Bush's European Trip a Public Relations Disaster
By Joel Skousen
Nowhere has the split between the US/UK and European factions of the New
World Order been more evident than during President Bush’s first trip to
Europe. Tony Blair, despite being a radical leftist allied with the pro-Russia
European faction, is playing the dutiful role of US supporter--the
"official" British position. Blair gave Bush the thumbs up praising
the importance of the US-UK strategic relationship, but Bush’s reception
elsewhere has been cool. The Bush tour is being hounded by the constant
spectacle of placard waving leftist and environmental protesters at every stop.
Riot police had to be called out in Poland to subdue environmental
demonstrators.
The Polish visit was scheduled so that Bush could help counter the growing wave of sentiment in certain countries against EU expansion. EU membership gives each country’s citizens nearly unlimited rights to seek employment in other member countries, so there is a massive redistribution of labor forces going on in Europe that is impacting high wage-earning states like Germany. EU membership also means uniform access to special subsidies and welfare benefits. Thus poorer states like Poland threaten to absorb a larger share of the growing EU welfare budget. This is one of the main reasons why Ireland soundly rejected EU expansion. Ireland has traditionally been one of the poor states on the receiving end of the European largess. Now Ireland fears competition from other poor states. Bush (as a faithful globalist) is trying to help counter this anti-EU sentiment during his visit to Poland, touting the benefits of expansion of the EU and NATO to include the former Soviet bloc nations.
EU leaders will take all the backing they can get on this issue, but they are protesting Bush’s phony conservative agenda (which the European leftists don’t know is phony). Even though Bush is secretly backing many environmental proposals, his public rejection of the Kyoto protocols hasn’t gone over well in Europe with the radical "Greens." Neither has his anti-ballistic missile program, although there is no reason why Bush needs Europe’s or Russia’s consent to defend America. It may well be a ploy to offer another excuse for Bush to renege on his promises to the American people. As if to add insult to Mr. Bush’s discomfort on the missile issue, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin (I refuse to call him "president") and Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin met in Shanghai to reaffirm their mutual opposition to Mr. Bush’s missile defense proposals--a mere two days before Bush is to meet Putin in Slovenia. Look for smiling photo ops, but no real agreement, at this final stop in the tour.
ISRAEL CONTINUES TO WAIT FOR A CEASE-FIRE THAT ISN’T
In midweek, CIA director George Tenet had to throw in the towel and admit defeat as his US negotiating package was rejected by Arafat. Every major press service had already begun to publish the defeat when word of his imminent return reached Washington. Nevertheless, the Powers That Be (PTB) decided they weren’t going to have Tenet come home without at least the appearance of success. After a series of pointed phone calls (and secret promises) to Arafat, the two sides suddenly emerged near midnight to announce that an agreement "in principle" had been reached. Actually there was no agreement--except that all parties agreed to appear to agree. Both Arafat and Israel had a list of "exceptions" to the agreement that makes it unworkable. True to form, the war goes on and we have yet to see any cease-fire. Palestinian sniping, mortar attacks and violent demonstrations continue.
Meanwhile Israeli PM Sharon keeps up the facade of sympathy by attending funerals (which is incredibly effective for keeping the hopeful Israeli right-wing in his camp) and talking tough. But as always, his words hold little substance in defense of long-term Israeli interests. According to Arutz-7, in response to news that a top Israeli General Security Services leader, Col. Yehuda Edri, had been lured into a trap by an Arab informant and killed, Sharon was content to announce, "today's murder of Col. Edri has simply re-set the 48-hour countdown required to implement the cease-fire." According to the deal brokered by George Tenet, the Arabs must only comply with a mere 48-hour hiatus from their round-the-clock attacks before Israel must begin its withdrawal from key areas of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza strip. So rather than recognize the violation of the agreement for what it is, Sharon keeps saying, "Let’s start the clock over again" every time there is a violation. The Israeli right-wing keeps thinking Sharon is simply showing extreme forbearance, to justify his soon-to-come offensive, and are too naive to see that Sharon is hell-bent on selling out his own country to further the globalist agenda of his CFR controllers.
LOCAL POLICE AND JUDGES BECOME YES-MEN TO STATE AND FEDERAL FORCES
My greatest fear for American constitutional government has always been that local police and judges will view themselves as totally subservient to more powerful state and federal police agencies, such that the common citizen would not have recourse to local police protection during improper state or federal police actions within their own jurisdiction. Here is a real live example from a recent occurrence, illustrating the futility of a citizen’s plea to local judicial and law enforcement authorities to defend against a violation of 4th amendment rights barring improper search and seizure. I am publishing many of the details so that you can see the level of corruption that goes on in cases where government decides to "take down" a citizen--even extending to manufacturing evidence and falsifying affidavits. You will also note in the following narrative the complete confidence and arrogance of the offending officials: the impunity with which they know they can operate--and people wonder why pro-Second Amendment groups insist the right to bear arms is necessary to counter government tyranny!
This is the story of a California Franchise Tax Board (F.T.B.) raid against the business and personal property of Nick Jesson, owner of No Time Delay Electronics, Inc. in Orange County, California. Mr. Jesson is obviously upset and refers to the agents as "terrorists." That’s a little strong, but see if you agree after reading this account. I am quoting from Mr. Jesson’s own words with my emphasis added in bold or [brackets], intended to alert my readers to the presence of multiple illegal actions:
"On May 2, 2001, 25 F.T.B. Agents came into my office. They did not knock, or announce who they were. They stormed though our office doors with guns pointed at each of the 18 workers there, yelling, ‘Move away from your desk, and you will not get hurt!’ Three Agents broke though my wife's office, and all three held guns to her head. My wife is 4'10' and 95 pounds, yet the F.T.B. felt that it took three of them with guns drawn, to make sure she didn't hurt any of those poor weak F.T.B. Agents. Even with guns pointed at her head, and having her life in danger, she still had the courage to ask who they were. Their answer was they didn't need to tell her!
