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				<div align="left">17 October 2003. <b>Thought for the Week</b>: 
					"The English had a genius for voluntary co-operation&#133; Inside 
					such self-chosen associations the English, normally so suspicious 
					of authority, showed themselves astonishingly amenable&#133; What 
					was remarkable was the national pride of the poor, their instinctive 
					belief in the superiority of their country and its ways of 
					life&#133; At farm feast or in village alehouse the artless chorus 
					would rise, a warning to foreign tyrants who put their trust 
					in lawless strength. 'The race is not always got/ By them 
					wot strive and for it run/ Nor the battle to them people/ 
					Wot's got the longest gun."<br />
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				<h3><font color="#000000">TAXATION - CORPORATE GOVERNMENT FEUDALISM</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">by Jeremy Lee<br />
					Two items hit the Press in the last fortnight. Commenting 
					on the fact that the Income Tax Assessment Act is now 7,000 
					pages long,, Mark Davis (<i>Australian Financial Review</i>, 
					3/10/03 commented: "It's already Australia's longest, most 
					convoluted and single most unpopular piece of legislation. 
					But the Productivity Commission has a sobering message for 
					taxpayers, businesses, accountants and others who love to 
					hate the federal Income Tax Assessment Act. In a speech on 
					the economics of regulation yesterday, commission chairman 
					Gary Banks pointed out that at almost 7,000 pages, the Act 
					was now nearly 60 times longer than the 120-page version that 
					did the job when it was first introduced in 1936. If the Parliament 
					kept adding to the act at this rate, future generations of 
					taxpayers would have to struggle with a piece of legislation 
					of unimaginable complexity. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">"To take a fanciful turn, were this rate 
					of growth to continue unabated, I am informed that by the 
					end of this century the paper version of the Tax Act would 
					amount to 830 billion pages," Mr Banks said. "It would take 
					over 3 million years of continuous reading to assimilate and 
					weigh the equivalent of around 30 aircraft carriers"&#133;..</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">"Mr Banks, the article continued, said 
					it was increasingly realized that government regulation generated 
					significant costs, as well as benefits. Despite promises, 
					the sheer volume of red tape and regulation had not slowed.: 
					" &#133;.At the federal level, government agencies with explicit 
					regulatory functions alone employed about 30,000 staff and 
					spent some $4.5 billion in 2001-02," he said. Estimates by 
					the Attorney-General's Department suggested there were more 
					than 1,800 commonwealth acts currently in force. About 170 
					new acts were promulgated last year &#133;." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">As though to reinforce the point came 
					this news (AFR 3/10/03): "An average small business of 10-15 
					employees in NSW is spending as much as 200 hours a year on 
					tax paperwork, according to the Red Tape Register released 
					by the State Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The most time-consuming 
					tax for small businesses was the quarterly GST return and 
					BAS Statement - a third of businesses spend up to 60 hours 
					a year on GST compliance &#133;." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Perhaps we've got the wrong end of the 
					stick in doubting the common sense of this massive array of 
					red tape. Perhaps we haven't grasped that we should be thankful 
					to the powers-that-be for "job creation". The more work that 
					can be put on the backs of the population, the better the 
					unemployment figures will look! But Mr Costello should at 
					least come clean! He told us his plan was to simplify taxation. 
					Obviously, that wasn't the plan at all. It was to keep more 
					and more people happily employed filling in bits of paper.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">BRACKET CREEP COMPLICATES THINGS FURTHER</font></h3>
				<font color="#000000">Bracket creep is, in essence, straight from 
				Marx's <i>Communist Manifesto</i>, which advocated as one of ten 
				points for communizing a nation a heavy, graduated income tax. 
				Inflation makes this a game of snakes and ladders. Lower-taxed 
				income earners are progressively lifted into a higher level of 
				tax through the progress of time. An election 'tax-cut' is quickly 
				recouped by bracket creep, without the need for any new legislation. 
				Prime Minister Howard and Treasurer Costello are going to give 
				us a tax-cut to be timed nicely to coincide with the next election. 
				Bracket creep will bring it back again over the next three years. 
				The Coalition is helped considerably by the fact that Labor has 
				no genuine alternative and, in fact, believes taxes should be 
				even higher.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">A REGULATION AND MEANS TEST FREE TAX 
					SYSTEM</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">Once we grasp that current tax arrangements 
					are designed as a means of control and a way of keeping tens 
					of thousands of people working extra hours, we can understand 
					why the Debit Tax proposals were not even considered as a 
					way of tax reform. Under the Debit Tax proposals, a levy of 
					less than one percent would be applied each 24 hours on the 
					total turnover of financial transactions through the banking 
					system. Every transaction in Australia (other than cash) goes 
					through a Central Clearing House, where totals between banks 
					are sorted out and re-allocated into individual accounts. 
