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          The E-Journal of 'Beyond the Mainstream Media Services'
Edited by Scott Laughlin                                    January 24, 1999
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[Part three of six]

4.  ECHELON -- THE GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE NETWORK -- Mark
Nestmann, editor of Access:  The International Guide To Asset Protection
and Privacy, recently wrote regarding international electronic
surveillance:

"With the touch of a button, governments can:  track "suspicious"
transactions in bank accounts as they occur, worldwide; monitor
telephone conversations; freeze international financial accounts.

Yes, you are being watched.  Governments worldwide now monitor
offshore financial transactions via sophisticated computer networks.
International agreements require governments to freeze accounts on
the mere suspicion of their association with crime.  International
"Deposit Tracing Systems," "Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties" and
"Financial Intelligence Units" are just part of this complex and
growing worldwide network of technology and law.  To protect your
privacy and wealth, you must now deal with global surveillance.

a) BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU -- If you live or do business in the
United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand,
or any of their dependent territories or associated states, your
phone calls are automatically screened by intelligence agency
supercomputers for words that might indicate clandestine financial
activity.  Do you call your Swiss banker from the United States with
investment instructions?  Or your mutual fund manager in the Isle of
Man from the United Kingdom?  If you believe these conversations are
"private" -- hidden from government scrutiny -- you're only fooling
yourself.

Another example:  U.S. and UK banks must spy on their customers, or
risk losing their licenses.  This includes banks in most UK
dependent territory "tax havens" such as Bermuda and the British
Virgin Islands.

b) ECHELON - According to Nicky Hager's book 'Secret Power', the
1947 UK-USA intelligence-sharing agreement was implemented in a
global surveillance network called ECHELON.  Within the NSA and
other national intelligence agencies, a keyword analysis program
called DICTIONARY has for decades been used to monitor global
telephone traffic, and more recently, fax traffic:

"Keywords include all the names, localities, subjects, and so on
that might be mentioned.  Every word of every message intercepted at
each station gets automatically searched whether or not a specific
telephone number or e-mail address is on the list.  The keywords
include such things as the names of people, ships, organizations,
country names and subject names.  They also include the known telex
and fax numbers and Internet addresses of any individuals, business,
organizations and government offices that are targets...

"The best set of keywords for each subject category is worked out
over time, in part by experimentation.  The staff sometimes trial a
particular set of keywords for a period of time and, if they find
they are getting too much junk,' they can change some words to get a
different selection of traffic.

"The Dictionary Manager administers the sets of keywords in the
Dictionary computers, adding, amending and deleting as required.
This is the person who adds the new keyword for the watch list,
deletes a keyword from another because it is not triggering
interesting messages, or adds a 'but not *****' to a category
because it has been receiving too many irrelevant messages.

The computers used in ECHELON, according to Hager, can monitor
conversations in hundreds of languages and can adjust for different
tones and accents.  Calls containing keywords are identified.
recorded and routed to the appropriate intelligence analyst for
further examination.

Details of the ECHELON operation are classified but its existence
and the accuracy of Hager's account have been confirmed by the
former Prime Minister of New Zealand, who wrote the preface for
'Secret Power'.

Could these operations be extended to Internet traffic?  Strassman
and Marlow imply that it already has.  Keyword searches on Internet
Search Engines may be some of the most fertile fishing ground for
NSA Internet monitors.  [End of Article.]

[ED. NOTE: Mark Nestmann's excellent newsletter, ACCESS, should be
subscribed to by those with a strong interest in privacy (P.O. Box
2697, London WIA 3TR, England, UK.  Phone:  (44) 171 447-4055; one
year - $195).]

c) GERMAN SURVEILLANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE NAZI
ERA -- On 2/6/98, the Bundesrat, the Upper Chamber of the German
legislature, gave final approval to a law that will allow police to bug
private
homes and offices in Germany for the first time since the days of
Hitler (1933-'45).  Proponents argued that the measures are similar
to those already in effect in America.

5.  NAZI-STYLE SEARCHES, SEIZURES, AND FORFEITURES - Each year in
America, local, state and federal law enforcement officials seize
several billion dollars in assets from about 250,000 Americans
(about 5,000 per week) - including cash, homes, cars, boats, planes,
property, businesses, jewelry, etc.  (See Section D of USA Today
each Wednesday for a list of 600-700 such forfeitures.)  Less than
10% of those seizures are drug related.  Most are taken from honest,
law-abiding citizens who have run afoul of one or more of the tens of
thousands of laws, rules and regulations on the books - most of
which they never heard of.

