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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:10 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] I DON'T KNOW WHY THE LAST POST DIDN'T PUT IN THE LINK AND IT WON'T ALLOW ME TO EDIT IT

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DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK, IT IS A ZINGER

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Date: Mon Jul 22, 2002 2:03 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] WOW, I JUST CAME ACROSS A SITE THAT HAS FREDERICK BASTIAT'S ENTIRE BOOK, "THE LAW"-A MUST READ

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This book started me on my righteous path and formulated ALL of my theories about the oppression of the law. A small but enormously relevant book.
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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Mon Jul 22, 2002 1:15 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] BRITAIN IS GOING TO DROP JURY TRIALS AND OTHER CIVIL PROTECTIONS--A TEST FOR THE U.S.

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RIGHTS, WHAT RIGHTS
I predicted this would happen in my book.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:40 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] ETCETERA

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It appears we are on our way to becoming a GARRISON STATE. Also, Argentina and Brazil are in deep economic trouble. A big America bank may go bk. JPMorgan might be a good short. If a BIG bank goes belly up they will ask for a Fed bailout. This will put more deep pressure on the dollar and there could be a meltdown. For sure, there are going to be HUGE deficits. There will be no tax revenue from capital gains on stock portfolios, so on top of the huge increase in expenditures--gov't revenues will be drastically down. The IRS will have to get out its whips and chains but it will do no good. Forget about a balanced budget. We are in for some ride.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Wed Jul 17, 2002 8:36 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] JAMES TRAFICANT--HERO OR DEMON

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I watched the Congressional Ethics Hearings late last night concerning the expulsion of Congressman James Traficant, who was recently convicted of Federal offenses. I felt so sorry for him and I don't know if he is a "bad" guy or a "good" guy. He is a fighter and I like fighters. He was a lonely figure fighting the entire IRS and "JUSTICE" establishment. And he was doing a good job. The universal reaction I am getting from people who read my book is their DISBELIEF that these things go on in America. Traficant appears to have been set-up because of his enmity and attempts to disband the IRS. Also, he is a trouble maker in many other ways but he has the clear support of his District and may get elected, as an independent, while he is in jail. Curious, as a convicted felon, he cannot vote; however, there is nothing prohibiting him from serving in Congress, although, if elected, it is clear that Congress will expel him again, which should grossly anger the people of his District. Our country, which is a mature nation, appears to be imploding. We desperately need to get back to our roots.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Wed Jul 17, 2002 8:27 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] BRAVE NEW WORLD--AMERICA THE LAND OF MIIND-NUMBING PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS

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AMERICANS ARE NOT REACTING TO OUR LOSS OF FREEDOM

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Tue Jul 16, 2002 11:32 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] LIVE RADIO SHOW ONLINE

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I am going to be interviewed live at 12 p.m Eastern on WBNW 1120 AM out of Boston on Thursday, July 25th. The broadcast is carried live online.
MONEY MATTERS RADIO

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Sun Jul 14, 2002 5:50 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] INTERESTING GAMER STUFF

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Now they are making games that are also advertisements and can be used to train staff.
YAYA

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Sun Jul 14, 2002 5:47 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] TREND

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People staying more at home is a certainty. Related businesses will do well.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Sun Jul 14, 2002 2:05 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] THIS IS HOW EXCITE PICKED ME UP ON A SEARCH FOR "CONSPIRACY"

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10. Libertarian Lawyer's Fight Against Power
IRS, FBI, CIA, Shelly Waxman battled all. Stranger than fiction true cases will delight conspiracy mongers and appall statists. Unknown slices of 60s-80s history, these important cases helped shape current tax and contractor laws.
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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Sat Jul 13, 2002 10:51 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] UGH!

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The booksigning was a flop. The store was more a gift shop than a real bookstore. I don't think I am going to do anymore signings. Unless there is a lot of advance PR, there is not much to be gained by it. I have one at a Barnes and Noble in September and will see how that does. I think it will be better at a real bookstore where people hangout and are used to authors being there. We will see. If the Barnes and Noble in Holland does well and it is supposed to be populated by real book people, then I will renew the signings. Trouble with it is that arrangements have to be made with each individual store, rather than through a centralized source.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Sat Jul 13, 2002 1:02 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SPOOK STUFF

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ANOTHER VERSION OF SEPTEMBER 11

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Fri Jul 12, 2002 9:32 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] Meanderings

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Yahoo, I got out of a scheduled trial next week. Made a good deal for the client, charged with burglary. I would have lost. Booksigning tomorrow in St. Joseph, MI. Hope I sell some books. I should be getting some report of my booksales from iuniverse, at least I hope so. Will really be interesting to find out how many have been sold. Glad it is Friday, the stock market has been. Well, that is all I can squeeze out of my brain right now.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Fri Jul 12, 2002 12:23 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] RADIO INTERVIEW TODAY

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I did the Rich DeLeo show out of Altoona, Pennsylvania. It was an hour live. I have to really get up for these; like slap my face several times and pour cold water on my head. These interview guys are sharp and they really throw some heavy questions. I handled it okay. I am getting used to it. Well, DeLeo was really surprised about my stories. He's a sports guy. Like he had never heard of these things before. That is a reaction I am getting from a lot of people. Where have they been? Hypnotized by the mass media. Zoned out making a living; being into sports, sex, movies, music, puters. They don't feel they can do anything about anything, so it is better to be zoned out. I am glad to do these radio shows. They make me feel connected. Saturday, I do a book signing. I like those too. I like to shmooz with people. So, later.

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Wed Jul 10, 2002 1:44 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] BAD NEW AHEAD SAYS SOROS AND OTHERS

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The Gathering Storm

� Global Financial and Economic Crash Imminent
� Stock Market, Pension Funds, U.S. Dollar on Brink of Collapse and
Implosion
� Theft and Fraud Losses to U.S. Taxpayers Exceed $4.2 Trillion

by Michael C. Ruppert

[Copyright 2002, From The Wilderness Publications, http://www.copvcia.com.
All Rights Reserved. May be copied or distributed for non-profit purposes
only. May not be posted on any internet web site in its entirety without
express written consent. Contact mruppert@....]

