From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #314 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Saturday, January 29 2000 Volume 02 : Number 314 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 00 15:46:18 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: The Dark Side of the Tax State (1/2) (fwd) On Jan 27, The McGehee Zone wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] April 15 is coming... Kevin McGehee Newnan, Georgia mail@mcgeheezone.com http://www.McGeheeZone.com/ - ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Williams To: KL7DW Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 2:11 PM Subject: The Dark Side of the Tax State The Dark Side of the Tax State By Charles Adams [Posted January 25, 2000] There are innumerable articles being published about the end of the 20th century, with an uplifting theme about the Greatest Century That Ever Was, or a similar title. Each article lists the miraculous achievements of the past 100 years. The lists are impressive: Our greatly extended life spans; our freedom from so many diseases and early deaths of children and mothers. Added to that are the marvels of our factories and farms, electrification, communication, travel, literacy, our standards of living, etc. The marvels are everywhere. Indeed, the "millennium" written about by the ancients seems to be upon us, or so it seems. The millennium in the Bible was a thousand years of peace--a period of great happiness for the human race. Yet the last century has seen more killings of human beings by human governments than in the past millennium, estimated at 150 million, if not more by some studies. Passing on to our children in the next century our talent and propensity to kill our fellow man, dampens the marvels of an otherwise amazing age of progress. Of course, there is the remote possibility our children may reject war and human slaughter and civil destruction as a way of dealing with disputes. If so, what else is on the darker side? One article extolling the great achievements of our age by the Cato Institute, in a one liner, acknowledged that there were some "trends" that were bothersome: "Taxes are higher and government is a lot bigger and more intrusive than 100 years ago." Those negatives are far beyond the "trend" stage, and unless reversed, have disaster written all over them, and no one seems aware of what has been happening. So taxes are higher, but we get more from government. And as for being "intrusive," that can't be avoided. So, what's the problem? The problem is with history. All indications are that we are repeating a process that cost the Romans their most prized possession of all, which was not their empire, but their freedom and liberty. Our statue of liberty, while ostensibly a gift from the French, was really a gift from the Romans. The Goddess of Liberty, which she represents, was lost, not by the barbarian hordes, but by the Roman government. Rome had great traditions of liberty. In the Justinian Digests we read, "Liberty is a possession on which no valuation can be placed." And again, "Freedom is beloved above all things." And the Goddess adorned Roman coins and her statues were in temples throughout the empire. Yet in the 4th century A.D., liberty and freedom for the Roman people was taken away by the Emperor Diocletian in order to protect the emperor's revenue. In one fell swoop, Diocletian ordered all Romans to remain on their jobs, to not change their places of abode. That way, no one could escape from the tax rolls. Prior to his decree, Roman taxation was founded upon a census taken every five years, but overly taxed citizens -- after taxes had been doubled and then doubled again -- would quickly move away to a new tax district where they weren't on the rolls, and until the next census they were outside the tax system. There was a saying at that time, that "a man was free if his name was not on the tax rolls." So like all governments before and since, they took the necessary steps, even if it meant taking away the freedom of the people, to ensure full compliance with the tax law. There is evidence to support and justify what Diocletian did to prevent the empire from collapse. But the great Roman historian, M. Rostovtzeff, saw this as no justification for the evil that was done: The emperors of the fourth century, and above all Diocletian...took their duties seriously, and they were animated by the sincerest love of their country. Their aim was to save the Roman Empire, and they achieved it.... They never asked whether it was worth while to save the Roman Empire in order to make a vast prison for scores of millions of men. In the last three decades since 1970, we have done essentially what Diocletian did overnight. We had constitutional guards to prevent that from happening, so it happened bit by bit, Congress by Congress, until today, aided by our modern technology we have a Diocletianized tax world. Our process for achieving this end was vividly expressed by Lord Erskine in 1792 defending Thomas Paine in London: Let us consider, my lords, that arbitrary power has seldom or never been introduced into a country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and, as it were, step by step, lest the people should see it approach. The barriers and fences of the people's liberty must be plucked up one by one, and