Time: Sat Sep 13 05:33:03 1997 by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA19089; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 05:28:27 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 05:28:18 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: FORUM: Income tax (fwd) <snip> > >FROM PHOENIX, ARIZONA > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Truth in Media's GLOBAL WATCH Bulletin 97/9-4 12-Sep-97 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Topic: READERS' FORUM > ----------------------- > >U.S. Income Tax Collection: Hoodwinking the Public for Over 50 Years > * * * >Serb Civilians: Guinea Pigs for a New NATO Laser Weapon? > * * * > >U.S. INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS: HOODWINKING THE PUBLIC >FOR OVER 50 YEARS > >PHOENIX - An American TiM reader send us a report from Japan in which >the author said, among other things: >------- >> A book by Philip Howard entitled "The Death of Common Sense: How Law is >> Suffocating America" (Random House, 1994) has been selling heavily in the >> United States because it documents clearly this asphyxiation. Howard points >> out that the United States has built "a legal colossus unprecedented in >> the history of civilization, with legal dictates numbering in the millions >> of words and growing larger every day. Our regulatory system has become >> an instruction manual. It tells us and bureaucrats exactly what to do >> and how to do it. Detailed rule after detailed rule addresses every >> eventuality ..." > >------- >One comforting thought... As someone told me a long time ago (in the >1970s) while I was still working for a large bureaucracy called IBM, >"the last dying gasp of an organization is its issuance of yet another, >larger, operations manual." :-) > >Or another one about the splendiferous IBM tower at the corner of >Madison Ave. and 57th St. in New York... An impressed visitor, marveling >at the Big Blue's 42-story marble babel, asked a tour guide: "How many >people work here?" "About half," replied the guide. :-) >------- > >> Howard explains that this is a fairly recent phenomenon: >> "Only three decades ago, in the 1960s, government puttered along without >> detailed rules to meet every eventuality" and "In the decades since World >> War II, we have constructed a system of regulatory law that basically >> outlaws common sense. Modern law, in an effort to be 'self-executing' has >> shut out our humanity. The motives were logical enough: Specific legal >> mandates would keep government in close check and provide crisp guidelines >> for private citizens. But it doesn't work. Human activity can't be regulated >> without judgement by humans." > >------- >Tell it to the French, Mr. Howard! Lest we forget, "bureaucrat" is a >FRENCH word. As bad as the U.S. is getting, it still has ways to go >before matching the European bureaucracies, not to mention those in the >former communist countries. Unfortunately, we are closing the gap, >especially during the two Clinton administrations. >------- > >> According to Donald Barlett and James Steele in their book entitled >> "America: Who Really Pays the Taxes" (Touchstone, 1994), the first >> U.S. tax law, in 1913, was 17 pages in length. The first complete revision, >> in 1938, was 140 pages. The current tax law runs more than 3,000 pages. > >------- >There is something worse than just the length or the complexity of the >tax laws which requires armies or lawyers and accountants to untangle it >(which they never do, for if they ever did, they'd be out of work). >Ironically, one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, helped >foster the image of inevitability of taxation. "In this world, nothing >can be said to be certain except death and taxes," he wrote in a 1789 >letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy. Except that back then, there were no >income taxes nor private tax collectors deployed by the government. > >Congress passed a "temporary" law during WW II, requiring employers to >make tax deductions at the source - from their employees. The FDR >(Franklin Delano Roosevelt) government and the lawmakers pleaded >national security interests. A number of business entrepreneurs >protested at the time that the law was unconstitutional; that the >government had no right to appoint employers as its agents and tax >collectors. Furthermore, private companies are not compensated for the >added expense of doing this government work. But the dissenters' voices >were drowned out by emotional arguments citing patriotism and war >emergency. > >More than 50 years and several generations of Americans later, this >arguably unconstitutional and clearly unfair legislation (both to >employers and to employees), has given a new meaning to the term >"temporary." Most U.S. taxpayers today don't even know that there was >once a better, fairer system of collecting taxes; that it is NOT a >God-given right of the federal government to require others to do its >dirty work. Or that, for most of the first 137 years of the Republic, >there was no income tax at all. > >As a result, this is possibly the greatest example of hoodwinking by the >("reds" in) FDR government since the 16th Amendment imposed the income >tax on Americans in 1913. > >What followed was nothing short of plunder of the nation's working >people. With the