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 26 – Will You Pay the High Price to Defend Your Wealth & Restore Your Liberty?    

Talking Points: You have made it to the final chapter and congratulations on your perseverance. Although the new techniques and programs, as well as some of the old style asset protection strategies, can help you protect and defend your personal wealth, much more must be done to defend personal liberties and return constitutional government to the U.S.  Preserving your wealth offshore is only the first step in providing future generations the opportunity to know the greatness of our heritage, what we stood for, and what we have the chance to become again.

For Financial Survival: Treat the Disease Not the Symptoms

 "A society that will trade a little order for a little freedom will lose both and deserve neither."  - Thomas Jefferson

       Most wealth preservation and investment programs treat only the symptoms of wealth confiscation at best.  They fail to attack the accepted socialist philosophy of forced wealth transfer and institutionalized plunder by government and legal systems. Any delay in plunder is often only a temporary reprieve at best.  Only by discrediting the philosophy of legalized theft and allowing freedom to flourish will we, in the long run, safeguard both our liberty and our wealth.

       There are literally thousands of books published each year suggesting how to invest successfully, protect your assets, and follow economic trends in order to make investment profits and keep what you have earned. The problem with these simple financial solutions is America's unrestrained federal government controlled by special interests. Today, the domination of our nation's political parties by special interest groups provides a way to ruin any investment strategy. This occurs through government meddling in investment markets, central bank policies, foreign policy aggression, and entanglements. The result is a continued reduction in financial freedom and civil liberties. Government and its insatiable need for revenue is the real problem faced by every freedom-loving person in the world.  Without a return to a free society, all of your investment knowledge, savings, and asset protection planning are simply postponing the inevitable confiscation of the wealth you have earned today or what you hope to leave future generations.

       We must resurrect the original limited constitutional republic as established by our Founding Fathers if we want to live free and show the fruits of the real American Dream to all the world. This involves the following process:

1.       Protect and defend what you have already earned.

2.       Build an offshore, protected nest-egg with additional profits and earnings.

3.       Find likeminded friends and associates who share your concerns, interests, and views in private organizations like The Swiss Inner Circle, The Swiss Confederation Institute, and FreedomFest.

4.       Support freedom oriented educational groups working to educate the public on the many benefits and profits in a free society.

5.     Work in the political area for political candidates, parties, and organizations that will resurrect the limited government republic established at our      nation's birth and independence.

       Remember, voter education comes before successful political action to reduce government tyranny and restore limited government back to the United States. Your gifts should generally go to 501(c)3 organizations because their primary objective education, and you get an all important tax deduction for your contribution. Everything you do to generate a deduction means more money and funding for free-market and limited government organizations.  In other words, less stolen wealth to the corrupt political establishment that views its tax paying citizens not as their masters but as only a source of tax revenue.

How I Became a Freedom Advocate

“There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism."        --Leonard E. Read, founder of FEE

       I first became familiar with free-market economics and the freedom philosophy back in college during the 1970's and it changed my life.  Today there are many excellent organizations, like the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Future of Freedom Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, FEE, Young Americans Foundation, and countless other foundations that perform an important educational service for college students suffering under a liberal, statist education in most of our universities.   

       The Freedom philosophy hit me like a bolt of lightening when I was working in a bank trust department and majoring in finance at the University of South Carolina.  Somehow I came across a free monthly publication in the university library called The Freeman (now called Ideas on Liberty) published by the Foundation For Economic Education.   The library had older copies dating back for years, so in my spare time I read and learned about individual liberty, economic freedom, and the evils of big government. None of these topics were very popular during the 70’s but this publication changed my life for the better. I hope many of you are familiar with this monthly print publication, although it is a little dated in today's world of internet information.

       Three excellent modern day online examples of what The Freeman did 30 years ago are:

LewRockwell.com                                 www.lewrockwell.com
The Future of Freedom Foundation       www.fff.org
The Ludwig von Mises Institute              www.mises.org

My First Brush with Tyranny

       I still remember the feelings of disgust and revulsion the first time as a bank trust officer, just out of college, that I came face to face with pure, unadulterated government tyranny. One of my major trust accounts was a cemetery trust in South Carolina.  This was a large cemetery and apparently the owner of the cemetery had run afoul of the Internal Revenue Service.  One day, without knocking at my office door, and a well dressed man suddenly appeared, glared down at me, and without introducing himself, shoved his IRS badge in my face.