[Ed. Note: The last time FTW issued an emergency economic bulletin to its
subscribers was Sept. 9. At that time a derivatives investment bubble on
the verge of implosion, a 900-point drop in the Dow Jones average and a
pending liquidity crisis signaled a crash on the order of 1929. Only the
attacks of Sept. 11 and massive intervention from the U.S. Treasury and
Federal Reserve prevented the collapse. Investors blamed the ensuing market
losses on the attacks.

The situation now is much, much worse as more factors combine to suggest
that foreign investors and trust in the U.S. economy might soon be a thing
of the past. Your pension is at risk today and your home may be at risk in
six months to a year.

One economic analyst has suggested that a nuclear exchange between India
and Pakistan might be the perfect cover for the biggest financial wipe out
in human history. I think that an ill-conceived and risky invasion of Iraq
might serve the same purpose. From consumer confidence, to corporate
accounting, to the dollar, to gold, to foreign capital flight, to pension
fund wipe outs, to the derivative bubble, to debt, there is not a single
economic indicator that is not flashing red.

The warnings are as clear, explicit and well-documented as were the
warnings received by the U.S. government throughout summer 2001 that a
terrorist attack against the World Trade Center would take place during the
week of Sept. 9 using hijacked airliners from United and American airlines.
Nothing was done to prevent that and apparently nothing is being done now
in spite of the fact that $4.2 trillion of your money has been stolen right
in front of your eyes.

There was no "single" reason for the attacks of 9-11. I have cited oil,
drug cash and geopolitics as three of the primary motives for the U.S.
government's complicity in allowing the attacks to happen. But what also
cannot be overlooked is the fact that 9-11 effectively masked a major
economic crash that was certain to occur. That crash has not been averted
by the extraordinary financial maneuverings of the Bush administration that
followed 9-11. It was merely postponed for a very short time.--MCR ]

July 8, 2002, 4 PM PDT (FTW) -- Reuters, London published a story June 27
based upon an interview with billionaire financier George Soros. The
headline read, "Soros Blames 'Bush Factor' for Dollar's Fall." George Soros
is a man to be reckoned with. Emerging from WWII as someone who allegedly
cooperated with Nazi occupation troops by identifying assets to be seized,
the European financier is one of the most powerful financiers on the
planet. He is credited with successfully assaulting the currencies of
several nations, including Britain's pound. He recently participated in the
World Economic Forum in New York where he was seated on the dais with the
likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Hillary Clinton, Shimon Peres and academics
from Ivy League colleges. It is more than just a case that when Soros
speaks, people listen. The truth is that when Soros speaks, markets move.

His comments were brutal.

"The international financial system is coming apart at the seams.There is a
lack of confidence. That's what I call the 'Bush factor' in the economy."
There is a liquidity crisis in financial markets, said Soros. "Everybody's
going home. The Swiss banks are going home. The strengthening of the yen
clearly shows repatriation." Translated, that means that foreign capital is
fleeing the United States in the wake of as yet not fully realized
accounting scandals that will, according to Fox News on July 6, take an
estimated $600 billion in value out of the U.S. stock market this year. One
of the many smoke alarms triggered by this is the fact that the U.S.
economy needs an estimated $1.5 trillion per year in new foreign investment
just to remain solvent.

Reuters quoted Soros as saying that the global economic downturn had
"exposed the weaknesses of corporate America and how the U.S.
administration runs the international economic system."

Soros is aware of what FTW and noted economic thinkers like Catherine
Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary of housing, and British economist
Chris Sanders of Sanders Research have been saying for years: as much as
half of the value of the U.S. financial markets is derived from criminal
endeavors, whether it is the laundering of drug money or the fraudulent
"cooking" of financial statements to boost profits.

PUMP AND DUMP

It's a simple scheme really. The mafia knows it quite well. By whatever
means necessary, drive a stock's price higher and higher. Make it look like
a mover, even if it's a dog. Cook the books and get suckers to buy in,
helping to drive the price even higher. When you think the balloon will
pop, call all your buddies and sell your shares. That effectively steals
all the money that the suckers put in. When the stock crashes, the suckers
who weren't part of the scheme will take the loss, whether they be
individual investors or the New York City police and fire pension fund.

The U.S. stock markets have been pumped to the breaking point, and they are
trying very hard to dump right now. Most sober analysts have agreed for a
long time that the prices are over-inflated by as much as 50 percent or
more; that price/earnings ratios, now averaging more than 30-1, should
properly be corrected to about 15-1. That means the Dow should be at 5,000
or lower. We'll talk about how the meltdown is being temporarily prevented
later. It is first necessary to examine the severity of the crisis.

If I mention the "bookkeeping problem" that's threatening Wall Street right
now and asked you how many companies were being investigated for or had
announced "overstated earnings," how many would you say? Six? Eight? Try
17 -- Enron, WorldCom, QWest, Tyco, ImClone, Martha Stewart (the
company), Global Crossing, Dynegy, CMS Energy, El Paso, Halliburton, The
Williams Co., Clear Channel (which owns approximately 1,200 radio
stations), Adelphia, Reliant, Motorola and Merck. [Source: CNN and various
news services] Seven of them are energy companies, and this adds another
degree of imperative for Congress to force the White House to compel full
disclosure from Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task force. But he has
a problem there too. One of the companies under investigation for
fraudulent bookkeeping is Halliburton. Cheney was its CEO until taking
office, and the fraudulent accounting occurred while he was the boss.

Did you think that WorldCom was a big one, having illegally claimed $3.8
billion in earnings to boost its share price? On July 5, according to
Newsday, the energy giant Reliant Resources "restated" its 1999-2001
earnings by chopping off $7.8 billion in revenue. Just today it was
disclosed on CNN that the pharmaceutical giant Merck has overstated its
revenues by $14 billion.

At the core of all these accounting problems is a non-transparent form of
corporate bookkeeping called "pro forma." As opposed to the more
transparent and rigid practice called GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting
Practices), pro forma bookkeeping allows for all kinds of manipulations
like hiding debt as income, double booking revenues and sneaking drug money
onto the bottom line. What has yet to be fully explored by any of the major
media is which other major corporations use pro forma bookkeeping. The
reason is that all of the major media companies use it too. Also on the pro
forma system are GE (NBC), AOL/Time Warner (CNN), Microsoft (MS-NBC),
Viacom (CBS), Disney (ABC), IBM, Intel, Cisco Systems, Sun Micro, Tribune
(the Chicago Tribune and the L.A. Times), The Washington Post (Newsweek)
and the New York Times.

