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"We created the federal government: we can fire it_"
Brutal police confiscation raids, unconstitutional gun seizures,
retroactive tax increases, and other recent government assaults on
middle-class Americans have stirred up a hornet's nest of anger
directed straight at Washington, D.C. Ordinary Americans are
beginning to declare their independence.
There are now state sovereignty and separatist movements in
Alaska, Hawaii, Ohio and dozens of other states. They are bipartisan.,..
and non-partisan. They just cut across the political spectrum.
At a rally last September in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Republican
state legislator Charles Duke declared:
"Folks, we've got to take our country back. The federal
government is our agent. We (the states] created it and we
can fire it, if we wish, if it does not cease and desist with
its unconstitutional mandates."
Only twice before in American history has there been a public mood
like this one. Once was just before the Civil War. The other time was
on the eve of the American Revolution. Both were wars of ideas.
With your support we will win our the war of ideas.

Dear Supporter of Liberty:
A new wave of outrages by the government against peaceful citizens has
convinced me to pull no punches in this letter.
One was a recent ABC Television News report showing a fleet of black
helicopter gun-ships flying over Indiana, manned by DEA agents and active-
duty army troops. They were looking for marijuana plants. Anyone found
near them -- and they grow wild in much of the US -- was arrested, even if
they had no connection to the plants.
The ABC report was one of the first public admissions that the
government is using our own military forces -- not against foreign enemies
-- but against ordinary US citizens, like you and me.
The military assault against US civilians in Indiana is not an isolated
incident. Navy Seals and Army Rangers are now regularly used in drug raids
throughout the country. I September, the National Guard permanentlv
stationed troops at 56 housing projects in Puerto Rico. In Anchorage,
Alaska last summer, machine gun-armed National Guard troops accompanied
state police on door-to-door, warrantless gun sweeps.
According to ABC News, in 1995 the Pentagon will spend $15 billion for
troops, helicopter gun-ships, and weapons to use against American citizens.
For the first time since the Civil War, large numbers of military troops are
being used as an elite, internal police force. All of us are at risk.

Ordinary, middle-class Americans like you and me will be the real victims.
Under the new anti-crime law, HR-3355, President Clinton can send in
BATF, DEA and FBI agents with military support to take over any "State or
part of a State" he unilaterally declares a "violent crime or drug emergency
area."
Once sent in, these agents can confiscate anyone's home, car or
business, based solely upon their susDicion of the most minor illegal
activity. You can forget about trials or hearings. None are required to
confiscate your property or hold you without trial for up to six months.
and the new confiscation squads have every incentive to steal as much as
possible. Section 180102 of the crime law says they can keep what they seize
for their "agency." There is no outside oversight.
If you think this could never happen in America, think again. It's
already happening hundreds of times a day. One friend of mine was driving
his cleaning lady back from a bus stop in San Diego when he was stopped at a
police roadblock. Because she looked Hispanic, the INS claimed she could be
an illegal alien. They confiscated my friend's car on the spot. He never got
so much as a hearing, and the INS kept his car.
Another acquaintance, Midge Durling, lives about 20 miles away in
Petaluma, California. Based upon alleged illegal activity of her mother,
police seized Midge's home, and the homes of her two adult children living
in a different state. Midge didn't live with her mother or know anything
about her alleged illegal activity. The police didn't care. A vague
suspicion was all they needed to seize everything Midge and her adult
children owned, without trial.

Your danger of becoming a confiscation victim is about to go up 100-
fold. The BATF-DEA-FBI confiscation squads called for by the new crime law
are now being trained at our military bases. The government says they're
being trained in "urban pacification." I call it wholesale looting.

When one reporter at Waco asked, "Is this the beginning of martial law in
America?", he was immediately arrested and taken off to jail.

