Sirs, Having received many postings from you that have influenced my awareness of the goings-on in the world around me, I thought it best that each of you should know of the document and website I stumbled across couple of nights ago. http://www.icrc.org/unicc/ihl_eng.nsf/52d68d14de6160e0c12563da005fdb1b/fb2c5 995d7cbf846412566900039e535?OpenDocument The URL is stemming from a link on The International Committee of the Red Cross home page. On this website is listed every multinational treaty ever entered into since the 1800's. One document entitled : Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July, 1998, caught my eye. Due to the intricate wording of this treaty, and due to the fact that I am not an attorney, I realize the importance of many things in here might escape my attention. Just from a cursory browse through it, however, as that is all I have had time for so far, there appears here to be sufficient proof for all to see that the implications of One World Government in the future coming to pass are now no longer able to be denied. I pass this on to you in hopes that either you, or people whom you deem more able can break this treaty down into more understandable pieces that we all can understand. I realize that from a Christian perspective this news is not surprising. However, now is no better time to fall to ones knees and ask for the wisdom with which to make the all important everyday decisions that would cause those around us to be fully aware of whom we serve..... This message has been posted to APFN MESSAGE BOARD: To Read Message Board: http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb77532 To Post a Message: http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb77532#POSTNEW The enclosed message refers to a APFN message posted to: http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb77532&MyNum=913211964&P=Yesmessage Please print, study and share this outstanding research with as many of your friends as possible. We are all thankful to John Prukop for this report. A true American Patriot! This report is the result of many current postings about Why Waco? Please go to the Message Board and review this information. Soon to be added is the information about Paul Wilshire and his report to Gen. Janet Reno "The Truth Behind Waco". Mr. Prukop helped APFN in the distribution of this report. In the first page of this report Mr. Wilshire makes the statement "The information in this report could get me killed". It did! In just over a month of giving this report to Gen. Reno, Mr. Wilshire was found dead in his Apt. by Washington Reporter Sarah McClendon. Mr. Wilshire was also representing covert agent Gunther Russbacher in what is called "The October Surprise Investigation". Rayelan Russbacher has just filed an E-mail with APFN on this matter. At the time APFN contacted APFN (FAX NETWORK) to help with a 10x10x10 matrix to copy and network "The Truth Behind Waco" report. I provided a copy of the report to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee during the Waco hearings. It was never discussed or reviewed in the final report. Mr. Wilshire's death has never been investigated, all his records and files were taken and no one has received any further information. On several interviews I have heard Sarah McClendon on she has never answered any hard questions about the report. If anyone has any further information on this matter please feel free to post to APFN message board or send to APFN@nebox.com and we will spread the word. Subject: "Secretary of Treasury" A.K.A. "Governor" of The Fund and The Bank From: "CCW" To: American Patriot Friends Network WARNING: 2nd AMENDMENT WILL BE GONE BY JUNE 99... by Jon Christian Ryter (BAFFauthor@aol.com) In a message DotHB forwarded a message in which Devvykidd writes: "Americans have the right to defend their family, their life and we know how to do it. We will do it if that's what it comes down to - that's what the Second Amendment is all about. You know it, I know it and the bad guys know it." ....Devvy Kidd As an individual who has run for Congress (and is acquainted with several of my own acquaintances) Devvy Kidd obviously knows the jeopardy in which the Constitution (and particularly the 2nd Amendment) is in. What you may not know at this moment is that the Justice Department is on a timeline that mandates the abrogation of the 2nd Amendment by next June. In writing my latest book, I picked up several key information "sources" within the Clinton Administration. One of them is a terrorist specialist in the Justice Department. He and a high ranking department head in the National Institute of Health have provided me with a good deal of information concerning the National ID Card (which Lamar Smith lied to me about in February, 1997) and the abolishment of the 2nd Amendment no later than June, 1999. The Justice Department source, while actively supplying me with information a few months ago, has now become nothing more than my personal "Deepthroat." He will no longer supply new information, but will only confirm or deny information I manage to pick up elsewhere. Two of the posts I sent out containing information he supplied were attached to a memo circulated through the Justice Dept asking for information about who could have leaked the data to an author. It should be obvious to just about anyone today that the Y2K problem is a manufactured problem. First, no one knows what's going to happen. If you think about it, it is easy to figure out. You have included all of the elements. The introduction of the Euro is the first step to creating a universal global currency. As you likely know, when Jimmy Carter attempted to have GATT ratified (it had already failed in 1974), the government printing office had already printed thousands of new "dollars," believing that global governance would be achieved during his term. The problem with creating a global currency has always been the United States. To create a global currency all that is required is a global panic which collapses not only the economies of the industrialized nations, but their currencies as well. The problem for the globalists has never been its desire or determination to do it, but in creating a catalyst that could not be blamed directly on them. When J.P. Morgan instigated the Panic of 1908, it came back to his doorstep almost overnight. When the bankers manipulated the stock market throughout the 1920s and then collapsed the market and the economy in 1929, a good many intelligent writers correctly laid the blame on their doorsteps. This time the globalists have something else to blame - a computer chip. They will be blameless this time. The collapse will be blamed on computers that see 2000 as 1900, and through no fault of their own, computers will shut down the economy. There are a few factors that will have great bearing on the severity of the problem: The crisis is being cleverly managed, and the media is doing its part to convince the American people that they will be faced with the loss of electricity, water, gas; and they can expect problems withdrawing funds from banks, etc. And, of course, those things will happen. Because the crisis will be so severe, the government believes there will be a dramatic increase in crime, so they are also preparing for that contingency as well. (Isn't it nice that our government is so concerned about our welfare?) To prepare for the crisis, Clinton wrote PDD-39 (which was immediately declared a top secret). As you know, PDD-39 creates a new "local" police force out of FEMA. For the better part of 1998, FEMA "agents" have been receiving small arms training, and now spend more time on the pistol ranges than either the FBI or the BATF. Of course, since there are so many "radicals" around, Big Brother also realizes that FEMA, the FBI and the BATF may not be enough - even with the American military. Fortunately (according to my Justice Dept source who was responsible for their routing to U.S. military bases) there is not a shortage of UN troops. For the past year they have been coming into the United States in small numbers. They arrive at various military installations. The minute they pass through the front gates of those bases, they simply disappear. And, that is true also of vast amounts of weapons and munitions. My source routed a trainload of small arms and munitions to one western base. Before the train arrived, it was diverted... and vanished. When he tried to track it, he was told by his supervisor in the Justice Dept that it was none of his business. (1) the introduction of the Euro-dollar January 1, 1999, (2) the government's progress, (3) how prepared the American people are and the people of the United States, regardless of how prepared they think they are, are not prepared for what is planned. Stocking up on food packets and bottled water will not prepare them for what is coming no later than next June. (4) the behind the scenes machinations of the world bankers. Here is the real culprit behind Y2K. From documents I picked up for my latest book, Whatever Happened To America?, that include confidential White House memos and Clinton documents that were buried in the National Archives, the timeline of world government has been chronicled. [Devvy], I know when you were running for Congress, you followed this fairly close. I don't know how much access you have at this time. What should you know about the problem? The obvious first is that it is going to happen and the world has waited too long to fix the problem. As you state in this posting, the problem, Y2K can be solved with a Band-Aid until such time as all of the nation's mainframes can be updated by simply manually keying the year 2000 into those systems that have not been updated. This would solve the Y2K problem temporarily with only a minor interruption. The second is that you are probably going to have your life disturbed to some degree and that degree will depend on