From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #396 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Monday, October 30 2000 Volume 02 : Number 396 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:56:07 -0500 From: larry ball Subject: Chinese Money In Canada - Here Too? Remember Big Al and the Buddhist temple? The Indonesian/Chinese Connection? Look at what appears to be happening in Canada. Could it be here too? The one big problem of a strong central government is that it is relatively easy to corrupt. Read below ---- The Sidewinder scandal A leaked report makes explosive allegations about links between the Liberals and Chinese agents by Kevin Michael Grace The Report, November 6, 2000 RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli gave an extraordinary press conference on September 7. He told startled reporters, "There are criminal organizations that target the destabilization of our parliamentary system." The commissioner refused to give details but insisted he was not fear-mongering. He concluded, "We don't want to wait until we become, unfortunately, like some countries around the world, where criminal organizations actually run part of the country." On October 20, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), the government agency that oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, issued its annual report. It devotes six pages to a joint RCMP-CSIS operation, Sidewinder, whose secret interim report, Chinese Intelligence Services and Triads Financial Links in Canada, was issued in 1997. This report was suppressed, and all copies were ordered destroyed, as were all background materials. Project Sidewinder was abandoned but then restarted in 1998. A secret final report, Echo, was issued in 1999. Sources close to Sidewinder have alleged that its 1997 report was first killed and then gutted because it revealed Chinese infiltration as a grave threat to Canadian security and sovereignty. The SIRC report rejects these allegations. It finds no evidence of political interference and claims Sidewinder was not terminated; it was delayed when its initial product proved to be inadequate. The 1997 report is judged "deeply flawed...a loose, disordered compendium of facts connected by insinuations and unfounded assertions. Overall, the document is rich with the language of scare-mongering and conspiracy theory." SIRC concludes that the destruction of transitory documents related to Sidewinder's first draft was standard practice. The disappearance of other non-transitory documents is described as "disconcerting but of no material impact." The timing of the SIRC report two days before an election call and its pre-release leak to the National Post are suspicious. SIRC said in September that the report would not be released until the end of the year. Even more suspect is the September 25 assertion in the House of Commons by MP Lynn Myers, parliamentary secretary to Solicitor-General Lawrence MacAulay: "I would like to emphasize that I was not reading from or directly quoting the SIRC report, which is a classified report." He was referring to his September 20 statement to Canadian Alliance MP Jim Abbott dismissing the 1997 Sidewinder report as "deeply flawed and a conspiracy theory", phrases identical to those used in the then-supposedly unwritten, unread, classified SIRC report. Unfortunately for the Liberals, however, all copies of Sidewinder were not destroyed. The Canadian Alliance and various media, including this magazine, now possess them. The report, 30 pages long and badly translated from the original French, makes a shocking allegation. "Hong Kong tycoons, triads (gangs) and Chinese intelligence services have been working for 15 years in concert with the Chinese government, and some of their financial ventures in Canada serve to conceal criminal or intelligence activities." "These activities include money laundering, heroin trafficking and the transfer of economic, high technology and intelligence data to Beijing. Sidewinder alleges the corruption of the Canadian business and political establishments: The triads, the tycoons and [Chinese intelligence] have learned that [the] quick way to gain influence is to provide finance to the main political parties...China has obtained access to influential figures who are now or once were active at various levels of Canadian society." Foremost among the Chinese tycoons, according to Sidewinder, is Li Ka-Shing, of whom U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has testified, "The U.S. Bureau of Export Affairs, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Rand Corporation...have identified Li Ka-Shing and [his company] Hutchison Whampoa as financing or serving as a conduit for Communist Chinas military for them to acquire sensitive technologies and other equipment." Last year Forbes estimated Mr. Li's family as the eighth richest in the world, with assets totalling US$10.6 billion. According to Sidewinder, Mr. Li is a director of the Beijing-controlled China International Trust Investment Company (CITIC), which had 1997 assets of US$23 billion. CITIC owns or controls Cathay Pacific Airlines, Hong Kong Telecom, Star TV, Poly Technologies