some plausible pretense must be found for removing or hoodwinking, one after another, those sentries who are posted by the constitution of a free country, for warning the people of their danger. When these - preparatory steps are once made, the people may then, indeed, with regret, see slavery and arbitrary power making long strides over their land; but it will be too late to think of preventing or avoiding the impending ruin. Has not this happened in the past three decades? By slow degrees, "step by step" the tax man in America has gained total control over everyone's economic life. In short, an almost perfect system of espionage over every facet of the fiscal system has slowly evolved until there is absolutely nothing about your economic affairs the government doesn't have under powers of surveillance. Here is the scenario of how our liberties have been taken away and been destroyed, as Congress, with the blessing of a majority of the Supreme Court justices, pluck out the sentries posted to protect the peoples liberties and transform a tax system into a spy system, turning the people into tax slaves, neo-Diocletian style. Each fact listed below is pervasive in today's economic life but were non-existent in 1970: All banking records photographed for Big Brother to see at will. All stock and securities transactions reported to the tax man. All real estate transactions reported to the tax man. All interest, dividends, etc. reported to the tax man. All part time work, even babysitters and teenage garden helpers reported to the tax man. All barter transactions reported to the tax man. Like neighborly affairs: "I'll help you with your rec room; you help me put in a new lawn." Big deal! All gambling winnings of significance reported to the IRS: casinos, race track, lotteries, etc. All foreign accounts, holdings, trusts, reported to the tax man. U.S. citizens living abroad, reported to the IRS by the U.S. Customs, on returning home. Passport applicants abroad must report to the IRS. Travelers checks and cash over $10,000 reported on leaving or entering the U.S. Any moderately large cash deposits or withdrawals from your bank account reported to the IRS. Heavy fines on banks for not reporting the above. A multitude of fiscal penalties for failing to comply with a myriad of petty tax rules, however innocent or inadvertent. Surveillance and penalties on tax preparers when preparing an inaccurate return. Tax shelters must be reported (whatever that means). Harsh and long prison terms for tax offenders far in excess of what violent criminals receive. The above list of enslaving intrusions and punishments is by no means exhaustive. There are a myriad of other spying devises and punitive measures for tax enforcement. Special units prey on lawyers to keep them off-balance. A small town lawyer in California was sent to jail when he sent in a proper tax return without a check. Rather than send the matter to the powerful collection division, the IRS simply threw him in jail under a rare, almost unknown provision of the tax code. He complained, "I'm a nobody." Wrong! He was a lawyer and other lawyers will get the message. There are special training sessions to teach agents how to entice people to report on their family and friends, exactly as Stalin's NKVD did in the 1930s. The 17 points referred to above did not happen at once; it took Congress three decades to tear down the fences and dupe the sentries that stood guard over our fiscal liberties. What do we need? A leader to tell Congress to "Tear Down this Tax Code," as Reagan told Gorbachev to "Tear Down this Wall." Unlike other civilized nations that fine tax offenders as the primary punishment, our government takes delight in Roman style cruelty. Compare the 30 year prison sentence handed down by a Kansas City federal judge, Dean Whipple, against a woman, no less, named Trula Walker -- with a 30 day house confinement given to Sophia Laren by an Italian judge for a similar size tax offense. Sentences of 25 years are not uncommon as an Oregon high school coach was to learn. Compare also our psychopathic punishments with those routinely given to violent criminals like Mike Tyson's rape of a young beauty contestant. It is obviously more important to our government to enforce tax slavery with an iron fist, than to protect citizens from violence. The prison term numbers do not lie. Tax Slavery By The Numbers Besides the espionage against taxpayers and the savage punishments -- the core of all tax slavery -- there is the matter of being part free and part slave. Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian writer and humanitarian of the 19th century, gave us a modern definition of slavery in 1891: The essence of all slavery consists in taking the produce of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded on ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live on. