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 4 - The Wealth Attacks Continue 

Talking Points:  The history of wealth confiscation around the world and in the United States shows that since the beginning of recorded history the main business of government has always been to steal and confiscate wealth along with some protection services to justify their actions. Today the economic interests of our financial services industry, the legal profession, and the political establishment guarantee this trend will continue and actually accelerate in scope and intensity. Therefore concerned readers should accordingly act now to defend their wealth before it's too late!

The Parasites Never Give Up:  Government Actions and Scandalous Lawsuits

       Webster defines a parasite as follows: (1) an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment. (2) a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others. (3) most parasites are obligate; i.e., they are unable to survive apart from their hosts. Often this is because in the course of evolution they have lost various of the organs necessary to live as independent units.

        In a financial context, a parasite means an individual, organization, or group of government employees who are so used to living off of the productive segments of society that they can not function or work in a private competitive free-market system.

"The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other."   -- Voltaire

        Many politicians, government departments, special interest groups, plaintiffs in unwarranted lawsuits, and 90% of the legal profession would definitely qualify for all of the above definitions. Few contribute very much that is useful to society and, in fact, society would be better off if most of these groups did not exist. Moreover, these entities will never change their behavior because they have become so addicted to living off of society that most could never compete in the free-market of the private sector with meaningful productive employment. My conclusion is government forfeitures and unwarranted asset seizures, as well as private lawsuits that threaten your wealth, will only continue to get worse baring legitimate legal reform. 

"The more assets you can identify and seize, the more money you've got, either going into the general treasury or into asset forfeiture funds. That money can be used to help law enforcement in criminal prosecutions. I see this as a money-making enterprise for the government and anything that's going to make money is not going to die too quickly."   --- Amy G. Rudnick, former Director of the Office of Financial Enforcement at the United States Treasury

       Far from what the government has become today, our country was founded on the principles of small and limited government in order to be closer to the people, and thus easier to control by the electorate, and in order to promote liberty.  Thomas Jefferson understood this when he said:

 "The way to have a good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many? Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign relations; the State governments with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State?  He goes on to question, what has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body."1

"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of people living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it."       -- Frederic Bastiat  

       As Bastiat wrote, both the legal system and the government provide for their existence by legally stealing the productive labor, business entities and accumulated wealth of working Americans. Once government steps over the boundary of redistributing wealth in order to provide so-called benefits, then it becomes as Bastiat described "legalized plunder".  Neither any group of lawyers nor politicians provide useful or adequate results in exchange for what is stolen, confiscated, or regulated.  In fact, both destroy freedom and wealth in this country. 

       Consequently, do not expect the government or legal system to protect and defend your accumulated wealth and private property. Although we must pay the taxes required by the different government entities, this is where we should draw the line.  After properly paying our taxes we should then build real wealth protection in secure offshore government jurisdictions.  These havens should be jurisdictions where the government and the legal systems work together to defend honest wealth and celebrate productive achievement. 

       America once enjoyed a limited government and legal system that both respected private property and celebrated productive work.  Our limited government was, for a time, the envy of the entire world. Unfortunately, we no longer enjoy such a government today, which is why it is important to be prudent in planning your wealth preservation.  I urge you to diversify some of your wealth and real estate outside of the American political and legal systems in respected, secure jurisdictions.

       In 1935, noted novelist Sinclair Lewis wrote his boldest, most sensational novel, It Can't Happen Here. This best-selling book warned of a future when the United States would find itself in the iron grip of a fascist dictatorship. It was written in a time when fascism and National Socialism, led by Hitler and Mussolini, were sweeping through Europe.  Meanwhile, America was in the depths of the depression, with Huey Long and others questioning the future of democratic traditions and institutions.

       Most liberal, big-government Americans would say that fascism and dictatorships never occurred in the United States, but they would be wrong. Roosevelt was in power as long as Hitler and created just as many fascist-style programs.  The difference for Roosevelt is that he had the good fortune of winning World War II.  When the war ended, Roosevelt passed on (hopefully to his just reward) and America reverted back to some semblance of pre-depression and pre-war conditions.  There were traces of more minimal government for a time, until the threats of the Cold War a few years later.

       As you can see, George Orwell was right when he wrote, "who controls the present controls the past."  Most historians gloss over the truths of Roosevelt's presidency, just as they have done concerning the long history of wealth confiscation in the United States. This part of our past does not glorify the political establishment or their special interests, and explains why mainstream historians will never tell the true story.

       The bottom line is that certain segments of the United States economy and body politic have always prospered because of government wealth confiscation. Not only has wealth and property confiscation transpired repeatedly in our history, but its consequences have been far-reaching.  The most notable examples include targeted groups such as the Native Americans, who were brutally forced from their lands, or many of the first Spanish settlers in the Southwest. Wealth and property confiscation was also used against the 25% of the population who supported the existing British government during the American Revolution, and also against the Southern people after Lincoln's costly victory in the War Between the States.

      In fact the primary cause of the War Between the States was taxes specifically whether the north or the south would finance the federal government through tariffs. History has been rewritten to hide the impact of government revenues as one of the major causes of the Civil War but the war was all about stopping the creation of the Confederate States of America and their plans for low tariffs.