Seizure and forfeiture of cash is probably the largest category of
government takings.  Anyone with a substantial amount of cash on his
person (i.e.. over $l.000) is now considered to be a money launderer,
drug dealer. or other form of criminal.  Most of the "victims" are
never charged with a crime or ever have their day in court.  A high
percentage of these seizures and forfeitures are simply legalized
theft by government officials, judges, etc.

EVEN THE ULTRA-LIBERAL ACLU IS WORRIED ABOUT CASH
CONFISCATION -- Ira Glasser, Executive Director of the very liberal
American Civil Liberties Union, ran the following ad in the New York
Times (12/11/98):  "Let me ask you something...  Did you know there's a
three out of four chance that the money you're carrying could be
legally confiscated?

"Why?  Because 75 percent of American money is contaminated with
cocaine.  What's more astonishing is that the courts have ruled that
cocaine residue is enough to warrant the forfeiture of your cash!
In 1984 Congress gave police the right to keep and spend any 'drug
related assets' they seize.  Police have since taken cars, homes,
restaurants, and cash in epidemic proportions.  And they can use
these assets for anything from patrol cars to parties.  Right now
there is $2.7 billion in the federal government's 'Asset
Forfeiture Fund.' And local police departments have filled their own
coffers as well.

"Most of the victims of forfeiture aren't criminals.  Like the
75-year-old grandmother who lost her home because her drug-dealing
son had once lived there.  Or the landscaper whose $9,000 was
seized at the airport because 'only drug dealers carry that much
cash.' These people were never arrested or even charged with a
crime.  And they weren't entitled to a fair hearing, either.

"It could happen to you.  One leading historian has called this
nothing less than a government 'license to steal.' The war on drugs
has become a war on the Constitution.  What kind of country rewards
its police for shaking down its own citizens?  Think about it."
[End of ACLU Ad.]

A letter from a subscriber in New Mexico (one of dozens of such
letters MIA receives each year) describes seizure/forfeiture
activity in that state:  "I have been watching our local situation
for more than 25 years.  I am not now nor have I ever been a drug
user.  I would not be if it were legalized tomorrow.  But I am
seeing more and more that the War on Drugs is an excuse to roust
people, steal their property, and profit from the forfeitures and
seizures.

"Our local sheriff's department, city police, Border Patrol and New
Mexico state police work in combined units and split the profits
with the court system.  Those who have their property seized are
then put in the position of trying to retain an attorney (who are
all 'officers of the court') with no assets.  If they get
representation at all, it is usually from a court-appointed public
defender.  It has been my experience that public defenders are
usually newly certified lawyers or those who cannot make it in
private practice, and are unable to represent the defendants in any
meaningful way.  It is a fact that 85% of those who have their
property seized are never even charged with a crime!"

THE DRUG CURRENCY FORFEITURES ACT - The Financial Privacy
Report  (P.O. Box 1277 Burnsville, MN 55337) recently described a
new cash forfeiture initiative in Congress:

"If a bill now before the Senate Judiciary Committee becomes law,
carrying too much money will soon be a crime.  The law would allow
police to seize cash from anyone in a "drug transit area" who's
carrying $10.000 or more.  A drug transit area is defined as any
airport. highway or port of entry to the United States.

The police could simply take your money - and keep it - legally.
You would have to prove that you're innocent before you could get it
back.  They would need no evidence of any wrong-doing.  They would
not have to get a warrant or show probable cause.  The mere
existence of a large amount of concealed money is sufficient
rationale for them to seize it.

This bizarre law is called the Drug Currency Forfeitures Act. It is
a direct, full frontal assault on financial privacy.  While police
have been seizing large amounts of cash from business travelers and
tourists for years, sometimes they would lose in court when the
judge would rule that the seizure was improper.

If this law passes, they will be able to seize your money - and keep
it - and you would have to prove that you are not a drug dealer to
get it back.  How do you prove that you're not a drug dealer?  Why
should you have to?  Isn't everyone in this country innocent until
proven guilty?  And what business is it of theirs how much cash
you're carrying, anyway?

And why should they stop at $10,000 in cash?  Why not $5,000?  Or
$1,000?  Or $100 for that matter?  If the existence of cash is a
crime, then why should it matter how much you have?

One subsection of the law says that you are presumed to be guilty if
you conceal the cash "in a highly unusual manner."  So, if you're
carrying $10,000 cash - and it's in a money belt to prevent you from
being robbed - that's sufficient to justify a police seizure."  [End
of Article.]

