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This
month's articles:
- Local Police to
Enforce International Law
- Applications to
Homeschool no Longer Necessary in Maine
- How a Lawn Mower
Can Reduce Your Tax Burden
- A Former Special
Forces Soldier Responds to President Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US
Troops
- Biblical
Precepts encoded in Constitution
Local Police to Enforce
International Law
By: David Deschesne
"The (United Nations)
Charter has become ‘the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State
shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the constitution or Laws of any State to
the Contrary notwithstanding.’" - US Senate Report; Review of the
United Nations Charter, p. 239.
The United Nations charter
was ratified by the Senate and signed by the president in 1945, thereby
empowering it, along with the Constitution, as the "Supreme Law of the
Land" per article VI, section 2 of the US Constitution in spite of any
State law to the contrary.
Since all local police
officers, sheriff deputies and State troopers are bound to enforce the laws of
the State and United States, they are now, by default, the enforcers of
international law.
All other public officials
are, too, required to enforce United Nations law, including judges, Forest
Service, Parks and Land Management, etc.
In the 1990s President
Clinton turned control of all National Parks over to the management of various
United Nations regulatory agencies which merely use our Bureau of Land
Management and Forest Rangers as their agents. With the passage of the
"Desertification Treaty" in October of 2000 (Congressional Record:
Page S10665) upwards of 90% of the United States land mass was surrendered to
foreign, international regulation through the UN.
The United Nations is an
unelected bureaucracy, established by the Council on Foreign Relations, whose
goals are, among many, dissolution of US sovereignty and global population
reduction of up to 80%.
Representative Ron Paul
(R-Texas) has introduced HR 1146 in the US House of Representatives for the past
several years to withdraw the United States from the UN and remove the UN from
US soil.
Further information on what
can be done about this, go to www.getusout.org
Applications to
Homeschool No Longer Necessary in Maine
AUGUSTA - On May 7, 2003 the
Maine legislature passed LD 160, "An Act To Amend the Laws Governing
Home Instruction." It was signed by Governor Baldacci on May 16.
The Act lifted the
requirements of parents applying to the Maine Department of Education for
permission to homeschool their children.
Homeschooling in Maine has
undergone a drastic increase over the past 10 years. Starting with only a couple
hundred children, the movement has grown to over 4,000 now receiving the three
"R’s" from their parents.
The Constitution of Maine
does not mandate public school education, it merely compels the towns to make it
available to those who choose to use it (Article VIII, Part First,
Section 1.) The Maine Constitution also stipulates that whatever school the
Legislature funds, it may also control (ibid.)
It is that ‘state
control’ of public schools that has many parents opting out of that voluntary
system. It has been a long-held maxim that the power to educate should never be
vested with those who have the power to tax; because a potentially corrupt
political system may seek to keep many of the truths of its corruption secret
from the children it educates as they are the future electorate and could, quite
possibly, vote them out of existence.
Ben Franklin, Abraham
Lincoln, and Andrew Johnson were all homeschooled without state approval or
government permission. Now Maine children can be, too.
How a Lawnmower can
Reduce Your Tax Burden
By: David Deschesne
Most people go to work,
convert their labor into Federal Reserve Notes and pay anywhere from 15% to 30%
for that privilege. They then take the notes they have left over and purchase
gasoline for their lawn mower and pay, again 15% to 30% of the price in taxes to
State and Federal agencies. After all that, they exert even more labor pushing a
gasoline lawn mower around their yard in order to either maintain or slightly
increase the value of their land by keeping the grass short. With this method of
cutting grass, much labor has been frivolously wasted in taxation.
The mechanics of reducing
your tax burden are in the lawn mower, itself. By simply changing the type of
lawn mower, a person may, indeed reduce all of the taxes
associated therewith. My suggestion is in the capacity of a "reel
mower."
Most of today's generation do
not know what a reel mower is, older people do, however. A reel mower is a lawn
mower from yesteryear. It is all manual. The blades are parallel with the ground
and are connected to the wheels with a gearing mechanism. As you push the mower,
the blades spin and cut the grass. Thus, the power for the mower is generated by
the human pushing it. Reel mowers are still available at some hardware stores
for about $100.00, but you have to look around.
