March 6, 1995
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March 27, 1995
The Establishment media feels that the less you know about a planned conference that could result in changes to the Constitution the less you'll complain.
Although reporters filled a room in the Hall of States Building to capacity during a February 10 press conference by promoters of the Conference of the States (COS), the globalist Establishment media ignored the possible danger surrounding the COS.
The SPOTLIGHT has learned patriots nationwide are concerned the planned event could become a constitutional convention (con-con). Some say this could lead to the rewriting of the Constitution.
The press conference occurred in Washington, D. C. down the corridor from the plush suites housing the National Governors Association (NGA), one of three federally chartered, tax-exempt organizations promoting the COS.
Featured speakers were members of the COS Steering Committee, including the front man, Gov. Mike Leavitt (R-Utah): Gov. Ben. Nelson (R-Neb.); Ohio Senate President Stan Aronoff; Ohio state Rep. Jane Campbell; Delaware state Sen. Robert Connor; North Carolina state Rip. Robert Hunter and Florida state Rep. Willie Logan Jr.
All are leaders of one of the other three tax-exempt groups promoting the COS-the Council of State Governments (CSG) and the National conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and the NGA.
MISQUOTED?
Leavitt, who repeatedly denied the COS would be a constitutional convention, was reported as publicly calling for a con-con in the May 25, 1995 issue of the Salt Lake Tribune.
After persistent questioning by this reporter following the press conference, Leavitt flatly told this writer that he never said he wanted a con-con. The governor said the newspaper's reporter, Christopher Smith, had misquoted him.
The piece quoted Utah state Rep. Met Johnson as saying that listeners in the room groaned in opposition to Leavitt's endorsement of a con-con.
The piece quoted Utah state Rep. Met Johnson as saying that
listeners in the room groaned in opposition to Leavitt's
endorsement of a con-con.
By approving resolutions in favor of the Mexico bailout, the World Trade Organization (WTO/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the NGA has sided with the financial and corporate elite against overwhelming opposition by the American people.
Several speakers jumped at the opportunity to alleviate the concerns of Americans who believe the COS is just a con-con in disguise.
Nelson said nothing will be changed without the approval of three-fourth of the states legislators Leavitt said a con-con was a process the founders anticipated would happen often. (However, James Madison for one, was adamantly against a second con-con.)
RUN WILD?
Connor said since delegates will be governors and state leaders from both parties, they are "not likely to run off in a wild direction." NCSL President Campbell, who in the 1970s worked to ratify the Equal Rights amendment, said not to worry as the delegates will be duly elected representatives of the people and will represent their interests.
However, critics argue, the problem is not with the Constitution,
rather with the enforcement of the document.
The COS promoters kept stressing how bipartisan the event would
be, how bipartisan the event would be how leaders of both the
Democratic and Republican parties support the COS.
This will not impress observers of the NAFTA, WTO/GATT and Mexico bailout debates, who know that on all three issues, the leaders of both political parties were aligned with the financial and corporate elite.
The COS is scheduled to meet first in Annapolis, Maryland on July 6-9 to set by-laws, rules and an agenda. Then COS is scheduled to convene in Philadelphia on October 22-25.
The Philadelphia meeting coincides with the 50th anniversary
of the founding of the United Nations on October 24.
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A research biochemist is offering a reward to anyone who can disprove his contention that fluoride is bad for you.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of fluoridation. During this past 50 years, fluoridation of the public water supply has been the most consistently controversial health measure in the United States.
The American Dental Association and the United States Public
Health Service have assured the public that fluoridation is absolutely
safe and that it dramatically reduces tooth decay.
Opponents of fluoridation have claimed that it is unsafe and ineffective.
"After 50 years of rhetoric, lies and human suffering," said Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, a research Ph.D. biochemist and president of the Safe Water Foundation (SWF), we think it is time to put an end to this controversy.
"We are offering a $100,000 reward to the first person who can show that any one of the statements regarding the toxicity and ineffectiveness of fluoride and fluoridation made in our `Did You Know'(1) flyer is false," he added. "The Safe Water Foundation has placed $100,000 on deposit with Bank One for the reward (phone 614- 369-5555 for confirmation).
"If the promoters of fluoridation or anyone else cannot show that even one of these statements is untrue, they should get off the fluoridation bandwagon, admit they are wrong and help put an end to fluoridation."
Yiamouyiannis is an internationally recognized expert on the biological effects of fluoride and author of the book Fluoride and author of the book Fluoride, The Aging Factor.
(1) To obtain a copy of the flyer "Did
You Know," write or call the Safe Water Foundation (a subsidiary
of Health Action) at 6439 Taggart Road, Delaware, Ohio 43015;
phone (614) 548-5340.
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Be careful what you drink-even if it is government approved.
Human health hazards include two commodities licensed by the authorities in this country distributed to the public: tap water and pasteurized milk, even though both have cheap, easily available substitutes.
Tap water contains chlorine dioxide and fluorides. Both are toxic substances poured into the public water supply after, filtration at the treatment centers. Both are intended to kill or weaken the harmful microorganisms which inhabit the city's water source.
The idea is to keep their amount low enough not to weaken or kill the human who drinks the water treated in this manner. Difficult but not impossible in theory, but quite impossible in practice.