"Also, she asked if they had a search warrant, [and] once again she was
told they didn't need to give her a search warrant. This started at 8:45 am and
lasted until 10:55 pm. At 9:00 am I drove up to my office in shock to see the
people from my office being lead out of the building with guns at their heads!.
"Around 9:30 am the F.T.B. went to my home and raided that also. I had
asked them to at least let me call our Nanny because she was there alone, with
her 3 year old son. I was informed that that was not possible! So I told them
not to pull their same terrorist attack at my home, as they had done at my
office. When the F.T.B. arrived at my home they did knock; however, the Nanny
didn't understand who they were, and would not open the door, so they broke the
door in. While all of this was going on, the Huntington Beach and Fountain
Valley police just stood there, and watched as the Agents performed their
terrorist acts!
"After I arrived, I asked Ed Wilson for a copy of the search warrant, his
statement was that he didn't need to give it to me! However, after more than one
hour, and asking at least 10 times, Agent Wilson handed me the search warrant.
By this time the Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley police had left. As I read
the warrant I noticed that the date for the search warrant was for May 1, 2000,
yet they were raiding us on May 2, 2001. Right away I demanded that they leave
until they could return with a valid search warrant. Agent Wilson just laughed,
and walked back into my office. So I called the Huntington Beach police, and
asked them to return, and stop the crime that was going on at my office.
Huntington Beach sent over one officer. I asked him if Huntington Beach had seen
this search warrant before helping the F.T.B. with the raid. His answer was he
didn't know. At that time I pointed out that the search warrant was over one
year old. Search warrants are only good for 10 days. The officer informed me
there was nothing he could do because it wasn't his search warrant!
"For the next 14 hours a few us just sat in the parking lot and watched as
these terrorists stole 289 items from my office. I had even called the Orange
County Sheriff to come and help us. I was told they would send someone, yet not
one person came to our aid. [A Sheriff is the highest law enforcement officer in
a local jurisdiction and superior to state and federal officers--so the sheriff’s
office was negligent in exercising their overriding jurisdiction.] I was so
upset that it wasn't until the next day that we noticed that the search warrant
didn't even have my office address on it! Nor was there even a description of my
building! The only address and description on the search warrant was for my
home!
"By May 9, 2001, I had filed my ex parte motion [a petition to the court made by only one party to the suit] to quash the search warrant in violation of my 4th amendment rights. As judge James P. Marion took the bench he stated that this was not a hearing because he didn't know if he had the right to quash the search warrant. What a lie! He is the one that signed it! So once again we came back on May 14, 2001 to be heard again. Once again the judge stated that this was not a hearing, and that just the day before Agent Wilson came in with his own ex parte motion to get a 30 day extension. We were not informed of that motion at all. Judge Marion granted the 30 day extension, without my attorney being there to argue the issue. (Note, section 1534 [Calif. Code] states, that after serving the search warrant it shall be filed within 10 days). As of June 9, 2001 no charges have yet to be filed, nor has the search warrant been filed.
"Each time we have been in Court we were told that because I was not a
defendant, my 4th Amendment rights had no bearing. Well if the judge would read
the 4th Amendment, he would see that nowhere does it state that the 4th
Amendment doesn't apply unless you are charged first! If this were the case,
then that would mean that the government could come into every Citizen’s home,
at any time, without a search warrant, steal your belongings and keep them
forever, or until they file some sort of charges!
"What was the F.T.B. after? Well, after 30 days of my own research, here's
what I have found out. My ex-CFO [Chief Financial Officer] was on a 10 year
probation, which I didn't know until a few weeks ago. This CFO had stolen over
$400,000.00 from people in their 70's to 80's. She had been sentenced to 10
years in jail, yet did only 402 days at the county jail, and then was put on a
10 year probation. On March 15, 2001, the probation officer Bruce Moore raided
her place, and her boyfriend’s place, because she had stopped paying back the
money she promised to pay back. After going to court she was told she must come
up with $376,000.00 by June 28 or go to prison for the next 8 years. So she made
a deal with the DA. She told them that she could show the IRS that we had under
reported what our company made in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
"However, I was on to their game a few weeks before the raid. The IRS had sent a letter to my ex-CFO by mistake to my office. So I called the IRS Agent David Van Dyke and asked why he was sending information on my company to this CFO. His response was that I had given her Power of Attorney. I told him that was not the case and to please fax me a copy of the power of attorney. Not until three days latter did I receive the fax. Right away I knew that they were fake. Agent Van Dyke asked me how I knew they were fake. I told him that the Power of Attorney was for the period from 1995 though 2000. Agent Van Dyke said, ‘so what.’ I told him that this CFO didn't start working here until late 1999, so there was no way that she had power of attorney for those years. Plus I told Agent Van Dyke that I had a civil law suit, and criminal charges, filed against her for grand theft! At this point the IRS knew that they could not come in here, so they apparently handed it down to the F.T.B. to come in and raid us."
The government took on the wrong person in this action--a person who had his bases covered and knew how to fight back. But, think how other less savvy people would have fared in this type of government take-down. This story represents a trend that will continue until citizens pre-empt these kinds of raids by demanding that their government officials instruct local police to prepare and intervene against improper warrants. It would also help for conservatives to sponsor state legislation specifically protecting local authority in determining the validity of federal or state warrants.
WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF (excerpt) June 15, 2001 Copyright Joel Skousen. Quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief. Website: http://www.joelskousen.com
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