."
I see his point. "And you figure this is closer to the source."
He nods.
"One more question," I say. "I don't deal in the stuff, of course"--still dancing--"but I'm curious how a young guy like you got a taste for contraband like eggs and butter."
"Europe," he says. "I went to school in Brussels and it's all still legal over there. Just can't get used to these damned substitutes."
It all fit, so I go into the back and lift up the floor door. I keep a cooler down there and from it pull a dozen eggs and a half-kilo slab of butter. His eyes widen as I put them on the counter in front of him.
"Is this the real thing?" he asks. "No games?"

I pull out an English muffin, split it with my thumbs, and drop the halves into a toaster I keep under the counter. I know that once he tastes this butter I'll have another steady customer. People will eat ersatz eggs and polyunsaturated margarine if they think it's good for them, but they want to know the real thing's available. Take that away from them and suddenly you've got them going to great lengths to get what they used to pass up without a second thought.
"The real thing," I tell him. "There's even a little salt added to the butter for flavor."
"Great!" He smiles, then puts both hands into his pockets and pulls out a gun with his right and a shield with his left. "James Callahan, Public Health Service, Enforcement Division," he says. "You're under arrest, Mr. Gurney."
He's not smiling anymore.
I don't change my expression or say anything. Just stand there and look bored. But inside I feel like someone's wrapped a length of heavy chain around my gut and hooked it up to a high speed winch. Looking at the gun-a snub-nosed .32--I start to grin.
"What's so funny?" he asks, nervous and I'm not sure why. Maybe it's his first bust.
"A public health guy with a gunl" I'm laughing now. "Don't that seem funny to you?"
His face remains stern. "Not in the least. Now step around the counter. After you're cuffed we're going to take a ride to the Federal Building."
I don't budge. I glance over to the corner and see a deserted checkerboard. Gabe's gone--skittered out as soon as he saw the gun. Mr. Public Health follows my eyes.
"Where's the red-headed guy?"
"Gone for help," I tell him.
He glances quickly over his shoulder out the door, then back at me. "Let's not do anything foolish here. I wasn't crazy enough to come out here alone."
But I can tell by the way his eyes bounce all over the room and by the way he licks his lips that, yes, he was crazy enough to come out here alone.
I don't say anything, so he fills in the empty space. "You've got nothing to worry about, Mr. Gurney," he says. "You'll get off with a first offender's suspended sentence and a short probation."
I don't tell him that's exactly what worries me. I'm waiting for a sound: the click of the toaster as it spits out the English muffin. It comes and I grab the two halves and put them on the counter.
"What are you doing?" he asks, watching me like I'm going to pull a gun on him any minute.
"You gotta taste it," I tell him. "I mean, how're you gonna be sure it ain't oleo unless you taste it?"
"Never mind that." He wiggles the .32 at me. "You're just stalling. Get around here."
But I ignore him. I open a corner of the slab of butter and dig out a hunk with my knife. Then I smear it on one half of the muffin and press the two halves together. All the time I'm talking.
"How come you're out here messin' with me? I'm smalltime. The biggies are in the city."
"Yeah." He nods slowly. He can't believe I'm buttering a muffin while he holds a gun on me. "And they've also bought everyone who's for sale. Can't get a conviction there if you bring in the 'leggers smeared with butter and eggs in their mouths."
"So you pick on me."
He nods again. "Someone who buys from Gelbstein let slip that he used to connect with a guy from out here who used to do lipidlegging into the city. Wasn't hard to track you down." He shrugs, almost apologizing. "I need some arrests to my credit and I have to take 'em where I can find 'em."
I don't reply just yet. At least I know why he came alone: He didn't want anyone a little higher up to steal credit for the bust. And I also know that Sam Gelbstein didn't put the yell on me, which is a relief. But I've got more important concerns at the moment. I press my palm down on top of the muffin until the melted butter oozes out the sides and onto the counter, then I peel the halves apart and push them toward him.
"Here. Eat."
He looks at the muffin all yellow and drippy, then at me, then back to the muffin. The aroma hangs over the counter in an invisible cloud and I'd be getting hungry myself if I didn't have so much riding on this little move. I'm not worried about going to jail for this. Never was. I know all about suspended sentences and that. What I am worried about is being marked as a 'legger. Because that means the giraffes will be watching me and snooping into my affairs all the time. I'm not the kind who takes well to being watched. I've devoted a lot of effort to keeping a low profile and living between the lines--"living in the interstices," Gabe calls it. A bust could ruin my whole way of life. So I've got to be right about this guy's poison.

He can't take his eyes off the muffins. I can tell by the way he stares that he's a good-citizen type whose mother obeyed all the Lipid Laws as soon as they were passed, and who never thought to break them once he became a big boy.
I nudge him. "Go ahead."
He puts the shield on the counter and his left hand reaches out real careful, like he's afraid the muffins will bite him. Finally, he grabs the nearest one, holds it under his nose, sniffs it, then takes a bite. A little butter drips from the right corner of his mouth, but it's his eyes I'm watching.
They're not seeing me or anything else in the store... they're sixteen years away and he's ten years old again and his mother just fixed him breakfast. His eyes are sort of shiny and wet around the rims as he swallows. Then he shakes himself and looks at me. But he doesn't say a word.
I put the butter and eggs in a bag and push it toward him.

"Here. On the house. Gabe will be back any minute with the troops so if you leave now we can avoid any problems."

He lowers the gun but still hesitates. "Catch those bad guys in the city," I tell him. "But when you need the real thing for yourself, and you need it fresh, ride out here and I'll see you're taken care of."

He shoves the rest of the muffin half into his mouth and chews furiously as he pockets his shield and gun and slaps his hat back on his head. "You gotta deal," he says around the mouthful, then lifts the bag with his left hand, grabs the other half muffin with his right, and hurries out into the wet.

I follow him to the door where I see Gabe and a couple of the boys from the mill coming up the road with shotguns cradled in their arms. I wave them off and tell them thanks anyway. Then I watch the guy drive off. I guess I can't tell a Fed when I see one, but I can name anybody's poison. Anybody's. I glance down at the pile of newspapers I leave on the outside bench. Around the rock that holds it down I can see where some committee of giraffes has announced that it will recommend the banning of Bugs Bunny cartoons from theaters and the airwaves. The creature, they say, shows a complete disregard for authority and is not fit viewing for children.
Well, I've been expecting that and dubbed up a few minidisks of some of Bugs' finest moments. Don't want the kids around here to grow up without the Wabbit.

I also hear talk about a coming federal campaign against being overweight. Bad health risk, they say. Rumor has it they're going to outlaw clothes over a certain size. That's just rumor, of course... still, I'll bet there's an angle in there for me. Ah, the giraffes. For every one of me there's a hundred of them. But I'm worth a thousand giraffes.
(c) 1978 F. Paul Wilson

From Roland –

KGB-style PUNITIVE PSYCHIATRY FOR U.S. DISSIDENTS  Barbara Hartwell Legal Defense and Research Fund PO Box 832 Woodstock NY 12498 Website: http://www.barbarahartwell.com

From Roland –

I don't know about this writers timeline but find it very difficult to argue with his basic premise. If he is right...next year will be a huge wake up call for America...and the world.

http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_02/mcintosh112502.html

From Helen –

Are you ready to pay for sending email?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134580416_comdex21

From Echo –

Fanny Mae/Freddie Mac -

http://www.freddiemac.com/news/archives2001/islam.htm

Previously -

From Connie –

Mental Health Issues - Post Biological Attack

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 20) - Public panic following a biological attack would give terrorists just what they want, according to mental health experts who say the government needs a better plan for handling the psychological fallout of an attack.

”Terrorism only wins if you respond to it the way the terrorist wants you to,” said Dr. Robert DeMartino, who directs the Program on Trauma and Terrorism at the Department of Health and Human Services. “The power is in your hands,”

For every person who gets physically ill from a bioterrorist attack, there probably will be at least 50 to 100 who are so distraught that they cannot function normally in their daily lives, DeMartino said Tuesday at the BioSecurity 2002 conference here.

If anything, the number of people traumatized could be much higher, he said. But mental health issues have not been fully incorporated into the massive preparation under way by federal, state and local authorities for a possible bioterrorist attack.

”The lack of preparation has been an enormous frustration for me. People don’t think about it. It simply is not on people’s screen,” said Brian Flynn, an expert on traumatic stress, an adviser to federal agencies and a former assistant surgeon general.

There are also practical concerns. A traumatized public can overwhelm hospital emergency rooms, demanding treatments even if they aren’t sick. If there’s a system to reassure people and help those who are scared, while treating those who may have been exposed to a biological agent, there will be less panic and a more orderly response to chaos.

Flynn noted that HHS has several requirements for states that are receiving $1 billion in bioterrorism grants, but working with mental health providers is not among them. Rather, it’s a vague suggestion, he said.

Most states and cities have disaster plans, DeMartino added, but usually they include something vague like “call the mental health department if there’s an issue,” rather than incorporating mental health issues into the central plan.

Also, there’s little training that would help mental health counselors assist during an attack. “Even those who are available to help are not trained for the nuances and complexities of bioterrorism,” Flynn said.

DeMartino added that the risk of panic is reduced if public officials provide accurate information - “even if it’s not good news.”

Dr. Jerold Post, an expert in political psychology at George Washington University, said he has often asked whose responsibility it is to address these issues, and no one seems to know.

”It’s not on anybody’s watch, really,” he said.

All three experts, who spoke at the BioSecurity 2002 conference in Las Vegas, said that when they raise the issue among their colleagues, all agree that it is important, yet there is little follow-up.

”They say, ‘Of course we know it’s an issue,’ but it never seems to jell,” DeMartino said.

He guessed that’s because issues of mental health naturally take a back seat to life-and-death questions such as ensuring an adequate supply of drugs and vaccines.

Other solutions, like buying drugs, are also more tangible, Flynn said. Government officials “can say, ‘I’ve done something.””

There’s also the stigma associated with mental problems, a suggestion that someone should be able to just get over it, Flynn said. A person is not blamed for a physical ailment, he said, “but if you’re depressed or you can’t sleep, it’s your fault.”

AP-NY-11-20-02 0914EST

Copyright 2002 The Associated Press.

Also From Connie –

http://www.truefoodnow.org/inside_scoop/tf-nebraska_action.html

From Helen –

Cops and prosecutors lie, why we need a moratorium on the death penalty.  It should only be permitted when administered by the victim at the scene of the crime in self defense.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0247/schanberg.php

From Ken – Worth another read

Our Christian President

The e-mail below was written by Lindsey Yeskoo, the wife of Paul Yeskoo, a Christian Foreign Service Officer serving in Shanghai, and details her experience of meeting the President when he was in China a month or two ago.

It underlines why we need to be faithful in praying for the President in particular and all our national leaders.

Dear Family!
It is a dull, polluted Monday morning here in Shanghai and we await news of President Bush’s safe arrival back in Washington, DC. He just left here less than twelve hours ago. Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief that no terrorist incidents occurred here over the past days. Security was tight, as you will have seen on TV.

On Friday afternoon, a crowd of 600 consulate/embassy staff + families were invited to a reception in the Atrium of the Shanghai/Portman complex, at 3:15pm, to meet both GW and Colin Powell. We waited a LONG time (due to all the security we had to go through), but our anticipation outweighed our tired bodies and sore feet. [We had left the
house just after 10:30am in order to do all this!]. Finally, Bush was
announced, and it was SO INCREDIBLE to see him walk in with Powell and take the podium before us, especially with all the recent events. Quite emotional for us all, actually.

He gave a tremendous, candid yet heartening speech, and then was escorted down to the floor to meet the crowds. Everyone was of course behind a tight rope, and there were Secret Service men and security everywhere. There was no way he could meet all, but he sure did a great job of shaking hands with as many as possible.

Colin Powell followed immediately behind him; he did not seem so engaging, surprisingly. Maybe the Secretary was (understandably) tired and distracted after his previous trips to    Pakistan and India.

Anyway, the three kids and I were in the very front row, and had an extraordinary experience with President Bush. Bush came along and shook Chris’s hand first, noticing that he was all dressed up, and said, You’re looking sharp today, boy!” Chris was SO PROUD and SO PLEASED at the recognition (if only GW had known what a struggle I’d had to get him to wear a jacket and a tie!). Then he shook my hand, and I told him
how much we value his strong leadership at this time, that we are 100% behind him.

He went on and took the girls’ hands and talked to them. Then I leaned over and mentioned that we pray for him every day. He stopped dead in his tracks (a definite security NO-NO; the SS men got REALLY antsy). He searched my eyes as if to see how much I really meant what I was saying. Then he gave me the most amazing and unexpected personal response, Paul said for a good 20-30 seconds. He told me what the effect has been on him, waking up everyday of the crisis and knowing within himself that he is being faithfully prayed for. He almost pleaded with me not to give up, but to persist with it, for this is only the beginning. Then he looked me even more squarely in my eyes, and gave me a very personal and specific series of instructions about the very things he most needs prayer for, on behalf of himself and of the nation. He urged me that the threat against America is very great, and that one of our focuses in prayer to God needs to be “the shielding of America” and wisdom for him as he leads the country through this time.

I don’t know why but as I looked straight back at him directly into his face, he let me see for those brief moments a tiny part of the agony he himself is going through and the weariness. He finished the conversation by putting his hand on my right shoulder, almost as if it were the close of a commissioning, but affectionate, too, in a brotherly sort of way.

People were pressing in at this point and almost knocking the four of us right into Bush. Many of them were the Chinese staff who work for Paul, who would not have understood ANY of that conversation; but others caught snippets and came afterwards to ask me WHAT we had been talking about.

The President moved on. Needless to say, the whole experience was unforgettable. I cannot begin to tell you how deeply it has affected me. Certainly, I do not think I have ever prayed for a leader or government or nation (or world!) as extensively as I have done since then. It was really quite an unusual and unexpected and powerful encounter.”

What a blessing to have a professing Christian as President. Please take a moment after you read this to pray for him. He truly does have the weight of the world on his shoulders. Pray that God will sustain him and give him wisdom and discernment in his decisions. Pray for his protection and that of his family.

From Cal –

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From Echo –

The Second Amendment is what is keeping all the other amendments alive. A box of ammo would make a terrific Christmas present for a hunter or target shooter.

FYI - So they dont need Probable cause anymore huh...? This would have got real interesting real fast if these travelers > had had firearms in their car or REFUSED permission to have their car searched...  you know, I think NH/VT border is not that great a place to set up a road block - why dont they try some obscure US/Mex cross-overs along NH/TX/AZ to pull their Dragnet tricks... but then again they may find more than
they want to know about..!?

Locals Come Face To Face With Homeland Security

By Martha V. Creegan, Staff Writer - Nov 12, 2002
http://www.caledonian-record.com/pages/top_news/story/c1a9fa4dc

From Roland –

Big Brother? Mind control anyone. I’ve read they already have the technology to make (electrical) suggestions and it reportedly so powerful, the recipient “hears” it as the “Voice of God” making it more of a command and therefore “irresistible” (not my word, theirs from the article).

Engineers have crossed a symbolic barrier with a new way to make microchips with transistors that are a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair or as small as a flu virus. The 90-nanometre width is regarded as a major milestone because scientists believe it will eventually lead to the production of transistors with atomic level dimensions.

The industry’s largest chip maker Intel is at the forefront in manufacturing the world’s smallest commercial transistors, giving it a leading edge in the production of semiconductors that run everything from mainframe computers to mobile phones.

But eagerly snapping at the chip giant’s heels are competitors like IBM, Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments.

Intelligent machines

The Silicon Valley company says it will reach mass production with the 90-nanometre chip-making process, code-named Prescott, in the second half of next year.

One nanometre is a billionth of a metre, or a millionth of a millimetre.

We want to make our microprocessors as intelligent as possible because then you can do a lot more with them Manny Vara, Intel Rob Willoner, a technical analyst at Intel, said: “This is an awesome development. “We have been developing the 90-nanometre process for several years and we’ve seen some significant results and are on target to start producing microprocessors on that technology for sale next year.”

Chips typically have millions of transistors, so making them smaller allows more of them to be laid down in the same space and enables the chip to operate faster because electrical signals have a shorter distance to travel.

Intel spokesman Manny Vara said: “The more transistors you have in a chip, the more intelligence you have.

“We want to make our microprocessors as intelligent as possible because then you can do a lot more with them.”

He envisages smarter devices that can, for example, translate English into a foreign language in real-time or mobile phones that let you watch a movie with a quality picture and sound.

Mr Vara also predicts an era of “clever computers” that will do things like your shopping online for you by merely showing it a photograph of the item you want, instead of you having to laboriously surf individual websites.

He said most of the products we use today could be likened to a VW Beetle in terms of speed but with the 90-nanometre process, they will be turned into Ferraris.

Smaller, faster

The new process spearheaded by Intel packs two and a half times more transistors into a given space. It relies on four innovations to produce these smaller, faster and more intelligent chips that gobble up less power.

A plant in Oregon is already turning out chips with 90 nanometre wide components using strained or stretched silicon, the foundation for all chips, so that signals run faster across the chip.

90-nanometre width regarded as a major milestone

The second step is the ability to build thinner transistors; microscopic silicon-based switches that rapidly open and close to create the ones and zeroes of the digital world.

The exclusive use of copper to connect the transistors is the third major step because it is a better conductor than aluminum.

And the final process is a carbon-based wire insulator that helps reduce power consumption by cutting down on the drag on signal speeds.

Rob Willoner said: “The big benefit is that the transistors are smaller so that they can run faster and that allows us to crank up the speed.

“For example we are about to introduce the 3 gigahertz Pentium. That’s three billion switches per second and it wasn’t so long ago we were in the tens of megahertz which was tens of millions of switches,” he said.

“So we are roughly doubling our microprocessor speeds and the number of transistors on a chip every other year.”

Chips currently in commercial production are generally 130-nanometres to 180 nanometres wide. Thinner circuitry achieves the holy grail of making each separate chip cheaper to produce, faster and more energy efficient.

Big business

In this high stakes game, the company that gets their goods on the shelf first is the one that can clean up.

Intel is investing $12.5bn in new manufacturing technologies at a time when the pockets of other players are not so deep.

“Historically the companies that invested in the downturn are the ones that benefited in the long run,” said analyst Dan Hutcheson of VLSI research in San Jose.

The speed of progress is in line with Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction - Moore’s Law - that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 18 months or so.

In that same year, Intel was able to put 30 transistors on a single chip.
By 2010, the company confidently predicts it will be putting 10 billion transistors on a chip.

Also From Roland –

A fairly lengthy read but another important piece in this extraordinary puzzle we think of as American life and global affairs. I think you will find it most edifying.

Roland

Murder By Injection (Mandatory Reading Assignment)

Excerpted from the book Murder by Injection by Eustace Mullins, chapter 10:

by Eustace Mullins

Many American conservatives believe as a matter of faith that the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations exercise absolute control over the government and the people of United States . This thesis can be accepted as a working formula if one remains conscious of the larger issues . Two writers for whom the present writer has great respect, Dr. Emanuel Josephson and Morris Bealle, insisted on focusing on the Rockefellers and excluding all other aspects of the World Order . This severely limited the effect of their otherwise ground breaking work on the Medical Monopoly.
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This writer advanced a contrary view in “The World Order,” fixing upon the Rothschild monetary power, which reached a point of world control by 1885, and its London policy group, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, as the policy makers for what has essentially been since 1900, re-established colonial government in the United States. The colonial, or occupation, government, functions primarily through the Council on Foreign Relations, but only as the subsidiary of RIIA and through the Rockefeller Foundation which controls government functions, the educational establishments, the media, the religions and the state legislatures.
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It is true that the American colonials have “free elections,” in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of “democracy” serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people.
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We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it. American youth have been free since 1900 to be marched off to die in Hegelian wars in which both combatants received their instructions from the World Order. We are free to invest in a stock market in which the daily quantity, price and value of the monetary unit is manipulated and controlled by a Federal Reserve System which is answerable only to the Bank of England. It has maintained its vaunted “independence” from our government’s control, but this is the only independence it has ever had.

The realization that we do indeed live under the dictates of the “Rockefeller Syndicate” can well be the starting point of the long road back of a genuine struggle for American independence. In exposing    “the Rockefellers” as agents of a foreign power, which is not merely a foreign power, but a genuine world government, we must realize that this is not merely a group dedicated to making money, but a group which is committed to maintaining the power of a colonial form of government over the American people. Thus the ancient calumny of John D. Rockefeller as a man obsessed by greed (a category in which he has plenty of company) obscures the act that from the day the Rothschilds began to finance his march towards a total oil monopoly in the United States from their coffers at the National City Bank of Cleveland, Rockefeller was never an independent power, nor does any department  of the Rockefeller Syndicate operate as an independent power. We know that the Cosa Nostra, or Mafia, with which the Syndicate is closely allied, has somewhat autonomous power in the regions which have been assigned to that particular “family” by the national directors, but this always implies that that family remains under total control and answerable for everything which occurs in its territory.

Similarly, the Rockefeller Syndicate operates under clearly defined spheres of influence. The “charitable” organizations, the business companies, and the policy groups, always meld into a working operation, nor can any department of the Syndicate strike out on its own or formulate an independent policy, no matter what may be its justification.
The Rockefeller Syndicate operates under the control of the world financial structure, which means that on any given day, all of its assets could be rendered close to worthless by adroit financial manipulation. This is the final control, which ensures that no one can quit the organization. Not only would he be stripped of all assets, but he would be under contract for immediate assassination. Our Department of Justice is well aware that the only “terrorists” operating in the United States are the agents of the World Order, but they prudently avoid any mention of this fact.
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The world financial structure, far from being an unknown or hidden organization, is actually well known and well defined. It consists of the major Swiss Banks; the survivors of the old Venetian-Genoese banking axis; the Big Five of the world grain trade; the British combine, centered  in the Bank of England and its chartered merchant banks, functioning through the Rothschilds and the Oppenheimers and having absolute control over their Canadian colony through the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal, their Canadian lieutenants being the Bronfmans, Belzbergs, and other financial operators; and the colonial banking structure in the United States, controlled by the Bank of England through the Federal Reserve System; the Boston Brahmin families who made their fortunes in the opium trade, including the Delanos and others and the Rockefeller Syndicate, consisting of the Kissinger network headquartered in the Rockefeller Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, American Express, the present form of the old Rothschild representatives in the United States, which includes Kuhn, Loeb Company and Lehman Brothers.