[ED.  NOTE:  The socialists who run America. from Clinton and Gore
on down, hate cash - which represents financial privacy and freedom.
They want to drive all Americans into the computerized banking or
credit/debit/smart card system where all transactions can be
monitored, recorded, and scrutinized.  It's called "people control"
through "financial control."

And in the future Y2K crisis, it is possible that Clinton or Gore
will ration cash or bottle it up in the banking system - pushing us
overnight into a near-cashless, electronic funds transfer system.
Hitler would have loved it.  Pity the man, that didn't have
computers and our high-tech surveillance systems.]

B. THE CLINTON DICTATORSHIP:  RULING BY EXECUTIVE
ORDERS

"Stroke of the pen.  Law of the land.  Kinda cool.  " -- Paul Begala,
Clinton Advisor

"We have allowed the executive branch, through various Executive
Orders, to usurp what is legitimately and constitutionally our right
and responsibility."  -- Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-AR), 9/18/97

"All legislative (law making) powers herein granted shall be vested
in a Congress."  - Article 1, Section 1, Clause 1, U.S. Constitution

"Congress has a choice to make, in writing this chapter of history.
It can choose partisanship or it can choose progress.  Congress must
decide.  However, I have a continuing obligation to act to use the
authority of the Presidency to advance America's interest at home
and abroad.  "- Bill Clinton, 7/6/98

"Law consists of two lines above my signature."  -- Iraqi Dictator
Saddam Hussein

The U.S. Constitution grants the President no lawmaking authority,
yet throughout his term in office, Bill Clinton has preferred to
rule by decree (through the writing of hundreds of Executive Orders
and Presidential Decision Directives) rather than carry out his
constitutional duty to execute laws properly enacted by Congress.

So, the most corrupt President in U.S. history, stymied by Congress
in the passage of his socialist agenda, has assumed dictatorial
powers never intended by the Constitution, our founding fathers, the
Congress and the American people.  If he is not removed from office
(and he probably will not be), he will assume dictatorial powers via
martial law and a State of National Emergency -- completely
suspending the Constitution, the power of the Congress, and probably
the year 2000 elections.

A President who will bomb another country, costing the lives of
thousands of innocent Iraqi victims (as Clinton just did), in order
to forestall a vote of impeachment and retain his power, is a
desperate and dangerous man who will do anything (even if it
destroys the country) to retain his hold on the Presidency.

1.  CLINTON'S EXECUTIVE ORDER STRATEGY - Bill Clinton came to
office with a strategy to rule by executive decrees (or fiat) rather than
with the Congress and through the legislative process.  As he said
in his 1992 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:
"President Bush:  If you won't use your power to help people, step
aside.  I will!"

In his first two days in office, with the stroke of a pen, he signed
five Executive Orders:  allowing homosexuals in the military;
extending U.S. aid for UN-sponsored abortion and population control;
ordered abortions to be performed in U.S. military hospitals;
rescinded the ban on the use of fetal tissue (i.e., dead babies) in
federally sponsored research; and abolished the Bush Administration
Council on Competitiveness, which gave businesses and large
corporations a way to obtain exemptions from government regulations.
None of these unilateral decrees would have been passed by Congress.

Clinton and his subordinates have made no secret of their strategy
to bypass Congress and rule by Executive Orders or Presidential
Decision Directives.  Shortly after his second election.  Clinton
bragged that:  "I will run the country by Executive Orders." That's
exactly what he is doing.

As the Los Angeles Times (7/4/98) wrote in an article entitled:
"Clinton to Bypass Congress on Blitz of Executive Orders": "The
President will use his strategy to move his domestic agenda past GOP
resistance.  Frustrated by a GOP controlled Congress that lately has
rebuffed him on almost every front.  President Clinton plans a
blitz of Executive Orders in coming months, part of a White House
strategy to make progress on Clinton's domestic agenda with or
without Congressional help.

"'He's ready to work with Congress if they will work with him.
But if they choose partisanship, he will choose progress,' said Rahm
Emanuel, senior policy advisor to the President.  'The President has
a very strong sense of the powers of the Presidency. and is willing
to use all of them.' said Paul Begala, another senior advisor...
The President also hopes his Executive Order offensive will pressure
Congress to enact his legislative priorities...

"The latest series of Executive Orders is illustrative of a
President who has used his unilateral authority more robustly and
frequently than almost any of his predecessors.  Clinton has
rewritten the manual on how to use executive power with gusto.  His
formula includes pressing the limits of his regulatory authority.
signing Executive Orders and using other unilateral means to obtain
his policy priorities when Congress fails to embrace them."

