PLUNDER OR PILLAGE?
October 13, 2002
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| ### Today's A.L.E.R.T. (America Law Education Rights & Taxation): October 13, 2002 PLUNDER OR PILLAGE? What exactly *is* it that the IRS does when wantonly stealing property absent any trace whatsoever of statutory authority or other due process niceties? Is it pillage? Is it plunder? Inquiring minds want to know! Turning to Bouviers Dictionary, properly titled 'A Law Dictionary Adapted To The Constitution And Laws Of The United States Of America And Of The Several States Of The American Union' by John Bouvier, revised Sixth Edition (1856), we read: * Pillage -- The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enemy. This, in modern times, is seldom allowed, and then, only when authorized by the commander or chief officer, at the place where the pillage is committed. The property thus violently taken in general belongs to the common soldiers. * Plunder -- The capture of personal property on land by a public enemy, with a view of making it his own. The property so captured is called plunder. * Booty -- The capture of personal property by a public enemy on land, in contradistinction to prize, which is a capture of such property by such an enemy, on the sea. (DRUM ROLL ....) IT'S PLUNDER! This should end all confusion on the subject. IRS agents in a 'victorious army' capture 'personal property' as their 'booty' at a 'place where the pillage is committed' such as a bank or place of employment, with a view of 'making it [their] own,' as 'authorized by the ... chief officer' (IRS Commissioner). Since no physical violence is committed (usually), the capture is technically 'plunder' and not 'pillage'. That comes next. ___ SPEAKING OF PLUNDER Like warm spring vapors wafting downwind from a well-used outhouse, the aroma of a National Sales Tax hangs in the air. I fully expect this excrescence to one day soon be foisted on an unwitting public, brainwashed into believing that it would actually 'relieve' them of their nonexistent tax 'burden' (government riding in on a White Horse, albeit Trojan). Not ones to be deterred for a moment by history or the facts, activists at http://www.fairtaxconvention.org/index.html are hard at work on a 'Fair Tax'. After all, what could be more 'fair' than to be taxed internally for the first time on domestic source income? Fellow tax-free sovereigns engaged in activities of common law right within the Union States, I ask you: Do you REALLY want to pay an extra 20% (or more) on your next flat-panel, surround-sound projection TV? I suggest you take a minute to write and straighten these folks out. ___ FLYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES What would America be like if the Second Suggestion -- er, that is -- the Second Amendment were actually in effect? Keep those seat belts fastened, grab a hanky, and click here for an uproariously good time ... http://www.netlaughter.com/packingpilots/packingpilots.cfm. 'Sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the flight.' ___ AYN RAND ON TYRANNY See any parallels here? From the March 1996 issue of The Intellectual Activist, the Grand Dame of rational objectivism is quoted thusly: 'On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed legislation to 'pack' the supreme Court by increasing the number of justices by as many as six should any justice over the age of 70 refuse to retire. The following excerpt is taken from a letter written on February 9, 1937 by Ayn Rand to the New York Herald-Tribune in opposition to Roosevelt's proposal: 'No tyranny in history has ever been established overnight. The method of dictators has always been a slow, gradual, well-calculated series of measures, each one of them seemingly innocent enough, easily alibied and explained by the ruler as embodying the best intentions in the world, and not one of them clear, direct and sufficiently flagrant to make the entire people - every single man on the street - realize that it affects him personally. 'Each measure is passed without great trouble or violent public opposition because the average man does not see at the time, how it can possibly affect his own existence -the only thing he is really interested in. Then, one day, he awakens suddenly to realize all his rights and liberties are gone. He cannot say exactly how or when it happened. He sees only the cumulative effect of single measures he did not consider important at the time he accepted them. He may be horrified and he may want to scream in protest. But it is too late to protest. 'The vast majority of Americans have not the slightest interest in politics. They think that whatever happens in Washington applies only to a vague entity called 'the country' and perhaps to those vague arch-villains, the big corporations but the worst effect it can possibly have on them, the private citizens personally, is the slight nuisance of increased taxes. They take their civil rights for granted and haven't the slightest idea of what makes these rights possible. Hasn't the time come to point out to them that they have no rights whatever, not even the right to remain alive, unless there exists some institution to protect and guarantee these rights to them? 'If all the power in the country is centered in one hand - who is going to see that that hand exercises it correctly? And if those in power wish to take a citizen's life - who can stop them by pointing to the law, when they are the law? What good is a constitution when there is no one to see that it is observed? Russia has a liberal constitution too yet Russian citizens can be executed without trial. Their constitution-makers conveniently forgot to provide an independent organ to watch that the constitution be obeyed. 'Germany has elections too only there's no independent organization to check on the polls. Does everybody understand that a constitution is not written to protect the government from the people, but to protect the people from the government? A constitution is only a people's safeguard. And if this safeguard is left entirely at the mercy of those against whom it is supposed to guard - isn't it just as absurd and useless as a lock placed on a door against burglars, with the key entrusted to the burglars?' ### INFORM AMERICA! RESOURCES #01. 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