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Resister Vol1 No2. Underground newsletter by speci
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THE RESISTER ---- The Official Publication of the Special Forces Underground.
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Volume I, Number 2. Autumn 1994.
Boxholder, P.O. Box 1403, Addison, Texas, 75001 (Price) GRATIS
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NEW WORLD ORDER
COMBAT ARMS SURVEY
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Question # 46
"I Would Fire Upon U.S. Citizens..."
The RESISTER has confirmed that US Navy SEAL platoons, including SEAL
Team Six, Marine combat veterans stationed at Twenty-Nine Palms, CA, and
Marine basic trainees at Camp Pendelton, CA, have been administered a
questionnaire asking, among other things, if they would "...fire upon US
citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the US
government."
The questionnaire was first administered to operators by the commanders
of SEAL Team Six on 15 September 1993, then subsequently to the remaining SEAL
platoons throughout September and October. Rumors began circulating in
November that US Army DELTA operators were given the same or similar
questionnaire. The SF Underground had been aware of the questionnaire since
late September but our observers had been unable to secure a copy or confirm
other than its substance consisted of questions pertaining to the
subordination of the US Military to the UN and confiscation of the firearms of
US citizens. In early January, 1994, we obtained a copy of the questionnaire
from one of our DOD sympathizers but lacking corroboration we ran the story in
Vol.I, No.1 of The RESISTER as a rumor.
On January 22, 1994, one of our observers copied a chilling message off
the Internet from Petty Officer 2nd Class W. Kelly, US Navy Special Warfare
Team Six, to D. Hawkins, Re: Gun Confiscation. Kelly began by stating that
the questionnaire was "...to find out if we would follow the orders of
commanding officers without question." (Kelly omitted the fact that the
questionnaire assumes "commanding officers" gives equal authority to UN
officers commanding US forces.) Kelly continued; "If you wish to find out how
I answered I said yes I would fire and kill all persons attempting to
resist...we aren't around to be the good guys." Remember, Kelly is referring
to American civilians.
In February, 1994, MODERN GUN magazine ran a story on the elusive
questionnaire which was subsequently circulated by various patriotic citizens
groups. Then, on 10 May, 1994, the questionnaire was administered to Marine
Desert Storm veterans at Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. A Marine smuggled a copy of
the questionnaire out of the testing center and mailed it on 15 May, 1994,
with a cover letter, to the editor of THE NEW AMERICAN, which ran the story in
their July 11, 1994, issue. THE NEW AMERICAN quotes the Marine's impression
that the questionnaire "was just research for this (Navy) commander's(sp)
degree." The RESISTER obtained a copy of the Marine's letter, which actually
states: "A Navy Commander came before us and said he was working on his
masters degree and he was writing a paper about giving up our military's
soverenty(sp) to the United Nations Secretary General."
The official DOD lie surrounding the questionnaire entitled "Combat Arms
Survey," supports that of the Navy Commander. Significantly, the Combat Arms
Survey was first given at the time Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 25
was being prepared. The RESISTER's correspondent in the Pentagon staff of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff confirms that PDD 25 surrenders control of the U.S.
military to the United Nations. (A cursory survey of articles written by MACOM
commanders and staff members in official military journals for the past year
reveals a universal acceptance of U.N. control of the American military.)
The RESISTER has been eliciting responses to the questionnaire for the
past year. Frighteningly, among service members with less than 10 years of
service, 63% agree or strongly agree with question # 46: "I would fire upon
U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S.
government." Among new recruits almost 90% give the response: "If it's the
law and they order me to do it I guess it's okay." Our federally controlled
public schools have done their job.
Of those with more than 15 years of service, 87% replied "disagree" or
"strongly disagree." Responses by members of the Special Forces Underground
were unprintable; basically, there will not be many officers who give that
order more than once.
The RESISTER has enclosed a copy of the Combat Arms Survey with this
issue. As you read it pay particular attention to the qualifiers and their
relation to recent articles in the official publications of the Department of
Defense, the civilian media, and the policies of the federal government. *
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Editorial Note
The enclosed Combat Arms Survey is a true and accurate reproduction of
the contents of the questionnaire. We altered the format to accommodate the
The RESISTER's layout. THE EDITOR
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COMBAT ARMS SURVEY
This questionnaire is to gather data concerning the attitudes of combat
trained personnel with regards to nontraditional missions. All of your
responses are confidential. Write your answers directly on the questionnaire
form. In Part II, place an "X" in the space provided for your response.
Part I. Demographics
1. What service are you in?
2. What is your pay grade? (e.g. E-7, O-7)
3. What is your MOS code and description?
4. What is your highest level of education in years?
5. How many months did you serve in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield?
6. How many months did you serve in Somalia?
7. What state or country did you primarily reside in during childhood?
Part II. Attitudes
Do you feel that U.S. Combat troops should be used within the United
States for any of the following missions?
8. Drug enforcement
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
9. Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
10. Security at national events (e.g. Olympic Games, Super Bowl)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
11. Environmental disaster clean-up
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
12. Substitute teachers in public schools
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
13. Community assistance programs (e.g. landscaping, environmental clean-up,
road repair, animal control)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
14. Federal and state prison guards
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
15. National emergency police force
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
16. Advisors to S.W.A.T. units, the FBI or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms (B.A.T.F.)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
17. Border patrol (e.g. prevention of illegal aliens into U.S. territory)
Do you feel that U.S. combat troops under U.S. command should be used in
other countries for and of the following United Nations missions?
18. Drug enforcement
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
19. Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
20. Environmental disaster clean-up
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
21. Peace keeping
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
22. Nation building (Reconstruct civil government, develop public school
system, develop or improve public transportation system, etc.)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
23. Humanitarian relief (e.g. food and medical supplies, temporary housing,
and clothing)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
Do you feel that U.S. combat troops should be used in other countries,
under command of non-U.S. officers appointed by the United Nations for any of
the following missions?