It is notable that the Rockefeller Syndicate is far down on the list of the world’s financial structure. Why then is it of such importance ? Although  it is not the crucial factor in financial decision in the Western Hemisphere, it is the actual working control mechanism of the American colony. The Rockefeller family themselves, like the Morgans, Schiffs and Warburgs, have faded into insignificance, but the mechanism created in their name roars along at full power, still maintaining all of he functions for which it was organized. Since he set up the Trilateral Commission, David Rockefeller has functioned as a sort of international courier for the World Order, principally concerned with delivering working instructions to the Communist bloc, either directly, in New York or by traveling to the area. Laurance Rockefeller is active in the operation of the Medical Monopoly, but his principal interests are in operating various vacation spas in tropical areas. They are the two survivors of the “Fortunate Five,” the five sons of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. died in an institution in Tucson, Arizona and was hastily cremated. John D. Rockefeller III died in a mysterious accident on a New York Parkway near his home. Nelson Rockefeller, named after his grandfather, died in the arms of a TV journalist; it was later revealed that he had also been in the arms of another TV journalist at the same time; the death was hushed up for many hours. It is generally believed hat he ran afoul of his Colombian drug connection, the disagreement hardly being trivial; it involved several billion dollars in drug profits which had not been properly apportioned. Winthrop Rockefeller died an alcoholic in the arms of his black boy friend. He had been interviewed on television by Harry Reasoner to explain his hasty move from New York to Arkansas. Winthrop leered that his black boy friend, an Army sergeant who apparently taught him the mysteries of drill, refused to live in New York. To celebrate this alliance, Winthrop Rockefeller gave magnificently to Negro causes, including the Urban League building on East 48^th Street in New York. A plaque on the second floor notes that it was his gift; it might well have stated “From Hadrian to his Antinous”.

We do not wish to imply that the Rockefellers no longer have influence, but that the major policy dictates of the Rockefeller Syndicate are handed down by other capos, of whom they continue to be a visible force. Through the person of David Rockefeller, the family is sometimes called “the first family of the Soviet Union.” Only he and Dr. Armand Hammer, the moving force behind USTEC, have permanent permission to land their private planes at the Moscow Airport. Others would suffer the fate of KAL 007.

Both the Rockefeller family fortune and the considerable portion set aside in the foundations of the Rockefeller Syndicate are effectively insulated against any type of government control . Fortune magazine noted August 4, 1986, that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. had created trusts in 1934 which now amounted to some $2.3 billion; another $200 million had been set aside for the Abby Rockefeller branch. The five sons had trusts which in 1986 amount to $2.1 billion. These trusts had originally amounted to only $50 million each, showing the increase in their assets as well as inflation during the ensuing half century . Fortune estimated the 1986 total Rockefeller wealth as $3.5 billion, of which $900 million was in securities and real estate. They owned 45% of the Time Life Building; Nelson Rockefeller’s International Basic Economy Corporation had been sold to a British company in 1980. For years, the Rockefeller family had deliberately kept the rents low in its major holding, the Rockefeller Center, a $1.6 billion investment yielding an annual return of 1%. This was a convenient maneuver, for tax purposes. Rockefeller Center recently went public issuing stock which was sold to public buyers. The Rockefellers are rumored to be liquidating their investments in the New York area, and reinvesting in the West, particularly in the area around Phoenix, Arizona.  It is possible that they know something we don’t.

However much of the Rockefeller wealth may be attributed to old John D.’s rapacity and ruthlessness, its origins are indubitably based in his initial financing from the National City Bank of Cleveland, which was identified in Congressional reports as one of the three Rothschild banks in the United States and by his later acceptance of the guidance of Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, who had been born in the Rothschild house in Frankfort and was now the principal Rothschild representative (but unknown as such to the public) in the United States.

With the seed money from the National City Bank of Cleveland, old John D. Rockefeller soon laid claim to the title of “the most ruthless American”. It is more than likely that it was this quality which persuaded the Rothschilds to back him . Rockefeller realized early in the game that the oil refinery business, which could offer great profits in a short time, also was at the mercy of uncontrolled competition. His solution was a simple one - crush all competition. The famous Rockefeller dedication to total monopoly was simply a business decision. Rockefeller embarked on a campaign of coercing all competing oil refineries out of business. He attacked on a number of fronts, which is also a lesson to all would be entrepreneurs. First, he would send a minion, not known to be working  for Rockefeller, with an offer to buy the competing refinery for a low price, but offering cash. If the offer was refused, the competitor would then come under attack from a competing refinery which greatly undercut his price. He might also suffer a sudden strike at his refinery, which would force him to shut down. Control of labor through unions has always been a basic Rockefeller technique. Like the Soviet Union, they seldom have labor trouble. If these techniques failed, Rockefeller would then be saddened by a reluctant decision to use violence; beating the rival workers as they went to and from their jobs, or burning or blowing up the competing refinery.

These techniques convinced the Rothschilds that they had found their man. They sent their personal representative, Jacob Schiff, to Cleveland to help Rockefeller plan further expansion. At this time, the Rothschilds controlled 95% of all railroad mileage in the United States, through the  J.P. Morgan Company and Kuhn Loeb & Company according to official Department of Commerce figures for the year 1895. J.P. Morgan mentions in his Who’s Who listing that he controlled 50,000 miles of U.S. railways. Schiff worked out an elaborate rebate deal for Rockefeller, through a dummy corporation, South Improvement Company. These rebates ensured that no other oil company could survive in competition with the Rockefeller firm. The scheme was later exposed, but by that time Rockefeller had achieved a virtual monopoly of the oil business in the United States. The daughter of one of his victims, Ida Tarbell, whose father was ruined by Rockefeller’s criminal operations, wrote the first major expose of the Standard Oil Trust. She was promptly denounced as a “muckraker” by the poseur, Theodore Roosevelt, who claimed to be a “trust buster”. In fact, he ensured the dominance of the Standard Oil Trust and other giant trusts.

During the next half century, John D. Rockefeller was routinely caricatured by socialist propagandists as the epitome of the ruthless capitalist. At the same time, he was the principal financier of the world Communist movement, through a firm called American International Company. Despite the fact that the House of Rothschild had already achieved world control, the sound and fury was directed exclusively against its two principal, representatives, John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan. One of the few revelations of the actual state of affairs appeared in Truth magazine, December 16, 1912, which pointed out that “Mr. Schiff is head of the great private banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, which represents the Rothschild interests on this side of the Atlantic. He is described as a financial strategist and has been for years the financial minister of the great impersonal power known as Standard Oil.”

Standard Oil New York - SONY - JAH.

Note that this editor did not even mention the name of Rockefeller.

Because of these concealed factors, it was a relatively simple matter for the American public to accept the “fact” that the Rockefellers were the preeminent power in this country. This myth was actually clothed in the apparel of power, the Rockefeller Oil Trust becoming the “military-industrial complex” which assumed political control of the nation; the Rockefeller Medical Monopoly attained control of the health care of the nation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, a web of affiliated tax exempt creations, effectively controlled the religious and educational life of the nation. The myth succeeded in its goal of camouflaging the hidden rulers, the Rothschilds.

After the present writer had been exposing this charade for some twenty-five years, a new myth began to be noised about in American conservative circles, effectively propagated by active double-agents. This myth found a host of eager believers, because it heralded a growing crack in the monolithic power which had been oppressing all the peoples of the world. This new “revelation” was that a struggle to the death for world power had developed between the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. According to this startling development, one faction or the other, depending on which agent you were listening to, had gained control of the Soviet Union and would use its power as the basis for achieving the overthrow of the other faction. The sudden death of several members of the Rockefeller family was cited as “proof” that such a struggle was taking place, although no Rothschild is known to have succumbed during this “war”. This ignored the general understanding that Nelson Rockefeller had been “eliminated” as the result of losing deposit slips for several billion dollars of drugs from the Colombian cartel, or that the other Rockefeller deaths showed no trace of a “Rothschild connection”.
Having maintained extensive files on this situation for several decades, the present writer could not believe anyone could be so misinformed as to think that “the Rockefellers” were now trying to seize power from the Rothschilds, at a time when the influence of members of the Rockefeller family was already in great decline, their family finances being handled by J. Richardson Dilworth, their legal affairs being handled by John J. McCloy, and other faithful retainers; none of these retainers would have been willing to engage in a genuine power struggle, as they were faceless managers who lived only for their weekly paycheck. They had no ambitions of their own. Nevertheless, many hopeful Americans grasped the will-o-the-wisp notion that the Rockefellers were now “good Americans” who were willing to risk all to overthrow the Rothschilds. Amazingly enough, this pernicious story persisted for almost a decade before being relegated to the curiosities of history.

Like J.P. Morgan, who had begun his commercial career by selling the U.S. Army some defective guns, the famous fall carbine affair, John D. Rockefeller also was a war profiteer during the Civil War; he sold unstamped Harkness liquor to Federal troops at a high profit, gaining    the initial capital to embark on his drive for monopoly. His interest in the oil business was a natural one; his father, William Rockefeller had been “in oil” for years . William Rockefeller had become an oil entrepreneur after salt wells at Tarentum, near Pittsburgh, were discovered in 1842 to be flowing with oil. The owners of the wells, Samuel L. Kier, began to bottle the oil and sell it for medicinal purposes. One of his earliest wholesalers was William Rockefeller. The “medicine” was originally labeled “Kier’s Magic Oil”. Rockefeller printed his own labels, using “Rock Oil” or “Seneca Oil,” Seneca being the name of a well known Indian tribe. Rockefeller achieved his greatest notoriety and his greatest profits by advertising himself as “William Rockefeller, the Celebrated Cancer Specialist”. It is understandable that his grandsons would become the controlling power behind the scenes of the world’s most famous cancer treatment center and would direct government funds and charitable contributions to those areas which only benefit the Medical Monopoly. William Rockefeller spared no claim in his flamboyant career. He guaranteed “All Cases of Cancer Cured Unless They Are Too Far Gone.” Such were the healing powers that he attributed to his magic cancer cure that he vas able to retail it for $25 a bottle, a sum then equivalent to two months’ wages. The “cure” consisted of a few well known diuretics, which had been diluted by water. This carnival medicine show barker could hardly have envisioned that his descendants would control the greatest and the most profitable Medical Monopoly in recorded history.
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As an itinerant “carnie,” a traveling carnival peddler, William Rockefeller had chosen a career which interfered with developing a stable family life. His son John rarely saw him, a circumstance which has inspired some psychological analysts a conjecture that the absence of a father figure or parental love may have contributed to John D. Rockefeller’s subsequent development as a money mad tyrant who plotted to maim, poison and kill millions of his fellow Americans during almost a century of his monopolistic operations and whose influence, reaching up from the grave, remains the most dire and malignant presence in American life. This may have been a contributing factor - however, it is also possible that he was totally evil. It is hardly arguable that he is probably the most Satanic figure in American history.

It has long been a truism that you can find a horse thief or two in any prominent American family. In the Rockefeller family it was more than a truism. William seems to have faithfully followed the precepts of the Will of Canaan throughout his career, “love robbery, love lechery.” He fled from a number of indictments for horse stealing, finally disappearing altogether as William Rockefeller and re-emerging as Dr. William Levingston of Philadelphia, a name which he retained for the rest of his life. An investigative reporter at Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World received a tip that was followed up. The World then disclosed that William Avery Rockefeller had died May 11, 1906 in Freeport, Illinois, where he was interred in an unmarked grave as Dr. William Levingston.

William Rockefeller’s vocation as a medicine man greatly facilitated his preferred profession of horse thief. As one who planned to be in the next county by morning, it was a simple matter to tie a handsome stallion to the back of his wagon and head for the open road. It also played a large part in his vocation as a woman-chaser; he was described as being “woman-mad”. He not only concluded several bigamous marriages, but he seems to have had uncontrolled passions. On June 28, 1849, he was indicted for raping a hired girl in Cayuga, New York; he later was found to be residing in Oswego, New York and was forced once again to decamp for parts unknown. He had no difficulty in financing his woman-chasing interests from the sale of his miraculous cancer cure and from another product, his “Wonder Working Liniment,” which he offered at only two dollars a bottle. It consisted of crude petroleum from which the lighter oils had been boiled away, leaving a heavy solution of paraffin, lube oil and tar, which comprised the “iniment.” William Rockefeller’s original miracle oil survived until quite recently as a concoction called Nujol, consisting principally of petroleum and peddled as a laxative. It was well known that Nujol was merely an advertising sobriquet meaning “new oil,” as opposed, apparently, to “old oil”. Sold as an antidote to constipation, it robbed the body of fat-soluble vitamins, it being a well-established medical fact that mineral oil coated the intestine and prevented the absorption of many needed vitamins and other nutritional needs. Its makers added carotene as a sop to the health-conscious, but it was hardly worth the bother. Nujol was manufactured by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, called Stanco, whose only other product, manufactured on the same premises, was the famous insecticide, Flit.

Nujol was hawked from the Senate Office Building in Washington for years during a more liberal interpretation of “conflict of interest.” In this case, it was hardly a conflict of interest, because the august peddler, Senator Royal S. Copeland, never had any interests other than serving the Rockefellers. He was a physician whom Rockefeller had appointed as head of the New York State Department of Health and later financed his campaign for the Senate. Copeland’s frank display of commercialism amazed even the most blasé Washington reporters. He devoted his Senate career to a daily program advertising Nujol. A microphone was set up in his Senate office each morning, the first order of business being the Nujol program, for which he was paid $75,000 a year, an enormous salary in the 1930s and more than the salary of the President of the United States. Senator Copeland’s exploits earned him a number of nicknames on Capitol Hill. He was often called the Senator from the American Medical Association, because of his enthusiastic backing for any program launched by the AMA and Morris Fishbein. More realistically, he was usually referred to as “the Senator from Standard Oil”. He could be counted on to promote any legislation devised for the greater profit of the Rockefeller monopoly. During congressional debate on the Food and Drug Act in 1938, he came under criticism from Congresswoman Leonor Sullivan, who charged that Senator Copeland, a physician who handled the bill on the Senate floor, frankly acknowledged during the debate that soap was exempted from the law, because the soap manufacturers, who were the nation’s largest advertisers, would otherwise join with other big industries to fight the bill. Congresswoman Sullivan complained the “Soap was officially declared in the law not to be a cosmetic . .. The hair dye manufacturers were given license to market known dangerous products, just so long as they placed a special warning on the label - but what woman in a beauty parlor ever sees the label on the bulk container in which hair dye is shipped ?”

Just as the elder Rockefeller had spent his life in the pursuit of his personal obsession, omen, so his son John was equally obsessed, being money-mad instead of women-mad, totally committed to the pursuit of ever-increasing wealth and power. However, the principal accomplishments of the Rockefeller drive for power, the rebate scheme for monopoly, the chartering of the foundations to gain power over American citizens, the creation of the central bank, the Federal Reserve System, the backing of the World Communist revolution and the creation of the Medical Monopoly, all came from the Rothschilds or from their European employees. We cannot find in the records of John D. Rockefeller that he originated any one of these programs. The concept of the tax exempt charitable foundation originated with the Rothschild minion, George Peabody, in 1865. The Peabody Educational Foundation later became the Rockefeller Foundation. It is unlikely that even the diabolical mind of John D. Rockefeller could have conceived of this devious twist. A social historian has described the major development of the late nineteenth century, when charitable foundations and world Communism became important movements, as one of the more interesting facets of history, perhaps equivalent to the discovery of the wheel. This new discovery was the concept developed by the rats, who after all have rather highly developed intelligences, that they could trap people by baiting traps with little bits of cheese. The history of mankind since then has been the rats catching humans in their traps. Socialism - indeed any government program - is simply the rat baiting the trap with a smidgen of cheese and catching himself a human.
Congressman Wright Putman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, noted from the floor of Congress that the establishment of the Rockefeller Foundation effectively insulated Standard Oil from competition. The controlling stock had been removed from market manipulation or possible buy-outs by competitors. It also relieved Standard Oil from most taxation, which then placed a tremendous added burden on individual American taxpayers. Although a Rockefeller relative by marriage, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Republican majority leader  in the Senate, had pushed the General Education Board charter through Congress, the Rockefeller Foundation charter proved to be more difficult. Widespread criticism of Rockefeller’s monopolistic practices was heard, and his effort to insulate his profits from taxation or takeover was seen for what it was. The charter was finally pushed through in 1913 (the significant Masonic numeral 13 - 1913 was also the year the progressive income tax and of the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act). Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, another senator from Standard Oil (there were quite a few), ramrodded the Congressional approval of the charter. The charter was then signed by John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Henry Pratt Judson, president of the Rockefeller established University of Chicago, Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute, Starr Jameson, described in Who’s Who as “personal counsel to John D. Rockefeller in his benevolences,” and Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University.

The Rockefeller Oil Monopoly is now 125 years old, yet in 1911, the Supreme Court, bowing to public outrage, had ruled that it had to be broken up. The resulting companies proved to be no problem for the Rockefeller interests. The family retained a two per cent holding in each  of the “new” companies, while the Rockefeller foundations took a three per cent stock holding in each company. This gave them a five per cent stock interest in each company ; a one per cent holding in a corporation is usually sufficient to maintain working control.

The involvement of the Rockefellers in promoting the world Communist Revolution also developed from their business interests. There was never any commitment to the Marxist ideology; like anything else, it was there to be used. At the turn of the century Standard Oil was competing fiercely with Royal Dutch Shell for control of the lucrative European market. Congressional testimony revealed that Rockefeller had sent large sums  to Lenin and Trotsky to instigate the Communist Revolution of 1905. His banker, Jacob Schiff, had previously financed the Japanese in their war against Russia and had sent a personal emissary, George Kennan to Russia to spend some twenty years in promoting revolutionary activity against the Czar. When the Czar abdicated, Trotsky was placed on a ship with three hundred Communist revolutionaries from the Lower East Side of New York. Rockefeller obtained a special passport for Trotsky from Woodrow Wilson and sent Lincoln Steffens with him to make sure he was returned safely to Russia. For traveling expenses, Rockefeller placed a purse containing $10,000 in Trotsky’s pocket.

On April 13, 1917, when the ship stopped in Halifax, Canadian Secret Service officers immediately arrested Trotsky and interned him in Nova Scotia. The case became an international cause celebre, as leading government officials from several nations frantically demanded Trotsky’s release. The Secret Service had been tipped off that Trotsky was on his way to take Russia out of the war, freeing more German armies to attack Canadian troops on the Western Front. Prime Minister Lloyd George hurriedly cabled orders from London to the Canadian Secret Service to free Trotsky at once—they ignored him. Trotsky was finally freed by the intervention of one of Rockefeller’s most faithful stooges, Canadian Minister Mackenzie King, who had long been a “labor specialist” for the Rockefellers. King personally obtained Trotsky’s release and sent him on his way as the emissary of the Rockefellers, commissioned to win the Bolshevik Revolution. Thus Dr. Armand Hammer, who loudly proclaims his influence in Russia as the friend of Lenin, has an insignificant claim compared to the role of the Rockefellers in backing world Communism. Although Communism, like other isms, had originated with Marx’s association with the House of Rothschild, it enlisted the reverent support of John D. Rockefeller because he saw Communism for what it is, the ultimate monopoly, not only controlling the government, the monetary system and all property, but also a monopoly which, like the corporations it emulates, is self-perpetuating and eternal. It was the logical progression from his Standard Oil monopoly.

An important step on the road to world monopoly was the most far-reaching corporation invented by the Rothschilds. This was the international drug and chemical cartel, I.G. Farben. Called “a state within a state,” it was created in 1925 as Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktien gesellschaft, usually known as I.G. Farben, which simply meant “The Cartel”. It had originated in 1904, when the six major chemical companies in Germany began negotiations to form the ultimate cartel, merging Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Weiler-ter-Meer, and Greisheim-Electron. The guiding spirit, as well as the financing, came  from the Rothschilds, who were represented by their German banker,   Max Warburg, of M.M. Warburg Company, Hamburg. He later headed the German Secret Service during World War I and was personal financial adviser to the Kaiser. When the Kaiser was overthrown, after losing the war, Max Warburg was not exiled with him to Holland, instead he became the financial adviser to the new government. Monarchs may come and  go, but the real power remains with the bankers. While representing Germany at the Paris Peace Conference, Max Warburg spent pleasant hours renewing family ties with his brother, Paul Warburg, who, after drafting the Federal Reserve Act at Jekyl Island, had headed the U.S. banking system during the war. He was in Paris as Woodwow Wilson’s financial advisor.

I.G. Farben soon had a net worth of six billion marks, controlling some five hundred firms. Its first president was Professor Carl Bosch. During the period of the Weimar Republic, I.G. officials, seeing the handwriting  on the wall, began a close association with Adolf Hitler, supplying much needed funds and political influence. The success of the I.G. Farben cartel had aroused the interest of other industrialists. Henry Ford was favorably impressed and set up a German branch of Ford Motor Company. Forty per cent of the stock was purchased by I.G. Farben. I.G. Farben then established an American subsidiary, called American I.G., in cooperation with Standard Oil of New Jersey . Its directors included Walter Teagle, president of Standard Oil, Paul Warburg of Kuhn Loeb & Company and Edsel Ford, representing the Ford interests. John Foster Dulles, for the law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell, became the attorney for I.G., frequently traveling between New York and Berlin on cartel business. His law partner, Arthur Dean, is now director of the $40 million Teagle Foundation which was set up before Teagle’s death. Like other fortunes it had become part of the network. Like John Foster Dulles, Arthur Dean has been a director of American Banknote for many years; this is the firm which supplies the paper for our dollar bills. Dean also has been an active behind the scenes government negotiator, serving as arms negotiator at disarmament conferences. Dean was also a director of Rockefeller’s American Ag & Chem Company. He was a director of American Solvay, American Metal and other firms. As attorney for the wealthy Hochschild family, who owned Climax Molybdenum and American Metal, Dean became director of their family foundation, the Hochschild Foundation. Dean is director emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, International House, Carnegie Foundation, and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
In 1930, Standard Oil announced that it had purchased an alcohol monopoly in Germany, a deal which had been set up by I.G. Farben.    After Hitler came to power, John D. Rockefeller assigned his personal press agent, Ivy Lee, to Hitler to serve as a full-time adviser on the rearmament of Germany, a necessary step for setting up World War II. Standard Oil then built large refineries in Germany for the Nazis and continued to supply them with oil during World War II. In the 1930s Standard Oil was receiving in payment from Germany large shipments of musical instruments and ships which had been built in German yards.