With a reel mower, you
eliminate the labor which you needed to expend in order to obtain the FRNs to
purchase the gasoline, thereby eliminating the tax on said labor, which you
would have otherwise paid. Since you are not purchasing gasoline, you do not pay
any of those associated taxes, either. However, you still have to push a mower
around the yard - there's no getting out of that. But, with approximately the
same amount of labor you exerted with a gasoline mower in order to obtain cut
grass, a reel mower will achieve the same result. In the end, you exert half as
much labor and pay no tax with a reel mower; thereby freeing up more of your
precious time for other more important and productive things (may I suggest
reading, or spending time with your family.)
Now, will the politicians and
bureaucrats we now serve allow us to get away with this form of "tax
evasion?"
By Devvy Kidd
newswithviews.com
In July 1999, Bob Schulz,
Chairman of the We the People Foundation based in up state New York, began a
series of seminars and conferences at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
The purpose of these fact finding events was to invite authorized
representatives of our servant government to attend and answer legitimate and
important questions about the fraudulent income tax and related systems. Each
and every time, despite respectful invitations sent registered mail to the IRS,
and other various government officials, not once did the government ever send
anyone to attend. This is our government, they work for us. This government is
by, of and for the people, not the corrupted individuals who dominate our
elected work force. The Bill of Rights, tells the government that we are born
with these rights and that they may never abridge, take away or modify them for
political expediency or to enslave Americans on our own land. One of those
iron-clad rights is the right to petition for redress of grievance found in the
First Amendment. Since 1999, hundreds of thousands of Americans have now become
aware of the efforts of Bob Schulz and all those who have supported WTP
Foundation’ activities and this massive effort to get the federal government
to honor this First Amendment right.
We the People Chairman Bob
Schulz, an engineer by trade, has been meticulously building a machine big
enough to force the federal government to answer petitions for redress of
grievances. If you want to become a part of this effort, please visit the
website at www.givemeliberty.org or call WTP at (443) 482-3311; 1419
Forest Drive, Annapolis, MD 21403
A Former Special Forces Soldier Responds to
President Bush's Invitation for Iraqis to Attack US Troops
By: Stan Goff
In 1970, when I arrived at my
unit, Company A, 4th Battalion/503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, in what
was then the Republic of Vietnam, I was charged up for a fight. I believed that
if we didn't stop the communists in Vietnam, we'd eventually be fighting this
global conspiracy in the streets of Hot Springs, Arkansas. I'd been toughened by
Basic Training, Infantry Training and Parachute Training, taught how to use my
weapons and equipment, and I was confident in my ability to vanquish the skinny
unter-menschen. So I was dismayed when one of my new colleagues--a veteran who'd
been there ten months--told me, "We are losing this war."
Not only that, he said, if I
wanted to survive for my one year there, I had to understand one very basic
thing. All Vietnamese were the enemy, and for us, the grunts on the ground, this
was a race war. Within one month, it was apparent that everything he told me was
true, and that every reason that was being given to the American public for the
war was not true.
We had a battalion commander
whom I never saw. He would fly over in a Loach helicopter and give cavalier
instructions to do things like "take your unit 13 kilometers to the
north." In the Central Highlands, 13 kilometers is something we had to hack
out with machetes, in 98-degree heat, carrying sometimes 90 pounds over our body
weights, over steep, slippery terrain. The battalion commander never picked up a
machete as far as we knew, and after these directives he'd fly back to an
air-conditioned headquarters in LZ English near Bong-son. We often fantasized
together about shooting his helicopter down as a way of relieving our deep
resentment against this faceless, starched and spit-shined despot.
