Originally posted by Trancer-X
I know that. That's one of the ways that today's fascists are trying to intimidate us outspoken but otherwise law-abiding citizens into quiet submission.
how do you explain then the consistent publication of "subversive" work that challenges the status quo?
Posted by Trancer-X on Jan-25-2008 05:39:
a little off topic but...
when martial law is declared mass communications mechanisms such as the internet will cease to exist as we know it
MARTIAL LAW CONCERNS House of Representatives - March 11, 2003
Madam Speaker, I come to the House floor tonight to talk about an issue which I think is of grave concern to this country.
I recently read an article published in the Sydney, Australia, Morning Herald entitled ``Foundations Are in Place for Martial Law in the United States.''
The author is a man named Ritt Goldstein, an investigative reporter for the Herald, and he said that recent pronouncements from the Bush administration and national security initiatives put in place in the Reagan era could see internment camps and martial law in the United States.
When President Ronald Reagan was considering invading Nicaragua, he issued a series of executive orders which provided FEMA with broad powers in the event of a crisis, such as the violent and widespread internal dissent or national opposition against a U.S. military invasion abroad. They were never used.
But with the looming possibility of a U.S. invasion of Iraq, recent pronouncements by President Bush's domestic security chief, Tom Ridge, and an official with the Civil Rights Commission should fire concerns that these powers could be employed or a de facto drift into their deployment in the future.
On the 20th of July, the Detroit Free Press ran a story entitled ``Arabs in U.S. Could Be Held, Official Warns.'' The story referred to a member of the Civil Rights Commission who foresaw the possibility of internment camps for Arab Americans. FEMA has practiced for such an occasion.
FEMA, whose main role is disaster response, is also responsible for handling U.S. domestic unrest.
From 1982 to 1984, Colonel Oliver North assisted FEMA in drafting its civil defense preparations. Details of those plans emerged during the 1987 Iran-Contra scandal. They included executive orders providing for suspension of the Constitution, the imposition of martial law, internment camps, and the turning over of government to the President and FEMA.
A Miami Herald article on the 5th of July, 1987, reported that the former FEMA director's, Louis Guiffrida's, deputy, John Brinkerhoff, handled the martial law portion of the planning. The planning was said to be similar to one Mr. Guiffrida had developed earlier to combat a national uprising by black militants. It provided for the detention of at least 21 million American Negroes in assembly centers or relocation camps. Today, Mr. Brinkerhoff is with the highly influential Anser Institute for Homeland Security. Following a request by the Pentagon in January that the U.S. military be allowed the option of deploying troops on American streets, the institute in February published a paper by Mr. Brinkerhoff arguing the legality of this. He alleged that the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which has long been accepted as prohibiting such deployments, had simply been misunderstood and misapplied. The preface to the article also provided the revelation that the national plan he had worked on under Mr. Guiffrida was approved by Reagan and actions were taken to implement it.
By April, the U.S. military had created a Northern Command to aid homeland security. Reuters reported that the command is mainly expected to play a supporting role to local authorities. However, Mr. Ridge, the Director of Homeland Security, has just advocated a review of U.S. law regarding the use of military for law enforcement duties.
Disturbingly, and it just really should disturb people, the full facts and contents of Mr. Reagan's national plan remain uncertain. This is in part because President Bush took the unusual step of sealing the Reagan Presidential papers last November. However, many of the key figures of the Reagan era are part of the present administration, including John Poindexter, to whom Oliver North later reported.
At the time of the Reagan initiatives, the then-Attorney General, William French Smith, a Republican, wrote to the National Security Adviser, Robert McFarlane: ``I believe that the role assigned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the revised executive order exceeds its proper function as a coordinating agency for emergency preparedness. This department and others have repeatedly raised serious policy and legal objections to an emergency czar role for FEMA.''
Criticism of the Bush administration's response to September 11 echoes Mr. Smith's warning. On June 7 of last year, the former Presidential counsel, John Dean, spoke of America sliding into a, quote, ``constitutional dictatorship,'' close quote, and martial law.
The reason I raise this issue is that I come from a State where in 1941 under executive order by the President, 9661, we rounded up all the Japanese Americans in this country and put them in concentration camps. We have set in place the mechanism to do that again and we must not, we cannot sacrifice the Constitution in this rush to war that we are doing in Iraq.
