Chapter 17 -  What You Need To Know About Real Estate & Terrorism Risk

Chapter 18 -  Solutions To New Regulatory Burdens and Risks
Case Study # 10 Inadequate Due Diligence
Case Study # 11  Be Careful When Banking Offshore
Case Study # 12  The Snitch Factor

Section Five - How To Build Safe Protected Wealth

Chapter 19 - New & Enhanced Post 9/11 Wealth Planning & Protection Techniques

Chapter 20 - How To Choose an Investment Or Wealth Planning Advisor 

Chapter 21 - The Swiss Inner Circle

Chapter 22 - Other Global Consultants, Publications & Organizations 

Section Six - You’ve Protected Your Wealth Now Restore Your Liberty 
 
Chapter 23 -  Back To The Articles: Restoring the Republic With the Swiss Confederation Institute     

Chapter 24 – FreedomFest: Where Free Minds Meet  

Chapter 25- Don't Delay: Start Today To Preserve Your Wealth & Liberty  

Chapter 26 - Are You Willing To Pay the High Price For Freedom?  

Case Studies  

Resource Guide  

About the Author  

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Modern Day Government Theft Has Even Created A Major Industry

       During the last 50 years, an entire industry and special interest lobbying group has sprung up in the western world as an intermediary between the government pillagers and the pillaged. It is the financial services industry: accountants, stockbrokers, bank services, insurance companies, lawyers and financial planners.  They have become major political special interests with very strong lobbyist groups in Washington DC.

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."   -- Ronald Reagan

       For what it is worth, stockbrokers may well be the world's fifth oldest profession, following in the "proud tradition" of prostitutes, pimps, politicians, and tax collectors. Author Gore Vidal said it best (see quotation below), for if you are trying to protect your wealth, without a strong wealth preservation strategy, you probably will not have the time, desire or money for the first two professions.

"Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."        -- Gore Vidal, 1983

       On a positive note, these industries do work to reduce and delay political wealth attacks.  The byproducts of their “work” are compromised efforts between the different financial interest groups as to which segment will be allowed to provide a product or service to counter the latest tax or regulation. Still, all that these American financial service providers accomplish is to delay the receipt of government revenues, as the wealth flows through financial products with the related fees and costs taking a toll on your investment wealth before it is finally taxed. Such is the case with tax deferred annuities, insurance vehicles and qualified retirement plans.

       There are several problems with the financial services sector and related industries that impact American investors interested in offshore asset protection and global investing.  First, their existence and political power guarantees that in the U.S. there will never be a simple, uncomplicated flat tax of any type. This would ruin their profits, revenues and the need for most of their services.  Government bureaucracies like the IRS, the legal profession, and the entire financial services industry benefit from the complexity of the present tax system.

       Second, these industries have spawned their own lobbying groups in Washington. This has been one of the main reasons why it is so difficult for American investors to invest in offshore products that are not registered in the United States. The lobbying group for your U.S. investment professional does what it can to inhibit foreign competition by placing very restrictive barriers on foreign firms and products to protect their monopoly position.

       Finally, the financial services industries and others like it limit foreign competition and products that have been developed to safeguard and preserve your wealth.  As a result, it is quite difficult and time consuming to purchase these types of products. Such are the barriers to real asset protection and offshore investing, resulting in a financial iron curtain with American citizens cut off from many offshore investment alternatives freely available to most investors outside the United States.  Plan on government plunder always being with us in this and future generations. If the situation, due to terrorist attacks or a series of financial panics, ever takes a major turn for the worse, then your unprotected assets in the U.S. will be even more at risk and it will be too late to protect them.

       Just as in the past, do not expect history to reveal much about confiscation of your wealth. Chances are, if wealthy productive Americans over time should discover most of their wealth, private property, and freedoms confiscated in the future, our history will be as silent about the act as was the Bolshevik pillage of private property and freedoms in the early years of the Soviet Union. 

       Government theft both externally and internally will continue in the future, and we will always have to render unto Caesar what is his-- but what remains after taxes we should work very hard to protect and defend.  I urge you to build a protected nest egg outside the nation where you reside, in order to have some protection and defense against government bureaucracies that are out of control, the threatening legal system, and individuals out to plunder your wealth.

       There is really no time to wait.  It is perfectly possible that the United States could prohibit the movement of private funds across borders during a financial crisis or emergency, so act now while it is legal to transfer a portion of your wealth offshore and out of harms way. Keep in mind that wealth confiscation has happened before and will happen again in the United States. Take action now to protect your wealth before a real or contrived financial crisis takes your American wealth hostage by exchange controls.

