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11.13.01. Did They Die In Vain? A-Letter.
THE SOVEREIGN SOCIETY OFFSHORE A-LETTER
Your Link to Freedom, Prosperity & Privacy in the Offshore World
Tuesday, November 13, 2001 - Vol. 3 No. 89
In This Issue:
* COMMENT: Did They Die in Vain?
* OFFSHORE: Campione Takes Scandal in Stride. Swiss Terror Cash Hunt. Gibraltar Boycotts Talks. Prosperous Ireland Ignores EU. Brave Bahamas.
* WEALTH: US Terrorist Hypocrisy. UK Super Agency Begins. Muslim Finance Lags. Tokyo Banks Totter. Money Laundering: Bank Software Fails, IMF Puzzle, Israel, U.K. as Dirty Cash Capital.
* PRIVACY & CIVIL RIGHTS: U.K. Police State Declared. Canada Lawyers Fight 'Hitler Law'. US High Tech Snoops. Criminal Court Nixed.
COMMENT: Did They Die in Vain?
by Bob Bauman, Editor
Yesterday was Veterans Day in the United States, the annual honoring of those Americans who fought and died in the many wars our country has endured in its 225 years of nationhood. The record shows that, through the Gulf War, 1,009,200 individuals have sacrificed their lives for their country. In recent weeks Afghanistan has added new names to the honor role of US military defenders.
It is appropriate to recall that each one of these individuals, with lives and families, hopes and dreams, died so that we might live in freedom. But if American liberty is eroded, destroyed from within, why did these people sacrifice their lives? Abraham Lincoln raised this very point at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on Nov. 19, 1864, saying: "We here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain.
The two months since September 11th have witnessed the greatest destruction of American freedom since the Civil War. Herd mentality legislators in Congress have stampeded to outbid each other in fighting an ill-defined "terrorism'. For cannon fodder politicians have used our constitutional rights.
US Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), one of only three Republican lawmakers to vote against his party and president by opposing the so-called "anti-terror" law, is outraged. Based on the new law's severe curtailment of freedoms, Ron Paul believes the nation's Founding Fathers "would think it's time for a new revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place."
US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc), the only Democrat to oppose it, equated the law with the 18th century Alien and Sedition Act and the internment of German and Japanese Americans during World War II.
A columnist in Denver asks: "How could Congress, even in its darkest moment of panic, eliminate due process and put the US on par with terror states that arrest people and throw them away without trials?"
In 1816 before he became president, John Quincy Adams wrote to his father, John Adams, then a former president: "May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right."
In the Revolutionary War that won our independence from England 4,435 Americans died, about the number who suffered death in New York and Washington in the horror of Sept. 11th. But if Americans supinely acquiesce in the death of liberty, for fear or whatever reason, the counter to Lincoln's profound resolve will be sadly, "All those American patriots will have died in vain."
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"Police State" Insight Magazine:
LINK: http://insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=143236
"200 Year Old Sedition Laws Used Again" Fox News:
LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38361,00.html
"Feingold says defending liberties important" Associated Press, LINK:
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=85301502
"Is the Attorney General the New US King?" Denver Post
LINK: http://commondreams.org/views01/1108-09.htm
"Lawmakers Debate Sending in the Troops -- at Home" Fox News.
LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38416,00.html
U.S. War Records Statistics, LINKS:
http://www.libraryspot.com/lists/listwars.htm
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/other/stats/warcost.htm
The Gettysburg Address drafts, LINK:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/gadrft.html
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WALK FOR CAPITALISM - December 2, 2001
Hubert and Rita JONGEN of Belgium, Sovereign Society Council of Experts members, remind you the worldwide Walk for Capitalism is fast approaching. List of cities and other information.
LINK: http://www.walkforcapitalism.org
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* OFFSHORE *
CAMPIONE UNFLUSTERED BY SCANDAL
Every few years, scandal descends on Campione d'Italia. The latest terror inquiry may be its most clamorous case.
LINKS: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=011110000413
But the Campione case shows why tracing alleged terror cash verges on the impossible, in Switzerland or elsewhere.
LINK: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12476-2001Nov11.html
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For more information about Campione d'Italia see LINK: http://www.henleyglobal.com/campione.htm
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GIBRALTAR CHIEF WILL BOYCOTT
Peter Caruana, Chief Minister, will boycott British-Spanish talks on Nov. 20th in Brussels. He wont be party to a UK sellout of his colony.
LINK: http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=6221
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IGNORING E.U., IRELAND PROSPERS
The Irish economy is the best in Europe because they refused to kowtow to EU orders, says Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.
LINK: http://www.euobserver.com/index.phtml?selected_topic=9&action=view&article_id=4059
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BRAVE BAHAMAS
NASSAU. The government crows about turning over records of a dormant Muslim bank to the US anti-terror police.
LINK: http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/story.asp?storyname=6215
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* WEALTH *
U.S. LIKES SOME TERRORISTS MORE THAN OTHERS
Lebanese bankers say the US is unlikely to press its request for the freezing of assets held by Hizbollah, the Shia Muslim group.
LINK: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3UAPGHYTC
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U.K. SUPER AGENCY CLAMPS DOWN ON FINANCE
LONDON. N2 is about to strike every UK financial business. What's N2? Consolidated regulatory regimes for banking, insurance and investments with a 12-volume rule book.
LINK: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3Z97L5XTC
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WHY MUSLIM FINANCE TAKES A BACK SEAT
Traditional Muslim law has curbed business and financial development. LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/08/business/08SCEN.html
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JAPANESE BANKS TOTTER ON THE BRINK
TOKYO. The question is, when will they fall?
LINK: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3NSUS8XTC
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SOFTWARE WONT SPOT TERROR CASH
The makers of anti-money laundering software used in 75 major banks admit their programs cannot find terrorist cash.
LINK: http://www.usatoday.com/money/tech/2001-11-12-money-laundering-software.htm
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I.M.F. MULLS ANTI-TERROR ROLE
US pressure to act on terrorist financing has the International Monetary Fund puzzled as to how it should respond. LINK: http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3DNMT8XTC
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ISRAEL DIRTY CASH AGENCY PROBLEMS
JERUSALEM. Head of the anti-money laundering agency quits.
LINK: http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/08/Digital/Digital.37809.html
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UNITED KINGDOM, HOME OF DIRTY CASH
LONDON. At last the sanctimonious UK begins to admit it may be the money laundering capital of the world.
LINK: Click Here
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* PRIVACY & CIVIL RIGHTS *
BRITISH LABOUR CREATES POLICE STATE
LONDON. Tony Blair declares a 'public emergency,' suspends human rights, will hold suspects indefinitely without charges. Minister says concerns about liberty are "airy, fairy."
LINKS: http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,591394,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,591940,00.html
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3XYFE8XTC
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CANADIAN LAWYERS CHALLENGE 'HITLER LAW'
VANCOUVER. Canada's 81,000 lawyers should not be government informers, so leading attorneys sue to block a law that does just that.
LINK: Click Here
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U.S. SNOOPS WANT HIGH TECH SPYING
WASHINGTON. A government wish list of techno-goodies to spy on you.
LINK: http://www.bergen.com/news/spye20011123.htm
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WORLD CRIMINAL COURT NIXED
US Congress prohibits cooperation in the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
LINK: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44-2001Nov8.html "Reasonable Doubt: The Case Against the Proposed International Criminal Court," LINK: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-311.html
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