You can't poison a person just a little. Every little bit counts. It accumulates in our system over the days, the weeks, the months and the years. There is no question as to the harmful effects of the chlorine in our tap water.
On the other hand there is some confusion about the role of fluorides in our health. Fluorine goes into the composition of the enamel of our teeth, but that is fluorine in the form of ions in its purest form.
Unfortunately that does not apply to the inert fluorine contained in the fluoride poured into the municipally distributed water you get from your tap. Instead, its action on our teeth is the reverse: making their enamel brittle.
The remedy is readily available water from springs, which is commercially sold throughout the country for less than one dollar per gallon.
It comes in plastic containers and is well worth the money as an investment in your health.
MINERAL WATER
In Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, you can also buy, for less than $1.50 a gallon, mineral water of a type called "juvenile," because it originates in deep rock. It has innumerable therapeutic indications-meaning it is a remedy for many diseases. You can find that information in the books about the mineral springs of Virginia.
Various Chambers of Commerce have information about mineral springs. Save those plastic jugs you get from the market and visit mineral springs in your area. That spring water will spare you being, slowly but surely, poisoned by tap water.
The therapeutic virtues of the American spring waters are not as well studied as those of Europe, Mexico and Canada.
The reason for that is a decision by the American Medical Association, under pressure from the drug industry, to de-emphasize the medicinal value of the mineral springs in therapy. It was a clandestine decision, but is strictly applied in U.S. hospitals.
The highly illustrative example was observed by this writer at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where a friend was hospitalized.
My friend, a congressman and a Marine major general, told me how the hospital used its transportation facilities to take a retinue of U.S. Marines to the near-by airports to present arms to incoming admirals and generals, but, on the other hand, a top ranking officer, hospitalized on the floor above him and suffering from a stomach ailment, was given tap water at his meals. It seems the hospital's transportation facilities would not be used to bring wonderful waters from medicinal springs in next-door Virginia that have healing powers for the human digestive system.
That is just an example of the blind submission of the U.S.
government to the medical and pharmaceutical combined racket.
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Just as San Francisco was the birth place of the United Nations, now the "city by the bay" will host a meeting to establish ground rules for governing a united world.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has been named the "convening chair" and host of a world forum on the "first global civilization" planned for San Francisco from September 27 to October 1.
Elitists at the conference are scheduled to consider how the so- called "new world order" will be governed.
The last dictator of the fallen Soviet Union, Gorbachev has ensconced his Gorbachev Foundation USA in the former Coast Guard commandant's residence at the closed U.S. military base, the Presidio, in San Francisco.
The SPOTLIGHT has learned former President George Bush and ex- British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have agreed, among others, to serve as co-chairs of the forum slated for San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.
Others to co-chair the meeting on the so-called new world order include: Ted Turner. U.S. television mogul; George Shultz, a former secretary of state; Askar Akaev, president of the Soviet break-away republic of Kyrgystan; Tansu Ciller, prime minister of Turkey; Vaclav Havel, prime minister of the Czech Republic; Bilderberger Ruud Lubbers, ex-prime minister of the Netherlands; Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala, like Gorbachev a recipient of the Nobel peace prize; Yasuhiro Nakasone, former prime minister of Japan; Julius Nyerere, ex-president of Tanzania and Desmond Tutu, Episcopal archbishop of South Africa.
In explaining the propose of the forum former U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), chairman of the Gorbachev Foundation USA, lamented that hopes for a new world order following the cold war have dimmed.
"There appears to be a great cynicism everywhere with government," Cranston said. "And there is a yearning for new directions."
About 8,000 business leaders from 75 countries have been invited to attend as paying participants at a cost of $8,000 each, which will bring the tax-exempt Gorbachev Foundation USA a total of $64 million, if all attend.
Other invited guests include Vice President Al Gore, president Nelson Mandela of South Africa, ABC newsman Ted Koppel, novelist Isabel Allende, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser in the Carter administration, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, senior fellow of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) who writes a column in the Washington Post, and Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
CLINTON NOT INVITED?
President Bill Clinton does not appear either on the list of co- chairs or invited guests, which is unusual since he has received high praise from Gorbachev.
According to the Cape Cod (Massachusetts) Times of January 23, 1993, Gorbachev stated: "The future needs...international institutions acting on behalf of all. A higher institution that operates on a consensus, such a choice would narrow the independence many believe the United States now enjoys...President Clinton will be a success if he uses American influence to accomplish this transformation of international responsibility and increase significantly the role of the United Nations. He will be a great president if he can make America the creator of a new world order based on consensus."
The "mission" of the world forum, according to literature released by the Gorbachev Foundation USA, "will focus on the fundamental challenges and opportunities confronting humanity as we enter the nest century and a new millennium. It is being held in the belief that at this momentous juncture in history, we are giving birth to the first global civilization.
"In this spirit, the intent of the Forum is to articulate a clear vision of new international priorities. Its task will be the generation of innovative approaches to the fundamental challenges facing human society through a process which emphasizes global awareness, individual empowerment and a sense of home... Inherent within the Forum is the potential for the establishment of a global brain trust to continue into the next century."