"If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all, because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them."        -- George Bernard Shaw

For Additional Reading and Research Regarding This Chapter

Armenian Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide 

Section Two - The New Threats From Terrorism & Foreign Policy Risk

Chapter 6 - 21st Century Washington Regulatory Risks From The War On Terror

Talking Points:  America's responses to 9/11 and the War on Terror, like the Patriot Acts, Homeland Security Act, and the destruction of offshore money centers and financial privacy, have increased the government threat to your existing wealth.  Learn about the new legislation following 9/11 and existing directives including Presidential Executive Orders and Presidential Directives that could threaten your wealth and remaining liberties. Following this chapter is Case Study #5, titled “The Final Presidential Executive Order”, which describes what could happen in a worst case situation following another terrorist attack on the United States. Note, this case study is an attempt to illustrate how our politicians could over react in a crisis response with a wide range of controls and limitations shown for illustrative purposes only as I do not expect anything this extreme to actually happen.

The War on Terror

Following the horrendous 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration issued executive orders to accomplish the following objectives:

1. Broadened the definition of terrorist.  This gives the president, or anyone so designated by the president, the right to label any individual or organization as a "terrorist" without a court order, evidence or additional proof. This immediately freezes the assets of the person or entity in question. Please note that in the future, the new definition could be expanded to cover any liberal, anti-war advocates, or traditionally conservative groups and individuals.  In other words, any individual or group the government feels may threaten their position.

2.  Closure of U.S. financial markets to 'suspect' institutions.  Washington can close U.S. financial markets to any country or banking institution that they claim have facilitated terrorist transactions.  This includes any institution that maintained any terrorist funds involved in any such acts even if the institution or nation was unaware of such activities. Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty?"  Read Case Study # 10 in Chapter 16, titled “Inadequate Due Diligence.”

3. The option to end all private contracts with 'suspect' terrorists.  Finally they now have the option to end all private contracts involving such persons or organizations labeled as terrorists.   Although these new executive orders were issued in the aftermath of 9/11, innocent American and foreign investors have much to fear from these actions.  The problem is that unpopular or non-establishment political organizations and individuals can now be labeled as “terrorists”, and once under federal investigation, all assets can be frozen and unavailable for investment, liquidation, or use in legal actions to defend them from potential false charges or to unfreeze the assets.

       This financial freeze is further complicated by the fact that individuals, including U.S. citizens, can now be subjected to indefinite detention and jail time without the right to the courts, the benefit of counsel, or even being charged with a crime. Individuals may also be imprisoned and held incommunicado without the right and opportunity to contact their family, loved ones, supporters, or even a lawyer. The courts have generally held in the past that these types of unconstitutional infringements are legal for the president to employ during times of war. The fact that the United States has not been in a legally declared “war” since 1945 does not appear to have impressed the "rubber stamp" Supreme Court.

       Now I expect some readers will say that this is just fear mongering, and that the President of the United States would never use an Executive Order to take our wealth or property unless the nation were in a major crisis situation. Well, suggest that to the people of Southern Utah. They are very much aware of the Clinton Executive Order in which the President created the 1.7 million acre Escalante-Staircase National Monument in Utah, without any consultation with the Utah Governor, or their members of the Senate and the House of Representatives.  Evidently, the precedent has been established to use this power even in everyday policy matters.

       The power of Executive Orders and the Patriot Act make the United States a risky place for American and foreign investors (especially Arab nations and/or private investors) to hold their wealth. For example, law enforcement can now apply for wiretaps and surveillance against innocent American citizens using the conditions once required for foreign intelligence work.  If a government agent wants to wiretap you, all he has to indicate is that he is trying to gather foreign intelligence-- and the tap is in place without review, constitutional protections or any reason to question illegal activities.

       The current War on Terror and Washington’s foreign policy means the United States will remain in a terrorist war with the related costs, threats, and attacks on our liberty for many years to come. This will translate into more national or financial emergencies that will continue to threaten our remaining liberties and, not to mention, the narrow thread by which the Constitution hangs.
 

Ron Fact, Book & Video Recommendations: For This Page:
The War on Terror and the Islamic terror threat is the biggest single immediate threat that could impact the private wealth and savings of many Americans. Readers should protect some of their wealth in a secure safe environment outside the United States now because if you wait for the terrorist attack or Washington's reaction to an attack, it will be too late. - Ron Holland

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. Covering "what went wrong," "why untrammeled executive power" is bad for America and what can be done "to reestablish the checks and balances that define our government
 

 

The Federal Register: Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders 
www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification

Case Study # 5 - The Final Presidential Executive Order
www.swissconfederationinstitute.org/finalpresidentialexecutiveorder.htm

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