Why haven't you heard more about use of the military against US
citizens, police confiscations, and other government outrages? A major
reason is the cowardly silence of our increasingly government-managed news
media.
Government news management was blatantly apparent durQng the Gulf War
and the invasion of Panama. Reporters were herded into tightly-controlled
press pools. The only news they were allowed to report came from official
Pentagon press releases and carefully-orchestrated news conferences.
Disturbing pictures, like scenes of injured American soldiers or dead Iraqi
civilians, were banned. Reporters regarded as unsympathetic to the military
were simply excluded.

The few correspondents for the Washington Post, ABC, and other news
services that tried to break away from the managed press pools were
harassed, delayed, detained, or arrested. Their cameras were seized, often
"accidentally" broken. CNN's Peter Arnett was actually threatened with
prosecution for treason for bro.adcasting pictures of Iraqi residential areas
hit by not-so-smart bombs.

Then came Waco. Machine gun-armed BATF agents told reporters that if
they tried to get any closer than two miles from the Branch Davidian
compound, they would face "tragic consequences."
Reporters in Waco quickly learned to ask only the right questions. When
one reporter asked, "Is this the beginning of martial law in America?," he
was immediately arrested and dragged off to jail. (No, this wasn't Moscow or
Beijing -- it was the U.S. of A.)

Mass gun confiscations have begun.

And what was the FBI's justification for besieging the Branch Davidians,
then shooting and gassing 96 innocent men, women, and children? Their public
answer was "suspected firearms violations." That was a conscious lie. Those
charges had already been investigated and rejected by Texas courts.
But when Janet Reno promised many more such operations in the near
future, she wasn't lying about that. They've already begun.
Last spring and summer, door-to-door gun sweeps without search warrants
were conducted in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Anchorage, and other cities.
In Chicago, under Operation Clean Sweep, police raided hundreds of low-
income apartments. Any guns they found -- legal or illegal -- were seized.
Gun owners were arrested as suspected drug dealers or gang members.
The government seems to be saying that if you have anything to do with
guns, you must be a criminal.


Don't look for help from Newt Gingrich.

Clinton and the new Republican Congress may not agree about much, but
they're united in their commitment to more police, more prisons, and use of
the military against American citizens.
Four years ago, Newt Gingrich proposed his "National Drug and Crime
Emergency Act" (HR 4079). This Bill would have suspended most of our Bill of
Rights.
I have a copy of HR 4079 in my hands. Section 152 allows imprisonment of
suspects who are not charged with any crime. Section 151 permits use of
illegally-seized evidence and sanctions reopening World War II Japanese-
American concentration camps.
When Gingrich announced this bill, he also called for nationwide, door-
to-door sweeps by police and National Guardsmen for illegal drugs and guns.
Happily, Gingrich's bill didn't get anywhere back in 1990. But now that
he's the Speaker of the House.-.some of HR 4079's wnrst provisions are being
incorporated in the Republican's "Take Back Our Streets" Act: a vast
expansion of imprisonment without trial, police use of illegally seized
evidence, and conversion of military bases into prisons.
Thanks to the new crime law and the Republicans' Take Back Our Streets
Act, 1-3 million more Americans will be put behind bars in the next 5 years,
most for offenses that weren't even crimes just 10 years ago.

We must stop this insanity before we lose every shred of our liberty.

I'm Vince Miller, President and Founder of the International Society for
Individual Liberty.
If you think just because you're an honest citizen, you're immune from
police confiscations, door-to-door gun sweeps, and other government assaults
on your liberty, this letter is not for you. Just toss it away.
But if, like me, you're frightened by how quickly every shred of your
liberty is being destroyed . . . if you want to learn what you can do to
protect yourself and fight back, read on.

Americans are mad as hell and starting to fight back.

