From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #162 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Monday, July 13 1998 Volume 02 : Number 162 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 98 13:37:20 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: pdml] An Essay You Must Read (fwd) On Jul 13, by way of Ann Utterback wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] http://www.america-collins.com/essay-art1.htm An Essay You Must Read LAND-MINE LEGISLATION by Claire Wolfe Let me run by you a brief list of items that are "the law" in America today. As you read, consider what all these have in common. 1. A national database of employed people. 2. 100 pages of new "health care crimes," for which the penalty is (among other things) seizure of assets from both doctors and patients. 3. Confiscation of assets from any American who establishes foreign citizenship. 4. The largest gun confiscation act in U.S. history - which is also an unconstitutional ex postfacto law and the first law ever to remove people's constitutional rights for committing a misdemeanor. 5. A law banning guns in ill-defined school zones; random roadblocks may be used for enforcement; gun-bearing residents could become federal criminals just by stepping outside their doors or getting into vehicles. 6. Increased funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, an agency infamous for its brutality, dishonesty and ineptitude. 7. A law enabling the executive branch to declare various groups "Terrorists" - without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and membership lists must be turned over to the government. 8. A law authorizing secret trials with secret evidence for certain classes of people. 9. A law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers licenses carrying Social Security numbers and "security features" (such as magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000. By October 1, 2006, "Neither the Social Security Administration or the Passport Office or any other Federal agency or any State or local government agency may accept for any evidentiary purpose a State driver's license or identification document in a form other than [one issued with a verified Social Security number and 'security features']." 10. And my personal favorite - a national database, now being constructed, that will contain every exchange and observation that takes place in your doctor's office. This includes records of your prescriptions, your hemorrhoids and your mental illness. It also includes - by law - any statements you make ("Doc, I'm worried my kid may be on drugs...... Doc, I've been so stressed out lately I feel about ready to go postal.") and any observations your doctor makes about your mental or physical condition, whether accurate or not, whether made with your knowledge or not. For the time being, there will be zero (count 'em, zero) privacy safeguards on this data. But don't worry, your government will protect you with some undefined "privacy standards" in a few years. All of the above items are the law of the land. Federal law. What else do they have in common? Well, when I ask this question to audiences, I usually get the answer, "They're all unconstitutional." True. My favorite answer came from an eloquent college student who blurted, "They all SUUUCK!" Also true. But the saddest and most telling answer is: They were all the product of the 104th Congress. Every one of the horrors above was imposed upon you by the Congress of the Republican-Revolution -- the Congress that pledged to "get government off your back." BURYING TIME BOMBS All of the above became law by being buried in larger bills. In many cases, they are hidden sneak attacks upon individual liberties that were neither debated on the floor of Congress nor reported in the media. For instance, three of the most horrific items (the health care database, asset confiscation for foreign residency and the 100 pages of health care crimes) were hidden in the Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HR 3103). You didn't hear about them at the time because the media was too busy celebrating this moderate, compromise bill that "simply" ensured that no American would ever lose insurance coverage due to a job change or a Pre-existing condition. Your legislator may not have heard about them, either. Because he or she didn't care enough to do so. The fact is, most legislators don't even read the laws they inflict upon the public. They read the title of the bill (which may be something like "The Save the Sweet Widdle Babies from Gun Violence by Drooling Drug Fiends Act of 1984"). They read summaries, which are often prepared by the very agencies or groups pushing the bill. And they vote according to various deals or pressures. It also sometimes happens that the most horrible provisions are sneaked into bills during conference committee negotiations, after both House and Senate have voted on their separate versions of the bills. The conference committee process is supposed simply to reconcile differences between two versions of a bill. But power brokers use it for