As the Wall Street Journal (8/6/98) wrote:  "President Clinton has
pursued an 'Executive Order Strategy' that goes way beyond trying to
guide federal agencies in how to implement laws.  Instead it seeks
to actively put in place policies Congress would never adopt.  Last
week, the White House admitted that a May Executive Order gutting
major powers of state and local governments had been drafted in
secret without consulting them."

The Clinton strategy was to generate headlines and television
newscasts with images of the President as a "doer."  However, every
Executive Order expanded the extra-constitutional policies of the
presidency and undermined Congress' exclusive power to legislate.
Furthermore, behind the facade of photo-op Presidential activism,
Mr. Clinton was engaged in systematic destruction of the
Constitution and freedom of the American people.

2.  THE HISTORY AND BACKGROUND OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN
AMERICA -- The founding fathers of this nation established a republic
with a highly effective system of checks and balances precisely because
they desired to avoid, at all costs. the consolidation of power in any
single individual.  The presidential Executive Order was, at one
time, a genuine exercise of power based upon law that was already in
existence.  It was a presidential proclamation that carried the
force of law, and was to give the President rule-making authority
over the executive branch (i.e., over government agencies).
Unfortunately.  Executive Orders have been distorted into tools for
illegitimate creation of new laws. which the Congress would never
pass.

When a President creates a new law by decree, representative
government is completely averted.  Any concept of checks and
balances or separation of powers is no longer involved in the
legislative process.  The catalyst for the issuance of an Executive
Order has, until recent years, been some form of emergency, such as
when FDR seized the property of 100,000 Japanese-American citizens
in 1941, arrested them, and threw them into concentration camps till
the end of the war - under Executive Order 9066.

Throughout this century, but especially since FDR, presidents have
unconstitutionally exercised legislative power by use of Executive
Orders, which they have issued during presidentially-declared States
of National Emergency.  Franklin Roosevelt declared a State of
National Emergency in 1933 (ostensibly to deal with the Great
Depression - and later World War II) and over the next 12.3 years,
wrote 3,522 Executive Orders (285 per year).

In truth, through that State of Emergency and those Executive
Orders,  FDR had almost total dictatorial power over America -- power
which the Congress unconstitutionally relinquished to him.  So, once
a national emergency is declared, Presidents use Executive Orders to
exercise emergency powers.  Thirteen thousand Executive Orders have
been issued since we became a republic.

Executive Orders were the means by which Germany was converted from
a republic into a Nazi dictatorship in just three months.  Executive
Orders are issued by the President and appear in the Federal
Register for 30 days.  If there is no challenge by Congress, the
order then becomes law.  Similar to EO's are Presidential Decision
Directives, such as the secret PDD-25, which allows for the use of
U.S. troops in UN operations without congressional approval -- in
violation of the Constitution.

There have been thousands of Executive Orders written by Presidents
since the 1940s.  Most of these consist of administrative
housekeeping.  However. a few orders involve much more than the
efficient management of the nation.  They virtually suspend
Constitutional rights and provide dictatorial powers to the
executive branch of the government in a time of real or contrived
emergency.  There is no provision for how long a state of emergency
can last.

If the president were to declare an emergency, for whatever reason,
Congress's consent is not required.  Executive Orders give the
government the power to act as an unaccountable dictatorship.  In
addition, authority does not flow from the President to the
governors of the various states during the emergency, but rather
through the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) and his regional directors.  The states are totally bypassed.
A few years ago.  Bill Clinton quietly moved FEMA out from under the
authority of Congress and under his own authority (i.e., directly
under the National Security Council).

The authority to issue Executive Orders grants the occupant of
the Oval Office imperial, dictatorial control: power, raw
unadulterated power, vested in one individual,  with only a claim
that there is a domestic, financial, or social crisis, needed to
trigger its use. Can Bill Clinton, Al Gore, or any U.S. President
be trusted with such unrestrained power?  Would Clinton use such
power to keep himself in office?

PRESIDENTIAL DECISION DIRECTIVES (PDDs) - are issued by the
President outlining broad changes in future policy.  PDD-25
(formerly PDD-13) is an example of Clinton PDDs which make broad
policy changes with no Congressional approval.  PDD-25 created the
framework for moving the U.S. military under the United Nations
command, and is the basis for U.S. military participation in U.N.
peacekeeping operations.

