From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #218 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Sunday, February 28 1999 Volume 02 : Number 218 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:55:54 -0600 (CST) From: Paul M Watson Subject: Australia: Truth Alone Is Not Enough (TiM GW Bulletin 99/2-7, 2/23/99) (fwd) - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:42:58 -0800 From: Bob Djurdjevic To: TiM GW Bulletins Subject: Australia: Truth Alone Is Not Enough (TiM GW Bulletin 99/2-7, 2/23/99) FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA The Truth in Media Global Watch Bulletin, such as the one enclosed below, can also be accessed at our Web site: www.truthinmedia.org/Bulletins99/ NOTE: To cancel the e-mail editions of our reports, just reply REMOVE or UNSUBSCRIBE, followed by your e-mail address. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 99/2-7 24-Feb-99 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic: AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS - ------------------------------------------- Death of Freedom of Speech in Australia Now a Matter of Fact DYMOCKS: TRUTH ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH! "Red Rupert" Also Assaulted Freedom of Speech - More Than Once PHOENIX, Feb. 23 - In our TiM GW Bulletin 99/2-3 (Feb. 11, 1999), filed from Western Australia, we said: "Writers who told the truth under the oppressive Soviet regime were called dissidents. The West cherished them and toasted them as heroes. Writers who tell the truth nowadays under the oppressive New World Order regimes around the world face the fate worse than death for a writer - silence!" Well, Dymocks, a national book store chain in Australia, has now broken its silence. The Truth in Media has obtained a copy of the Feb. 12, 1999 fax-letter from Keith Perkin, Dymocks' managing director, to Scott Balson, author of the book, 'Murder by Media,' now banished from all Dymocks' stores by a top executive's order. Perkin's letter is a shameful admission of Dymocks' cowardice in the face of the truth, and a sad example of the state of affairs in Australia's media. Here's, for example, what Dymocks' managing director had to say about the rewards of writing the truth these days: "Even if that is in fact the case (that the book contained the truth about the slanderous articles which the establishment 'reporters have written over the last three years'), we have been advised that truth alone is not a defence to defamation actions in Australia." Let us repeat in bold print Dymocks' devastating admission: "Truth alone is not a defence to defamation actions in Australia." Neither it was in the Soviet Union. Nor in Red China. Nor in Nazi Germany. Are those the kinds of societies the contemporary Australia is modeling herself after? Dymocks' ban of a book which told the truth about the corruption and collusion between the establishment media and the establishment parties in Australia, is a case of self-censorship which would make the communist commissars proud. And would make the likes of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or the former Hong Kong governor, Chris Patten spit nails. Okay, everybody can see why a dissident Russian writer, like Solzhenitsyn, might be upset to see that the contemporary West, which he had sometimes idealized, is not much better than the communist dictatorship against which he had rebelled. But why the former Hong Kong British governor? Because he also happens to have become a writer. After having served as the last British governor of Hong Kong, Patten wrote a book of memoirs which told the truth about Red China, the western New World Order's partner in crime against freedom, as it turns out. In other words, it was critical of the Chinese communist government which western multinationals have showered with over $202 billion in investments during the 1990s. That's about $51 million per head of each Tiananmen Square pro-democracy victim. Well, guess who tried to pull the "Dymocks trick" on Gov. Patten's book back then? None other than Rupert Murdoch, one of the two Australian media moguls whose transgressions and manipulations were detailed in the book "Murder by Media" (the other "mogul" being Kerry Packer, reportedly a chum of Dymocks chairman, John Forsyth). In February 1998, Murdoch ordered Harper Collins, the publishing company he owns, to cancel a scheduled fall publication in Britain of Gov. Patten's memoirs. The reason? Fear that the book would offend the Red Chinese with whom Murdoch's business ventures are happily in bed (e.g., his Star TV satellite service). "I'm extremely angry," Doris Lessing, a British novelist also published by Murdoch's Harper Collins, one of several authors who had threatened to leave this publisher, told London's Daily Telegraph last February. "Rupert Murdoch's attitude is very unprofessional. It is so shocking I can't find words for it." Unlike the Dymocks' executives, however, Gov. Patten was no pushover. He basically told Murdoch to stuff it, sued Harper Collins for a breach of contract, and signed on with MacMillan's, a rival publisher. His