purposes of their own, adding what they wish. Then members of the House and Senate vote on the final, unified version of the bill, often in a great rush, and often without even having the amended text available for review. I have even heard (though I cannot verify) that stealth provisions were written into some bills after all the voting has taken place. Someone with a hidden agenda simply edits them in to suit his or her own purposes. So these time bombs become "law" without ever having been voted on by anybody. And who's to know? If congress people don't even read legislation before they vote on it, why would they bother reading it afterward? Are power brokers capable of such chicanery? Do we even need to ask? Is the computer system in which bills are stored vulnerable to tampering by people within or outside of Congress? We certainly should ask. Whether your legislators were ignorant of the infamy they were perpetrating, or whether they knew, one thing is absolutely certain: The Constitution, your legislator's oath to it, and your inalienable rights (which precede the Constitution) never entered into anyone's consideration. Ironically, you may recall that one of the early pledges of Newt Gingrich and Company was to stop these stealth attacks. Very early in the 104th Congress, the Republican leadership declared that, henceforth, all bills would deal only with the subject matter named in the title of the bill. When, at the beginning of the first session of the 104th, pro-gun Republicans attempted to attach a repeal of the "assault weapons" ban to another bill, House leaders dismissed their amendment as not being "germane." After that self-righteous and successful attempt to prevent pro-freedom stealth legislation, Congress people turned right around and got back to the dirty old business of practicing all the anti-freedom stealth they were capable of. STEALTH ATTACKS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT Three other items on my list (ATF funding, gun confiscation and school zone roadblocks) were also buried in a big bill - HR 3610, the budget appropriation passed near the end of the second session of the 104th Congress. No legislator can claim to have been unaware of these three because they were brought to public attention by gun-rights groups and hotly debated in both Congress and the media. Yet some 90 percent of all congress people voted for them including many who claim to be ardent protectors of the rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. Why? Well, in the case of my wrapped-in-the-flag, allegedly pro-gun, Republican congressperson: "Bill Clinton made me do it!" Okay, I paraphrase. What she actually said was more like, "It was part of a budget appropriations package. The public got mad at us for shutting the government down in 1994. If we hadn't voted for this budget bill, they might have elected a Democratic legislature in 1996 - and you wouldn't want THAT, would you?" Oh heavens, no I'd much rather be enslaved by people who spell their name with an R than people who spell their name with a D. Makes all the difference in the world! HOW SNEAK ATTACKS ARE JUSTIFIED The Republicans are fond of claiming that Bill Clinton "forced" them to pass certain legislation by threatening to veto anything they sent to the White House that didn't meet his specs. In other cases (as with the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill), they proudly proclaim their misdeeds in the name of bipartisanship - while carefully forgetting -to mention the true nature of what they're doing. In still others, they trumpet their triumph over the evil Democrats and claim the mantle of limited government while sticking it to us and to the Constitution. The national database of workers was in the welfare reform bill they "forced" Clinton to accept. The requirement for SS numbers and ominous "security" devices on drivers licenses originated in their very own Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, HR 2202. Another common trick, called to my attention by Redmon Barbry, publisher of the electronic magazine Fratricide, is to hide duplicate or near-duplicate provisions in several bills. Then, when the Supreme Court declares Section A of Law Z to be - -unconstitutional, its kissing cousin, Section B of Law Y, remains to rule us. Sometimes this particular form of trickery is done even more brazenly; when the Supreme Court, in its Lopez decision, declared federal-level school zone gun bans unconstitutional because Congress demonstrated no jurisdiction, Congress brassily changed a few words. They claimed that school zones fell under the heading of "interstate commerce." Then they sneaked the provision into HR 3610, where it became "law" once again. When angry voters upbraid congress people about some Big Brotherish horror they've inflicted upon the country by stealth, they claim lack of knowledge, lack of time, party pressure, public pressure, or they justify themselves by claiming that the rest of the bill was "good". The simple fact is that, regardless of what reasons legislators may claim, the U.S. Congress has passed more