24. Drug enforcement
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
25. Disaster relief (e.g. hurricanes, floods, fires, earthquakes)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
26. Environmental disaster clean-up
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
27. Peace keeping
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
28. Nation building (Reconstruct civil government, develop public school
system, develop or improve public transportation system, etc.)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
29. Humanitarian relief (e.g. food and medical supplies, temporary housing,
and clothing)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
30. Police action (e.g. Korea, Vietnam, but serving under non-U.S. officers)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
Consider the following statements:
31. The U.S. runs a field training exercise. U.N. combat troops should be
allowed to serve in U.S. combat units during these exercises under U.S.
command and control.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
32. The United Nations runs a field training exercise. U.S. combat troops
under U.S. command and control should serve in U.N. combat units during these
exercises.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
33. The United Nations runs a field training exercise. U.S. combat troops
should serve under U.N. command and control in U.N. during these exercises.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
34. U.S. combat troops should participate in U.N. missions as long as the U.S.
has full command and control.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
35. U.S. combat troops should participate in U.N. missions under United
Nations command and control.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
36. U.S. combat troops should be commanded by U.N. officers and non-
commissioned (NCOs) at battalion and company levels while performing U.N.
missions.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
37. It would make no difference to me to have U.N. soldiers as members of my
team. (e.g. fire team, squad, platoon)
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
38. It would make no difference to me to take orders from a U.N. company
commander.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
39. I feel the President of the United States has the authority to pass his
responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief to the U.N. Secretary General.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
40. I feel there is no conflict between my oath of office and serving as a
U.N. soldier.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
41. I feel my unit's combat effectiveness would not be affected by performing
humanitarian missions for the United Nations.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
42. I feel a designated unit of U.S. combat soldiers should be permanently
assigned to the command and control of the United Nations.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
43. I would be willing to volunteer for assignment to a U.S. combat unit under
a U.N. commander.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
44. I would like U.N. member countries, including the U.S., to the U.N. all
the soldiers necessary to maintain world peace.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
45. I would swear to the following code:
"I am a United Nations fighting person. I serve in the forces which
maintain world peace and every nation's way of life. I am prepared to give my
life in their defense."
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
46. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale,
transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. A thirty (30) day
amnesty period is permitted for these firearms to be turned over the local
authorities. At the end of this period, a number of citizen groups refuse to
turn over their firearms. Consider the following statement:
I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of
firearms banned by the U.S. government.
( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Strongly disagree Disagree Agree Strongly agree No opinion
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End Note
Our civilian readers maybe wondering why the Combat Arms Survey was
circulated so heavily within the Department of the Navy. The reason is
simple; the Navy is not subject to USC Title 10 Posse Comitatus prohibitions
against using federal military forces for domestic law enforcement. This
includes the US Marine Corps.
Just thought you would like to know.
THE STAFF
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EDITORIAL
The Lie of Equal Opportunity
The Equal Opportunity Program of the United States Army claims that it
formulates, directs, and sustains a comprehensive effort to ensure fair
treatment of all soldiers "based solely on merit, fitness, capability, and
potential, which supports readiness." This policy is stated to be based on
"fairness, justice, and equity." But the simple fact is that if the Equal
Opportunity Program were based solely on merit, fitness, capability, and
potential there would be no need for it. The EO policy officially sanctions,
by its very existence, unfairness, injustice and inequality.
The philosophical premise of all equal opportunity programs is
egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is the belief that all men are equal. If
"equality" is held to any serious or rational standard, as in the realm of
politics and law, egalitarianism is the principle of individual rights which
cannot be repealed by democratic majority, subverted by minority machinations,
nor infringed by government legislation.
But political and legal equality are not the intent of equal opportunity
programs. Equal opportunity programs seek nothing less than METAPHYSICAL
equality; the equality of ability, competence, industriousness, and
intelligence. Equal opportunity programs, by their very existence, defy the
objective reality that all men are not equal. They seek to abolish some
perceived "unfairness" that does not permit the inept, incompetent, lazy, or
stupid to succeed.
Note how the goal of equality is achieved.
Since equal recognition for unequal performance would be too obvious an
injustice, equal opportunity egalitarians prohibit unequal performance. (Read
and OER or NCOER.)
Because some men are to accept responsibility faster than others, the
egalitarians deny the notion of "merit" and substitute the concept of
"seniority" for promotions. (Study the results on any promotion board.)
Since some men are more intelligent than others, the egalitarians forbid
individual excellence and subordinate it to the collective mediocrity of
"consensus building" and stultifying institutional group-think. (Observe the
workings of any committee or "team.")
Since some men have greater ability and study more conscientiously than
others, the egalitarians abolish objective standards based on achievement and
substitute outcome-based 'standards' that equate the lame to the fit and the
moron to the intelligent. (Attend any school.)
Equality of opportunity has nothing to do with equality or opportunity.
It is the official doctrine of racism, tribalism, and collectivism. It is but
one premise of the unconscionable evil of altruism. Equal opportunity is the
official sanction of the hatred of the good BECAUSE it is good.
If the Army's Equal Opportunity Program were truly based on individual
"merit, fitness, capability, and potential," personnel records would be purged
of all references to race and ethnic origin, the Official Photo would be
eliminated, and commanders would again have local promotion authority above
Staff Sergeant.
Richard Crossman
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AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR READERS
For the past two months our observers have been reporting that some
readers are questioning the integrity of contributors to The RESISTER because
they choose to be known by pseudonyms rather then their real names. This is a
legitimate concern and it deserves to be answered at length.
First, no contributor is obliged to use a pseudonym, as anybody who has
actually READ the first issue can tell you. Second, the decision to require
staff members and regular contributors to use pseudonyms was an OPSEC issue,
not an ethical one. Third, there is a historical precedent we follow which,
if not already familiar to you, in all likelihood never will be, and is
therefore none of your business. Fourth, publishing The RESISTER is a
security risk in its own right, let alone referring to in tradecraft and
organization. Really, what DO they teach you guys in the Q-course these days?
The RESISTER is a response to the altruistic cannibalism which is
consuming the principle of inalienable individual rights upon which this
nation was founded and which have been served-up in sacrifice to the mob god
of democracy, the minority god of tribalism, the nature god of
environmentalism, the slave god of collectivism, and the statist god of
socialism.