The accounting scandals are starting to nip at the heels of these and other
cornerstones of American capital markets. Trading of GM shares was halted
June 27 after "unconfirmed market rumors of accounting irregularities." And
New York Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson offered the suggestion in an
April 14 story that GE might be cooking its books. Thanks to PBS's Lowell
Bergman in a 2000 report, we already know that GE has been called on the
carpet for accepting drug cash, lots of drug cash, as payment for the good
things it brings to life. So has Philip-Morris.

How much foreign capital can Wall Street expect to attract, let alone
retain if foreign investors expected to be wiped out for leaving their
money here? American investors, especially pension funds are still putting
money in or leaving it in place in the stock market. Are there other alarm
bells that mom and pop investors should be hearing? What will happen to the
value of the American brand name as a trustworthy place to invest money if
GM is ultimately revealed to have cooked its books?

A look at the real health of the stock market is revealing. On April 26,
The International Forecaster made two chilling observations:

"At the time of the AOL Warner merger the combined companies were worth
$290 billion. They are presently worth $85 billion. Their quarterly loss is
estimated to be $50 billion. This could be the business mistake of the new
century.

"The downgrade of Bristol Myers Squibb to Aaa by Moody's leaves only 8
AAA-rated companies left. They are GE, UPS, AIG, ExxonMobil, Johnson
Johnson Berkshire Hathaway, and Pfizer Merck. In 1990 there were 27 AAA
companies and in 1979 there were 58."

THE DOLLAR

Soros was extremely upset about what was happening to the U.S. dollar,
which has been falling against various currencies for about a month. The
key to understanding this lies in the lesson I learned at an economic
conference in Moscow in the spring of 2001. Almost all countries in the
world use the U.S. dollar as their reserve currency. They have bought
trillions and are holding them. If another currency becomes more valuable
or is viewed as more stable, then the world will switch currencies, and
trillions of dollars will come back into the country -- inflation would be
inevitable and the dollar would lose its value.

In the week ending July 5, the dollar closed consistently at or near parity
with the Euro. As of this posting it sits at (US) 99 cents and has been
hovering there for more than a week. Since various economic "reforms" from
the 1950s to the 1970s removed the dollar from the gold standard it has
been a fiat currency, unconnected to any measure of intrinsic value. The
full faith and credit of the United States -- along with its military --
have given the dollar its value. The Euro is partially backed by gold and
there have been lingering but credible rumors for years that the U.S.'s
gold reserves have been moved to Europe.

Soros told Reuters, "But the declines in the markets have gone somewhat
further than what would be the natural consequences of the previous exuberance.

"The decline in the dollar came as a surprise to me.I attribute it to lack
of confidence in the management of affairs by the United States, its
unilateralism, the pursuit of national self-interests and not living up to
the responsibility of being the dominant financial power in the world, not
taking care of the system."

What is Soros setting us up for? The pumping of the stock market occurred
while Bill Clinton was president. Yet he's blaming Bush. Is another Herbert
Hoover being created before the big crash? The signs are there. Britain's
paper the Independent ran a June 28 story headlined, "WorldCom scandal:
Currencies: Latest Wall Street disaster sends investors all over the world
running for cover." The lead read, "The U.S, dollar yesterday moved to the
brink of free fall, a nightmare scenario for the world economy, after
reverberations from the WorldCom scandal triggered panic among investors."

That was before the announcements about Reliant and Merck.

The story painted a glum picture. "'This is threatening to become a
disorderly market,' David Bloom, global economist at HSBC said. 'There's no
better way to show loss of confidence in a country than through its currency.'"

Quoting another financial expert, the Independent reported, "'If the
dollar's decline turns explosive, this could compound the problems of the
U.S. asset markets as currency losses raise fears of massive capital flight
out of the U.S.'"

GOLD

For years the price of gold -- the ultimate smoke alarm signaling a failing
economy -- has been artificially suppressed by paper traders who are
capable of flooding the commodities markets with gold future options when
the price needs to be kept low. Why low? Because rising gold prices have
always signaled inflation and/or a lack of faith in the financial markets.
Years of efforts by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, or GATA, while
not being successful at halting or fully exposing the artificial
manipulation of gold prices by the Federal Reserve, major banks, the Bank
of International Settlements and major commodities traders, have opened the
eyes of many to overt manipulations in gold pricing.

As one investment banker told me recently, there is five times more paper
gold than there is actual gold out of the ground. If gold prices ever pop
they'll be out of sight.

Over the past year, certainly since 9-11, gold prices have often moved in
exactly the opposite direction (lower) from what conditions would dictate.
The financial effort required to do this requires the support of powerful
state banking institutions and cash to service the paper. Gold has risen in
price from around $280 an ounce nine months ago to a high of around $327 in
recent weeks. That's a return on investment of 16 percent -- far better
than the Dow has done this year.

In our last economic bulletin FTW noted that the Dow had lost close to 900
points. Since March of this year it had lost, before the profit-seeking
300-point rally of July 5, almost 1,600 points. Yet even as the economic
news worsened last week, the price of gold peaked and then started to fall.
As of this writing it sits at $312 an ounce. The gold price dropped as the
worst economic news was hitting the streets. Why?

As one astute gold watcher, Jay Taylor, summed it up in an October 2000
newsletter, "Every single time there is concern about a stock market
debacle, gold is bombed. Always."

On June 5 GATA described one of the recent moves to "fiddle" with gold
prices. "MiningWeb.com has just reported an explanation for the plunge in
the gold price today. The plunge, MiningWeb says, 'came in the wake of a
large after-market trade in New York last night, with an unnamed fund
liquidating 5,000 futures contracts, a move which knocked the price first
to $326/oz, then to $324/oz, and finally to $321/oz,.The sale was executed
using the 'Access' system on Comex, which allows for anonymous trading by
large funds.'"