Big Brother legislation in the last two years - more laws to enable tracking, spying and controlling - than any Democratic congress ever passed. And they have done it, in large part, in secret. Redmon Barbry put it best: "We the people have the right to expect our elected representatives to read, comprehend and master the bills they vote on. If this means Congress passes only 50 bills per session instead of 5,000, so be it. As far as I am concerned, whoever subverts this process is committing treason." By whatever means the deed is done, there is no acceptable excuse for voting against the Constitution, voting for tyranny. And I would add to Redmon's comments: Those who do read the bills, then knowingly vote to ravage our liberties, are doubly guilty. But when do the treason trials begin? BILLS AS WINDOW DRESSING FOR AN UGLY AGENDA The truth is that these tiny, buried provisions are often the real intent of the law, and that the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pages that surround them are sometimes nothing more than elaborate window dressing. These tiny time bombs are placed there at the behest of federal police agencies or other power groups whose agenda is not clearly visible to us. And their impact is felt long after the outward intent of the bill has been forgotten. Civil forfeiture - now one of the plagues of the nation was first introduced in the 1970s as one of those buried, almost unnoticed provisions of a larger law. One wonders why on earth a "health care bill" carried a provision to confiscate the assets of people who become frightened or discouraged enough to leave the country. (In fact, the entire bill was an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code. Go figure.) I think we all realize by now that that database of employed people will still be around enabling government to track our locations (and heaven knows what else. about us, as the database is enhanced and expanded) long after the touted benefits of "welfare reform" have failed to materialize. And most grimly of all, our drivers licenses will be our de facto national ID card long after immigrants have ceased to want to come to this Land of the Once Free. CONTROL REIGNS It matters not one whit whether the people controlling you call themselves R's or D's, liberals or conservatives, socialists or even (I hate to admit it) libertarians. It doesn't matter whether they vote for these horrors because they're not paying attention or because they actually like such things. What matters is that the pace of totalitarianism is increasing. And it is coming closer to our daily lives all the time. Once your state passes the enabling legislation (under threat of losing "federal welfare dollars"), it is YOUR name and Social Security number that will be entered in that employee database the moment you go to work for a new employer. It is YOU who will be unable to cash a check, board an airplane, get a passport or be allowed any dealings with any government agency if you refuse to give your SS number to the drivers license bureau. It is YOU who will be endangered by driving "illegally" if you refuse to submit to Big Brother's procedures. It is YOU whose psoriasis, manic depression or prostate troubles will soon be the reading matter of any bureaucrat with a computer. It is YOU who could be declared a member of a "foreign terrorist" organization just because you bought a book or concert tickets from some group the government doesn't like. It is YOU who could lose your home, bank account and reputation because you made a mistake on a health insurance form. Finally, when you become truly desperate for freedom, it is YOU whose assets will be seized if you try to flee this increasingly insane country. As Ayn Rand said in Atlas Shrugged, "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." It's time to drop any pretense: We are no longer law-abiding citizens. We have lost our law-abiding status. There are simply too many laws to abide. And because of increasingly draconian penalties and electronic tracking mechanisms, our "lawbreaking" places us and our families in greater jeopardy every day. STOPPING RUNAWAY GOVERNMENT The question is: What are we going to do about it? Write a. nice, polite letter to your congressperson? Hey, if you think that'll help, I've got a bridge you might be interested in buying. (And it isn't your "bridge to the future," either.) Vote "better people, into office? Oh yeah, that's what we thought we were doing in 1994. Work to fight one bad bill or another? Okay. What will you do about the 10 or 20 or 100 equally horrible bills that will be passed behind your back while you were fighting that little battle? And let's say you defeat a nightmare bill this year. What, are you going to do when they sneak it back in, at the very last minute, in some "omnibus legislation" next year? And what about the horrors you don't even learn about until two or three years after they become law? Should you try fighting these laws in the courts? Where do you find the resources? Where do you find a judge who doesn't have a vested interest in bigger, more powerful