you and those in your community. In reality, Devvy, it will have nothing to do with any community. The power that is creating the problem requires the problem. Just as that invisible power behind government caused the illegal and fraudulent ratification of both the 16th and 17th Amendments - and the creation of its own central bank in the United States, it has selected not only every President who has sat in the White House since 1912 (at least) - and, it determines precisely what issues will be debated during those election campaigns. Their power extends beyond the elected officials now, and goes directly into the U.S. Supreme Court. It was because of a fear of overpopulation and a demand from the Rockefeller Foundation that abortion be legalized that the Supreme Court ruled on January 22, 1973 that a woman had a right to an abortion. Unknown to you, but on file in Box 1748 in the National Archives are three Supreme Court decisions which have not yet been rendered because the cases have not yet been filed. The first decision will state, when the government attempts to gain access to the medical databases at State level that "...accessing medical databases does not require a medical license." This decision, based on the passage of Hillary Clinton's Health Security Act of 1994, was to occur between 1996-98. The second decision which was to grant the government co-ownership of all medical databases was to occur between 1998-2000. And, finally, between 2002-04, the Supreme Court was to rule that all medical databases in the United States will be surrendered to the UN which will become the custodian of all information databases in the world. Attached to these decisions was the itinerary the government was planning to use to control the free movement of the population of the United States. One thing I would like to stress and that is this: Just remember one thing - those people - patriots or sheep - who will be adversely impacted are also the people who can fix the problem. Devvy, I am of the opinion that if we are to alter the timeline of the globalists, we need to do it now...or it will be too late. I am not certain exactly what the government has planned for June, 1999 but it is "last resort" act if the current plan to incite a revolt in North Carolina (or Tennessee, etc.) with the militia groups they are doing everything to incite fails. My "source" will not tell me what is planned (he may not even know), but the "plans" he is involved with apparently center on deployments after the incident occurs. He did tell me that there is a Delta Force team that is "practicing" for a June, 1999 mission which suggest that if the militia groups like the 91st Brigade do not start shooting federal agents, it is likely that the government (in pure Hitler fashion) will use government troops to counterfeit one (like Hitler's burning of the Reichstag in 1933.) I have been following your writings for some time, and have been greatly impressed with your assessment of the problems this country is facing. Devvy, too bad you failed in your bid to get elected. In fact, I was impressed enough with your determination to fix America that you are one of twelve patriotic Americans to whom I dedicated my new book. At this time, I see your posts only because I have been fortunate enough to have them forwarded to me by Dot Bibee. Would appreciate it if you would include me on your primary mail list. BAFFauthor@aol.com Jon Christian Ryter [MORE INFO. Jon is talking about the Delta Force - and that is the H.R.T. Squad that is in Andrews, NC right now. They are training hundreds of men - even though they only have a hundred or two there at a time because they rotate them every two weeks. They have been in the mountains since July. THINK!!! Stay Alert! ....Dot Bibee] How much of the above is absolutely true and correct? I do not know, but I do know Devvy Kidd (her husband is a retired high ranking military officer), and it has been confirmed to me that there is enough truth in the message to cause anyone to initiate preparations for survival. Note the word; survival. IF WE COULD FACE OUR FEARS by Shonda P. Wigington (texnat57@gateway.net) Freedom-Lovers International We have a crisis in our country today. The crisis I speak about is not the presidential impeachment hearings. It is not the recent rise in hate crimes. It is not the dangers our children face each day as moms and dads across America drop them off at public schools. It isn't the religious persecutions around the world that seem to be untouchable by the separation of church and state that has been planted in our way of life for the past 30 years. It isn't the crowding of prisons due to victimless crimes; nor is it the rising numbers of deadbeat parents. It isn't the breakup of the family, or the lack of role models in the land. The crisis isn't campaign finance, or the outrageous amount of taxes we pay each year. It isn't nuclear warheads pointed at different countries around the world; nor is it the rapid destruction of rain forests. It isn't global warming, natural disasters, man-made pollution, or endangered species. It isn't terrorism, war, or slavery. It isn't the federal reserve, international moneychangers, or even welfare reform. It isn't illiteracy, disabled persons, or unemployment. It is not the economy, stupid. The crisis we are facing in this country is FEAR. It is knowing that something is wrong and refusing to rock the boat for fear of being labeled a dissident. I believe that it was Winston Churchill that stated, "The only thing men have to fear is fear itself." Today we have come to understand the meaning of those words all too clearly. Too many times men and women change the subject rather than face controversial issues. Too many times we tend to give our children the benefit of the doubt rather than offer them advice whether they need it or not. Too many times we defend our public officials simply because we voted for them, rather than hold them accountable to do the job we voted for them to do. For too long we have allowed the government access to our pocket-books without saying a word for fear of being labeled a tax-evader. We fear speaking up for our right for fear of the very people who swore to protect those rights. We fear police who harass and intimidate rather than serve and protect. We fear arrest at our places of business for failure to I-D eighteen-year-olds who are allowed to die for their country without parental consent but are not allowed to decide whether or not they are responsible enough to drink a beer. We fear arrest for sexual harassment if we ask someone out on a date more than once. We fear being labeled racist if we promote someone of the wrong color, regardless of his or her ability. We fear being labeled stalkers, kooks, or fanatics if we attempt to hold our public officials accountable. We fear being politically incorrect when we speak at a public forum. Yet we don't realize that the chains of slavery are fastened by FEAR. It is fear that keeps man from actively pursuing his natural tendencies regarding life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When we fear we are more inclined to accept 2nd best, rather than strive to have the best at any cost. There was a time when our heroes were admired for the lack of fear they seemed to show. Today, I am ashamed to say societal stature rather than their dissident opinions measure our heroes. My heroes are still those of the past who uttered such words as "Give me liberty or give me death" or "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." If only we could think like those men and have the courage to draw that line in the sand and stand up for our beliefs and control over our own lives as they did. Maybe then we would be able to tip or hats in appreciation of the officer on the streets without fear. We could call our public officials and tell them "THANK YOU" rather than complain. We could say to our children, "Stand up straight. Show respect. THAT is the president of the United States of America coming." If we could just have the courage to face our fears and look them in the eye and say, "I'm not backing down. No retreat, no surrender," we might then be able to see a glimmer of hope that our children and our grandchildren will not have to wear the chains of slavery our government has forced upon us in the name of Peace. Shonda P. Wigington, President, Freedom-Lovers International 5308 Robinsdale Lane Austin, Texas 78723 512-933-1950 While I certainly do not agree with the entire message, the basis is true. Just as we are told in scripture to have no fear, the same is true today. I stopped paying the beast long ago because I knew he was harming my nation and my people. I then prayed for knowledge and guidance. The knowledge was there, and all I had to do was ask. Since then, I have come to understand how powerful it is to seek knowledge, and to ask Him to supply what you need. I have access to more real knowledge now that I need to learn than was ever conceivable by me before asking. Inhabitant of the Conquered lands wrote: Qualified Taxes The State Agreement The Legislative authority of the United State Congress is "To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District" (Article 1, section 17), and to "the Territory or other Property to the United States:" (Article IV, section 3, clause 2). The Congress of the United State under its legislative authority passed Public Law 587 on July 17, 1952; 66 Statute Chapter 940, page 765. An act (Senate bill 1999) Relating to the withholding for State income Tax purposes, on the compensation of Federal Employees. This Act was codified in the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The implementing regulations are found in Title 26 CFR part 301.6365, 301.6362, 301.6361, under what is known as the "qualified taxes." This program is applicable only to the Federal District. The program requires returns based upon a W-4, or 