Do you want to know who we are? We are the individuals who conceive the
ideas the cretinous mob calls "the team effort." We are the individuals whose
excellence is subverted by the racist policy of "equal opportunity." We are
the independent, innovative, and creative who have been enslaved to serve the
"greater good." Without us you would still be prying roots out of ground with
a pointed stick.
It would be a great comfort and convenience for the myriad
unconstitutional federal agencies to note us, categorize us, and file us away
for future "reference." We will not give them an early chance, nor will we be
goaded into identifying ourselves by sneering comments about anonymous
writers.
Every whim based, undefined, un-judicable law it passes; every
unconstitutional gang of armed badge wielding thugs it deploys; every
unconstitutional agency it creates; every incomprehensible special interest
regulation it mandates; every dime extorted through taxation and redistributed
to the incompetent and undeserving; every American life lost in some
altruistic war, humanitarian assistance, or peacekeeping operation,
demonstrates the illegitimacy of the federal government.
The federal government os not "of the people," it is the instrument of
pull-peddlers. It is not "by the people," it is the toady of special
interests. It is not "for the people," it is the exercise of force for the
sake of force.
Pass laws against us; we will not obey. Regulate our activities; we
will not comply. Legislate our behavior; we will not consent.
We are freemen. We will not be subjugated. We have the guns to prove
it.
THE EDITOR
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Is The RESISTER For Real?
As I write this letter the various comments I have heard concerning The
RESISTER return to mind. The first one is, "Are you for real?" The converse
being that your publication is a U.S. Government plant to entrap members of
the SOF community into revealing themselves. Secondly, why not print the
names of the contributors? To me that is obvious, but I'll let you explain.
Thought I would let you know I got a big kick out of the "Personals."
Reminds me of WWII and the French Resistance stories I have heard and read.
Also the commo block was a nice touch.
If you are an actual paper I hope you have the space to print this
letter. It will as least show some of the doubting here at the Special
Warfare Center and School that there is someone out there.
Please feel free to use my name and office as I see no need to use a non
de guerre.
SFC David R. Hall
USAJFKSWCS
Yes. See RUMORS. We will: See Vol. I No. 1, p.6, col. 3, para. 3, in.
16.
It is impolite to discuss tradecraft. Read--Secret Forces: The
Technique of Underground Movements, by F.O. Miksche.
We assume you mean "non de plume."
THE EDITOR
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CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
I have received a xerox copy of The RESISTER, Vol. I, No 1.
I like it! Can I be on your mailing list?
Dr. Susan Huck
Associate Editor
Conservative Review
1307 Dolly Madison Blvd.
McLean, VA 22101
(703) 893-7302
For obvious (to us) reasons we do not keep mailing lists. We will
however, see to it that you are included in the distribution scheme and
receive a grey copy.
We do ask that if you intend to mention The RESISTER in your
publication that you have the professional courtesy to let us review said
material first. Mail reaches us through a rather indirect and laborious
route, so give us at least four weeks to respond.
THE EDITOR
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NEW WORLD SLAVERY
Has anyone considered that if the United Nations possessed sufficient
power to enforce world peace they would also have the power to enforce world
dictatorship? Apparently this fact does not trouble our government.
Since 1961 the United States Department of State has been negotiating
away our national sovereignty in the name of "World Peace" consistent with the
provisions of the Kennedy administration document entitled "FREEDOM FROM WAR."
I am no major league historian but I am old enough to remember that "peace"
was the communist catch phrase meaning one-world communism.
Does anyone else stop to consider that the United States is the only
non-socialist country in the world and United Nations edicts on arms control,
environmentalism, and 'human rights' are always focused on, and contrary to
the interests of the United States?
"FREEDOM FROM WAR" outlined a three-stage evolution designed to make the
UN the sole legitimate user of force on the face of the planet. Keep in mind
that this was the US Department of State's vision for the future of country in
1961.
Phase One essentially eliminates the notion of national sovereignty by
enforcing unilateral disarmament while strengthening UN "peacekeeping" powers.
Phase two reinforces UN "peacekeeping" by transferring all legitimacy
for the exercise of military force to the United Nations. We are already
there. Note that regardless of the sovereign interests of this country during
DESERT SHIELD president Bush went groveling to the United Nations for
permission to act.
Phase three will permit nations to retain only those forces and
armaments necessary for the maintenance of internal order. Only the UN will
maintain arms and forces necessary to wage offensive war under the control of
it's "Peace Force."
Now, the US has endorsed a working paper seeking global gun control
submitted to the UN Disarmament Commission by Patti Londono, a Columbian UN
Diplomat. On May 9, 1994, The United States allowed consensus adoption of the
working paper which puts domestic gun control on par with nuclear disarmament.
George Prescott
USAJFKSWCS
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THE DANGER OF PRECEDENCE
I hope you have been following the O.J. Simpson case at least through
the preliminary hearing. The key issue was Fourth Amendment rights. For the
sake of clarity the Fourth Amendment states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon
probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly
describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to
be seized.
Now that we're on the same sheet of music, some of the arguments made by
O.J.'s council make better sense. The Fourth Amendment says in essence that,
if you want to search a residence, you need a warrant. Quite plain and
simple. It says nothing about exigent (urgent or critical) circumstances nor
does it infer them.
The argument of exigent circumstances has developed from "legal
precedence." An analogy for precedence is as follows: Your mother tells you
to stay out of the cookie jar or she will beat your butt. You get into it and
get caught. Mom is in a good mood and doesn't beat you. The next time she
catches you she's angry but you plead __precedence__ to prevent your beating.
You got away with it the first time so why not this time?
It is the same with the legal system. When the police violate the
Constitution, and get away with it, new case law follows and precedent for the
action is established.
What about exigent circumstance? It has become a standard police tactic
to subvert the intent of the Fourth Amendment prohibitions against unwarranted
search and seizure.
I am not here to say the police should not enter a place if a true
crisis is taking place. However, the limit of their action though should be
to stop the disturbance, secure the scene and request a warrant if probable
cause exists. But a tiny blood spot on a vehicle door should not be brought
before the court as the basis for the police or district attorney's claim of
"exigent circumstance."