The dictatorial nature of the "global civilization" becomes clear with the descriptive literature stating that in "new ways...our political leaders are challenged to provide the framework for stability and regulated human interactions; our moral leaders to give expression to the eternal values which have always guided humanity; the business community to assume responsibility for the investment and management necessary for prosperity; scientists to continue technological development to serve human needs; artists to give metaphorical expression to our dreams and our tragedies; our youth to demand that the future be better than the past;p and intellectuals to offer penetrating insight concerning humanity's progress toward shared goals. Only the creative interaction of these groups, rather that the supremacy of one group over other, will allow the answers we all seek to emerge and guide us as we shape the next phase of human dvelopment..."
It is worth noting that Gorbachev, as the last leader of the
Soviet Union, has never renounced his Marxist ideology.
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The ramifications of a "civil rights" treaty have come home to roost.
Foreign lawyers are trying to stop the execution of a rapist- killer in Texas, citing the International Covenant on Civil And Political Rights, which the United States ratified in 1992.
It is a precedent-shattering action in which the de facto world government intervenes in the domestic judicial process, both in the state of Texas and in the United States-something of which The SPOTLIGHT repeatedly warned.
A search of the Bilderberg-controlled Washington Post and Associated Press wires found no mention of this momentous event. The Washington Times thought the story worthy of the front page.
Knowing this meddling in the nation's domestic affairs would outrage Americans, the world shadow government is trying to keep it out of the press while the precedent is set.
Lawyers from the Bar of England's Human Rights Committee, Philip Sapsford and David Marshall, argued that killer-rapist Clarence Lackey's 18-year residence on death row violates the treaty. Lackey is American, not British.
The British lawyers' pleadings were flown by Federal Express from London to Lackey's lawyers in Austin and Washington. Anticipating a quick rejection in Texas, they petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since the United States entered into this treaty, the Supreme Court will have to weigh this language in Article VI of the Constitution:
"...all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or the laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Whether a killer dies in Texas or not, a lot of American sovereignty
is dead-at the hands of the nation's leaders.
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Despite the best government efforts, the truth about sodium fluoride continues to lead out.
Fluoride causes bad teeth and brittle bones resulting in fractures, according to new evidence piled on top of old evidence in the 50 years since the substance was introduced into the drinking water.
Scientists in Austria, using sophisticated X-ray diffraction techniques, found people given fluoride tablets developed brittle bones and were more susceptible to fractures than people not given the tablets, according to the (November, 1994) Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
All Indian reservations are fluoridated but the American Dental Association-which champions the substance-reported in its journal, News, Native American children have a much higher incidence of dental caries (tooth decay)."
A study of 39,000 school children sponsored by the Public Health Service found no statistically significant differences in dental decay between fluoridated and non-fluoridated cities, according to Truth About Fluoride, Inc. (TAF) of Buckeystown, Maryland.
But the government goes to great lengths to suppress such information, said Robert Carton, Ph.D., president of TAF.
SAME RESULTS
Children in Muskegon, Michigan, the unfluoridated "control city" for study purposes, experienced almost the same drop in dental decay as fluoridated Grand Rapids, Carton said.
Muskegon was hastily fluoridated after five years of what was to be a 10-year study to avoid further comparisons.
A study showing fluoride to contain cancer-causing properties
was downgraded by the Environmental Protection Agency, Carton
said. Consequently sodium Fluoride, a by product of the phosphate
mining industry, continues to be added to drinking water.
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Were those U.S. troops in Russian special forces uniforms, or actual Russian special forces troops who appeared in Pennsylvania recently?
Residents living around the Fort Indiantown Gap Army base, located 20 miles east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, have reported seeing strange military activity in and around the installation, including the presence of Lithuanian troops and what appear to be Russian Spesnaz (special operations) forces.
In late February ,motorist traveling along one of the major highways leading to the base encountered a military truck broken down and parked along the side of the roadway.
It was reported to The SPOTLIGHT that troops, wearing what were identified as Russian military uniforms and speaking what seemed to be Russian, were standing around the disabled vehicle.
A National Guard officer passing through the area on March 3 said he saw a group of a half-dozen soldiers dressed in Russian Spesnaz uniforms and accompanied by what appeared to be two civilian advisers in a restaurant located off-base.
The officer's report to The SPOTLIGHT was confirmed by a waitress at the restaurant, Funk's Chicken Lickin,' located along Route 943 near the western gate to Fort Indiantown Gap.
Both the officer and the waitress told The SPOTLIGHT the soldiers were dressed in Russian camouflaged field uniforms, with Russian insignia on the sleeves, blue and white striped T-shirts, a virtual trademark of Russian elite troops, and blue berets with the Red Star insignia of the former Soviet Union special forces.
Perhaps most disquieting, however, was that the soldiers, when approached by curious customers and employees of the restaurant, indicated they were Americans training as OPFORS (opposing forces) at the base in conjunction with an ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) exercise.
They did not want to talk about what they were doing at the base, according to the National Guard officer.
Spesnaz troops are trained to speak fluent English, even with U.S. regional accents.
The following day, the National Guard officer told The
SPOTLIGHT, he made a point of returning to the restaurant and
found the same soldiers again there.