1099. The amazing piece of the puzzle is the definition of the State and Governor. The second part of this puzzle is found in the intentional use of the Annotated code and revised Statutes of the States party to the Constitution to create the fiction of law wherein the State is defined as the District of Columbia. When you read through the revised statutes, and/or the Annotated Code of this State, you will find the statutory recognition of this State being an insular possession, or Territory of the United States, or the "District of Columbia." In the Annotated Code of the General Public Laws of Maryland, the State is defined in Tax Property, Title I, DEFINITIONS, GENERAL PROVISIONS., Sec. 1-101. Definitions (u) State: "State" means: (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or (2) the District of Columbia. The tax imposed upon wages is recognized as a "qualified tax" program upon income by the State. This State, is the District of Columbia. The question then, is how can the wage tax, which is the "qualified tax" be administered outside the geographical State, which is the District of Columbia? Simple, by the "election of the Governor." The concept that the Governor may "elect" to establish this State to be a "withholding agent" on behalf of the United States applies to a limited and delineated jurisdiction. In fact the Governor in Question is defined as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. Code of Federal Regulations Internal Revenue Title 26 301.6365.1 Definitions. (a) State. For purposes of subchapter E and the regulations thereunder, the term "State" shall include the District of Columbia, but shall not include the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any possession of the United States. (b) Governor. For purposes of subchapter E and the regulations thereunder, the Term "Governor" shall include the Mayor of the District of Columbia. [T.D. 7577, 43 FR 59375, Dec. 20, 1978] What needs to be uncovered is this "written statement of election" submitted by the Governor. The Constitutions of the State’s party to the Union, do not authorize officers of the Public Trust to surrender the Sovereignty of the People, or the State to a foreign principal. The "State agreement" is based upon the statutory fact of a "qualified State individual income tax" program for the District of Columbia. The "State agreement" would be prima facie proof that the Chief Executive Officer of this State does not know geography. Furthermore the application of the "State agreement" can only be applicable to "employees" of the State known as the District of Columbia. Confused, you should be at this point. The wage tax collected by the withholding agent at the source of income is apparently a deliberate misapplication of the law. What can be done? Apparently the Courts of the United States, and of this State care nothing for the law. Or could it be the Judges cannot read? One thing can be done. A Freedom of Information Act requesting that the "Governor" provide the "documents" made by the office in connection with the transaction of public business with regards to the election known as the "State Agreement." The importance of exposing this "State Agreement" would be absolute proof of the existence of this "Federally controlled State." Furthermore, this would be evidence that the "income tax" is the "qualified tax" which is an imposition upon persons in the service of the District of Columbia as "State" employees. Code of Federal Regulations Internal Revenue Title 26 301.6361.1 Collection and administration of qualified taxes (in part) (a) In general. In the case of any State which has in effect a State agreement (as defined in paragraph (a) of 301.6361-4) the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall collect and administer each qualified tax (as defined in paragraph (b) of 301.6361-4) of such State. No fee or other charges shall be imposed upon any State for the collection or administration of any qualified tax of such state or any other State. In any such case of collection and administration of qualified taxes, the provision of subtitle F (relating to procedure and administration), subtitle G (relating to the Joint committee on Taxation), and chapter 24 (relating to the collection of income taxes at source on wages), and the provisions of regulations thereunder, insofar as such provisions relate to the collection and administration of the taxes imposed on income of individuals by chapter 1 (and the civil and criminal sanctions provided by subtitle F, or by Title 18 of the United States code (relating to crimes and criminal procedure), with respect to such collection and administration) shall apply to the collection and administration of qualified taxes as if such taxes were imposed by chapter 1, except to the extent that the application of such provisions (and sanctions) are modified by regulations issued under subchapter E (as defined in paragraph (d) of 301.6361-4). Any extension of time which is granted for the making of payment, or for the filling of any return, which relates to any Federal tax imposed by subtitle A (or by subtitle C with respect to filing a return) shall constitute automatically an extension of the same amount of time for making of the corresponding payment or for the filing of corresponding return relating to any qualified tax. (b) Returns of qualified taxes. Every individual, estate, or trust which has liability for one or more qualified taxes for a taxable year- (1) Shall file a Federal income tax return at the time prescribed pursuant to section 6072(a) (whether or not such return is required by section (6012), and shall file therewith on the prescribed form a return under penalties of perjury for each tax which is- (i) A qualified resident tax imposed by a State of which the taxpayer was a resident, as defined in 301.6362-6, for any part of the taxable year; (ii) A qualified nonresident tax imposed by a State within which was located the source or sources from which the taxpayer derived, while not a resident of such State and while not exempt from liability for the tax by resident of such State and while not exempt from liability for the tax by reason of a reciprocal agreement between such State and the State of which he is a resident, 25 percent or more of his aggregate wage and other business income as defined in paragraph (c) of 301.6362-5, for the taxable year; or (iii) A qualified resident or non resident tax with respect to which any amount was currently collected from the taxpayer’s income (including collection by withholding on wages or by payment of estimated income tax), as provided in paragraph (f) of 301.6362-6, for any part of the taxable year; and (2) Shall declare (in addition to the declaration required with respect to the return of the Federal income tax and in the place and manner prescribed by form or instruction thereto) under penalties of perjury that, to the best of the knowledge and belief of the taxpayer (or, in case of an estate or trust, of the fiduciary who executes the Federal income tax return), he has no liability for any qualified tax for the taxable year other than any such liabilities returned with the Federal income tax return ( pursuant to subparagraph (1) of this paragraph (b),. Such declaration shall constitute a return indicating no liability with respect to each qualified tax other than any such tax for which liability is so returned. (T.D. 7577, 43 F.R. 59365, Dec 20, 1978) 301.6361-4 Definitions. For purposes of the regulations in this part under subchapter E of chapter 64 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, relating to collection and administration of State individual income taxes- (a) State agreement. The term "State agreement" means an agreement between a State and the Federal Government which was entered into pursuant to section 6363 and the regulations thereunder, and which provides for the Federal collection and administration of the qualified tax or taxes of that State. (b) Qualified tax. The term "qualified tax" means a tax which is a "qualified State individual income tax", as defined in section 6362 (including subsection (f)(1) thereof, which requires that a State agreement be in effect) and the regulations thereunder. (c) Chapter and subtitle. References in regulations in this part under subchapter E to chapters and subtitle are to chapters and subtitle of the internal Revenue Code of 1954, unless otherwise indicated. (d) Subchapter E. The term "subchapter E" means subchapter E of chapter 64 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, relating to collections and administration of State individual income taxes as amended from time to time. (T.D. 7577, 43 F.R. 59365, Dec 20, 1978) What appears is a constructive misapplication of the "qualified tax." This program of "income taxation" is based not upon Title 26, of the United States Code, but upon the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. What is hard to understand, let alone tolerate is the blatant willfulness of the Officers of the Public Trust to willingly, knowingly, and intentionally deprive Americans of the fruits of their labor, their property under not the color of law, but a constructive fraud in the apparent misapplication of rules, regulations, and ordinances. 