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Press Release - RAID on MAY
10, 2000
We are asking all members to please distribute this
press release to as many people as possible. It is our request that you
send this document either within an email or as an attachment depending on
how your people can best receive it. We are going to ask you to send another
message as a follow up which will be arriving shortly.
Stand tall. We are messengers of the truth, and
nothing is more powerful than the truth!
On Wednesday morning the 10th of May, 2000,
in a suburb north of Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. J.W. 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. 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 thereafter,
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 has come to be called a "raid"? And
what sort of system are we living in that has a language for the armed
assault of its people by its civil servants, and no language to define the
rights of its 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, 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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We are also asking you and anyone you know who is
concerned with preserving our rights as a free nation to join us in silent
protest at the following location for the listed depositions:
Monday May 15, 2000
Office of the US Attorney 230 N. 1st Avenue room
4000 Phoenix, Arizona
8 am pacific for JW Zidar 11 am for
John Matthews
Those of you who are not able to physically join us
are asked to join us in prayer at the times listed. Please ask your church
bodies and prayer chains to join with us in lifting up these two
educators. We thank you for whatever form your participation will be.
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