Neither this, nor the claim of someone else in danger, holds any
credence. The police did not race to the home of Nicole's "friend" and crash
in to see if everyone was safe. What about equal treatment under the law?
O.J. Simpson's Fourth Amendment rights were clearly violated. You may
not care for Simpson or you may even say, "he is guilty so who cares how he
was brought down." That attitude is precisely the problem. It is better for
a guilty man to go free than have our rights trampled upon by the minions of
so-called justice. If any government is allowed to whatever measures it deems
necessary to bring order, you can rest assured that it will be totalitarian
and brutal.
"Lexington"
USAJFKSWCS
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HORROR FILE
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Crime Bill Defines The RESISTER as Instrument of Terror
Senator Joseph Biden's SB 226, now incorporated into the Crime Control
Act of 1993, (passed by both houses of Congress soon to signed by Clinton),
would make publication of The RESISTER an "intent" to commit a terrorist act.
Section 8 of Biden's SB 223 'defines' intent in this context as "appear
to be intended (1) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (2) to
influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion."
This includes, but is not limited to; demonstrations, pickets, computer
bulletin boards, publications, assemblies, and speech.
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First Amendment Trial Balloon
Harry W. Marrerro (JD) is being "detained" in a maximum security federal
prison, without bond, for producing and selling a video tape about the
Constitution entitled "Sovereignty vs Slavery."
Mr. Marrerro was indicted by a federal Grand Jury on charges of
conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud because he poses a "danger to society"
for spreading "propaganda." Mr. Marrerro's message? The primacy of the
individual.
The federal crime bill designates anti-government speech, such as
proclaiming the desirability of revolution against tyranny, as "material
support to terrorism," and makes RICO forfeiture possible for statements made
up to 4 years PRIOR to the enactment of the bill.
This is EX POST FACTO legislation.
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Equal Opportunity Poverty
The decent middle class neighborhood you live in has now been designated
by the federal government as a "low poverty area." This means your
neighborhood is unfairly divided from inner city slums by a lack of "income
integration."
HUD now considers almost every neighborhood in America as an unfair
housing market, liable to forced integration by the whim of the federal
government. If you own property in a middle-class neighborhood you are now
guilty, by default, of the undefined charge of racism.
Between 1970 and 1976 HUD transformed Detroit and Chicago into giant
slums by redistributing welfare moochers and their criminal, gang, and drug
addict hitchhikers to affluent neighborhoods. HUD secretary Henry Cisneros
and HUD assistant secretary Roberta Achtenberg figure that was not good
enough.
Altruist egalitarianism demands that everyone live in equally crime-
ridden slums.
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"This Isn't Something You Need to Have in Your Library"
Major Mark Prugh, acting on the instructions of Colonel Richard Seim,
Command Judge Advocate, United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare
Center and School, confiscated the USAJFK Special Warfare Center and School
Marquat Memorial Library's well thumbed reference copy of The RESISTER.
(For the edification of our civilian readers the Command Judge Advocate, COL
Seim, works exclusively for, and acts on behalf of, Major General William
Garrison, Commander, USAJFKSWCS.) What is particularly obnoxious is that it
was a grey copy; in other words, an original. This outrage occurred Thursday,
25 August, 1994.
Our observers report that MAJ Prugh asked for the desk copy of The
RESISTER and, having obtained it from the unwitting duty librarian, turned to
walk out the door with it. When advised that the issue in question was the
library's only reference copy and was not to be removed form the premises
Prugh returned to the desk and scrawled a note stating who he was and that he
was acting "per COL Seim's instructions," while stapling his card to the note.
When asked why he was taking the library's only copy he replied, "The
isn't something you need to have in your library."
We will point out that the Marquat Memorial Library contains the
collected works of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler's Mein Kampf, and at least
something representing the philosophy of every brand of collectivism,
socialism, statism, tribalism, and anarchy. Obviously, the Chain of Command
considers those works perfectly acceptable reading for our soldiers.
The RESISTER's message of strict constitutionalism, isolationism,
laissez-faire capitalism, individual rights, and republicanism, is considered
subversive.
It is tempting to hold MAJ prugh accountable for his action, but know
that he was just an "errand boy sent by grocery clerks;" an errand boy who
held __mandatory__ "Homosexuality Sensitivity Training" for all USAJFKSWCS
instructors and staff throughout August, 1994.
Major General Garrison's address is:
Commander
ATTN: AOJK-CO
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Fort Bragg, North Carolina
28307-5000
(910) 432-4404
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RUMORS
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The RESISTER a Government Plot?
Major Robert Tiffany, FA, Doctrine Division, USAJFKSWCS, has opined that
The RESISTER is published by the Clinton adminstration as a vehicle designed
to "smoke out" dissidents and subversiveness in the military.
NICE TRY BOB, NOW THAT YOU'RE RETIRING WE HOPE YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A
LIVING BY YOUR ANALYTICAL SKILLS.
THE STAFF
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U.N. Fomenting Insurgencies
An interesting tidbit surfaced in THE NEW FEDERALIST, dated June 13,
1994. It seems the United Nations Human Development Program has been
'studying' the internal conditions of various Third World countries.
In the case of Mexico, the UNDHP conducted an exhaustive study of "human
conditions" in State of Chiapas during the spring of 1993. Seven months
later, in January 1994, Mexico was faced with an insurgency in that state, led
by the masked (and alleged homosexual) pipe smoking Marcos.
We have reproduced an article leveling the charge of UN sponsored
insurgencies by a Mexican journalist, Linda de Hoyos, on page 12. Normally,
we care less what happens in Mexico. But because American soldiers are now
routinely deployed to dung heaps by our socialist government to "help"
miserable, starving, Third World abstractions at the behest of the United
Nations, we thought you should see what you're getting into and why.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Primer Shortage
For the past eight months it has been almost impossible to but primers
in any reasonable quantity. The RESISTER began quietly canvassing
manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to find out why.
