-Caveat Lector- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com http://www.ioa.com/~davehart | VISION | CURRENT ISSUE | BACK ISSUES | http://www.cascadian.com/NANS/Home.html News Flash... Today! JANUARY, 1999 Selected Legislative History of the Clinton Administration Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 1996 Dear NORTH AMERICANS, We the People have the unalienable and natural right to self-determination. We the People have the right to our true citizenship. We the People have the right to life, liberty and the purusit of happiness. Allow no law or power to usurp this right. We the People have the right to a Constitutional government that does not enslave its people by taxing them into economic slavery. We the People have the right to a healthy environment. We the People have the right to share the wealth of the earth. No law or power shall deny another the right to be. We the People hereby declare our sovereign rights as Citizens under the Declaration of Independence, the American law, the Constitution for the United States, and shall accept no other law before thee. We the People hereby declare our sovereign rights to govern ourselves as a community of leaders, of men and women equal under a higher law. We the People hereby declare our sovereign rights to privacy from the invasion of government or bureaucracies,the rights of contract under the Constitution and Common law,the rights of protection under Canon laws for practicing our religions,the rights of association, of assembling, of speaking freely, the rights enjoyed by all free men and women of culture,whether aristocratic or of humble means, the rights of We the People forever guaranteed under Law. --Johnny Liberty [Editors's Note: The following article was written by Johnny Liberty and soon to be published in the national magazine "Mondo 2000".] Selected Legislative History of the Clinton Administration The administration of Bill Clinton has waged a persistant attack against individual liberties, the Constitution for the united states of America and the Bill of Rights in the name of reinventing bigger (i.e., global) and more efficient (i.e., tyrannical) government. This has resulted in more federal and international control over state's rights, local initiatives and every aspect of the constitutionally-protected sovereign rights of the American Citizen. In the wake of Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Oklahoma City bombing and numerous other domestic incursions, many of which could have been staged by agents within the government itself, an "anti-terrorist" bill has been passed, additional federal and local law enforcement has been funded to the tune of $1,000,000,000, airport security has been tightened to the point of the absurd, privacy and first amendment rights have been increasingly attacked, censorship is on the rise, a national I.D. card institutioned, welfare privatized, prisoner rights curtailed, and prisons have been constructed at an alarming rate while social programs have had to bite the budget-cutting bullet. The NSA is persistant in its efforts at cyberspying, tightening its grip on the free expression of the Internet despite huge opposition. Undaunted by the public outcry against its maligned Clipper Chip (i.e., NSA's bid for an encryption standard that would allow it to snoop into high tech telephone transmissions), the NSA is now developing the Fortezza Card. This technology encrypts data under the cloak of privacy, but retains a "back door" to government agents who feel they have a right and a need to snoop into people's private affairs. Netscape Corporation, which virtually dominates the market for Web browsers with an 80 percent market share, recently contracted with NSA to produce browsers and servers compatible with the Fortezza Card. Joshua M.K Masur writes, "Consider how nicely Congress' netwide censorship plan can be enforced with our nation's shiny new half-billion dollar national wiretap system, for simultaneously wiretapping as many as 1 call per 100 from anywhere"(as specified in the Federal Register Doc. 95-25562 Filed 10-13-95). The Federal Register Contained a lengthy, detailed "notice of the maximum capacity required to accommodate all of the communication interceptions, pen registers, and trap and trace devices that the Attorney General estimates the government agencies authorized to conduct electronic surveillance may conduct and use simultaneously by 11/98." FBI Director, Louis Freeh reveals that "Each telecommunications carrier must ensure that it can expeditiously increase its capacity to meet the assistance capability requirements [for] interceptions equal to 1% of the engineered capacity of the equipment, facilities or services that provide a [wired or wireless telecommunications] customer or subscriber with the ability to originate, terminate, or direct communications." Although privacy & civil liberties advocates successfully stripped a requirement for a new national ID database from the recent Immigration bill, something just as bad was embraced by America's political whores when inserted in the new Welfare "reform" bill. New block grants to the states for welfare and the new people-tracking national ID systems they entail will be administered by private corporations. They'll make the decisions regarding eligibility, services, and payments-who eats and who starves. Welfare has been privatized! Is this a great country or what? Top private-sector welfare contractors include Lockheed, IBM, and EDS. Analysts are already speculating whether these corporations could boost profits by laying off their employees, then administering welfare to them. The military-industrial complex so prevalent during the Cold War and Vietnam years has transformed into the prison-industrial-police-attorney complex resharpening its focus from a war against the Soviets to a war against the individual liberties of the American people. The Pentagon is involved in electromagnetic warfare and mind control experiments on civilian populations. Biochip implants are being prepared for human subjects with the capability of tracking through the satellite-based Global Positioning System. The Law Enforcement Satellite System (LESS) is being developed to cut the communications costs incurred by law enforcement agencies around the nation which currently maintain separate systems. An entirely new unified police communications infrastructure will directly link all agencies and their units to the National Crime Information Center which combines all law enforcement data from various agencies. Terrorism helps government by encouraging it to expand. If the terrorism escalates in spite of tougher rules, then