We are no longer alone in our struggle for liberty.
In all my 56 years, I've never seen such massive popular discontent with
government. A recent CNN/Time Poll found that an incredible 91% of
Americans no longer believe government can solve anv social problem.
Seven states have recently passed sovereignty resolutions, declaring
federal mandates null and void if they violate state law. Several states are
now seriously considering tax strikes against Washington, D.C. And at the
grass roots, hundreds of armed citizen militias have spontaneously been
created from coast-to-coast. My estimate is at least 200,000 people have
joined.
We can turn this growing public outrage at government into an effective
grass-roots movement to reclaim our heritage of liberty. That's precisely
what my organization, the International Society for Individual Liberty, is
 doing: Providing people across the country with the information, ideas,
tools, and contacts they need to stop Big Brother. We're converting vague
popular discontent and misdirected anger into a successful movement to
reclaim our heritage of liberty.

3,127 calls, letters and faxes in two weeks.

Last spring one of our ISIL directors was on the nationally-broadcast
Gene Burns radio program for 90 minutes, exposing the details of Hillary's
health care plan. He spoke right after Health and Human Services Secretary
Donna Shalala, who claimed it was a "private plan" that would reduce
government control of health care!
Our director demolished Shalala's lies by reading directly from Hillary's
Health Security Act. In the Act's own words, millions of radio listeners
learned how Hillary's plan created dozens of health care crimes, with criminal
penalties of up to 15 years in prison for both doctors and patients.
Our Director went on to quote from pages 952 and 953 which state that
doctors can have all of their assets confiscated and be imprisoned for life
if they followed their own judgment rather than the decrees of health care
bureaucrats! (Funny, Donna never mentioned that.)
At ISIL, our phones immediately starting ringing off the hook. In just a
few weeks, we received 3,127 calls, letters, and faxes from outraged
listeners. Many people ordered hundreds of copies of our issue papers on
Hillary's plan (some ordered thousands of copies).
That broadcast and several follow-ups, along with our pamphlets, alerted
 literally millions of Americans that Hillary's plan would have created
medical police state in America. They helped stop the plan cold.

Five million Americans hear one of our directors
on a national C-SPAN broadcast.
Other examples of ISIL success in building an effective liberty
movement:
-- Rolling back draconian asset forfeiture laws. We've distributed over
200,000 copies of our "Looting of America" issue paper on asset
forfeiture laws. This highly effective pamphlet has been used in state
and federal congressional testimony and at jury trials. Thanks in part
to this ISIL issue paper, several states, including California and New
Jersey have repealed outrageous asset forfeiture laws.
-- Reaching millions of Americans through TV and radio. Another one of our
directors has appeared on dozens of local and national radio and TV
programs in the last six manths,she has also appeared before dozens of
professional conferences, libertarian groups, and before a United
Nations committee in Canada.
Her quiet, low-keyed approach has informed millions of the FDA's
attempts to ban vitamins, built opposition to the government takeover of
your health care, and clearly explained the libertarian alternative to
the welfare state.

ISIL is the "Johnny Appleseed" of the liberty movement.

For 25 years, ISIL has been spreading ideas both in the US and
throughout the world, turning isolated individuals into effective activists
and powerful networks.
Our Johnny Appleseed strategy has helped the liberty movement bloom in the
U.S. and has created liberty movements in countries no one would have dreamed
of 20 years ago: Russia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, and Nigeria.
There are now ISIL members and representatives in over 80 countries. Some
are affecting the course of nations. In South Africa, advisory board member
Leon Louw has taught over 1.5 million South Africans about free market
economics through his "With Justice For All" seminars. He and his wife,
Frances Kendall, have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for their plan
to defuse ethnic and racial conflicts through decentralizing power.
ISIL created the first pan-European liberty movement -- a network of
free market foundations, educational groups and decentralist projects.
In both the US and throughout the world, ISIL's "Johnny Appleseed"
strategy is changing the course of human events.

Join an effective liberty movement and get
six benefitts you can use Immediately.