301.6362-1 Types of qualified tax. (a) In general. A qualified tax may be either a "qualified resident tax" within the meaning of paragraph (b) of this section , or a "qualified nonresident tax" within the meaning of paragraph (c) of this section. (b) Qualified resident tax. A tax imposed by a State on the income of individuals, estates, and trusts which are residents of such State within the meaning of section 6362(e) and 301.6362-6 shall be a "qualified resident tax" if it is either. (1) A tax based on Federal taxable income which meets the requirements of section 6362 (b), (e) and (f), and of 301.6362-2, 3016362-6, and 301.6362-7; or (2) A tax which is a percentage of the Federal tax and which meets the requirements of section 6362 (c), (e), and (f), and of 301.6362-3, 301.6362-6, and 301.6362-7. (c) Qualified nonresident tax. A tax imposed by a State on the wage and other business income of individuals who are not residents of such State within the meaning of section 6362(e)(1) a "qualified nonresident tax" if it meets the requirements of section 6362(d), (e), and (f), and of 301.6362-5, 301.6362-6, and 301.6362-7. [T.D. 7577, 43 FR 59366, Dec. 20, 1979] The "income tax" is a program, as described, and is limited to, and inclusive of the employee in service of the State, which is the District of Columbia. Simply amazing. MEADOR ADDITION In early 1997, we secured the agreement between the chairman of the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Oklahoma, then people in several other States secured corresponding agreements. The fraud extends to each of the several States through these agreements; Geri Powers broke through on research leading to this discovery. However, the agreements are fraud for another reason: IRS is not the "delegate" of the Secretary so far as the several States are concerned, so is not authorized to enter these agreements. The key to understanding this is in definitions of "delegate" at 26 U.S.C. 7701(a)(12), rules and regulations at 26 U.S.C. 7805. Note in 7805(a) that, "Except where such authority is expressly given by this title to any person other than an officer or employee of the Treasury Department, the Secretary shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the enforcement of this title..." IRS is not an agency of the "Treasury Department". The definition of "delegate" at 7701(a)(12)(A) provides that, "The term 'or his delegate'..," means the Treasury Department or any other official of the United States. Then 7701(a)(12)(B) stipulates that, "Performance of certain functions in Guam or American Samoa..," in relation to chapters 1, 2, and 21 of the Code, "also includes any officer or employee of any other department or agency of the United States, or of any possession thereof, duly authorized by the Secretary ... to perform such functions." IRS is successor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Puerto Rico. IRS operates under T.D.O. #150-42 (1956), as amended by T.D.O. #150-01 (1986), only in insular possessions of the United States, and for some purposes, the District of Columbia. The General Accounting Office is general agency of the Treasury, which is independent of the Secretary of the Treasury, and GAO is responsible for determining all obligations of and to the United States. See notes following 5 U.S.C. 5512, and the referenced cites in the Statutes at Large. Agreements for collection of State-qualified tax, where they exist, must be through the Office of Personnel Management, or withholding agents of the various Federal entities; see 5 U.S.C. 5512 through about 5520, to figure it out. I haven't had time to follow the regulations, etc., for particulars. To further this line, by consulting definitions in virtually all "uniform acts" adopted (not enacted) by legislatures of the several States, you will find that definitions of all of them apply to D.C. & insular possessions of the United States, not the several States. Among the more significant, Codes of civil & criminal procedure, and the Uniform Commercial Code. In a manner of speaking, they are uniformly bogus. These uniform acts provide wheels for Cooperative Federalism, and they are supplemented by administrative agreements such as the fraudulent agreement between State tax commissions and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. But the problem for the state bozos is that the only real power to tax that they have is through the federal government, and if they stop, they shut off the golden goose. Elsewhere in these papers I have shown some of the work by several men on finding out where the real money is being hidden by these people, and the vast amounts of money that they now control while continuing to tax the people. Of course, it is very necessary to continue to tax as heavily as possible, because that is the only way you confiscate enough wealth to prevent an uprising from occurring, whether it is done with ballots or guns. From: JIM MEISINGER mejim@oneimage.com From: "Roxanne Carol" litework@earthnet.net WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE and the MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION F.D.A. ISSUING FOR COLLUSION WITH MONSANTO Article written by Nancy Markle (1120197) I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME marketed as 'NutraSweet', 'Equal', and 'Spoonful"'. In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. When the temperature of Aspartame exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME coverts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. (Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants). The methanol toxicity mimics multiple sclerosis; thus people were being diagnosed with having multiple sclerosis in error. The multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, where methanol toxicity is. In the case of systemic lupus, we are finding it has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. Also, with methanol toxicity, the victims usually drink three to four 12 oz. Cans of them per day, some even more. In the cases of systemic lupus, which is triggered by ASPARTAME, the victim usually does not know that the aspartame is the culprit. The victim continues its use aggravating the lupus to such a degree, that sometimes it becomes life threatening. When we get people off the aspartame, those with systemic lupus usually become asymptomatic. Unfortunately, we can not reverse this disease. On the other hand, in the case of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, (when in reality, the disease is methanol toxicity), most of the symptoms disappear. We have seen cases where their vision has returned and even their hearing has returned. This also applies to cases of tinnitus. During a lecture I said "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc.) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss -- you probably have ASPARTAME DISEASE!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I've got this, is it reversible?" It is rampant. Some of the speakers at my lecture even were suffering from these symptoms. In one lecture attended by the Ambassador of Uganda, he told us that their sugar industry is adding aspartame! He continued by saying that one of the industry leader's sons could no longer walk - due in part by product usage! (Remember what I said about they do it to themselves? - David) We have a very serious problem. Even a stranger came up to Dr. Espisto (one of my speakers) and myself and said, "Could you tell me why so many people seem to be coming down with MS?" During a visit to a hospice, a nurse said that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence. Here is the problem. There were Congressional Hearings when aspartame was included in 100 different products. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, but to no avail. Nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Now there are over 5,000 products containing this chemical, and the PATENT HAS EXPIRED!!!!! At the time of this first hearing, people were going blind. The methanol in the aspartame converts to formaldehyde in the retina of the eye. Formaldehyde is grouped in the same class of drugs as cyanide and arsenic-- DEADLY POISONS! Unfortunately, it just takes longer to quietly kill, but it is killing people and causing all kinds of neurological problems. Aspartame changes the brain's chemistry. It is the reason for severe seizures. This drug changes the dopamine level in the brain. Imagine what this drug does to patients suffering from Parkinson's Disease. This drug also causes Birth Defects. There is absolutely no reason to take this product. It is NOT A DIET PRODUCT! The Congressional record said, "It makes you crave carbohydrates and will make you FAT". Dr. Roberts stated that when he got patients off aspartame, their average weight loss was 19 pounds per person. The formaldehyde stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Aspartame is especially deadly for diabetics. All physicians know what wood alcohol will do to a diabetic. We find that physicians believe that they have patients with retinopathy, when in fact, it is caused by the aspartame. The aspartame keeps the blood sugar level out of control, causing many patients to go into a coma. Unfortunately, many have died. People were telling us at the Conference of the American College of Physicians, that they had relatives that switched from saccharin to an aspartame product and how that relative had eventually gone into a coma. Their physicians could not get the blood sugar levels under control. Thus, the patients suffered acute memory loss and eventually coma and death. Memory loss is due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are neurotoxic without the other amino acids found in protein. Thus it goes past the blood brain barrier and deteriorates the neurons of the brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, neurosurgeon, said, "The ingredients stimulates the neurons of the brain to death, causing brain damage of varying degrees. Dr. Blaylock has written a book entitled "EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS" (Health Press 1-800-643-2665). Dr. H.J. Roberts, diabetic specialist and world expert on aspartame poisoning, has also written a book entitled "DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE" (1-800-814-9800). Dr. Roberts tells how aspartame poisoning is escalating Alzheimer's Disease, and indeed it is. As the hospice nurse told me, women are being admitted at 30 years of age with Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Blaylock and Dr. Roberts will be