He parked beside one of their vehicles and upon glancing into the back seat of the car, a blue Volkswagen bearing Virginia license registration, noted a pile of clothing, which included various Russian garb, including the striped T-shirts, and a U.S. Army field jacket, bearing the insignia of a major and the shoulder patches of a Ranger of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division.
The guardsman said he found it was strange the American field jacket was of olive green color, a type which he said had been phased out of use by the Army some years ago.
Protruding from beneath the pile of clothing, was the "business end" of a rifle, unmistakably identified by the officer as having the distinctive muzzle brake of a Russian AK-74 (CQ), the latest Russian assault rifle, issued only to elite troops.
The waitress at the restaurant said Lithuanian soldiers, some wearing their own country's uniforms and others wearing U.S. uniforms, appear quite frequently at the establishment.
Several official sources at the base were contacted by The SPOTLIGHT, including Maj. Gen. Gerald R. Sager, adjutant general of the Pennsylvania Army and Air National Guard, most of whom, including the general, were not particularly anxious to discuss the foreign troops at the base.
Gen Sager said he thought there had recently been three Lithuanian soldiers at the fort but he was clearly eager to end the conversation.
Maj. Christopher Cleaver, the National Guard public affairs officer at the base, said he had no knowledge of Lithuanian troops being at the base this year.
Maj. John Gordon, an operations officer, explained small numbers of Lithuanians have been at the base, as recently as the first week of March. He added they were part of the "military-to-military" contact program that is run by the National Guard Bureau.
He was referring to the "Bridge to America: program, which matches a state National Guard with the military of a foreign country, one of the former Soviet bloc of nations of Eastern Europe or one of the various break-away republics of the Soviet Union itself.
In this case, Pennsylvania is matched with Lithuania, one of the formerly enslaved Baltic republics that were forcibly made a part of the Soviet Union during World War II.
He said that a small group of Lithuanians, which he described as representing "their civil defense force," would be visiting For Indiantown Gap shortly.
The "Bridge to America" program is one of the favorite projects of Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Shalikashvili was urging close contact and exchange programs with the supposed former communist states, while he was still commander of NATO forces in Europe, even before his appointment in 1993.
None of the officials at Fort Indiantown Gap claimed knowledge
of the troops with Russian Spesnaz uniforms.
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Is the federal government making its long anticipated move against citizen militias, or has one local law enforcement agency "jumped the gun"?
A key leader of the Militia of Montana (MOM) and six other men have been arrested by local authorities in Montana on charges that include felony intimidation in what may be the start of a well- orchestrated crackdown on militias and other patriotic groups all across America.
John Trochmann was arrested on March 3 by Musselshell County sheriff's deputies in the village of Roundup in central Montana.
Trochmann was largely instrumental in founding the Militia of Montana, one of the most high-profile, largest and best organized militia groups in the nation.
The incident started when two members of a patriotic group called the Freemen, who are based about central Montana. appeared at the court house in Roundup to file some legal documents in the county clerk's and recorder's office.
The pair, Frank Elena of the Billings area and Dale Jacobi of Thompson Falls, who have been fighting what they claim to be corruption of local officials, were denied the right to file the documents on the orders of local Montana District Court Judge Roy Rodeghiero.
Elena is a former school teacher and principal. Jacobi operates a propane gas business in Thompson Falls. Elena settled in Montana from Arizona. Jacobi is from Canada and will probably face deportation even if he is freed from incarceration in Montana.
NABBED BY DEPUTIES
They promptly left the court house and proceeded to a local mini-mart, where they were to meet Trochmann and four others to dine at a nearby restaurant.
Exactly 20 minutes after the two men had left the court house they were arrested at the mini-mart by Musselshell County deputy sheriffs, who also impounded their car and drove it away to an undisclosed destination.
The arrests were witnessed by Paul Stramer, a MOM radio communications expert, who had arrived at the scene before Trochmann and the others.
Stramer was soon joined in the vicinity of the mini-mart by Trochmann, accompanied by Cajun James and Amotto "Jerry" Lopez, both also of the Eureka area, and Mark Basque of Fish Creek.
The five men discussed their next move and Trochmann, Stramer, James and Basque were in favor of going directly to MOM headquarters in Noxon, located in western Montana, near the Idaho border.
Lopez, however, who had only lived in Montana about a year, having moved there from Miami, Florida and who had started a six- truck auto towing business, insisted upon going to the sheriff's department to retrieve a radio transceiver that he had left with Jacobi.
WENT TO JAIL
The others eventually relented and they proceeded to the sheriff's department, where Lopez, Stramer and James went inside.
James was carrying a sidearm and noted a sign inside the sheriff's office stating firearms could not be carried beyond a certain point which he obeyed and stopped, as the other two men proceeded into the office.
When Lopez demanded the return of his radio, the deputies jumped the trio and immediately placed them under arrest.
While the three were inside, Trochmann remained at the wheel of the car, which was his. Basque was on the passenger side. Two deputies came out of the jail, one carrying a shotgun and the other a drawn pistol.
Trochmann and Basque said they thought they (the deputies) were going after "someone down the street."
