A.L.E.R.T.
(America Law Education Rights & Taxation)
12-06-2001
News You May Have
Missed
Compiling several dystopian tidbits into a single bite-sized A.L.E.R.T. Enjoy.
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MILITARY TRIBUNALATOR
Bush/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft English-language-to-emergency-rhetoric-speech-converter now available at http://www.markfiore.com/animation/tribunal.html. "Fed up with all that complicated judicial legalese stuff? Now you can rest easy with the Military Tribunalator." Turn up your speakers!
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INCOME TAXES DECLARED ILLEGAL IN THE USA
Eldon Warman of http://www.detaxcanada.org is a Canadian patriot-sans-pareil. Our freedom-seeking northern neighbors might want to drop by his website and say hello. He offers this keen observation.
"It's a crime", Eldon writes, "under the recently enacted "USA Patriot Act", to give funds to any organization which is, or has, given money to a known terrorist or terrorist supporting group, even if you don't know you did it.
"The Taliban organization of Afghanistan is listed as a Terrorist Supporting group by the United States Justice Department. The UNITED STATES Government has given the Taliban organization of Afghanistan millions of dollars, thus making the Federal UNITED STATES Government one of those criminal organizations supporting terrorists.
"Which means, if you pay income taxes, you are committing a Federal Crime and subject to several years in Federal Prison."
Gordon can't help but ask: Wouldn't this make the IRS a party to conspiracy?
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DAN RATHER BESIDE HIMSELF
Seems that multimillionaire news reader, Dan Rather, is in a full-blown foaming fit over veteran CBS newsman, Bernard Goldberg's bombshell new book titled "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News." Poor Dan. He may need some time-release Prozac. Liberal bias in the media? Say it's not so.
Here is a man with the voice to bring the hard truth to America about the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty (Israel did it), the Bay of Pigs (the CIA did it), Jonestown (the CIA did it), Waco (the CIA did it), Ruby Ridge (OK, the FBI did it), and to at least publicly question the facts behind the Murrah Building (uh, looks like Iraq did it), the World Trade Center (looking like a big ditto), Flight 800 (shot down, big secret), Flight 587 (blown up, bigger secret), JFK, Jr. (big ditto, even bigger secret), ad nauseum.
What's the matter, Dan, can't you read? Won't your controllers give you access to the Internet? You have to wonder how these newsfakers look at themselves in the mirror each day. At least real prostitutes give fair value for what they charge. Dan credits lifetime CIA asset, Walter Cronkite -- once called "the most trusted man in America" -- as his greatest influence. Cronkite recently spoke before the United Nations and argued for a world government. You know, one you can, like, really trust? Dan is the apprentice. Who said the mentor system is dead?
Hey, Dan -- this just in! Go live at 7:00! Two eyewitnesses to the November 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 just said that investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board are wrong to focus on potential structural defects as the cause of the disaster, insisting instead that the plane's tail came off over New York's Jamaica Bay only AFTER it exploded in a fireball.
"It was after the explosion," eyewitness Tom Lynch, a retired firefighter, told the New York Post. "I'm telling you, the tail was there until the second explosion. No tail fell off, not before the explosion. I swear to that," Lynch told the paper's Steve Dunleavy. The eyewitness said there was absolutely no doubt about what he saw.
Nawww ... it musta' been the wake turbulence. Planes these days just aren't designed to withstand a little light buffeting without having their entire tail assembly, designed to withstand stresses many magnitudes beyond normal operational parameters, just FALL OFF. Henceforth, please expect the tail sections of all passenger jets departing MANY MILES behind earlier departures to just suddenly FALL OFF. Or perhaps there should be a law against all the passengers in First Class sneezing in unison.
Was has this been covered up? Because if the American people knew that, after all the rhetoric, after all the reversals of civil liberties in the name of safety, after all the troops in airports, after confiscations of tweezers and plastic scissors, after all the inconveniences waiting in interminable lines being asked to remove your shoes three times,
that a jetliner was STILL blown right out of the sky, in broad daylight, the stock market would go straight down. Like Flight 587.
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WE HAD NO IDEA!
Thanks to Jon Galt <justicus@gci.net> for the following: "It's been three years since Congress discussed removing the government of Afghanistan to make way for an oil pipeline, five months since the US Government told India there would be an invasion of Afghanistan in October, four months since BBC heard about the planned invasion of Afghanistan, nine months since Jane's Defense got word of the planned invasion of Afghanistan, and of course, only two months since the attacks on the World Trade Towers that got the American people angered into support of the war that everybody on the planet BUT Americans had been told was on the way."
Gordon asks: Inquiring minds want to know. Where was the Watchdog Media? Where was Dan?
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BANK RUN IN ARGENTINA
Up periscope. Here's some more news Dan may have missed. I guess Argentina printed a few too many pesos. This is what always happens with a fiat currency, eventually. Water always seeks its own level. So does paper. Always. Could it ever happen here? Never.
Argentina Close To Collapse After Run On Banks -- by Jan McGirk, Latin America Correspondent, 03 December 2001
Argentina edged close to bankruptcy yesterday as people queued at cashpoint machines and bank tellers' windows to withdraw money after a government decree restricting bank
withdrawals and overseas transfers. Passengers on planes and ships were frisked for illegal dollar stashes before leaving the country. The decree sparked fears of an imminent devaluation of the peso, wiping out savings overnight.
The run on the banks was only the latest sign that the financial crisis that has rocked Latin America's third-largest economy for the past four years shows no signs of abating. It was reported that savers withdrew at least $400mon Friday. Local banks have lost 17 per cent of their deposits worth $14.5bn this year.
Rumours that President Fernando de la Rua would be forced to resign and call early elections after a default on the country's $130bn debt fueled the crisis. The President's austerity measures have made him deeply unpopular and have proved largely ineffective. Thousands of unemployed Argentine professionals are applying for overseas visas and fleeing into
economic exile.
After analysts warned that the financial system might collapse within 10 days, the government capped cash withdrawals at $250 a week for the next three months. Domingo Cavallo, the economy minister who pegged the peso to the dollar 10 years ago, said the regulations would "defend the interest of Argentines and stop the flight of capital until we can restore confidence". He urged Argentines to keep their cash in the banks and show faith in a massive debt swap even as interest rates soared.
"Deposits and the value of the peso and dollar in Argentina are untouchable and guaranteed. Those who disbelieve or mistrust will end up losing out," he said. In the 1980spersonal savings were converted into government bonds overnight at a poor rate of exchange. Recently, government employees took to the streets in protest after their salaries were paid in bonds.
To counter worries that savings in pesos will be devalued while locked inside bank vaults, officials have promised to permit depositors to convert their peso accounts into US dollars
without charge.
Overseas and offshore transfers of more than $1,000 will be severely restricted in the coming months. The government will also forbid new bank loans in pesos, and insist financial institutions lend only in dollars. Business leaders read that as a signal that the government is about to ditch the peso for the US dollar as the national currency. The peso is already considered overvalued, which makes it difficult for Argentina to compete with neighbouring Brazil and Chile. But President De la Rua denied he would tamper with the currency's value or step down.
Union leaders called the banking measures "the hijacking of a nation's savings," and said strikes may be called for next week.