writing a position paper with some case histories and will post it on the Internet. According to the Conference of the American College of Physicians, 'We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases caused by this deadly poison". Dr. Roberts realized what was happening when aspartame was first marketed. He said "his diabetic patients presented memory loss, confusion, and severe vision loss". At the Conference of the American College of Physicians, doctors admitted that they did not know. They had wondered why seizures were rampant (the phenylalanine in aspartame breaks down the seizure threshold and depletes serotonin, which causes manic depression, panic attacks, rage and violence). Just before the Conference, I received a FAX from Norway, asking for a possible antidote for this poison because they are experiencing so many problems in their country. This "poison" is now available in 90 PLUS countries worldwide. Fortunately, we had speakers and ambassadors at the Conference from different nations who have pledged their help. We ask that you help too. Print this article out and warn everyone you know. Take anything that contains aspartame back to the store. Take the "NO ASPARTAME TEST" and send us your case history. I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of aspartame, knows how deadly it is. They fund the American Diabetes Association, American Dietetic Association, Congress, and the Conference of the American College of Physicians. The New York Times, on November 15, 1996, ran an article on how the American Dietetic Association takes money from the food industry to endorse their products. Therefore, they can not criticize any additives or tell about their link to MONSANTO. How bad is this? We told a mother who had a child on NutraSweet to get off the product. The child was having grand mal seizures every day. The mother called her physician, who called the ADA, who told the doctor not to take the child off the NutraSweet. We are still trying to convince the mother that the aspartame is causing the seizures. Every time we get someone off of aspartame, the seizures stop. If the baby dies, you know whose fault it is, and what we are up against. There are 92 documented symptoms of aspartame, from coma to death. The majority of them are all neurological, because the aspartame destroys the nervous system. Aspartame Disease is partially the cause of what is behind some of the mystery of the Dessert Storm health problems. The burning tongue and other problems discussed in over 60 cases can be directly related to the consumption of an aspartame product. Several thousand pallets of diet drinks were shipped to the Dessert Storm troops. (Remember heat can liberate the methanol from the aspartame at 86 degrees F). Diet drinks sat in the 120 degree F. Arabian sun for weeks at a time on pallets. The service men and women drank them all day long. All of their symptoms are identical to aspartame poisoning. Dr. Roberts says "consuming aspartame at the time of conception can cause birth defects". The phenylalanine concentrates in the placenta, causing mental retardation, according to Dr. Louis Elsas, Pediatrician Professor - Genetics, at Emory University in his testimony before Congress. In the original lab tests, animals developed brain tumors (phenylalanine breaks down into DXP, a brain tumor agent). When Dr. Espisto was lecturing on aspartame, one physician in the audience, a neurosurgeon, said, "when they remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of aspartame in them". Stevia, a sweet food, NOT AN ADDITIVE, which helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics, has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the F.D.A. For years, the F.D.A. has outlawed this sweet food because of their loyalty to MONSANTO. If it says "SUGAR FREE" on the label-- DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT! Senator Howard Hetzenbaum wrote a bill that would have warned all infants, pregnant mothers and children of the dangers of aspartame. The bill would have also instituted independent studies on the problems existing in the population (seizures, changes in brain chemistry, changes in neurological and behavioral symptoms). It was killed by the powerful drug and chemical lobbies, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting public. Since the Conference of the American College of Physicians, we hope to have the help of some world leaders. Again, please help us too. There are a lot of people out there who must be warned, please let them know this information. Just think; In that "supermarket" where you buy your "food" there are over 5000 products with Aspartame in them. And this is just one product made from plastic. There are hundreds more, only the effects from them are not as immediate. I assure you, they are just as severe over time. I also need to point out that most of the "drugs" (they are DRUGS people!) prescribed by doctors are based on plastics as well. And if you will look at the information above, you will see where people actively worked to stop notification going to people of the harm caused by Aspartame. I assure you that many of the people who actively worked to stop this warning drink lots of diet pop. I do not understand why this is, but it is a function of His Law, and I have seen it in action before. They literally do it to themselves, and it is because of His Law. Foreign Correspondent: Inside Track On World News By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster Eric Margolis: margolis@foreigncorrespondent.com Remembering Ukraine's Unknown Holocaust by Eric Margolis LOS ANGELES - As Britain's socialist government cleared the way for a gaudy show trial of that Great Satan of the left, Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the 65th anniversary of this century's bloodiest crime was utterly ignored. Leftists now baying for Pinochet's head don't want to be reminded of the Unknown Holocaust. In 1932, Soviet leader Josef Stalin unleashed genocide in Ukraine. Stalin determined to force Ukraine's millions of independent farmers - called `kulaks'- into collectivized Soviet agriculture, and to crush Ukraine's growing spirit of nationalism. Ukraine's nightmare had begun in 1932. Faced by resistance to collectivization, Stalin unleashed terror upon Ukraine. Moscow dispatched 25,000 fanatical young party militants - earlier versions of Mao's `Red Guards' - to force 10 million Ukrainian peasants into collective farms. Secret police units of OGPU began selective executions of recalcitrant farmers. When Stalin's red guards failed to make a dent in this immense number, OGPU was ordered to begin mass executions. But there were simply not enough Chekists (secret police) to kill so many people, so Stalin decided to replace bullets by a much cheaper medium of death, mass starvation. All seed stocks, grain, silage, and farm animals were confiscated from Ukraine's farms. Ethiopia's communist dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, used the very same method in the 1970's to force collectivization: the resulting famine cased one million deaths. OGPU agents and Red Army troops sealed all roads and rail lines. Nothing came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and looted of food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold, and sickness. When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent henchman, Lazar Kaganovitch, to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovitch, the Soviet Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian Nikita Khruschchev helped supervise the slaughter. During the bitter winter of 1932-33, mass starvation created by Kaganovitch and OGPU hit full force. Ukrainians ate their pets, boots, belts, bark, and roots. Cannibalism became common; parents even ate infant children. The precise number of Ukrainians murdered by Stalin's custom-made famine and Cheka firing squads remains unknown to this day. KGB's archives, and recent work by Russian historians, shows at least 7 million Ukrainians died. Ukrainian historians put the figure at 9 million, or higher. Twenty-five percent of Ukraine's population was exterminated. Six million other farmers across the USSR were starved or shot during collectivization. Stalin told Churchill he liquidated ten million peasants during the 1930's. Add mass executions by the Cheka in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; the genocide of 3 million Muslims of the USSR; massacres of Cossacks and Volga Germans. In total, Soviet industrial genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million war dead. Kaganovitch, and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD) were Jewish. The predominance of Jews among Bolshevik leaders, and the frightful crimes and cruelty inflicted by Stalin's Cheka on Ukraine, the Baltic, and Poland, led the victims of Red Terror to blame the Jewish people for both communism and their suffering. As a direct result, during the subsequent Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, the region's innocent Jews became the target of ferocious revenge by Ukrainians, Balts, and Poles. While the world is by now fully aware of the destruction of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, the story of the numerically larger holocaust in Ukraine has been suppressed, or ignored. Ukraine's genocide occurred 8-9 years before Hitler began the Jewish Holocaust, and was committed, unlike Nazi crimes, before the world's gaze. But Stalin's murder of millions was simply denied, or concealed by a leftwing conspiracy of silence that continues to this day. In the strange moral geometry of mass murder, only Nazis are guilty. Socialist luminaries like Bernard Shaw, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, and PM Edouard Herriot of France, toured Ukraine during 1932-33, and proclaimed reports of famine were false. Shaw announced, `I did not see one under-nourished person in