The dreaded Gestapo, the Nazi police force, was actually built from the worldwide intelligence network which I.G. Farben had maintained since its inception. Herman Schmitz, who had succeeded Carl Bosch as head of I.G., has been personal advisor to chancellor Brüning; when Hitler took over, Schmitz then became his most trusted secret counselor. So well concealed was the association that the press had orders never to photograph them together . Schmitz was named an honourary member of the Reichstag, while his assistant, Carl Krauch, became Göring’s principal advisor in carrying out the Nazis’ Four Year Plan. A business associate, Richard Krebs, later testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, “The I.G. Farbenindustrie, I know from personal experience, was already, in 1934, completely in the hands of the Gestapo.” This was a misstatement; the I.G. Farben had merely allied itself with the Gestapo.
In 1924 Krupp Industries was in serious financial difficulty; the firm was saved by a $10 million cash loan from Hallgarten & Company and Goldman Sachs, two of Wall Street’s best known firms. The planned re-armament of Germany was able to proceed only after Dillon Read floated $100 million of German bonds on Wall Street for that purpose. It was hardly surprising that at the conclusion of the Second World War, General William Draper was appointed Economic Czar of Germany, being named head of the Economic Division of the Allied Military Government. He was a partner of Dillon Read.

In 1939 Frank Howard, a vice-president of Standard Oil visited Germany. He later testified, #147;We did our best to work out complete plans for a modus vivendi which would operate throughout the term of the war, whether we came in or not.” At this time American I.G. had on its board of directors Charles Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, the Rockefeller bank, Carl Bosch, Paul Warburg, Herman Schmitz and Schmitz’ nephew, Max Ilgner.

Although his name is hardly known, Frank Howard was for many years      a key figure in Standard Oil operations as director of its research and     its international agreements. He also was chairman of the research committee at Sloan Kettering Institute during the 1930s; his appointee     at Sloan Kettering, Dusty Rhoads, headed the experimentation in the development of chemotherapy. During the Second World War Rhoads headed the Chemical Warfare Service in Washington at U.S. Army Headquarters. It was Frank Howard who had persuaded both Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering of General Motors in 1939 to give their fortunes to the Cancer Center, which then took on their names . A member of the wealthy Atherton family, Frank Howard (1891-1964) had married a second time, his second wife being a leading member of the British aristocracy, the Duchess of Leeds. The first Duke of Leeds was titled in 1694, Sir Thomas Osborne, who was one of the key conspirators in the overthrow of King James II and the seizure of the throne of England by William III in 1688. Osborne had made peace with Holland during the reign of King Charles II, and singlehandedly promoted the marriage of Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, to William of Orange in 1677. The Dictionary of National Biography notes that Osborne “for five years managed the House of Commons by corruption and enriched himself.” He was impeached by King Charles II for treasonous negotiations with King Louis XIV and imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1678 to 1684. After his release, he again became active in the conspiracy to bring in William of Orange   as King of England and secured the crucial province of York for him. William then created him Duke of Leeds. The placing of William on the throne of England made it possible for the conspirators to implement     the crucial step in their plans, setting up the Bank of England in 1694. This enabled the Amsterdam bankers to gain control of the wealth of the British Empire. Osborne’s biography also notes that he was later accused of Jacobite intrigues and was impeached for receiving a large bribe to procure the charter for the East India Company in 1695, but “the proceedings were not concluded”. It was further noted that he “left a  large fortune”.

The 11^th Duke of Leeds was Minister to Washington from 1931 to 1935, Minister to the Holy See from 1936 to 1947, that is, throughout the Second World War. One branch of the family married into the Delano family, becoming relatives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt . A cousin, Viscount Chandos, was a prominent British official, serving in the War Cabinet under Churchill from 1942 to 1945, later becoming a director of the Rothschild firm, Alliance Assurance, and Imperial Chemical Industries.
Frank Howard was the key official in maintaining relations between Standard Oil and I.G. Farben. He led in the development of synthetic rubber, which was crucial to Germany in the Second World War; he later wrote a book, “Buna Rubber”. He also was the consultant to the drug firm, Rohm and Haas, representing the Rockefeller connection with that firm.  In his later years, he resided in Paris, but continued to maintain his office at 30 Rockefeller Center, New York.

Walter Teagle, the president of Standard Oil, owned 500,000 shares of American I.G., these shares later becoming the basis of the Teagle Foundation. Herman Metz, who was also a director of American I.G.,     was president of H.A. Metz Company, New York, a drug firm wholly owned by I.G. Farben of Germany. Francis Garvan, who had served as Alien Property Custodian during the First World War, knew many secrets of I.G. Farben’s operations. He was prosecuted in 1929 to force him to remain silent. The action was brought by the Department of Justice through Attorney General Merton Lewis, the former counsel for Bosch Company. John Krim, former counsel for the German Embassy in the United States, testified that Senator John King had been on the payroll of the Hamburg American Line for three years at a salary of fifteen thousand dollars a year; he appointed Otto Kahn as treasurer of his election fund. Homer Cummings, who had been Attorney General for six years, then became counsel for General Aniline and Film at a salary of $100,000 a year. During the Second World War, GAF was supposedly owned by a Swiss firm; it came under considerable suspicion as an “enemy” concern and was finally taken over by the United States government. John Foster Dulles had been director of GAF from 1927 to 1934; he was also a director of International Nickel, which was part of the network of I.G. Farben firms. Dulles was related to the Rockefeller family through the Avery connection. He was attorney for the organization of a new investment firm, set up by Avery Rockefeller, in 1936 which was called Schröder-Rockefeller Company. It combined operations of the Schröder Bank, Hitler’s personal bank and the Rockefeller interests. Baron Kurt von Schröder was one of Hitler’s closest confidantes, and a leading officer of the SS. He was head of the Keppler Associates, which funneled money to the SS for leading German Corporations. Keppler was the official in charge of Industrial Fats during Göring’s Four Year Plan, which was launched in 1936. American I.G. changed its name to General Aniline and Film during the Second World War, but it was still wholly owned by I.G. Chemie of Switzerland, a subsidiary of I.G. Farben of Germany. It was headed by Gadow, brother- in-law of Herman Schmitz. I.G. Farben’s international agreements directly affected the U.S. war effort, because they set limits on U.S. supplies of magnesium, synthetic rubber and, crucial medical supplies. The director of I.G. Farben’s dyestuffs division, Baron George von Schnitzler, was related to the powerful von Rath family, the J.H. Stein Bankhaus which held Hitler’s account and the von Mallinckrodt family, the founders of    the drug firm in the United States. Like other I.G. officials, he had become an enthusiastic supporter of the Hitler regime. I.G. Farben gave four and  a half million reichsmarks to the Nazi Party in 1933; by 1945, I.G. had given the Party 40 million reichsmarks, a sum which equaled all contributions by I.G. to all other recipients during that period. One scholar of the Nazi era, Anthony Sutton, has focussed heavily on German supporters of Hitler, while ignoring the crucial role played by the Bank of England and its Governor, Sir Montague Norman, in financing the Nazi regime. Sutton’s position on this problem may have been influenced by the fact that he is British. In view of the outspoken statements from Adolf Hitler about Jewish influence in Germany, it would be difficult to explain the role of I.G. Farben in the Nazi era. Peter Hayes’ definitive study of I.G. Farben shows that in 1933 it had ten Jews on its governing boards. We have previously pointed out that I.G., from its inception was a Rothschild concern, formulated by the House of Rothschild and implemented through its agents, Max Warburg in Germany and Standard Oil.

Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands joined the SS during the early 1930s. He then joined the board of an I.G. subsidiary, Farben Bilder, from which he took the name of his postwar supersecret policy making group, the Bilderbergers. Farben executives played an important role in organizing the Circle of Friends for Heinrich Himmler, although it was initially known as Keppler’s Circle of Friends, Keppler being the chairman of an I.G. subsidiary. His nephew, Fritz J. Kranefuss, was the personal assistant to Heinrich Himmler. Of the forty members of the Circle of Friends, which provided ample funds for Himmler, eight were executives of I.G. Farben or of its subsidiaries.

Despite the incredible devastation of most German cities from World War II air bombings, the I.G. Farben building in Frankfort, one of the largest buildings there, miraculously survived intact. A large Rockefeller mansion in Frankfort also was left untouched by the war, despite the saturation bombing. Frankfort was the birthplace of the Rothschild family. It was hardly coincidental that the postwar government of Germany, Allied Military Government, should set up its offices in the magnificent I.G. Farben building. This government was headed by General Lucius Clay, who later became a partner of Lehman Brothers bankers in New York. The Political Division was headed by Robert Murphy, who would preside at the Nüremberg Trials, where he was successful in glossing over the implication of I.G. Farben officials and Baron Kurt von Schröder. Schröder was held a short time in a detention camp and then set free to return to his banking business. The Economic Division was headed by Lewis Douglas, son of the founder of Memorial Cancer center in New York, president of Mutual Life and director of General Motors. Douglas was slated to become U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, but he agreed to step aside in favor of his brother-in-law, John J. McCloy. By an interesting circumstance, Douglas, McCloy and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of Germany had all married sisters, the daughters of John Zinsser, a partner of J.P. Morgan Company.

As the world’s pre-eminent cartel, I.G. Farben and the drug companies which it controlled in the United States through the Rockefeller interests were responsible for many inexplicable developments in the production and distribution of drugs. From 1908 to 1936 I.G. held back its discovery of sulfanilamide, which would become a potent weapon in the medical arsenal. In 1920, I.G. had signed working agreements with the important drug firms of Switzerland, Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. In 1926, I.G. merged with Dynamit-Nobel, the German branch of the dynamite firm, while an English firm took over the English division. I.G. officials then began to negotiate with Standard Oil officials about the prospective manufacture of synthetic coal, which would present a serious threat to Standard Oil’s monopoly. A compromise was reached with the establishment of American I.G., in which both firms would play an active role and share in the profits.

Charles Higham’s book, “Trading with the Enemy,” offers ample documentation of the Rockefeller activities during the Second World War. While Hitler’s bombers were dropping tons of explosives on London, they were paying royalties on every gallon of gasoline they burned to Standard Oil, under existing patent agreements. After World War II, when Queen Elizabeth visited the United States, she stayed in only one private home during her visit, the Kentucky estate of William Irish, of Standard Oil. Nelson Rockefeller moved to Washington after our involvement in World War II, where Roosevelt named him Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Apparently his principal task was to coordinate the refueling of German ships in South America from Standard Oil tanks. He also used this office to obtain important South American concessions for his private firm, International Basic Economy Corporation, including a corner on the Colombian coffee market. He promptly upped the price, a move which enabled him to buy seven billion dollars worth of real estate in South America and also gave rise to the stereotype of the “Yanqui imperialismo”. The attack on Vice President Nixon’s automobile when he visited South America was explained by American officials as a direct result of the depredations of the Rockefellers, which caused widespread agitation against Americans in Latin America.

After World War II, twenty-four German executives were prosecuted by  the victors, all of them connected with I.G. Farben, including eleven officers of I.G. Eight were acquitted, including Max Ilgner, nephew of Herman Schmitz. Schmitz received the most severe sentence, eight years. Ilgner actually received three years, but the time was credited against his time in jail waiting for trial, and he was immediately released.

The Judge was C.G. Shake and the prosecuting attorney was Al Minskoff.
The survival of I.G. Farben was headlined by the Wall Street Journal on May 3, 1988 - GERMANY BEATS WORLD IN CHEMICAL SALES. Reporter Thomas F. O’Boyle listed the world’s top five chemical companies in 1987 as 1. BASF $25.8 billion dollars. 2. Bayer $23.6 billion dollars. 3. Hoechst $23.5 billion dollars. 4. ICI $20 billion dollars. 5. DuPont $17 billion dollars in chemical sales only.

The first three companies are the firms resulting from the “dismantling”  of I.G. Farben from 1945 to 1952 by the Allied Military Government, in a process suspiciously similar to the “dismantling” of the Standard Oil empire by court edict in 1911. The total sales computed in dollars of the three spin-offs of I.G. Farben, some $72 billion, dwarfs its nearest rivals, ICI and DuPont, who together amount to about half of the Farben empire’s dollar sales in 1987. Hoechst bought Celanese corp. in 1987 for $2.72 billion.

O’Boyle notes that “The Big Three (Farben spin-offs) still behave like a cartel. Each dominates specific areas; head to head competition is limited. Critics suspect collusion. At the least, there’s a cosiness that doesn’t exist in the U.S. chemical industry.”

After the war, Americans were told they must support an “altruistic” plan to rebuild devastated Europe, to be called the Marshall Plan, after Chief of Staff George Marshall, who had been labeled on the floor of the Senate by Senator Joseph McCarthy as “a living lie”. The Marshall Plan proved to be merely another Rockefeller Plan to loot the American taxpayer. On December 13, 1948, Col. Robert McCormick, editor of the Chicago Tribune, personally denounced Esso’s looting of the Marshall Plan in a signed editorial. The Marshall Plan had been rushed through Congress by a powerful and vocal group, headed by Winthrop Aldrich, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank and Nelson Rockefeller’s brother-in-law, ably seconded by Nelson Rockefeller and William Clayton, the head of Anderson, Clayton Company. The Marshall Plan proved to be but one of    a number of lucrative postwar swindles, which included the Bretton Woods Agreement, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation and others.

After World War II, the Rockefellers used their war profits to buy a large share of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, an African copper lode owned by Belgian interest, including the Societe Generale, a Jesuit controlled bank. Soon after their investment, the Rockefellers launched a bold attempt to seize total control of the mines through sponsoring a local revolution, using as their agent the Grangesberg operation. This enterprise had originally been developed by Sir Ernest Cassel, financial advisor to King Edward VII - Cassel’s daughter later married Lord Mountbatten, a member of the British royal family, who was also related to the Rothschilds. Grangesberg was now headed by Bo Hammarskjold, whose brother, Dag Hammarskjold was then Secretary General of the United Nations - Bo Hammarskjold became a casualty of the Rockefeller revolution when his plane was shot down during hostilities in the Congo. Various stories have since circulated about who killed him and why he was killed. The Rockefeller intervention in the Congo was carried out by their able lieutenants, Dean Rusk and George Ball of the State Department and by Fowler Hamilton.

In the United States, the Rockefeller interests continue to play the major political role. Old John D. Rockefeller’s treasurer at Standard Oil, Charles Pratt, bequeathed his New York mansion to the Council on Foreign Relations as its world headquarters. His grandson, George Pratt Shultz, is now Secretary of State. The Rockefellers also wielded a crucial role through their financing of the Trotskyite Communist group in the United States, the League for Industrial Democracy, whose directors include such staunch “anti-communists” as Jeane Kirkpatrick and Sidney Hook. The Rockefellers were also active on the “right-wing” front through their sponsorship of the John Birch Society. To enable Robert Welch, a 32^nd degree Mason, to devote all of his time to the John Birch Society, Nelson Rockefeller purchased his family firm, the Welch Candy Company, from him at a handsome price. Welch chose the principal officers of the John Birch Society from his acquaintances at the Council On Foreign Relations. For years afterwards, American patriots were puzzled by the consistent inability of the John Birch Society to move forward on any of its well-advertised “anti-Communist” goals. The fact that the society had been set up at the behest of the backers of the world Communist revolution may have played some role in this development. Other patriots wondered why most American conservative writers, including the present writer, were steadily blacklisted by the John Birch Society for some thirty years. Despite thousands of requests from would be book buyers, the John Birch Society refused to review or list any of my books.

After several decades of futility, the Society was totally discredited by     its own record. In a desperate effort to restore its image, William Buckley, the CIA propagandist, launched a “fierce” attack against the John Birch Society in the pages of his magazine, the National Review. This free publicity campaign also did little to revive the moribund organization.
The Rockefeller monopoly influence has had its effect on some of New York’s largest and wealthiest churches. Trinity Church on Wall Street, whose financial resources had been directed by none other than J.P. Morgan, owns some forty commercial properties in Manhattan and has a stock portfolio of $50 million, which, due to informed investment, actually yields a return of $25 million a year! Only $2.6 million of this income is spent for charitable work. The rector, why receives a salary of $100,000 a year, lives on the fashionable Upper East Side. Trinity’s mausoleum sells its spaces at fees starting at $1250 and rising to $20,000 . St. Bartholomew, on Fifth Avenue, has an annual budget of $3.2 million a year of which only $100,000 is spent on charity. Its rector resides in a thirteen room apartment on Park Avenue.

In medicine, the Rockefeller influence remains entrenched in its Medical Monopoly. We have mentioned its control of the cancer industry through the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. We have listed the directors of the major drug firms, each with its director from Chase Manhattan Bank, the Standard Oil Company or other Rockefeller firms. The American College of Surgeons maintains a monopolistic control of hospitals through the powerful Hospital Survey Committee, with members Winthrop Aldrich and David McAlpine Pyle representing the Rockefeller control.

A medical fraternity known as the “rich man’s club,” the New York Academy of Medicine, was offered grants for a new building by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation, its subsidiary group. This “seed money” was then used to finance a public campaign which brought in funds to erect a new building. For Director of the new facility, the Rockefellers chose Dr. Lindsly Williams, son-in-law of the managing partner of Kidder, Peabody, a firm strongly affiliated with the J.P. Morgan interests (the J.P. Morgan Company had originally been called the Peabody Company). Williams was married to Grace Kidder  Ford. Although Dr. Williams was widely known to be an incompetent physician, his family connections were impeccable. He became a factor   in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election campaign when he publicly certified that Roosevelt, a cripple in a wheelchair who suffered from a number of oppressive ailments, was both physically and mentally fit to be the President of United States. Dr. Williams’ opinion, published in an article   in the widely circulated Collier’s Magazine, allayed public doubts about Roosevelt’s condition. As a result, Williams was to be offered a newly created post in Roosevelt’s cabinet, Secretary of Health. However, it was another thirty years before Health became a cabinet post, due to the politicking of Oscar Ewing.

The Rockefellers had greatly extended their business interests in the impoverished Southern states by establishing the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission. It was headed by Dr. Wickliffe Rose, a longtime Rockefeller henchman whose name appears on the original charter of the Rockefeller Foundation. Despite its philanthropic goals, the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission required financial contributions from each of the eleven Southern states in which it operated, resulting in the creation of State Departments of Health in those states and opening up important new spheres of influence for their Drug Trust. In Tennessee, the Rockefeller representative was a Dr. Olin West, who moved on to Chicago to become the power behind the scenes at the American Medical Association for forty years, as secretary and general manager.

The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research finally dropped the “Medical Research” part of its title; its president, Dr. Detlev Bronk, resided in a $600,000 mansion furnished by this charitable operation. Rockefeller’s general Education Board has spent more than $100 million to gain control of the nation’s medical schools and turn our physicians to physicians of the allopathic school, dedicated to surgery and the heavy use of drugs. The Board, which had developed from the original Peabody Foundation, also spent some $66 million for Negro education.

One of the most far-reaching consequences of the General Education Board’s political philosophy was achieved with a mere six million dollar grant to Columbia University in 1917, to set up the “progressive” Lincoln School. >From this school descended the national network of progressive educators and social scientists, whose pernicious influence closely paralleled the goals of the Communist Party, another favorite recipient of the Rockefeller millions . From its outset, the Lincoln School was described frankly as a revolutionary school for the primary and secondary schools of the entire United States. It immediately discarded all theories of education which were based on formal and well-established disciplines, that is, the McGuffey Reader type of education which worked by teaching such subjects as Latin and algebra, thus teaching children to think logically about problems. Rockefeller biographer Jules Abel hails the Lincoln School as “a beacon light in progressive education “.

Rockefeller Institute financial fellowships produced many prominent workers in our atomic programs, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was later removed from government laboratories as a suspected Soviet agent. Although most of his friends and associates were known Soviet agents, this was called “guilt by association.” The Rockefeller Foundation created a number of spin-off groups, which now plague the nation with a host of ills, one of them being the Social Science Research Council, which single-handedly spawned the nationwide “poverty industry,” a business which expends some $130 billion a year of taxpayer funds while grossing some $6 billion income for its practitioners. The money, which would amply feed and house all of the nation’s “poor,” is dissipated through a vast administrative network which awards generous concessions to a host of parasitic “consultants”.

Despite years of research, the present writer has been able to merely scratch the surface of the Rockefeller influences listed here. For instance, the huge Burroughs Wellcome drug firm is wholly owned by the “charitable” Wellcome Trust. This trust is directed by Lord Oliver Franks, a key member of the London Connection which maintains the United States as a British Colony. Franks was Ambassador to the United States from 1948 to 1952. He is now a director of the Rockefeller Foundation, as its principal representative in England. He also is a director of the Schröder Bank, which handled Hitler’s personal bank account, director of the Rhodes Trust in charge of approving Rhodes scholarships, visiting professor at the University of Chicago and chairman of Lloyd’s Bank, one of England’s Big Five.

Other Rockefeller Foundation spin-offs include the influential Washington think-tank, the Brookings Institution, the National Bureau of Economic Research, whose findings play a critical role in manipulating the stock market; the Public Administration Clearing House, which indoctrinates the nation’s municipal employees ; the Council of State Governments, which controls the nation’s state legislatures; and the Institute of Pacific Relations, the most notorious Communist front in the United States. The Rockefellers appeared as directors of this group, funneling money to it through their financial advisor, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, of Kuhn, Loeb Company.

The Rockefellers have maintained their controlling interest in the Chase Manhattan Bank, owning five per cent of the stock. Through this one asset they control $42.5 billion worth of assets. Chase Manhattan interlocks closely with the Big Four insurance companies, of which three, Metropolitan, Equitable and New York Life had $113 billion in assets in 1969.