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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: Thu, 27 Jan 00 21:51:12 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: The Rape of the Union Address Report (fwd) On Jan 27, InTheRiver wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] The More-Or-Less-Annual Rape of the Union Address Report by Jefferson Adams AP (Associated Potatoes) - Tonight I had the honor of watching the annual Rape of the Union Address on television (which was strapped down to my entertainment center, due to the torque put on it by the CNN commentators' pre-address spin). As the commentators finished their bipartisan and tolerant commentary, the first lady (and I use the term so loosely it almost slipped out of my keyboard while typing this) of what's left of the United States (FLOTUS) marched gayly down the aisle, closely followed by what appeared at first glance to be an upright cocker spaniel in a dress, but whom I quickly and shrewdly determined to be, in fact, the first daughter (DOTPAFLOTUS). Immediately following FLOTUS and DOTPAFLOTUS, Strom Thurmond floated down the aisle, his feet approximately 2 inches above the floor, wearing a black cape. Directly behind Count Thurmond was Attorney General Janet Reno, resplendent in blue, with little wisps of sulfuric- smelling smoke occasionally erupting from her ears and eyes. And then the Big Moment we'd all been waiting for suddenly erupted upon us, much like when you've had a few too many beers and a whole bag of Doritos: As the Representatives of Socialist Party A and Socialist Party B applauded wildly, William Jefferson Blythe Lipbiter Clinton, the president of what's left of the United States (POTUS) skipped merrily down the aisle between the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy side and the Save the Global Whales side of the House of Representatives, handing out cigars to the Representatives on both sides of the aisle, as he hummed what sounded from a distance remarkably like the theme song to Gilligan's Island. It was interesting to see how many of the Representatives sniffed their cigars before sticking them into their pockets... Immediately behind the president came a troop of Girl Scouts, wearing chastity belts one and all, and sweeping up what appeared to be some kind of slimy substance into buckets carried by obviously homosexual Boy Scouts. Tolerance was evident as far as the eye could see, and a spirit of gayety was in the air. POTUS stopped occasionally during his trip down the aisle to kiss some of the more attractive Representatives and fondle their body parts if it appeared the cameras wouldn't be able to catch him. As the Prez reached the platform, and as the thunderous applause began to die down, William Jefferson Blythe Lipbiter Clinton exhorted the attendees, as well as the viewing audience at home, that "Never before has such prosperity and wonderfulness gripped America. We have the lowest unemployment, the least poverty, and the highest number of female White House interns in the history of our country. My fellow Americans - the state of the union is the strongest it's ever been!" More thunderous applause, and a sly wink from the Prez. POTUS proceeded to outline how we've succeeded in replacing outmoded ideologies, like that quaint religion, "Christianity." He also proudly announced that, in the last 10 minutes alone, the Brady Bill has kept over 13 million criminals from buying Assault Weapons. With a smile broadly but smugly ensconced on his presidential features, POTUS proclaimed that we've ended welfare, as we know it, and gotten rid of fleas too, just for good measure. At this point, the Speaker of the House, What's His Name, noticed that Algore was growing into his chair and reached over and pulled his "limbs" back out of the upholstery. Herr Prezident challenged Congress to pass a Real Patient's Bill of Rights, as the camera panned to Ted Kennedy, who appeared to be as dead as Mary Jo Kopechne. His Kingliness then pontificated briefly on how we've just got to have Common Sense Gun Legislation passed; enough is enough. On the subject of education, the president insisted that we need a 21st-Century Revolution. With our new budget surplus, we will hire 100 million new teachers. And every classroom needs to be connected to the internet; how else will our inner city chilrun learn to surf the web? And we've got to get chilrun out of trailers - like the one Paula Jones lives in - and into classrooms. The president then thanked Tipper Gore for heading up Mental Health Care, which her husband invented. Henry Waxman and Richard Gephardt looked confused, and not a little mentally unhealthy, as the camera panned across their so-called faces. William Jefferson Blythe Lipbiter Clinton then pointed out, in tears, sackcloth and ashes, that 1 in 3 children in the inner city grows up without a father. With this, he pointed to Carlos Rosas Rodriquez Mendez-Lopez in the audience, who had decided to support his 19 children from 17 different women after all; as Mendez-Lopez rose, he was greeted with roaring applause, as befits a national hero of his caliber and stature. Wiping a tear from each eye, Billy Jeff wailed that nobody in America believes that we're safe enough yet, even with those 100,000 federally-financed with a little help from you and me the taxpayers new cops on the street. So the president asked congress to fund the hiring of 50 million more police, in black uniforms and black ski masks. Submachineguns will be extra, he noted, but we'll pay for that out of our budget surplus. If it saves only one life. Speaking of crime, killing and guns, POTUS said the word "Columbine," and everyone on both sides of the aisle began to cry. After most of the tears were wiped and most of the noses blown (no, not THAT kind of "blow," that's later in the Oval Office, and special invited guests only), the president asked Tom Mauser (no relation to the inventer of the Mauser rifle) to stand. Tom's son was among those killed at Columbine, but by God, he's dedicating his life now to stamping out Evil Guns. And he looked serious about it, too. POTUS, continuing cheerfully on in the spirit of Antichrist, said that we've got to hire more ATF agents, and we've got to supply them with the tools they need for raiding churches and homes at 3:00 AM - he's asking congress to fund high technology enforcement tools, such as F-16 fighter planes and backpack nukes. The president pointed out that if the ATF had had portable nuclear devices in 1993, it would have saved the United States and Janet Reno two months of agony and a lot of wasted federal dollars at Waco, Texas. Moving on to the Global scene, his highness pointed out that we really don't know for sure exactly WHAT China and Russia are going to do, so the best thing for us to do is to continue to dismantle the military and replace all the current soldiers with homosexuals. "America has got to be a beacon to the rest of the world," the president effused, "and tolerance is the key. And we'll kill any religious nuts that don't reach a consensus with us on this." "Besides," he said with a smarmy smile, "our gay men and women in uniform have written to personally tell me how much they like wearing those positively darling blue berets." At this point, the Joint Chiefs of Staff stood up, curtseyed, and gave the prez a wink. POTUS stated that he and Algore have saved the environment, which, incidentally, Algore invented. But it's not enough. Just a few weeks ago, on behalf of Americans everywhere, he personally seized 50 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon - "But that's just a start," he said. "We can't stop until every square inch of American soil, plus your houses and businesses, and even your children, are wholly owned by the United Nations. And with the budget surplus we've created, I'm asking Congress to fund exactly that." Well, frankly, it went on and on from there, but I sorta slipped into a snooze, and awoke just as the President was talking about how the feral government is going to ensure the privacy of every American citizen by installing backdoors into all software written by Microsoft and by personally holding the encryption keys to all digital encoding. And to make sure that our privacy is insured, the 2000 census will create a database of all American citizens, with lots of personal data that can only be accessed by the president, the attorney general, Hillary, Chelsea, various and sundry aides, and the states of California and New York. "In summary," said POTUS, "we live in a Brave New World, teetering on the top of a mountain of deceit and government scum and villainy, and it looks like it's gonna get worse before it gets better." Oh. I think I dreamed that part. - - Monte - ----------------------------------------------------- Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom - ----------------------------------------------------- [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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, 28 Jan 00 10:32:47 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Clinton Gun Poll DO YOU SUPPORT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S PROPOSAL FOR HANDGUN REGISTRATION? http://today.about.com/blpoll.htm - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 09:11:07 -0600 From: linzellr@datastar.net (Robert Linzell) Subject: Coburn Endorses Keyes Coburn Endorses Keyes for President MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Rep. Tom A. Coburn (R-OK) today endorsed Ambassador Alan Keyes for the Republican nomination for President, calling him "the one candidate for President who actually understands what is wrong with our country and who has the vision, the courage, and the clarity of principle to put it right." URL: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-28-2000/0001126555&EDATE= - -- Bob in Mississippi - State Motto: Virtute et Armis ("By Valor and Arms") My PGP Public Key(s): RKBA! - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jan 00 11:08:04 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slick-d] Can You Believe It? (fwd) On Jan 29, odellh@juno.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] God made women but Colonel Colt made women equal, and carrying the tool he invented remains the constitutional right of every American. ( Vince Suprnowicz ) - --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Carolyn Carney" - ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Carvis Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 2:56 PM Subject: Can You Believe It? Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a black man named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Safely immobilized his "friends" tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley Black Panther member Warren Kimbro took Mr. Rackley's outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackleys body was found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Maybe at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. Well, in 1977 that's only eight years later only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a 60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and years later, in the same State, you can be an assistant college dean! Only in America! Ericka Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California school board. How in the world do you think that these killers got off so easy? Well, maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of those people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee or Mr. Lan Lee as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California school board. He is the head of the U.S. Justice Departments Civil Rights Division. Lee is serving in that capacity illegally, by the way, but that's another story-another part of the Clinton saga of ignoring the rule of law. O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? Nope, neither. The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at that time. She is now known as The Smartest Woman in the World. She is none other than the unofficial Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from the State of New York ---- our lovely First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton. COMMENT: And now we should understand why the Reverend Billy Graham said many years ago, "If God Almighty doesn't call judgment upon the United States of America, he's going to owe Sodom and Gomorah an apology." [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:37:46 -0800 From: "Ken Mitchell" Subject: MS-NBC Gun Poll Question of the Day President Clinton used his State of the Union address to propose photo licenses for handgun purchases. Would-be buyers would have to obtain a state license showing they had passed a background check and gun safety course or an exam. http://www.msnbc.com/news/313533.asp?0m=T12M#survey - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Mitchell Citrus Heights, CA kmitchel@gvn.net 916-955-9152 (voicemail) http://www.gvn.net/~creative/ - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." Voltaire - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Jan 00 20:45:27 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [harpazo] Not Much Time Left to Choose (fwd) On Jan 29, Ernie Gray wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] From: Ernie Gray Hi Folks, This one got my attention.Don't know how many of you may have seen it Ernie ============================================================== >URGENT * URGENT * URGENT * URGENT * URGENT > >Subject # 1: UN disarms the people then "watches" them >slaughtered.. > >Subject # 2: UN to adopt Charter 99, principles of One World >Government, in September 2000. > >To comply with specific United Nations objectives, President >Clinton and his administration are pushing very hard for legislation >to totally disarm individual Americans, both physically and >spiritually. Such an action will render us incapable of defending >ourselves individually, our families and our homes and properties. > >It s time for ALL Americans to wake up and realize the ultimate >end result of such an action is total tyranny and dictatorship. No >nation in history has ever survived the total disarming of its >individual citizens, and thus there is no reason to expect that >America, as we know it, will survive such an action. > >There is no question about the fact that the United Nations has as >its goal, total control over every aspect of every single >individual in the world. To arrive at this conclusion all one has to >do is to study (not just read) the various UN documents and plans >relative to the proposed One World Government. > >Following is a prime example of what happens to a people who >have been totally disarmed. > >After communicating with Reverend Hammond thru his Office >Manager, Ms Danielle Taylor, I concluded that I have no other >alternative but to share this EYE WITNESS account with you. >Please read the following very carefully and prayerfully and I will >add some additional information at the end of the following report. >************************************************* >Subject: African missionary on Tutsi slaughter and the U.N. >Date sent: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 > >Recently a local talk show host (Barbara Simpson of KSFO radio in >San Francisco) interviewed Reverend Peter Hammond, over the >phone from Capetown, South Africa. > >Rev. Hammond has been a missionary for 18 years. He spoke of >seeing thousands of bodies and/or skeletons of Tutsi victims of >Hutu murderers in Rwanda. Hammond said that people from the >UN stood by and allowed the slaughter by machetes to occur, and >at times handed over Tutsis to the secret police. (Individual Tutsis >were identified and marked for murder.) > >The U.N. disarmed the Tutsi population in advance of the genocide. >Spears, knives, and machetes, as well as all guns, were confiscated. >Hammond said that all genocides have been preceded by >disarmaments. > >The Tutsi were Christians, and the Hutus are primarily >anti-Christians; Hammond said there were three operative >anti-Christian forces: 1) voodooists/animists 2) Marxists, who >worked up the resentment against the Tutsis, who, as a result of >their habits of clean-living, saving, investment, and so on, built >up more material and financial success than the Hutus and 3) >Islamists. > >The Tutsis were primarily killed in churches, schools, and hospitals, >the places to which they