       "I'm here to review the records of such and such cemetery trust as we are planning to attach the assets immediately."  I replied, "Let me call the account holder and make him aware of the situation."  The agent answered, with a deadly cold stare, "You will not contact the gentleman in question today and neither will you ever let him know we had this conversation at any time in the future if you know what’s good for you."  I froze, as nothing in college had prepared me for this, so I took the easy way out. "Yes sir, of course." He seemed pleased and we made the file copies and he left my office never to be heard from again.

      So what was the outcome of my first brush with tyranny and the power of an out of control bureaucracy?  After a few minutes, the fear and shock subsided, I called the client telling him of my visitor and I made a decision that day to spend my life, whenever possible, opposing tyranny, big government, and bureaucracy.  I realized that all of these were harmful to a free society.  Nothing I have seen over the last 30 years has changed my views on government.

       I have spent most of my life in this educational battle, both personally and in financial services. Educational foundations that promote the freedom philosophy educate and change one person at a time, so remember; knowledge has the power to change the lives of individuals just like it changed my life.

Never Trust Your Liberty or Wealth to a Politician or a Campaign Slogan

"The times call for courage.  The times call for hard work.  But if the demands are high, it is because the stakes are even higher.  They are nothing less than the future of human liberty, which means the future of civilization."         -- Henry Hazlitt

       Our politicians are incredibly savvy when it comes to public relations and slogans. You will notice this kind of misinformation in legislation such as "The Patriot Act", or slogans such as "Operation Iraqi Freedom", the "War to End All Wars", or the "War of the Rebellion."  There are many cliché’s like this that we read and hear everyday that sound good, but hold very little truth or substance.  It is this type of repetitive propaganda that eventually conditions us to accept the actions of “experts”, government controls, and politicians.  Here are a few more examples:

“Prudent and Diversification”

       This is another slogan that always has a good ring to it when you are investing. We all want to think of ourselves as prudent and, of course, we diversify because we do not want the risk of putting all of our eggs in one basket. My experience has been that we always hear a lot about this from the investment sales person when deciding to go into an investment program  but not much when we are ready to get out.

“Safety and Security”

       Ask any stock market investor who lived through the Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, or the long bear market of the 60’s and early 70’s, about the safety and security of financial products.  My bet is that many will laugh at you.  But if you ask your friends and neighbors today who did not have the benefit of sound advice warning them to sell before the bubble collapsed, or whose portfolios and net worth crumbled after the crash of the NASDAQ techs, they will likely cry on your shoulder. Remember, the financial services industry will never tell you when to sell.  I warned of the NASDAQ stock market crash on January 20, 1999 in a World Net Daily article entitled: "Is the Big Crash Coming?",  a year before it happened!  Now I am warning of what may happen to your investment wealth in the event of another terrorist attack on Wall Street.
 
“Politics and Government”

       We hear about “peace and prosperity”, but when the subject of taxes comes around, the jargon is always “fair and equitable” or “paying your fair share.”  I always wanted to ask, “why shouldn’t I decide what is my fair share?”  Terms like "accountable”, “efficient”, or “cost effective" are used when the bureaucrats are promoting a government program. 

Ron Fact, Book & Video Recommendations For This Page:
Quoting my favorite President of the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan - "Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." We all know what whores do to you to earn their living and this certainly is how to describe what Washington does to productive American citizens every day.  I want to apologize in advance to all prostitutes who are rightfully offended by this comparison as at least they provide a service and we are free to choose whether to participate or not. - Ron Holland

Parliament of Whores - by P. J. O'Rourke.  A humorist attempts to explain how the government works or should I say doesn't work here in the United States.  The title certainly is an appropriate way to describe 95% of Congress and 99% of the civilian employees of the federal government.

 

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