With the advent of the Reagan Administration in 1980, the Rockefeller interests sought to obscure their longtime support of world Communism by bringing to Washington a vocally “anti-Communist” administration. Reagan was soon wining and dining Soviet premiers as enthusiastically as had his predecessor Jimmy Carter. The Reagan campaign had been managed by two officials of Bechtel Corporation, its president, George Pratt Schultz, a Standard Oil heir, and his counsel, Casper Weinberger. Shultz was named Secretary of State, Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, Bechtel had been financed by the Schröder-Rockefeller Company, the 1936 alliance between the Schröder Bank and the Rockefeller heirs.

The Rockefeller influence also remains preeminent in the monetary field. Since November, 1910, when Senator Nelson Aldrich chaired the secret conference at Jekyl Island which gave us the Federal Reserve Act, the Rockefellers have kept us within the sphere of the London Connection. During the Carter Administration, David Rockefeller generously sent his personal assistant, Paul Volcker, to Washington to head the Federal Reserve Board . Reagan finally replaced him in 1987 with Alan Greenspan, a partner of J.P. Morgan Company. Their influence on our banking system has remained constant through many financial coups on their part, one of the most profitable being the confiscation of privately owned gold from American citizens by Roosevelt’s edict. Our citizens had to turn over their gold to the privately owned Federal Reserve System. The Constitution permits confiscation for purposes of eminent domain, but prohibits confiscation for private gain. The gold’s new owners then had the gold revalued from $20 an ounce to $35, giving them an enormous profit.
In reviewing the all-pervasive influence of the Rockefellers and their foreign controllers, the Rothschilds, in every aspect of American life, the citizen must ask himself, “What can be done?” Right can prevail only when the citizen actively seeks justice . Justice can prevail only when each citizen realizes that it is his God-given duty to mete out justice. History has documented all of the crimes of the usurpers of our Constitution.

We have learned the painful lesson that the Rockefeller monopolists exercise their evil power almost solely through federal and state agents. At this writing, former Congressman Ron Paul is running for the Presidency of the United States on an eminently sensible and practical campaign - abolish the Federal Reserve System - abolish the FBI - abolish the Internal Revenue Service - and abolish the CIA. It has been known for years that 90% of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ostensibly set up  to “fight crime” has been to harass and isolate political dissidents.
The criminal syndicalists are now looting the American nation of one trillion dollars each year, of which about one-third, more than three hundred billion dollars per year, represents the profitable depredations   of the Drug Trust and its medical subsidiaries . Before a sustained effort to combat these depredations can be mounted, Americans must make every effort to regain their health. As Ezra Pound demanded in one of    his famous radio broadcasts, “Health, dammit !” America became the greatest and most productive nation in the world because we had the healthiest citizens in the world.

When the Rockefeller Syndicate began its takeover of our medical profession in 1910, our citizens went into a sharp decline.

http://i.am/jah/why.htm
Today, we suffer from a host of debilitating ailments, both mental and physical, nearly all of which can be traced directly to the operations of the chemical and drug monopoly and which pose the greatest threat to our continued existence as a nation. Unite now to restore our national health - the result will be the restoration of our national pride, the resumption of our role as the inventors and producers of the modern world, and the custodian of the world’s hopes and dreams of liberty and freedom.
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Previously -

From Roland –

FBI Agents 'Miffed' that Gun Owner Contacted Media
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
November 05, 2002

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Prior to the capture of “Beltway Sniper” suspects John
Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, an unconfirmed number of Maryland gun owners
received surprise visits from the FBI as part of the investigation. One such gun owner had
a surprise of his own for the agents when they arrived at his home.

Jeff Brown of Gaithersburg, Md., was “a little nervous” when he heard the voicemail
message from an FBI agent on the sniper task force who wanted to “visit” Brown at his
home to check a .223 caliber semi-automatic rifle Brown purchased in 1993. Adding to
that apprehension was the fact that Brown owns and drives a full-sized white panel van,
the type of vehicle investigators believed the sniper was driving.

“I expected, actually, to be pulled over and spread-eagle on the street at some point,”
Brown told CNSNews.com Monday. “When he called, I knew their database had had a
double hit. A white van and a .223 rifle? I knew they were coming.”

In a subsequent telephone conversation, Metzger reportedly told Brown that agents
merely wanted to verify the serial number of the rifle and confirm that it was, in fact, still
physically in Brown’s possession. The two scheduled an appointment to accomplish those
goals.

But Brown later learned that the agents had tried at least once to make an unannounced
visit, and only called because they were unable to catch him at home.

“Once I told some of my friends in the pro-gun community what was happening, they
began to relate some stories to me about guys having their guns confiscated, for so-called
’ballistic fingerprinting,’ and not getting their guns back,” Brown explained. “I became
alarmed.”

Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said the attitude of the federal
agents comes as a result of “years of accepting gun control as somehow useful for solving
crimes.”

“The [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms] went to the stores and got the lists of
gun owners that had something that could fire a .223. But, it didn’t solve the crime,” Pratt
noted. “The only reason we find that gun registration is ‘useful’ is for confiscation.”

FBI Agents ‘Were Not Happy’

Brown’s apprehension prompted him to contact an attorney, who instructed him on
preparing for the visit. So, when FBI Special Agent Greg Metzger and his partner arrived
at Brown’s home for their scheduled meeting, they were greeted by Brown and his wife, Mary, along with reporters and photographers from various media outlets.

As Brown described the situation, the agents were “a little bit miffed.”

“They were not happy,” he observed. “They just were not interested in being around any
cameras.”

The agents asked Brown to step outside the home, away from the television crew, to talk.

“Can we, uh ... come here,” one of the agents said to Brown. Obliging, Brown stepped
away from the door to speak with the agents, but still within view of the camera.

Brown began recapping the agreement he had made with Special Agent Metzger. But
when one of the agents realized Brown was wearing a wireless microphone, he stopped
the conversation short.

“Do you have a microphone on?” the agent asked as he reached toward the microphone
clipped to Brown’s shirt. Brown backed away and continued talking, but the agent
interrupted him again.

“Can you do me a favor?” the agent asked. “Can you take the apparatus off that you have
on? I’d like to speak to you privately.”

Brown complied, but only after summoning his wife to serve as a witness to the
conversation with the agents. Out of the camera’s view, and believing they could not be
heard, the agents challenged Brown about the presence of the media.

“They were belligerent, at that point, with me. They weren’t threatening me or pushing me around or touching me or anything like that, but their mannerisms and attitude quickly became offended and belligerent,” Brown recalled. “I was thinking to myself, ‘See, this is what I was afraid would happen if you guys came into my house, especially if I was alone.’”

‘Don’t You Know People Are Dying?’

Parts of the conversation picked up by the camera’s long-range microphone confirm
Brown’s account of what happened next.

“Why didn’t you give us a chance to do what we said we were going to do instead of
ambushing us with the media? Why didn’t you trust us?” one agent asked.

Brown said it was not so much the words the agents used, as their attitude and body
language that made him uncomfortable.

“There was some lecturing about it,” he said recalling one comment that did unnerve him.

“One thing they said was, ‘Don’t you know people are dying and we’re just trying to do
our job?’” Brown recalled, “Of course, the inference was that I didn’t care that there were
people dying and I was trying to interfere with them doing their job.”

During that conversation, the agents reportedly admitted that they had seized other rifles,
allegedly with permission, to compare them to the ballistic evidence gathered from the
crime scenes.

“They said, from some people, they do ‘request’ to take the gun with them and do ‘ballistic fingerprinting,’ as they call it,” Brown recalled. “I just did not want to have my gun disappear.”

Pratt believes the agents “developed an attitude,” because Brown challenged their attempts to violate his constitutional rights.

“The FBI is trying to put this guy on a guilt trip because he’s ‘not cooperating’ with the
system but it’s a totally useless system,” Pratt argued. “They just assume that gun owners
[are] all a bunch of suspects just for being gun owners and they should behave
accordingly.”

‘They Were Doing It On Purpose’

At the request of Special Agent Metzger, Brown instructed the media to stay outside his
home, where they could see what was happening through a plate glass window. Brown
had the unloaded weapon displayed in plain sight for the inspection.

The agents followed Brown and his wife inside and confirmed the serial number on the rifle as they had said they wanted to do. But that was not the end of the encounter.

“After they checked, they started [questioning Brown again], and that’s when my wife
stepped in and told them to leave,” Brown said, noting that his wife formerly worked in
law enforcement.

Mary Brown believed the agents were attempting to agitate her husband, hoping he would say or do something to justify their confiscation of his rifle.

“I could tell that they were doing it on purpose and I didn’t like what they were doing to
you,” she told her husband. “So, I decided to just jump right in.”

The agents left the couple’s property, as they were ordered to do.

Jeff Brown does not believe the agents’ reaction to the presence of the media, or their
”brow-beating” tactics were justified.

“I’m not here to make them feel happy. I have to make sure my rights are not violated. I
wanted to help, but this is not Nazi Germany,” he explained. “I looked [Metzger] right in
the eye and said ... ‘I don’t care whether you’re upset about being ambushed by the media. I felt I needed some witnesses here with me.’”

Brown, a member of the National Rifle Association and former candidate for public office in Maryland, was also upset by what he perceived as a lack of honesty on the part of the FBI.

“[Metzger] wasn’t upfront with me, and I didn’t have any guilty feelings about [contacting the media],” Brown said. “They weren’t truthful with me. They didn’t tell me all the truth. They only told me the part they wanted to hear.”

A Message to Gun Owners?

Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman for the FBI, said the bureau would not respond to
any questions about the encounter, because the probe into the multiple murders was still in progress.

“We’re not going to be able to get into any kind of a dialogue with you regarding any
aspect of our investigation,” she said.

Pratt believes the response of the agents to the presence of the media shows that their
main focus was not on finding the “Beltway Sniper,” but rather on sending a message to
gun owners.

“They know it’s not about crime control because, if they were really interested in finding
the perpetrator they would have kept moving. Obviously this guy wasn’t the guy,” Pratt
concluded. “What it’s really all about is showing that the feds are in control in a very
totalitarian sense of the word.”

From Robert –

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4305

From Helen –

This is from Dawn, our outpost of VOCAL in Monroe County, Penna.

          BEAUTIFUL PRAYER

I asked God to take away my habit.
God said, No.
It is not for me to take away,
but for you to give it up.

I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said, No.
His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary

I asked God to grant me patience.
God said, No.
Patience is a byproduct of tribulations;
it isn’t granted, it is learned.

I asked God to give me happiness.
God said, No.
I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.

I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, No.
Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares
and brings you closer to me.

I asked God to make my spirit grow.
God said, No.
You must grow on your own!
But I will prune you to make you fruitful.

I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life.
God said, No.
I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.

I ask God to help me LOVE others, as much as He loves me.
God said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.

THIS DAY IS YOURS DON’T THROW IT AWAY
May God Bless You,

And may I add, that God works through human hands so show that you are able
to do good works.  If you choose not to believe in my version of God and
still do good, surprise, the Bible I read says that the Creator has room for
those that do good even without the light from knowing my particular God.
(yes, it is there tucked away for those who read thoroughly.)

William Perry Pendley
President and Chief Legal Officer

P.S. If you would like to support the work of Mountain States Legal Foundation, please click the link below.

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Some time ago a friend from my youth and his wife built the home of their dreams.  For years, they had lived in a tiny apartment, saving their money and clipping articles and photographs from magazines and newspapers knowing that one day they would build it.  In time, they bought the land, hired an architect and a builder, and set out to design and build their home exactly as they wanted it.  At last it was finished and they moved in.  One day, passing through, I visited.  When they showed me the rather Spartan guest room, I expressed surprise; there were no closets and no bathroom.  “Oh, that’s the way we planned it; if anyone comes to visit, they won’t stay here.”

It is a good thing my friend and his wife are not trying to build the home of their dreams today in Pima County, Arizona.  For the county in which Tucson is located recently
passed an ordinance requiring that all new homes be ”visitable.”  Under the new ordinance, which went into effect in October, newly constructed one-, two- and
three-family homes must be built to facilitate “occupancy, accessibility or visitation by a disabled person.”

The Pima County ordinance was adopted the same day as one passed by Naperville, Illinois, a Chicago suburb of 120,000. According to advocates for universal access to homes, Austin, Texas; Urbana, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia, have ordinances requiring new homes constructed with public funds to meet “visitability” standards.  Although the federal American with Disabilities Act, which requires disabled access to public accommodations, generally does not apply to housing, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development “encourages” that homes built with federal dollars be “visitable.”  That may change.  Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has announced she will introduce federal legislation requiring all newly-built single family homes receiving federal funds to guarantee “visitability.”

Advocates for “visitability” requirements applaud the mandates now being imposed by Pima County and soon to be considered by Congress.  “When someone builds a home,” said one, “they’re not just building it for themselves – that home’s going to be around for 100 years.”  But that is just not so, responds Tom Jenney of the Phoenix, Arizona based
Goldwater Institute; they are building it for themselves: ”In a free society, homebuyers have a right to buy the homes they want, with or without wheelchair access.”

Then there is the cost.  Builders in Pima County say the “visitability” standard will add between $2,400 and $5,000 to the cost of a new home.  Plus, homes that comply with the ordinance will be sold below market so that the builders will be unable to recover those added costs.  More than likely, say the builders, the homes will not be sold for any price.  Finally, the builders say the visitability standard is illegal because Pima County’s authority is limited to electrical, mechanical, or fire codes.

Perhaps most vexing, if not to the home builders who build homes for others then, to homebuyers is Pima County’s assault on a host of constitutional guarantees, including
the right to own and to decide how to use one’s property, the right to exclude others from that property, the right to associate with whom one pleases, and the right not to associate with those from whom one wishes to disassociate.

In early October 2002, homebuilders in Pima County challenged the “visitability” ordinance, raising these arguments.  The case was dismissed when the judge held that the builders had not been hurt yet and that only homebuyers, not home builders, could raise the constitutional issues.

The builders and allied home buyers may soon return to Arizona federal district court: one architect testified that he had eight sets of plans for families who want to build the homes of their dreams; none of them complied with the ordinance!  The Arizona case could decide whether homeowners, like my friend and his wife, can have it their way.

From Dottie –

Hi,  I am forwarding this to the moms and grammas in my email address book. I came up in ... err... oh well okay ... the OLD days!  Moms even got peas in the pea-pickin shells, fresh green beans, squashes, etc.  Soda pop was a treat, not a daily beverage.  Same with candy, although mom liked to makes pies and cakes. But basically, we had just a good ole American diet.  Mama was home to cook it. She went to the grocery store (that would make a new Walgreens look like a warehouse) and everything or most everything was local.  I didn’t have ADHD, although now I suffer from age attention deficiency syndrome :P  That’s when you are busy all day and get nothing finished :)  Well ... I finish my naps.

Anyhow ... for what it’s worth, all you gals who have kids or grandkids may want to pass this on to your friends.  Food DOES matter!  Our bodies are made up of the dust of the earth, not stuff manufactured by Pfizer.

Keith wrote:

This makes one wonder what is else is being withheld from the “unwashed masses.” Miracle At A Wisconsin High School
StratiaWire.com
11-1-2

APPLETON, Wisconsin—A revolution has occurred. It’s taken place in the Central Alternative High School. The kids now behave. The hallways aren’t frantic. Even the teachers are happy.

The school used to be out of control. Kids packed weapons. Discipline problems swamped the principal’s office.

But not since 1997.

What happened? Did they line every inch of space with cops? Did they spray valium gas in the classrooms? Did they install metal detectors in the bathrooms? Did they build holding cells in the gym?

Afraid not. In 1997, a private group called Natural Ovens began installing a healthy lunch program. Huh?

Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water arrived.

Vending machines were removed.

As reported in a newsletter called Pure Facts, “Grades are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, and teachers are able to spend their time teaching.”

Principal LuAnn Coenen, who files annual reports with the state of Wisconsin, has turned in some staggering figures since 1997. Drop-outs?
Students expelled? Students discovered to be using drugs? Carrying weapons?
Committing suicide? Every category has come up ZERO. Every year.

Mary Bruyette, a teacher, states, “I don’t have to deal with daily discipline issuesI don’t have disruptions in class or the difficulties with student behavior I experienced before we started the food program.”

One student asserted, “Now that I can concentrate I think it’s easier to get along with people” What a concept---eating healthier food increases concentration.

Principal Coenen sums it up: “I can’t buy the argument that it’s too costly for schools to provide good nutrition for their students. I found that one cost will reduce another. I don’t have the vandalism. I don’t have the litter. I don’t have the need for high security.”

At a nearby middle school, the new food program is catching on. A teacher there, Dennis Abram, reports, “I’ve taught here almost 30 years. I see the kids this year as calmer, easier to talk to. They just seem more rational. I had thought about retiring this year and basically I’ve decided to teach another year---I’m having too much fun!”

Pure Facts, the newsletter that ran this story, is published by a non-profit organization called The Feingold Association, which has existed since 1976. Part of its mission is to “generate public awareness of the potential role of foods and synthetic additives in behavior, learning and health problems. The [Feingold] program is based on a diet eliminating synthetic colors, synthetic flavors, and the preservatives BHA, BHT, and TBHQ.”

Thirty years ago there was a Dr. Feingold. His breakthrough work proved the connection between these negative factors in food and the lives of children. Hailed as a revolutionary advance, Feingold’s findings were soon trashed by the medical cartel, since those findings threatened the drugs-for-everything, disease-model concept of modern healthcare.

But Feingold’s followers have kept his work alive. If what happened in Appleton, Wisconsin, takes hold in many other communities across America, perhaps the ravenous corporations who invade school space with their vending machines and junk food will be tossed out on their behinds. It could happen.

And perhaps ADHD will become a dinosaur. A non-disease that was once attributed to errant brain chemistry. And perhaps Ritalin will be seen as just another toxic chemical that was added to the bodies of kids in a crazed attempt to put a lid on behavior that, in part, was the result of a subversion of the food supply.

For those readers who ask me about solutions to the problems we face---here is a real solution. Help these groups. Get involved. Step into the fray. Stand up and be counted.

The drug companies aren’t going to do it. They’re busy estimating the size of their potential markets. They’re building their chemical pipelines into the minds and bodies of the young.

Every great revolution starts with a foothold. Sounds like Natural Ovens and The Feingold Association have made strong cuts into the big rock of ignorance and greed.

First published 10-14-2
http://www.stratiawire.com/article.asp?id=655>http://www.stratiawire.com/article.asp?id=655

From Josh –

The following came from WebTV.

More great things from our Muslim friends.

The FBI is under pressure from the highest political levels in Washington to investigate suspected links between Iraq and the Oklahoma bombing.

Senior aides to US Attorney-General John Ashcroft have been given compelling evidence that former Iraqi soldiers were directly involved in the 1995 bombing that killed 185 people.

The methodically assembled dossier from Jayna Davis, a former investigative TV reporter, could destroy the official version that white supremacists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were solely responsible for what, at the time, was the worst act of terrorism on American soil.

Instead, there are serious concerns that a group of Arab men with links to Iraqi intelligence, Palestinian extremists and possibly al Qaeda, used McVeigh and Nichols as front men to blow up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Davis, who was one of the first reporters on the scene after the blast, has spent seven years gathering evidence of a wider conspiracy. But it is only as America prepares to wage war on Iraq and Saddam Hussein that her conclusions are being taken seriously at the highest level. Finally, she says, the authorities are examining the idea “that the Oklahoma bombing might not simply be the work of two angry white men”.

After hearing her evidence, several senior members of Congress have called for a new probe.

What triggered Davis’s investigation was a report immediately after the Oklahoma explosion of Middle-Eastern looking men fleeing in a brown Chevrolet truck only minutes earlier. The FBI launched an international hunt for the men but later cancelled the search.

Within days McVeigh and Nichols were arrested, and the case seemed to be one of home-grown terrorists, motivated by a hatred for authority. But the case has always had loose ends. In particular, several witnesses in Oklahoma City that April morning saw a third conspirator with McVeigh. The elusive dark-haired suspect became known as “John Doe 2”.

Terry Nichols, now serving life for conspiracy in the bombing and involuntary manslaughter, was the original “John Doe 1” but, with his arrest, the FBI claimed that the case had been wrapped up. They eventually concluded that “John Doe 2” was Nichols all along.

Davis thought otherwise. Early on, she found that a brown Chevrolet truck almost identical to that once hunted by the FBI had been seen parked outside the offices of a local property management company several days before the bombing.

The owner was a Palestinian with a criminal record and suspected ties to the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Later she found that the man had hired a number of former Iraqi soldiers.

He had recruited them to carry out maintenance on his rental properties, but several were later discovered to be missing from work on the day of the bombing. Eyewitnesses have told Davis that they saw several of them celebrating later that day.

But what increasingly drew her attention was another Iraqi living in Oklahoma City, a restaurant worker called Hussain Hashem Al Hussaini, whose photograph was almost a perfect match to the official sketch of “John Doe 2”.

Al Hussaini has a tattoo on his upper left arm, indicating he was once a member of Saddam’s elite Republican Guard.

Since then, Davis has gathered hundreds of court records and the sworn testimony of two dozen witnesses. Several claimed to have seen a man fitting Al Hussaini’s description drinking with McVeigh in a motel bar four days before the bombing.

Others positively identified former Iraqi soldiers in the company of McVeigh and Nichols. Two swore that they had seen Al Hussaini only a block from the Murrah building in the hours before the bombing. With the case against McVeigh and Nichols seemingly watertight, the FBI has until now consistently refused to reopen it. McVeigh went to his death in the execution chamber two years ago, insisting he alone was responsible.

Davis thinks he may have done so out of loyalty to his family, not wishing to go down in history as a traitor to his country.

But she has evidence that up to 12,000 Iraqis were allowed into America after the Gulf war. Some of these, she suspects, are using their status as refugees for cover. “They are here,” she said. “And they are highly trained and motivated.”

The renewed interest in Washington is clearly linked to America’s case against Saddam as broker of world terror.