and Norinco, suspected of arms shipments to Mohawk reserves. Mr. Li's company Hutchison owns 49% of Husky Energy. CITIC has invested $500 million to buy Canadian companies Celgar Pulp Mill and Nova Corp Petrochemical. Mr. Li and his son own at least one-sixth to one-third of downtown Vancouver and have extensive real estate holdings in Toronto."CITIC has developed ... close business links with Power Corporation. (Andr=E9 Desmarais, Prime Minister Chretiens son-in-law, i= s president and co-chief executive officer of Power Corporation.)" Mr. Li is the largest (10%) single shareholder of CIBC, and a shareholder and director of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which in the 1980s acquired the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank of Canada, Continental Bank and Lloyds Bank Canada. CIBC, in turn, bought the securities firms Wood Gundy and Merrill Lynch. Li Ka-Shing's son Richard bought 50.1% of Gordon Capital in 1985. (Jean Chretien was a senior adviser there from 1986 to 1990.) None of the above proves that Canada has been subverted by the People's Republic of China, but the linkages and connections revealed between Mr. Li and Mr. Chretien and his family (which are not detailed in Sidewinder but were reported elsewhere) are, as SIRC might say, disconcerting. But then, SIRC itself is not entirely in the clear. One SIRC member, James Andrews Grant, has a serious unreported conflict of interest. His biography on the SIRC Web site identifies him as a director of CIBC and chairman of the executive committee of the law firm Stikeman, Elliott, which has a long-standing relationship with CIBCs largest shareholder, Li Ka-Shing. Canadian Alliance MP Jim Abbott, who raised the Sidewinder issue in the Commons, reports that he was immediately denounced by a Liberal MP as a racist. He adds, "Unfortunately, many Canadians are prepared to buy into these labels, and for that reason they find so much of this [Sidewinder] unbelievable." Mr. Abbott takes pains to stress that, while he understands there is a very malicious, a very serious criminal side to triad organizations, there's also the other side within the Chinese culture, where they are part of exchanging power and influence. This is something that we, from our Caucasian, Judeo-Christian basis, just don't comprehend. Elections Canada loopholes make it easy for gangsters and foreign agents to contribute to Canadian politicians, money which is sometimes received unwittingly. While Mr. Abbott admits his party has not taken any formal steps to prevent such occurrences, he explains, "We're very deeply concerned about it and are doing our level best with what information we have to make sure we arent compromised." _______ Canada for sale? A crusading ex-bureaucrat claims that Chinese criminals have subverted officials and politicians by Kevin Michael Grace The Report, June 19, 2000 Brian McAdam's supporters call him heroic. His enemies call him delusional. One thing is certain, however, if he is right, he has uncovered the biggest scandal in Canadian history. The retired foreign service officer charges that China's endemic corruption has contaminated Canadian bureaucrats and politicians to the very highest levels. He makes the sensational claim that a former Conservative prime minister, a former Conservative immigration minister and a former NDP premier were given enormous, illegal campaign contributions from shadowy Chinese businessmen. "Only a judicial inquiry will bring out the full extent of the evil I have discovered," Mr. McAdam, 58, declares. In the meantime, he will have to settle for testifying later this year before a Commons committee investigating organized crime. The evil that he alleges is that Canadian officials have been paid not to obstruct -- and even to facilitate - the entry of triad members to Canada to expand their criminal activities here, buy legitimate businesses and influence Canadian government policy. The triads were formed as Chinese fraternal societies in 1761. They soon branched out into warlordism and crime and followed Chinese migrants to Southeast Asia and North America. They are the wealthiest criminal gangs anywhere. Their most lucrative activity is the heroin trade, but they also make billions from gambling, loan sharking, credit card fraud, kidnapping, and smuggling weapons and people. The triads prey on Chinese worldwide, forcing them into sexual slavery and indentured servitude to pay back the crippling sums they are charged to be smuggled (or fraudulently introduced) into their new homelands. Mr. McAdam became a civil servant in 1965. He was posted in Hong Kong in 1968-71 and in 1989-93 and retired for medical reasons in 1995. Among his most notable achievements are the breakup of a Taiwanese cash-for-passports theft ring -- saving the Canadian government over $50 million -- and his influence on 1993 amendments to the Immigration Act that prohibit the immigration of individuals linked to organized crime. "In the first four years after the act was changed, over 1,000 gangsters were kept out of Canada," he boasts. The summit of Mr. McAdam's career was Project Sidewinder, the most thorough documentation of Chinese corruption