Retailers and wholesalers were patiently waiting for cartridge
manufacturers to finish their annual production which they (the distributors),
said usually reduced primer availability until early summer. When we talked
to the manufacturers they said the U.S. government had placed orders for
ammunition SIX TIMES their normal annual commission. Some quick fourth-grade
math completed the story.
In a normal year, the federal government purchases approximately 1.7
million rounds for its myriad unconstitutional law enforcement agencies. This
excludes the various arsenals which produce ammunition for the military. This
year the federal government purchased over one BILLION rounds.
It gets uglier. This year the federal government began arming the IRS
and the EPA. The Fed's are also expanding the FBI's HRT, the BATF's
enforcement branch, and DOE's private army. Juxtapose this with the federal
government's determination to abrogate the Second Amendment.
If anyone has information pertaining to this issue write us.
THE EDITOR
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National Forest HLZ's
When units are deployed on JTF-Six missions they are routinely required
to locate and survey Helicopter Landing Zones within National Forests which
are then turned over to the National Forest Service during the post mission
AAR. The official explanation is that these HLZ's will be used by future
missions as MEDEVAC dust-off sites.
Debriefs of personnel returning from JTF-Six missions indicate that the
purpose of the National Forest HLZ surveys is not quite so benign. The PIR
and IR for JTF-Six OPORDs frequently require units to report on the locations,
numbers, dress, and types of arms carried by civilians within National
Forests, and specifically address reporting any type of "paramilitary"
activity. This information is included in the post-mission INSUM which is
then turned over to JTF-Six J-2 and is accessible by Operation Alliance; in
other words, the FBI, BATF, US Border Patrol, DEA, among others.
Counter drug or internal security? If you have been recently deployed
on a JTF-Six mission or an RSU rotation and some of your mission and reporting
requirements did not quite squire with the official lie, write us.
THE STAFF
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FIELD REPORT: SECOND AMENDMENT RALLY
Alexander Davidson
Washington D.C., 14 August, 1994
One of the oddities of political demonstrations is that those who do not
actually work for a living have the time, supporting front organizations, and
resources donated by altruists, do-gooders, and other socialists, communists,
and influence peddlers to form mobs to protest this or the other perceived
inequity while carrying cardboard placards demanding that groundless theories,
mindless philosophies, and range of the moment whims be given the same status
as fact, reason, and reality.
Those of us who actually work to earn our living do not have the idle
luxury to demonstrate in defense of our inalienable objective rights.
The Second Amendment Rally drew, we estimate, about 2,000 people. (Our
estimate is based on the area covered divided by approximately 3 square meters
per person given the area covered and mean dispersion). Bus loads of people
arrived from Ohio, Illinois, and North Carolina. Individuals drove from as
far away as Colorado and Alabama.
We admit being a little disappointed in the turnout when we heard the
first reports from our observers at the rally. But upon reflection we quickly
came to realize that people who are in the right seldom think they are
compelled to prove it to others. It is the liar who must shout down the
truthful to be heard, the incompetent who must denigrate the work of the
competent to be recognized, and the inept who must enslave the able to feign
success.
While the numbers of honest, competent, and able citizens who came to
the rally may not be remarkable, the fact that most of them were willing to
miss the following day of two of work to defend their right to bear arms
against government tyranny is.
The media was conspicuous by their absence, Not one news agency arrived
to record and report on a rally by law abiding citizens opposing government
abrogation of their rights. If an equal number of homosexuals, drug addicts,
communists, bean curd eaters, animal worshipers, minority tribalists, or
common street garbage had staged a rally the carrion eaters of the media would
have been there in force clucking their tongues wondering how these people
could have suffered for so long.
Of the distinguished guests who were invited to attend only G. Gordon
Liddy appeared and spoke. His message was clear and succinct: "You have no
moral obligation to obey unconstitutional laws. When they tell you to
register your firearms--don't. When they tell you to turn in your firearms--
don't." No argument from us.
Rush Limbaugh was too busy signing books in Colorado.
There was a consistent underlying theme that brought these people
together to take a stand for their rights, unified them in their outrage
against our unconstitutional federal government, and kept them focused on the
very reason why the Second Amendment is the keystone of the Bill of Rights--
Waco.
Waco defined in one act, the federal government's true position on the
rights and individual liberties guaranteed to all freemen by the constitution.
Waco put the fear of tyrannical government into every rational person in
this country. If there was a war cry to mobilize resistance to the vagaries
of the federal government, the non-objectivity of our undefinable,
un-judicable, and therefore unjust firearms laws, that war cry is
"REMEMBER WACO!"
There is a small but growing segment of the American public who are
aware that the BATF thugs who assaulted a community of Christian law abiding
citizens were trained and advised by members of 3rd Special Forces Group
(Airborne), under the auspices of Operation Alliance and Joint Task Force -
Six. It was with great interest that our observers at the Second Amendment
Rally learned that Mr. James Pate, a free-lance journalist who uncovered that
fact and broke the story in SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, would speak at the rally.
Mr. Pate began his speech at a disadvantage; everything he had to say
about Waco had already been said by Kirk Lyons, from Black Mountain, NC, one
of the defense attorneys for the Waco defendants. But then, Pate paused, held
above his head a grey document and announced:
"There is a crisis of command in our standing army. I am holding a copy
of The RESISTER: The Official Publication of the Special Forces Underground.
This letter, written by a soldier from the 7th Special Forces Group, expresses
the concerns of some members of the Special Operations Community about a
government and it's appointed officers who order them to oppress the citizens
of this country:
My friends and I are all in agreement; our government is
getting out of control and the first time we are given an order to
disarm the citizens of this country we are going to desert and
join whatever guerilla movement demonstrates it is fighting to
restore the principles this country was founded on..."
As our observers edged their way out of the crowd under the cover of HC
and violet smoke, mixed, to their break in contact, they heard the crowd roar
it's approval.
APPROVAL. For the first time in 200 years elements of United States
Army openly publicize their intent to resist the policies of the federal
government and American citizens publicly demonstrate their approval.