Yesterday, when I read that
US Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush, in a moment of blustering arm-chair
machismo, sent a message to the 'non-existent' Iraqi guerrillas to "bring 'em
on," the first image in my mind was a 20-year-old soldier in an
ever-more-fragile marriage, who'd been away from home for 8 months. He
participated in the initial invasion, and was told he'd be home for the 4th of
July. He has a newfound familiarity with corpses, and everything he thought he
knew last year is now under revision. He is sent out into the streets of
Fallujah (or some other city), where he has already been shot at once or twice
with automatic weapons or an RPG, and his nerves are raw. He is wearing Kevlar
and ceramic body armor, a Kevlar helmet, a load carrying harness with
ammunition, grenades, flex-cuffs, first-aid gear, water, and assorted other
paraphernalia. His weapon weighs seven pounds, ten with a double magazine. His
boots are bloused, and his long-sleeve shirt is buttoned at the wrist. It is
between 100-110 degrees Fahrenheit at midday. He's been eating MRE's three times
a day, when he has an appetite in this heat, and even his urine is beginning to
smell like preservatives. Mosquitoes and sand flies plague him in the evenings,
and he probably pulls a guard shift every night, never sleeping straight
through. He and his comrades are beginning to get on each others' nerves. The
rumors of 'going-home, not-going-home' are keeping him on an emotional roller
coaster. Directives from on high are contradictory, confusing, and often stupid.
The whole population seems hostile to him and he is developing a deep animosity
for Iraq and all its people--as well as for official narratives.
This is the lad who will hear
from someone that George W. Bush, dressed in a suit with a belly full of rich
food, just hurled a manly taunt from a 72-degree studio at the 'non-existent'
Iraqi resistance.
This de facto president is
finally seeing his poll numbers fall. Even chauvinist paranoia has a half-life,
it seems. His legitimacy is being eroded as even the mainstream press has
discovered now that the pretext for the war was a lie. It may have been control
over the oil, after all. Anti-war forces are regrouping as an anti-occupation
movement. Now, exercising his one true talent--blundering--George W. Bush has
begun the improbable process of alienating the very troops upon whom he depends
to carry out the neo-con ambition of restructuring the world by arms.
Somewhere in Balad, or
Fallujah, or Baghdad, there is a soldier telling a new replacement, "We are
losing this war."
Most people drink hot brewed
coffee and think that is the only way it can be prepared. Another method of
brewing coffee is "cold brewed."
Cold brewed coffee retains
more of the taste of the coffee and is less bitter. Also, because it is brewed
in cold water, not hot, it doesn’t absorb the fats and acid from the coffee
bean; therefore, it is easier on sensitive stomachs.
The way to make cold brewed
coffee is to place about a half a cup of your favorite coffee mix in a quart of
water. Let it soak for about 2 hours, then screen it through a filter or
cheesecloth. You will then have what is known as "coffee concentrate."
Coffee concentrate is very strong - you can drink it if you want to, but it is
better if diluted at a ratio of 2:1 or 3:1 with plain water. After the coffee is
brewed, place it in the refridgerator and warm up only what you want to drink.
Now that coffee break is over, let’s get back to work.
Most of the English language
has its foundation in Latin and Greek. The word ‘gymnasium’, for example,
comes from two Greek words: gymnos - naked; and gymnazein - to
exercise naked. So, a gymnasium is a room where one exercises while naked.
By LIAM DANN
NEW ZEALAND - Farmers will be
taxed on the flatulence of their livestock in a bid to reduce New Zealand's
contribution to global warming.
The levy could cost a typical
family farmer up to $300 a year. Larger corporate farmers could pay up to
$10,000.
Sheep will be levied at 9c
each and cows at up to 72c under the Government's proposals.
Deer and goat farmers will
also be taxed.
The money will be used for
research on meeting New Zealand's Kyoto Protocol commitment to lower greenhouse
gas emissions.
The new Agriculture Emissions
Research body will be financed by sheep, cattle,deer and goat farmers and will
cost $8.4 million a year.
The levy, expected to be in
place by the middle of next year, has infuriated farming organizations.
"That's overkill,"
said Meat New Zealand chairman Jeff Grant.
"This is a public good
rather than an industry good. It should be funded by the Government, not
farmers."
Livestock accounts for about
half of New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions.
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) A
police officer who was fired for violating an obscure state law banning smoking
among public safety workers plans to fight his dismissal, which was based on an
anonymous letter.
Wayne Jeffrey, a seven-year
veteran of the Fall River force, was fired May 29 after an internal
investigation, prompted by an unsigned letter that claimed he smoked tobacco at
a party.