					</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">A less-than-one-percent levy on this 
					final total would replace every tax, whether direct or indirect, 
					in Australia. The Tax Department as we know it would cease 
					to exist. No individual or company would ever again have to 
					fill in a tax return. Tens of thousands of accountants could 
					be released from their desks to make for the Golf course. 
					No business, large or small, would have to agonise over "Business 
					Activity Statements" for the Goods-and-Services Tax. Petrol 
					would be half the price. No foreign corporation could avoid 
					tax by 'transfer pricing'. The paper war would be over. What 
					is more, each person would pay, through the levy, an amount 
					in keeping with his or her income. A pensioner on $300 a week 
					would pay less than three dollars a week. Pensioners would 
					save more than that when GST was removed from food and clothing. 
					A corporation with a turnover of $300 million would pay less 
					than $3 million. No department screening 'tax-deductions' 
					would be necessary. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Could it be done? Of course! But no politician 
					would dream of making life so easy! It would take most of 
					the fun out of being a politician - granting favours to pressure 
					groups in the electorate; watching the Treasurer deliver the 
					"rewards-and-punishment" Budget speech etc. And think of the 
					poor Commissioner for Taxation, now lording it over a Department 
					bigger than Australia's armed forces! He'd become "plain Mr 
					Carmody" again, instead of the most powerful bureaucrat in 
					the land! He could go back to stamp-collecting, or growing 
					his own vegetables! </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">And, finally, what would happen to the 
					"Income Tax Assessment Act"? Its 7,000 pages would be deposited 
					in the National Library, as a monument to the folly of a bygone 
					age, when citizens were harried unmercifully by a feudal tax 
					lord, whose only justification for the tyranny he exercised 
					was to "create work". Future generations would shake their 
					heads in wonder at the indignities foisted on their mothers 
					and fathers in the "bad old days".</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">TWO GIANT SHADOWS</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">Car production in the world now has a 
					30 per cent over-capacity. Every car-producing nation is staring 
					down the barrel of stiffer competition and stagnant markets. 
					Australia now exports about 30 per cent of local car production. 
					There is not really such a thing as an exclusively Australian 
					car manufacturer. Every well-known brand coming off a production 
					line in Australia belongs to a multinational, which repatriates 
					part of the profits. Labor forces are Australian. Fifty percent 
					of car content is made locally, the other 50 per cent is imported 
					components.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> If there is an advantage for Australia 
					it is that we sit on top of some of the best iron ore and 
					coking coal deposits in the world, and the infrastructure 
					for exploiting these is in place. But we dissipate this advantage 
					in giving away at rock-bottom prices huge quantities of these 
					assets to nations now manufacturing consumer goods which threaten 
					our own industries. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Both China and India are now competing 
					to become the biggest and fastest-growing economies in the 
					world, swamping the industrial west with low cost consumer 
					goods with which we have no hope of competing.. China this 
					year will produce about 2.7 million vehicles, of which 1.8 
					million will be sold on the Chinese domestic market. This 
					leaves 900,000 for export. What brands are sold in China? 
					They're familiar names, of which Volkswagen has the largest 
					share General Motors are next.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> As world oversupply increases, competition 
					for markets will intensify. It was Australia, along with other 
					industrialized nations, that welcomed China into the world 
					of free trade via the World Trade Organisation. We are going 
					to reap the whirlwind with a vengeance. The idea that small-capacity 
					nations like Australia, with highly-taxed, highly paid labour 
					forces will be able to compete with Chinese output that is 
					rising at an astounding rate, quite capable of flooding the 
					world market at prices no one can compete with, is an exercise 
					in wishful thinking.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Multinationals have poured $22 billion 
					into 600 car manufacturing ventures in China since the 1980s. 
					Volkswagen has just committed a further $A10 billion into 
					further expansion over the next five years. China's over-capacity 
					in producing cars will continue to grow. There will be no 
					compunction in exporting the surplus at a price which finally 
					displaces our own car industry. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">India's expansion is scarcely less dazzling. 