U.S. MILITARY CIVIL DISTURBANCE PLANNING: THE WAR AT HOME
By Frank Morales
Under the heading of "civil disturbance planning", the U.S. military is training troops and police to suppress democratic opposition in America. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, is code-named, "Operation Garden Plot". Originated in 1968, the "operational plan" has been updated over the last three decades, most recently in 1991, and was activated during the Los Angeles "riots" of 1992, and more than likely during the recent anti-WTO "Battle in Seattle."
Current U.S. military preparations for suppressing domestic civil disturbance, including the training of National Guard troops and police, are actually part of a long history of American "internal security" measures dating back to the first American Revolution. Generally, these measures have sought to thwart the aims of social justice movements, embodying the concept that within the civilian body politic lurks an enemy that one day the military might have to fight, or at least be ordered to fight.
Equipped with flexible "military operations in urban terrain" and "operations other than war" doctrine, lethal and "less-than-lethal" high-tech weaponry, US "armed forces" and "elite" militarized police units are being trained to eradicate "disorder", "disturbance" and "civil disobedience" in America. Further, it may very well be that police/military "civil disturbance" planning is the animating force and the overarching logic behind the incredible nationwide growth of police paramilitary units, a growth which coincidentally mirrors rising levels of police violence directed at the American people, particularly "non-white" poor and working people.
Military spokespeople, "judge advocates" (lawyers) and their congressional supporters aggressively take the position that legal obstacles to military involvement in domestic law enforcement civil disturbance operations, such as the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, have been nullified. Legislated "exceptions" and private commercialization of various aspects of U.S. military-law enforcement efforts have supposedly removed their activities from the legal reach of the "public domain". Possibly illegal, ostensible "training" scenarios like the recent "Operation Urban Warrior" no-notice "urban terrain" war games, which took place in dozens of American cities, are thinly disguised "civil disturbance suppression" exercises. In addition, President Clinton recently appointed a "domestic military czar", a sort of national chief of police. You can bet that he is well versed in Garden Plot requirements involved in "homeland defense".
Ominously, many assume that the training of military and police forces to suppress "outlawed" behavior of citizens, along with the creation of extensive and sophisticated "emergency" social response networks set to spring into action in the event of "civil unrest", is prudent and acceptable in a democracy. And yet, does not this assumption beg the question as to what civil unrest is? One could argue for example, that civil disturbance is nothing less than democracy in action, a message to the powers-that-be that the people want change. In this instance "disturbing behavior" may actually be the exercising of ones' right to resist oppression. Unfortunately, the American corporate/military directorship, which has the power to enforce its' definition of "disorder", sees democracy as a threat and permanent counter-revolution as a "national security" requirement.
The elite military/corporate sponsors of Garden Plot have their reasons for civil disturbance contingency planning. Lets' call it the paranoia of the thief. Their rationale is simple: self-preservation. Fostering severe and targeted "austerity", massive inequality and unbridled greed, while shifting more and more billions to the generals and the rich, the de-regulated "entities of force" and their interlocking corporate directors know quite well what their policies are engendering, namely, a growing resistance. Consequently, they are systematically organizing to protect their interests, their profits, and their criminal conspiracies. To this end, they are rapidly consolidating an infrastructure of repression designed to "suppress rebellion" against their "authority". Or more conveniently put, to suppress "rebellion against the authority of the United States." And so, as the Pentagon Incorporated increases its imperialist violence around the world, the chickens have indeed come home to roost here in America in the form of a national security doctrine obsessed with domestic "insurgency" and the need to pre-emptively neutralize it. Its' code-name: "Garden Plot".
Recently, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth H. Bacon "acknowledged that the Air Force wrongfully started and financed a highly classified, still-secret project, known as a black program without informing Congress last year." The costs and nature of these projects "are the most classified secrets in the Pentagon."(1) Could it be that the current United States Air Force Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2 Garden Plot is one such program financed from this secret budget? We have a right to know. And following Seattle, we have the need to know.
