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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Votesmart (fwd)
>Date: Sat, 31 May 97 13:25:14 PST
>From: ocs@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance)
>To: pmitch@primenet.com
>Subject: Re: SLS: Dismantling the IRS: a formula for success
>
>"On May 31, Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:"
>
>>Bill,
>>
>>I may be mistaken here, but I had trouble
>>reaching their website several weeks ago.
>>Can you share the particulars with us?
>>I am copying this message to the Supreme
>>Law School. Those clients may want to
>>contact you directly.
>>
>>Many thanks!
>
>Had a little trouble getting in their myself at first. Then I got ahold of
>the following. Let me know if it still works. I only have an email
>connect at the moment, but I'm working on getting an OS upgrade so I can get
>the latest networking stuff going. That limits me at the moment, but
>hopefully I'll be able to do better soon.
>
>
>> To all 'fap':
>>
>> If you are truly interested in receiving perhaps the least biased -
>>non judgemental accounts of all of the candidates...go to:
>>http://www.vote-smart.org/
>> Incidentally, try the address as I've posted it first. The '-'
>>between "vote" and "smart" may have been editors' doing. If so, go again
>>without the hyphen and 'votesmart' as one word.
>> I've yet to tap into the page, but I intend too. I do understand
>>that it is purely factual...documentation provided. Of course, if your
>>candidate is quoted as saying something that you personally disagree with,
>>well then I suppose you'll claim its NOT true and that the page is bogus!
>>
>> At any rate, give it a try! Remember:>> http://www.vote-smart.org/
>>
>> Good luck to all!
>>
>> Sincerely:
>> Don
>> dking@netdoor.com
>
>Hope that does the trick for you.
>
>>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>>http://www.supremelaw.com
>>
>>
>>
>>>Date: Sun, 25 May 97 14:12:23 PST
>>>Organization: (N.) To be organized. But that's not important right
now.....
>>>From: ocs@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance)
>>>To: pmitch@primenet.com
>>>Subject: Re: SLS: Dismantling the IRS: a formula for success
>>>
>>>Paul;
>>>
>>>On reading your following post(s), I was reminded of another organization
>>>that has seen quite a bit of success. They have quite a number of
>>>volunteers helping to keep them updated on a continual basis, and a fairly
>>>well organized system of multiple access, voice, web, gopher, etc., etc.
>>>You might check out how they set it up for helpful pointers. I'm refering
>>>of course to, "Project Vote Smart", originally set up by President Carter
>>>and a bunch of others. Within their operating perameters, they're doing a
>>>land office business getting the info out to everyone.
>>>
>>>Good Luck.
>>>
>>>"On May 25, Paul Andrew Mitchell wrote:"
>>>
>>>>Dear America,
>>>>
>>>>Here is a formula for success.
>>>>
>>>>How can we apply these techniques
>>>>to dismantling the IRS extortion
>>>>racket?
>>>>
>>>>Many thanks to Clifford A. Schaffer
>>>>for these important insights.
>>>>
>>>>I am all ears.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>>>>http://www.supremelaw.com
>>>>
>>>>copy: Clifford A. Schaffer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>From: "Clifford A. Schaffer" <schaffer@smartlink.net>
>>>>>To: "Paul Andrew Mitchell" [address in tool bar]
>>>>>Subject: Re: SLS: Arthur, can we pick your brain, please?
>>>>>Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 16:04:01 -0700
>>>>>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>FYI,
>>>>>
>>>>> MAP was an outgrowth of a strategy I defined a long time ago as the
>>>>>means to defeat the drug warriors.
>>>>> The original elements of the strategy can be found in the Persuasive
>>>>>Strategies and related materials, and the Hoover Resolution under
>>>>>http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer -- Information for Activists.
>>>>>
>>>>> The strategy is based upon the simple realization that the drug
war is
>>>>>founded upon ignorance and requires ignorance to survive. The
information
>>>>>age will ultimately kill the drug war.
>>>>> The strategy, at this point is straightforward;
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) build the online libraries as a resource to all those who would
>>>>>help us throughout the world -- and as the "stopper" where all the
>>>>>arguments are settled.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) hammer the media
>>>>>
>>>>> The MAP program is of limited use without the available resources to
>>>>>back it up. MAP only exists because we had previously created the
>>>>>resources that people would come to as an organizing point. That
includes:
>>>>>
>>>>>1) the rhetoric to make the arguments in the terms that non-believers
can
>>>>>understand (Persuasive Strategies), and that will allow your
supporters to
>>>>>win the argument when it comes up.