politicians in their pocket, and having secured >themselves the right to reach into the employees' pocketbooks >practically at will, the industrial and Wall St. elites began to use the >proceeds (taxes) for their own, not necessarily the American peoples' >interest. > >A number of foreign wars and "peacekeeping" missions around the world >are one consequence of it (American troops are now serving in over 100 >countries, according to an August 1997 press release of the Libertarian >Party). "Corporate welfare" is another . But the ever higher >concentration of wealth (and thus power) in ever fewer hands is the >ultimate consequence of this "taxation (virtually) without >representation" money grab. > >During the 1930s (i.e., before the automatic deductions by employers >were imposed), federal INDIVIDUAL income taxes were never more than 1.4 >percent of GNP. CORPORATE taxes were never more than 1.6 percent. In >1990, those same taxes were 8.8 and 2.0 percent of GNP respectively (see >the "Tax Decade," by C. Eugene Steuerle). > >That's more than a six-fold increase for the individual wage earners' >share, as compared to only 25% rise in the corporate portion of the tax >burden. And just think - all this happened two years BEFORE BILL >CLINTON took power! > >------- >> unable to hire a bevy of expensive lawyers. Fortunately for O.J., he was >> able to spend lavishly on the highest-priced lawyers in the United States, >> and was acquitted. This case made it transparent to anyone who didn't >> already know that the United States has one standard of justice (1st >> class) for the few who can afford to buy it and another (coach-class) >> for everyone else. >------- > >Well said! Nor is the corruption of the American justice evident only >in private or state litigation. > >Look at how Janet Reno got away scot-free for the Waco murders. Or how >she has been evading the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to >investigate illegal contributions to the Clinton/Gore 1996 campaign. >Look at how Judge Marsh quashed the evidence which might have helped >McVeigh at least avoid the death sentence, if not the guilty verdict. >Look at the inequitable treatment of American vs. Russian diplomats >(refer to my recent correspondence with the American press attaché in >Moscow [Hoagland]). Look at how a Los Angeles judge, after having heard >the plea by the State Dept. lawyers, ruled that the Sultan of Brunei >could not be sued by the former Miss USA, Shannon Marketic, for holding >her as a sex slave on his oil-rich tropical island. Look at how Saudi >Arabia and China (and to a lesser extent Israel), for example, continue >their persecution of Christians, while the U.S. government not only >looks the other way, but ostracizes our diplomat who spoke up about it >(e.g., Tim Hunter). > >One could write a book (literally) about the corruption of the American >justice, but I'll stop here. It is quite clear that despite (or maybe >because of) our 750,000+ economic parasites who only help distribute, >not create, the nation's wealth (the lawyers, of course), our justice >system is rotten to the core. The fact that the U.S. employs three >quarters of the world's attorneys, according to a Financial Times 1994 >report, is in itself a condemnation of our judicial system's >self-serving litigiousness. > >------- >Ed. Our original reply has been slightly expanded in this edition. >Bob Dj. >------- > >SERB CIVILIANS: GUINEA PIGS FOR A NEW NATO LASER WEAPON? > >PHOENIX - The message we received on Sept. 10 (enclosed below) from a >TiM reader was prompted by our recent Balkan affairs stories. It looks >like the Serb civilians in Bosnia may be about to become the guinea pigs >for a field test of a newfangled laser technology which attaches to an >M16, a standard NATO assault rifle: > >-------- >> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:38:59 -0700 >> >> There is a local company, SEA (don't know what it stands for), which has >> been working on a device which attaches to the M16 rifle, much the same >> as a grenade launcher, under the barrel. This device is about the same >> size as a small OJ concentrate can and attaches basically where the >> bayonet lug is. Replaces the M79 GL. >> >> This device has two switches on it. >> >> The first switch is On/Off and is pretty straight forward-this is how >> you turn it on and off. >> >> The second switch has three positions: AIM, TEMP, BLIND. (may be >> labeled differently, but the function is correct). >> >> The device is a laser. In the first position of the selector switch, >> you get a nice little red dot used for aiming the M16. The second >> position turns the power up on the laser and if the laser hits your >> eyes, you get temporarily blinded, it lasts anywhere from 15 minutes to >> a day depending upon how long the target is exposed. The third position >> will blind the target permanently. (Ever wondered why the FCC bans >> aiming of a laser at a vehicle.) >> >> What is most interesting, this device just started deploying >> recently(within the last year or so). And, insiders at SEA indicate, >> one of the chief engineers of the product has been issued a plane ticket >> to fly to Bosnia for yet unannounced reasons. >> >> Speculation is that maybe there is a problem or maybe they want some >> first hand instruction, but the device is deployed. >> >> Now