As this and numerous other documents reveal, U.S. military training in civil disturbance "suppression", which targets the American public, is in full operation today. The formulation of legitimizing doctrine, the training in the "tactics and techniques" of "civil disturbance suppression", and the use of "abusable", "non-lethal" weaponry, are ongoing, financed by tax dollars. According to the Pentagon, "US forces deployed to assist federal and local authorities during times if civil disturbance will follow use-of-force policy found in Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan-Garden Plot." (Joint Chiefs of Staff, Standing Rules of Engagement, Appendix A, 1 October 1994.)
When business in the United States underwent a mild contraction in 1927, the Federal Reserve created more paper reserves in the hope of forestalling any possible bank reserve shortage. More disastrous, however, was the Federal Reserve�s attempt to assist Great Britain who had been losing gold to us because the Bank of England refused to allow interest rates to rise when market forces dictated (it was politically unpalatable). The reasoning of the authorities involved was as follows: if the Federal Reserve pumped excessive paper reserves (e.g. printed money) into American banks, interest rates in the United States would fall to a level comparable with those in Great Britain; this would act to stop Britain�s gold loss and avoid the political embarrassment of having to raise interest rates. The �Fed� succeeded; it stopped the gold loss, but it nearly destroyed the economies of the world, in the process.
The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market-triggering a fantastic speculative boom. Belatedly, Federal Reserve officials attempted to sop up the excess reserves and finally succeeded in braking the boom. But it was too late: by 1929 the speculative imbalances had become so overwhelming that the attempt precipitated a sharp retrenching and a consequent demoralizing of business confidence. As a result, the American economy collapsed. Great Britain fared even worse, and rather than absorb the full consequences of her previous folly, she abandoned the gold standard completely in 1931, tearing asunder what remained of the fabric of confidence and inducing a world-wide series of bank failures. The world economies plunged into the Great Depression of the 1930�s.�
Jim Cramer the CNBC host of the show Mad Money has stated that there should be an investigation into the Federal Reserve. In a video interview posted on TheStreet.Com, Cramer criticized Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a series of interest rate cuts and even went as far to say that the Federal Reserve has been behind a great many of the economic booms and busts. The majority of the establishment press has been afraid to criticize the Federal Reserve and speak these intolerable truths. Cramer should be commended for having the courage to speak out against this criminal private central bank. There is no question that there should be an investigation into the Federal Reserve considering that it has operated in a very secretive fashion and have dramatically devalued the nation's currency ever since its inception in 1913.
Bluntly speaking, the Federal Reserve�s interest rate cuts are criminal in nature. They increase the money supply as a short term economic fix but sacrifice the value of the U.S. Dollar in the long run. Each time the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates it lowers the value of the U.S. Dollar which robs people�s bank accounts without them even knowing it. This is the inflation tax that Ron Paul has referred to on many occasions. Sure, cutting interest rates might make the stock market numbers look better, but by continuing to cut interest rates like Bernanke has done which devalues the monetary unit everything is valued in only means that the day of reckoning will be that much worse. Amazingly enough, the Federal Reserve is actually considering another interest rate cut of 50 basis points next week. The rationale behind this is very strange, as they should be hiking interest rates higher in order to save the value of the U.S. Dollar. It almost appears as if Bernanke has no intention of rescuing the U.S. Dollar and is content to delay what will be a certain economic crash of epic proportions. Regional economic integration has been one of the major goals of the elite financial establishment, so it looks all the more likely that they are content to destroy the U.S. Dollar and introduce a regional currency to replace it.
It appears as if Cramer understands what is happening with the economy and doesn�t care what the establishment thinks of him. He has passionately criticized the Federal Reserve on CNBC several times and praised Ron Paul for his views on the central bank. He has even stated that the financial markets are manipulated. Cramer understands what is happening and unlike his colleagues in the establishment media he at least has the guts to tell it like it is. It is encouraging that he has called for an investigation of the Federal Reserve because one is certainly needed. These bankers have bankrupted the United States and destroyed our economy. They need to be held accountable for their criminal actions.
so why is this stooge of the "corporate media" to be believed when nobody else can? your selective emphasis is ASTOUNDING.
Posted by Trancer-X on Jan-25-2008 09:47:
He's definitely not a stooge. He seems to be getting increasingly vocal about the Fed (particularly Chairman Bernanke) and even thanked Ron Paul for giving him the cover to be able to do so when he had him on his show.