Russia.' New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Russian reporting, wrote claims of famine were `malignant propaganda.' Seven million people were dying around them, yet these fools saw nothing. The New York Times has never repudiated Duranty's lies. Modern leftists do not care to be reminded their ideological and historical roots are entwined with this century's greatest crime - Stalin's mass murder machine - the inevitable result of enforced social engineering and marxist theology. Had Germany won the war, today's ‘reformed’ Euro-Nazis would take the same amnesiac approach to Hitler as modern European socialists do to Stalin. Western historians delicately skirt the sordid fact that the governments of Britain, the US, and Canada were fully aware of the Ukrainian genocide and Stalin's other monstrous crimes. Yet they eagerly welcomed him as an ally during World War II. Stalin (they did more than that; they actively supported him with food and arms during the 30s. - David), whom an adoring Roosevelt called ‘Uncle Joe’, murdered four times more people than Adolf Hitler - and a decade earlier. Roosevelt and Churchill colluded with and helped save history's most murderous regime. Time to face this ugly fact. None of the Soviet mass murderers who committed genocide were ever brought to justice. ‘Soviet Eichmann’ Lazar Kaganovitch died peacefully in Moscow a few years ago, still wearing his Order of the Soviet Union, and enjoying a generous state pension. Copyright: E. Margolis, December 1998 And the Russians were disarmed. Now you understand what is planned for America if they ever manage to disarm us. Shot In The Dark Activists Claim Childhood Vaccinations Do More Harm Than Good By Sam Boykin There's a bizarre yet common custom practiced among certain cultures that has come under criticism as being unnecessary and potentially life-threatening. The procedure starts when scientists prepare a concoction of bacteria and viruses that are manufactured using a host of materials including aborted fetal tissue, dead animal flesh and formaldehyde. Samples of this toxic material are collected and shipped to specially designated stations. Parents bring their young children to these facilities where this strange virulent mixture -- by order of state and federal mandates and under threat of penalty -- is injected directly into the child's bloodstream. Contrary to the way it sounds, this isn't some 1984-ish plot or a witch doctor remedy. It's the common practice of childhood vaccinations. In our culture now, it's seen as a cornerstone of preventive care and a necessary part of a child's medical treatment, needed to protect young bodies from a host of illnesses and disease. Vaccination shots are administered every year in schools, hospitals and health centers across the globe in nearly every part of the civilized world. In the United States, more than 80 percent of children are immunized by the time they reach school age. Despite the widespread acceptance and implementation of vaccines, there are many people who question the need and, moreover, the safety and ethical implications of such practices, and suggest that not only are vaccinations unnecessary, but are causing chronic health and mental problems. One such organization is the Charlotte-based group, People Advocating Vaccine Education (PAVE). Its founders, Lisa and A.A. Jillani, said they started the group two years ago after they realized their oldest daughter had been "vaccine damaged" following a series of vaccination shots in 1994. About six months after receiving these inoculations, the Jillanis say, their daughter started exhibiting odd behavior and her grade school teachers noticed little "red flags" in her conduct. "It was things like her gross motor skills, neurological tics, and a diminished attention span," Lisa Jillani said. Eventually their daughter was diagnosed at the Watkins Center as having sensory integration dysfunction. "They couldn't adequately explain to me what that was so I began reading, and all of her symptoms kept popping up as a mild form of autism," Jillani said. "Autism is actually a spectrum disease; you can have full-blown classical autism or something as simple as a learning disorder, and I believe our daughter is on the lower end of this autism spectrum as a direct result of her vaccination shots." Long before they started PAVE, Lisa Jillani said the seed of doubt concerning vaccinations had already been planted. Previous to giving birth to her first child, Lisa read about a young couple -- one a professional athlete, the other a model -- and how they chose not to have their children vaccinated because they considered it unethical, unhealthy and unnecessary. "My first thought after reading that was I wonder what they know that I didn't. I started to think maybe vaccinations really weren't 100 percent safe." However, not realizing there was other information available on the subject, Lisa went against her intuition and took her daughter to the doctor for her scheduled rounds of inoculations simply because that's what was expected. But after getting four of the five required sets of shots, Lisa said she couldn't bring herself to submit her daughter any longer to a process in which she had such strong doubts. "It was such a traumatic experience I just decided I'm not going to do this anymore," she said. It was then that she began to research the topic in earnest, and eventually came across several sources of information that confirmed her worst fears concerning the adverse effects of inoculations. She first came across a 1994 book, Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective, by Neil Miller who, among other things, said vaccinations are a form of genetic assault and claimed that the introduction of toxins directly into the bloodstream can potentially cause long term and unforeseen damages. "It was enough for me to know that I definitely needed more information before I ever used vaccinations again," Lisa said. Miller's book led Lisa to a host of other sources including a series of studies conducted in the mid-90s that linked vaccinations to numerous chronic diseases (everything from autism, MS, diabetes, SIDS, asthma and inflammatory bowel disease). Dr. Andrew Wakefield, in a 1998 study that appeared in The Lancet, stated that the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine causes autism and inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Vijendra Singa, in a 1996 study, associated vaccines with autism and multiple sclerosis. Numerous studies have also cited a connection between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and vaccinations, including a 1994 study by Dr. Viera Scheibner. In addition, both medical researcher Barthelow Classen, in a 1996 study that appeared in the New Zealand Medical Journal, as well as Harris Coulter in his book A Shot in the Dark, linked vaccinations to diabetes; and Dr. M.R. Odent indicated there was a connection between asthma and vaccinations. A growing number of parents, concerned citizens and doctors are questioning a medical practice that for a long time has been taken for granted and gone largely unchallenged. After becoming convinced that the anti-vaccination movement wasn't just some fringe society comprised of crazies, Lisa expressed her trepidation to husband A.J. Initially he didn't take it very seriously and laughed it off, but that attitude started to change when he began to look into the issue himself, and even more so after seeing the surprisingly strong reaction by the medical community after he and Lisa expressed their reservations. "What finally did it for me was when the pediatrician we had been seeing for three years threw us out of his practice," A.J. says. "Suddenly he sends us this certified letter out of the blue saying I don't treat unvaccinated children, you'll have to find another doctor." By the time Lisa became pregnant with her second child, the Jillanis had become convinced that vaccination was an unnecessary and dangerous tradition. Now, with their youngest daughter almost three, the Jillanis said she hasn't received any vaccination shots, nor has she been sick. "We're completely comfortable and confident in her health," Lisa said. The Jillanis are part of a growing number of parents, concerned citizens and doctors who have begun to question a medical practice that for a long time has been taken for granted and gone largely unchallenged. Although the medical community admits there are some minor risks associated with the use of vaccines, such as fever and soreness, only recently have far more dangerous side effects and consequences been discussed on such a wide scale within both grassroots organizations as well medical studies and books. The basic goal behind organizations like PAVE isn't to discourage others from vaccinating, but to encourage people to look into the matter for themselves in order to make a more informed decision regarding their health and the health of their family. An integral part of this philosophy is the assertion that the fundamental theory supporting vaccinations is flawed. Today's medical science uses the same basic methodology in implementing vaccinations that was originally discovered in the 1700s. Vaccinations were first attempted in England in 1718 when healthy people were inoculated with a tiny amount of material from smallpox sores. Those who survived the inoculation became immune to smallpox. Toward the end of the 1700s, British physician Edward Jenner discovered that he could immunize patients against smallpox by inoculating them with material from cowpox sores -- a far milder disease. The same basic principles are used today. Modified or weakened forms of bacteria or viruses are injected into the bloodstream which trigger or stimulate the body's immune system to build a defense mechanism that continuously guards against the disease. But what the Jillanis and others who subscribe to their