Instead, the deputies rushed the car, one sticking the barrel of the shotgun through the passenger side window, leading Trochmann to think that they may have shot Basque.
Then the deputies began beating on the car and tearing the doors open. Trochmann was armed and is licensed to carry a concealed weapon in Montana but did not have it on his person at the time.
Trochmann and Basque were thrown to the ground, where they were frisked and their hands were cuffed behind their backs.
Then, they were roughly hauled inside, where they and the others were placed face down on the concrete jail floor, with hands cuffed behind their backs, and forced to remain for about five hours.
The FBI was called into the case by Musselshell County Sheriff Paul Smith and agents were sent to the scene.
After sheriff's personnel and FBI agents conferred behind closed doors, the incarcerated men were taken before a judge for a preliminary hearing at about 12:30 am, charged with felony intimidation. The judge set bail at $100,000 each.
The charge carries a potential 10-year jail term and a $50,000 fine, or both.
After the hearing, all of the men but Lopez were transferred to Yellowstone County Jail in Billings, where Trochmann and the others were subsequently questioned by FBI agents, who are reportedly "not happy with the incident."
On March 6 at 10 pm, the defendants in Billings were arraigned before a justice of the peace from Golden Valley County, at which time additional charges were read to them.
In addition to the felony intimidation charge, Trochmann was arraigned on charges of criminal endangerment, tampering with or fabrication of physical evidence, carrying a concealed weapon and criminal syndicalism (CQ), and obscure Montana crime defined as creating or belonging to an organization that advocates crime to further a political end.
The defendants were not represented by counsel at the
arraignment, which was conducted over closed circuit television.
A spokesperson at Yellowstone County Sheriff's Department described
Musselshell County sheriff's deputies as "totally out of
control."
The detention center where the group is being held in Billings was cordoned off for a square block. Snipers were placed on the roof of the jail. This is a result of angry calls from virtually all across the country flooding the authorities in Billings and Roundup.
Sources said the FBI was brought into the case because
Musselshell County deputies told them the group was planning "to
rob a bank," since they found some "plastic strapping,"
which can be used to bind the hands of people during a robbery
Sources say the "strapping" was for use in holding pipe and apparently belonged to Jacobi, who uses it in his propane business.
However, numerous Montana militia members insist the incident was orchestrated by federal agents to entrap Trochmann. Some have suggested an agent had been planted among the militiamen.
The Trochmann family has obtained the services of Attorney John DeCamp of Nebraska, author of the controversial book, Franklin Cover-Up, which concerns political corruption involving a Nebraska savings and loan.
According to sources close to the case, only Trochmann and James were armed. Both have permits to carry concealed weapons.
Stramer may have had some "legal" rifles locked securely in a toll carrier in the back of his truck.
Trochmann had his .45 caliber Colt semi-automatic pistol in his car but not on his person when the deputies assaulted the vehicle.
Lopez, a Cuban, is the only one of the seven men to remain in Roundup. He appeared in Montana a year ago, reportedly purchasing property from a New Jersey man, Al Luciano, and started his towing truck business.
Randy Trochmann, who confounded MOM with his uncle, John, is, along with other Montana militia leaders, appealing to the public to remain calm and is "very grateful" for the moral support that is pouring into MOM headquarters in Noxon from all across the United States and Canada.
"We must all remain calm," Randy Trochmann said, "until we determine the exact nature of what we are dealing with hear."
John Trochmann has taken a high-profile role as a militia leader in America and has thus set himself up as a target for those opposing the militia movement. He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows nationally, including the Phil Donahue Show.
He has also become a target of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has accused him of being a "White supremacist," stating that he has links to the Aryan Nation movement in neighboring Idaho.
The ADL has issued a "special report," in which it accuses MOM and other militia groups across the nation of being "dangerous and racist."
Trochmann strongly denies any links to any type of "supremacist" groups.
A defense fund has been established for the militiamen: The
Trochmann Defense Fund, PO Box 1486, Noxon, Montana 59853.
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When it comes to medicine, politics is more important to governments than your health.
Although penicillin was described in 1868 in the book Botanica Feral E Medica by Professor Joaquim Monteiro Caminhoa of Rio de Janeiro University, the American medical Establishment of the day ignored the findings.
The book was purchased by the U.S. Surgeon General's Library and is now in the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland.
The drug was rediscovered by Dr. Alexander Fleming of Scotland in 1938 and proved effective, but it was barred from general use by the U.S. government.
Some suspect the "hold" action was for fear approval might undermine the sale of sulfa drugs-a big Establishment bread winner of the day.
There has been a similar case in the matter of another "miracle" medicine-the tawny sap of the Locust tree (Hymenaea Courbaril, Linn. Cesalpinaceae), which, taken diluted 50-50 with spring water cures muscular weakness.
You can't get it any longer, even though the tree grows in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere throughout the American tropics and sub-tropics.
The healing virtues of that botanical species are described in the book of another Brazilian physician, Dr. Jose Monteiro de Silva (Sau Paulo, 1905).
It is in the collection of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Library. But the remedy has been swept under the rug by the powers that be in the U.S. government, making that wonderful remedy effectively out of bounds for the average citizen.
