| On Wednesday morning the 10th of May 2000, in a suburb north
of Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. JW Zidar, and his partner, Dr. Lorraine
were backing out of their driveway on their way to the airport.
They were setting off on a trip to Europe for a few days. When,
from all around them, began an action known as a ?drawing down?.
Men in full assault gear, with automatic weapons drawn and pointed
directly at Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine surrounded their automobile
from all sides. Screaming for them to raise their hands, to freeze,
to stop the car. Dr. Lorraine, being in a mild state of shock at
this unprecedented assault, did not immediately raise her hands,
and so, two of the attackers pointed their gun directly at her head
as one screamed for her to ?get her hands up in the air?. At this
point, Dr. Lorraine slowly raised her hands, as it dawned on her
that the screaming she was hearing was directed at her. She was
later to remark that ?all you see is guns.. all you remember is
guns pointing at you?
The attackers then removed Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine from the
car. Taking one to the rear and one to the front of the automobile,
their hands were cuffed behind their backs, and they were taken
back into their home, where they were put in separate rooms under
armed guard and interrogated, still handcuffed, for over an hour.
No documents, no search warrants, no phone calls, no legal representation.
The assault team then held Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine for eight
hours under armed guard while they searched the premises. In the
exercise of any search warrant, by law, the owners of the property
being searched have the right to accompany the search team as they
conduct their search. Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine were held in their
dining room as the searchers went through and removed their belongings
from throughout their house. In all, 32 boxes of their personal
belongings were removed from the premises.
At the end of the day, one of the federal agents asked Mr. Zidar
if he had the documents which authorized the search. He replied
that he had seen no such documents. At which point, the agent, apologizing
profusely, offered over a set of documents purported to be the authorization
for this amazing set of events.
Who are these enemies of the State? Were these hardened criminals,
drug dealers, or members of some Mafia we have not heard of? Hardly.
These two, who are such an apparent threat to our government that
they were drawn down at gunpoint, are teachers.
Teachers? That can?t be. This is America. We don?t send assault
teams to raid the homes of teachers in this country. They must be
criminals. They must be conspirators. They must be inciting some
sort of cult ritual, or encouraging people to riot or commit mass
suicides or something, or this could not have happened. They are
stealing people?s money, or perhaps they are stealing government
secrets and selling them to the Chinese. There must be some ?logical?
explanation for the events of this past Wednesday morning that we
aren?t being told. Well, that is a fact. There are.
These two people, along with another couple, a Mr. And Mrs. John
Matthews, were raided Wednesday morning by armed agents of the federal
government for teaching people the truth. Mrs. Matthews was on her
telephone, making some arrangements to do with an upcoming graduation
when the assault team knocked on her door. She didn?t hear the knock,
but her son, who was getting himself ready for school, did. He answered
the door just as the agents were preparing to use the ?door bar?
and break it down. As he opened the door, an agent grabbed him and
threw him up against the wall, pinning him there. The agent barked
out a demand for his name, and his birth date. At that moment, Mrs.
Matthews, hearing the commotion, rounded the corner to the front
hall and, seeing the agents, said to her son ?You do not have to
answer any questions.? Apparently, that was the wrong thing to say
at that moment, for in the next instant another armed agent had
ripped the telephone out of her hand and pinned her arm up behind
her back. And so it was that two families in Arizona received a
brand new education into the politics of fear and intimidation.
What are the facts and findings here? What events occurred which
led up to this bizarre tale? Mr. Zidar and Dr. Lorraine are the
educators and founders of an educational organization named the
World Community Educational Society (WCES). Mr. and Mrs. Matthews
are long standing members of that society. WCES has been conducting
adult distant learning classes and live telephone classes through
their college for some time, a little over three years. The college
also has a web site, http://www.wces.org, which hosts the classes
by real audio so those students, who cannot attend the live classes,
can listen to them on the web site. They have had a variety of instructors,
teaching subjects ranging from the founding and operation of the
Federal Reserve System, to alternative health education. There are
currently thousands of students of the college, all over the world,
who come to the classes and the web site regularly to receive truthful
information about the banking and government systems which run the
modern economic world. The membership of this society is now growing
at a rate that surpasses even the largest private organizations
around the world. Membership is growing faster than the AARP. (American
Association of Retired People). On May 5th, 2000, many hundreds
of members of this society arrived in Las Vegas to share community,
to meet each other and share ideas and learn from educators from
all over the world.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, (SEC), recently called Mr.