book was eventually published last October and sold well, even in Hong Kong. The Patten scandal was not the first time Murdoch, who has major business interests in China, has deferred to Beijing. In 1994, he removed the British Broadcasting Corporation programs from his STAR satellite system's offerings to China, reportedly because the Chinese government was upset by a documentary about Mao, among other things. Patten didn't mince any words about how he felt about this "Red Rupert" move. "'It was 'the most seedy of betrayals' for those who champion freedom of speech in one country 'to curtail it elsewhere for reasons of inevitably short-term commercial expediency'," the New York Times reported on Feb. 28, 1998. Until now, it seems. For, Dymocks' decision to murder the "Murder by Media," maybe even tops "Red Rupert's" spinelessness. Because it happened in Murdoch's native country which ostensibly "champions (the) freedom of speech," according to Patten. So why would a bookseller perform such an unnatural act as to voluntarily deprive itself of a book's sales and profits? "The sole ground of its decision in this case is the possibility that the book is defamatory," wrote Dymocks' Perkin in this Feb. 12 letter. Well, if that's the case and is so obvious to everybody, why then would the bookseller's managing director feel compelled in the next sentence to threaten the book's author with legal action if he continued to tell the truth? (i.e., if Balson makes any statement "which suggests that Dymocks decision resulted in any way from an attempt to censor your book and prevent the views expressed in it from being circulated"). Besides, doesn't Dymocks check out the books before agreeing to sell them? Assuming that it did do so in the case of the "Murder by Media" (which would be normal practice for book distributors), why did Dymocks suddenly get cold feet over the book's allegedly defamatory content only AFTER it had already placed it on its stores' shelves? Could it be that the bookseller is now trying to intimidate the author into silence because it is itself feeling threatened? If so, by whom? Maybe Scott Balson should add a "Murder by Dymocks" chapter, and then take a page out of Gov. Patten's book, and get himself a new book distributor, preferably a direct rival of Dymocks'. Surely Dymocks is not the only book chain in Australia? And even if it were, or even if all other distributors were equally scared from the truth coming out, there is still the amazon.com. No longer just an alternative way to market books, this Internet high flyer is threatening to put the traditional booksellers out of business. Meanwhile, just in case you were tempted to dismiss the above book controversy as some peculiar "Down Under," Australian media censorship quirk, don't! Here's, for example, what the Truth in Media wrote to the Wall Street Journal on Apr. 26, 1998, regarding its duplicitous attitude toward the truth (see www.truthinmedia.org/Activism/wsj4-26-98.html ): "Where was the Wall Street Journal's righteous indignation when one of your media brethren, Rupert Murdoch, ordered Harper Collins last February to cancel a scheduled fall publication in Britain of a memoir by Chris Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong, for fear it would offend the same Red Chinese government? Why was the Journal AWOL? Your silence in defense of Murdoch's assault on free speech was deafening." Birds of a feather flock together? You bet! And not just in the establishment media circles. - ------------ Meanwhile, there is nothing like controversy to help sell a book, especially one which, now that it has been "banned" by Dymocks, is likely to become a "collectors' item." So here's how you can get your copy of it: The book may be ordered by sending a payment of A$27 or US$25 (which includes airmail postage) to Scott Balson, P.O. Box 11, Mt. Crosby News 4306, Queensland, Australia (E-mail: gwb@gwb.com.au). If you identify yourself as a TiM reader when ordering the book, you will be entitled to a SPECIAL TRUTH IN MEDIA DISCOUNT OF US$5, for a net price of US$20 per book. International inquiries may be directed to Scott Balson by dialing (from the US) 011-61-7-3201-1353; or 011-61-015-477-609 (mobile phone); or by e-mail any time to: gwb@gwb.com.au. - ------------ - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 99 17:11:22 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Schooling..... For those into School Reform/Home Schooling, check out: http://www.sepschool.org Where they ask, "where did you hear about us?", type, "Weissbach", for that extra good deal, don't cha know.....:-) - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** 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: Fri, 26 Feb 99 03:43:42 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: In the Wilderness - 26 Feb 99 (fwd) On Feb 25, Kevin McGehee wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] IN THE WILDERNESS (c) 1999 KEVIN McGEHEE North Pole, Alaska mcgehee@mosquitonet.com http://www.mosquitonet.com/~mcgehee/ Permission granted to anyone wishing to forward, redistribute, or