fled for sanctuary. > >Rev. Hammond said he has watched U.N. personnel over the years >and noted that, while many of the lower- or middle-level people >were well-meaning "bleeding hearts", "absolutely" the upper >echelons of the U.N. people were anti-Christian. He said so >"without doubt, having been a missionary for 18 years." > >He said that in Angola and Sudan, the U.N. was selective about >who received aid.. He said persecution of Christians has been >particularly bad over many years in Sudan. > >Rev. Hammond has written many books--"Holocaust in Rwanda" is >a recent one--and also has made video documentaries. A contact >phone number is 1-888-918-4100. >******************************************* >TCAN Adds the following. > >In the U. S. Congress, Texas Representative Ron Paul has >introduced a bill, HR-1146, entitled American Sovereignty Act of >1999. This legislation seeks to terminate US membership in >the United Nations. To read the bill, and more click of the >following > > [ http://www.vvm.com/~ctomlin/a73.htm ] > >For more disturbing information on US/UN activities and atrocities >click on the following. > > [ http://www.vvm.com/~ctomlin/a45.htm ] > >Following is the current status of HR-1146. > >April. 7, 1999 Referred to House subcommittee > >Following is a list of cosponsors, other than that there has been no >action on this bill. > >Ralph Hall (D, TX) >Pete Sessions (R, TX) >Robert Aderholt (R, AL) >Bob Stump (R, AZ) >John Doolittle (R, CA) >Richard Pombo (R, CA) >Thomas G. Tancredo (R, CO) >Helen Chenoweth (R, ID) >Phil Crane (R, IL) >Charlie Norwood (R, GA) >Bob Barr (R, GA) >Roscoe Bartlett (R, MD) >Sue Wilkins Myrick (R, NC) >Bob Ney (R, OH) >John J. Duncan, Jr. (R, TN) >Zack Wamp (R, TN) >****************************************************** >ACTION TO BE TAKEN: > >In view of the above EYE WITNESS report, and MUCH MORE, >The Christian Alert Network (TCAN), strongly urges every >American to immediately contact your own US Representative and >urge him to strongly and aggressively, support this legislation to >extricate American from the entangled web of the United Nations. > >Please contact your US Representative by (1) telephone, (2) and >then follow up that telephone call with a FAX (3) and regular letter. > >E-Mail has very little impact. You must continue to contact your >representative on a regular basis, until HR 1136 becomes law. > >Remember, the United Nations has scheduled a special Millennium >Assembly and Summit meeting in September 2000 (just 8 months >from now while Clinton is still at the wheel) for the purpose of >adopting the 12 principles set forth in Charter 99; A Charter for >Global Democracy , and thus the end of America as a Sovereign >Nation. > >Due to the short lead time, YOU MUST ACT NOW. Together lets >flood the US House of Representatives with 10's of thousands of >phone calls, fax, and regular mail during the period beginning >Monday 31 January thru Friday 4 February. > >The US Capitol switchboard number is: 202-224-3121 or 1-800- >972-3524 >To locate your US Representative on the internet, click on the >following: >http://www.house.gov/ > >In as much as the future of America is at stake, TCAN respectfully >request that this Alert be forwarded to the maximum extent possible. > >Pastors, please inform the members of your congregation of this >situation. > >The choice is yours, freedom or slavery, YOU MUST CHOOSE. > > >Rev. "Curt" Tomlin >President >The Christian Alert Network,Inc. >POB 11746 >Killeen, Tx 76547-1746 >Ph: 254-628-7043 >Fax: 254-628-7894 >EMail: ctomlin@vvm.com >Web Site: http://www.vvm.com/~ctomlin [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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: Sat, 29 Jan 00 20:44:20 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: [slickplus] VIN: Jan. 29 column -- State of the Union (fwd) On Jan 29, RichSlick@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JAN. 29, 2000 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz The longest wish-list ever President Clinton has "never been known for the brevity of his remarks," a CBS correspondent wryly observed, and indeed the president set a new record with his 89-minute State of the Union address Thursday evening, presenting in now-standard fashion a laundry list of 101 bold new initiatives to eliminate hunger, poverty, risk, and unhappiness -- everything from "consolidating the confusing violence ratings" on video games and TV shows to a new federal initiative to collect more money from deadbeat dads -- a proposal which the president illustrated in typical show-and-tell fashion by requesting a round of applause for one Carlos Rosas ("Stand up, Carlos"), apparently for making child support payments as required by law to the mother of his child, to whom he remains unmarried. Yay! ... I guess. (As for the "violence rating system" -- an area where the Constitutional mandate for federal involvement remains obscure at best -- note that the president thanked the industry for adapting such a system voluntarily, as had been requested by him and the first lady. Their reward for complying voluntarily? The government will now impose on them a better, federal system. See how it pays to cooperate?) What made this annual stemwinder all the more surreal is that the president began the evening by proudly proclaiming everyone in America