Do you ever post anything even remotely intelligent or of interest here or do you just get your jollies by mocking, ridiculing and antagonizing otherwise well meaning TrancEaddicts? Or maybe you are just some lowly psy-op. lol
Posted by donnybrasco on Jan-25-2008 10:15:
^^^Trancer; Why is it everywhere you look, you see a conspiracy afoot?
Have you ever thought about why that is? I'm honestly curious as to your answer.
Posted by Trancer-X on Jan-25-2008 17:45:
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Originally posted by donnybrasco
^^^Trancer; Why is it everywhere you look, you see a conspiracy afoot?
Have you ever thought about why that is? I'm honestly curious as to your answer.
While it's definitely not everywhere, it is a lot more common than the vast majority of people are led to believe. Plus add to that fact that when you start to talk about it, you always have a small handful of bumbling buffoons who want to silence you simply because they are too frightened to hear anything that challenges their narrowly defined perceptions of this world (but yet for some reason they keep listening, anyway.)
I think I just notice certain things more easily because over the past few years I've been studying various intertwining topics which all ultimately seem to point in similar directions, from the metaphysical nature of reality and how it's been concealed from us to the hidden history of the world (possibly antediluvian) which preceded the Ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia to the current Astrotheology which IMO the Roman Catholic Church (probably beginning with Constantine) has cleverly guised itself as Christianity and on and on. If you've studied the Knights Templars or the Knights Hospitallers, chivalric orders which many of the current day Catholic orders (such as G. H. W. Bush's much beloved SMOM) have roots in, you'd understand that even as far back as the early thirteenth century, King Frederick II was accusing the templars of war-mongering, saying that their military order perpetuated wars because it could not exist in peacetime.
I guess sometimes it almost seems like we've come full circle.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Jan-25-2008 19:55:
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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
so why is this stooge of the "corporate media" to be believed when nobody else can? your selective emphasis is ASTOUNDING.
Because he likes Ron Paul. It's really the only bar for making sense. Anybody else does not compute.
Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Jan-25-2008 19:58:
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Originally posted by Trancer-X
you always have a small handful of bumbling buffoons who want to silence you simply because they are too frightened to hear anything that challenges their narrowly defined perceptions of this world
It's a tough life living on the lunatic fringe.
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(but yet for some reason they keep listening, anyway.)
but yet for some reason they still haven't been convinced. Imagine.
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I think I just notice certain things more easily because of my large intellectual dick size, which I like to wave in the faces of anyone who doesn't agree with me.
Fixed.
Posted by donnybrasco on Jan-25-2008 20:17:
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Originally posted by Trancer-X
While it's definitely not everywhere, it is a lot more common than the vast majority of people are led to believe. Plus add to that fact that when you start to talk about it, you always have a small handful of bumbling buffoons who want to silence you simply because they are too frightened to hear anything that challenges their narrowly defined perceptions of this world (but yet for some reason they keep listening, anyway.)
I think I just notice certain things more easily because over the past few years I've been studying various intertwining topics which all ultimately seem to point in similar directions, from the metaphysical nature of reality and how it's been concealed from us to the hidden history of the world (possibly antediluvian) which preceded the Ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia to the current Astrotheology which IMO the Roman Catholic Church (probably beginning with Constantine) has cleverly guised itself as Christianity and on and on. If you've studied the Knights Templars or the Knights Hospitallers, chivalric orders which many of the current day Catholic orders (such as G. H. W. Bush's much beloved SMOM) have roots in, you'd understand that even as far back as the early thirteenth century, King Frederick II was accusing the templars of war-mongering, saying that their military order perpetuated wars because it could not exist in peacetime.
I guess sometimes it almost seems like we've come full circle.
Your answer is interesting, I grant you that.
But I think conspiracies on the level you see them are too complex to be realistic. You're giving too much credit to the powers that be in terms of their ability to bend our will and public opinion to suit their desires for wars.
Now I'm not saying that these same powers won't or don't engage in deception from time to time, in order to perpetuate some of their agendas. I'm also not saying that they don't have a vested interest in making more money or gaining more power. But you have to draw a line between what is possible, and what is logistically NOT possible.