Why? Because most people are afraid of the government. It is a very
subtle fear. It is a fear resulting form the uncertainty of legal status born
of the incomprehensibility of our laws and their whimsical application and
enforcement.
One of our staff members has remarked that his mother persistently says,
"Don't say things like that over the phone!" Another points out that most
people are afraid to join politically active organizations because they want
to wind up on "their" list.
The RESISTER has one answer to those and other objections to resisting
tyranny--"You behave like someone who lives in a police state."
During their debriefing one of our observers stated, "I don't know how
he (Pate) got hold of it (The RESISTER). When he mentioned Special Forces
there were murmurs of 'traitors,' and 'Quislings.' But when he read the
letter from 'John" the crowd went crazy because they found out we (The
Resistance) were with them. It may take twenty years, but we're going to
win...I know that now.
AMEN
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"Assault Gun" Ban Analysis
"Minuteman"
3rd SFG
The recent ban on military style semi-automatic weapons is far more
onerous than even pro-Second Amendment organizations presume. Placed in
context with Clinton's April 19, 1994 remark, "...there's too much personal
freedom." and Senator Biden's recent statement that the federal government
will decide what the "people need," the purpose of the ban is clear.
Semi-automatic firearms cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.
The majority of these weapons are not owned by collectors, who are relatively
well off, and who obtain them for their own esoteric purposes. Nor are they
owned by "the poor," who could not hope to splurge on an $800 to $3000
firearm. They are owned by the middle class; hard-working, law abiding
property owners.
Some possess them out of nostalgia for their military service, some for
weekend plinking, some for competitive shooting, some for self protection, a
few for hunting. Their motive is irrelevant because it is their
Constitutional and natural right to own them.
Now, consider the legislative assaults against the middle-class for the
past thirty years. Environmental laws are Anti-property. Economic laws are
anti-capitalism. Civil rights laws are anti-individual. Education laws are
anti-reason. The sole purpose of federal anti-gun laws is anti-resistance.
There is a growing movement throughout America to form local militias.
This movement is not universal, nor is it well advertised, but it is expanding
with the growing recognition that the myriad incomprehensible laws passed in
the last thirty years were never intended to serve their stated purpose.
If you are not a member of a non-state approved militia, join one. If
there is none where you live, form one--in secret. When the time comes we
will find you and assist you.
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BTB
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Melvil:
Paragraph 2 by sentence. Thank you. You're not the only one. We call
them "tobacco spitters." Whom, lately, has said, "No?" WE know that. I knew
him; he fell into the same trap as the "centurions."
Paragraph 3, start sentence 2. You are correct, we're working on it.
We know. Your 're right; we will when it's possible. We know. Thank you.
P.S. So are many others.
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SGM:
Reference our telephone conversation of 18 August, 1994: Want to put
theory into practice?
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Bruce:
It is impolite to discuss tradecraft. Re: 1) He wouldn't; 2)Yes, yes,
no; 3) No; irrelevant; 4) You mean NOM DE PLUME. Would you take the chance?
You mean: AGENTS PROVOCATEURS.
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Kyle:
Your plumbing business and advertising are going to compromise you.
It's time to start behaving as you believe.
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Kevin:
You can do more for us outside. Mr. Charles Peterson will contact you
soon. You are in a unique position. If you are interested inquire about Mr.
Peterson's reading habits.
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Michael:
Brief resume required.
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"Sentinal"
We need to talk. Details forthcoming. Do not tell anybody. Do not
invite friends.
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PEACEKEEPING: What For?
Joseph Thomas
The recent orgy of articles about United Nations peacekeeping and
humanitarian assistance in SPECIAL WARFARE magazine reveals a great deal about
where the United States military in general, and Special Forces in particular,
is being lead.
Instead of focusing on the defense of this nation and the protection of
vital United States interests the U.S. military has become a slave service for
the wealth redistribution schemes of internationalists and gangs of weeping
do-gooder mystics. One need simply note the circling of media carrion-eaters
to predict in which Third World toilet these altruists will next flush
hundreds-of-millions of tax dollars and the lives of U.S. service men.
Peacekeeping is a monumental fraud. It has noting to do with peace and
even less with keeping it. Peacekeeping , and it's bastard offsprings--
peacemaking and peace enforcement--constitutes nothing less than the
abrogation of national sovereignty. The insinuation of U.N. agencies into the
political fabric of the nations it "helps," the expropriation and
redistribution of property and wealth, and the establishment of
"democratically elected" socialist governments are actions that speak louder
than the mushy rhetoric of U.N. cheerleaders in the federal government.
In Somalia eighteen American slave-soldiers under U.N. command died, and
seventy-seven were wounded, for exactly NOTHING. They were not heroes, they
were sacrificial animals. At the same time the circus sideshow man hunt for
Adid was in full swing the United Nations was paying him over US$ 100,000
monthly in protection money so altruists could deliver food to hoards of
starving irrelevancies. Vice President Gore consoled the parents of the
victims by telling them their sons died "in the service of the United
Nations." (The RESISTER is reliably informed it is a good thing he had his
Secret Service hoods with him at the time.)
Sergeant Major Steve Burback, a U.N. toady, conveniently sidesteps these
facts in his groveling January 1994, SPECIAL WARFARE article: THE BLUE
HELMETS: A HISTORY OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING FORCES. Burback considers
Somalia a success.
During the U.N. sponsored Korean War (which the socialist Truman called
a "police action"), military orders and directives sent from the NCA and the
Pentagon to commanders in Korea were routinely briefed to U.N. Military Staff
Committee members. This information was then relayed to the North Koreans and
the Chinese communists by their allies, the Soviet Union. Lin Piao, commander
of communist Chinese forces in Korea gloated, "I would never have made the
attack (across the Yalu, ED.) and risked my men and military reputation if I
had not been assured that Washington would restrain General MacArthur form
taking adequate retaliatory measures against my lines of supply and
communication." The number of American soldiers who died as a result of this
federal government treason cannot be calculated.
The true intent of United Nations "peacekeeping" is best illustrated by
the 1960 - 1964 ONUC (Operation des Nations Unies au Congo), in what is the
archetype U.N. client state and IMF money sewer, Zaire.