views maintain is that unless you're an immune-compromised child or adult, your body can naturally fight off most diseases without the aid of vaccinations. Furthermore, they say that by introducing these artificially manufactured viruses into the body you are corrupting the body's natural defense system and putting millions of people at risk. "When a virus is injected into your bloodstream, it's already bypassed several of your body's natural defense systems," A.A. Jillani said. "If you were to come into contact with a bacteria in a natural setting, it is first introduced into the body through the throat and nasal passages, but with a vaccine it's injected directly into the system." "Basically you're chronically sick all your life," Lisa Jillani said. "You may not feel bad, but your body will always see that virus in your bloodstream. If you got the measles naturally, it would only be in the bloodstream for the length of the illness, but once you're injected with it, the body will detect that germ for the rest of your life." This theory also touches upon the growing acceptance and popularity of Eastern or alternative medical practices. More people have started putting emphasis on their spiritual well-being and the value of a balanced, harmonious lifestyle including exercise and a sensible diet as a way to promote health and fortify the body as opposed to some chemical or pharmaceutical created in a lab. Judith Coates, a homeopathic physician in Charlotte, said she was inspired to pursue the field of homeopathic medicine after its practices cured her from a deadly illness she suffered from as a result of a swine flu vaccine in 1976. Coates said she received the swine flu vaccination because of governmental "propaganda" that there was going to be an epidemic. Within days of the shot she became violently ill. She said she was just one of 589 documented cases that occurred as a result of the vaccine. Coates added that many people who got the vaccine died within 10 days, but their cases were never documented. Coates says a substantial number of her patients are vaccine-damaged children and adults. Usually by the time they come to her for help they've exhausted all the traditional medical avenues and have progressed to advanced stages of whatever disease or illness they suffer from. "I never get anyone because they have blisters on their fingers, they're dying," Coates said. "The biggest problem with vaccine-damaged people -- adults or children -- is the disease that is identified doesn't follow the traditional pattern, it has a lot of deviations, so it is very difficult to diagnose." Not all critics of vaccinations are within the alternative medical field. Some scientists and doctors who practice within traditional channels have begun to question vaccine's safety as well. Clarence Norris, MD, who has been a practicing physician in Charlotte since 1994, is one of the very few local doctors who will speak out against vaccinations. "I may lose my license but I think people should be aware of the risks and be allowed to make their own individual choices," Norris said. Norris said he first began to question the validity of vaccination while living in Texas during the mid-80s and the two-year-old son of a neighbor died of SIDS following a series of vaccinations. "I'm not downing the medical field but the American Medical Association (AMA) is going to do whatever they can to protect their interests," Norris said. "It's a money thing. And even if it costs you your life, you will be part of the package that goes down. Most physicians are afraid for their licenses." Organizations such as the NC Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as well as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dispute this position and maintain that vaccinations are an absolute necessity. According to the CDC, the vaccines and bacteria that cause vaccine-preventable death still exist, and it has only been through the use of vaccines that we have been able to dramatically reduce the number of people who get infectious disease. Furthermore, if we were to discontinue their use the result would be widespread epidemics, illness and death. Diseases that are almost completely eradicated or well under control such as polio, measles and pertussis would experience a substantial resurgence, resulting in dramatic costs in terms of both human lives as well as doctor's visits, hospitalizations and missed work. Dangerous Tradition It was during the 1950s, following the introduction of an injectable polio vaccine introduced by American physician Jonas Salk, that vaccines became widespread and drug companies started to export vaccine policies globally. Technology within this area of science continued to evolve and by the 70s other vaccinations were available including one to help combat measles. By 1980 a worldwide vaccination program was said to have resulted in the global eradication of smallpox, and in most developed countries immunization was said to have essentially eliminated such diseases as diphtheria and neonatal tetanus. The number of cases of Hemophilius influenza type b meningitis in the US is said to have dropped 95 percent among infants and children since 1988, when a vaccine for the disease was first introduced. In an attempt to continue these global successes, the World Health Organization has set the year 2000 as a target date for the immunization of all children. Despite this evidence of medical science at its most effective, opponents of vaccines say that this particular version of history is more about a successful public relations campaign than an accurate account of the facts. Most anti-vaccine groups take issue with just about every medical milestone attributed to vaccinations, including the assertion that vaccines were responsible for the near global elimination of polio. According to the Jillanis, over the past 15 years the vaccine has caused all cases of polio in the US itself. Furthermore, no cases of non-vaccine-induced polio among US residents have been detected in the last decade. Alan Phillips, an independent investigator and author on vaccine risks and alternatives indicates in his report, Dispelling Vaccination Myths, that after years of steady decline caused by the body's natural defense system, vaccinations caused substantial increases in polio. According to Phillips, ever since the polio vaccine was introduced by Salk in 1954, the rate of polio steadily increased. Phillips also indicates that in 1985, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that the vaccine caused 87 percent of the cases of polio in the US between 1973 and 1983. The CDC asserts that in 1996, as a result of global immunization efforts to eradicate polio, there were only 3,500 documented cases of polio in the world, as compared to between 13,000 and 20,000 which were reported each year in the US alone prior to the polio vaccine. Furthermore, the CDC insists that cases of polio that groups like PAVE attribute to the vaccine itself are actually caused by importation of the virus from countries such as India. It has only been the use of vaccines, they say, that has prevented it from spreading into the US population. The pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine in particular has been singled out as being the main culprit in many SIDS deaths. It's asserted by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) that "hot lots" of this vaccine -- those that appear to be associated with more injuries and death than others -- have been responsible for thousands of cases. A study by Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., called, Vaccination: 100 Years of Orthodox Research Shows that Vaccines Represent a Medical Assault on the Immune System, found peak incidences of SIDS occurred at the ages of 2 and 4 months, precisely when the first two routine immunizations are given. In the mid-70s Japan raised their vaccination age from 2 months to 2 years after a rash of SIDS deaths and lawsuits from grieving parents; their incidence of SIDS dropped dramatically. The CDC denies the existence of "hot lots" and insists that the newer pertussis vaccine that has been available since 1991 is associated with fewer mild and moderate adverse reactions when compared with the older vaccine that received negative publicity during the 70s. As a result of this publicity and the public concern over the pertussis vaccine, the CDC indicated that several countries drastically reduced their use of the vaccination, which resulted in a resurgence of the disease in several countries including 13,000 cases and 41 deaths in Japan between 1974 and 1979. Although many of the benefits of vaccinations continue to be challenged, the Jillanis say the real issue isn't even that of the vaccine's effectiveness, but rather the lack of scientific proof supporting their safety and longterm consequences. "The medical community has no science behind what laboratory engineered viruses do to the body," A.A. Jillani said. "You are taking this incredible risk of introducing viruses into 100 percent of the population. You drastically multiply the problems associated with that particular virus." Some say it's America's quick fix propensity (also evidenced in the skyrocketing popularity of over the counter drugs to treat everything from depression to stomach aches) and the promise of immediate and permanent protection that explain our willingness to subject our children and ourselves so willingly to vaccinations. That quick-fix mentality has continued despite the fact that inoculations' initial promise -- a single shot would provide lifelong protection -- has proven to be false. Now, booster shots for such diseases as diphtheria and tetanus are routine in order to maintain adequate protection. For example, it was discovered that a single injection of measles vaccine, first licensed in 1963 and administered to children at the age of 15 months, did not confer