We live in a country with a free press. Do they catch everything that's newsworthy and report it all, all the time? No. But do they miss the really big stories? Not at all. If there were conspiracies afoot at the levels to which you see them, there is NO reason why they wouldn't be widely reported. Is there bias in the media? Sure. But there are enough competing outlets with variances in their bias to make sure that the larger stories don't go ignored.
There is also two-party political system that is always latching on to the tiniest snip-its of negative news about their opponents, in the hopes that they can ruin them politically.
Given these checks and balances, "Grand" conspiracies are not possible. Small ones are, sure...ones between 2 or 3 or 4 people. Like a conspiracy to rob a bank, or to commit murder. But if "history" has proven ANYTHING, it's that keeping a secret amongst any more than two people is almost impossible! People talk. Someone ALWAYS gains something by talking and exposing a conspiracy. And also (to be repetitive), people TALK!! It's in our human nature to want to talk, confess, gossip, gain favor by exposing, etc.
But the real bottom line is; The incentive to perpetuate a conspiracy has to be greater than the incentive to expose it...ESPECIALLY the more people that are involved. The more people you involve, the more likely it is that someone is going to have a dissenting view and will expose the conspiracy for this reason.
So in many of these threads where you see conspiracies afoot, I don't see the incentive for them...not on the scale that you're advocating. They defy logic in many cases, and logistics in all of the rest...or both.
Posted by Trancer-X on Jan-26-2008 20:44:
A preacher tells it like it is about the Federal Reserve
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Conquering the Spirit of Debt
This amazing sermon given in Sept 2003 by Pastor Rod Parsley at Breakthrough Church in Columbus Ohio details the story of how Paul Warburg, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan met with Senator Aldridge at a conference in Jekyll Island to create the Federal Reserve Banking System in America circa 1913.
Most people hear about the "national debt" but few ask what it means or who we owe.
Posted by Trancer-X on Jan-28-2008 09:36:
Comprehensive Economic Revitalization Plan
prescription-for-prosperity
Introduction
America became the greatest, most prosperous nation in human history through low taxes, constitutionally limited government, personal freedom and a belief in sound money. We need to return to these principles so our economy can thrive again. When enacted, my plan will provide both short-term stimulus and lay the groundwork for long-term prosperity.
Other candidates talk a lot about stimulus packages, but my record stands alone. I have fought for these measures for years as a member of Congress and will make them a top priority as president.
Ron Paul, a 10-term Republican Congressman from Texas's 14th District, is currently the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology. He has been named "Taxpayers' Best Friend" for 10 consecutive years by the National Taxpayers' Union. Ron Paul is also the author of several books on monetary policy and economics.
The Four-Point Plan
Tax Reform: Reduce the tax burden and eliminate taxes that punish investment and savings, including job-killing corporate taxes.
Spending Reform: Eliminate wasteful spending. Reduce overseas commitments. Freeze all non-defense, non-entitlement spending at current levels.
Monetary Policy Reform: Expand openness at the Federal Reserve and require the Fed to televise its meetings. Return value to our money.
Regulatory Reform: Repeal Sarbanes/Oxley regulations that push companies to seek capital outside of US markets. Stop restricting community banks from fostering local economic growth.
1. Tax Reform
* Eliminate Taxes on Dividends and Savings. The basis of capitalism is savings, and Americans who do so should be rewarded.
o Pass HJ Res. 23 to encourage savings over consumption.
* Repeal the Death Tax. Attacking small businesses and breaking up family farms smothers growth and kills jobs.
o Pass H.R. 2734 to make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
* Cut Taxes for Working Seniors. Grandmothers and grandfathers working to make ends meet should keep all the fruits of their labor.
o Pass H.R. 191 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits.
* Eliminate Taxes on Social Security Benefits. That money belongs to seniors, not the government. They paid into the system for a lifetime, and they should be free to spend every penny as they see fit.
o Pass H.R. 192 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 increase in taxes on Social Security benefits.
* Accelerate Depreciation on Investment. We need to help companies grow and create jobs.
o Pass H.R. 4995 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce corporate marginal income tax rates.
* Eliminate Taxes on Capital Gains. Investment should be embraced and rewarded.
o Pass H.J. Res 23 (The �Liberty Amendment�), proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.
* Eliminate Taxes on Tips. The single parents and working students who earn their income chiefly through tips deserve to keep all of their money. This tax on "estimated income" is unfair and should be ended.
o Pass H.R. 3664 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide that tips shall not be subject to income or employment taxes.