is now rich and happy, which (except for the millions killed or imprisoned for violating pointless edicts that didn't even exist 70 years ago) is very nearly true. So why was it so unthinkable that the president might proceed to merely solicit a round of applause for all the bureaucrats who have done so wonderfully in achieving all the goals Lyndon Johnson set for them back in 1964 -- whereupon he could break the good news that they'll all be going home next week, all the federal ant farms shutting down, last one out please douse the lights? Instead, determined to "spend" the sleight-of-hand "budget surplus" whose existence no one now questions (in fact, vast long-term commitments remain unfunded, and the federal government continues to sell debt instruments as fast as it can print them -- this outfit has been actuarially bankrupt for at least 60 years), the president blithely ticked off so many new and recycled billion-dollar proposals that Republicans tallied the cost at $343 billion in new spending -- more than the amount of money which the government can actually print. (Government presses currently spew out only $693 million worth of currency a day.) Up the street, the Libertarian Party tallied this year's welfare-state opium dream in a different fashion, pointing out that during Mr. Clinton's 89-minute "promise-a-thon" he proposed new or increased federal spending to the tune of $743 billion ($400 billion for Medicare; $343 billion for other programs), leading to the mathematical finding that Mr. Clinton managed to propose new spending at a rate of $139 million every second he spoke. How are we to make sense of such a tangled mass of fiduciary flotsam? The president said he favors $350 billion in "tax cuts" over 10 years, but most of those actually turn out to be "targeted tax deductions." What's the difference? George McGovern was laughed out of town when he proposed a "reverse income tax" 28 years ago. But there it was, buried in the fine print: a $21 billion expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, including expanded child care subsidies which the president would "make refundable for low income families" -- a "refundable credit" being a euphemism for the very reverse income tax of socialist fable and song. Yet meantime, all these so-called "tax cuts" would be tied to $100 billion in new tax hikes, which the president characterized as merely "closing tax loopholes and shelters." Tax "hikes" on those who actually pay taxes; tax "cuts" which take the form of government payments to those who don't pay taxes. Get it? And that's before we even get to initiatives like $280 million for "the largest national gun enforcement program ever" - rewarding the BATF for their fine work at Waco by funding 500 new BATF agents, along with an unspecified new system to trace "every gun and every bullet used in a crime." How? Any requirement to put serial numbers on bullets would multiply the price of ammunition 20-fold; would make felons overnight of hobbyists who cast their own bullets; and would effectively outlaw the sale or private possession of surplus military ammunition, the cheapest source of cartridges for the weekend plinker. Furthermore, the effectiveness of any such scheme assumes criminals will be stupid enough to go into gun shops and buy ammo under their own names. The town of Pomona, Calif. already has a municipal requirement that all ammunition buyers fill out a form with their name and address. I have seen ammo purchases successfully conducted in Pomona under the names "Helen O. Troy" and "Marquis D. Sade." Dealers say local police don't even bother to come around and pick up the thousands of forms after the weekend gun shows. Also buried in the president's 90-minute wish list was a paltry $1.6 billion over two years to get America deeper into the civil war against "narco-terrorists" in Colombia. Oh, what fun. The president said he would "go after their money," which would presumably require imposing American-style "anti-money-laundering" laws throughout the Caribbean, crippling local economies as the newly-wealthy exporters of Latin America's most popular agricultural commodities would merely shift their funds elsewhere. Then, later in the evening, the president promised Americans "new protections for the privacy of bank and credit card records." Don't you love it? Afterwards, the television talking heads were full of praise for "New Democrat" Clinton, who (we were told) "realizes that government can't solve all our problems; it can only serve as an enabler ... an instigator ... a facilitator." Oh. So government isn't going to solve all my problems. It's only going to "facilitate" my solving of my own problems. And for that it only wants an additional $300 billion to $700 billion? What a deal. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers", is available at 1-800-244-2224. *** Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, 1872 "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - To subscribe, send a message to vinsends-request@ezlink.com, from your NEW address, including the word "subscribe" (with no quotation marks) in the "Subject" line. 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[------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- 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 #314 *************************