					Its predominance in communications technology is surpassing 
					the legendary Silicon Valley. Multinationals are pouring investments, 
					which once went into western economies, into India. Some estimate 
					that India may even outpace China within five years. India's 
					largest car manufacturer, Marun Udyog, is now turning out 
					600,000 units annually. India is also grabbing an ever-increasing 
					share of the pharmaceuticals industry.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> What should a country like Australia 
					do, faced with such a challenge? Firstly, we,ve got to re-think 
					the "growth-and-exports" merrygoround, which is, traced back 
					to basics, an attempt to catch up with a debt-based financial 
					system. Why don't we aim to produce fewer cars, of a much 
					higher quality? Why don't we take a lead in developing pollution-free 
					vehicles? The technology is available. Mexico City runs its 
					buses and taxis on compressed air engines. The use of hydrogen 
					stations running compressors, which gave every motorist an 
					inter-changeable compressed air tank instead of gasoline would 
					shock the world.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> New, high-quality technology and innovation 
					is what we're best at. Why don't we open up possibilities 
					for the thriving, largely self-sufficient towns and villages 
					that once abounded in rural Australia? And work out a way 
					in which young Australians can get into their own homes debt-free? 
					Do we want young, happy and enthusiastic Australians who raise 
					families in an environment of contentment? We could do it. 
					Visions do not come on time-payment. Perhaps they come when 
					everyone has had enough of what Douglas Reed called "Insanity 
					Fair".</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">CRUEL MURDER HIGHLIGHTS SERIOUS DRUG 
					PROBLEM</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">by Bill Daly<br />
					Two weeks ago virtually every New Zealander was shocked at 
					the disgusting murder of a pretty little six year old girl. 
					After days of police and community searching for the missing 
					child, her mother's boyfriend was arrested and his confession 
					led police to her little body. She had been severely bashed 
					and died of head injuries. If reports are correct the murderer 
					was a user of what is called 'P', or the 'P-drug' - methamphetamine 
					- and that all over the country there are small illegal laboratories 
					making the stuff.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Several methamphetamine laboratories 
					were found earlier this year in the small North Island town 
					of Murupara, after police had raided homes belonging to members 
					of the "Tribesmen" and "Mongrel Mob" gangs. Since the murder, 
					newspapers have reported on the apparent widespread use of 
					'P' and that it is particularly popular with the richer trendy 
					brigade. In acute cases, some addicts will spend up to $1000 
					a day to support the habit. A former high-earning businessman 
					now trying to kick the habit said that the sense of euphoria 
					and confidence given by the drug makes it irresistible. He 
					lost his business and income of over $250,000 a year and sold 
					his assets to support the addiction. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Police say those on 'P' can be unpredictably 
					violent. Demonstrating once again how far removed from reality 
					are the liberal do-gooders, into the tense aftermath of the 
					murder, the government announced that this deed was further 
					evidence that parents should be banned from being able to 
					smack their children! But, the politicians went quiet after 
					the naturally angry backlash from the public, and the girl's 
					family. It is beyond belief they could be so stupid as to 
					make a comparison between the brutal murder of a child and 
					a parent correcting a child. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">On the upside, the community of Murupara 
					has come together to clean up the town and make it safe. It's 
					apparent that the government is not interested or even capable 
					of doing anything useful to stem such problems. Similar developments 
					are happening in other places, as local communities realise 
					that only they can make better futures for themselves and 
					their children.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">PAUL HOLMES UPSETS THE POLITICALLY CORRECT</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">by Bill Daly<br />
					Paul Holmes is New Zealand's highest paid radio and television 
					presenter/host. His TV-One 'Holmes Show' has been a seven-day-a-week 
					feature every evening for over a decade. Holmes' self-created 
					image is that of the nice guy that everyone is supposed to 
					like - but he also slots perfectly into the category of what 
					dissident politician Winston Peters has called 'the sickly 
					white liberal'. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">But somehow last week Mr. Holmes' heart 
					must have gotten the better of his head and on his morning 
					radio talkback session he repeatedly described United Nations 
					Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a 'cheeky darkie'. Holmes 
					had backed the US invasion of Iraq and was unhappy at the 
					UN's reticence at supporting the military action. Holmes went 
					further, and wound up with criticism from some callers, questioning 
					whether the large number of women journalists made the trade 
					'ignorant and bitchy'. He also said he could not be likened 
					to Hitler because he "would not keep the records, record keeping 
					not being his thing."</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Although one of the darlings of the 
					liberal chattering-class, Holmes' 'cheeky darkie' comments 
					have fallen into the 'unforgivable' basket. Several of his 
					TV-One staff, beginning with a Pacific Islander, have done 
					the 'politically correct' thing and resigned; they can now 
					hold their heads up high amongst their other philosophically 
					bankrupt associates. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">The Prime Minister Helen Clark, a sickly 
					white liberal supremo, whom some suspect would like the top 
					UN job later, added her sixpence worth of criticism of Holmes, 
					along with others such as a strange South African immigrant 
					Joris de Bres, who has his snout deep into the public trough 
					as Race Relations Commissar.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> But, before anyone thinks that Mr. Holmes 
					was a lost lamb now found by His Saviour, it should be noted 
					that within hours he was grovelling so deep for forgiveness 
					- it's a wonder he hasn't turned the colour of dirt - and 
					reminding the country he has always supported multiculturalism, 
					and allowing the Tampa boat people in, etc., etc., etc. It 
					is obvious that within the media world there is a hidden reaction 
					to political correctness and a little of it came out as humour 
					after the Holmes' comments.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> A couple of days ago the <i>New Zealand 
					Herald's</i> front page showed a picture of Holmes interviewing 
					one of the All Black rugby players, a Pacific Islander, along 
					with the headline "Whity Meets an All Black". And the overly 
					vulgar Maori comedian Mike King on his late-night TV show 
					had a skit involving himself and two white women TV presenters. 