* Support the Mortgage Cancellation Relief Act. Working families who lost their homes should not be punished a second time with a big IRS bill.
o Pass H.R. 1876 to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from the gross income of individual taxpayers discharges of indebtedness attributable to certain forgiven residential mortgage obligations.
2. Spending Reform
* Reduce Overseas Military Commitments. Our bases and troops should be on our soil.
o It's time to stop subsidizing our trading partners in Europe, Japan and South Korea.
* Freeze Non-Defense, Non-Entitlement Spending at Current Levels
o I vote against all bloated, pork laden spending bills and will veto them as president.
3. Monetary Policy Reform
* Televise Federal Open Market Committee Meetings. An institution as powerful as the Federal Reserve deserves full public scrutiny.
* Expand Transparency and Accountability at the Federal Reserve
o Pass H.R. 2754 to require the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to continue to make available to the public on a weekly basis information on the measure of the M3 monetary aggregate and its components.
* Return Value to Our Money. Legalize gold and silver as a competing currency.
o Level the long-term boom and bust business cycle by passing H.R. 4683, which would repeal provisions of the federal criminal code relating to issuing coins of gold, silver, or other metal for use as current money and making or possessing likenesses of such coins.
4. Regulatory Reform
* Repeal Sarbanes/Oxley. It has seriously wounded our capital markets and helped make the UK a financial center at our expense.
o Ending these misguided regulations would bring jobs flooding back to the United States
o Pass H.R. 1049 to reform Sarbanes-Oxley and reduce the burden it places on small businesses.
* Repeal or Remove Costly and Unnecessary Federal Regulations. Neighbors know best how to help their neighbors.
o We need to make it easier for community banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions to better serve their communities and to help people in these communities get access to credit and capital.
o Pass H.R. 1869 to enhance the ability of community banks to foster economic growth and serve their communities, boost small businesses, increase individual savings, and for other purposes.
What would happen if the Federal Reserve was dismantled, and what would be the alternative of Ron Paul?
Tomorrow's primary day for Florida...
Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-02-2008 08:10:
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Originally posted by Krypton
I've got a question...
What would happen if the Federal Reserve was dismantled, and what would be the alternative of Ron Paul?
Tomorrow's primary day for Florida...
good question
Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-02-2008 08:10:
Posted by atbell on Feb-03-2008 18:02:
Oh, don't be doing that. If you do the government will send in the troops to set things right, just like they cleaned up New Orleans right away.
Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-03-2008 18:36:
Lawyer who beat IRS sues agents Seeks damages for alleged 'smear and fear' campaign
Posted: January 4, 2008
A lawyer who was acquitted by a federal court trial jury of Internal Revenue Service accusations he failed to filed income tax returns for two years now is suing several IRS agents over their alleged improper disclosure of his personal information in the case.
A spokeswoman in the office of lawyer Tom Cryer told WND the case was assembled and filed by Cryer between Christmas Day and the end of 2007 and is expected to be placed on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
Last summer in federal court a jury voted 12-0 to find Cryer, of Shreveport, not guilty of the IRS allegations. He had been indicted on 2006 on government claims he failed to pay $73,000 to the IRS in 2000 and 2001.
His successful defense was based on a challenge to the IRS to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation's income tax.
Now his claim against the government's agents, according to a report in the Shreveport Times, explains four IRS criminal investigation division workers tried to destroy his reputation during the course of their investigation in the case.
The lawsuit alleges IRS agents Jimmy H. Sandefur, Darrin A. Heusel and Judge Armand, and a trainee, Patrick Potter "entered into a smear and fear campaign to destroy Plaintiff's good reputation and law practice."
Cryer alleges the federal workers repeatedly violated federal laws that restrict the disclosure of tax information, release of information about an investigation and publicizing information about a grand jury investigation.
The report said Cryer's lawsuit alleges the agents continually raised those issues in telephone calls, during personal visits and in letters exchanged with Cryer's clients during their investigation.
The action seeks $1,000 in damages for each incident in which a federal agent compromised Cryer's confidential information.
Cryer also has submitted a request to the U.S. attorney's office, seeking an investigation of the agents, but neither the federal prosecutor nor the IRS could be reached for comment on the cases, the report said.