government? And again, for every one case decided in favor of freedom, what do you do about the 10, 20 or 100 in which the courts decide against the Bill of Rights? Perhaps you'd consider trying to stop the onrush of these horrors with a constitutional amendment - maybe one that bans "omnibus" bills, requires that every law meet a constitutional test or requires all congress people to sign statements that they've read and understood every aspect of every bill on which they vote. Good luck! Good luck, first, on getting such an amendment passed. Then good luck getting our Constitution-scorning "leaders" to obey it. It is true that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and part of that vigilance has been, traditionally, keeping a watchful eye on laws and on lawbreaking lawmakers. But given the current pace of law spewing and unconstitutional regulation-writing, you could watch, plead and struggle "within the system" 24 hours a day for your entire life and end up infinitely less free than when you begin. Why throw your life away on a futile effort? Face it. If "working within the system" could halt tyranny, the tyrants would outlaw it. Why do you think they encourage you to vote, to write letters, to talk to them in public forums? It's to divert your energies. To keep you tame. 'The system" as it presently exists is nothing but a rat maze. You run around thinking you're getting somewhere. Your masters occasionally reward you with a little pellet that encourages you to believe you're accomplishing something. And in the meantime, you are as much their property and their pawn as if you were a slave. In the effort of fighting them on their terms and with their authorized and approved tools, you have given your life's energy to them as surely as if you were toiling in their cotton fields, under the lash of their overseer. The only way we're going to get off this road to Hell is if we jump off. If we, personally, as individuals, refuse to cooperate with evil. How we do that is up to each of us. I can't decide for you, nor you for me. (Unlike congress people, who think they can decide for everybody.) But this totalitarian runaway truck is never going to stop unless we stop it, in any way we can. Stopping it might include any number of things: tax resistance; public civil disobedience; wide-scale, silent non-cooperation; highly noisy non-cooperation; boycotts; secession efforts; monkey wrenching; computer hacking; dirty tricks against government agents; public shunning of employees of abusive government agencies; alternative, self-sufficient communities that provide their own medical care and utilities. There are thousands of avenues to take, and this is something most of us still need to give more thought to before we can build an effective resistance. We will each choose the courses that are right for our own circumstances, personalities and beliefs. Whatever we do, though, we must remember that we are all, already, outlaws. Not one of us can be certain going through a single day without violating some law or regulation we've never even heard of. We are all guilty in the eyes of today's law. If someone in power chooses to target us, we can all, already, be prosecuted for something. And I'm sure you know that your claims of "good intentions" won't protect you, as the similar claims of politicians protect them. Politicians are above the law. YOU are under it. Crushed under it. When you look at it that way, we have little left to lose by breaking laws creatively and purposefully. Yes, some of us will suffer horrible consequences for our lawbreaking. It is very risky to actively resist unbridled power. It is especially risky to go public with resistance (unless hundreds of thousands publicly join us), and it becomes riskier the closer we get to tyranny. For that reason, among many others, I would never recommend any particular course of action to anyone - and I hope you'll think twice before taking "advice" from anybody about things that could jeopardize your life or well-being. But if we don't resist in the best ways we know how and if a good number of us don't resist loudly and publicly - all of us will suffer the much worse consequences of living under total oppression. And whatever courses of action we choose, we must remember that this legislative "revolution" against We the People will not be stopped by politeness. It will not be stopped by requests. It will not be stopped by "working within a system" governed by those who regard us as nothing but cattle. It will not be stopped by pleading for justice from those who will resort to any degree of trickery or violence to rule us. It will not be stopped unless we are willing to risk our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honors to stop it. I think of the words of Winston Churchill: "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." NOTES on the laws listed above: 1. (employee database) Welfare Reform Bill, HR 3734; became public law 104-193 on 8/22196; see section 453A. 2. (health care crimes) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HR 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96. 