government power mushrooms some more. "This dynamic continues to build until free institutions are completely subverted and a new political order is created," says William Norman Grigg, writing for The New American. Whoops, I'd better bite my tongue! Under new anti-terrorist legislation the above article could be construed as a veiled threat, anti-government sentiment, even paper terrorism. The publisher could be blacklisted as a terrorist organization and have it's office raided and property seized. I could be disappeared from my family and friends without due process, a formal accusation or a trial by jury. You say, it couldn't happen in America. Look at the writing on the wall! It used to be an American pasttime to criticize the government, to organize rallies in opposition to government corruption, to lobby against draconian legislation. Today, it's a dangerous proposition regardless of which side of the political spectrum you may stand. The Anti-Terrorism And Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Public Law 104-132 on April 24th, 1996 (S.735 introduced by Sen. Dole) was passed despite opposition by a wide mixture of strange bedfellows across the political spectrum. It has wide-reaching consequences that ought to chill the spine of every decent American born into the luxury of freedom in this increasingly unfree New World Order. Some of the features of this law are: * establishes a five-member commission to study activities of federal law enforcement agencies. * removal of protections on interception of wireless messages. * increased scope of BATF. * prohibitions on providing material support of any kind to organizations the Attorney General or Secretary of State have deemed as international terrorist organizations. * freezing of domestic groups bank accounts (with no measures for appeal) if the government believes they are agents for foreign terrorists * exception to rules of discovery in civil proceedings when the government claims classified materials are involved. * habeas corpus reform will curtail the ability to appeal previous court decisions where evidence was destroyed or suppressed by prosecutors (like in Waco and Oklahoma City). * authorizes antiterrorism training programs [END OF STORY] American Patriots: The New "Niggers" Civil Rights Organizations Perpetuate Hate Crimes Dehumanizing Language & "Paper Crimes" Justice for All: Whether You Agree With Them or Not! Dear NORTH AMERICANS, "We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present." -Henry Steele Commager "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -Robert F. Kennedy (US Senator, 1967) [Editors Note: The following article was written in response to a scathing report by the "Willamette Week (May 21, 1997)" a so-called alternative newsweekly published in Portland, Oregon. It was written by Maureen O'Hagan and Dan Richardson about the Common Law Court of Multnomah County titled "Fringe Justice" and some of its members run in with the local, Portland Police Department who made a pre-emptive raid on the Court Clerks house for a so-called paper crime. If this is any indication of the kinds of hysterical reporting and justification we can expect from the alternative press, it's time to cancel your subscriptions and buy the corporate daily news instead. The language in the title was not intended to reap any insult, but to point out how reactive language manipulates the reader into the political prejudices of the authors.] American Patriots: The New "Niggers" There was a time long ago when a patriot was beloved by their countryman - after the first American Revolution. Before that victory, patriots were scorned by their apathetic and cowardly countrymen and persecuted by the British. Have we grown so lazy, stupid and forgetful of the price paid for revolutionizing freedom and justice in this country, and more importantly still, to preserve and maintain it? America may not have been a perfect experiment or as inclusive as it could be, but it was better than their counterparts in Europe. When will we stop blaming the founding fathers, those damned patriots and white men both, for the political and economic nightmare we're presently living in? When will We the People stop lying to ourselves, and denying our responsibility for the destruction of everything sacred in America. Making scapegoats in the media of a handful of mostly poor white men (including several who are disabled) for their radical views isn't going to solve the deeper problem, now is it? The worse possible scenario for the writers of this overtly sensationalized and factless smeer article is that maybe these guys are right. Something is deeply wrong in America and we'd better get off our duff and do something about it! Perhaps the government is too big, unwieldy and corrupt and is marching steadfast into a police state. Perhaps the court system delivers too little justice for the sake of revenue. Perhaps the IRS is the American gestapo How can we continue to look ourselves in the mirror when we dehumanize the very people who are fighting to preserve and maintain the American system of justice? So now, it has become popular and vogue to persecute the modern American patriot in the media, particularly those who are anti-government (what good American isn't?), then prosecute them in the courts and jails. It has also become politically popular to single out white men, even poor disabled white men, Christians, patriots, sovereign Citizens, constitutionalists, militias and other "niggers" and project all of society's fear and disgust upon them. Has the journalistic profession become mere intellectual prostitutes selling lies and newspapers, disregarding the facts and the truth, destroying the reputations of a few white men who have been victimized and attacked by their own government. The patriot is simply the new "nigger (pardon my French)," dehumanized and justified as a symbol of our abuse. Such inflamatory rhethoric as exemplified in your article fuels the fires of our discontent and is the breeding ground for rebellion. Scapegoats have always been popular amongst the fundamentally closed minded, politically correct social planners vying for power. Civil Rights Organizations Perpetuate Hate Crimes Civil rights organizations such as Jonathan Mozzachi's Coalition for Human Dignity, Bill Wassmouth's Coalition Against Malicious Harassment, Morris Dee's Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League has made lucrative careers out of "patriot-bashing." How they get away with these mind-numbing, libelous disinformation campaigns against anybody they deem as "politically incorrect", with no research and little basis in fact, and then are