Despite the fact that the Congress has the exclusive constitutional
authority to make rules and regulations for our land and naval
forces, members of Congress have never been able to see PDD-25 --
which Clinton has had classified.  Clinton has issued 63 such PDDs
since coming to office - all classified in whole or in part.

PDD-63 is another example of Clinton's power grab.  Issued 5/22/98,
it establishes a new federal bureaucracy called the National
Infrastructure Protection Center, which includes the FBI, the Secret
Service, other federal law enforcement agencies, the Department of
Defense and the intelligence agencies; is designed to deal with the
consequences of a national computer disaster by the year 2000; and
sets up the bureaucracy to help manage the crisis in coordination
with the Defense and Commerce Departments and intelligence agencies.

PDD-63 will facilitate the setting up of more computerized files on
each American, the sharing of these files between agencies. etc.
This classified PDD sounds ominously like it may be used to
facilitate a coming Y2K-related State of Emergency and martial law.

3.  EXECUTIVE ORDERS NOW IN EFFECT WHICH THREATEN
AMERICANS' FREEDOMS - Several dozen Executive Orders passed
under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush
and Clinton, if implemented in a coming State of Emergency (perhaps
related to Y2K, to the coming financial collapse, or to terrorist attacks
inside America), would turn America overnight into a totalitarian police
state -- a dictatorship not unlike those under Lenin, Stalin, Hitler,
Mao, or Castro.

The following Executive Orders, now recorded in the Federal Register
and therefore accepted by Congress as the law of the land, can be
put into effect at any time an emergency is declared by President
Clinton or his successor with the mere stroke of a pen:

-- EO 10995 - All communications media seized by the Federal
Government.  Radio, television, newspapers, magazines, CB, HAM,
short wave, telephones, satellites and the Internet.  The First
Amendment would be suspended.

-- EO 10997 - Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including
gasoline, and minerals.

-- EO 10998 - Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm
equipment.  Anti-food hoarding regulations would go into effect.

-- EO 10999 - Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including
your personal car, and control of all highways, seaports, waterways,
railways, airports and public storage facilities.  The Government
can seize any vehicle.

-- EO 11000 - Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal
supervision.

-- EO 11001 - Federal takeover of all health, education and
welfare, including hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and schools.

-- EO 11002 - Postmaster General empowered to register every man,
woman and child in the U.S.A.

-- EO 11003 - Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal
Government.

-- EO 11004 - Housing and Finance authority may shift population
from one locality to another.  Housing may be seized.

-- EO 11005 - Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage
facilities.

-- EO 11051 - The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning
authorized to put Executive Orders into effect in "times of
increased international tension or financial crisis."  He is also to
perform such additional functions as the President may direct.

-- EO 11490 - Presidential control over all U.S. citizens and
businesses (including churches) in time of "emergency."

-- EO 11921 - The government would seize control over education,
welfare, mechanisms of production and distribution, energy sources,
wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial
institutions and impose total censorship.

-- EO 12919 - Directs various Cabinet officials to be constantly
ready to take over virtually all aspects of the U.S. economy during
a State of Emergency -- at the direction of the President.

-- EO 13010 - Directs FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to
take control over all government agencies in time of "emergency."
[ED.  NOTE:  FEMA is now directly under the control of Bill Clinton
and his National Security Council.]

-- EO 13011 - Creates a national information system, a massive new
bureaucracy with authority to manage "Federal Information
Technology."  (Signed by President Clinton 7/16/98.)  It links the
data gathered by the Health, Education, and Labor Departments to the
data assessable to the FBI, CIA, EPA and other federal agencies.  It
gives the unified information system the power to control people
through a vast, federal data bank and monitoring system.

-- EO 12919 - On June 6, 1994, President Clinton issued this
Executive Order entitled, "National Defense Industrial Resources
Preparedness."  This Executive Order effectively puts the entire
U.S. under the control of FEMA and the various cabinet secretaries.
It asserts that the President can require any person in the country
to accept and give priority performance of contracts or orders.

-- EO 12919 - It gives the President complete power to seize or
allocate all public and private materials, services, facilities,
food resources, food resource facilities, distribution of farm
equipment and commercial fertilizer;  construction materials;
health resources;  all forms of energy;  all forms of civilian
transportation.  Under this Executive Order. the President's
National Security Council will be in charge of controlling and
distributing all U.S. resources.

FEMA will function under the National Security Council, but the
Director of FEMA will report directly to the President.  The
director of FEMA is responsible for executing presidential policy
regarding essential civilian needs, supporting national defense,
continuity of government and related activities.