A 1988 state law states that
police officers and firefighters are subject to immediate termination if they
are found to be using tobacco products either on- or off-duty.
Jeffrey plans to appeal for
arbitration or a civil service hearing. History is against him, however. The
state Supreme Judicial Court in 1997 upheld the firing of a Plymouth officer who
was caught smoking four years earlier in her cruiser.
The Legislature passed the
law to accompany legislation that enables public safety officials to receive
special disability benefits easier than the average worker. Without the law,
proponents argue, doctors are unable to determine if a heart or lung illness is
work related.
Under the law, all new public
safety hires must sign a contract, as Jeffrey did, pledging not to smoke tobacco
products.
Biblical Precepts encoded in Constitution
There are at least
20 Biblical precepts encoded in the Federal Constitution by our founders. They
are as follows:
Article 1, §1, Clause 3
"...The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first
Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term
of ten Years in such Manner as they shall by Law direct..."
Numbers 1:2
"Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel,
after their families, of the house of their fathers, with the number of their
names, every male by their polls;"
Article 1, §8, Clause 1
"The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts
and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general
Welfare of the United States..."
Romans 13: 4,6
4.) "For he is the minister of God
to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth
not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute
wrath upon him that doeth evil." 6.) "For this cause pay ye tribute
also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very
thing."
Article 1, §8, Clause 5
"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix
the Standard Weights and Measures."
Leviticus 19:35-36
"Ye shall do no unright- eousness
in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure, Just balances, just weights,
a just e’-phah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which
brought you out of Egypt."
Article 1, §8, Clause 6
"To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securites and the
current Coin of the United States."
Exodus 20:15
"Thou shalt not steal."
Article 1, §8, Clause 15
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."
Nehemiah 4:4
"And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers,
and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord,
which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your
daughters, your wives, and your houses."
Article 1, §10, Clause 1
"No State shall...emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold or silver
coin a tender in payment of debt..."
Leviticus 19:35-36
(as stated above)
Article II, §2, Clause 5
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United
States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to
the Office of President..."
Dueteronomy 17:15
"Thou shalt in any wise set him
king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren
shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which
is not thy brother."
Article II, §4, Clause 1
"The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States,
shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Isaiah 22:19
"And I will drive thee from thy
station, and from thy state shall thee be pulled down."
Article III, §1, Clause 1
"The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme
Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain
and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold
their offices during good Behaviour..."
Exodus 18:21-22
"Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as
fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be
rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of
tens: And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every
great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall
judge: so shall it be easier for thyself and they shall bear the burden with
thee."
Article III, §2, Clause 2
"In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls,
and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original
jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall
have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and
under such regulations as Congress shall make."
Exodus 18:26
"And they judged the people at all
seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they
judged themselves."
Article III, §2, Clause 3
"The trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by
Jury..."
Leviticus 19:15
"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in
judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person
of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor."
Article III, §3, Clause 1
"...No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Tesitmony of two
Witnesses to the same overt Act..."
Dueteronomy 17:6
"At the mouth of two witnesses, or
three witness, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the
mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death."
First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
II Chronicles 11:16
"And after them out of all the
tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to
Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers."
"...or abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble..."
Psalm 119:44-45
"And I will walk at liberty; for I
seek thy precepts. I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will
not be ashamed."
"...and to petition the Government for a
redress of grievances."
I Samuel 8:4-5
"Then all the elders of Israel
gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ra-mah, And said unto him,
Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to
judge us like all the other nations."
Second Amendment
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
Numbers 26:2
"Take the sum of all the
congregation of the children of Israel, from 20 years old and upward, throughout
their father’s house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Nehemiah 4:13
"Therefore set I in the lower
places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after
their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows."
Fifth Amendment
"...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just
compensation."
Exodus 20:15
"Thou shalt not steal."
Sixth Amendment
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a
speedy and public trial..."
Ezra 7:26
"And whosoever will not do the law
of thy God, the law of thy king, let judgement be executed speedily on him,
whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to
imprisonment."
Seventh Amendment
"...the right of trial by jury shall be preserved."