There are unmistakable signs of market manipulation now with regards to
both gold and stocks. Who is it that keeps the markets from correcting,
only making the inevitable crash that much worse? It's called the Plunge
Protection Team, or PPT. And now it has to have the liquidity to flood both
the gold and the stock markets with enough cash to keep the bubbles from
bursting. This, at the same time that major banks like J.P. Morgan/Chase
and Citigroup sit atop huge derivatives bubbles that have been estimated at
between $150 trillion and $300 trillion. Most major U.S. banks have heavy
exposure as a result of the mushrooming financial scandals. All of these
bubbles require cash, and this is the liquidity Mr. Soros is rightly
worried about.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has been challenging the gold manipulation for
years. He has been one of the few fiscally sane voices anywhere on Capitol
Hill. His website has a listing of his writings and much needed legislation
he has or is sponsoring.

Only recently have there been signs that the PPT is also working in the
U.S. equity (stock) markets.

THE PLUNGE PROTECTION TEAM

The Washington Post acknowledged the existence of a select group of four
who could and would intervene in markets to prevent massive capital flight
and a run on shares that would cause an economic collapse if there weren't
enough cash to pay out during a massive sell off. In his Feb. 23, 1997
story headed "Plunge Protection Team," Post reporter Brett Fromson
identified the Federal Reserve chairman, the Securities and Exchange
Commission chairman, the chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading
Commission, and the secretary of the Treasury as the team's key players.
The intervention of the team in the 1998 crash of Long Term Capital
Management, after it became wildly overexposed in the gold market, revealed
that private institutions such as Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch
and other major banks could be involved as well.

Fromson quoted a former team member as saying, "In a crisis, a lot of
deference is paid to the Fed. They are the only ones with any money." Or, I
might add, the ability to print it.

Pointing to the 1987 stock market crash, the single largest crash in
history, Fromson observed, "The Fed kept the markets going by flooding the
banking system with reserves and stating publicly that it was ready to
extend loans to important financial institutions, if needed."

On April 5, 2000 New York Post reporter John Crudele reported that the
stock market had turned back from the abyss. After a 500-point drop that
looked like it was leading to a meltdown, ".someone started buying large
amounts of stock index futures contracts through two major brokerage firms
-- Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch.Unless the brokers tell, there is no way
of knowing which of their clients were making the purchases.Then the market
rebounded."

Calling it the PPT, Crudele both referred to the 1997 Washington Post story
and suggested that private banks were acting as team captains.

Gold activist David Guyatt, relying on information obtained from GATA
Chairman Bill Murphy, pointed to the PPT in October 2000. "The hand of the
Plunge Protection Team (PPT) is clearly visible for the first time. The
entire short gold play over the last few years is a technique that has been
used to 'prop up key stocks' and 'fund futures' operations. In the simplest
form it works like this. Borrow (at negligible interest rates) someone's
[America's, Germany's, Britain's, Goldman Sachs'] gold and sell it in the
market. This gives a handsome pool of near-interest-free dollar cash.
Whenever the stock market looks shaky, or key stocks come under pressure,
dive in and buy, buy, buy.

"But it is not only necessary to manipulate the stock market to succeed. It
is also necessary to manipulate the gold price and keep the price of gold
below the price PPT sold the leased gold for.This is a game of double
jeopardy.The problem the PPT now have is that there is virtually no more
official gold left to borrow."

The causes of this intervention were a pending NASDAQ crash and the
imminent downgrading of IBM and Intel stocks.

And the PPT's hand has been noted recently from as far away as Australia.
Progressive Review Editor Sam Smith recently quoted a story by Richard
Bromby of the Australian Financial Review:

"At 2:32 Wednesday [June 26, 2002], New York time, something extraordinary
happened at the corner of Wall and Broad streets. The New York Stock
Exchange's Dow Jones industrial index -- struggling since the opening bell
after the WorldCom fraud revelations -- threw off its problems. From an
intraday low of 8,926.6, the Dow shot skywards to its high of 9,160 at 3:29
PM.Could it be the work of the much talked about, but never seen, Plunge
Protection Team? There is a belief that this team represents a powerful and
secretive hand that is ready to act at any time the Dow looks ready to tank
big-time.

".London's Observer newspaper last October reported it had information the
plunge team was preparing to spend 'billions of dollars' to avert a repeat
of 1929 and 1987."

The problem is clear: With a strong dollar the PPT has demonstrated that it
has enough cash to suppress gold prices or to save the stock market. It may
not have enough cash to do both -- especially if the dollar were to
suddenly lose its value. Then, all of the chickens that have been locked
out will come home to roost with a vengeance.

As The International Forecaster reported on April 26, "The American
consumer has run out of credit and buying power.All bets are off if the
housing and credit bubbles break and that's a distinct possibility.Debtor's
prison is drawing nearer. House and Senate conferences are deciding on a
new set of rules for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.If the Plunge Protection Team
weren't manipulating the market with all these scandals, the Dow would
already be at 4,500."

REALIZING THE EXTENT OF THE DESTRUCTION

Not all of the money looted from American taxpayers is going to support the
PPT market manipulations. A lot of it is just being stolen.

According to the Standard and Poor's website, "domestic equity allocation"
(stock market) of U.S. pension fund investments was near 50 percent by the
end of the 1990s. It has topped 50 percent since then.

Before the 2000 presidential election, candidate George W. Bush promised
that he would tap the Social Security Trust Fund only in the event of war,
recession or national emergency. On Sept. 11, he was quoted by his budget
director, Mitch Daniels, as saying, "Lucky me! I hit the trifecta!"

It's not a question about stealing a little here and a little there. It's a
question about open, full-scale looting -- but only from the pockets of the
American people who, in my opinion, will soon have almost nothing left.
Let's look at the hard numbers of what has been taken and from where. These
numbers are by no means exhaustive. It's just what we know about.