When Moise Kapenda Tshombe, pro-west and anti-communist leader of
Katanga province declared secession and independence from the communist regime
of Patrice Lumumba, the United Nations, at the behest of American liberals and
the Soviet Union deployed thousands of pro-communist thugs on U.S. transport
aircraft to Katanga back into line. Thousands died in U.N. concentration
camps, whites were routinely murdered, civilian facilities were bombed by U.N.
aircraft (flown by Czech and Russian "technicians") between July 1960 and
January 1962. ( See: REBELS, MERCENARIES AND DIVIDENDS, by Smith Hempstone,
1962.)
Never in it's history has the United Nations intervened on behalf of a
pro-west, pro-capitalist nation under assault from communist subversion from
within or socialist aggression from without. Where was the U.N. in Malaysia,
Viet Nam, Laos or Cambodia? Objections that member states must appeal to the
United Nations for assistance are irrelevant since their ideological
aggressors, communists and socialists, controlled (and still control) the
Security Council. The U.N. does not send peacekeepers to protect Israel, but
to preserve the lunatic Islamic nations who attacked her.
For what reason should the United States throw away hundreds of millions
of dollars in so-called foreign "aid" and risk the lives of American
servicemen to "save" mobs of starving irrelevancies and hoards of suffering
abstractions at the whim of the One World Socialists of the United Nations?
So New World Order altruists can feel good about themselves.
There are many who view the mindless whimsy and senseless rationalizing
of American foreign policy in general, and United Nations peacekeeping in
particular, as an omnipotent conspiracy masterminded by some malevolent
powerful giant. Lacking irrefutable facts in proof of this contention The
RESISTER prefers to remain silent. If there is a conspiracy we believe it is
more a conspiracy of philosophy that a conspiracy of men.
The RESISTER contends that the truth is far more horrible: at the bottom
of the cloying fog of stench that surrounds U.N. peacekeeping and American
foreign policy is a nest of scurrying cockroaches.
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MOTIVE
If you believe the Official Lie that the various Third World tribes
which provide the U.N. with peacekeeping forces do so out of the kindness of
their heart, guess again. They do it for your tax money.
One example in particular is illustrative. When Zambia sent its
hoodlums to Mozambique last year each soldier was paid US$ 300.00 per month by
the U.N.. Of course, the Zambian government looted more than half that money,
but the net result was that the deployed Zambian soldier's pay more than
doubled. The added benefit was that it got some of their armed gangs out of
the country for a while, thus reducing the threat of a coup.
There is an analogy to be drawn here. If the thugs and hoodlums of
Third World sewers get well paid by their U.N. masters (at least by their
standards), that at least makes them prostitutes--a known honorable
profession.
United States peacekeepers get no extra pay. The RESISTER figures that
this makes U.S. Peacekeepers little more than common street sluts.
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U.N. PLAN: One World Government by 1995
Linda de Hoyos
The Human Development Report 1994, Released on June 1, 1994, sets forth
a blueprint to destroy the sovereign nation-state and replace it with a One
World UN dictatorship by March 1995.
The UNDP report, endorsed by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali,
outlines plans for establishment of "world institutions" with powers to
dictate policies to government, while simultaneously declaring war on nations
of the developing sector.
under the ruse of a concept of "human security" designed to replace the
imperatives of national security of sovereign countries, the UNDP report sets
the agenda and protocols for the March 1995 heads-of-state summit on Social
Development to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark. This summit is to follow this
September's Cairo Conference on Population, where Boutros-Ghali et al. are
demanding that nations agree to population reduction as the criterion of
economic performance. The UNDP proposal, if implemented, would create the
enforcement apparatus for such genocidal aims.
Specifically, the UNDP report calls for the creation of a World Court,
with powers to subpoena nations; A World Police; A World Bank, which would
give the International Monetary Fund sole power to enforce austerity on
nations; A world Treasury; An Economic Security Council, with a mandate to
interfere in those states that do not conform to UN protocols for "population
reduction" or "free trade" liberalization; A World Trade and Production
Organization, which would not only regulate "free trade" but would also
dictate production quotas to nations.
To fund its One World government the UNDP report calls for global
taxation. This is to include taxes on pollution, taxes on 'savings' from
demilitarization, taxes on all foreign exchange transactions, and a global
income tax on nations whose people average an income above US$ 10,000 per
year.
Genocide: The Aim
The UN requires such global power of dictatorship, the report makes
clear, in order to enforce population reduction. The biggest threat to "human
security," the report states on page 34, is 'unchecked population growth."
The report states that by the year 2015, world population must be stabilized
at 7.3 billion. For this goal to be reached, nations must "commit themselves
to ... participating in annual reviews of the 20:20 compact," to be held as
joint donor-recipient meetings on each country as well as annual reviews in
the Economic Security Council.
Further, the UNDP demands that, while the UN heightens its powers to
militarily intervene in the sovereign territory of any nation, the militaries
of developing countries must be dismantled, their national security stripped.
The UNDP report lists five cases in which UN Blue Helmet troops must be
deployed into the internal conflicts of nations: "mass slaughter of the
population of the state, decimation through starvation or the withholding of
health or other services, forced exodus, occupation and the denial of the
right to self-determination, (and) environmental destruction."
To understand what this means, at the behest of British Prime Minister
Lord Palmerson, UN "Peace-makers" would have intervened to protect the
secession of the Confederacy from the Union during the American Civil War.
At the same time, under the title "special contributions," the UNDP
endorses a call by Oscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace
Prize winner, for developing nations to fully demobilize their armed forces.
Arias calls for a Global Demilitarization Fund, managed by the UN, that would
dish out money to developing countries who make efforts to "disarm and
demobilize their armed forces, reintegrate military people into society, and
promote gun control." Through the Economic Security Council, demilitarization
would become a new condition for any sid or loans to developing nations.
Demand for Disintegration
The UNDP report has already drawn the wrath of some developing countries
for the inclusion in the report of a "hit list" of countries which the report
says are either in a state of crisis, or on the verge of crisis, and therefore
warrant UN "preemptive action."