As an ISIL member, you'll keep informed of threats to your liberty, and
receive these six benefits you can use immediately:

MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT #1: A free subscription to our popular FREEDOM NETWORK
NEWS newsletter (a S35 value). In upcoming issues, you'll learn about . . .
 -- The deployment of military forces against American citizens. You get the
latest on the federalization of the National Guard for use in drug and
gun confiscation raids. You'll also learn about joint Russian-American
military training exercises -- Operation Peacekeeper II -- scheduled for
the US this coming summer.
--  The assault on our children. In FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS you'll learn how
Outcome Based Education substitutes conformance to the politically-
correct government line for academic skills. You'll also read about
proposals now being discussed in Washington to license parents.
- Bringing the KGB to America. Learn the real purpose of FBI Director
Louis Freeh's recent trips to Moscow, and how he wants to "harmonize" US
and Russian laws by vastly increasing the power and reach of agencies
like the FBI.
-- The formation of popular citizens' militias in Montana, California,
Texas, Michigan and many other states, and how their mere existence may
deter arrogant bureaucrats.
--  How government property confiscations are killing people. In a recent
issue of our newsletter, readers learned how 18 elderlv neonle died
after the IRS seized their Ohio nursing home in the dead of winter and
forcibly evicted all residents. (This is the type of story you just
don't see in the New York Times.) When Senator Howard Metzenbaum
demanded an explanation, the IRS responded: it was an "extremely
routine" seizure.
--  How to protect your privacy and assets from grasping IRS agents, police
confiscation squads, sue-happy lawyers, and other snoops. ISIL's
Financial Privacy expert, Mike Ketcher, shows you how in his FREEDOM
NETWORK NEWS "Privacy Defender" column.
You'll learn about computer encryption so good even the CIA can't
break it . . . how to buy gold and silver stored in Switzerland with no
IRS reporting requirement . . . how to protect your car, bank account
and business from police confiscations . . . and many other effective
privacy strategies.
Following just one suggestion from our Privacy Defender column could
save you 10-times the cost of an ISIL membership.

--  The federal government's insane plan to poison all the fish in Catron Country.
Countv. Catron County, New Mexico has been in near revolt against the
federal government for several years because of EPA regulations that are
preventing people from farming their own land.
In FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS you'll learn residents' response to Forest
Service plans to poison all the fish in County creeks, ostensibly to
replace them later with an endangered species.
--  California's new car confiscation law -- how 2 million Californians are
now in danger of losing their cars for good, without any trial, for such
offenses as driving on an expired license tag.
--  What's worse than a national ID card? Try an irremovable electronic ID
microchip injected in your body.
Science fiction? Wild paranoia? These biochips already exist, and
   their uses are growing. Sematech of Austin, Texas has a new computer
chip 1/200th the size of a human hair. American Veterinary
Identification Devices and two other companies are now marketing
injectable ID chips for pets for $20 to $35.
The Colorado State Judicial System is now investigating injecting
prisoners and parolees. A system called "KIDSCAN," using satellite
monitoring to locate injected children, is being developed by an Arizona
company.
You'll learn much more about this frightening new technology in an
upcoming issue of Freedom Network News.

HENEFIT #2: A comDlete set of all 30 ISIL Issue Papers plus new titles
as they are issued.
You will receive Jacob Hornberger's stirring case for keeping gun
ownership legal -- "Gun Control, Patriotism, and Civil Disobedience," Dr.
Mary Ruwart's explanation of how we can reconcile individual liberty and
environmental concerns in "The Pollution Solution," and Jarret Wollstein's
shocking expose' on how police can now confiscate anyone's home, bank
accounts, or business without trial, "The Looting of America."
ISIL issue papers give you the information you need to win arguments
with your liberal friends, write effective letters to the editor, and
explain the ideas of liberty -- quickly and easily.
HENEFIT #3:Our ISIL-Net Computer Bulletin Board. Participate in
liberty debates with people around the world. Download our
Constitutional research library. Access the latest news bulletins on
pending legislation in Congress, police confiscation raids, and growing
grassroots resistance. Call up electronic copies of ISIL's US
publications and hundreds of articles from the British Libertarian
Alliance and Groundswell South Africa.
BENEFIT #4: Our exclusive "Index On Liberty" international directory of
libertarian organizations and publications (a $15 value).
BENEFIT #5: 10-50% discounts on books and tapes ordered from our
exclusive Freedom's Forum book catalogs.
BENEFIT #6: Discounts on all ISIL US & International Conferences. Save
$50 each on our Financial Privacy Conference in San Francisco this June,
and our International Libertarian Conference in Athens, Greece in
October 1995.