>>>>>
>>>>>2) a statement of position that can be the focus for broad-spectrum
>>>>>support (The Hoover Resolution),
>>>>>
>>>>> Note: These first two items were important because they were what
>>>>>allowed us to achieve a complete dominance of the debate forums in the
>>>>>online world -- years before MAP came along.
>>>>>
>>>>>3) an online organization for activism (DRCNet),
>>>>>
>>>>>4) online resources so all your supporters everywhere can know the facts
>>>>>and make the best arguments, (http://www.druglibrary.org) and finally,
--
>>>>>
>>>>>5) A media awareness project to bring those resources to the
attention of
>>>>>the media.
>>>>>
>>>>>The MAP project you are looking at is really the tail end of several
years
>>>>>of work that came before it -- laid out by yours truly.
>>>>>
>>>>>I would also point out that, while MAP gets a lot of letters to the
editor
>>>>>published, the real grunt work of changing minds is done by downloads
from
>>>>>the online library. A letter to the editor is really just an attention
>>>>>getter and they are so short that it is difficult to make a conclusive
>>>>>argument either way. To really seal the issue, you have to lead someone
>>>>>into the online library where the arguments are made completely and
>>>>>coherently. Most people can brush off a letter to the editor. The
online
>>>>>library is the real killer. The online library, at last estimate, serves
>>>>>up at least half a million documents per month from my web site alone,
and
>>>>>much of that is copied and distributed to others off the net in great
>>>>>quantities. I get logins from more than 1,000 colleges per month, for
>>>>>example.
>>>>>
>>>>>As far as what it would take to get me to do it for another project?
Lots.
>>>>> I make an hourly consulting rate of 75 an hour as a computer consultant,
>>>>>and I can sell every hour I have at that rate. But I am always open to
>>>>>offers.
>>>>>
>>>>>----------
>>>>>> From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
>>>>>> To: maptalk@mapinc.org
>>>>>> Subject: MAP: SLS: Arthur, can we pick your brain, please?
>>>>>> Date: Friday, May 23, 1997 11:23 AM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Arthur,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just had a great idea.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You guys in MAP are doing such a superb
>>>>>> job of informing the media of the real
>>>>>> WOD, it occurs to me that the rest of us
>>>>>> in the freedom movement could do no better
>>>>>> than to imitate your techniques, in order
>>>>>> to abolish the IRS, permanently.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do mean that as a high-level compliment,
>>>>>> if not THE highest!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One theme I wish to repeat, until it sinks
>>>>>> in, is the Grace Commission finding that
>>>>>> federal income taxes do not pay for ANY
>>>>>> government services. The obvious conclusion,
>>>>>> then, is to abolish the federal income tax,
>>>>>> and do nothing else, whereupon the American
>>>>>> economy will resurge into a renaissance, and
>>>>>> Congress will thereby experience a windfall
>>>>>> in excise taxes from the increased economic
>>>>>> activity.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another theme is the recent research which
>>>>>> shows that the IRS is a three-tiered trust,
>>>>>> domiciled in Puerto Rico under the Federal
>>>>>> Alcohol Administration, which was declared
>>>>>> unconstitutional in 1935. "IRS" is not listed
>>>>>> in Title 31, United States Code, the laws
>>>>>> which create the U.S. Treasury Department.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, here's the big question: what would it
>>>>>> take to retain you, and others with talent(s)
>>>>>> similar to yours, to educate the rest of
>>>>>> us about the productive and obviously
>>>>>> successful techniques you are utilizing
>>>>>> in the Media Awareness Project ("MAP")?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am all ears, and eagerly await your
>>>>>> careful and considerate response.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am taking the liberty of sharing this
>>>>>> request far and wide, because I believe that
>>>>>> you richly deserve the recognition, and I
>>>>>> also believe that our paths will be crossing
>>>>>> down the road apiece, because Trust #62 grew
>>>>>> out of the China Trade Act, which was enacted
>>>>>> to deal with opium, cocaine, and citric wines
>>>>>> shipping out of China. This Act was administered
>>>>>> in the Philippines by the "Bureau of Internal
>>>>>> Revenue," the predecessor to the "IRS".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am standing by. If we don't hear from you
>>>>>> in the very near future, I will continue to
>>>>>> pound on your front door (with or without
>>>>>> a warrant :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /s/ Paul Mitchell
>
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