Thursday, May 18, 2000
J. Harmon Grahn, Editor
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I hope you will excuse the long hiatus in the flow of The New Paradigm essays. I have been occupied in preparation of an actual Free Digital Library, which we have been hoping to have on the air "any day now" for quite some time. However, "the devil is in the details," and some things take longer than anticipated. We're working on it, and once we have ironed out the major wrinkles in the fabric you'll be the first to know, and we'll invite your input for refinements, major or minor. This edition was intended to go out a couple of days ago, but due to "unknown errors" failed to exit my out-box. Possibly the New Paradigm List has developed problems due to disuse. Meanwhile, additional information on an "unrelated" matter has arrived which fits in well with what follows, and is appended. I am prompted to write again to the New Paradigm List at this particular moment by an item that arrived in my in-box first thing this morning [16 May 2000]: a Press Release from the World Community Educational Society (WCES). The full text of the press release is on-line, but I will reproduce it here without further preamble, for your immediate perusal.
On Wednesday morning the 10th of May, 2000, in a suburb north of Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. J.W. Zidar, and his partner, Dr. Lorraine were backing out of their driveway on their way to the airport. They were setting off on a trip to Europe for a few days. When, from all around them, began an action known as a "drawing down". Men in full assault gear, with automatic weapons drawn and pointed directly at Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine surrounded their automobile from all sides. Screaming for them to raise their hands, to freeze, to stop the car. Dr. Lorraine, being in a mild state of shock at this unprecedented assault, did not immediately raise her hands, and so, two of the attackers pointed their gun directly at her head as one screamed for her to "get her hands up in the air". At this point, Dr. Lorraine slowly raised her hands, as it dawned on her that the screaming she was hearing was directed at her. She was later to remark that "all you see is guns... all you remember is guns pointing at you." The attackers then removed Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine from the car. Taking one to the rear and one to the front of the automobile, their hands were cuffed behind their backs, and they were taken back into their home, where they were put in separate rooms under armed guard and interrogated, still handcuffed, for over an hour. No documents, no search warrants, no phone calls, no legal representation. The assault team then held Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine for eight hours under armed guard while they searched the premises. Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine were held in their dining room as the searchers went through and removed their belongings from throughout their house. In all, 32 boxes of their personal belongings were removed from the premises. At the end of the day, one of the federal agents asked Mr. Zidar if he had the documents, which authorized the search. He replied that he had seen no such documents. At which point, the agent, apologizing profusely, offered over a set of documents purported to be the authorization for this amazing set of events. Who are these enemies of the State? Were these hardened criminals, drug dealers, or members of some Mafia we have not heard of? Hardly. These two, who are such an apparent threat to our government that they were drawn down at gunpoint, are teachers. Teachers? That can't be. This is America. We don't send assault teams to raid the homes of teachers in this country. They must be criminals. They must be conspirators. They must be inciting some sort of cult ritual, or encouraging people to riot or commit mass suicides or something, or this could not have happened. They are stealing people's money, or perhaps they are stealing government secrets and selling them to the Chinese. There must be some "logical" explanation for the events of this past Wednesday morning that we aren't being told. Well, that is a fact. There are. These two people, along with another couple, a Mr. and Mrs. John Matthews, were raided Wednesday morning by armed agents of the federal government for teaching people the truth. Mrs. Matthews was on her telephone, making some arrangements to do with an upcoming graduation when the assault team knocked on her door. She didn't hear the knock, but her son, who was getting himself ready for school, did. He answered the door just as the agents were preparing to use the "door bar" and break it down. As he opened the door, an agent grabbed him and threw him up against the wall, pinning him there. The agent barked out a demand for his name, and his birth date. At that moment, Mrs. Matthews, hearing the commotion, rounded the corner to the front hall and, seeing the agents, said to her son "You do not have to answer any questions." Apparently, that was the wrong thing to say at that moment, for in the next instant another armed agent had ripped the telephone out of her hand and pinned her arm up behind her back. And so it was that two families in Arizona received a brand new education into the politics of fear and intimidation. What are the facts and findings here? What events occurred which led up to this bizarre tale? Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine are the educators and founders of an educational organization named the World Community Educational Society (WCES). Mr. and Mrs. Matthews are long standing members of that society. WCES has been conducting adult distant learning classes and live telephone classes through their college for some time, a little over three years. The college also has a web site, http://www.wces.org, which hosts the classes by real audio so those students, who cannot attend the live classes, can listen to them on the web site. They have had a variety of instructors, teaching subjects ranging from the founding and operation of the Federal Reserve System, to alternative health education. There are currently thousands of students of the college, all over the world, who come to the classes and the web site regularly to receive truthful information about the banking and government systems which run the modern economic world. The membership of this society is now growing at a rate that surpasses even the largest private organizations around the world. Membership is growing faster than the AARP. (American Association of Retired People). On May 5th, 2000, many hundreds of members of this society arrived in Las Vegas to share community, to meet each other and share ideas and learn from educators from all over the world. The Securities and Exchange