					To his comment that he was in the mood for a white woman, 
					one replied, "Oh, you cheeky darkie!"</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND PAY TRIBUTE</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">It is the sad task of the editor of O.T. 
					to observe the passing of outstanding League supporters and 
					those friends whose steps, over the years, led them to the 
					Australian League of Rights for whatever reason, before they 
					returned once again down the road their own life took them.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Milan Voltrubec<br />
					We want to acknowledge the passing of a friend and supporter 
					Milan Voltrubec, who passed away recently at the age of 83. 
					He was known to the League from the very early days - I am 
					told he and his young family spent many, many, hours letter-boxing 
					League literature around his neighbourhood. His last words 
					to one of our folk was: "Don't you people stop what you are 
					doing." We won't Milan. Thank you for your support over these 
					many years. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Geoff McDonald<br />
					Former communist, trade unionist and author, Geoff McDonald 
					was another such person. We were sorry to learn of his death 
					in early September. (<i>Melbourne Age</i>, 5/9/2003). League 
					supporters will remember Geoff McDonald and his outstanding 
					efforts in 'bringing to the light of day', the Communist Party's 
					programme behind the 'aboriginal land rights' movement, and 
					the perceived threats to Australia's security and defence. 
					Interestingly, the writer of the <i>Melbourne Age</i> obituary, 
					Malcolm McDonald, former official with the Federated Engine 
					Drivers and Firemen's Association made no mention whatsoever 
					of Geoff's links to the Australian League of Rights, the 'land 
					rights' campaigns on League platforms, nor the books Geoff 
					wrote on the 'land rights' issue. That part of his life, for 
					them, has been swept 'down the memory hole'. <br />
					Some of those hard-line Labor unionists wouldn't want to be 
					reminded it was Geoff McDonald who first approached Eric Butler, 
					then National Director of the Australian League of Rights 
					in the 1980s. At the time he couldn't get his message out. 
					His Labor/Trade Union 'friends' didn't want to hear about 
					the Communist's plans behind the 'land rights' push! <br />
					Through a series of meetings on League platforms across Australia 
					and the publishing of his book "<i>Red Over Black: Behind 
					the Aboriginal Land Rights</i>" by the Veritas Publishing 
					Company, Australians were forewarned. Many Aboriginal Australians 
					now realise they were simply 'pawns in the political game' 
					of the push for 'land rights'. Geoff said they were "being 
					treated as black cannon fodder by the Marxist revolutionaries." 
					Well done Geoff McDonald, you made your contribution to this 
					nation of both black and white Australians.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">BOOKS BY GEOFF MCDONALD</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">"<i>Red Over Black</i>" by Geoff McDonald. 
					He had a deep respect for the genuine Aboriginal people. As 
					an industrial officer in the early seventies he made a number 
					of visits to reserves in Central and Northern Australia and 
					saw Marxist operators and their dupes hard at work advancing 
					their Communist strategy. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">"<i>The Evidence"</i> by Geoff McDonald. 
					In this work Geoff McDonald presents revealing extracts from 
					official Communist documents on Aboriginal 'land rights'. 