ever attempted. The product of years of work by Mr. McAdam and his investigators, it was presented to the RCMP and CSIS in 1997. Mr. McAdam says, "Five full-time RCMP and CSIS analysts and seven part-time analysts checked it out for two years and confirmed all my allegations." The report was rejected. "CSIS ordered the analysts to destroy all the copies. Even the notes. Nothing like this had ever happened before." The existence of the report was admitted only this year. Project Sidewinder paid special attention to Chinese billionaires Li Ka-Shing and Stanley Ho. Last year Forbes estimated Mr. Li's family fortune at US$10.6 billion, making it the eighth richest in the world. He has extensive holdings in Canada, including the Expo 86 lands and shipping operations in Vancouver, and is the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's single largest shareholder. U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher says, "The U.S. Bureau of Export Affairs, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Rand Corporation...have identified Li Ka-Shing and [his company] Hutchison Whampoa as financing or serving as a conduit for Communist China's military [the People's Liberation Army] for them to acquire sensitive technologies and other equipment." Mr. Li has denied these allegations. Fabian Dawson, the Vancouver Province reporter who has written numerous exposes of Chinese criminal influence in Canada, has revealed that in 1988 the Royal Hong Kong Police asked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to investigate Mr. Li. The request was denied. Stanley Ho's fortune is based on his monopoly of casino gambling on Macao, a Portuguese colony returned to China earlier this year. These casinos have been the subject of a savage gang war, which spilled into Canada when the Vancouver home of one of the gangsters was sprayed with machine-gun fire. Mr. Ho also has Canadian interests, including Vancouver's luxury Sutton Place Hotel; his daughters, Daisy and Pansy, are Canadian citizens. The RCMP's Asian Crime Roster lists Mr. Ho as a suspected triad member/ leader, as does a 1998 U.S. Justice Department report. Asked in February by the South China Morning Post about his alleged crime links, Mr. Ho retorted, "These reports only say that I know some triad members. Well, maybe you have come across some. To be associated with or to know someone is completely different.'' Both Mr. Li and Mr. Ho have contributed heavily to Britain's Conservative Party. Mr. Li gave 3900,000 pounds to the party when John Major led it. Mr. Ho and his business partner Ng Lap Seng have been implicated in the 1996 U.S. Democratic Party fundraising scandals. Mr. McAdam says he was appalled by the corruption he witnessed in Hong Kong, but more so by the laissez-faire attitude of Canadian officials towards it. He explains that triad members strive ceaselessly to entrap their foreign guests. A common ploy is to invite bureaucrats to the racetrack, where they are given "lucky" red envelopes containing hundreds of dollars in cash. Mr. McAdam refused to accept these gratuities, only to be warned he was offending his hosts. Another ploy is the charity ball. Mr. McAdam explains, "Canadian mission staff are constantly invited and many attend these glamorous, ostentatious, extravagant affairs, where they can meet the highest circles of society and also unknowingly meet triad leaders, paid for by hospitality funds, compliments of Canadian taxpayers. Usually there were gifts placed on the tables, ranging in value from cheap toys to expensive gifts like watches or jewellery. In addition, there would be 'lucky draws.' A Canadian diplomat, for example, won a computer this way. I cannot think of a more perfect venue for organized criminals to meet officials and evaluate their morality." When some of his colleagues "began to buy houses with $350,000 cash," Mr. McAdam made his own evaluation. By that time, he says, he had lived through an "eight-year campaign to discredit me as a fantasist, a nutcase and a racist." He sank into depression and resigned. "I have been working since then to vindicate myself," he declares. "The only thing I can do is to get as much of this out to the public as I can." --------- Check out the Canada First Immigration Reform Committee http://www.canadafirst.net Free Speech? http://www.canadianfreespeech.com C-FAR Online! http://www.populist.org Paul Fromm's Personal Site: http://www.paulfromm.com P.O. Box 332 Station 'B', Etobicoke, Ontario M9W 5L3 Tel: (905) 897-7221 -- Fax: (905) 277-3914 ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Oct 00 10:43:14 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: Emerson found not guilty of state charges. Good news for his federal appeal. (fwd) On Oct 27, Directed Fire! wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >Pardon my legal ignorance, but, can this verdict now be used as a precedent >in future similar cases? No telling how many people lose their 2nd >Amendment rights due to "boilerplate" domestic violence restraining orders? > >thanks, > >Jeff >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Terry M. Wintroub" >To: "fap" >Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:21 