broadcast this article WITH FULL ATTRIBUTION. ================================================================ AN AGENDA FOR DOMESTIC FREEDOM Bill Clinton can claim credit for the good economy, and the vast majority of the people can give him that credit -- but no one can alter the fact that a rabbit's foot would be more responsible for it than Clinton is. Certain policies pursued by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan have certainly contributed to the longevity of these good times, but even if Mr. Greenspan were Merlin reincarnated he could not have made these times this good, even for a minute much less so many years, if the people of America did not spend their time working, investing, and buying things. In fact, if the American people were as dependent on our Feckless Leader as he and his toadies at the Omnibus Broadcasting System (OBS) would have everyone believe, the truth of the matter is that Clinton and Greenspan couldn't have made this prosperity happen if they were God and Jesus. The engine would never have started, let alone revved up to its present sustained pitch. What the conservative movement needs now is to start articulating an agenda aimed at reinforcing prosperity-making behavior and awakening the people to the importance of their own role in the present economy, and in America as a whole. We need candidates who will offer to represent the creators of prosperity *as such,* not as feeders at the government trough. This was the magic of Ronald Reagan's message and appeal: that he made average Americans realize that they are responsible for America's greatness, simply because they make a living, make homes for themselves, raise their families, and take part in the public arena. After four squishy years under George ("Kinder and Gentler") Bush, the American people forgot the message Reagan had brought to them, and thus were susceptible to the government-as-Big-Nanny agenda offered by Bill Clinton. But we're not going to reclaim the Reagan magic with "Morning in America" mood rhetoric. If we try, we'll get more of what we got in 1998. What is needed is a substantive agenda that will turn the attention of the nation away from "what my government can do for me" and back to "what can I do for myself, my family, and my community". An across-the board tax cut is a no-brainer, but there's more. People need to know that the *decisions* they'll be making with their tax savings are *their own,* not subject to second-guessing by our Feckless Leader. And that requires an agenda for domestic freedom. * KEEP THE INTERNET FREE OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND TARIFF. Thanks to information technology, the Internet represents the revival of the village marketplace and town square. Participation should not be subject to constraints imposed either on content or through taxation. As despicable as some websites may be for the messages they promote, their owners are not aggressively carrying those messages into anyone's homes -- unlike the Clintonistas at OBS. This nation dumped the Fairness Doctrine for broadcast television; speech codes for the Internet are even less reasonable. By the same token, the government should not be invited in to "help" the Internet to grow. There's an old saying: "He who pays the piper calls the tune." Government has no business calling the tune on the Internet. * BAN ATTACK LAWSUITS THAT AIM TO DESTROY ENTIRE INDUSTRIES. What state governments managed to do to the tobacco industry, city governments are now trying to do to the firearm industry. Next, the nutrition gestapo will target beef. Environmentalists will take on energy industries and automakers. In retaliation, family-values groups will try to put Hollywood out of business. Ultimately both Congress and the White House will be superfluous -- all economic policy will be made in the trial courts. * DISMANTLE LAWS THAT UNDERMINE PROPERTY RIGHTS. In particular I mean the Endangered Species Act and the wetlands protection law (which was enacted with the support of the "right-wing" Bush Administration). Tear them down and, if a need remains to be addressed, enact new laws that take a more *American* approach to saving endangered species and mitigating habitat loss. * DECRIMINALIZE NORMAL HUMAN BEHAVIOR. It's obvious that the draconian laws aimed at, for example, sexual harassment, have not put a stop to crude behavior in the American workplace. Instead of making men and women criminals for noticing one another, we need to get back to expecting people to behave like grown-ups. There's nothing "grown up" about having sex in the office with a girl who works for you without pay -- and there's nothing "grown up" about acting like an infant because a co-worker of the opposite sex makes an adolescent comment. It would be wise across the board for conservatives to stop being defensive about wanting normal, mature behavior to be more acceptable -- and more prevalent -- than abnormal or childish behavior. * COME TO THE DEFENSE OF PUBLIC CHRISTIANITY. The predominant religious faith in America should have as much right in the public square as any non-Christian faith. Conservatives, even those who shrink from the "culture war," need to speak and act confidently in opposing those who have long sought -- once subtly, now openly -- to drive professed Christians into hiding. The idea that people who hold strong Christian beliefs should not apply them to public policy questions, should be attacked and stamped out; it is nothing more than bigotry, and should be denounced as such before it leads to an anti-Christian *Kristallnacht.