Here is the story:
The locust is a tall tree of the American tropics, whose sap turns into gum and is of great importance in medicine.
At the dawn of this century, a young Sau Paulo doctor rode his buggy from the edge of the great South American metropolis to the edge of the neighboring forest where lumberjacks were felling trees.
The Guarani Indians call the trees Jatahi uassu. The local Portuguese-speaking populace know them as jatoba.
De Silva had heard wonderful tales about the botanical species, which seemed to justify the exclamation of Karl von Martius about the medicinal plants of Brazil.
Some lumberjacks were quaffing the tawny colored sap after cutting it 50-50 with the water from a spring which bubbled up at the entrance of the forest.
People came from miles around to join in the feast. Some of these people were carried to the scene on litters. These were patients who had been exhausted by long illnesses.
When, at the end of the day, de Silva saw patients walk back to their conveyances to return to the city, he could hardly believe his eyes.
TAKE SOME HOME
The doctor had brought with him a number of jars and crocks, which he filled with the thick liquid they called vinho de Jatoba because of its port wine-like color.
On the way home, he stopped by a mansion, the residence of a leading physician who had told him about his problem with his nephew, an emaciated youth who was suffering from a bad case of anemia which no remedy could help, and took to him some of this new found medicine.
A few days later de Silva received a visit from that prosperous medico. The medicine was working wonderfully and the elder physician wanted de Silva to get a good supply of it, because the other doctor wanted to prescribe it to many of his patients.
The young doctor soon became a millionaire and wrote two books about Hymenaea Courbaril.
But today the remedy can hardly be found, at least in its original form. The devastation of the great Brazilian forest may be partly responsible, but only partly. And certainly the sap of the locust tree has not lost its miraculous properties.
Rather, it is because of the great interest of the pharmacy- medical industry for that particular botanical species, which you can no longer find on sale under its usual name practically any where.
However, it is available under newly fabricated, highly scientific-sounding denominations built around it Latin (and French) name, Courbaril.
It is sold in the form of some compound or derivative, as if it were a newly-developed synthetic drug, under accordingly jacked up prices, for use as a rare newfangled product in severe cased of muscular weakness, preferable in injections.
What has happened is that the pharmaceutical, medical and other health rackets have whistled up their congressional and bureaucratic flunkies to erect impeding rules around the natural product to prevent simple mortals from obtaining it at reasonable prices.
Somehow they have also managed-money talks in Latin America, too with both politicians and bureaucrats-to get the product rarefied locally and export barriers raised.
The tree is still available in Paraguay or Belize. One may
have to go that far in order to obtain the natural product. Paraguay
would probably be the best bet for the traveler, because bribery
is not so expensive there and the borders with Argentina, Brazil
and Bolivia are not well guarded.
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Lawmen in Montana did nothing to dispel the general feeling that Big Brother is out of control when they arrested militiamen.
The Northwest continues to be a tinderbox due to the arrest March 3 of leaders of the Militia of Montana (MOM) and others on a variety of charges in the small town of Roundup, a village of 2,500 residents in rural Musselshell County in central Montana (SPOTLIGHT March 20).
John Trochmann of Noxon, 51, a co-founder of MOM, and four associates involved in militia activity, including Paul Stramer, 46, of Eureka, Cajun James, 53, of Thompson Falls, Amotto "Jerry Lopez, 35, of Albetton were arrested by deputies of the Musselshell County Sheriff's Department.
They were arrested while in Roundup to mediate a tense confrontation between local officials and a group called the Freemen. This group refuses to recognize any law other than "common law," and has accused authorities in Musselshell County of being corrupt.
INCIDENT ESCALATED
The arrest of two members of the Freemen, Dale Jacobi, 53, of Thompson Falls, and Frank Elena, 45, of the Billings area, ultimately led to the arrest of the other militia members.
Jacobi and Elena were arrested at a local shopping mall after attempting to file some legal papers at the local courthouse. Officials refused to accept the filings on orders from District Court Judge Roy Rodeghiero.
When the MOM members went to the sheriff's office to retrieve a two-way radio belonging to Lopez, that had been seized, they found the two "Freemen" had been taken into custody. Subsequently, the militia members were arrested.
Lopez, Stramer and James were arrested inside the jail building as they asked for the radio. Trochmann and Basque were taken into custody after being hauled out of a truck owned by Trochmann, as the two men waited for the others.
The militia members have been charged with felony intimidation, criminal syndicalism and carrying concealed weapons.
Bail, which was originally set at $100,000 each, was reduced to $10,000 each on March 10 and the release of the men was being arranged as The SPOTLIGHT went to press.
Attorneys for the men include former state Senator John DeCamp of Nebraska. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant Montana Attorney General John Connor.
After the arrest of the seven men, Musselshell County officials released a number of wild charges about them to the media, including that they were taken into custody because they were in Roundup to "possibly kidnap and to try to hang" Judge Rodeghiero.
This was reported to the local media by County Attorney John Bohlman.
Although Trochmann, as a confounder of MOM, has taken a high profile, appearing on both national television and in various national news magazines and newspapers all across the country, the arrests in Roundup have been virtually ignored by the national media.
