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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Chapter 13 - Don't Depend On American Democratic Institutions to Protect You in the Future?

Talking Points: Political action by private citizens in our special interest controlled democracy is almost meaningless. The only vote you can make that really matters is to vote for wealth preservation by moving a portion of your wealth to a protected strategy and program offshore. Engaging in the political process might make you feel better personally but seldom with itchange the direction of this nation or lessen the threat to your liberties and wealth. Nothing will change until the electorate is educated on the benefits of a return to a decentralized, confederation-style republic as America had under the Articles of Confederation and as exists today in Switzerland.

"President Bush, the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party have proved to the entire world that the American people have no voice. The American people have no more ability to affect their government’s policy than inmates in a gulag would have." - Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

       In the novel 1984, so powerful was the state control over people’s minds that eventually everyone came to love Big Brother. One could ask today what would it take to turn America into the kind of society that Orwell warned about - a society that envisions war as peace, freedom as slavery, and ignorance as strength?  Much of the transition warned about in 1984 has already been established in the US. 

       This might be an extreme statement in the eyes of many readers but take a quick look at how your financial privacy has eroded. Then come to your own conclusion about how a 1984- style Big Brother society is present and thriving today in the United States.

Below is a real-world scenario of how our liberties have been destroyed. Each regulation listed below is pervasive in today's economic life but were non-existent in 1970.2

Ø All banking records photographed for Big Brother to see at will.

Ø All stock and securities transactions reported to the tax man.

Ø All real estate transactions reported to the tax man.

Ø All interest, dividends, etc. reported to the tax man.

Ø All part time work, even babysitters and teenage garden helpers reported to the tax man.

Ø All barter transactions reported to the tax man. Like neighborly affairs: "I'll help you with your rec room; you help me put in a new lawn." Big deal!

Ø All gambling winnings of significance reported to the IRS: casinos, race track, lotteries, etc.

Ø All foreign accounts, holdings, trusts, reported to the tax man.

Ø U.S. citizens living abroad, reported to the IRS by the U.S. Customs, on returning home.

Ø Passport applicants abroad must report to the IRS.

Ø Travelers checks and cash over $10,000 reported on leaving or entering the U.S.

Ø Any moderately large cash deposits or withdrawals from your bank account reported to the IRS.

Ø Heavy fines on banks for not reporting the above.

Ø A multitude of fiscal penalties for failing to comply with a myriad of petty tax rules, however innocent or inadvertent.

Ø Surveillance and penalties on tax preparers when preparing an inaccurate return.

Ø Tax shelters must be reported (whatever that means).

Ø Harsh and long prison terms for tax offenders far in excess of what violent criminals receive.

       There is no doubt that the initial genius of The United States was a political system and a legal system that were created to defend the property and liberties of the American people.  However, by reviewing the new regulations described above, which directly attack our personal and financial privacy, it is clear where our political establishment is heading concerning your wealth and financial security. This long list of defeats for financial freedom should persuade every American with substantial savings and wealth to diversify more offshore, away from the U.S. financial and legal system. All it will take is a massive financial panic or another successful terrorist attack on Wall Street, or other economic targets, and the door will slam shut on your wealth and remaining liberties here in the United States.

       Can our political action today influence the political establishment, redirecting it to once again defend our wealth and liberty? I believe the answer is a definite "no".   Both the Democrat and Republican Parties and their candidates are so dependent on funding by special interests and their lobbying groups that the relative disorganized Americans in the private sector will continue to fight a losing battle in defense of tax breaks, wealth preservation, and individual rights. 

American Democracy Today is Mob Rule - Pure and Simple

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."                          --  Thomas Jefferson

       Today we have a pure representative democracy where everyone has the opportunity to vote and, as Jefferson warned, are now using the ballot box to vote themselves programs and benefits from our tax dollars in the public treasury.  Even this trend is a minor problem compared to the total political power of corporate and foreign special interests over our government. The fact that special interest groups promote programs and benefits not only costs us government revenue, but foreign and corporate special interests cost us even more money.  Moreover, the money we are losing to them is also combined with unbalanced and aggressive foreign policies, which are now making the United States a pariah nation in the eyes of much of the world in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

       Contrast this special interest control to the early years of our Republic.  Then, voting had property restrictions to prevent the system from degenerating into what it is today. Since productive Americans are far outnumbered at the voting booth and out-represented by the lobbyists in Washington on the payroll of foreign and domestic special interests, you can expect more of the same in terms of increasing taxes, fewer deductions, and more attempts to steal the wealth you have worked so hard to earn in the private sector. This is not a pretty picture, but I fear it is an accurate view of the next few decades.

       There is no question that America has the strongest and most technologically advanced military in the world today. We can meet and defeat any other military on the planet with the possible exception of a land war against China. The United States is safe against conventional military attack and threats. However the threat is not in conventional forces or conventional attack, but rather the threat of state or terrorist organization-sponsored attacks. In this kind of war, no one really knows the nation or group behind the attack which benefits those out to destroy the U.S. or others out to use our military power for their own corporate or national interests.

       America cannot hope to defend itself against the terrorist threat and, in fact, most of our attempts to counter this threat actually increase the risk and further erode our individual freedoms and liberties at home. The terrorism threat to America, specifically to our financial system, is one of the more serious risks to your wealth and liberty during the next few years.  I cannot stress enough the importance of protecting your portfolio accordingly.

       As for the American legal system there is no reason to believe any legal or tort reform will be more than a publicity gimmick to take some heat off the trial lawyers associations. Our legal establishment and lobbyist groups have bought their way into Washington and are now one of our nation's most powerful special interests. You can forget political or legal action to defend your liberty or wealth, as both systems have been corrupted beyond repair.

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Over the last 36 years since I graduated from high school, my generation has allowed our sacred birthright of liberty and our financial freedoms as shown above to be destroyed without a fight or even a whimper in response. The United States has pretty much completed it's decline from some semblance of our former Constitutional Republic to a bureaucratic police state at home and an aggressive world empire abroad.  We have failed our children and our posterity by our failure to stand up for freedom and liberty in our nation.  Where are the great men of this generation who would fight for freedom and limited government like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Robert E. Lee?  - Ron Holland

1984 by George Orwell. I always enjoy watching Fox News but I've found their often Neocon agenda on foreign policy issues is just as slanted as the liberal media which is most of the rest of the news except for the alternative internet news. I always feel like the news and propaganda we are all fed from both sides is the future Orwell feared when he wrote 1984. This is the audio version of the book.

For Additional Reading, Research & Essay Links Regarding This Chapter:

Down With Democracy    www.lewrockwell.com/orig/hermann-hoppe2.html   

Neither Democracy Nor Republic  www.lewrockwell.com/fischer/fischer24.html

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