PM >Subject: Emerson found not guilty of state charges. Good news for his >federal appeal. > > > > http://www.texaswest.com/archive/00/october/19/1.htm > > The Second Amendment issues are on appeal. The arguments have been heard - we're just waiting for the verdict. Odds are that the verdict will be decidedly pro-Second Amendment. This will place the court in direct opposition with other courts at the same level in other regions of the country - which virtually assures Supreme Court review. That's part of why it's so critical that Al Gore NOT be elected. The review of Emerson will likely not take place before the next president appoints 2-4 new justices to the Supreme Court. Imagine who Algore would appoint!??? So VOTE! Get your FRIENDS to vote! And if they aren't interested... tell them they can win a FREE GUN if they do! http://directedfire.com/greatgungiveaway Kurt [------------------------- 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 - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Oct 00 12:16:38 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Re: No hidden agenda for this league-Thanks Charley Reese (fwd) On Oct 27, Josephine Bass wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >No hidden agenda for this league >Charley Reese >Commentary > >Published in The Orlando Sentinel on October 26, 2000 > >Well, holy mackerel, I'm part of a vast neo-Confederate conspiracy and didn't >even know it. At least that's what the smarmy, left-wing Southern Poverty Law >Center says. > >Well, I don't mind being called a neo-Confederate, because that puts me into >the political camp of Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry. But, alas, our band >of brothers and sisters is neither vast nor conspiratorial. We haven't even >tried to replace hash-brown potatoes with grits in restaurants operating in >Dixie. > >Actually the SPLC has done the usual leftist smear job on the League of the >South, of which I'm a proud member. The SPLC resorts to the usual >guilt-by-association tactics of the left, lumping the league with >organizations with which it has no connection and with individuals who are >not members. > >It is a disgraceful tactic, but, then, consider the source. The easiest way >to refute the smear job is simply to invite anyone who is interested to >investigate for himself or herself. The League of the South is the most >transparent organization in America. It has no secrets and no hidden agenda. >It is made up of people who speak in private the same way they speak in >public. > >Every speech at every one of the league's annual meetings is recorded and >available for sale unedited. Every policy statement, news release, newsletter >and position paper is available free of charge from the league's Web site, >www.dixienet.org. > >Thus, for a few hours and a few bucks, anyone interested can read every word >ever written by the league and hear every word ever spoken at the league's >annual meetings beginning with the very first one. And I can tell you that, >in all that, you will not find one word spoken or written that any rational >person could interpret as racist, white-supremacist or hateful. > >The charge, in short, is just a fat lie. > >Do buy the tapes, though. The league can use the money, and you will be both >educated and amused. We are not one of those knitted-brow-zealot outfits. We >love to laugh. And you don't know joy until you hear the Rev. Steve Wilkins, >one of the league's directors, laugh. If you're within a block of Steve when >something hits his funny bone, you will hear a very infectious laugh. > >The league is an independent organization that has no connection with any >other organization or political party. Its aims are precisely what it says: >to advance the economic, cultural and political interests of the Southern >people. > >I am used to people calling me names, but I was particularly incensed at the >SPLC's attempt to paint the league's president, Dr. Michael Hill, as a >racist. I don't know of any racist who has spent the majority of his academic >career as a tenured professor of history at a black college, as has Dr. Hill. >He's one of the finest men I've ever met. > >In a policy statement calling for an honest discussion and an end to >demagoguery, Dr. Hill writes, ". . . we will loudly proclaim that we will >have no truck with those who wish to interject malice and hatred into the >racial issue and that includes both sides, black and white. Being proud and >thankful of who we are does not mean that we must denigrate others." > >Of course, some people are so incapable of logical thinking that they >misinterpret the league's celebration of the Anglo-Celtic heritage as a >putdown of others. Hey, I thought pride in heritage was the "in thing" these >days. If anyone thinks we Anglo-Celtic folks are going to wear horsehair >underwear and tell our children as they go off to school, "Be good; feel >guilty," then your dogs are barking at a tree with no raccoon in it. > >It's your choice. Think for yourself or be manipulated. > >HREF="http://orlandosentinel.com/automagic/columnists/2000-10-26/OPEDreese2610 >2600.html"> >http://orlandosentinel.com/automagic/columnists/2000-10-26/OPEDreese26102600.h > >tml > >http://www.cashfiesta.com/php/join.php?ref=demastus [------------------------- 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 - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Oct 00 20:34:09 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Multiculturalism and weapons (fwd) On Oct 29, ataylor@NMSU.Edu wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] I ran across this in cleaning out files. It's worth re-reading, close to election day. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED OCT. 31, 1999 THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz 'Cultures' are not always defined by skin color As advertised, multiculturalism is a fine thing. Yes, the average inhabitant of this continent today has a longer life expectancy and a vastly improved standard of living than if she was still suffering 50 percent infant mortality and fending off Athabascan raiders with flint-tipped spears. But that's not to say the European conquest was an unalloyed triumph of tolerance and Christian charity. By all means, let's teach our history warts and all. Mighty have been the contributions to modern America of the indigenous Indians, and of the descendants of African peoples brought here against their will. Let's give them their proper place in the history books, and teach their descendants to be proud -- not ashamed -- of their heritage. Next we can start to excavate and restore the cultural pride and proper historical recognition, as well, of our forefathers who were Irish, Italian, Polish, Chinese, Serbian, Jewish, Arab ... Whoa, there. Today's brand of "multiculturalism" takes no such route, does it? Instead, our children's textbooks are increasingly filled with the historically bankrupt fantasy that Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher had as much to do with winning the American Revolution as Washington and Jefferson; that the American Indian was some kind of mystically enlightened ecological steward; and that today's black American is directly descended from an ancient Negroid race that built the pyramids of Egypt and had already developed electrical storage batteries and successful hang gliders long before the birth of Jesus. What gives? The answer, of course, is that today's "multiculturalism" is in fact a sharply limited political agenda sold under false colors. The goal here is for a small segment of the academe with giant chips on their shoulders to monomaniacally strip the pictures of dead white males out of our history books and replace them with pictures of blacks, Indians, and women. (A new American dollar coin is about the be issued, made of base metal and tarted up with brass plating. What are the chances it will depict a dead white male?) Recognizing how much of the genius attributed to Thomas Edison was actually bought at minimum wage from folks like Nikola Tesla -- that the real cartoonist behind the entrepreneur Walt Disney was a guy named Ub Iwerks -- is not well designed to upset white males and advance this agenda, since it only shifts credit to other white males. So, it's a non-starter. And if you really want to upset a modern "multiculturalist," point out that he or she seems curiously intolerant of some "cultures" within modern America -- cultures with documentable thousand-year pedigrees -- where the cultural divisions are not discernible by skin color, at all. I was struck, as I recently read the introduction to the 1994 Barnes & Noble edition of the esteemed archaeologist Ewart Oakeshott's "The Archaeology of Weapons," by the passage where he describes the attitude of the ancient Greeks and Romans toward their arms as being totally different from "that extraordinary romantic veneration for their arms so characteristic of Teuton, Celt, and Indian -- and on the other side of the earth, the Japanese." The Roman attitude toward arms was "actually very modern; the civilian fears and shuns them, the soldier has them issued to him ... keeps them clean and in working order because he will get in trouble if he does not, and has no love for them at all." How different from the classical Japanese, and from the German tribesmen who repulsed the Romans in the year 9 A.D. -- from those of our ancestors who built their warrior societies around the mastery of arms, who gave their weapons names, endowed them with personalities, and would pass a single, named blade down through a family for hundreds of years. How different from the Germans described by Tacitus, among whom "No business, public or private, is transacted except in arms," where citizenship was bestowed when "one of the chiefs, or the father or a kinsman equips the young warrior with a spear and shield in the public council" and where, if the audience approved of a speech at a public meeting, "they clash their spears. No form of approval can carry more honor than praise expressed by arms." This proud culture is not dead. In peaceful, law-abiding 20th century Switzerland, where every head of household is still considered a militiaman and expected to keep a loaded machine gun at home, voters in some villages still carry their swords as symbol of citizenship to annual town meetings. Here in