* I'm sure there are more planks that can be added to this platform, but in my opinion these are the most essential and should be addressed first. They will certainly draw fire from the extremists who have worked so hard to turn conservatives into the Public Enemy #1 of the 1990s, but anyone worthy of the title of leader should be ready, willing and able to do battle. Any would-be presidential contender or GOP leader who lacks the stomach for this agenda should stay home and tend to his knitting. - -30- February 26, 1999 ================================================================ **Visit the IN THE WILDERNESS archives** http://www.mosquitonet.com/~mcgehee/wilderness/ The views expressed herein are entirely those of the author(s), and do not reflect those of any person or group with whom the author(s) may be affiliated, unless explicitly labelled as doing so. [------------------------- 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: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 04:41:19 -0800 From: Jack Perrine Subject: FCC reclassifies calls to ISPs as Long Distance Calls Friday, February 26, 1999 FCC Reclassifies Internet Calls as Long-Distance, Provoking Protests Telecom: Agency denies consumer advocates' assertion that the decision will lead to higher charges for Web users. By KAREN KAPLAN, Times Staff Writer The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday that phone calls made to connect to Internet service providers should be considered long-distance instead of local, a ruling that big local phone companies have sought based on the argument that they are not recouping all their costs for handling Internet calls. While FCC officials say consumers won't have to pay long-distance charges in order to reach the global computer network, others--including one FCC commissioner--warned that the decision could ultimately shift fees now borne by the industry to consumers. That could lead to higher prices for people who access the Internet through services such as America Online. "This will inevitably lead to price increases for consumers for Internet services, and most likely it will be in the form of per-minute charges," said Gene Kimmelman, co-director of the Washington office of Consumers Union. Although a customer usually dials a local phone number to reach an Internet service provider, that call could ultimately wind up connecting to a computer server anywhere on the World Wide Web. That means that calls to ISPs must be considered interstate, not local, in nature, the FCC said. Commissioners said the intent of the action is to give the FCC the regulatory authority to set fees that local phone companies must pay one another as they hand off calls from one network to another en route to the Internet. Until now, those fees have been determined by state regulators, and the FCC said its decision won't change any of the so-called reciprocal compensation agreements that are already in effect. FCC Chairman William Kennard said the decision also wouldn't change the way calls to Internet service providers are charged. "I know that rumors have been spread by some people about adding per-minute charges for long-distance charges for the Internet," Kennard said. "These rumors are totally false." But consumer advocates insist that the decision opens the door for local phone companies to find a way to charge the kind of per-minute access fees that long-distance companies such as AT&T, MCI WorldCom and Sprint pay for voice calls. If the Baby Bells and GTE go to court over the matter, the FCC will have fewer legal defenses to protect consumers, said Mark Cooper, director of research for Washington-based Consumer Federation of America. "The biggest fear for consumers is that this is the first step toward metered Internet access," said Paul Misener, chief of staff for FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, who did not support Thursday's decision. "The telephone companies would charge your local friendly ISP per-minute access fees, and those access fees would be passed along to yours truly," he said. The U.S. Telephone Assn., a Washington lobbying group that represents local phone companies, hailed the FCC's decision to classify calls to Internet service providers as interstate calls. SBC Communications, the San Antonio-based parent company of Pacific Bell, does not support charging per-minute long-distance fees for Internet access, said spokesman Selim Bingol. Companies that provide Internet access said they are confident the FCC decision won't result in higher prices for their customers. "The FCC made it perfectly clear that they did not intend any change in