Bohlman and County Sheriff G. Paul Smith indicate that a kidnap plan was afoot because duct tape and plastic ties that can be used for binding hands were seized when the men were arrested.
However, Jacobi operated a propane gas business and used the materials in his work; the plastic ties, as an example, to hang gas pipe.
The sheriff's deputies also seized "a pile of $3 bills with President Clinton's picture on them," according to one report, which continued that "although clearly bogus, the bills will be examined by the Secret Service for possible counterfeiting violations."
Actually, the $3 bills have been circulated all over the country by the publishers of Slick Times, a humor magazine that pokes fun at President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton.
ON "A MISSION"
Nevertheless, Smith told the local media that the militiamen "were here on a mission...that they may be trying to kidnap a judge or some of the others of us..."
Bohlman has been inconsistent with his public statements, telling one local newspaper that"I believe they were here to attempt to capture or kill us" and that he was going to purchase a shogun to protect himself.
A few days later, however, the prosecutor appeared on television in Spokane, Washington, indicating he was not fearful of members of MOM.
Bohlman said he felt they did not present a danger to anyone, clearly indicating that Musselshell County officials were attempting to cool their inflammatory rhetoric.
Meanwhile, and since the arrest of the militiamen, MOM spokesman Randy Trochmann, a nephew of John and co-founder of the group, has been urging militia members all across the nation to "remain calm" and not to rush to Montana.
Randy Trochmann released to The SPOTLIGHT a transcript of a telephone conversation he had with Stramer, while the later was incarcerated in the Yellowstone County Detention Center in Billings.
A portion of the transcript follows:
Stramer: They are trying to bury us, man. They're keeping on all this terrorism and they're saying all the ATF, IRS, FBI are into it, trying to make it look like we're racists and all that.
Trochmann: sure, they are trying to demonize you.
Stramer: I'll tell you who the racist is in this situation. It's that damn sheriff's department, up there at Roundup. All the while...now, get this...that we were there with our faces on the concrete floor for six hours with our hands cuffed behind our backs so hard that they were turning blue, this sheriff's department...the deputies were referring to Jerry Lopez as "the Cuban." "Get the Cuban a chair." Take the Cuban to the bottom of the stairs." "Take the Cuban to the potty." It's just...They were horrible. I'll tell you another thing they did. When they threw us down on the floor...There was enough of us around the entry way and we were kind of blocking things. Instead of stepping over us, they stepped on my back. They used my back as a foot step to get over me. As far as I'm concerned, you don't kick a man when he's down. We didn't resist their arresting procedure, even though it was atrocious...
Trochmann: Well this is not a trial just for you guys. This is a trial for all of America.
Stramer: I understand that. And we are more than happy to be
the guinea pigs for this deal. We did nothing wrong. We went there
in good faith. In a calm and rational manner. In a lawful manner.
and Ill tell anybody that story through my lawyer.
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In Colorado, the state government-with the help of the
Establishment media-is attempting to demonize gun owners.
Citizens attending a state Senate hearing in Denver, Colorado, found themselves the targets of contrived anti-gun hysteria as they were electronically checked for weapons.
"No one could recall that happening before at a legislative committee hearing," the Denver Rocky Mountain News reported.
Sen. Dottie Wham (R-Denver), a sponsor of one of the three bills before the legislature involving the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms, and who also chairs the Senate committee, said she didn't ask for the search and had no idea who did.
TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS
One citizen who attended the session told The SPOTLIGHT that those attending were "`patted down' and our pockets were examined."
He said they were ordered to "raise your arms, spread your legs etc," as the highway patrolman electronically went over their bodies with a metal detection device.
During a recess, the angry Coloradan demanded from his
legislator, Sen. Ed Perlmutter, a liberal Democrat, the reason
for the outrage.
"I told him that there were no words to express the amount of outrage felt by the attendees at the hearing," the citizen reported to The SPOTLIGHT.
Later, it was learned the "frisking" was ordered by Senate President Tom Norton (R-Greely) due to a committee staffer receiving what was described as a "weird" telephone call.
The incident particularly angered citizens attending the hearing because the previous week a delegation of Denver street gang members had visited the state capital to protest the shooting by police of one of their members during a drug raid.
NOT CHECKED
"These gang members, who deal drugs, engage in drive-by killings and, in general, terrorize large sections of the Denver area, were not subjected to any kind of search," one angry supporter of the concealed firearms legislation stated.
"Maybe this would be a violation of their civil rights," he added, "Something we apparently no longer have."
Meanwhile, other citizens of the Centennial State attending gun shows found themselves being portrayed as "gun nuts" by news photographers, on crew-representing a major national news magazine- took stated photographs to give the impression that guns were being easily obtained by street gang types.
Photo crews from the news media have appeared at almost precisely the same time as individuals seeming to be "young Black members of street gangs." a witness told The SPOTLIGHT.
"Quickly," on gun show participant pointed out, "the cameras will focus on these young punks as they pick up semiautomatic firearms."
He said camera crews from Time magazine have appeared at two shows to photograph the young intruders as they handle firearms on display. In one instance photographers actually used a stepladder to provide a better view of the scenes they wanted to photograph.
