Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:25:22 -0700 (PDT) From: samadams1776@yahoo.com (Sam Adams) Subject: [protectyourstuff] Protectyourstuff.com Weekly Newsletter; June 24, 2001 To: protectyourstuff@yahoogroups.com, AmericanConstitution@onelist.com Reply-To: protectyourstuff@yahoogroups.com
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I. WEEKLY PURE TRUST Q&A CONFERENCE CALL II. MANAGING DIRECTORS TRAININ WORKSHOP; DENVER, COLORADO; JULY 28TH & 29TH III. ONE STEP CLOSER TO A POLICE STATE IV. US REP THREATENS FBI BUDGET OVER CARNIVORE V. TAKING YOUR FIRST STEP VI. PROTECTYOURSTUFF.COM MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL!!!
I. WEEKLY PURE TRUST Q&A CONFERENCE CALL
Each week we conduct a Question & Answer forum Conference Call for the benefit of our clients and anyone else who wishes to learn the Truth about Pure Trusts.
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Monday July 25th 8:30 PM Eastern Time Zone (918)222-7032 Passcode: 5847#
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II. MANAGING DIRECTORS TRAINING WORKSHOP; DENVER, COLORADO; JULY 28TH & 29TH
MANAGING DIRECTORS WORKSHOP
July 28 - 29
Saturday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Sunday 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
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Free shuttle service is available to and from Denver airport.
Registration with FFA does NOT reserve your hotel room but reserves a seat for the workshop ONLY. Be sure to register for BOTH as these are separate registrations.
TOPICS
It is time again to sharpen those pencils to make copious notes regarding the day to day operation of a Pure Trust Organization. We will be discussing the operation of the trusts as they apply to those "in the system" and those "out of the system".
We will tackle:
Privacy issues Providers for privacy services Titling of real property Titling of personal property Interfacing with LLCs and LLPs Accounting assistance Proper structuring for maximum tax relief Proper structuring for maximum asset protection What the IRS really has to say about PTOs How to leave assets to selected beneficiaries How to avoid probate How to avoid long term capital gains How to avoid transfer taxes How to sell real estate without activating a "due on sale" clause How to use a PTO to make investments in the stock market How I can get my lawyer, accountant to understand a PTO How to get cars insured every time using a PTO How to insure the home using a PTO How to insure commercial property using a PTO How to tell your friends about the advantages of a PTO
How to send your kids to college with tax free funds How to build a retirement program that has no restrictions on distributions, loans, or when the income may be activated AND MORE
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III. ONE STEP CLOSER TO A POLICE STATE Terence Corcoran, National Post
Claiming to be fighting a valiant war on crime, governments around the world -- but especially in Canada -- are actually fighting an escalating war on people.
This includes Ottawa's draconian "money-laundering" regulations. If you send $15,000 in cash to pay for your grandmother's hip replacement at a U.S. hospital, your name will go on the list of potential money launderers.
Privacy? Freedom? Guilt? Innocence? Forget it. Under some definition, sending cash into the U.S. health-care system probably is money laundering.
Another manifestation of Ottawa's war on people at the expense of individual freedom is Bill C-24, a law to fight organized crime. Introduced last April, C-24 whipped through final third reading on Wednesday, just before the MPs fled Ottawa with their pockets stuffed with the proceeds of organized politics.
The new law vastly expands government power and gives police the right to break the law to enforce the law. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has called parts of the legislation "evil," but that didn't faze the government.
People who tried to follow C-24 on its rapid run through the Commons say it is as bad in the final version as it was the day it was introduced.
Provincial and local governments have their own power- expansion ambitions and are more than ready to hand police fresh authority to stomp on basic rights. Ontario last month reintroduced its own infamous organized crime legislation, noted mostly for giving government the ability to seize the assets of innocent people if prosecutors think the assets were acquired, directly or indirectly, through some organized criminal activity.
That these laws go overboard and trample on people's rights nobody seriously doubts. Oddly, though, it's not until the laws and regulations are on the books that people begin to realize how much power governments have taken and how many rights have been lost. The federal money laundering law, which sets up a new federal money laundering agency to monitor every transaction over $10,000, passed last year with plenty of warning. But now that the law is in place, law societies are calling for amendments. There is also growing recognition the law will do nothing to stop organized crime.
It's a little late for these concerns. Banks, investment houses and others are also trying to fight regulations that would impose massive paper-pushing and monitoring costs-- estimated at up to $100-million -- and turn bankers, lawyers and accountants into government spies on their customers. It's not a police state yet, but the laws are in place to create one should anyone get the urge.
The common thread running through these money-laundering and other anti-crime laws around the world leads straight to Washington and the most futile crime crusade since prohibition: the war on drugs.
Hundreds of billions of dollars, global prosecution regimes and out of controlpolice actions are doing little to stop the drug trade. But they are lining the pockets of bureaucrats and police workers and laying the groundwork for institutionalized state control.
The international rhetorical campaign against money laundering, organized crime and so-called "gang" laws, has escalated into what one legal specialist called a "regulatory jihad." The objective is to enroll the whole world in the U.S. drug war. The enrolment technique is to grossly exaggerate the crime.
Ottawa's money laundering legislation was adopted on the grounds that somewhere between $5-billion and $17-billion in crime proceeds were being washed through Canada every year.
Those bogus numbers were concocted by a consultant who defined money laundering as an "economic crime." It's a handy catch-all that included insurance fraud ($2.5-billion), cellular phone fraud ($650-million), stock market fraud ($3-billion), telemarketing fraud ($4-billion).
Even if these numbers are accurate, and they look wildly implausible, most of the crimes have nothing to do with money laundering or the drug industry.