Targeted are Afghanistan, Angola, Haiti, Iraq, Mozambique, Sudan, Zaire,
Burundi, Georgia, Liberia, Rwanda, and Tajikistan. The report further cites
Brazil, South Africa, Egypt, Mexico, and Nigeria as vulnerable to
disintegration due to "unequal distribution of resources." Of these nations
Egypt, Mexico, and Nigeria were also targets of the 1970's National Security
Memorandum 200, written by Henry Kissinger, which declares that population
reduction is a national security goal of the United States.
In the press conference which released the Human Development Report,
UNDP index designer Mabubhul Haq, an IMF flunky and former Pakistani Finance
Minister in the early 1980's, indicated that countries which do not submit to
the parameters of the UNDP "Human Development Index" will be hit with
insurgencies modeled on that of this year's Chiapas uprising of "indigenous
people" in southern Mexico. Haq, in fact, revealed THE UNDP HAD DONE A
DETAILED STUDY OF CHIAPAS SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE THE JANUARY 1994 INSURGENCY WAS
LAUNCHED.
A mere coincidence? Haq further said the UNDP is now engaged in similar
'studies' of regional disparities in Egypt, Nigeria, and Brazil.
Despite the liberal distribution of the word "human" throughout the UNDP
report human beings are not a high priority. James Gustave Speth, head of the
UNDP, was the project director for the Carter administration's Global 2000
report which demanded that the world population be reduced to 2 billion by the
year 2000.
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BOOK REVIEWS
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THE RIGHT AND WRONG OF COMPULSION BY THE STATE, by Auberon Herbert
While not many people know his name, England's Auberon Herbert (1838 -
1906) was a profound defender of capitalism. He wrote eloquent,
uncompromising, and philosophically insightful defenses of individual rights.
Politics, he says, must be "the battle of the principles...the principle of
liberty against the principle of force."
Herbert presents his views intransigently and articulate: "true liberty
cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property is the only
crystallized form of free faculties...The whole meaning of socialism is a
systematic glorification of force...No literary phrases about social organisms
are potent enough to evaporate the individual, who is the prime,
indispensable, irreducible element."
Herbert readily applies these same principles to show the evils of
unlimited democratic rule. "How should it happen that the individual should
be without rights, but the combination of individuals should possess unlimited
rights?"
But he does not regard the issue of force as a primary. Instead, he
understands that it depends on something far more fundamental: the value of
reason. "Force and reason--which last is the essence of the moral act--are at
the two opposite poles," he argues. "The who compels his neighbor...treats
him, not as a being with reason, but as an animal in whom reason is not."
Because of Herbert's commitment to reason, religion too is a target of
his withering attacks; "Socialism is but Catholicism addressing itself not to
the soul but to the sense of men." Both implore one to "accept authority,
accept the force which it employs, resign yourself to all-powerful managers,
give up the free choice and the free act..They both of them seek to sacrifice
man." The basic difference, he remarks, is that socialism "is a creed even
more denigrating than Catholicism, but it offers more tangible bribes for its
acceptance."
Writing at the end of the 19th century, as attacks on capitalism began
to stir, the uncommon thinker declares: "It is not laissez-faire that has
failed. That would be an ill day for men. What has failed is the courage to
see what is true and speak it to the people, to point to the true remedies."
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PATRIOTS: The Men Who Started the American Revolution, by A.J. Langguth
Turn of the evening news, put down your novel, and read this book. The
happenings in Patriots are as relevant as the day's headlines and as
compelling as any "page-turner"--it is the story of the events that created
the United States.
America's unique revolution was a war guided by intellectual activists.
The incidents in this book may seem similar to those covered by contemporary
journalists--mass protests of unpopular decisions; legislatures wrangling over
the imposition of new taxes; soldiers firing into a violent mob and inciting
further demonstrations; a rebellious people taking over the government of a
country. However, these events were driven not by blind emotions and
apparently random whim issues--but by conscious adherence to the ideal of
individual rights.
This history begins with the ideological foment of 1761. the use of
"writs of assistance"--blanket search warrants, designed to curb smuggling and
giving their bearers the right to search any ship or building they choose--was
legally challenged as an assault on Americans' rights.
Langguth summarizes the case made by the British attorney: "Which was
more important, protecting the liberty of and individual or collecting the
taxes efficiently? Gathering public money must take precedence." On the
other hand, James Otis, the attorney for the colonists, argued that "every man
was his own sovereign...No other creature on earth could legitimately
challenge a mans right to his life, his liberty and his property. That
principle, that unalterable law, took precedence...even over the survival of
the state."
When Otis finished, "something profound changed America"--i.e.,
individual rights had been invoked to limit state power.
The heroes who made the Revolution were men like Samuel Adams, the
ascetic Puritan who inflamed the mob in Boston--Patrick Henry, the brilliant
orator whose "Give me liberty or give me death" became the rallying cry for
American troops--George Washington, whose patrician integrity inspired his
soldiers while his aggressive tactics won the war--Thomas Jefferson, whose
commitment to rights persuaded the Continental Congress to endorse his
Declaration of Independence.
Reading this book will inspire you.
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PERSONALS
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Mr. Richard White's Texas ranch is ideally suited for the grazing large
herds of cattle.
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The King's Mountain Model Railroad Club will hold its quarterly meeting
at the Charlotte address. Topic: Switching yards or spur lines, which is the
greater modeling challenge?
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Mr. Howard Devon, of Medford Wisconsin, wishes to announce the Medford
Gardening Club will now hold their monthly meetings every third Wednesday.
The nest meeting will be a seminar on sunflowers.
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The Sand Hills Bird Watchers Society will conduct its 1st Annual
Membership Drive throughout the month of October. Clara Miller, vice
president, reminds prospective members to provide their own optics. The
club's GUIDE TO BIRDS will be provided at no cost.
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IN THE NEXT ISSUE:
* How the Second Amendment Will Be Abrogated By UN Treaty
* Why NAFTA is Anti-Capitalism
* How Democracy Subverts the Constitution
* The True Nature of Rights
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