- Social Security in 2001 (USA Today/Washington Post) $34 Billion

- Social Security in 2002 (est.) (House Budget
Committee) $160 Billion

- Federal Employees Retirement System (Wall Street Journal 6/13/02)

(to Meet 2002 budget
deficits) $42 Billion

- Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund
(ibid) $2 Billion

- Stolen from the Dept. of Defense -- 1999

(Cong. Record and Insight Magazine) $1,100 Billion

- Stolen from the Dept. of Defense -- 2000 (CBS News) $2.300 Billion

- Stolen from HUD -- 1999 (Cong.
Record) $59 Billion

- Shareholder Equity Lost to Financial Fraud -- 2002
(Fox) $600 Billion

TOTAL
$4,297 Billion

Pending Thefts

Social Security (by 2010)

(Washington Post citing Cong. Budget Office
figures) $845 Billion

An anecdotal story reveals the damage to pension funds. If you think that
Social Security will be a safety net, please read the above section again.
Of course we all know about the Enron employees who were wiped out. But
according to the New York Times on April 3, New York City's pension system
has lost $9 billion in the wake of recent stock scandals. Imagine the
impact if local governments declared bankruptcy or defaulted on their
pension obligations. It has been estimated that the California state
employee retirement system (CALPERS) has more than 90 percent of its money
invested in the stock market.

A WORD ABOUT HOUSING

Most Americans believe that their homes are their last, best retirement
insurance. Yet many Americans have mortgaged their homes for 120 percent of
value. Their loans are backed with the full faith and credit of the U.S.
government through various agencies such as Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, Freddie
Mac, and the Federal Housing Authority.

The International Forecaster has predicted that "40 percent of Fannie and
Freddie's loans are going to come back and haunt them. We envision an S&L
type bailout of $2.4 trillion down the road. This will be the biggest
financial disaster in history."

The full faith and credit of the U.S. government lie behind these home
loans. If the homeowners go broke in an economic crash, they default. If
the U.S. government goes broke -- before or after that point -- it
defaults, and the holders of U.S. debt ultimately have the right
(especially under WTO and globalization) to foreclose on the collateral --
your home loans. In the worst case scenario most of the United States could
legally be owned by all of the countries holding U.S. debt -- better
described as T-Bills, or U.S. gold, or U.S. stocks.

CONCLUSION

The Great Depression was not an event that wiped out U.S. capitalists. It
was an event that made the rich even richer by transferring the wealth of
the people into the hands of the already wealthy. Legendary is Bank of
America's rise to affluence through real estate foreclosures from 1929-37.
Don't believe for a minute that the richest of the rich will be hurt by the
coming collapse. The only ones hurt will be you and me.

George Soros is a member of the Bilderberger Group, a collection of the
wealthiest individuals on the planet. It includes, from the U.S., both
Democrats and Republicans, and from Europe and Asia the richest "old" money
that can be found. U.S. participants in this year's conference included
David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, former Treasury Secretary Larry
Summers, former CIA Director John Deutch and George Soros. It was just
after this year's meeting which ended in early June, that all of the
revelations about corporate fraud started to really hit the news. One
wonders if it had been on the agenda.

I also note sadly a recent financial report from the Denver area stating
that mortgage foreclosures were going through the roof. This, at the same
time that Reuters (July 2, 2002) reported that corporate layoff
announcements had risen by 12% in one month. In this context Bush's tax
cuts seem worse than bad judgment. As former Ass't Secretary of Housing
Catherine Fitts pointed out to me in a last minute e-mail, "By 2010, when
(and if) the Bush tax reductions are fully in place, an astonishing 52 per
cent of the total tax cuts will go to the richest one per cent. Put another
way, of the estimated $234 billion in tax cuts scheduled for the year 2010,
$121 billion will go to just 1.4 million taxpayers."

Unless you can convince me that gravity might suddenly reverse direction,
this collapse is inevitable and imminent. It will be unspeakably brutal.
How long do we have? Maybe weeks. Maybe months. Maybe only days. But the
house of cards is already starting to collapse all around us. A major
terrorist attack, the folly of an invasion of Iraq or a nuclear exchange
between India and Pakistan would only be a momentary diversion from a much
greater tragedy.

Suggested Resources:

http://www.sandersresearch.com

http://www.solari.com

http://www.gata.org

http://www.house.gov/paul/

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Date: Wed Jul 10, 2002 12:42 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] PETER DRUCKER RECEIVED THE FREEDOM MEDAL TODAY--WELL DESERVED

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INDECONBUSINESS CONSULTING NETWORK, Ltd.

MADE IN AMERICA SAM WALTON

"I've made it my own personal mission to ensure that constant change is a vital part of the Wal-Mart culture itself. I've forced change-sometimes for change's sake alone-at every turn in our company's development. In fact, I think one of the greatest strengths of Wal-Mart's ingrained culture is its ability to drop everything and turn on a dime." pg 216 "You start with a given: free enterprise is the engine of our society; communism is pretty much down the drain and proven so; and there doesn't appear to be anything else that can compare to a free society based on a market economy. Nothing can touch that system-not unless leadership and management get selfish or lazy. In the future, free enterprise is going to have to be done well-which means it benefits the workers, the stockholders, the communities, and, of course management which adopt a philosophy of servant leadership." pg 322-23 "We can do it better than the Japanese because we're more innovative, we're more creative. We can compete with labor in Bangladesh or wherever because we have better technology, which can give us more efficient equipment. We can get beyond a lot of our old adversarial relationships and establish win-win partnerships with our suppliers and our workers, which will leave us with more energy and talent to focus on the important thing, meeting the needs of our customers. But all this requires overcoming one of the most powerful forces in human nature: the resistance to change. To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time."

PETER DRUCKER "MANAGING IN A TIME OF GREAT CHANGE"

"The possessor of knowledge owns his own 'tools of production' and has the freedom to move to wherever opportunities for effectiveness, for accomplishment and for advancement seem greatest." "The knowledge society will inevitably become far more competitive than any society we have yet known--for the simple reason that with knowledge being universally accessible, there are no excuses for nonperformance. There will be no 'poor' countries - there will only be ignorant countries. And the same will be true for individual companies, individual industries and individual organizations. It will be true of individuals too."