The comprehensive power set forth in Executive Order 12919 currently
rests with the President, his Cabinet, and FEMA, who therefore have
the structure in place to exercise plenary power over this nation
whenever the President chooses to do so.

[ED.  NOTE:  There is a lot overlap and redundancy in these various
Executive Orders, but this one, EO 12919, may be the primary one
under which Clinton may attempt to implement a National State of
Emergency and martial law.  It encompasses most of the other
Executive Orders.  It is reminiscent of the Depression/Wartime era
powers which Roosevelt seized when he declared a State of National
Emergency.

Actually, that State of Emergency and the one declared by Clinton on
11/14/94 are still in existence (see explanation of States of
Emergency below).  Thus, the plans and programs outlined in EO
12919, which are at this writing apparently well developed, could be
implemented (perhaps by another Executive Order) without
Congressional approval at any time (i.e., in a Y2K, financial or
terrorist crisis which could eventuate in the coming months).
Voila!  We have an instant dictatorship!]

THE PRESENT STATE OF EMERGENCY -- We are presently in a
State of Emergency.  It was declared by President Clinton on 11/12/94
and renewed on 11/12/97.  Note the following presidential document:

"On November 14, 1994, by Executive Order 12938, I declared a
national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary
threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the
United States posed by the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and
chemical weapons ('weapons of mass destruction') and the means of
delivering such weapons.  Because the proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction and the means of delivering them continue to pose
an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security,
foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national
emergency declared on November 14, 1994, and extended on November
14, 1995 and November 14, 1996, must continue in effect beyond
November 14, 1997.  Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of
the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing
the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938.  This
notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted
to the Congress."  Signed:  President Bill Clinton

[ED.  NOTE:  The Executive Orders discussed in this section are only
those covering a potential State of National Emergency, martial law
and complete power grab.  They have been enacted by several
Presidents over the past 35 years.  Clinton has enacted several
hundred other Executive Orders covering everything from A to Z,
which space constraints will not allow us to discuss.]

4.  OTHER DANGEROUS CLINTON EXECUTIVE ORDERS --

a) EO 13083 -- RIPPING FEDERALISM FROM ITS CONSTITUTIONAL
ROOTS -  On May 14, 1998 President Clinton issued Executive Order
13083 (while in England), entitled "Federalism." It was to replace President
Reagan's EO 12612 which was designed to protect the Tenth Amendment.
That Tenth Amendment reserves all powers not expressly given to the Federal
government to the states.  EO 13083 would have effectively given all
states' powers to the Federal government in a breathtaking executive
power grab.

In essence.  EO 13083 claims the authority to dispense with
constitutional limitations, the separation of powers. and the
reserved powers of individual states when the President or his
subordinates in the executive branch believe such action is
"necessary."  For the Clintonites, "federalism" is defined by
consolidation of arbitrary power in the central government, rather
than diffusion of power among the various state, county, and local
governments, and limitation of all government power through a
written Constitution.

There was no effort by the Administration to solicit input from
state or local governments.  They simply sneaked it into the Federal
Register and hoped that nobody would notice.  But a number of
Congressmen, Senators, and governors did notice after a huge public
outcry, and Clinton was forced on 8/5/98 to suspend (not cancel --
just suspend) the Executive Order.  He will try to slip it back in
later.

b) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES
(EO 13107) - On December 10, while America focused on the
impeachment, Clinton quietly signed a seditious new Executive Order
that would create a massive and intrusive federal bureaucracy to
monitor and enforce compliance with the United Nations human rights
regulations and treaties.  One of those treaties, the unratified Convention
on the Rights of the Child (which takes away all parental rights in raising
their children) would be included.  These UN treaties and
regulations could have been written by global socialists (or
Communists) in Russia, Red China, or Cuba and are totally
destructive of Americans' freedoms.

Clinton's timing on entering this EO in the Federal Register is
perfect.  The Congress was about to adjourn for Christmas.  After 30
days. with no Congressional objection. it will become law.


[to be continued]
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Follow-up on past edition: Mandatory Vaccination Dangers

On Friday, January 22, 1999 ABC television's '20/20' showed a piece on
the hazards of the Hepatitis B vaccination. The URL for the piece is
 http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/hepb2020.html
it is worth checking out. Except for the fact that they do not question the
numbers put out by the CDC and their spokesman, the piece does a
fairly good job.  It also contains portions of an interview with Michael
Belkin, the author of the Strategic Investment piece that we sent out.
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