considered "experts" by court officials and law enforcement is incredulous! They are working overtime to keep the American people asleep to the real issues behind the patriot movement- the demise of the American institution of freedom and justice, and the bankruptcy of the American way of life. What the CHD, NWCAMH, SPLC and ADL fear most is that these white men are really innocent of any crimes (they are the victims not the perpetrators), as it would shed a poor light upon their own obsessions with rascism, anti-semitism and the "hate crimes" they ironically perpetuate through massive disinformation campaigns against patriotic Americans. There is no greater "hate crime" than to dehumanize another human being, as it is the premise of all holocausts (and there are dozens happening all the time in this insane world). Whether you are native American, black, Jewish or a white man, being persecuted, prosecuted, incarcerated, burned, gassed or annihilated is the same horrible feeling. White men are still human beings. I am a white man and so are many of my friends. Being poor is not a crime. Disagreeing with the government is not a crime. Disagreeing with the above-named civil rights organizations is also not a crime. Being perceived as "dangerous" is not ample justification for a preemptive police raid for an alleged "paper crime." Admittedly, your article is nothing more than a shallow justification for the abuse of police power against those the authors might politically disagree with. Dehumanizing Language & "Paper Crimes" The colorful and dehumanizing language (i.e., fringe, posse, misfits, bash, blasted, rag-tag, wannabe, yokels, complain, toothless, paper bullets, legalist branch, Revenge of the Nerds, egghead-types, obsessed, toolshed into an arsenal, dangerous) of your yellow (i.e., cowardly) journalism on the Multnomah Common Law Court do not inform your readers about the real stories or issues of the men involved. Having been born and bred on the left of the political spectrum and independent of any corporate funded viewpoint, I've been a thorough researcher and educator in the patriot movement for over seven years. I must laugh at the desultory tone and lack of factual basis for the article. There is no intelligent debate about facts or the law anywhere in the article as there is no mention of either. The authors assume the men are "dangerous," thus the police are justified to raid them in a preemptive strike. After all they could be plotting another American Revolution on an empty cookie jar and conspiring to bring justice into the courtrooms of America. They might actually be better versed in the law than the district attorney charged to prosecute them. What a horrible thought! What is a "property criminal" anyway? Your writers are as busy creating crimes with a mere pen stroke as the legislature (e.g., simulating legal process). "Simulating legal process" is what the lawyers, district attorneys and judges do everyday and have been doing for decades. Yet the legislature wants to pass law to stiffen the penalties for doing so. How ironic! There hasn't been a lawful justice system in this country for over half a century. What passes off as "legal" is merely what is politically expedient at the time. You cannot get justice or victory in the courts unless you can afford the dream team (e.g., O.J. Simpson). Willamette Week - Why not report the real news for a change instead of this corporate manufactured propaganda and public relations crap of the social planners? Willamette Week - you're selling your country down the river to sell a few newspapers. Justice for All: Whether You Agree With Them or Not! In America, justice is guaranteed for all and the constitutional limitations on the abuse of government power is not only for those we agree with, but for all the people regardless of race, creed, class or color. That includes poor white men also. They are poor because each one has been victimized by their own government, robbed by the IRS or prosecuted maliciously by the legal establishment for their political views. These men are nothing more than the new "niggers" in the eyes of the press, both mainstream and alternative. "The Oregonian" is just as much off-point on the real issues as the "Willamette Week." Where will you stand on their rights? If you deny these white men their rights to have views different from your own and permit them to be persecuted, enslaved or imprisoned, then you are the new "enslaver." If you permit or tolerate the rights of any man or woman regardless of race, creed, class or color to be violated for a political purpose, then you have committed an act of treason against the ideals America was founded. These laws are still the law of the land and the government must uphold these rights as must the people, unless and until you are willing to publically admit that the constitution is dead and a foreign power is occupying America. Look around. Check it out. You decide. Wake-up fellow Americans. Since when are the so-called "progressive" forces in society apologists for the abuse of police power and the encroachment of socialistic government into every aspect of our lives. Haven't the tables been turned the other way in times past? Aren't the union organizers, civil rights organizers, environmentalists and women's movements sympathetic to the plight of the oppressed? When the police make pre-emptive strikes over paper "crimes," raid your home and offices at the point of a gun for not having the proper proof of insurance, isn't something wrong here? When the IRS invades your home and privacy and confiscates your property without due process, isn't something wrong here? Isn't everyone being violated? Because these men might be dangerous in your fearful opinion, can we justify taking their rights away, stealing their property and putting them in chains? This is an attitude surrounding the persecution and prosecution of patriots everywhere in America today. For the authors to attack the Multnomah Common Law Court on the so-called Right is nothing more than an immature temper tantrum and identity crisis for the so-called Left which has today become irrelevant as a force for social justice and change. You cannot supplant form for substance and get away with it, for long. For a newspaper to permit the publishing of such a slanderous and inflamed article without a factual basis, is a perjury of the public trust. Can you imagine a country where the police can target any politically incorrect group, take away their guns, their paper, their law books, and then convince the media to do the dirty work and prosecute them in the public mind? 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