GERRY SPENCE from Gerry's "Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom-An Owner's Manual for Life"
"The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one: one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, an independent attitude. In the new-age workplace the master will no longer be the master. He will enter the place of work voluntarily to do a job for a price, his price. He will leave as he chooses. He will cherish his freedom, which is his security. He cannot be lured into the trap. The master cannot own him. The new age worker, belonging to the union of one, has made himself an expert in whatever job he or she undertakes. But he does his work with an expertise that brings order and efficiency to the task. He works to satisfy himself, not the master. Workers will again become independent-and own their own tools. I see it already. The cameraman for network television, an independent contractor, brings his own camera to the news scene, does his work, takes his camera home, and goes scuba diving the rest of the day.. In the new-age workplace, the engineer, the draftsman, the computer wizard, the designer, every professional and every skilled artisan, yes, a skilled ditch digger as well, can belong to the new union of one. The union dues are free. If the employer does not meet the demands of the union of one, the new-age worker can replace the employer... with a more intelligent, more responsive one; one that better suits the taste and the need of the new-age worker. The most valuable worker for the corporation is the worker who no longer demands all of the spangles and sparkles of security that soon soon-dim the pensions, the benefits that somehow end up enslaving rather than freeing. The old way has become a dismal game in which both master and slave, chained to each other, hate one another, each fighting the other with their respective weapons. The worker, seeking security, like the slave of old, does not seek to do work but to avoid work. The worker's goal is not to live at work but to become embalmed during the working day and to lie in the company's casket until the quitting bell revives him. The worker who seeks security cannot exhibit the free mind necessary to spring ahead on his own. He requires an overseer, a time clock, rules of work, rules of vacations, rules of sick leave, rules about having babies, rules about rules. He requires laws to protect him, and commissions to hear his complaints and representatives to represent him. The best employment with the best corporation offering the best lifelong security is at best a poor bargain. Get out. We must get out - get out if we can. Walk out. Run out. Break down the doors but get out. The new-age business will recognize the worker as the source of its wealth, respect the worker, and provide the worker a place of self-discovery and self-expression. The new-age employer and the new-age worker, supported by the new-age 'union of one' will redefine the relationship of worker and employer. The new-age employer will become more of a partner, a supplier of opportunity, and educator, a sharer in dreams, a sharer in profit. The new-age worker will become his own master. He will decide his fate and make and follow his own dreams. He will explore not the master's poisonous caverns of slavery but his own unexplored reaches, in which he will discover his unique self, cherish its value, reject the security of slavery, and encumber his freedom for no one, not even himself."

INDECON BUSINESS CONSULTING NETWORK, Ltd.
730 S. Union Street * Traverse City, MI 49684
1-866-255-5487 * www.indecon.org

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Date: Wed Jul 10, 2002 12:20 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] STEVE FORBES--FORBES MAGAZINE

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Well, I received a letter from Steve Forbes today. He was replying to the "autographed" book I sent him. Ever the Editor; he reminded me that what I sent him was an "inscription" because an "autograph" is really only a signature. Steve always responded to my letters, as did Milton Friedman, which in my opinion is the key to being an okay guy. Most of these "big shots" haven't learned that it means a lot to "little" guys to get a letter from a big shot.

FORBES MAGAZINE

Dear Shelly:

Thank you for your inscribedcopy. I look forward to reading it with keen interest.

Sincerely,

Steve Forbes
President CEO
Editor-in-Chief

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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 9:44 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] MARKET UP/MARKET DOWN--WHO IS RIGHT?

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CBS.MarketWatch.com

11:01 am ET Jul 8, 2002
Hard-bottom stock-market blues
Currency crisis may provide a crushing blow

By Thom Calandra, CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 10:29 AM ET Jul 8, 2002
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The market is a voting machine, financial authors Benjamin Graham and David Dodd once said.

Graham and Dodd, authors of "Security Analysis," went on to say investors register their choices in the market partly because of reason and partly because of emotion. The two authors are best known for their search for companies whose shares trade below a reasonable and theoretical price, based on multiyear earnings-growth rates, dividends and other factors.

Graham and Dodd, and all bargain seekers, benefit by exploiting investors' emotions. At few times in the past 100 years have those emotions raged so furiously, bared for all the world to see. After 28 months of relentless losses, stock-market investors are pulling out their hair -- but not, it seems, plucking their portfolios.

For the most part, individuals have refused to dispatch their losers in a bout of panic selling. Market technicians, led by Paul Desmond of Lowry's Reports, say the stock market has yet this year -- or last -- to register total-surrender levels of selling.

Still, much of what makes up a market's jumbled prices comes from hormones, fed as they are by sweat, tears, fear and the cocktails of success: adrenaline, jangled nerves, euphoria. Anecdotal evidence of surrender is important to the Wall Street professionals whose job is to summarize market sentiment. So is a refusal to budge from portfolios that have gaping losses of 50 percent and more -- which is happening right now on Main Street.

"We have had so many 2 and 3 percent down days that investors are now getting used to them, meaning that it is harder to get them to truly capitulate," says Christopher Johnson, senior quantitative analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research in Cincinnati.

The stock market conceivably could sidestep a rock-hard bottom, the kind marked by days, weeks and months of dreaded 90 percent downside volume and price days. See the latest on 90-90 downside days.

If it does, we will have, probably for the first time in a century, a saggy bottom that forms the ground upon which the next bull market takes shape.

This saggy talk is what Main Street wants to believe. "Your gold story is over, unfortunately or not," says one investor, Ed Pikman, about a metal that seems to gain ground as the stock market loses it. "The U.S. economy is already on track, and the stock market has no other way to go but up and running. Gold price will be back to $270 at the end of year, and gold miners will go Chapter 11."

This is what I call one side of bankruptcy jive talk. A lot like the ribbing in a neighborhood basketball game, this jive throws the specter of Chapter 11 and Chapter 7 liquidations in people's faces. Just who goes broke is the pivot point of the rap. Swish.

My vote on all this is in: I'll stick with the belief that a hard bottom is in store for this stock market (SPY), and with it the emotional and financial pain that comes from unraveled portfolios and heavy American household debt.

"Hong Kong has a record-high jobless rate, and their bankruptcies tripled in the first five months of this year. Americans' personal bankruptcy filings leaped more than 15 percent in the 12 months that ended March 31, having been irresponsibly lured into excessive loans by low-interest car and real-estate deals that added enormously to household debt," says James Dines, longtime newsletter editor and gold investor.