And there is more. Al Hussaini, who entered the US from a Saudi refugee camp, worked after the Oklahoma bomb as a cook at Boston’s Logan Airport - from where the two hijacked aircraft that hit the World Trade Center took off.

There is another confirmed incident that suggests something more sinister. Two of the 11 September conspirators held a crucial meeting at a motel in Oklahoma City in August 2001. The motel’s owner has since identified them as ringleader Mohammed Atta and Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20^th hijacker, who has known links with shoebomber Richard Reid.

The motel is unremarkable - except for one thing. It is where a number of Davis’s witnesses are sure they saw McVeigh drinking and perhaps plotting with his Iraqi friends.

From Roland –

This is disturbing to say the least. If anyone wants to research this and send in a report, we’ll publish more. Deb V

Ø http://www.constitution.org/ghansen/conghansen.htm


here is the link.....you read it and look at the pictures........he was a congressman.

when one who has been honestly mistaken is shown or told the truth, they
will either stop being mistaken or cease being HONEST. Which will you do?

If you have to bow down and let wrong continue, then what is the purpose of
your life?

Never utter these words “I do not know this, therefore it is false.” One must study to know, know to understand, and understand to judge.....

From Alan –

The Tradition of the Jack-o’-lantern*
”It originated in Ireland, where, according to legend, a drunkard named Jack ran into the devil on a country road. The devil wanted the man’s soul, but Jack had other plans. He asked the devil to climb a near-by tree and fetch him an apple. When the devil obliged, Jack carved a cross into the trunk of the tree, trapping the devil in its branches. Jack then made him promise never to ask for his soul again.

When Jack died, he was not admitted to heaven. Desperate for a resting place, Jack approached the devil, who also turned him away because of their bargain. But the road back was dark and windy, so the devil tossed Jack a coal from hell’s fire to light the way. To prevent the wind from extinguishing the coal, Jack placed it inside a turnip. Since that fateful night, Jack of the Lantern- or Jack-o’-lantern - has been traveling the world searching for a place to rest.

Irish children traditionally carved turnips and potatoes to light the night on Halloween. The custom was brought to America in the nineteenth century by Irish immigrants. Since turnips were not as readily available here, pumpkins became a popular substitute.”

From Lewie – Great Sites!

http://beetlebailey.com/images/flag.swf

http://www.dobhran.com/greetings/GRinspire295.htm

From Jesse –

Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids?

If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. “How old are you?” “I’m four and a half!”

You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five!

That’s the key.

You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

”How old are you?” “I’m gonna be 16!” You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16!

And then the greatest day of your life . . . you become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . . . YOU BECOME 21.

YESSSS!!!

But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk. He TURNED, we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?

You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you’re PUSHING 40.

Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 . . . and your dreams are gone.

But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!

So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60. You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

You get into your 80s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime.

And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; “I was JUST 92.”

Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. “I’m 100 and a half!”

May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG;

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. “ An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

From Helen –

A Seventh Day Adventist splinter group (WACO) that harms few is used for target practice by the FBI, ATF and the Army but the Roman Catholic Church is permitted to control the adoption, stealing of children with your local Children & Youth Agency and nothing is done by the Government.  Why do we have a Roman Catholic as head of the Homeland Security?  Why are Patriots rather than Terrorist Muslims being arrested? Ridge blessed the kidnapping of a young boy of nine years of age in Venango Co. Pa. by a RC sawmill owner for use as a worker.
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source, nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/07/arts/television/07PRAC.html?todaysheadline


November 7, 2002
A Catholic Writer Brings His Anger to ‘The Practice’
By BILL CARTER

With his series “The Practice” set in Boston and featuring two characters
identified as Catholics, David E. Kelley, the Emmy-winning television
writer, said he realized for a long time that he probably had the ideal
forum on television in which to address the priest sex abuse scandal that
has rocked the Catholic Church and especially the Archdiocese of Boston.

But in this case he was convinced he could not follow the standard
television formula of walking a line to steer clear of controversy,
presenting, as he said in an interview, “the arguments of the two different
sides to provide balance.” With this issue Mr. Kelley said, “There is no
balance, it’s just an atrocity.”

Mr. Kelley’s take on the scandal appears in Sunday night’s episode of “The
Practice” on ABC. And Mr. Kelley, who was himself raised Catholic in Boston,
does not pull punches. His main character, Bobby Donnell, quits the church
at the conclusion of the episode. In a confrontation with his parish priest,
Donnell says, “Until you expel every offending priest and everyone involved
with protecting them, concealing them, there’s been no true penance.”

In the telephone interview, Mr. Kelley also spoke about the rapid demise of
his new Fox series, “Girls Club,” which was only his second failure but
which went off the air after just two episodes. Mr. Kelley said: “It was
such a spectacular failure. It was like a one-round knockout, and like most
one-round knockouts you don’t see the punch coming. When something goes down
this fast, you can say it was the title, the idea, the characters, the
promotion, anything and everything.”

The collapse does leave him with more time to write for “The Practice,”
which he said would take on other provocative issues like what he calls the
erosion of civil rights after 9/11. But in the context of a lawyer show, it
is hard to imagine one as hot-button as the church molestation scandals.

In this coming Sunday’s episode, Donnell’s wife insists she will not allow
their newborn son to be baptized Catholic because of fear of what might
happen to him in a confessional, and another lawyer in the firm, Eugene
Young, a non-Catholic, accuses Catholic churchgoers of tacitly supporting
abuse and its coverup.

”It’s been systemic,” Eugene says, “and it’s not enough for Catholic people
to say, ‘Isn’t this awful,” and, ‘Here’s my check.’ “ Eugene’s
recommendation: “Shut the church down. Start a different institution.”

Mr. Kelley said that Donnell is not a surrogate for his own views. “It all
comes out of Bobby’s character,” he said, adding that the character’s
Catholic background has been well established on the seven-year-old series.

But Mr. Kelley’s view of the scandal is not dissimilar. “I think what the
church did was an outrage,” he said. “We should invent a better word than
outrage.”

William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League, which monitors media
representations of the church, said he has had numerous issues with Mr.
Kelley in the past and has not seen this episode. But in theory, he said, he
had no problem with a show that depicted a Catholic layman troubled by the
church’s handling of the scandal. “If a Catholic isn’t troubled by this
issue, he or she isn’t a good Catholic,” Mr. Donohue said.

He did not endorse the solution of Catholics leaving the church, of course.

Looking to avoid a case that pits a priest against a victim, which numerous
shows have done, Mr. Kelley invented a case in which a man who had been
raped by a priest as a teenager sues a childhood friend for endorsing the
priest as a counselor even though the friend himself had previously been
raped by him.

The debate is augmented by Donnell’s conversation with the other Catholic
lawyer in the firm, Jimmy Berluti. Berluti is played by Michael Badalucco,
who is Catholic himself. Mr. Kelley said he incorporated Mr. Badalucco’s
personal views, almost word for word, in a speech arguing against leaving
the church.

”It would be like leaving God,” Berluti says. “The church is not just the
priests. It’s you and me. We are the church.”

To his and the parish priest’s arguments that media coverage has tarred good
priests and the charitable works done by the church, Donnell says: “What can
you say? Molestation gets a bad rap? I don’t look to the church like it’s
the United Way. For me it’s about spiritual and moral leadership.”

Mr. Kelley said his purpose was “to put the question out there” - Can
Catholics adequately express their rage without quitting the church? The
show does not specifically mention the Boston cases and the criticism of
Cardinal Bernard F. Law’s handling of offending priests, though Donnell does
make a reference to a “Father Shane” who was sent to California, “with
praise.”

The mention refers to the Rev. Paul R. Shanley, one of the accused priests
who was protected by the Boston Archdiocese. The script originally included
the real name. “That was an edit by standards and practices,” Mr. Kelley
said, referring to the company’s censors, who did not want to use real
names. Otherwise the ABC standards department said, it had no problem with
the episode.

Mr. Kelley is not leaving the issue Sunday night. He said the conflict over
the baby’s baptism would continue for several episodes. Next week Donnell
finds himself representing an accused child molester, and the parish priest
he confronted so angrily shows up and calls him on it.

Previously -

From Papa Bear –

Check out this attachment regarding oil and gas in the Caspian Sea.  Companies have already spent multi-billions for exploration and transportation facilities with much of the infra-structure still to be built due to, seemingly, non-cooperation amongst the surrounding countries.  Control of the area is paramount, it seems, with U.S. and British companies in the thick of it.  It appears to be that British Petroleum is most at risk and Chevron is one of the U.S. "concerns".

Look at a globe and locate the Caspian Sea and take note of the area in general.  A picture is worth a bundle. 

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/caspian2.html

From Echo –

Socialism is identical, for all practical purposes, with communism.

In reference to the following note, Wild Bill is right. All democrats, and a good bunch of the republicans are pushing the communist/socialist agenda whether they know it or not. Same for those who are anti-gun and anti-pro-life. They are doing the work of the devil. Our nation is to be destroyed and put under complete control of the United Nations which is total communism. This is why our borders are not being protected. We are to become over run with the worlds poor and filled with criminals. It's part of the big plan. Arab Islamic religious nuts are picking patriotic

Americans off one by one as we have become sitting ducks easy targets in the middle of the bull's eye. What has taken place in Wash DC area will be going on in other large cities where the citizens are not allowed to own weapons in order to protect themselves. 

Wild Bill says,

They are identical  in that their only difference  is the speed with which they accomplish their identical goals. Socialism is incremental and chooses to lurk, study and lure in a most deceptive way, while communism just takes over suddenly.  Communism could not be the method used in the US because of Patriots who would have fought back and WON in the face of such a sudden take over.  Communists, however, quietly  infiltrated our government very early on and slowed their pace. Now,  Socialism took its own time and studied our people and the American way of life since the mid 1800's. At the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, the Ivy League College educated "Experts"  discovered from their human rat study  that our beliefs about  freedom originated from a "higher power" and of course they had to figure out a way to destroy this "Western Culture" slowly over whatever amount of  time it would take.   The goal of communism and socialism, then, is the same -  and that is complete control of people's bodies,  minds, lives and souls. 

Another interchangeable term that can be used  for communism and socialism, Marxism, etc. is Satanism.

- After all, Satan is behind the whole thing and these are his tools.

Our government is now fully inundated with Communists/Socialists who no longer hide their Satanic party affiliations.  The majority of the House, Senate, and other branches of government at all levels, state and local, and even our neighborhoods, schools, churches are chock FULL of people who call themselves Americans, but are really aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org/  Some of them will drop the Socialist name and only use the term Democrat, some use Social Democrat.  Today, some prefer to hide under other party affiliations such as Republican or even Libertarian, Green, they're everywhere.  But the mission and purpose, no matter what the label, are on both sides of the same evil coin.

Communism/Socialism and a plethora of others holding the same doctrine are in dire need of destroying the Christian religion because, people who get their RIGHTS from God keep interfering with their goals!   People who believe in God don't believe that the Government is GOD. This poses a problem, so the goal is to OUTNUMBER us by dumbing down and changing the values, morals and even the language of this country so that there will be NO IDENTIFIABLE AMERICAN CULTURE.  Removing borders, militarizing our police, terror, TV, rules, laws, more laws, fines, taxes, etc. all the last stages of their "peaceful" means to take us down.

Now that we are in the acceleration mode, they are just about ready to completely enslave us and then reveal who is REALLY behind all of this.  So let's get ready!  What a difference it will make in knowing the TRUTH during the terrible days to come!

Also From Echo –

Sue Edelman of the New York Post has been working on an article for a couple of weeks and it was published this morning in the form of two articles in today's New York Post. Find both articles below.

Our gratitude goes out to her for her extensive efforts to raise awareness on this issue!

The only thing I would have added to the articles is a link to our website for additional information along with the warning that when you contact your doctor for assistance in coming off the drug you must make sure that he/she has a copy of my book on this group of drugs, "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora? -
Our Serotonin Nightmare," and my tape on how to come off the SSRIs safely.
[You or your doctor can get those by calling 1-800-280-0730.]

Why would that be necessary?

First of all because MOST doctors do not have a clue that there is such a thing as serious withdrawal from Paxil because they have been lied to by GlaxoSmithKline just as much as the patients have been lied to about the addictive effects of this drug or any other SSRI.

Secondly, MOST doctors have NO CLUE how to bring their patients down off of the SSRIs safely. Instead they throw all caution to the wind and drop patients rapidly - far more rapidly than they should.

The ONLY physician I have seen recommend reasonable caution in withdrawal from antidepressants is Dr. Nancy Snyderman on the 20/20 special two years ago when she cautioned that it may take a patient as long as a year to wean down off Paxil safely.

Just this past week a psychotherapist contacted us to see if we could overnight the book and tape to him so that he could use them to monitor his doctor who has begun withdrawing him from Paxil.

And what made him think his doctor needed to be watched? Look at the doctor's track record and see what you think: To begin with the doctor had switched his dose of 20 mg Prozac to the maximum dose of 60 mg of Paxil along with Deseryl in just a month's time!! [Even the neurologist this psychotherapist is going to has told him that all the symptoms of peripheral neuropathy he is now experiencing is being caused by the Paxil.  Surprise? He is just lucky he did not get diagnosed with MS like so many other patients.]

Now, this same doctor wants to take him off the drug at the same rapid pace he put him on it. He has dropped him an initial 15mg!! [For years I have gotten reports of patients jumping out of cars going down the freeway when they drop only 5mg of Paxil!!!] And he wants him to continue to drop 15mg every two weeks until he is off [or dead!].

This is much too rapid a withdrawal! But I cannot tell you how often I hear about patients being brought down too rapidly from these drugs – possibly the most dangerous thing you can do other than to take them in the first place.

This rapid withdrawal is what keeps so many patients on these drugs for so long, like the widow in the first story by Sue Edelman below. How sad that she was not told that the horrible effects she had was due to too rapid a withdrawal from Paxil! Now she, as so many others, is afraid to come off the drug and chance going into that horrible withdrawal again. How tragic that she does not know that it does not need to be this way, that she can get off the drug without those horrible withdrawal effects.

My heart goes out to someone like this! I hope that the day will soon come that GlaxoSmithKline is held responsible for doing this to so many in order to keep the revenue coming in on this most addictive drug. [The UK listed Paxil as the number one most addictive drug two months ago with the next five drugs on the list being another one of these new serotonergic antidepressants.]

It does not take much common sense to realize that if you are marketing an addictive substance that you keep the customers coming back for more. Just ask the tobacco companies who added nicotine to their products or the soda industry that continues to add more and more caffeine to their products so that customers will keep coming back for more and more and more.

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, Executive Director, International Coalition for Drug Awareness
www.drugawareness.org and Author of "Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?-Our Serotonin Nightmare"

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60066.htm

BRAVEST WIDOW'S ANTI-ANXIETY SCARE

By SUSAN EDELMAN

PAXIL: Antidepressant may have violent side effects some experts say. –

NYP: David Rentas

October 20, 2002 -- A 9/11 firefighter's widow who has taken Paxil and other drugs for anxiety and depression since the Sept. 11 attacks says she once slumped to her knees in a crowded mall and sobbed hysterically - and had no idea why.

"I completely went berserk," she said.

The Staten Island mother of three, who asked that her name not be used, said the incident occurred after she stopped taking the drug.

"I was never warned about any withdrawal effects," she said.

She has resumed taking Paxil.

"Mentally, I'm not ready to go off it," said the 40-something school employee.

"It kind of numbs you, and I like it that way. I don't shake and I don't cry. I function," she said.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60050.htm

DARKER SIDE TO THE 9/11 'WONDER' PILL
By SUSAN EDELMAN
October 20, 2002 -- EXCLUSIVE

A popular antidepressant drug widely prescribed to New Yorkers affected by the Sept. 11 attacks could trigger suicidal thoughts and cause severe withdrawal problems in some patients, experts say.

Paroxetine, marketed in the U.S. as Paxil, is prescribed for those suffering depression, panic attacks, anxiety and post-traumatic stress. But some experts say the top-selling drug may increase the risk of suicidal or violent behavior in some patients when they start using it.

The Irish Medicines Board last week ordered a Paxil recall until the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, inserts a warning on the label that "thoughts of harming yourself or committing suicide" may increase in the first few weeks of treatment. The company says it will comply. And going off the medication, some New York patients say, causes symptoms like extreme nausea, dizziness, crying spells and "electric shock" sensations.

GlaxoSmithKline insists Paxil is non-habit forming, but some former Paxil users say they went through hell when they quit popping the pills.

"When I stopped taking it, I got so sick I couldn't function. It was like temporary insanity," said Ann Cantera, of Sayville, L.I., who began taking Paxil for pre-menstrual depression.

"I was crying and crying and crying, and consumed with suicidal thoughts."

Several psychiatrists in major New York hospitals told The Post they now avoid prescribing Paxil, choosing other antidepressants instead. They said Paxil causes more weight gain and sexual dysfunction than similar drugs – and has the worst withdrawal problems. GlaxoSmithKline - which heavily advertised Paxil after the 9/11 attacks - says the drug is safe but advises users to taper off the medication to avoid "discontinuation symptoms."

Commercials for Paxil mention specific side effects such as nausea, sweating, fatigue and sexual dysfunction. The ads do not detail withdrawal problems but warn: "Do not stop taking Paxil before talking with your doctor."

GSK spokesman Michael Fleming said, "Paxil has helped millions of people overcome severe and disabling mental illnesses."

In December 2001, two months after the World Trade Center disaster, the Food and Drug Administration approved Paxil for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. About $1.8 billion of Paxil was sold in the U.S. last year, according to GSK.

As sales of antidepressants soar, criticism of Paxil and GSK has heightened:

* About 300 people have signed on to a national class-action suit filed in Los Angeles that contends GlaxoSmithKline has failed to warn patients and doctors of severe withdrawal problems. Lawsuit papers allege "dependency" issues.

* A British pharmaceutical-industry board this month found GSK violated a marketing code of ethics there, alleging the company had misled consumers about withdrawal symptoms.

* In a verdict last year, a jury found Paxil could cause some patients to commit homicide or suicide. The jury awarded $6.5 million to relatives of Wyoming man Donald Schell, who shot his daughter, granddaughter, wife and himself after taking two Paxil tablets. GSK appealed, then settled for a secret sum.

Cantera, a plaintiff in the class action, said she took Paxil for 11 months. She says she suffered violent vomiting, diarrhea and muscle spasms while taking it, but the symptoms got worse when she went off the drug.

Kim Repola, of Ringwood, N.J., who took Paxil for an obsessive-compulsive disorder, said, "It took a lot of my fears away, but it also took my life and soul away." She said she suffered hallucinations, bad dreams and "white flashes."

"I woke up in the middle of the night and my head would be zapping away," she said.

From Jesse –

SPECIAL REPORT: 1st Archaeological Evidence of Jesus Found

Archaeologists have announced that the first hard evidence of the existence of Jesus has been discovered. This is considered to be the greatest discovery in Biblical Archaeology since the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls, possibly the greatest discovery ever.

An inscription on a burial artifact discovered in Israel is "the first appearance of Jesus in the archaeological record," says Hershel Shanks, editor of Biblical Archaeology Review.

Andre Lemaire, a specialist in Aramaic (the language Jesus spoke), says it is "very probable" the find is an authentic reference to Jesus of Nazareth. It appears on an empty ossuary (limestone burial box for bones) and says, "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Lemaire dates the object to 63 AD and says the writing style, and the fact that Jews practiced ossuary burials only between 20 BC and 70 AD, means the time is right.

While all 3 names on the box were common at that time, Lemaire estimates that only 20 Jameses in Jerusalem during that era would have had a father named Joseph and a brother named Jesus. Also, naming the brother as well as the father on an ossuary was "very unusual," Lemaire says, meaning this Jesus must have had some claim to fame.

http://www.unknowncountry.com

From Papa Bear –

RECONQUISTA ISABEL GARCIA MUST BE FIRED

We need your help to stop anti-American Isabel Garcia.  She is the public defender in Pima County, Arizona.  She uses the power of her office to defeat all attempts to stop illegal immigration from Mexico.

She is co-chair of Derechos Humanos an organization that advocates the conquest of
Aztlan by Mexico.

For the bill of particulars, please read the letter shown below, and/or, go to our website:
http://www.americanpatrol.com

And then contact her boss.

C. H. HUCKELBERRY
PIMA COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
PHONE: 520 - 740-8661
FAX: 520-740-8171

Email his secretary:
mailto:jjohnson@exchange.com

MAILING ADDRESS
130 W. CONGRESS ST., 10TH FLOOR
TUCSON, ARIZONA 85701

Demand that Isabel Garcia be fired.

Thanks,

Glenn Spencer
American Patrol

October 22, 2002
Dear Mr. Huckelberry:

On October 18, 2002, the Tucson Citizen ran a story about the murder of two illegal immigrants near Red Rock (attached).  The reporter interviewed Pima County public defender, Isabel Garcia.  The following paragraphs were taken from this story.

Isabel Garcia, a Pima County public defender who is co-chair of Derechos Humanos, said her group began warning local authorities three years ago of vigilante actions against border crossers in Arizona.

"They've done everything to not have to say 'no' to these guys, and now look what we have," she said.

Garcia said her organization often fields complaints about armed citizens who've taken the enforcement of border policy into their own hands. She said people have been stopped and held at gunpoint by private citizens on highways and on public and private lands. And despite the complaints, Garcia asserted, law enforcement officials have chosen to ignore the groups, some of which now recruit members from other states.

"It's like a green light or license for all the racists across the country to come into Arizona and basically hunt Mexicans," Garcia said. Not only are the actions dangerous, they're illegal. "It's a state statute: No one is allowed to detain another human being unless they are law enforcement," Garcia said. "And if you point a weapon at them when you detain them, it's kidnapping."

Garcia says that an Arizona state statute prohibits what is commonly known as a "citizens arrest." The following is from the Arizona State Statute

13-3884. Arrest by private person
A private person may make an arrest:

1. When the person to be arrested has in his presence committed a misdemeanor amounting to a breach of the peace, or a felony.

2. When a felony has been in fact committed and he has reasonable ground to believe that the person to be arrested has committed it.