The New Yorker magazine estimated last year that the U.S. government spends US$16-billion a year on the war on drugs. State and local governments another US$24-billion. The result is two million people in prison, up from 750,000 a year ago. But the number of drug addicts has not changed.
Where do Canada's governments get such enthusiasm for joining this absurd U.S. war -- and at such expense to Canadians' rights and protetions? The new laws expand police powers, break down the trust between bankers and customers, and between lawyers and clients, and give governments new authority to prosecute and harass innocent people.
The U.S. war on drugs is fast becoming a Canadian war on Canadians. And we don't even have a drug problem worth worrying about.
Article found at: http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/column ists/story.html?f=/stories/20010615/592212.html
IV. US REP THREATENS FBI BUDGET OVER CARNIVORE By Thomas C Greene in Washington
US Representative and House Majority Leader Richard Armey (Republican, Texas) has steadily denounced the FBI's packet-sniffing apparatus known as Carnivore since it was first unveiled by a proud Reno DoJ a year ago.
But now, bolstered by a recent US Supreme Court decision which affirms in no uncertain terms the right of privacy in the home, Armey is playing hardball, making it clear that he's prepared to use the Congressional grip on funds allocated to the Federal Bureaucracy against the Department of Justice if Carnivore isn't de-fanged and brought to heel.
The two chief problems with Carnivore are that it enables the Feds to monitor and record packet traffic other than that associated with the subject; and that it contains inadequate auditing mechanisms to ensure that over-zealous operators who peek at data they're not authorized to see can be caught in the act, as we explained here.
This week Armey sent a letter to US Attorney General John Ashcroft, urging him to re-consider Carnivore in light of the Supreme Court's ban on certain types of high-tech surveillance.
"It is reasonable...to ask whether the Internet surveillance system formerly known as "Carnivore".... undermines the minimum expectation that individuals have that their personal electronic communications will not be examined by law enforcement devices unless a specific court warrant has been issued," Armey says.
He also perceives the Reno-DoJ's soothing technica review of Carnivore to be a whitewash:
"Your predecessor, Attorney General Janet Reno, reluctantly undertook a review of Carnivore last year in an attempt to address these concerns. That review, however, seemed to raise more questions about the system than it answered. The review team ultimately selected was found to have clear political ties to the Clinton Administration."
This is nothing unusual for Armey, who has openly loathed Carnivore from day one. What's new is the possibility of jamming up the DoJ's budget, a move we attribute to confidence based on the Supremes' strong words in defense of privacy.
"If necessary he would consider using Congress's power of the purse to pull the plug on Carnivore," Armey aide Richard Diamond is quoted by Reuters as saying.
The Congressman may be preaching to the choir here, as Ashcroft gained a reputation as a privacy fundamentalist during his tenure in the US Senate on behalf of Missouri.
Then again, being Attorney General may bring 'new perspectives' on privacy, and Ashcroft has yet to signal whether or not the job is affecting his judgment in that realm.
Armey plays on that reputation subtly as he challenges Ashcroft to do the right thing:
"Because I am confident that you will take a much more constructive approach to this issue, I wanted to share my privacy concern with you directly. I believe the FBI is making a good-faith effort to fight crime in the most efficient way possible. But I also believe the Founders quite clearly decided to sacrifice that kind of efficiency for the sake of protecting citizens from the danger of an overly intrusive government," he says.
Readers wishing to encourage Representative Armey in fighting the good fight may send a memo to this e-mail address: tx26@legislators.com
Article found at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/19756.html
V. TAKING YOUR FIRST STEP
Motivational speakers define the first step of any successful endeavor as taking action. That action spurs the conscious and subliminal sections of your brain to begin working toward that goal. The body of research delving into human development reveals that the human mind will not initiate any action if there is doubt.
The government and banks understand this process quite well. By heaping on confusing regulations or policies that keep the usual investor safe and at home, under their watchful eyes.
But what if you weren't made from that mold?
Well, the information of doubt starts heading your way, just to put a hitch in your independence swing. When it comes investing offshore, that causes a lot of hiccups in the financial world. That's why if you mention it to a domestic financial advisor tax accountant or bank official, you will hear something on the same lines as "underhanded" or "hiding something."
There's a bit of truth to that. Why would you want anyone except your loved ones to have what is yours? It's a fundamental right to privacy (ARTICLE IV of the Bill of Rights) that jump-started theUnited States over two hundred years ago!
There is the ever-present reporting requirement. It's been said if you send a deposit of more than $10 thousand dollars to an offshore bank, you must report it to the government. The law (P.L. 91-508, 31 USC 5316) requires only the reporting of the transportation of "currency or certain monetary instruments" in an amount exceeding $10 thousand dollars.
Layman's definition: you may move as much money you want offshore, at any time, without reporting it to anyone, as long as you don't send U.S. silver certificates, U.S. notes and Federal Reserve notes, (i.e. cash and coins).
This doesn't include bank checks or other negotiable instruments usually accepted as money. You can bring and send offshore a check or money order in the name of an offshore bank or to yourself.
How many people are going to spend whatever free time they have looking for the loopholes to take the road less traveled? That's why perceptive independent investors look for opportunities away from the investor stampede to mutual funds.
The first order in realizing financial freedom is to find a financial mentor who will steer you in the right direction. Take that first step today!
VI. PROTECTYOURSTUFF.COM MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL!!!
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We do so in order to discuss matters that we can not offer to the general public. This could be considered as advice by some.
In our members section you will find:
The Pure Trust book, "The Uses and Advantages of Pure Trust Systems" written by the director of Financial Fortress Associates. This book discusses an actual court case of someone who used a Pure Trust the wrong way and how to avoid the same mistakes. It also discusses the infamous Internal Revenue Notice 97-24 on "busting trusts" and where it doesn't apply to Constitutional Pure Trusts.
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