Dines is of the opinion that some event will trigger a crushing blow to financial markets in the not-so-distant future. Whether it is the act of militants or CEOs, a Latin American liquidity crisis or a collapse of the global currency system is anyone's guess.

Dines is leaning toward currency turmoil. He points out that the Mexican peso is at its lowest point in two years, an event that has gone largely unnoticed by American investors and financial advisers. Devaluations of South American currencies most likely will lead to a financial contagion -- basically a buyers' strike by the banks and large investors that lend to emerging-market countries -- in Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, says Dines, editor of The Dines Letter.

"Roman citizens ignored the tremors of Mount Vesuvius until it blew on Aug. 24 in the year A.D. 79, obliterating Pompeii and Herculaneum," says Dines, who is sticking with the gold- and silver-mining companies through thick and thin. "A much bigger shock awaits the world in currencies, believe it or not."

Thom Calandra's StockWatch appears each trading day.

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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 9:27 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] GO OR NO GO

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Little to gain from MBA classes: prof
July 5, 2002
BY HEATHER SOKOLOFF
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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 9:16 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] 7/8/2002 5:16:03 PM

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July 5, 2002
BY HEATHER SOKOLOFF
a href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-nws-mba05.html"

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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 11:03 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] A POST FROM MIKE LINKSVAYER

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Re: Camera/Shy

Steganography tools have been available for a long time. Maybe this
software will be slightly easier to use, but the Cult of the Dead Cow
doesn't have a stellar reputation for actually delivering. The HK2K
conference looks really interesting though. For a glimpse of the future
you could do far worse than poring over its schedule, or that of the
similar DefCon next month in Las Vegas, which I'll be attending:

http://www.h2k2.net/panels.html
http://www.defcon.org/dcx-speakers.html

Re: Palladium

It's a big threat. True, Microsoft isn't the government, consumers
choose to buy their software. But government finds it much easier to
control large corporations and vice versa. It would be great for both
the national security state and favored business interests to have a
single "secure" platform. I put secure in quotes, because it would
offer security to the aforementioned interests, not the end user.

There are many fronts on which to fight this, including

Consumer choice -- Wean yourself and others from Microsoft software.
Multiple vendors make more work for would-be controllers. Even better,
free software/open source, which has very diffuse control points and
high resistance to the kinds of "features" that give some parties
security and control at others' expense. Even if you must use Windows,
try Mozilla http://mozilla.org for an IE and/or Outlook replacement and
OpenOffice http://openoffice.org for Word/Excel/PowerPoint. If not this
year, keep them in mind for next. Bad allusion to both a chapter title
in Shelly's book and a William Burroughs rant: with open source
software, there's no control button for authorities to push.

Politics -- Tell the officials you didn't vote for but who are in office
anyway to kill the Digital Millenium Copyright Act:
http://anti-dmca.org/

Legal -- Support the Electronic Frontier Foundation .
They're doing lots of important litigation in this area.

Real security -- Computer security is a huge problem, though Palladium
and laws passed by Congress are arguably an even bigger problem. If
you're a techie, check out people working on security that protects you,
your computer and your privacy, not that which gives away control. A
sampling: The work of , an open source unix
operating system fanatical about security, finds its way into many more
popular existing platforms. Capability security may be the answer if
valiant efforts to patch up existing security models ultimately fail,
see and . Finally, the only
people outside the security state I know of thinking about the real
security implications of technology probably only a couple decades away
(e.g., nanotech) are associated with the Foresight Institute
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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 10:55 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT WHY SWITZERLAND HAS NEVER BEEN ATTACKED

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"http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfetimes/attack_switzerland.htm"> SWITZERLAND HAS IT RIGHT

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Date: Mon Jul 8, 2002 2:02 am
Subject: Re: [Freedom Lawyers of America] NEW TECHIE STUFF

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Re: Camera/Shy

Steganography tools have been available for a long time.  Maybe this
software will be slightly easier to use, but the Cult of the Dead Cow
doesn't have a stellar reputation for actually delivering.  The HK2K
conference looks really interesting though.  For a glimpse of the future
you could do far worse than poring over its schedule, or that of the
similar DefCon next month in Las Vegas, which I'll be attending:

http://www.h2k2.net/panels.html
http://www.defcon.org/dcx-speakers.html

Re: Palladium

It's a big threat.  True, Microsoft isn't the government, consumers
choose to buy their software.  But government finds it much easier to
control large corporations and vice versa.  It would be great for both
the national security state and favored business interests to have a
single "secure" platform.  I put secure in quotes, because it would
offer security to the aforementioned interests, not the end user.

There are many fronts on which to fight this, including

Consumer choice -- Wean yourself and others from Microsoft software.
Multiple vendors make more work for would-be controllers.  Even better,
free software/open source, which has very diffuse control points and
high resistance to the kinds of "features" that give some parties
security and control at others' expense.  Even if you must use Windows,
try Mozilla http://mozilla.org for an IE and/or Outlook replacement and
OpenOffice http://openoffice.org for Word/Excel/PowerPoint.  If not this
year, keep them in mind for next.  Bad allusion to both a chapter title
in Shelly's book and a William Burroughs rant:  with open source
software, there's no control button for authorities to push.

Politics -- Tell the officials you didn't vote for but who are in office
anyway to kill the Digital Millenium Copyright Act:
http://anti-dmca.org/

Legal -- Support the Electronic Frontier Foundation <http://eff.org>.
They're doing lots of important litigation in this area.

Real security -- Computer security is a huge problem, though Palladium
and laws passed by Congress are arguably an even bigger problem.  If
you're a techie, check out people working on security that protects you,
your computer and your privacy, not that which gives away control.  A
sampling:  The work of <http://openbsd.org>, an open source unix
operating system fanatical about security, finds its way into many more
popular existing platforms.  Capability security may be the answer if
valiant efforts to patch up existing security models ultimately fail,
see <http://erights.org> and <http://eros-os.org>.  Finally, the only
people outside the security state I know of thinking about the real
security implications of technology probably only a couple decades away
(e.g., nanotech) are associated with the Foresight Institute
<http://foresight.org>.