"I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples' property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever," Cryer said after his acquittal.
He said he is dedicated to the truth, and has launched a new Truth Attack website that is intended to build on his victory, and create a coalition of resources to defeat � ultimately � the income tax in the United States.
Cryer told WND the issue is not that complicated. Essentially, he argued that income is not necessarily any money that comes to a person, but rather categories such as profit and interest.
He said the free exchange of labor for compensation has been upheld as a right by the Supreme Court, but that doesn't necessarily make the compensation income.
"The Founding Fathers intentionally restricted the taxing powers of the new federal government as a measure of restraint on its size. By exceeding that limited taxing authority the federal government has been able to obtain resources beyond its intended reach, and that money has enabled the federal government to exceed its authority," he said.
For example, he said, the Constitution does not empower the federal government to regulate education, or employment, and agriculture, yet it does so.
"There are three points that are important," he said at the time. "There's no law making the average working man liable [for income taxes], there's no law or regulation that allows the IRS to contend that earnings are 100 percent profit received in exchange for nothing, and the right to earn a living through any lawful occupation is a constitutionally protected fundamental right, and it is exempt from taxation."
Spokesman Robert Marvin in Washington's IRS office then told WND the Internal Revenue Code provides for taxation on salaries or wages, but when pressed for a specific citation, or constitutional provision, he said, "I can't comment."
Cryer's encounter with tax law began more than a decade ago when a friend told him the income tax was sham. Cryer started researching, hoping to keep his friend out of trouble. But his conclusions, after years of research, were exactly what his friend told him.
His acquittal, he said, was a precedent because it means "people can see and recognize the truth."
He said multiple Supreme Court opinions have affirmed an individual's ownership of his or her own labor, and "exercising your fundamental rights" is not taxable. "It is definitely a trade. What most people receive in the form of wages, salaries or in my case fees that they personally earned for their labor is not received in exchange for nothing."
He said there might be a profit that should be taxable, but there might not.
"The IRS lets Wal-Mart sell a trillion dollars worth of goods, but they can back out their cost of goods [before being taxed,]" he said. "The IRS considers, in the case of a Wal-Mart wage earner, 100 percent of what he takes in is profit."
"But he's using his life, energy and work lifespan, and depleting it as he goes," Cryer told WND. "[Working] is a God-given fundamental right that is protected under the Constitution and can't be taxed any more than exercising freedom of speech."
From the author of The Creature From Jekyll Island
Thank you once again, G. Edward Griffin!!
"The Capitalist Conspiracy"
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Written and narrated by G. Edward Griffin. An old film, made sometime in the 60's.
This is an adaptation of a documentary filmstrip tracing the history of a small group of people who control the money systems of the world. It shows how this group is protected by governments and how its wealth is derived by creating money out of nothing. We see how this group wields power through government, foundations, education, and the mass media. It has aided such regimes as Russia and China, not because it is pro-Communist, but because a visible enemy and the threat of war have been useful in persuading the masses to embrace the group's ultimate goal: a world government which they expect to control from behind the scenes. They are now working to replace fear of nuclear war with fear of global pollution as the motivation for world government. It is clear that the plan revealed in this program continues to unfold.
Monopoly is not an outgrowth of capitalism. Monopolists lobby for laws that give them advantages in the market place. Monopoloy is not based on free-enterprise competition, but the escape from it. It is not the product of capitalism but the bedfellow of socialism.
Posted by Trancer-X on Apr-03-2008 01:01:
Father Coughlin Speaks Out Against the Federal Reserve in 1936
Posted by Trancer-X on Apr-05-2008 07:23:
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"The powers of financial capitalism had (a) far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world"
- Carroll Quigley (Historian and professor of history at Georgetown University and consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Navy, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration)
Posted by Trancer-X on Apr-05-2008 07:27:
Ron Paul grills the Fed Chairman again
April 2, 2008
C-Span
Posted by Trancer-X on Apr-07-2008 06:15:
Ron Paul Debates a Federal Reserve Governor in 1983
Ron Paul debates a Federal Reserve Governor in 1983
Posted by Krypton on Apr-07-2008 21:25:
Thread closed. The debate is over. No more propaganda Trancer....