3. (asset confiscation for citizenship change) Same law as #2; see; sections 511-513. 4., 5., and 6. (anti-gun laws) Omnibus Appropriations Act, HR 3610; became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96. 7. and 8. (terrorism & secret trials) Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; S 735; became public law 104-132 on 4/24/96; see all of Title III, specifically sections 302 and 219; also see all of Tide IV, specifically sections 401, 501, 502 and 503. 9. (de facto national ID card) Began life in the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996, sections III, II 8, 119, 127 and 133; was eventually folded into the Omnibus Appropriations Act, HR 3610 (which was itself formerly called the Defense Appropriations Act - but we wouldn't want to confuse anyone, here, would we?); became public law 104-208 on 9/30/96; see sections 656 and 657 among others. 10. (health care database) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HR 3103; became public law 104-191 on 8/21/96; see sections 262, 263 and 264, among others. The various provisions that make up the full horror of this database are scattered throughout the bill and may take hours to track down; this one is stealth legislation at its utmost sneakiest. And one final, final note: Although I spent aggravating hours verifying the specifics of these bills (a task I swear I will never waste my life on again!), the original list of bills at the top of this article was NOT the result of extensive research. It was simply what came off the top of my head when I thought of Big Brotherish bills from the 104th Congress. For all I know, Congress has passed 10 times more of that sort of thing. In fact, the worst "law" in the list -- #9, the de facto national ID card -- just came to my attention as I was writing this essay, thanks to the enormous efforts of Jackie - Juntti and Ed Lyon and others, who researched the law. Think of it: Thanks to congressional stealth tactics, we had the long-dreaded national ID card legislation for five months, without a whisper of discussion, before freedom activists began to find out about it. Makes you wonder what else might be lurking out there, doesn't it? And on that cheery note - THE END Copyrighted by Claire Wolfe. Permission to reprint freely granted, provided the article is reprinted in full and that any reprint is accompanied by this copyright statement - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1997 America-Collins 5736 Highway 42 North, Forsyth, GA 31029 Office: 912-994-4064 Fax: 912-994-4066 Voice Mail: 800-286-0558 E-Mail: america-collins@america-collins.com http://www.america-collins.com APFN@netbox.com APFN WEB: http://www.esotericworldnews.com/apfncont.htm American Patriot Friends Network (APFN) Without Justice, there is JUST_US! The following items were added to GAO's World Wide Web site in Portable Document (PDF) format. - - Bosnia Peace Operation: Pace of Implementing the Dayton Accelerated as International Involvement Increased. NSIAD-98-138. 151 pp plus 11 appendices (51 pp.) June 5, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98138.pdf - - Civil Service Reform: Observations on Demonstration Authority, the Use of Official Time, and the Administrative Redress System. T-GGD-98-160. 17 pp. plus 1 appendix (1 pp.) June 24, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg98160t.pdf - - Community Development: Early Results of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund's Programs. T-RCED-98-229. 14 pp. June 17, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/rc98229t.pdf - - Defense Acquisition Organizations: Status of Workforce Reductions. NSIAD-98-161. 18 pp. plus 2 appendices (2 pp.) June 29, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98161.pdf - - Drug Control: An Overview of U.S. Counterdrug Intelligence Activities. NSIAD-98-142. 23 pp. plus 4 appendices (41 pp.) June 25, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98142.pdf - - Financial Management: Training of DOD Financial Managers Could Be Enhanced. AIMD-98-126. 19 pp. plus 4 appendices (8 pp.) June 24, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ai98126.pdf - - Grant Programs: Design Features Shape Flexibility, Accountability, and Performance Information. GGD-98-137. 38 pp. plus 2 appendices (34 pp.) June 22, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg98137.pdf - - Law Enforcement: Information on Drug-Related Police Corruption. GGD-98-111. 36 pp. plus 4 appendices (7 pp.) May 28, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg98111.pdf - - Money Laundering: FinCEN's Law Enforcement Support Role Is Evolving. GGD-98-117. 43 pp. plus 7 appendices (32 pp.) June 19, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg98117.pdf - - Results Act: Observations on Treasury's Fiscal Year 1999 Annual Performance Plan. GGD-98-149. 20 pp. June 30, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg98149.pdf - - School Finance: State Efforts to Equalize Funding Between Wealthy and Poor School Districts. HEHS-98-92. 