America, where many an American male still inducts his son into manhood by teaching him to safely handle weapons and helping him score his first kill in the hunt, there is probably no more achingly compelling description of the long sufferings of America's culture of arms than John Ross' magnificent 1996 novel "Unintended Consequences" (available from Loompanics at $28.95; call 360-385-2230 or 800-380-2230.) Ross' protagonist, Henry Bowman, protests at one point that "They have treated me and others like me with utter contempt. They have confiscated our property and put people in maximum-security prisons over ownership of fender washers, claiming they were unassembled silencer parts. ... They have shot a man's wife in the head because his gun's buttstock was too short. ... They burned 90 people alive over a disputed two hundred dollar tax. "If you believe you have the right to buy, own and shoot small arms in a safe manner, as much and as often as you want, and you exercise that right regularly, our government has branded you as the enemy." Here, surely, are two cultures. It's unlikely either side of this cultural divide will ever convince the other it's "right" (in fact, true multiculturalists would preach only understanding and tolerance) -- though it must be observed the only thing that sets man apart is his ability to develop tools and weapons, and the notion that men will be left in peace if only they will lay down their arms didn't work out so well for the Armenian minority in Turkey in 1915, the Ukrainians under Stalin in the 1930s, the Jews under Hitler in the 1940s, or the Cambodian intellectuals under Pol Pot in the 1970s. But what (start ital)is(end ital) clear is which of the two cultures practices tolerance -- I don't believe I've ever met a gun owner who wants to make it mandatory for everyone else to own and shoot firearms. Of course, our modern descendants of the Romans -- whose republic fell to tyranny after they delegated the business of war and armed policing to hired mercenaries -- those who today "fear and shuns arms, and have no love for them at all," call those who esteem weapons by the same name the Romans used: "barbarians." But before they push their pogrom against these "barbarians" in their midst to the point where America's gun culture must choose between fighting back or suffering genocide, these modern Romans might remember what happened to the governor P. Quintilius Varus, when he led his three fully-armed Roman legions into the Teutoburger Wald in the year 9 A.D. The Romans, virtually undefeated since the days of Hannibal, marched into those woods, and did not emerge. So stunned was the emperor Augustus that he commanded his successors that the frontiers of the empire would forever be the Rhine and the Danube, and so they were. The forest creatures fed for years on the unburied Roman dead ... and the Romans went to Germany no more. Vin Suprynowicz is assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. His new book, "Send in the Waco Killers: Essays on the Freedom Movement, 1993-1998," is available at $24.95 postpaid from Mountain Media, P.O. Box 271122, Las Vegas, Nev. 89127; by dialing 1-800-244-2224; or via web site http://www.thespiritof76.com/wacokillers.html. **************************************************************************** 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 [------------------------- 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 - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 29 Oct 00 20:26:47 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: CONGRESS HAS VIOLATED YOUR SOVEREIGNTY! [WTO] (fwd) Looks like it's starting to hit the fan..... On Oct 29, Archibald Bard wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] For the first time in the history of our country, Congress voted to change our domestic laws because an international body told us to do so. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has begun to dictate American laws. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- October 30, 2000 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---- U.S. Congress Bows to WTO Mandate Our National Sovereignty is Violated An extraordinary event occurred this week in Washington during the final days of the 106th Congress, an event that did not receive comment in either the media or the halls of Congress, save for my office. This event had been termed "unthinkable" only a few months earlier. It occurred despite clear constitutional prohibitions and at the expense of our precious national sovereignty. For the first time in the history of our country, Congress voted to change our domestic laws because an international body told us to do so. The World Trade Organization (WTO) has begun to dictate American laws. More specifically, Congress voted to change our tax laws relating to Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs), solely because the WTO appellate panel deemed that our FSC tax rules constituted a "subsidy" - the EU contingent in the WTO had brought a complaint to the panel. Our FSC rules simply allow U.S. corporations to exempt a small portion of income earned abroad from taxes. No "subsidy" is involved; no