Free bonus video tape set: "Waco, The Big Lie,"                                          "                  ,i
(A $40 value.)

Using footage taken directly from  satellite feeds and eyewitness
accounts you'll see for yourself how  96 innocent men, women and children
were deliberately murdered in Waco --  and learn the shocking reasons why.
You'll see dozens of armed BATF and FBI agents firing machine guns into
buildings filled with women and children. You'll see an unarmed Branch
Davidian shot in the back when he tries to enter the compound. And you'l1
see how the fire at the compound really started.
These tapes are not merely disturbing, but utterly terrifying. They can
 help rouse your friends and neighbors out of complacency. They could even
help prevent your family from being the next BATF victims.

Save S91 when vou join ISIL now

The total value of the membership benefits listed above -- the FREEDOM
NETWORK NEWS subscription, complete set of 30 ISIL issue papers, discounts
at our US and international conventions, computer bulletin board access
code, 10-50% book and tape discounts, our Index On Liberty directory, and
all the other membership benefits -- is at least $175.
But when you join ISIL now, in celebration of our 25th Anniversary, vour
cost is iust S84 for evervthina -- you save $91.
Your ISIL membership is also tax-deductible. ISIL is recognized by the
IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. The IRS will give you a $25
rebate. What a pleasure. You help rid the country of these parasites, and
they pay you to do it!
Joining ISIL is easy. Just pick up the telephone and call Susan at (415)
864-0952, Monday through Saturday, 10 am until 7 pm, PDT, or charge your
membership on your VISA or MasterCard by faxing (415) 864-7506 anytime. You
can also drop the enclosed order form in the mail.
As soon as I receive your order, I'll rush your new member packet to
you, with your first issue of FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS, 30 ISIL issue papers,
and computer access code, and the bonus Waco video tapes.
Help us convert massive popular discontent with government into an
effective force for liberty. Learn how to protect yourself. Help us stop
the government's outrageous assaults on our property and lives, while we
still can. Pick up the phone and join ISIL now.
Sincerely yours,
.


Vincent Miller, Founder and President
International Society for Individual Liberty
P.S. Would you like to learn how to place your assets out of reach of the
government's arsenal of confiscation laws? How to store valuables in a way
that makes them nearly invisible to the IRS, sue-happy lawyers, and robbers?
How to legally buy gold and silver stored in Switzerland that has no U.S.
reporting requirement? Discover low-profile alternatives to your checking
and savings accounts? How to protect the privacy of your telephone and fax
calls?
You'll learn all of these techniques and hundreds more in "The Closing
Door: The end of financial privacy in America and how to protect yourself"
by Mike Ketcher, Editor of the Financial Privacy Report.
This $68, 262-page financial privacy manual is yours free if you join
ISIL for two vears under this 25th Anniversary Membership offer. When you
join for two years, you will also receive all of the other membership
benefits listed in this letter for two full years. That's a 5350 value, for
just $156. You save 5194.

International Society for Individual Liberty
1800 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone (415) 864-0952 Fax (415) 864-7506
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Dave Feustel N9MYI      Internet:<feustel@netcom.com>
219-483-1857            Compuserve:<73532,1747>

Has anyone noticed that NEITHER the Republicans NOR the Democrats have
displayed ANY interest in repealing EITHER the [unconstitutional]
Martial Law or Search & Seizure provisions of the 1993 Crime Bill?

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