  ...

Shelly and other lawyers, you may be interested in this writeup of a
conference on "Internet Law" held at Harvard Law School last week:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/e\
journal/3580048.htm

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http://calorierestriction.org http://eff.org http://ideafutures.com

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Date: Sun Jul 7, 2002 12:51 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] MY AD IN THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION E-BAR JOURNAL

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Date: Sat Jul 6, 2002 1:20 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT ACTUALLY WON

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SIXTH CIRCUIT OPINIONS
MAY, 2002
PROSECUTOR -- Suppression of Evidence Through Loss, Negligence, etc
DISCOVERY -- Prosecutor�s Case File
Derrick Jamison v Terry Collins
#00-3700/3760, May 23, 2002
BOGGS, Daughtrey, Cole
Affirmed district court order granting petition for writ of habeas corpus. Case below:
100 FSupp2d 647 (SD Ohio, 2000).
Petitioner was denied due process of law when the prosecution suppressed evidence
favorable to him, including identifications of possible suspects other than petitioner, information
useful for impeachment of the key prosecution witness, and evidence that directly contradicted
testimony as to how the deceased died. The prosecutor was unaware that the evidence existed
due to the practice of the Cincinnati Police Department to include only inculpatory information in
the �homicide book� turned over to the prosecution.
Petitioner demonstrated cause for failing to raise the Brady claim in his state appeal
because the factual basis for the claim was not reasonably available to counsel. Ohio
affirmatively represented to defense counsel that no favorable evidence existed and cannot argue
that it was unreasonable for counsel not to have caught it suppressing evidence. The suppressed
evidence was both favorable and material. The only other inculpatory evidence, a shoe print
which did not exactly match petitioner�s shoe, was insufficient to produce a conviction.

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Date: Sat Jul 6, 2002 1:08 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] THE END OF TCP/IP ???

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I Told You So -- Alas, a Couple of Bob's Dire Predictions Have Come True
By Robert X. Cringely
MICROSOFT RULES THE WORLD

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Date: Sat Jul 6, 2002 12:13 pm
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] A LETTER FROM MILTON FRIEDMAN

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I received a letter from Dr. Friedman today in response to a letter and copy of the book I sent him, as follows:

HOOVER INSTITUTION ON WAR, REVOLUTION AND PEACE

July 2, 2002

Dear Mr. Waxman

Thanks very much for sending me a copy of your interesting book. I do hope that the "War stuff" (reference in the book where I say that it is too bad this "war stuff" had to happen when Freedom was making so many gains) will not seriously interrupt the movement toward a freer society.

(ED. NOTE: I am sure he realizes that this--the movement toward a freer society-- will not be possible.)

Cordially yours,

Milton Friedman
Senior Research Fellow

HAPPY 90 Dr. Friedman--your "Free to Choose" was an inspiration.

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Date: Sat Jul 6, 2002 12:21 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] CONVERSATION WITH JEFFERSON

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WESTERN PERSPECTIVES
Pocatello, Idaho July 5, 2002

Just after Midnight Lowell Ponte's statue of Thomas Jefferson, situated
beside his computer, begins to come to life. The third President engages is a
conversation with Mr. Ponte about the meaning and spirit of The Declaration of
Independence and its relevance to the America of 2002. President Jefferson
can hardly believe what Ponte tells him about liberty procured and freedom lost.
To Jefferson's bewilderment, the totalitarian state he dedicated his life to destroy
and to keep bound by the chains of the Constitution, has become a Leviathan
that the he and the founding fathers cannot imagine. Jefferson has trouble
comprehending how a nation of free individuals has become a nation of sheep.
Food for thought. Read and weep.

Ponte talks to Jefferson at Midnight

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From: "sheldon waxman" <shelly@...>
Date: Sat Jul 6, 2002 12:12 am
Subject: [Freedom Lawyers of America] NEW TECHIE STUFF

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THE NEWSCIENTIST

'Hacktivists' to release covert communications tool
18:43 04 July 02
NewScientist.com news service

An international group of "hacktivists" says it is about to release a
computer program designed to let political dissidents communicate via
the internet without fear of government eavesdropping.

Hacktivismo, an international group of programmers and activists, says
the program, named Camera/Shy, will make it simple to bury encrypted
information in innocuous-looking images that can then be shared over
the internet. Those with the same program will then be able to
automatically detect and extract concealed information.

Anyone monitoring the internet for subversive activity will only see
apparently ordinary images. Hacktivismo says Camera/Shy will also use
encryption, suggesting keys will be needed to reveal secret information
in full.

Founder Hacktivismo member, Oxblood Ruffin says: "Although not all of
us are Americans, we share the fundamental ideals of the Constitution of
the United States, especially freedom of speech. Camera/Shy is a small
first step in sharing that privilege."

Keeping quiet

A technology called steganography allows data to be embedded in the
digital information comprising an image file. This is accomplished by
altering relatively unimportant bits so that the changed image remains
identical to the naked eye.

The information is concealed using a key. While it may be possible to
detect that an image has been modified to contain information, without
the key it is impossible to extract that information.

Hacktivismo says Camera/Shy has been designed for "non-technical
users" and will be similar to any normal internet browser. But it will
automatically scan web pages for images containing steganographic
data. The program has been designed to work with any Microsoft
operating system running Internet Explorer 5 or later. It should also leave
no trace of browsing activity on a user's computer, according to
Hacktivismo.

Peter Honeyman, an expert in image steganography at the University of
Michigan, says steganography offers an alternative to encryption. The
latter also keeps the contents of a message private, but does not try to
hide its existence.

"If you want the contents of a message to be private, you just use
cryptography," he told New Scientist. "If you want the container of a
message to also be unknown you use steganography."

Honeyman says existing steganography cannot be completely
undetectable and adds that the key used to hide messages in images
can be revealed with brute force computing power. But he adds that
communications could be made more secure by creating images that
appear to contain steganographic data, but which in fact contain no
information.

Hacktivismo says Camera/Shy will be released at the computer security
convention H2K2 in New York City, on 13 July. The group is sponsored
by the US computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow, which has
previewed another program designed to beat government surveillance,
called Peek-a-booty.

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