protection through adolescence and young adulthood. As a result, in the 1980s a series of measles epidemics occurred on college campuses throughout the US. This prompted health officials to recommend that a booster dose of measles vaccine be administered at 4-to-6 or 11-to-12 years. "It's short term thinking," A.A. Jillani said. "America is an instant results society. If vaccines interrupted the diseases permanently it would be another matter. But they interrupt it in the short term and you only move certain diseases from childhood into adolescence or adulthood." Furthermore, critics say that the protection provided by vaccines aren't worth the harmful side effects that emerge later. But because these consequences oftentimes do not manifest themselves until years after the vaccination, the cause and effect relationship is often diminished. "To me it's not even a concern if these products are working," A.A. Jillani said. "My concern is do I want to take my chances with whooping cough, chicken pox and measles now, or brain damage, cancer, autism, asthma or diabetes later. There will never be an official cause and effect relationship attributed to this unless the kid drops dead in the doctor's office immediately after receiving a shot." Skewed System While short of an X-Files type of conspiratorial plot to inject the children of the world with an insidious solution, vaccination critics say the government has established a system that is relatively impervious to recourse. There are two main federal organizations in the US that deal with the consequences and compensation of immunization-related illness or death: The Vaccine Adverse Effects Reporting System (VAERS), and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP), which is part of the US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). These two organizations -- both started in 1986 -- work in tandem and were designed to provide both compensation to individuals or families of individuals who've been injured by childhood vaccines, as well as a centralized surveillance system to which adverse vaccine events can be reported. By law, people injured by vaccines must apply for compensation with the NVICP before suing drug companies or physicians. The NVICP has paid out over $900 million to the families of vaccine injured or killed children since the program officially went into effect in 1988. They have received over 6,000 petitions, including over 700 for vaccine-related deaths, and there are still thousands of total death and injury cases pending. Despite the assertion that the NVICP was established to help the public, the Jillanis say it actually acts as a shield to protect drug companies and doctors. They maintain that it's structured to make it so taxing on individuals in terms of financial restraints, time limitations or fortitude, it becomes extremely difficult to win a case and collect for damages. Although the NVICP has awarded millions over the past decade, more than 60 percent of the cases are rejected. VAERS receives about 11,000 reports annually, some one percent of which are deaths from vaccine reactions. But many say this is merely the tip of the iceberg and such statistics don't reflect an accurate portrayal of vaccine reactions because VAERS is a voluntary, self-policed system. Another criticism facing VAERS is the disease or injury table which they consult in order to determine if injuries meet the criteria which enable people to receive compensation. According to program figures, the average time for successful applications is three and a half years. One woman who knows first-hand the nightmares of facing NVICP and the VAERS restrictions is Robin Miller of Statesville, whose son died in 1994 after a yearlong period of convulsions and sickness following his first round of vaccination shots when he was two months old. Since her son's death she's been engaged in a legal battle with NVICP. Her case is now going into its fourth year. "He was sick immediately after the shots and had a high fever," Miller said. "About a week later he started having convulsions and he was never the same after that." In trying to diagnose her son's symptoms, Miller said doctors went from one extreme to another, prescribing countless medications and performing endless tests, but never acknowledged the possibility of vaccine damage, despite the fact that her own pediatrician had indicated that was a possible cause of the child's death. Miller continues to haggle with NVICP over the medical issues, which she says is an overwhelming experience. "It's almost impossible," Miller said. "They make it so difficult. Even since I filed my case they've changed the rules again." Big Brother Is Vaccinating You Since January 1995, it's a Class 1 misdemeanor if a person violates the rules adopted by the local board of health concerning vaccinations. Starting in 1939 with the diphtheria vaccine, North Carolina law has required vaccinations. Throughout successive years other vaccines have been made a requirement by NC law, the latest being the hepatitis B recombinant vaccine in 1994. Although vaccines are legally mandated and are required for many necessities such as enrolling your children in schools, camps, etc., there are actually three exemption possibilities in most US cases. You may be exempt from vaccinations under medical, religious or philosophical reasons, yet these exemptions are usually downplayed. This writer was actually pulled out of class as an undergraduate student at UNCC because I had not yet received my measles booster shots, but was never told about an exemption option. A call placed to the Health Center at UNCC also revealed that students may be exempt if their classes are all after 5pm; if you have less that four credit hours; if all classes are off-campus; or if you attend weekend classes only. Also, students who were enrolled in the NC University system prior to 1994 may be exempt from second measles shot. There is also an immunization registry being coordinated which will establish an immunization tracking record and link all 50 states. Currently the North Carolina Immunization Registry uses a statewide monitoring system to help ensure the timely immunization of infants and children. The purpose is to give parents, health care providers and child care facilities timely access to complete immunization data. It will also allow officials to evaluate the immunization status of parents and identify children who are past due for immunization, as well as help communities assess their immunization coverage and identify areas of under-immunization. While the debate over the safety and effectiveness of vaccinations is sure to become even more heated as the popularity of alternative medicine grows, advances within the system continue to be made. There are currently over 250 new vaccines being developed, many of which focus on sexually transmitted diseases and even one which would temporarily prevent pregnancy. While these advances may seem like a godsend to most, the Jillanis and an increasingly growing number of others say they're even more cause for concern. The Jillanis indicate that the increase of additional "mandatory" vaccinations and developments such as an immunization registry based on "implied consent" with no provisions to opt out are alarming signs of governmental control run amok and blind adherence to a system at the expense of children. "The bottom line is true science is being suppressed so as not to compromise the immunization programs," A.A. Jillani said. "But anytime that [the idea that vaccines are harmful] is presented or suggested to government agencies or vaccine companies it's shot down. There's a billion-dollar treatment behind every chronic illness that is caused by vaccines, so it is not the medical community's concern what is causing them. My point is, let's err in favor of the kids rather than the vaccine companies." http://www.creativeloafing.com/charlotte/newsstand/current/anews.htm Pennsylvania Parents for Vaccine Awareness. The information here is not to be construed as medical or legal advice. The decision whether to vaccinate is yours and yours alone. Investigate BEFORE you vaccinate. During the last years of his life, my father suffered severely from Gilliam Barae (Sorry, I know that is not the correct spelling. - David). It was years before I found out that it was probably caused by the "free" swine flu shots that he and my mother had been given. All in all, it was a terrible price to pay for a "free" shot. Of course, we should all realize that there is nothing free about the shots; the drug companies don't give away drugs. They have simply arranged for the payments for the drugs to be made through collections from the so-called tax payers. All in all, under the guise of law, it is an amazingly efficient system for the accumulation of immense wealth on the part of the behind-the-scenes owners of the drug companies. http://www.uhuh.com/reports/headsup/state98.htm I think you will find this site of interest. I certainly did. It is titled The State of the Union, 1998, and while the author has no knowledge of the background of the Constitution, he does have some good insight into other background. http://www.cyndislist.com/internet.htm You might want to check out this site, not for information on laws, but general information on the net. It has more about viruses than any other site, for instance, that I have ever seen. It is a FELONY to promote a New World Order, or to provide funding to international organizations promoting principles or doctrines of the one world order. -Public Law 471, chap 456, Title 1, Sec. 109, 1954 Nominated for quote of the year is the statement made by Representative Dick Armey, who when asked if he were in the President's place, would he resign, responded: "If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?' When you are ready to proceed, please go to Part XV. All my best, and may God Bless you, David.