tax dollars are given to FSCs. Moreover, most EU countries do not tax their corporations on any income earned abroad. Still, the appellate panel agreed with the EU and gave the U.S and October 1st deadline to change our tax laws. I have opposed our membership in the WTO throughout my tenure in Congress. I strongly support true free trade, which occurs in the absence of government tariffs. The WTO, however, represents the worst form of government-managed trade. More importantly, however, our involvement in the WTO threatens national sovereignty. The Constitution clearly vests the power to regulate trade solely with Congress, and Congress cannot cede with mandates in areas such as environmental protections, worker rights, and trade policy. Congress either blindly or willfully chose to ignore this very serious constitutional conflict when it voted in favor of WTO membership. However, a Congressional Research Service report was quite clear about the consequences of our membership: "As a member of the WTO, the United States does commit to act in accordance with the rules of the multi-lateral body. It is legally obligated to insure that national laws do not conflict with WTO rules," (emphasis added). Earlier this year I sought to address this terrible threat to our sovereignty by introducing a resolution withdrawing us from the WTO. I explained my concerns in a brief to the House Ways and Means trade subcommittee, pointing out the unconstitutionality of our involvement. I warned that the WTO could begin dictating our environmental, labor and tax laws. These arguments were met with hostility and condescension. Subcommittee members stated that we need the WTO to avoid "trade wars," and that the U.S. Congress would never change our domestic laws to satisfy the WTO. "Unthinkable" was how one member put it. Judging by this week's vote, the "unthinkable" has become reality. We should never change our national laws at the behest of any international organization. Congress simply has ceded it legislative authority to the WTO, and it is shameful that this action likely will go unnoticed by the American people. If we want to help American businesses, we should simply stop taxing their foreign income. The FSC measure will not appease the Europeans; the EU already has indicated that the changes are unsatisfactory to them. We stand on the brink of a retaliatory trade war with the EU, even though we were told that the WTO was needed to avoid such conflicts. So the WTO has given us the worst of all worlds. Rest assured that the WTO assault on American sovereignty will not end here. What will happen when the Europeans object to another area of our tax laws? Will we change the way we tax individuals also? Perhaps the Europeans will object to our relatively liberal immigration laws, because they resent losing their talented citizens to America. Whatever the issue, the threat remains the same. Americans who care about sovereignty have every reason to be outraged. http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2000/tst103000.htm Archibald Bard Pro Libertate - For Freedom ICQ 83834746 [------------------------- 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 - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:44:18 -0600 (CST) From: Paul Watson Subject: CARA Update (fwd) This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. - ------=_NextPart_000_006F_01C0422F.904040C0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:09:21 -0800 From: ewinglewis To: ewinglewis@email.msn.com Subject: CARA Update CARA Update As you all know CARA has been defeated, for the time being. In spite of CARA's current status of defeat, it appears there is a continuing attempt by Senator Trent Lott to add land acquisition money to the Commerce, Justice and State Department Appropriations Bill. There is a good chance this bill will pass in the next few days. This information is from the American Land Rights Association (ALRA). ALRA sources the Washington DC publication, Roll Call, (Oct. 16th issue) with the story that Trent Lott has pressured the non-partisan, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (James Ziglar) to lobby for a last minute, dark-of-nite land grab. According to Roll Call, for the last 18 months Ziglar has helped to maneuver CARA through the legislative process at the behest of Senator Lott. Needless to say, little pieces of CARA are still alive, thanks to James Ziglar and Senator Trent Lott. Both Senator Lott and Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Ziglar need to be contacted, with particular emphasis on James Ziglar. When contacting Ziglar do not let him distract you by saying you need to contact Senator Lott, as it is Ziglar himself who has been extremely instrumental in the previous and continuing efforts to push CARA. The question to Ziglar is why! Why does he and Senator Lott want to condemn my property? Or, why does he not want me as an average citizen to own and freely enjoy private property ownership? When calling Ziglar first try to contact him through the free number. 1-800-648-3516 or 202-224-2341 If possible, please fax him, as well, at 202-224-7690. 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