Zidar and Mr. Matthews into an inquiry in a courtroom in Denver,
Colorado. In a series of court appearances, they were accused by
the SEC of no criminal acts, nor were they presented with any evidence
of wrongdoing. They were not detained, and were due to appear for
yet another hearing in the Denver courtroom before the judge in
June. In point of fact, the judge had made it clear in the most
recent court appearance that he failed to see any evidence which
would warrant a return to his courtroom by any of the parties involved,
and had suggested that the agents of the government were wasting
his time. He further admonished the parties to settle their differences
as gentlemen. Mr. Zidar and Mr. Matthews had returned to their homes
in Arizona and, shortly there after, attended the membership meeting
of their private society in Las Vegas; a society of which this writer
is a member.
There is only speculation as to what prompted the events of this
past Wednesday morning. Was this outright assault the gentlemanly
response the judge was looking for? Perhaps someone should interview
the judge and ask him. The SEC agent bringing the matter to the
courtroom is the very same authorizing agent named in the ?search
warrant? documents. And exactly how is it that a ?search warrant?
becomes implemented in this form of open assault? In point of fact,
simultaneous to the assault, a media spin campaign was engaged.
Articles in newspapers claiming SEC ?allegations? appeared in some
parts of the country. Careful reading of these articles reveals
that there are no ?facts? presented in them. Only ?allegations?
and hearsay. How is it that these articles came to be written? What
is the mechanism by which this information is disseminated to the
press? Do the agents of the government call the reporters and read
them a set of?allegations? and call it ?news?? How is it that the
physical assaults on these innocent and not proven guilty of anything
citizens is come to be called a ?raid?? And what sort of system
are we living in that has a language for the armed assault of it?s
people by it?s civil servants, and no language to define the rights
of it?s people in common usage?
Yes, it was teachers, and some dedicated students, whose homes
were raided this past Wednesday in Phoenix. Part of an educational
society that is not going to bow to the pressures of gun toting
?federal? agents. A society whose members will not stop learning,
either. The government has become the armed militia for the banks
and Americans are dumbfounded as they watch the value of their money
erode and their stock markets go into a lunatic whirlwind of insane
proportions. There is a great and illegal and unlawful collusion
going on here, and there are many many people finally, beginning
to understand that it is by virtue of this collusion that their
rights have become privileges and their money has become worthless.
By virtue of our ignorance, our signatures upon their documents
allow the bankers to create vast sums of wealth which they in turn
loan back to us, at interest, using these same instruments,. And
we wonder why, the harder we work the less we have. Our families
are divided up into working adults and children / dependents who
are financial liabilities and tax shelters to the point that no
one is left at home to raise them as children, and we wonder why
our culture is disintegrating around us.
We turn over our responsibilities en masse to a system of governance
and ?order? which has wrought nothing but destruction upon our livelihoods
and lifestyles and wonder why nothing changes for the better. We
do not trust our own neighbors or ourselves to do the right thing,
but rather entrust the authority of enforcement into the hands of
bureaucrats and strangers and marvel at the deterioration of our
nation.
And so it is, that a man named JW Zidar, along with other pioneers
around the globe, find themselves turning over their life work,
their personal lives, their selfish pursuits, to a cause of education.
They rise up out of the common mass of humanity and make a choice
to forgo the easy path, to align themselves and their lives to finding
and sharing the truth.
We will not be deterred from our mission of peaceful change and
education. Education that teaches people the laws of this land and
encourages personal responsibility and honor in all matters. Education
that is based on the fundamental principles of a free Republic and
the documents and legal structures which support those fundamental
principles. Not a ?free democracy? but a free individual in a free
Republic, where government is a servant of the people and not the
tyrant reigning over them. It seems that as a people, we are choosing
to awaken, and to take personal responsibility for our own minds.
As members of a private society, dedicated to education and truth,
we give thanks and honor to our teachers, and we hold them up in
admiration and love for standing the test of assault and battery.
We are not radicals or conspirators. We are educators and we are
armed with the true history of a nation that has been deceived and
lied to for a hundred years. It is time to stop the lie. It is time
to tell the truth.
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