61 pp. plus 7 appendices (40 pp.) June 16, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/he98092.pdf - - Social Security Administration: Technical and Performance Challenges Threaten Progress of Modernization. AIMD-98-136. 19 pp. plus 2 appendices (6 pp.) June 19, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ai98136.pdf - - Space Station: U.S. Life-Cycle Funding Requirements. T-NSIAD-98-212. 8 pp. plus 1 appendix (1 pp.) June 24, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ns98212t.pdf - - Tax Administration: IRS Measures Could Provide a More Balanced Picture of Audit Results and Costs. GGD-98-128. 23 pp. plus 6 appendices (15 pp.) June 23, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/gg98128.pdf - - Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Testing and Other Challenges Confronting Federal Agencies. T-AIMD-98-218. 12 pp. June 22, 1998. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/ai98218t.pdf [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 98 13:34:13 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Harass Congress for Free (fwd) On Jul 13, SAAMIDC@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FYI -- it'd be a good time to hit them on killing the NICS tax, particularly in the Senate, where the amendment will have to be shoved into the Commerce- State-Justice Approps. bill on the floor. PGO'M. Wash., D.C. >MONDAY >JULY 13, 1998 > >New toll-free hotline to Congress >Line working again after being shut down for months > >Congress is making a new toll-free number available for >citizens who would like to make their voices heard in > Washington. > >The new number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is >1-800-504-0031. > >© 1998 Western Journalism Center [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Jul 98 13:36:19 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: The Darkness Deepens: Four Weeks Until Dictatorship (fwd) On Jul 13, Exegesis wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Exegesis =20 A Compass For Moral Excellence Published Worldwide From Washington=20 July 14, 1998 The Darkness Deepens: Four Weeks Until Dictatorship=20 "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether on one, a few or many and whether hereditary, self appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 47 "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool." =20 =20 Paul Begala, Clinton Presidential Aide, July 1998=20 Many folks have forgotten that Adolf Hitler did not seize power in 1933. He was elected by popular vote in an election a great deal less rigged than the 1996 US Presidential election. Sixty-five years later, though our attention has rightly been drawn frequently to the importance of remembering the Holocaust, few have even noticed that the United States stands perilously close to dictatorship, a tragic irony given the immense dimensions of the Jewish presence in Hollywood, the media and the White House. But unless Congress, Kenneth Starr, impeachment proceedings or the Good Lord intervenes, Bill Clinton, with his long history of abuses of office, drugs, women and human life, will officially become The Dictator of America. =20 Remarkably, few Americans have the slightest clue that such a tragedy is about to occur. And the so-called media will probably breathe not a word about it when it happens. They will bear equal responsibility with the perpetrator for the impending loss of liberty. If it is true that more Americans get their lies from ABC than from any other source, as is claimed, Disney, which owns ABC, will be guilty of the greatest complicity, and CNN will really owe the American people an apology - in addition to apologies for the countless other lies they and the networks have broadcast over the years: the lies of trivia, the lies of false opinion polls, the lies of bias, the lies of nothink and doublethink, and the lies of omission. On August 12, unless Congress vetoes it with a two-thirds vote, Executive Order 13083 will become law. The order was signed by Mr. Clinton on May 14 in a hotel room in Birmingham, England while he was attending the G7 Summit. It effectively terminates States' rights and the authority of Congress in many areas of national life. Here is the exact wording of the most relevant part: "Section 3, (d) It is important to recognize the distinction between matters of national or multi-state scope (which may justify Federal action) and matters that are merely common to the States (which may not justify Federal action because individual States, acting individually or together, may effectively deal with them). Matters of national or multi-state scope that justify Federal action may arise in a variety of circumstances, including: (1) When the matter to be addressed by Federal action occurs interstate as opposed to being contained within one State's boundaries. (2) When the source of the matter to be addressed occurs in a State different from the State (or States) where a significant amount of the harm occurs. (3) When there is a need for uniform national standards. (4) When decentralization increases the cost of government, imposing additional burdens on the taxpayer. (5) When States have not adequately protected individual rights and liberties. (6) When States would be reluctant to impose necessary regulations because of fears that regulated business activity will relocate to other States. (7) When placing regulatory authority at the State or local level would undermine regulatory goals because high costs or demands for specialized expertise will effectively place the regulatory matter beyond the resources of State authorities. (8) When the matter relates to Federally owned or managed property or natural resources, trust obligations, or international obligations. (9) When the matter to be regulated significantly or uniquely affects Indian tribal governments.