       Since the establishment of the income tax in 1913, wealth confiscation in the U.S. has been elevated from war-like plunder and pillage expeditions against political and geographical targets, to the broad, yet systematic plunder system of today aimed directly at productive Americans.  Be aware of this situation and act accordingly to defend your wealth. Remember, most wealth protection techniques and structures work only if in place prior to the wealth attack.

Render Unto Caesar What Is Caesar's - But Only Because You Have To!  "

The poor you will always have with you" (Mark 14:3-9)
"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's"   (Matt 22:21)

       Just as the Bible indicates that the poor would always be with us, so it is also for government plunder commonly described as taxation. In the book of Matthew a Pharisee asked Jesus "what should we pay the government"? At that time Israel was a province of the Roman Empire and one had to be careful in answering questions such as this. They (Israel) also suffered from high taxes and the citizens in the provinces had little control over government just like today. Moreover, just like in the days of the Roman Empire, today we must watch every word we write and speak about government financial regulations and taxes.

       The answer to the question of what we should pay in taxes is still to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, or in today's world, give to Washington whatever they say you owe them. This has always been the problem with government for hard-working people throughout the ages. It matters not whether we are talking about ancient Athens and Rome, or modern day London, Paris, Moscow, Berlin, or Washington. Political leaders always have the power of the government to determine what is theirs, when they will take it, and how they will take it.  The helpless citizens have little or no say in the process. Yes, we can complain, vote, or lobby for lower taxes, but these attempts seem futile, as evidenced by the steadily increasing government revenues and regulatory environment since the 1930's.

       It is clear that productive people in society have always had two historical, governmental threats to their wealth that they must defend against. One is the internal threat of government stealing the fruits of your labor, and the second is an external government doing the same thing through war, tribute and military occupation.  In a historical context, government theft has existed forever.  Taxes always rise even when the government claims to be cutting them.  It is all misinformation and propaganda like everything else out of Washington or any other group of politicians.  

"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."        -- Dresden James

Americans Are Now Threatened By a New Type of External Wealth Attack

      Thankfully, the American military establishment is too strong to allow a foreign government or military force to invade and occupy the United States.  This has only happened twice to the United States; the first time was the brief British invasion during the War of 1812 when Washington was burned, and the second time was the invasion and occupation of the North into the South during the War Between the States.  In the latter instance, the economic dislocation and lowered standard of living continued for over a hundred years following the incursion.

       Nonetheless, American investors and citizens face a new foreign threat-- not so much from institutional governments as from terrorist elements around the world. These terrorists know most of the private wealth in our nation is held in the form of real estate, equity investments, and bonds. Most high-valued real estate is in or near major metropolitan areas such as the Northeast corridor, Florida and California. All of these areas are vulnerable to terrorist attacks that could decimate property values whenever a major WMD attack takes place. Likewise, most of our financial products, stocks, and bonds are held by custodians or major financial firms and are traded in New York and Boston.   Consequently, these two cities are prime targets for major terrorist attacks that could impact real estate and close investment markets.

       However, do not feel too safe if you are in other metropolitan areas like Miami, Atlanta or even Charlotte, NC.  Charlotte is home to the headquarters of Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States.  The Bank of America towers in Atlanta and Seattle are the highest buildings in each city, so much that they might as well have a bull’s- eye painted on each facility.

       We will cover these risks in greater detail in our chapters on terrorist risk, but be aware that prudence dictates that American citizens should have some of their stock and bond market wealth outside the vulnerable American markets, as well as substantial real estate assets outside major cities and their suburbs.  I believe terrorist attacks in our large cities could tank property values there and dramatically increase real estate values in lower density rural areas and second-home vacation destinations.

       Other related risks are exchange controls in the event of a terrorist attack, which block the inflow and outflow of your funds during a time of economic crisis.  This is done to safeguard the US financial industry and the risk of predatory tax rule changes and regulations during the crisis. Again, that is another reason to already have your offshore nest-egg of protected wealth, and preferably some under insurance structures that traditionally have grandfathered benefits, so that they will be safe from the US financial industry’s grasp in time of crisis.   

 

Ron Fact, Book & Video Recommendations For This Page:
All forms of government are just legalized theft with enough mediocre services thrown in to fool the public. This is not to say that we do not need  some government services, authority and taxes but on the federal level, all we should have is national defense, a respected legal system and control of the borders. It is safe to say our present government and political institutions at the federal level have failed in all three areas. The United States started down the road to empire and an all-powerful central government after the War Between the States or the War For Southern Independence. Review the two books at the right to learn more about the real reasons for the greatest conflict in American history.  - Ron Holland

When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams. Using primary documents from both foreign and domestic observers, prominent scholar Charles Adams makes a powerful and convincing case that the Southern states were legitimately exercising their political rights as expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they seceded from the United States. Although conventional histories have taught generations of Americans that this was a war fought for lofty moral principles, Adams eloquent history transcends simple Southern partisanship to show how the American Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests, opposing interpretations of constitutional rights, and what English novelist Charles Dickens described as a fiscal quarrel.

For Additional Reading and Research Regarding This Chapter

The Vicious Federal Injustice System   www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson49.html

Reflections of State and War  www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe17.html

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