Isabel Garcia has been speaking out about this issue for at least three years.  She is a lawyer and a public figure.  She is an official of Pima County.  She has reason to know the law as it pertains to "citizens arrests" and to state it correctly.  When Isabel Garcia said, "No one is allowed to detain another human being unless they are law enforcement,"
she was lying.

When Isabel Garcia said, "and now look what we have," she was suggesting that the so-called vigilantes were responsible for the killing of the two Mexicans near Red Rock.

On October 18, 2002, KOLD TV reported, "Today, the Border Patrol said an agent interviewed the man who escaped. He claimed the shooting happened between rival smugglers."

It is a "shock to the sensibilities" that a public defender has tried and convicted a class of people of a specific crime that is under investigation.  By her actions, Isabel Garcia poisoned any jury pool that might be asked to judge the guilt of innocence of persons who might be associated with a so-called" vigilante" group.  Moreover, Isabel Garcia has smeared persons who report crimes by illegal aliens as "racists."  How on earth can a
public defender do this and remain in office?  For this act alone, Isabel Garcia should be terminated.

Not only did Garcia wrongly accuse Americans for the murders, the kind or lawbreakers that these Americans are trying to keep from entering the United States in the first place probably committed these killings.  By seeking to silence the voices of those who are demanding the enforcement of our immigration laws, Isabel Garcia is aiding and abetting the illegal invasion of the United States.

The following is from a report that appeared on October 3
http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=36633
Arizona immigration attorney and activist fears for her life EFE - 10/3/2002 TUCSON, Arizona - Immigration attorney and Arizona Human Rights Coalition president Isabel Garcia said she feared for her life after being labeled an enemy of the country by anti-immigration groups. The anti-immigrant group American Patrol over the weekend held a meeting in the border town of Sierra Vista, Arizona, and called her a "traitor" who defends the "invaders" (illegal immigrants), the activist said. A video made by a member of the coalition during the meeting was proof of what occurred, according to Garcia, who said she was considering asking the FBI to investigate.

American Patrol taped the meeting in question and nowhere on that tape and at no time during the meeting did anyone call Isabel Garcia a traitor. Isabel Garcia is trying to paint a picture of American Patrol as a violent group.   Isabel Garcia is lying.

But matters are far worse.  As reported in the Tucson Citizen article, Garcia is co-chair of Derechos Humanos.   On October 12, a Derechos Humanos sponsored march was held in Nogales, Arizona.   It featured a large banner showing the Derechos Humanos logo.   That logo was created by combining the states of the Southwest with Mexico.  These states are referred to by radical Mexican organizations as "Aztlan," the mythical land of the Aztecs which they claim was stolen from Mexico as the result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.  The Derechos Humanos logo clearly supports the claim that "Aztlan" should be part of Mexico.  The October 12 march also featured "Aztlan" banners.

On July 23, 1997, then Mexican president Zedillo told a gathering of the National Council of la Raza, "I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important, a very important part of it."  There is overwhelming evidence that Mexico is supporting the wholesale invasion of the United States.  I have produced a documentary, "Conquest
of Aztlan," that proves this beyond the shadow of a doubt.  I have enclosed a copy for your review.

By its actions, by its logo, Derechos Humanos is advancing the "Conquest of Aztlan."  As its co-chair, Isabel Garcia is leading this advance and can be described as an agent of a hostile foreign power.

In summary, Isabel Garcia has lied about the law.  Isabel Garcia has lied about American Patrol.  As a public official Isabel Garcia has violated the trust that people have placed in her to see that the laws are faithfully executed. And, Isabel Garcia has acted to further the cause of the Mexican conquest of lands belonging the United States of America.

American Patrol demands that Isabel Garcia be removed from office immediately.

Sincerely.
Glenn Spencer
President

From Josh –

Who let Lee Malvo loose?

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | The mainstream media informed us this week that Lee Malvo, the reportedly "17-year-old" youth charged as a material witness in the sniper investigation along with John Mohammed, is a "Jamaican national." As of this writing (Oct. 24), the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to comment publicly on the exact nature of Malvo's immigration status. Here are the facts the INS doesn't want you to know: Lee Malvo is an illegal alien from Jamaica who jumped ship in Miami in June 2001. He was apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Wash., in December 2001, but was then let go by the INS district in Seattle in clear violation of federal law and contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers intended, according to my law enforcement sources.  According to INS records I obtained, Malvo was arrested by Border Patrol agents in Bellingham, Wash., on December 19, 2001. Local police called the Border Patrol during an incident involving "some sort of custody dispute" between Malvo's mother, Uma Sceon James, and John Mohammed (the ex-Army soldier with black radical Muslim ties now at the center of the sniper investigation). James admitted that six months earlier, "she and her son were passengers on a cargo ship that was filled with 'illegal asians (sic).' They were all off loaded in the Miami, FL area where she immediately located work at the Red Lobster in Ft. Myers, FL." From there, Malvo and James traveled to Tacoma, Wash., and ended up in Bellingham. At the time of their arrest, INS records indicate, neither Malvo nor his mother had any documents proving their identities or allowing them "to be or remain in the United States legally." The Border Patrol agents concluded that because she had "no roots or close family ties in the United States, James was likely to abscond." The arresting officer noted that the mother-and-son illegal aliens, Malvo and James, would be "detained at the Seattle Detention facility in Seattle, Washington pending deportation charges." That's not what happened. About a month after their arrest, Malvo and his mother were set free by the Seattle district INS-contrary to what the arresting Border Patrol officers had determined should be done. And in clear violation of federal law regarding the removal of illegal alien stowaways. According to the Detention and Deportation Officers' Field Manual:

"Occasionally, you may encounter an alien who claims to be a stowaway, but cannot or will not provide information concerning the name of the vessel of arrival. Prior to April 1, 1997, such aliens could be handled in the same way as any other EWI [entered without inspection] case and placed into removal proceedings. The [Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act], however, directs that stowaways, regardless of when encountered, are to be removed without a hearing.citing section 235(a)(2) of the Act as the authority for the action."

The law is explicit: Illegal alien stowaways are to be detained and deported without hearings. James admitted that she and her son were illegal alien stowaways. Yet, in January 2002, James was released on a $1,500 bond; Malvo was set loose without any bond on his own recognizance. Here is my theory: Somebody at the Seattle INS office leaned on the arresting Border Patrol officers to disregard Malvo and his mother's "stowaway" status-allowing them to run free and allowing the INS to avoid the costs associated with detention and deportation. So, who let Lee Malvo loose? The Seattle INS office referred my call to the Washington, D.C. headquarters. The national headquarters referred calls to the Montgomery County sniper task force. Standard INS operating procedure: Pass the buck and run for cover. "This makes me sick to my stomach," says Daryl Schermerhorn, vice president of the Northwest regional chapter of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents Border Patrol agents in Washington State. "The INS is not concerned with enforcing immigration law," he told me this week. "It's more concerned with freeing up jails and saving a few bucks than it is with protecting Americans and removing people who don't belong here." As I document in my book, Invasion, these countless "catch and release" cases have demoralized rank-and-file INS agents and cost scores of American lives-from cops gunned down by fugitive deportees to victims of illegal border-crossing murderers, and now, quite possibly, to the innocents slaughtered in the Washington, D.C., area sniping spree. Eugene Davis, a retired deputy chief Border Patrol agent in Blaine, Wash., told me: "This is another classic example of how our catch and release policy for illegal aliens remains a danger to us all. What's it going to take for the American people to demand that we fix the system?"

From Lewie –

Something to think about –

http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=24918

From Helen –

Teen Claims Bosses at McDonald's Forced Her to Strip Run Date: 10/26/02

(WOMENSENEWS)--Two managers of a Utah McDonald's forced an 18-year-old girl
to jog naked in front of them as punishment for allegedly stealing a child's coin purse, according to a lawsuit the teen-ager filed in federal court Wednesday.

Attorneys for the young woman, identified in court papers only as "Jane Doe," say that she also was strip-searched and forced into suggestive poses by the managers, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Friday. The nine-count complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Utah, alleges civil rights violations including invasion of privacy, false imprisonment and defamation.

The teen is seeking a jury trial and unspecified real and punitive damages
from franchisee T.J. Goodman Inc. of Vernal, Utah, and McDonald's Corporation.

"It is hard to believe this happened, but it is a real case," her attorney, Robert H. Wilde, told The Tribune. "This was literally the first job she had ever had and the two managers were the authority figures in her life at that moment."

The May 29 incident began when a man identifying himself as a McDonald's district manager called the franchise in the eastern Utah town of Roosevelt to report that a little girl's coin purse had been stolen and that the plaintiff was a suspect, according to court documents.

Over the next two hours, the two on-duty managers--a man and a woman--allegedly followed the caller's instructions to "pat search" the woman, to search her car and then strip-search her.

The coin purse was never found and the call was later found to be a hoax. The suit claims that the call was similar to those made to other McDonald's restaurants prompting managers to search female employees.

The teen-ager quit her job immediately after the incident, Wilde said.

Craig Annunziata, an attorney for the Roosevelt franchise, declined to comment. "All of our positions in this case will be set forth in coming court filings," he told The Tribune.

From Mario –

This ridiculous vaguely worded amendment needs to die a quick death folks.

It looks to me like it was set up just to make lawyers more money because

of it's vagueness. It is set up to be argued.

On top of that, it has Enron style workings and seems to be the foundation

to hurting the little guys even more through retirement account robbery

Kill it and bury it.

MARIO

freeourpows@yahoo.com

Vote No on Amendment 2

   The proposed Amendment 2 that will be on the ballot reads as follows:

Are you in favor of permitting the General Assembly to provide by general law for the formation, organization, and regulation of corporations by repealing certain sections of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to corporations?

Notice that this wording says absolutely nothing about removing "eleven (11) sections" of our state Constitution. If I were for this Amendment I wouldn’t want it known either. I would also be very vague.

   At the present time, our Kentucky Constitution contains numerous sections that are for the regulation of corporations in detail. This proposed constitutional amendment would repeal, or do away with, 11 sections of the constitution that deal with corporations and give the General Assembly the power to prescribe powers, rights, duties, and liabilities of corporations and their officers and stockholders by general law.

   They can regulate them but the Constitution guarantees they will. Why take a chance they "might" regulate them, should they feel like it?

   There have been only 2 amendments to the Constitution that have been approved in relation to the general powers of corporations. The first one in 1917 allowed telephone companies to buy or lease competitors. The second one, in 2000, did away with the Railroad Commission.

   Some of the sections of the Constitution that will be done away with will be:

Section 193. This will allow corporations to issue watered down and /or useless stocks in Kentucky. At the present time this section prohibits the sale of watered down stock.

Section 194 currently requires all corporations doing business in Kentucky to abide by all the laws of the state, as they should. If they do business here, they should have someone to answer to. Why would we want to do away with this. We individuals have to obey the laws of the state, don’t we?

  Section 200 says domestic corporations will remain under the laws of the state when they merge with foreign corporations. This only makes sense. Corporations in Kentucky should obey Kentucky laws and not some other nations laws which may be in conflict with our laws.

Section 202 says foreign corporations will not be given privileges over domestic corporations. Why would we want to give special privileges to foreign corporations? 

   In the wake of Enron and Global Crossings, it would be foolish to remove these sections of the Kentucky Constitution that require corporations to obey the same laws that the ordinary citizens of Kentucky obey every day. Remember, most of these corporations that have been in the news for ripping off the people at the expense of fatting the bank accounts of their officers were incorporated in Delaware; the same Delaware they want our laws to copy.

   I say vote "no" on Amendment 2 to protect your investments in your retirement plan.

Norman Davis, Moderator

Take Back Kentucky
PO Box 313
Clarkson, KY 42726
270-242-6497

From Helen –

This is from one of my right-wing conspiracy friends, lots of people know that many judges are not the guys in white hats but we could not have gotten this guy if other attorneys had not policed themselves.

This should make a few of the ladies in the black dresses squirm across the country. Have patience. Time will come when there will be many joining him. New Hampshire is working on it. Any judges want to resign before we get to you?
Fred Davideit
JAILer-In-Chief
http://www.nhjail4judges.org>www.nhjail4judges.org

Source:   NY POST.COM    http://www.nypost.com/
$1M 'PEN'SION
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/60833.htm
By KATI CORNELL SMITH
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27ee8f8.jpg GOLDEN HANDCUFFS:
Ex-Judge Victor Barron is led out of a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday after being sentenced to three to nine years in prison - where he'll collect big bucks from taxpayers.
- NYP: Bolivar Arellano
October 29, 2002 -- A disgraced former judge yesterday was sentenced to three to nine years in prison - where he could collect close to $1 million from his taxpayer-paid pension while he serves time on bribery charges.

Victor Barron, 60, spoke in a low, gravelly voice as he apologized for shaking down a lawyer and betraying the public's trust.

"I deeply regret and will never forgive myself for what I have done to those people I cherish," said Barron, who resigned before his August guilty plea and therefore gets to keep his $97,000-a-year pension. He added that he has learned "how one selfish, unforgivable, criminal act can have such enormous consequences."

The speech stirred little sympathy from Justice Nicholas Colabella, however, who dismissed suggestions by Barron's lawyer that the outrageous crime had more to do with Alzheimer's-related dementia than "greed."

"You have reduced the public's confidence in the judiciary without a doubt. You've made almost a joke out of Kings County, and that's terrible," Colabella said. "I take it as a designed, willful act . . . an act that makes me, as a judge, squirm."

Barron stopped short of explaining why he demanded $115,000 from lawyer Gary
Berenholtz in June 2001 in exchange for his stamp of approval on a $4.9 million personal-injury settlement.

But prior to sentencing, defense attorney Barry Kamins submitted confidential medical and psychological reports to show Barron is suffering from Pick's disease, a form of dementia that causes the personality to change and social skills to deteriorate.

Announcing plans to appeal the sentence, Kamins added outside of court that Barron's crime was "related" to his illness.

"The reason is not greed," the defense lawyer said.

Incriminating wiretap recordings paint a different picture, according to Colabella.

"I listened to it over and over again . . . and I got the distinct feeling Mr. Barron that this was not a Pick's disease or an Alzheimer's moment," the judge said.

Colabella also hammered Berenholtz for violating disciplinary rules by waiting six months to report Barron's bribe demands.

The lawyer helped Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes nail Barron by wearing a wire when he delivered an $18,000 cash-down payment at a meeting in the judge's robing room this January.

Barron came to court dressed in an elegant pinstriped suit, and managed to conceal any uneasiness until court officers snapped on the handcuffs. Barron's wife, Joy, watched as cops led him out of the Brooklyn courtroom to begin serving his sentence immediately.

"It will be the largest sentence ever served by a judge, either in state or federal court, in this state," said Hynes, who personally prosecuted the case.

"I would have been more satisfied if he'd given a reason. The only reason because of his silence is plain old-fashioned greed."

A lawyer helped get this one guys, so they all aren't totally hopeless.
Hopefully,
Helen

From Echo –

Religion of Peace Watch

Death awaits all Christians and Jews. We are sitting ducks, being in the middle of the
bull's eye of the Islamic terrorists. Wake up Sheeple. All infidels are to be murdered. We are in a religious war and we will loose this war unless we wake up and fight back now. Either fight back now, or lie down and die later. Millions upon millions of us are to die, one by one if necessary, in order for the Arab Islamic terrorists to take over the whole world. All infidels are marked for death. It's in the book of Islam, the Koran. What took place in Washington D.C. is going to take place all across our nation and unless we start racial profiling now, today, we will loose this war. Speak out, get involved. Push your city, state and federal employees into action. Insist that members of congress take action now against the Arab Islamic terrorists. Terrorists must be stopped regardless of where they are. Get behind our president in his efforts to find the terrorists and bring them to justice. All traitors born in the United States should be hung, as they were in the past.

Wake up Sheeple. your sitting in the middle of the Islamic bull's eye, marked for death.

RELIGION OF PEACE WATCH By Don Feder October 28, 2002
http://www.donfeder.com/news.ivnu

(October 28, 2002) Three incidents last week highlight the peaceable nature of Islam and provide further evidence of just how fortunate we are to have millions of adherents of this enlightened faith living among us.

Incident #1 - In Paris, novelist Michel Houellebecq was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred against Moslems when he declared in an interview last year that Islam was "the most stupid religion." In most of Europe, political correctness has reached a fevered pitch -- You can be criminally prosecuted for saying something that hurts the feelings of a certified victim group.

Of course, throughout the Middle East and much of the Islamic world, Moslem religious authorities propagate virulent anti-Semitism (Jews are subhuman. Jews are plotting to take over the world. Jews are the most corrupt people on the face of the earth.) with the enthusiastic approbation of those in power.

In lands under the sway of the Religion of Peace, they know how to deal with uppity infidels. On October 12, a Tehran newspaper quoted Ayatollah Mohsen Mujtahed Shabestari's Friday sermon at a mosque in Tabriz. The Ayatollah instructed the faithful, "to kill these three (Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham) is necessary."

The trio were guilty of speaking the truth about the Religion of Peace. In a television interview, Falwell called the Prophet Muhammad "a terrorist."

Last February, Robertson observed that Islam was a religion of violence seeking to "dominate and then, if need be, destroy." In November, 2001, Graham (the son of evangelist Billy Graham) called the tribal theology "a very evil and wicked religion."

Consider the following. If you say something negative about Joseph Smith or Brigham Young, the Mormons won't threaten to kill you. If you malign Moses, Orthodox rabbis won't issue a fatwah against you. If you insult Jesus, in a painting or play, you're likely to get a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It's only the apostles of the Religion of Peace who are ready to whack you for looking cross-eyed at their beloved prophet.

Incident #2 - Chechens who took over 700 hostages in a Moscow theater managed to get 118 of them killed. Two were executed outright by the Moslem terrorists, who threatened to murder the rest in a matter of hours.

Apparently, the other 116 died, along with the 50 Chechens, when Russian forces used a nerve gas to storm the compound. Not that the Ruskies had much choice. Besides the very credible threat to commit jihad on the hostages, the martyrs-in-waiting had enough explosives strapped to their bodies to level a city block.

You may recall Western whining during the two Chechen wars of the '90s. The Russians were being just so beastly in the tactics they used against the poor Chechen separatists (civilians were dying!), our media and political leaders complained.

The Chechens - delightful creatures that they are - are as much a crime family as a nationality. Kidnapping is their favorite pastime. A few years ago, they snatched a little Russian girl and sent her family one of her fingers, along with a ransom note.

After September 11, Western intelligence sources disclosed that many of the Chechen fighters were recruited in Europe by Osama bin Ladin and trained by his Al Qaeda network. And Washington still maintains that Russian President Vladimir Putin should negotiate with these criminals, leading to establishing yet another Moslem state in Europe. (Apparently, Bosnia and Kosovo aren't enough.)

From Tel Aviv to Moscow to Washington, D.C., proponents of the Religion of Peace are racking up quite a body count.

Incident #3 - The man alleged to be the D.C. sniper - who killed 10 in Virginia, Maryland and our nation's capital -- was apprehended. And (miracle of miracle) he turned out to be not a thirty-something white man who's an NRA member and listens to Rush Limbaugh but a 41-year-old black convert to Islam, named John Allen Muhammed.

The Gulf War veteran reportedly sympathized with the Sept. 11 killers and provided security for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March.

Forget the Farrakhan connection (AKA The Calypso Kid is the most prominent traitor in America. He's traveled throughout the Third World – calling for the destruction of the United States. On one of his thug tours, the bow-tied brown shirt proclaimed, "God will destroy America at the hands of Moslems.")

Forget the possible Al Qaeda link. (Mr. Muhammad didn't get his sniper training in the Army.)

Focus instead on the fact that American converts to the Religion of Peace so often end up betraying their country. When I heard of Mr. Muhammad's arrest, I immediately thought of John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban. The white Californian (from a progressive," Marin County family) converted to Islam as a teenager, went to Pakistan for further peace studies, took post-graduate courses in brotherly love at Al Qaeda U., and ended up with a rifle in his hand fighting for those who murdered 3,000 Americans on
9/11.

"Gentlemen may cry 'peace, peace' --but there is no peace!" Patrick Henry sneered at apologists for George III, in his famous oration.

"Religion of peace," Islam's western appeasers cry, but peace is the last thing you'll get from Allah's hit squad. For its victims - from Nigeria to the Sudan, the Balkans to the Kashmir and Israel to the Philippines, the only peace Islam brings is the kind alluded to on gravestones, and preceded by the words "rest in."

Where do the Moslem Mahatma Gandhis get their pacifism? From the fountainhead of their faith, it transpires. Falwell was right. Mohammad was the prototype for every Islamic terrorist over the past 1400 years.

In his excellent new book, "The Sword of the Prophet, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam," Serge Trifkovic documents how Muhammad, like a mafia don, put out contracts on those who dared to criticize his august personage.

Trifkovic also describes Muhammad's genocidal campaign against Arabia's Jewish tribes:

"In the flush of victory, he proceeded to attack the last Jewish tribe in Medina, Banu Qurayza, which he accused of disloyalty and complicity with the Meccans. This time, mere expulsion and robbery would no longer do.

Muhammad offered the men conversion to Islam as an alternative to death; upon their refusal, up to 900 were decapitated at the ditch, in front of their women and children. Torches were lit so that the slaughter could be accomplished in one day. The women were subsequently raped (another venerable Muslim tradition); Muhammad chose as his concubine one Raihana bint Amr, whose father and husband were both slaughtered before her eyes only hours earlier."

Thus was the precedent firmly established for holy warriors, wars of annihilation, suicide bombers, forced conversions, snipers and those who fly jetliners into skyscrapers.

We are in the midst of another global struggle. Like communism and Nazism (mere blips on the historical radar screen, by comparison), the foe this time is as much an ideology as a religion. It's an all-encompassing dogma that regulates the lives of its followers down to the most minute detail.

It's an ideology which can not coexist with other creeds. It's a worldview which sanctions - nay, glorifies - mass murder to advance its goal of world conquest.

Postscript: In the past 20 years, the number of Moslems in America has increased threefold to about 3 million. If current immigration trends continue, that population could reach 10 million by the year 2020. There are 20 million Moslems in Europe today. In every EU country, they're the only ones having children at above replacement levels. Thus, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the West. As Trifkovic points out, twice a week a new mosque is opened somewhere in the Western world. And Chuck Colson
warns us that Muslims are actively recruiting in our prisons.