here is MY speculation, Bosnia is mainly a "civil disobiedence" at >> this time. Maybe the brass is going to find out how to use it on some >> other population and then..... [deploy it on Americans at home?] >> Of course you guys in Phoenix wouldn't >> know anything about (the) martial law, yet, huh? > >-------- >Another military source has verified the validity of the above >information. Here is what a relatively recently U.S. Army retiree wrote >to us on Sept. 11: >-------- > >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 23:02:24 -0700 >> >> The weapon is functionally as stated by your TiM reader. It was being >> highly touted at the time I was leaving the military as a "humane" >> method of "riot control." >> >> The only defensive protection is sight protection. Fortunately, it is >> available commercially. Anyone who services the high tech laser >> industry would be a supplier. >> >> In an emergency, "chrome" sunglasses, like the old California Highway >> Patrol type, will do the job at the lower settings. Laser is simply >> amplified light, and any reflective surface will disperse it. The more >> reflective the better, the thicker the coating the better. >> >> Another method is to use fogging; preferably something containing >> easily suspended glassine particles. Something available locally might >> be white fibreglass. Water fogging will also work very well. >> ANYTHING to refract, diffuse, absorb, or reflect light. >> >> Another defensive tactic to know is that laser light can be easily seen, >> if only momentarily. If detected through fog or mist, those at a slight >> angle to the impact of the ray can bring fire upon the general vicinity >> and to the rear of the source. > >-------- >What follows is another message we've received from the same U.S. >military expert. He comments here about the possible motives for and >methods of deployment: >-------- > >> You know as well as I that the Iraqis were set up by that dame at the >> State Dept. to go ahead and try to get their ancient land - Kuwait - >> back. It was a ruse which emboldened Saddam Hussein. >> >> You and I know that the American public, as a whole, went into >> "Patriotic Fits." People were calling Arabs "rag-heads," etc., and >> jokes became profuse. The media went along, like so many puppets. >> >> You must also know by now that the issue was not the safety of Jews, >> nor the security of a plentiful and cheap oil supply to the West. Saudi >> Arabia and Egyptian forces could have dealt with Saddam with their very >> capable pilots, using Western equipment and munitions. >> >> You may now realize that the event was purely a demonstration; a >> "show of force" of the immense technical and military power of the NWO... >> and no one "really minded" killing a bunch of screaming "rag-heads." >> >> But how would people react to killing White people - - again? Yet >> to be tested. >--- >[actually, it has been "tested" already when NATO bombed the Bosnian >Serbs incessantly for over three weeks in Aug-Sep/95, killing scores >of "white people," both soldiers and civilians, in the process. Bob >Dj.]. >--- >> As I mentioned before, the very first step in propaganda - >> to make an enemy - whether real or imagined, is to de-humanize. This was >> accomplished when a slip of the tongue was made, and it was >> re-interpreted, "Ethnic Cleansing." (It was) followed by "Genocide." >> >> Say Serbia. Say propaganda. Say Enemy. Say "Testing." >> > >[Meanwhile, back to the NATO M16 laser weapon...] > >> The AIM switch is the lowest calibration, used for "Zero-ing" the device >> to the sight alignment of the individual weapon. >> >> At a distance of 35m, the soldier aligns his weapon sights front sight >> post, seen through the rear sight aperature with the center mass or >> specific point of the target calibration unit. Since the individual >> weapon is already "zeroed," the newly installed laser attachment needs to >> be in alignment as well. When the soldier finds his target using his >> conventional sights, his option is to fire the weapon or the laser, via a >> separate triggering device close to the M16A1/A2 trigger. >> >> Just a small clarification; the M203A1 is the Grenade Launcher which >> attaches to the M16A1 / M16A2. The M79 is a hand-held grenade launcher, >> which is still in the inventory, but is NOT attached or attachable to the >> M16A1 / M16A2. >> >> As it appears the weapon is deployed, there will be information available >> under the FOI Act. DOD and Dept. of the Army will have FM's (Field >> Manuals) and TM's (Technical Manuals) already published. The only thing >> that will be restricted are tactical and deployment information manuals. >------ > >Bob Djurdjevic >TRUTH IN MEDIA >Phoenix, Arizona >e-mail: bobdj@djurdjevic.com > >LINKS: http://www.beograd.com/truth/ > (Truth in Media home page) > > http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/97/aug/returns0805/ > (Djurdjevic's August 1997 FORBES column, "The Japanese are > coming (maybe)" > > http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/97/july/returns0708/einstein.htm > (Djurdjevic's July 1997 FORBES column, "Move Over Einstein, > Signor Da Vinci Is Back") > > http://www.djurdjevic.com > (Annex Research home page) > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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