=20 This order shall be effective 90 days after the date of this order." WILLIAM J. CLINTON,=20 THE WHITE HOUSE,=20 May 14, 1998 As you will have deduced, this order gives the President the ability to do anything he wishes without being subjected to the constraints of the Checks and Balances imposed by the Constitution to safeguard liberty.=20 Phrases like "uniform national standards" and "regulatory goals" should send a chill up the spine. Surely the goal of a free people is the elimination of regulations and standards? But America is no longer free. You don't believe this is happening? Why? Because the language sounds innocuous enough? Yet did you believe the deaths of Ron Brown, Vincent =46oster and 105 other Clinton associates? They're all very, very dead.=20 Did you believe that Princess Diana could be murdered so blatantly?=20 She's dead too. Did you believe that innocent civilians could be slaughtered at Waco, Oklahoma City and in numerous "accidents", plane crashes and bombings? They're all extremely dead. When you look at what Mr. Clinton and his global associates have already accomplished, the truth begins to glimmer through the innocuous language. =20 As Hayek observed, "[Totalitarian propaganda] are destructive of all morals because they undermine one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and the respect for truth. Few traits of totalitarian regimes are so characteristic as the complete perversion of language." (The Road to Serfdom, 1944). And there has been no greater pervert, especially of language, than the current occupant of the Oval Office. In some ways, it seems absurd to compare Bill Clinton with Adolf Hitler. First, Mr. Clinton does not wear a mustache. Secondly, though one never knows what he really believes, he does not seem to hate Jews. Indeed, many Jewish people have been his dutiful servants. Some have climbed into bed with him, figuratively and literally. Thirdly, he has no territorial ambitions. On the contrary, he has surrendered the United States to Communist China. =20 But there are similarities. Like Hitler, Bill Clinton was brought up by an indulgent, doting mother with an absent father. Like Hitler, Clinton has come to be deluded by his own prowess. After all, if he can get away with a few audacious crimes, why not order more? And like Hitler, he rose to power claiming to be defending the poor and the downtrodden, when in reality, he is the one who has been goose-stepping all over the rights and liberties of the poor, downtrodden, American people. =20 There seems little doubt that he who proclaimed the era of big government to be over has been reading "Mein Kampf", presumably while obtaining relief from kneeling interns. As Hitler said: "The broad mass of a nation=8Awill more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." (Chapter 10) And no lies are bigger than those the Clinton-run media have been daily pumping into America's living rooms. Hitler also wrote "a great number of basically different enemies must always be described as belonging to the same group, so that as far as the mass of your followers is concerned, the battle is being waged against a single enemy. This strengthens the belief in the rightness of your cause." Thus it is possible for every disaster, especially those Clinton himself has orchestrated, to be blamed on "a vast right wing conspiracy". So what can we do between now and August 12? If you call Congress (202-225 3121), you might ask for Ron Paul (R-TX) or Bob Barr (R-GA), two of the few who care enough about freedom to be willing to act to preserve it. If you are still wondering how can this happen with a Republican Congress, here are some recent additions to the law (We are obliged to WorldNet Daily's Claire Wolfe for compiling the list. You can and should read WorldNet Daily at http://www.worldnetdaily.com.) 1. A national database of all employed people. 2. 100 pages of new "health care crimes", for which the penalty includes seizure of assets. 3. Confiscation of assets from any American who establishes foreign citizenship. 4. The largest gun confiscation act in US history - which is also an unconstitutional ex-postfacto law and the first law ever to remove individual constitutional rights for committing a misdemeanor. 5. A law banning guns in ill-defined school zones, where random roadblocks may be used for enforcement; gun-bearing residents can be deemed criminals just by stepping outside their doors. 