Ignore the above at your peril.

Assigned Reading: "The Sword of The Prophet" by Serge Trifkovic (2002, Regina Orthodox Press) and "The Rage and The Pride" by Oriana Fallaci (2002, Rizzoli International Publications) both available from amazon.com.

Fallaci is the distinguished Italian journalist - once the darling of the left - who's also being prosecuted in France for warning that Moslem immigration is the imams' fifth column in Europe and America.

Previously -

From Papa Bear –

LIBERTY IS ON THE MARCH.  LET THE BELLS OF FREEDOM BE HEARD ALL ACROSS THIS LAND ON NOVEMBER 14.  THE TIME HAS COME AND WE THE PEOPLE ARE RESTORING THE REPUBLIC.

ARE YOU WITH US OR AGAINST US?  UNSURE IS UNACCEPTABLE.


November 14th... mark your calendars down and plan to participate in Washington DC. Please join us as we put the congress critters on Notice that their daily-Treason will no longer be tolerated.

We will start playing at the Washington Monument sometime near 11am.
Details follow....
Bob Schulzs 'We The People" Site can be found at www.givemeliberty.org

Details about the 14th of NOVEMBER;
The Moment of Truth is Coming -- Freedom Drive Update

November 14, 2002 is the Moment of Truth.

The events that unfold that November afternoon will set the course for us as a People and as a nation. The time for talk is over. We shall remain peaceful – but act, we will.

More Petitions for Redress

Over the last weeks, an additional number of petitions for redress of grievances have been drafted by the We The People Foundation.

These formal petitions cover a wide range of repugnant acts committed by the US Government that directly and unequivocally violate both the Constitution and the individual rights of the People.

The systemic nature and magnitude of these offenses should cause every citizen to recoil with alarm and move them to act decisively in defense of our Republic and our freedom.

Hundreds of questions in the new petitions for redress cover the war powers clauses of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the "Federal" Reserve. The petitions address key
individual rights such as privacy, property, due process, free speech, the right to keep and bear arms and the rights of assembly and petition. Specific focus is given to the "War Powers Act" and the Orwellian-named "USA Patriot Act."

The petitions will be posted at www.givemeliberty.org for public review and electronic signing the week of September 30. We urge everyone to spread word of these historical
petitions.

On or about November 1, the petitions and signatures will be formally submitted, (along with our previous petition regarding the income tax fraud), to the Executive and
Legislative branches of the federal government.

We The People will respectfully request that the President, each member of the House of Representatives and Senate honor their oaths of office to uphold the Constitution and
honor the explicit legal obligation of their offices by formally responding to the People's petitions for redress of grievances.

We The People, will peaceably assemble on Thursday, November 14, 2002, near the Washington monument in Washington, DC. There, we will await the President, the Senate Majority Leader, the Speaker of the House and the other members of Congress (or their representatives), to receive official answers to these questions --
OR to learn when these representatives intend to provide official answers to these questions.

This is the Moment of Truth.

This is the moment we will know if we still have a republican form of government limited by a written Constitution and the rule of Law or a democracy governed by opinion polls and the rule of "whim."

This is the moment we will learn if the ultimate power still rests with the people -- if we still have a servant government -- if we still have a government that derives its just
power from the consent of the governed.

We will know, without question, whether we have a government bound by a Constitution, or not.

The US Government will determine by its response, in that moment, how the destiny of this nation will proceed.

Our servant government will, as it is required by the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution, provide substantive, direct responses to the Peoples' formal petitions OR the
government will, at its sole discretion -- by either its non-response or a deficient response -- initiate a consequence of organized, peaceful, legal and forceful activities to be executed by We The People to repel the acts of tyranny and those that would perpetrate them.

Should the government fail to answer the Peoples' petitions that afternoon, Bob Schulz, Chairman of the We The People Congress will publicly outline a roadmap of bold steps the People will take to confront governmental tyranny across our land to preserve, to protect and to enhance our Constitution and our unalienable, individual rights.

The People are prepared to act -- and will act to defend liberty and freedom.

More Freedom Drive Details

Specific details about kick-off events and rally cities (locations, times, etc.) will be released very soon, pending final details and permits. In general, West Coast kick-off events will occur on Friday, November 8. Rally-city events will occur the evening prior to departure from those rally point cities.  Click on    www.GiveMeLiberty.org/FreedomDrive to see the latest schedule details.

Here is an overview of the events planned for the DC rally on Thursday, November14:

8 AM - 11 AM: The Freedom Drive arrives in the District of Columbia to celebrate our freedom, our wonderful country, our admirable Republic, our astonishing Constitution and, in particular, our marvelous right to petition the government for a redress of grievances and government's obligation to respond.

This is a celebration! We will wave our flags and honk our horns. As an example of how our wonderful system of governance is designed to work, for all the world to see, We, the
People of America, having respectfully and properly petitioned the government for a redress of the most pressing, constitutional grievances of our day, will be celebrating the Petitions for Redress and the fact that the government will, as ordained, be appearing before the petitioners to respond to the petitions.

We will drive toward the Capitol area and (legally) drive around a short, designated route. The route will take us around the White House, the Senate and House office buildings, the US Supreme Court, the IRS and the Federal Reserve buildings.

11 AM - Noon: The People will leave the immediate Capitol area, park their vehicles and return to the Washington Monument area for the rally.

Noon:  The celebration of Freedom continues! We will exercise our right to peaceable assembly. We will have a large, high-visibility elevated stage area, large visual effects &
messages, live musical entertainment and several short speeches on freedom and the Constitution by noted individuals.

Before the day is over we hope to deliver a few additional, and pleasant surprises that you and your family will remember as witnesses and participants in this historic day -- when
the People came together to stand for the Constitution and stand against tyranny.

2 PM: The Moment of Truth.  At 2 PM, The People will respectfully call into the crowd for their elected representatives to come forward with the government's responses to
the People's Petitions for Redress.

At that moment -- The Moment of Truth -- our servant government will answer the People.

Those engaged in party politics as a profession -- our politicians -- our elected representatives, will have decided to either answer the People's Petitions for Redress or they will have decided to ignore the People and the Constitution.

If the elected representatives fail to honor their oaths to support the Constitution by failing to respond to the People's Petitions for Redress, they will be signaling their belief
that the People have no unalienable Rights, that those Rights are subject to modification, that the Constitution is merely a piece of paper and that government should not be limited by the Constitution.

To be sure, these are treasonous beliefs, and our politicians will have to live with the consequences should they fail to respond.

If it becomes necessary, Bob Schulz will ask the question, "What does a free People do when its government acts outside the boundaries the People have established around its
power and will not justify its behavior?"

Confronted with an insufficient response from the government, Schulz will publicly detail appropriate "next steps" in the Peoples' drive to restore the Constitution.

4 - 5 PM: Closing Remarks and Prayer for Our Nation Whether the government responds or not, significant trials and tribulations lie ahead for this nation.

Whether by the orderly correction and submission of our servant government to the Rule of Law under our Constitution, or by the outcomes of the acts the People will peacefully, but forcefully, undertake to restore the Constitution, the months and years ahead will hold many changes and challenges for our nation.

Over decades, the People have seen the foundation of this nation crumble. It will not be, and cannot be, rebuilt overnight with -- or without -- the cooperation of the government and our elected officials.

As it was with our Forefathers, it requires the acknowledgment of the Divine, and the knowledge that the Divine gifts of freedom and liberty are the true source of this nation's
greatness and what will ultimately return this nation to endure as a beacon of Light for all of mankind.

5 PM: The Peoples' Fireworks

The decision our government makes on November 14th will determine whether these fireworks mark a true jubilation of the Peoples' triumph over modern governmental mischief and tyranny -- or they will be viewed, symbolically, as the echoes, rumblings and flashes of the unfolding force of the People as they begin to restore their Constitution and reclaim their freedom.

Either way, this day's sun will set as a celebration of We The People.

From Judy –

AREA CODE 809

FOLKS, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE ON THE MOVE AGAIN!

Subject: 809 Area Code
Importance: High
We actually received a call last week from the 809 area code. The woman said "Hey, this is Karen. Sorry I missed you--get back to us quickly.
Have something important to tell you." Then she repeated a phone number beginning with 809. We did not respond. Then this week, we received the following email:
Subject: DON'T EVER DIAL AREA CODE 809, 284 AND 876 THIS IS VERY
IMPORTANT -
INFORMATION PROVIDED TO US BYAT&T. DON'T EVER DIAL AREA CODE 809 This one is being distributed all over the US. This is pretty scary, especially given the way they try to get you to call. Be sure you read this and pass it on to all your friends and family so they don't get scammed!

MAJOR SCAM:
Don't respond to Emails, phone calls, or web pages which tell you to call an "809" Phone Number. This is a very important issue of Scam Busters because it alerts you to a scam that is spreading *extremely* quickly can easily cost you $2400 or more, and is difficult to avoid unless you are aware of it. We'd like to thank Verizon for bringing this scam to our attention. This scam has also been identified by the National Fraud Information and is costing victims a lots of money. There are lots of different permutations of this scam.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
You will receive a message on your answering machine or your pager, which asks you to call a number beginning with area code 809. The reason you're asked to call varies. It can be to receive information about a family member who has been ill, to tell you someone has been arrested, died, to let you know you have won a wonderful prize, etc. In each case, you are told to call the 809 number right away. Since there are so many new area
codes these days, people unknowingly return these calls. If you call from the US, you will apparently be charged $2425 per-minute. Or, you'll get a long recorded message. The
point is, they will try to keep you on the phone as long as possible to increase the charges. Unfortunately, when you get your phone bill, you'll often be charged more
than $24100.00.

WHY IT WORKS:
The 809 area code is located in the British Virgin Islands Bahamas. The 809 area code can be used as a "pay-per-call "number, similar to 900 numbers in the US. Since 809 is not in the US, it is not covered by U.S. regulations of 900 numbers, which require that you be notified and warned of charges and rates involved when you call a pay-per-call" number. There is also no requirement that the company provide a time period during which you may terminate the call without being charged. Further, where as many U.S. homes that have 900 number blocking to avoid these kinds of charges, do not work in preventing calls to the 809 area code.

We recommend that no matter how you get the message, if you are asked to call a number with an 809 area code that you don't recognize just disregard the message. Be wary of email or calls asking you to call an 809 area code number. It's important to prevent becoming a victim of this scam, since trying to fight the charges afterwards can become a real nightmare. That's because you did actually make the call. If you complain, both your local phone company and your long distance carrier will not want to get involved and will most likely tell you that they are simply providing the billing for the foreign company. You'll end up dealing with a foreign company that argues they have done nothing wrong.

From Roland –

Big Nanny is watching you

Are You Being Watched?

"The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a
suspect's machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source familiar with the
project told MSNBC.com. The software, known as "Magic Lantern," enables agents
to read data that had been scrambled, a tactic often employed by criminals to
hide information and evade law enforcement. The best snooping technology that
the FBI currently uses, the controversial software called Carnivore, has been
useless against suspects clever enough to encrypt their files."
"MAGIC LANTERN installs so-called "keylogging" software on a
suspect's machine that is capable of capturing keystrokes typed on a computer.
By tracking exactly what a suspect types, critical encryption key information
can be gathered, and then transmitted back to the FBI, according to the source,
who requested anonymity.
The virus can be sent to the suspect via e-mail - perhaps sent for
the FBI by a trusted friend or relative. The FBI can also use common
vulnerabilities to break into a suspect's computer and insert Magic Lantern, the
source said.
Magic Lantern is one of a series of enhancements currently being
developed for the FBI's Carnivore project, the source said, under the umbrella
project name of Cyber Knight"

http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp

"[A] revised Trojan horse named PWS.Hooker... records every key you type and the
application you typed it in. It stores this information in encrypted form before
sending it to a variety of [internet] addresses. According to the Register, the
FBI contacted one recipient of PWS.Hooker e-mail, the ISP MonkeyBrains, and said it would very much like to see the contents of those log files.
Eye on the FBI
I expect the FBI will also take part in the Year of the Trojan Horse. For
surveillance purposes, the FBI is studying its own worm/Trojan combination. One
possibility is for the U.S. Department of Justice to use the Patriot Act to
justify a government-authored Trojan horse called Magic Lantern. In a Senate
hearing in December, Attorney General John Ashcroft declined to comment on the
existence of Magic Lantern."
http://www.cnet.com/software/0-8888-8-8724341-1.html

"Beware of "The Magic Lantern." Under the "sneak and peek" provision of the USA
Patriot Act, pushed through Congress by John Ashcroft, the FBI, with a warrant,
can break into your home and office when you're not there and, on the first
trip, look around. They can examine your hard drive, snatch files, and plant the
Magic Lantern on your computer. It's also known as the "sniffer keystroke
logger."
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0222/hentoff.php

"By logging what a suspect types, and transmitting this back to investigators,
the FBI could use Magic Lantern to work out a suspect's passphrase. Getting a
target's private PGP keyring is easy in comparison, and with the two any message
can be broken."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.html

See also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23150.html

From Roland –

To all,

I have Jone's "9-1-1 Road to Tyranny" video. In my view it is a wonderful
tool to help wake others up. The links below offer a way to view it for free
off the net. Please pass this on to others on your list. Time grows very
short for America.

Long live The Fighters,
Roland


Subject: [Strait_Truth] 911  The Road To Tyranny - Realvideo
Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2002, 9:33 am

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Long Live The Fighters,

From Alan –

Do you know what films were playing in theaters the year that you  
were born?  Click on a year below to find out.....
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From Michael –

Legal Times quoted me in the attached article.

In the Legal Times Website, the related topic articles that are linked to
this article argue that the 2nd Amendment does NOT confer an individual
right and that once lost, 2nd Amendment rights should never be restored.

It doesn't take a felony conviction to cause the lifelong loss of gun rights
in post 1992 America.  All that is required is an ex-post facto conviction
for any of dozens of non-violent misdemeanors including almost all pre-1972
Pennsylvania misdemeanors, including previously sealed non-violent juvenile
misdemeanors.

The lifelong loss of gun rights includes convictions for foreign felonies
such as convictions for smuggling BIBLES into communist or Islamic
countries.  As absurd as it sounds, Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro are
empowered by the present law.  If either were to notify the United States
Government that Norman Schwarzkopf had been convicted of murdering Iraqi
civilians in Baghdad or Cuban "construction workers" in Grenada, General
Schwarzkopf would lose his right, as an American citizen to possess firearms
in America.

The Legal Times Website does allow readers to post commentary.

Harry Schneider

Felons' Gun Rights at Issue at High Court
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1032128620083

Jim Oliphant
Legal Times
10-03-2002

Thomas Lamar "Tommy" Bean is selling used cars in south Texas right now, and
to him, that's the fault of Congress.

It's Congress, after all, that won't allow him to regain his license to sell
guns. On Oct. 16, his case comes before the U.S. Supreme Court. And if he
gets his way, Bean, a convicted felon, will be dealing guns again.

At issue in United States v. Bean, No. 01-704, is a provision in federal law
that allows felons to obtain a permit to own and sell firearms. The case has
placed gun-rights advocates in the unusual position of disagreeing with
Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department and an administration
that has been arguably more gun-friendly than any in recent history.

While convicted felons generally are not permitted to own guns, a provision
in the federal firearms laws allows someone who has served his time and been
released to apply to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for
permission to own a weapon.

But the ATF hasn't green-lighted any felon's request for relief in a decade.
It can't. In 1992, Congress eliminated the funds that enabled the bureau to
do it and has refused to restore them ever since.

That came after a report prepared by the Washington, D.C.-based Violence
Policy Center blasted the ATF, showing that one-third of the felons granted
gun privileges by the bureau had been imprisoned for a violent or
drug-related crime.

"There were some very dangerous people [regaining gun rights]," says Mathew
Nosanchuk, litigation director of the Violence Policy Center. "Congress
showed that it wasn't willing to roll the dice."

All of that left Tommy Bean without a remedy and without a business when he
got in trouble at the Mexican border in March 1998.

NO TENGO PISTOLAS

Bean, a firearms dealer, was in Laredo, Texas, participating in a gun show.
One evening he and three assistants decided to travel into Mexico for
dinner. Bean says he directed his assistants to remove any firearms and
ammunition from his Chevrolet Suburban.

Upon reaching the border, Mexican customs officers discovered a box of
ammunition containing approximately 200 rounds in the back of Bean's truck.
Bean, as owner of the vehicle, was arrested on a felony charge of importing
ammunition and sentenced to five years in a Mexican prison. As part of an
international prisoner exchange agreement, Bean was transferred to the
United States six months later and soon released.

In July 1999, Bean petitioned the ATF for relief to recover his license to
sell firearms. Bean received a notice that the bureau would not act upon his
request because funds for investigating his background under the relief
program had been eliminated.

So Bean sued in federal court. U.S. District Judge Joe Fisher of the Eastern
District of Texas first ruled that he had the authority to review Bean's
petition in place of the ATF. Second, he granted Bean's request, restoring
his gun rights.

The case went up to a sympathetic panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals, which affirmed the decision, creating a split with other circuits
that had come to different conclusions.

"[W]e are faced with the almost incredible plight of Thomas Bean," the 5th
Circuit stated in its affirmance, "who, at most, was negligent in not
ensuring that his associates completely performed the simple task directed
and who served months in Mexican and U.S. prisons for a simple oversight."

The Supreme Court granted certiorari earlier this year.

Before the high court, the Justice Department has taken the stance that a
federal court holds no power to make the determination that a felon can
regain gun privileges. In doing so, the government cites congressional
language in support of its funding ban, saying the decision to grant relief
in a given case "is a very difficult and subjective task which could have
devastating consequences for innocent civilians if the wrong decision is
made." In its brief, the Justice Department says there "is no reason to
expect that judicial proceedings could reduce that risk."

Nosanchuk agrees. "It's judicial activism at its worst," he says. "It's
really bizarre to think of judges spending their time doing this."

'MOST IMPORTANT CASE IN 60 YEARS'

But Thomas Goldstein, a D.C. lawyer who will argue the case on behalf of
Bean, says the case is about providing an avenue for relief for felons who
can make a legitimate case for recovering their right to own and sell guns.

"We agree that Congress didn't want a lot of people getting their guns
back," Goldstein says. "But these clearly are incredibly deserving cases.
They're totally out of luck. A remedy is an important part of the statute."

That the Justice Department would stand in Bean's path at all has angered
some gun rights advocates.

"The Bush administration is taking the most radical anti-gun position
possible in the most important Supreme Court [gun rights] case in 60 years,"
says Harry Schneider, the chairman of the Pennsylvania Sportsmen's
Association, on the "Keep and Bear Arms" Web site.

But others are pragmatic. Alan Gottlieb, president of the Second Amendment
Foundation, which has filed an amicus brief in the case in support of Bean,
says the Justice Department had no choice but to back a congressional
action.

"Like it or not, DOJ has to support the law," Gottlieb says. In fact,
Gottlieb says, the Justice Department brief provides case law that he claims
supports Bean's contention that federal courts have the power to restore gun
rights.

Gottlieb says his organization views Bean as the perfect vehicle for taking
this issue before the Court. "You've got somebody who was not a danger to
society," he says. "We really think we are going to win."

The Second Amendment Foundation is also asking the Court to affirm that gun
ownership is an individual right granted under the Constitution. "We want
it -- even if it's in dictum," Gottlieb says. "I think they probably will do
it."

________________________________________________________________________
https://www.keepandbeararms.com/newsarchives/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&article
id=2579

Why do Bush/Ashcroft continue the anti-gun policies of Clinton/Reno?

from Harry Schneider, PSA Chairman
Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association
psa@nauticom.net

August 28, 2002

Check the file that I have attached [below] for details on the Bean case.
Gun Week and GOA have covered this.

The Bush administration is taking the most radical anti-gun position
possible in the most important Supreme Court case in 60 years. The announced
Bush position is that US Courts should not be allowed to even consider
restoring the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans who lost those rights under
the GCA 68 provision that says that your gun rights are forfeit if you were
ever convicted of a felony or certain misdemeanors.

This includes domestic felonies like bringing a single round of hollow point
pistol ammunition into New Jersey. The loss of gun rights is ex-post-facto
and foreign felonies are included, this includes foreign felony convictions
for the crime of smuggling bibles into Communist countries or teaching
Christianity in certain Islamic countries.

It doesn't even take a felony like unknowingly entering Mexico with a box of
ammunition (like Bean). You will also lose your gun rights if you were ever
convicted of a state misdemeanor where you "could" have gotten more than two
years. Until 1972 almost all Pennsylvania misdemeanors were ungraded and
were punishable by up to three years. Thus almost every pre 72 Pennsylvania
conviction for any misdemeanor such as a single DWI, drag racing or bastardy
mandates the lifelong loss of gun rights even if no one was harmed and no
jail times was involved. In Pennsylvania, with NRA support, they unsealed
previously sealed juvenile records and took away the gun rights of people
who were convicted of very minor offenses back in the 50's as 60's and have
been model citizens ever since.

Since 1992 Congress has each year defunded the provision that allowed people
to petition ATF to get their rights restored. This denial of due process
caused some district courts to hear some appeals. Bush/Ashcroft/Olsen have
announced an intention to argue before the Supreme Court that United States
Courts should have no authority to even consider restoring gun rights in any
case even if, like Bean the rights were taken for violating a foreign law
that is no longer a felony in Mexico and is a Constitutionally protected
right in the United States.

Bean is just one of the numerous anti-gun positions taken by the Bush
Administration. Additional examples include disarming airline pilots,
Emerson, and arguing that the total DC gun ban is a reasonable restriction
on the 2nd Amendment.

Grass roots gun rights activists are aware of this and if Bush does not
change soon, his anti-gun policies may harm the election chances of other
establishment Republicans.

If the NRA gave Bush's actions the front page publicity that they deserve,
the members would pressure Bush to get on track and he would have a better
chance of being re-elected.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 00-40304

THOMAS LAMAR BEAN,

Petitioner-Appellee,

versus

BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Respondents-Appellants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Texas, Beaumont

June 20, 2001

Before POLITZ, DeMOSS, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

The Government appeals the trial court's finding that it had jurisdiction to
review the application of Thomas Lamar Bean for relief from the federal
firearm disabilities resulting from a conviction in Mexico, as well as its
grant of said relief therefrom.