"I expect the magazine is planning some sort of anti-gun `expose' to illustrate how gang members get their weapons at gun shows," he said, "which is the exact opposite of the truth. The only time these types appear are when the cameras are on hand. They don't need to attend gun shows to get their weapons to shoot us with."
The SPOTLIGHT has received reports of similar tactics being used by the news media at gun shows in other areas of the country.
In fact, at many gun shows cameras are no longer allowed inside
by promoters of the events.
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There's a move on in Congress to further erode Constitutional rights and protections in the name of "anti-terrorism."
Under the guise of combating terrorism, a bill has been introduced in both the House and Senate that presents further infringements on the rights of Americans as guaranteed by the Constitution.
Officially called the Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Act of 1995, the Senate version of the bill, S. 390, has been introduced by Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.).
The House version, H.R. 896, has been introduced by Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the principal sponsor of the so-called Brady Law and other anti-gun legislation passed by Congress last year, and Rep. Norman D. Dicks (D-Wash.).
The bill, which was initiated by the FBI, appears to have bipartisan support, which could expedite action to get it to the floor of both houses of Congress for a vote.
BEFORE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES
Currently, the bill is before the judiciary committees of both the House and the Senate.
While it is a federal crime under current law for Americans to contribute funds for terrorist actions anywhere in the world, the new act would broaden such crime to a point where it would even be unlawful to donate money for peaceful activities, including contributions to the operation of a hospital, to a group that has also been accused of committing "terrorist acts."
Under a provision of the bill the president has the power to designate any group as sponsoring terrorism, which would than make it a crime to donate money to the group for even lawful-even humanitarian-objectives.
The act would impose guilt by association. Permanent resident aliens who support a group listed by the president as having conducted a terrorist act could be classified as "alien terrorists" and be subject to deportation.
Special courts would be convened, before which the government could appear and show probable cause that an alien has supported terrorism by simply being associated in some obscure manner with either a group listed as terrorist or any of its members.
The court could then order deportation based on secret evidence that would not even be made available to the defendant's attorney.
The act could provide a general charter for the FBI and other federal agencies, including the military, to investigate political groups and causes at will.
It is a wide ranging federalization of different kinds of actions applying to both citizens and non-citizens. It would allow up to 10-year sentences for citizens who are found guilty by association and deportation of resident aliens.
The president's determination of which groups are considered "terrorist" is beyond appeal under the act.
The new law would suspend Posse Comitatus, which prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law, by allowing the military to assist regular police agencies.
In addition, the act reverses the presumption if innocence. Instead, the accused can be determined ineligible for bail and can be detained until trial. It also loosens laws for wiretaps and prohibits probation as a punishment.
Since it would be impossible, due to its broad scope, for the government to prohibit all assistance to groups around the world that have made or threatened terrorist act of any sort, enforcement would be selective, aimed at groups and individuals currently found offensive by the government.
"Since the new offense does not cover anything that is not already a crime," the Center for National Security Studies has said of the bill, "the main purpose of the proposal seems to be to avoid certain constitutional and statutory protections that would otherwise apply."
While many provisions of the act could ultimately be fond unconstitutional after years of litigation, the damage could be enormous to the Constitution in the meantime.
The First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of speech and
of the press, and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty
and the right to bail, are deemed most at risk.
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The Bill of Rights is alive and well in America, despite the best efforts of the internationalists and their sycophants in the Establishment media.
Americans are taking their guns back, state by state, and many are legally concealing them, greatly enhancing their safety from killers, muggers, rapists and other constituents of left-wing politicians.
But don't look for this information in the Establishment
press.
About 20 states have passed concealed weapons laws for citizens
with no criminal records, who show a need.
In Virginia, the legislature approved Gov. George Allen's proposal to eliminate the "need" requirement because judges could rarely see the need, including that of Oliver North.
(The Virginia legislature, the oldest continuing legislative body in the nation, has the accumulated wisdom of the ages, except in its northern Washington suburbs. Predecessors include George Washington and Patrick Henry.)
Criminologist Gary Kleck has shot down the gun-grabbers' claim that your weapon will be used against you by a criminal after analyzing data from the National Crime Survey from 1979 to 1985.
Private citizens use a gun against criminals one million times a year, from pointing it and chasing him off to putting holes in his carcass, Kleck found.
When the citizen actually shoots at the criminal, between 8.700 and 16,000 are wounded and 1,500 to 2,800 are killed, according to the survey.
"For both robbery and assault, victims who used guns for protection were less likely to be either attacked or injured than victims responding in any other way," Kleck said.
When Florida passed a law in 1987 allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons, the gun-grabbers hysterically predicted killings during traffic altercations. That did not happen.
But FBI figures show that handgun related homicides in Florida dropped by 29 percent between 1987 and 1992-when they were rising in Washington D.C. and New York, where weapons are banned.
Sadly, but predictably, criminals are preying on tourist in Florida. When they see an out-of-state or rental car license plate, they know the occupants have no gun. If all states followed Florida and Virginia's lead, they would not know whether or not the occupants were armed.
Criminals prefer street crime to house-breaking because
they know that half of the nation's homes have guns inside-but
they don't know which half. In most states, they still know that
all individuals are unarmed.
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