Commission, (SEC), recently called Mr. Zidar and Mr. Matthews into an inquiry in a courtroom in Denver, Colorado. In a series of court appearances, they were accused by the SEC of no criminal acts, nor were they presented with any evidence of wrongdoing. They were not detained, and were due to appear for yet another hearing in the Denver courtroom before the judge in June. In point of fact, the judge had made it clear in the most recent court appearance that he failed to see any evidence which would warrant a return to his courtroom by any of the parties involved, and had suggested that the agents of the government were wasting his time. He further admonished the parties to settle their differences as gentlemen. Mr. Zidar and Mr. Matthews had returned to their homes in Arizona and, shortly thereafter, attended the membership meeting of their private society in Las Vegas; a society of which this writer is a member. There is only speculation as to what prompted the events of this past Wednesday morning. Was this outright assault the gentlemanly response the judge was looking for? Perhaps someone should interview the judge and ask him. The SEC agent bringing the matter to the courtroom is the very same authorizing agent named in the "search warrant" documents. And exactly how is it that a "search warrant" becomes implemented in this form of open assault? In point of fact, simultaneous to the assault, a media spin campaign was engaged. Articles in newspapers claiming SEC "allegations" appeared in some parts of the country. Careful reading of these articles reveals that there are no "facts" presented in them, only "allegations" and hearsay. How is it that these articles came to be written? What is the mechanism by which this information is disseminated to the press? Do the agents of the government call the reporters and read them a set of "allegations" and call it "news"? How is it that the physical assaults on these innocent and not proven guilty of anything citizens has come to be called a "raid"? And what sort of system are we living in that has a language for the armed assault of its people by its civil servants, and no language to define the rights of its people in common usage? Yes, it was teachers, and some dedicated students, whose homes were raided this past Wednesday in Phoenix. Part of an educational society that is not going to bow to the pressures of gun toting "federal" agents. A society whose members will not stop learning, either. The government has become the armed militia for the banks and Americans are dumbfounded as they watch the value of their money erode and their stock markets go into a lunatic whirlwind of insane proportions. There is a great, illegal and unlawful collusion going on here, and there are many, many people finally beginning to understand that it is by virtue of this collusion that their rights have become privileges and their money has become worthless. By virtue of our ignorance, our signatures upon their documents allow the bankers to create vast sums of wealth which they in turn loan back to us, at interest, using these same instruments. And we wonder why, the harder we work the less we have. Our families are divided up into working adults and children/dependents who are financial liabilities and tax shelters to the point that no one is left at home to raise them as children, and we wonder why our culture is disintegrating around us. We turn over our responsibilities en masse to a system of governance and "order" which has wrought nothing but destruction upon our livelihoods and lifestyles and wonder why nothing changes for the better. We do not trust our own neighbors or ourselves to do the right thing, but rather entrust the authority of enforcement into the hands of bureaucrats and strangers and marvel at the deterioration of our nation. And so it is, that a man named JW Zidar, along with other pioneers around the globe, find themselves turning over their life work, their personal lives, their selfish pursuits, to a cause of education. They rise up out of the common mass of humanity and make a choice to forgo the easy path, to align themselves and their lives to finding and sharing the truth. We will not be deterred from our mission of peaceful change and education. Education that teaches people the laws of this land and encourages personal responsibility and honor in all matters. Education that is based on the fundamental principles of a free Republic and the documents and legal structures which support those fundamental principles. Not a "free democracy" but a free individual in a free Republic, where government is a servant of the people and not the tyrant reigning over them. It seems that as a people, we are choosing to awaken, and to take personal responsibility for our own minds. As members of a private society, dedicated to education and truth, we give thanks and honor to our teachers, and we hold them up in admiration and love for standing the test of assault and battery. We are not radicals or conspirators. We are educators and we are armed with the true history of a nation that has been deceived and lied to for a hundred years. It is time to stop the lie. It is time to tell the truth. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [Your Editor here again. Thanks to John A. Bennett, Libertarian candidate for Congress, for forwarding the above information.] If the "WCES Raid" kindles something within you, perhaps you will visit their site and lend them whatever support seems to you appropriate; including sending Love & Light to all parties described. The door seems to be closing rapidly in America, and throughout the world. I pray to God, and in faith, that a corresponding door is simultaneously opening. Possibly this story is a manifestation of the panic-stricken reaction of the "controllers" as they go sliding helplessly down the pitching deck of a self-destructing system. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The recent highly publicized Mothers Day marches in America for gun control prompt the airing of the following two brief items which came my way today [18 May 2000, thanks to an anonymous correspondent who requests to remain unidentified]:
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* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * I'll conclude with seven generic observations of my own, which I believe to be true, about the nature of "government" and "law." Possibly putting my name to such statements may mark me down as one designated to receive "the Phoenix treatment," or "the Waco treatment." It is certainly a sobering thought, and one I can hardly be expected to relish. However, "government" by coercion and intimidation "works" only so long as People are willing to acquiesce to coercion and intimidation. I, for one, am no longer so willing.
Love & Light, -- Harmon |
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