6. Increased funding for the hated Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and =46irearms, infamous for its brutality, dishonesty and ineptitude. 7. A law enabling the executive branch to declare various groups "terrorists"- without stating any reason and without the possibility of appeal. Once a group has been so declared, its mailing and membership lists must be turned over to the government. 8. A law authorizing secret trials with secret evidence for certain classes of people. 9. A law requiring that all states begin issuing drivers licenses carrying Social Security numbers and "security features" (such as magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records) by October 1, 2000. =20 10. A national database to contain every exchange that takes place in doctors' offices, including prescription records, and, by law, any statements you make and any observations your doctor makes about your mental or physical condition, whether accurate or not, whether made with your knowledge or not.=20 Other than being invasive and unconstitutional, what do these laws have in common? They were all passed by the Republican Congress, the very same folks who pledged to "get government off your back". =20 Long ago, the Two-Party/Media axis seized power in America. On August 12, the Land of the Free will become de jure into what it already is de facto: a dictatorship. As we pray for deliverance from tyranny, and "put on the full armor of God so you can take your stand against the devil's schemes" (Ephesians 6:11), let us urgently reread Churchill, and brace ourselves to do what is necessary to regain our liberty. And let us vow never again to be distracted as evil men attempt to enslave us. =87 Steve Myers =D7 Editor=20 ________________________________________________________________________ Now: More Important Than Ever! ************************ AMERICAN RENEWAL DAY ************************ Join Us For American Renewal Day! The most exciting event of the summer! A Day Of Spiritual, Moral and Financial Refreshment with Alan Keyes and Howard Phillips Saturday, August 8, 1998: Washington DC Westpark Hotel, Route 7 at Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102 8:30 am: An Inspiring Prayer Breakfast with Special Guests * Os Guinness, Best-selling Christian Author * Dr. Robert Norris, Senior Pastor, 4th Presbyterian Church, Bethesda, MD * Revd. Jeffrey Ziegler, Moderator, Association of Free Reformed Churches 11:00 am and 2:30 pm: Partners in Prosperity * Learn how to achieve financial independence with your own home-based business. 12:30 pm: Campaign Leadership Lunch=20 How to win elections without spending a fortune * Bob Winford, Author, The Winford Strategy, Political Strategist and Consultant 4:00 pm: Advanced Campaign Strategy * Bob Winford, Author, The Winford Strategy, Political Strategist and Consultant 6:00 pm VIP Reception Have your photograph taken with Alan Keyes and other American Renewal Day guests! ____________________________________________________________________________= ________ 7:00 pm Grand Gala Banquet * Alan Keyes, One of America's foremost orators and distinguished moral leaders whose message inspires the heart and challenges the mind. * Howard Phillips, Leader and Chairman, US Taxpayers Party * Steve Myers, Editor, Exegesis and President, The Global Opportunity =46oundation ____________________________________________________________________________= ________ =46or hotel accommodation at special discount rates, call 1-800 533 3301=20 Child Care will be available at all events =46or Reservations: complete and mail the form at http://www.sm.org/events Tickets are selling fast! =20 Space is limited! =20 Reserve yours now! =20 =20 _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ ExTel Worldwide Telecommunications Services =46OR HUGE SAVINGS ON YOUR PHONE BILL, please don't delay a visit to=20 http://www.sm.org/extel We recommend:=20 =20 US domestic calls: Telco - http://ld.net/telco/?sm.org Calling Cards: Just 15.9 cents a minute - http://ld.net/roadtel/?sm.org Prepaid Calling Cards: Just 14 cents a minute - http://moneysaver.net/?sm.org MCI for an overall savings package - http://www.sm.org/extel Whichever service you'd like to use, you'll find more information and a sign up form on our web page at http://www.sm.org/extel _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ =20 We welcome your letters to the editor. =20 Please write to editor@sm.org Exegesis=20 http://www.sm.org/exegesis =A9 Exegesis 1998 Post Office Box 789, McLean, Virginia 22101, USA _________________________________________________ =20 ______________________________________ To subscribe, please send an email to: requests@talklist.com with SUBSCRIBE EXEGESIS in the BODY of the message. To unsubscribe please send an email to: requests@talklist.com with UNSUBSCRIBE EXEGESIS in the BODY of the message. Letters to the Editor should be addressed to: editor@sm.org For more information about Exegesis, please visit http://www.sm.org/exegesis [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #162 *************************