We affirm.


BACKGROUND

The facts of this case illustrate in caps underscored why Congress added the
relief provision to the Federal Firearms Act, giving certain convicted
felons an avenue to regain the right to possess a firearm. They are set
forth in great detail in the trial court's opinion; we merely summarize them
here.

In March 1998, Bean, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms licensed
firearms dealer, was in Laredo, Texas, participating in a gun show. One
evening he and three assistants decided to cross the border into Mexico for
dinner. He directed his assistants to remove any firearms and ammunition
from his vehicle, a Chevrolet Suburban, before crossing the border; however,
a box of ammunition containing approximately 200 rounds inadvertently was
left in the back. The box was in plain view and Mexican customs officers saw
it when they sought to enter the Mexican Port of Entry at Nuevo Laredo,
Tamaulipas, Mexico. At the time importing ammunition into Mexico was
considered a felony.(1) The three assistants were subsequently released but
Bean, as the owner of the Suburban and the ammunition, was charged and
convicted of the felony of unlawfully importing ammunition.(2)

Bean was incarcerated in Mexico for approximately six months before being
released to the custody of the United States under the International
Prisoner Transfer Treaty. He thereafter spent another month in federal
prison before being released under supervision. As a convicted felon, under
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) Bean lost all rights to possess firearms. Section
925(c) of the statute, however, provides a means for relief from the
firearms disabilities. Upon completion of his period of supervision in July,
1999, Bean petitioned the BATF for such relief so that he might return to
his business.

At issue herein is the action and inaction of Congress since 1992. For this
nigh decade, Congress has stated in its annual budget appropriation bill
that "none of the funds appropriated herein shall be available to
investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms
disabilities under 18 U.S.C § 925(c)."(3) Because the BATF could not use any
appropriated funds to fulfill its responsibilities under the statute, it
sent Bean a notice that it would not act upon his request due to the
congressional action. Bean then petitioned the district court, contending
that the BATF's letter denied his petition and exhausted his administrative
remedies.

The district court, in its detailed Memorandum Opinion, discussed the
statute, congressional actions, the various circuit opinions on this issue,
including our decision in United States v. McGill,(4) and determined that it
did, in fact, have jurisdiction to hear Bean's appeal. In granting Bean's
petition it further found that the facts of this case underscore why §
925(c) permitted not only judicial review, but judicial supplementation of
the record to prevent a miscarriage of justice.


ANALYSIS

Jurisdiction

In McGill we noted that Congress, through its appropriations acts, had
reflected an intent to suspend the relief provided to individuals by §
925(c). As a consequence we opined that we lacked subject matter
jurisdiction. As the Government correctly notes, ordinarily an inferior
court is not at liberty to disregard the mandate of a superior court.(5) But
in the instance herein presented, we must examine carefully the reasons and
analysis by the trial court, and our earlier decision in light of, notably,
the intervening passage of time and its effect.

The trial court, as had the McGill panel, extensively detailed the
legislative history of the relief provisions and reached a different
conclusion, noting: "Ultimately, the Court recognizes that an advocate can
find an abundance of legislative history to support his position."(6) We do
not here parse the committee or floor commentary but, rather, examine
congressional action/inaction and its continuing effect.

As noted in the trial court's opinion, Congress first amended the Federal
Firearms Act in 1965 to provide the potential and mechanism for certain
convicted felons to obtain relief from federal firearms disabilities by
petitioning the Secretary of the Treasury. It amended the relief provision
in 1986 to provide for judicial review of executive decisions in order to
better ensure that relief was available for those felons whose convictions
were based on technical or unintentional violations.

In large measure, as a result of newspaper editorials about the cost to
taxpayers of performing the investigations necessary under the relief
provision,(7) as well as a report published by the Violence Policy Center
listing instances wherein convicted felons had their firearms privileges
restored and committed violent crimes,(8) a senate bill entitled the Stop
Arming Felons (SAFE) Act was introduced in 1992 to eliminate the relief
provision.(9) That bill, however, was never reported out of the Senate
Judiciary Committee.

Although it obviously has the power, Congress has not enacted legislation
eliminating or amending § 925(c). Rather, both the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees proposed language for the Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1993 that
precluded the BATF from using any appropriated funds to investigate
petitions for such relief.(10) That language was incorporated in the
appropriations bill ultimately passed that year and has been included in
each subsequent annual appropriations act relating to BATF funding.(11)

We observed in McGill that "Congress has the power to amend, suspend or
repeal a statute by an appropriations bill, as long as it does so
clearly."(12) We cited Robertson v. Seattle Audubon Soc.(13) as authority
for that proposition. Robertson opined "[A]lthough repeals by implication
are especially disfavored in the appropriations context . . . Congress
nonetheless may amend substantive law in an appropriations statute, as long
as it does so clearly."(14)

The "especially disfavored" language hales from the high court's opinion in
Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, et al.,(15) wherein the Court stated
that the doctrine disfavoring repeals by implication "applies with ever
greater force when the claimed repeal rests solely on an Appropriations
Act."(16) In the subsequent Will case, upon which the Robertson Court
relied, it addressed Congress' failure to fund promised federal pay raises
previously authorized by statute by refusing to appropriate funds for those
raises in each year's Appropriation Act. In Will the Court found Congress'
actions were clear and intentional, and thus effectively rescinded the
authorized raise for each year.(17) That decision led to the Court's
comments in Robertson, noted above, upon which the McGill panel relied.

We find the facts at bar readily distinguishable from Will, and thus
distinguishable from Robertson. Will involved authorized salary increases, a
purely financial right, that Congress refused to fund. When it passed the
Executive Salary Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act (18) in 1975 Congress
promised certain federal employees annual cost-of-living salary increases,
based upon certain financial criteria. It then changed its mind and
rescinded that year's increase in each of the four years beginning in
1977.(19)

In the case at bar, Congress is not merely promising money then changing its
mind and not making it available. Nor is it directly suspending a statutory
provision. In enacting § 925(c) Congress granted certain persons
administrative and judicial rights. The SAFE Act proposed to withdraw those
rights, but Congress did not adopt that withdrawal. The Government insists,
however, that Congress indirectly has abrogated those rights by necessarily
recognizing same but declining expenditure of any funds for their
enforcement. We find that action clearly distinguishable from the facts in
the cited precedential cases and inimical to our constitutional system of
justice.

In its early review of this conundrum, the McGill panel relied on Robertson.
In addition to the noted factual differences of Robertson, Will, and
Dickerson, we have a critical additional factor, the intervening passage of
time and the resulting reality of the effective non-temporary "suspension"
of statutorily created rights. We must conclude that Congress seeks to
abrogate administrative and judicial rights it created, by using funding
bills, after declining to address actual amendments to or revocation of the
creating statute. Section 925(c) was enacted for apparently valid reasons,
and citizens like Bean are entitled to the rights therein created and
authorized unless and until Congress determines to change same. We must now
conclude that merely refusing to allow the agency responsible for
facilitating those rights to use appropriated funds to do its job under the
statute is not the requisite direct and definite suspension or repeal of the
subject rights. We further hold that when the BATF notified Bean that it
would not act on his petition, his administrative remedies de facto were
exhausted.(20) Accordingly, the trial court had jurisdiction to entertain
this appeal.

The Merits

The Government cites as error the trial court's grant of relief, contending
without citing any authority that when reviewing the actions of an
administrative agency the court "stands in the shoes" of that agency and is
bound by the applicable federal regulations. Here the Government contends 27
C.F.R. § 178.144(d) precludes relief where the petitioner is prohibited from
possessing all types of firearms in the state in which he resides. It
asserts that because Bean resides in Texas and under Texas law a convicted
felon cannot possess firearms for five years after being released from
confinement or supervised release,(21) it could not have granted his
petition for relief in any event; therefore, the district court erred as a
matter of law in doing so.

At the threshold we unqualifiedly reject the suggestion that a court stands
in the shoes of an agency and is bound by all of its implementing
regulations. Substantive federal regulations carry the force and effect of
federal law; however, interpretive regulations serve merely to guide a court
in applying a statute.(22) Generally, where a regulation "appears supported
by the plain language of the statute and is adopted pursuant to the explicit
grant of rulemaking authority," that regulation is considered as having
legislative effect and accorded more than mere deference.(23) We find
nothing in 27 C.F.R. § 178.144(d) that would come under such a definition.
Nothing in § 925(c) authorizes the Secretary to restrict relief only to
those cases where relief is available at the state level; indeed, nothing in
the statute pertaining to relief even refers to the states. Section 925(c)
pertains strictly to federal firearms disabilities and to relief from those
federal disabilities. Absent any statutory language tying federal
disabilities to state disabilities, or authorizing the Secretary to do so,
we must hold that 27 C.F.R. § 178.144(d) is merely an interpretive
regulation and does not bind the district court in its determination.(24)
Concluding that the trial court did not err as a matter of law in granting
the relief requested, we need not and do not address its determination that
Bean's foreign conviction was not a predicate offense triggering the
provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).

CONCLUSION

We are mindful of the serious concerns articulated about convicted felons
regaining the right to possess firearms, and of the need for congressional
review and enhancement of the safeguards and procedures for appropriately
accomplishing this apparently worthy goal, but we are faced herein with the
almost incredible plight of Thomas Bean who, at most, was negligent in not
ensuring that his associates completely performed the simple task directed,
and who served months in Mexican and U.S. prisons for a simple oversight. We
do not believe that any reasonable observer is persuaded that his offense
creates a likelihood he represents a threat to the public's well-being, and
it is beyond peradventure to believe that Congress, or those seeking to
rescind § 925(c), intended for someone like Bean to lose his livelihood on
the basis of the facts such as are before us. Neither equity nor the law
require such an injustice.

The judgment appealed is AFFIRMED.

1. Purportedly because of the publicity arising from this case the offense
has been reduced to a misdemeanor.

2. The record reflects the difficulties experienced by Bean during his
arrest and initial incarceration, primarily based upon procedural issues
which were compounded by his unfamiliarity with the Spanish language. Bean
and the trial court both refer to these difficulties as raising
constitutional concerns. Our disposition of this appeal does not rely
thereon.

3. See Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act,
1993, Pub. L. No. 102-393, 106 Stat. 1729, 1732 (1992). The first year
Congress denied the BATF funds to investigate any convicted felon. Beginning
in Fiscal Year 1994, and in all subsequent appropriation acts applying to
the BATF, a provision was added allowing funds to be used to investigate
convicted corporate felons. See infra note 11.

4. 74 F.3d 64 (5th Cir. 1996)(finding that federal courts have no
jurisdiction to hear appeals from individuals).

5. See e.g., Gegenheimer v. Galan, 920 F.2d 307 (5th Cir. 1991).

6. Bean v. United States, 89 F. Supp. 2d 828, 835 (E.D. Tex. 2000).

7. See, e.g., Why Are We Rearming Felons?, Washington Post, Sept. 25, 1991,
at A24 (describing the relief provision as a "loophole"); and Felon Gun
Program Should Be Disabled, Chicago Sun-Times, July 1, 1992, at 31.

8. Josh Sugarman, Putting Guns Back Into The Hands Of Felons: 100 Case
Studies of Felons Granted Relief From Disability Under Federal Firearms
Laws, Violence Policy Center (1992). The Center is a Washington, D.C. based
gun-control advocacy group.

9. See 138 Cong. Rec. S2674-04, S2675 (daily ed. March 3, 1992)(floor
comments on S. 2304 by its co-sponsor, Sen. Lautenberg (D-N.J.)). We note
with particular irony that according to Sen. Lautenberg the original relief
provision was enacted specifically to rescue the Winchester Firearms Co.,
whose parent corporation Olin Winchester had pleaded guilty to felony counts
on a kickback scheme and whose very existence was threatened by the
subsequent denial of its ability to possess and sell firearms. As previously
noted, beginning in 1993 Congress amended its appropriations language to
permit the BATF to process petitions for relief made by corporations. In the
case at bar we are presented with a situation that is virtually
indistinguishable from that used to justify those actions, i.e., absent the
ability to possess and sell firearms Bean will lose his business. Bean is
his "corporation," and the inequities of the situation are readily apparent.
To the suggestion that a corporation, unlike an individual, cannot be a
physical threat to use firearms to harm the public we note that the record
is replete with testimony from legislators, law enforcement officers and
BATF agents as to Bean's lawful character.

10. See H.R. Rep. 102-618 (1992); S. Rep. 102-353 (1992).

11. Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act,
1994, Pub. L. No. 103-123, 107 Stat. 1226, 1228 (1993); Treasury, Postal
Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995, Pub. L. No.
103-329, 108 Stat. 2382,2385 (1994); Treasury, Postal Service, and General
Government Appropriations Act, 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-52, 109 Stat. 468, 471
(1995); Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997, Pub. L. No. 104-208,
110 Stat. 3009-319 (1996); Treasury and General Government Appropriations
Act, 1998, Pub. L. No. 105-61, 111 Stat. 1272, 1277 (1997); Omnibus
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, Pub. L.
No. 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681-485 (1998); Treasury and General Government
Appropriations Act, 2000, Pub. L. No. 106-58, 113 Stat. 430, 434 (1999); and
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 2001, Pub. L. No.
106-554, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-129, (2000).

12. McGill, 74 F.3d at 66.

13. 503 U.S. 429 (1992).

14. Robertson, 503 U.S. at 440 (citing United States v. Will, et al., 437
U.S. 153 (1978)).

15. 437 U.S. 153 (1977).

16. Id. at 190 (emphasis in original).

17. With the exception of federal judges for two of the four years in
question, where the Appropriation Act violated the Compensation Clause.

18. Pub. L. No. 94-82, 89 Stat. 419 (1975).

19. The Supreme Court considered and rejected the contention that the
authorized increase remained outstanding but unfunded, concluding that the
raise itself was rescinded. Will, 449 U.S. at 224. In support of its
position the Court cited United States v. Dickerson, 310 U.S. 554 (1940).
Dickerson also pertained to statutorily authorized financial payments that
were rescinded by an Appropriation Act, in that case the payment of an
enlistment allowance for those military personnel who re-enlisted during the
fiscal year. Like Will, Dickerson pertained to purely financial rights that
Congress then rescinded by expressly refusing to fund same, and is
distinguishable herefrom.

20. The BATF advised that it was not accepting petitions from individuals
for restoration of rights, and told Bean he could apply "if and when
Congress acts to remove the restriction currently imposed." This is not a
case of mere agency delay in processing his petition, it is complete
preclusion of administrative remedies for an indefinite, possibly infinite,
period of time. Bean's administrative options were foreclosed, and thus
exhausted for purposes of § 925(c).

21. Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 46.04(a)(1)(Vernon 1994).

22. Batterton v. Francis, 432 U.S. 416, 425 n.9 (1976).

23. Atkins v. Rivera, 477 U.S. 154, 162 (1985). 24. For similar reasons we
find that the provision in § 178.144(d) stating that the Director will not
ordinarily grant relief if the applicant has not been discharged from parole
or probation for a period of at least 2 years is also interpretive,
particularly in light of its qualified language.

From the Big Kahuna – Feedback on To Be seen and Not Heard

Your point is so well taken that it leaves no room for argument. We are on the way to a new liberal name for America! The United Soddam and Gemorra States!!!

Ah Deb! I wish to say that this piece was and is a great read. If there is anything to add, it would be this. These values and ideas (and they are most valid).They are being proffered to a dumbed down society that has "IMHO" accepted the liberal socialist mantra, where moral decay and lack of values is now the norm. There seems to be nothing of any worth
today, from word of honor to faith in God.   I won't go into the jackasses that wear hats at the table while eating! The amenities of polite society are disappearing with a rapidity that boggles my mind. This is another reason I applaud you and those other parents that have taken to home schooling their children. If there is any further proof that you are doing he correct thing, let me pass this by you. In speaking to a college junior the other day this transpired. I spoke of the idiots who live and work on the banks of the Potomac, I was queried, "what is that" your thoughts and ideas (and mine sometimes) are a bit of a utopian dream, but we must keep trying to bring about a change of thinking. Yours for truth in strong doses! Big Kahuna,River Ridge,La.

We’ll keep the dream alive anyway, Kahuna! Deb V

From Ken –

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES IN THE YEAR 2035

Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, California.

White minorities still trying to have English recognized as the California's third language.

Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops &livestock.

Baby conceived naturally.... Scientists stumped.

Authentic year 2000 "chad" sells at Sotheby's for $4.6 million.

Last remaining Fundamentalist Muslim dies in the American Territory of the Middle East (formerly known as Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, and Lebanon.)

Iraq still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least ten more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.

Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesday only.

35 year study: diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.

Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.

Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.

Upcoming NFL draft likely to focus on use of mutants.

Average height of NBA players now nine feet, seven inches.

Microsoft announces it has perfected its newest version of Windows so it crashes BEFORE installation is completed.

New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters, and rolled up newspapers must be registered by January 2036.

Congress authorizes direct deposit of illegal political contributions to campaign accounts.

Capitol Hill intern indicted for refusing to have sex with congressman.

IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75%.

From Papa Bear -

www.judicialwatch.org.  If your readers can post this to other websites, it probably would be helpful.   Judicial Watch has been mixing it up with the Clintons and all those who would have us in chains it they could manage it.  Party labels don't matter regarding this issue.  Either you support the Constitution or not, except for when amended fraudulently;  such as for the 16th and 17th amendments.  The 14th amendment's ratification needs to be explored, as well.  Reference web-sites are www.givemeliberty.org and www.devvy.com.

Thanks to all for the restoration of the Republic.

Dear Reader,

I must be brief, but I urgently need to hear from you!

I am dictating this special e-mail to you, through our Washington, D.C., headquarters, from our command center in our hotel in Seattle, which is just across the street from the federal courthouse. We have just finished another day in court here representing American hero LCDR Jack Daly, USN. Days like this are intense. . . but exciting and extremely rewarding!

Our case against the Russian shipping firm FESCO (in fact, the Russian government), whose spy ship viciously attacked and maimed Jack Daly and the Canadian pilot of a surveillance helicopter with an advanced laser weapon while in U.S. waters, is going very well. The jury here in Seattle has been listening very attentively to our facts and arguments, and, the Lord willing, I trust that we will prevail when they deliver a verdict.

Next week, the high-powered lawyers representing FESCO, which is a spy front for the Russian government, will present their defense. Our own legal team will be working some major overtime this weekend, getting ready to respond to whatever the defense lawyers argue. Incredibly, as occurred during the Clinton administration, the Justice Department is taking the side of the Russians in this case, and their lawyers are actually assisting them. They would let Jack hang out to dry, because he seeks justice and won’t go away.

But as we get ready for another day in court, we are facing a serious financial crunch that may endanger our very ability to persevere in the Daly case, and all our other cases. My request to you is simple, and it is urgent.

We were in court last month in Miami, where JW and our client, INS Agent Ric Ramirez, received a major victory when the U.S. Government settled a case that involved allegations of illegal conduct by Janet Reno’s Justice Department, before the first arguments were even heard. We’re in court here in Seattle now, and very soon we will be in court in Philadelphia. In each case, we are fighting for a Judicial Watch client who was wronged by the Clinton Administration. And in each case, we are carrying the burden on our own, with no help -- or outright opposition from the Justice Department. They are more bent on cover-ups of government corruption, than achieving justice.

I am asking for an emergency contribution from you today because never before in Judicial Watch’s eight year history have we been faced with such enormous costs. Private law firms charge their clients for their services, which pay their expenses. We charge our clients, who are generally not well off, nothing. . . and that means we have to rely on tremendous friends of justice like you to help us pay the costs of our litigation.

The costs of the Seattle, Miami and upcoming Philadelphia cases have already exceeded $1,250,000!

We are on the verge of some of the greatest courtroom victories in our history! The winds of justice, as shown last month in Miami, are at our back. But without your continued generous help today, we simply will not have all the resources we will need to go the distance.

I’ve kept my special letter to you brief, because I need to review my notes and get ready late into the night for next week's trial session. And I truly want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done to bring us and our clients to this point.

Please help Judicial Watch today all you can! Your help now will enable us to press on, so that our goal of achieving justice for the innocent, like American patriot LCDR Jack Daly, will not be denied.

Judicial Watch is unique - we are the People’s Justice Department - and we need your generous support on an emergency basis. To make a contribution, CLICK HERE.

I thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Larry Klayman
Chairman and General Counsel

From Susan -

Dear God,

I'm writing to say I'm sorry
For being angry yesterday
When you seemed to ignore my prayer
And things didn't go my way
First, my car broke down I was very late for work
But I missed that awful accident
Was that your handiwork?

I found a house I loved
But others got there first
I was angry, then relieved
When I heard the pipes had burst!

Yesterday, I found the perfect shirt
But the color was too pale
Today, I found the shirt in blue
Would you believe, it was on sale!

I know you're watching over me
And I'm feeling truly blessed
For no matter what I pray for
You always know what's best!

I have this circle of E-mail friends,
Who mean the world to me;
Some days I "send" and "send",
At other times, I let them be.

When I see each name download,
And view the message they've sent;
I know they've thought of me that day,
And "well wishes" were their intent.

I am so blessed to have these friends,
With whom I've grown so close;
So this little poem I dedicate to them,
Because to me they are the "Most"!

So to you, my friends, I would like to say,
Thank you for being a part;
Of all my daily contacts,
This comes right from my heart.

God bless you all is my prayer today,
I'm honored to call you "friend";
I pray the Lord will keep you safe,
Until we write again.

From Helen –

Have you been contacted by the BATF about your weapons?

People have somehow got to understand that they do not talk to these people,
answer no questions and give them NOTHING.

If they have questions, do as an attorney told me, tell them to put all
questions in writing, on their official letterhead with an authorizing
signature and that your attorney will answer them. This way there will be no
"misconstrued" or "out of context" answers.

Tell these clowns to go to hell.  And remember that everything that you tell
your lawyer must be told to the judge only so if you have old weapons passed
down through the family shut your stupid mouth about them.  They are not on
any list in any computer.

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