the current regime for Internet access pricing," said George Vradenburg, general counsel for AOL in Dulles, Va. The decision could also harm consumers if the FCC does away with the fees that monopoly local phone companies pay to the upstart local phone providers that serve ISPs, said David Eiswert, an Internet consultant with the Strategist Group in Washington. Those fees totaled $600 million last year and are estimated to top $1 billion this year. But if they can't be collected, the upstarts would probably raise the prices they charge to ISPs, Eiswert said. The ISPs, in turn, could raise prices for consumers, although he added that competition among Internet service providers would probably keep prices in check. Copyright 1999 Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved Search the archives of the Los Angeles Times for similar stories about: FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, INTERNET (COMPUTER NETWORK), TELEPHONE CALLS, TELEPHONE INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS, FEES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS. You will not be charged to look for stories, only to retrieve one. Jack Perrine | Athena Programming | 626-798-6574 _________________| 1175 N Altadena Dr | ____________ Jack@Minerva.com | Pasadena CA 91107 | FAX-398-8620 - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:49:38 -0600 From: linzellr@datastar.net (Robert Linzell) Subject: Fwd: Claremont Institute Precepts: Politics and the Culture War - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Claremont Institute--PRECEPTS | | February 25, 1999 Visit | | No. 146 Last week Paul Weyrich, of the Free Congress Foundation, issued a much-publicized letter conceding and lamenting that American conservatives have lost the "culture war." In the early 1980s, he writes, conservatives could speak with assurance of a "moral majority." Today it is a minority. Proof positive is the lack of outrage at the president's perverted behavior in the Oval Office with a girl just past her teens. Weyrich goes on to suggest that conservatives have been wrong to think that politics provides an answer. Despite successes at the polls, America's moral decline has continued. "Politics itself has failed," he concludes, "because of a collapse of culture." It is hard to argue with Weyrich's assertion that America's popular culture is an "ever-widening sewer." But he is wrong to suggest that culture has failed politics--or better put, that society has failed government--rather than the other way around. It is certainly true that good government requires virtue in society. James Madison recognized this in _Federalist_ 55: "republican government presupposes the existence of [virtue] in a higher degree than any other form." But where does this virtue come from? In _Federalist_ 49 Madison explained that government must "control and regulate" the people's passions, in order that the people's reason might "control and regulate" the government. The Founders were of a long line of Western statesmen and philosophers, traceable all the way back to Aristotle, who understood that virtue is formed by good laws, and undermined by bad ones. We must recall that the American people did not clamor for the radical policies that have transformed our society since the 1960s: the building of a regulatory bureaucracy that undermines property rights, welfare policies that undermine the work ethic, liberalized abortion and pornography laws that undermine sexual morality and family integrity, or affirmative action programs that undermine the idea of equality under law. These policies were imposed by America's political leadership, with the backing of academic and media elites who held the majority's opinions and interests in contempt. It is important that we understand that bad government has undermined decent society, rather than indecent society undermining good government. Only then can we see our only hope of setting things aright: the replacement of bad laws with good, based on the principles of limited government and ordered liberty that were abandoned in the 1960s. There is no reason to regard this enterprise as hopeless. Much depends upon the quality of the people who run for public office. We have been in a dry patch lately, but Reagan was not so long ago, and there has been a lot of eloquence and commitment to principle in the U.S. House just lately. There is no reason to think, as Weyrich gloomily suggests, that the mission of America is finished, or that Providence will not smile upon our efforts to do right. Institute Senior Fellow John Marini has written an article called "The Recent Impeachment Crisis and the Future," a unique analysis that focuses not on the failings of society, but of our political institutions. I invite you to read it at , or go to our home page at . Sincerely, Larry P. Arnn President, The Claremont Institute - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 1999 The Claremont Institute To subscribe to Precepts, go to: http://www.claremont.org/subscrib.cfm , or e-mail us at info@claremont.org . To be removed from this list, go to : http://www.claremont.org/remove_public.cfm , or e-mail us at info@claremont.org . For general correspondence or additional information about the Claremont Institute, e-mail : info@claremont.org , or visit our website at : http://www.claremont.org . Changing your e-mail address? Please let us know at : info@claremont.org . For press inquiries, contact Nazalee Topalian at topalian@msn.com or (909) 621-6825. The mission of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life. The Claremont Institute | 250 West First Street | Suite 330 | Claremont, CA 91711 | Phone (909) 621-6825 | Fax (909) 626-8724 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2 for non-commercial use Comment: Get my public key from iQA/AwUBNtamXu0M/FuXc0xJEQIA2ACfV8JoqEsZ/fuxaT25pSu0PSivMhEAoNE1 ORnoU3cZTqeBDIvtjsrNzgJG =LQf3 - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Feb 99 00:25:40 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: KING COUNTY GUN POLL (fwd) Ron, "Tax To The Max", Sims, needs to hear about this..... On Feb 24, Joe Waldron wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] King County Executive Ron Sims is conducting a poll at his web site asking if guns seized by the County Sheriff should be sold at auction (to licensed dealers). Please visit the site and vote. The site is http://www.metrokc.gov/exec All guns sold are auctioned to licensed dealers and are subject to all federal and state controls regarding resale. Joe Waldron [------------------------- 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: Sun, 28 Feb 99 03:44:08 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [piml] Fwd: IRS SPECIAL AGENT finds NO INCOME TAX LAW EXISTS!!! (fwd) On Feb 28, by way of Bill Utterback wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] > From: BILL BENSON <"bbenson1@ix.netcom.com"@ix7.ix.netcom.com> > Subject: [Fwd: IRS SPECIAL AGENT finds NO INCOME TAX LAW EXISTS!!!] > > To All > > Remember as Bill Benson always tells the world, TOGETHER WE SHALL WIN!!!! > have a happy day. > > BILL BENSON > ***************************** > >**Joseph R. Banister, Special Agent of the IRS finds NO LAW THAT REQUIRES > >ANY AMERICAN TO FILE AND PAY INCOME TAX!*** > > > >Where: At the Freedom law School's Freedom Rally www.freedomlaw.org to be > >held at Sheraton Hotel in Newport Beach, California on March 13-14th, Mr. > >Banister will share his findings and Report with the American People. > > > >To: All Freedom Loving Americans Date: February 25, 1999 > >From: Peymon Mottahedeh, President > > Freedom Law School > > > >Dear Fellow American, > > > > Over the last 14 months, Freedom Law School along with Bill Conklin, > >Free Enterprise Society, Attorney Larry Becraft, Devvy Kidd and Bill Benson > >have been in communication with Joseph R. Banister, who is a SpecialAgent > >(Criminal Investigation Division) of the IRS in San Jose, California, and > >educated Mr. Banister as to how and why there is NO LAW THAT REQUIRES ANY > >AMERICAN TO FILE AND PAY INCOME TAX! > > > > Mr. Banister with his own time and money has verified that: > > 1) There is NO federal STATUTE (law written by Congress of the United > >States) which REQUIRES ANY AMERICAN TO FILE AND PAY INCOME TAX. > > 2) The 16th (the INCOME TAX) AMENDMENT of the U.S. Constitution, > >which was NOT PROPERLY RATIFIED INTO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. > > 3) The U.S. Government operates NOT by revenues from the Income Tax, > >but by borrowing MONEY, which has been CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR, from the > >Federal Reserve Banks. > > > > At the bottom of this message you will find a copy of the E-Mail which > >Mr. Banister sent me. Mr. Banister had written a 90 page report of his > >investigation of the Income Tax on February 11, 1999. This report is > >fully backed up by references to the U.S. Constitution, the IRS Code, > >Internal Revenue Manuals and court cases. > > > > Mr. Banister presented this 90 page report to his superiors and asked > >them to present it to the highest ranks of the IRS, up to and including > >the Commissioner of IRS, Mr. Charles O. Rossotti. Mr. Banister informed > >the IRS leadership that unless they could point-by-point refute his > >findings, Mr. Banister would resign from his position INSTEAD OF > >ENFORCING A NON-EXISTENT LAW! > > > > Apparently the Commissioner of IRS, Mr. Charles O. Rossotti and the > >high level officials of the IRS, who each have taken an oath to "uphold > >and defend the U.S. Constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic", > >have VOLUNTARILY chosen to COMMIT TREASON on the American People by > >refusing to review and consider the findings of Mr. Banister, which > >squarely challenged the lawful basis of the IRS enforcing a NON-EXISTENT > >and VOLUNTARY INCOME TAX on the American people by use of VIOLENT > >FORCE!!! > > > > On February 17, Mr. Banister was called into his Chief's office. Mr > >Banister was informed that his report had been reviewed "by the highest > >levels of the IRS". Mr. Banister was given a memorandum which in part > >read: "The Internal Revenue Service will not be responding to your > >request and will provide you with the necessary paperwork to tender your > >resignation. You will be placed on administrative leave effective upon > >receipt of this memorandum for a period of seven calendar days to > >consider what actions you wish to take." > > > > Today, February 25, 1999, the anniversary of the alleged ratification > >of the 16th (income tax) Amendment, Mr. Banister resigned from the IRS > >so that he may freely and fully inform the American people of his > >findings regarding the income tax and the U.S. Government. > > > > Mr. Banister will be appearing at Freedom Law School's 1999 Freedom > >Rally on March 13-14th, at Sheraton Hotel (949)833-0570, 4545 Mac Arthur > >Blvd, Newport Beach, California to share his findings and release his > >report: "INVESTIGATING THE INCOME TAX: A PRELIMINARY REPORT" to the > >American People. > > > > To find out the latest developments and findings of Mr. Banister you > >may contact Freedom Law School at www.freedomlaw.org freedomlaw@home.com. > >You may also call us at (714)838-2896. However, since we have limited > >number of phone lines and staff, please use our web-cite and E-Mail > >whenever possible. > > > > > > > >"All that is needed for Evil to conquer, is for good men to do nothing!" > >"Price of liberty is eternal vigilance." > >"If not now, when?" > >"If its to be, its up to me." > > > > We at Freedom Law School encourage you to investigate this Report of > >Mr. Banister regarding the Income Tax and the U.S. Government, and let > >your local IRS agents/officials, Congressmen, Senators and President > >know what you want them to DO in response to Mr. Banister's Report. You > >can find the E-Mail and phone number of your congressmen at > >www.house.gov . > > > > Please share this message with the Freedom Loving American People. > > > > > > > >**Below is the full text of Mr. Banister's E-Mail to Freedom Law School** > > > >Dear Friends: > > > >Well, the day of reckoning has arrived. On February 11, 1999, in my > >capacity as a Special Agent and federal law enforcement officer sworn to > >support and defend the Constitution of the United States, I submitted a > >"preliminary report" to the Chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation > >Division for the Central California District. My report summarized my > >findings regarding allegations that the income tax and filing of federal > >income tax returns is voluntary, that the 16th Amendment was never > >ratified, and that income taxes are not used to pay for daily government > >operations. > > > >In order to ensure that unnecessary and unwarranted delay would not > >occur, I requested that my report be forwarded to top officials in the > >IRS up to and including Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti, and I > >respectfully requested that the Commissioner or his designee respond to > >the evidence in my report within 30 days. Today, my Chief called me into > >his office and gave me a memorandum. The memorandum dated February 17th, > >1999, read in part: > > > >The Internal Revenue Service will not be responding to your request and > >will provide you with the necessary paperwork to tender your resignation. > >You will be placed on administrative leave effective upon receipt of this > >memorandum for a period of seven calendar days to consider what actions > >you wish to take. > > > >I was told that officials at the highest levels of the Internal Revenue > >Service were consulted regarding a response to my report. Apparently, I > >have now joined the ranks of every other taxpayer who ever was ignored or > >otherwise rebuffed by the Internal Revenue Service when they petitioned > >the IRS for a reasonable explanation. The only conclusion that I can > >reach is that those officials thought it was better to rebuff my request > >and pass up a golden opportunity to prove my research wrong than to have > >to admit that so-called "tax-protesters" and other supporters of the > >U.S. Constitution have been right all along. Ironically, had the IRS > >taken the time to address my concerns, or perhaps perform the simple > >task of proving the allegations wrong, I would have gladly been their > >spokesman advising taxpayers not to fall for these untrue allegations > >for the rest of my career. > > > >As the memorandum states, I have until Friday, February 26th, 1999, the > >day after the 86th anniversary of the alleged ratification of the 16th > >Amendment, to tender my resignation. This is certainly a sad day in my > >life. Although I was hoping for a better result, I learned today after > >over two years of investigation that the Internal Revenue Service is > >everything that the so-called "tax protesters" said it was; non- > >responsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and agency > >oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. > > > >May God help us all. > > > >Joseph R. Banister - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet FileZone: Always FREE! Instantly store & access your valuable PC files on the net, from any Web browser. 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