					Both books available from all League Book Services.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">BACKGROUND OF LIKELY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 
					WESLEY CLARK</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">by William Blum<br />
					"In case anyone is still embracing any illusions that General 
					Wesley Clark is likely the hero who can bring closer to fruition 
					our belief and hope that Another World Is Possible, here are 
					a few more items about this charming man.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> At the start of the 78-day NATO bombing 
					of Serbia in 1999, which he oversaw as Supreme Allied Commander 
					in Europe, Clark declared: "We are going to systematically 
					and progressively attack, disrupt, degrade, devastate and 
					ultimately destroy these forces and their facilities and support 
					unless President Milosevic complies with the demands of the 
					international community." (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>, 26 March 
					1999) Clark was among 68 leaders charged with war crimes by 
					a group of International law professionals from Canada, the 
					United Kingdom, Greece, and the American Association of Jurists.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Among the charges filed were: "grave 
					violations of international humanitarian law," including "willful 
					killing, willfully causing great suffering and serious injury 
					to body and health, employment of poisonous weapons and other 
					weapons to cause unnecessary suffering, wanton destruction 
					of cities, towns and villages, unlawful attacks on civilian 
					objects, devastation not necessitated by military objectives, 
					attacks on undefended buildings and dwellings, destruction 
					and willful damage done to institutions dedicated to religion, 
					charity and education, the arts and sciences." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">At one point in the bombing campaign 
					it was reported that "[Clark] would rise out of his seat and 
					slap the table. 'I've got to get the maximum violence out 
					of this campaign -- now!'" (<i>Washington Post</i>, 21 September 
					1999) </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">And last year found our hero in New Hampshire, 
					endorsing Democrat Katrina Swett for Congress, as reported 
					by the local paper. "Clark, who supports a congressional resolution 
					that would give President Bush authority to use military force 
					against Iraq, said if Swett were in Congress this week, he 
					would advise her to vote for the resolution, but only after 
					vigorous debate." (<i>The Union Leader</i>, Manchester, NH, 
					10 October 2002)" <br />
					*William Blum formerly worked with the U.S. State Department. 
					<br />
					From YellowTimes.org</font> 
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				<h3><font color="#000000">IRAQ'S 'HARSH REALITY' HARD TO HIDE</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">by Bill Berkowitz, Workingforchange<br />
					"The harsh reality for ordinary Iraqis is hard to hide," Professor 
					Cole, the author of <i>Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, 
					Culture and History of Shi'ite Islam</i> and the operator 
					of a highly intelligent Web site called Informed Comment (http://www.juancole.com/), 
					noted: "There is still 60% unemployment and extensive poverty, 
					electricity is chancy, hurting many businesses, no land telephone 
					lines are functioning in Baghdad, and no 911 emergency services 
					are available for those who fall ill. <br />
					</font><font color="#000000">There is a massive crime wave, 
					with assassinations, car-jackings, burglaries and kidnappings, 
					in Baghdad and Basra, the major cities. Few trust the banks. 
					Women who are in any way public figures are subject to harassment, 
					even assassination." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Prof. Cole also questioned the veracity 
					of the so-called success stories. "Although the universities 
					are 'open,' Basra University was completely looted and lacks 
					basic facilities, including a proper university library (burned) 
					or computers (stolen). I guess they are back to clay tablets. 
					"And while it is technically true that the hospitals are open, 
					and that large-scale looting of their medicines seems to have 
					been halted, most of them are not operating at an acceptable 
					level, as a number of press accounts have pointed out." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">As anyone who watches the cable news 
					channels can attest to, for the past week and a half, the 
					networks are now running with 'good news' stories, but it's 
					too early to know whether the administration's propaganda 
					blitz will bear fruit with the public. The Progressive's Matthew 
					Rothschild hopes the media will not be cowed by (negative) 
					statements&#133; and instead focus on the major issues: <br />
					"If the big story is that there's a guerrilla war wreaking 
					havoc every day in Iraq, then that's the story the media should 
					be telling, regardless of how many happy story campaigns the 
					administration launches."</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">EIGHTH PILLAR OF WISDOM? IRAQ IS A DEEP 
					MORASS</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">Michael Keane, LA Times, 21/9/03<br />
					That Iraq would become a troublesome source of guerrilla tactics 
					should come as no surprise to any student of T.E. Lawrence, 
					better known as Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence is considered 
					by many strategists to be the father of guerrilla warfare. 
					He articulated a powerful treatise on the topic in his classic 
					book, <i>The Seven Pillars of Wisdom</i>. During World War 
					I, Lawrence's guerrilla victories against the Turkish forces 
					occupying the Arabian Peninsula provided a stunning contrast 
					to the simultaneous slaughter occurring in the trenches of 
					Europe. Although Lawrence claimed that his vision of warfare 
					came to him as he lay dazed in a feverish state, he was actually 
					formalizing a form of war practiced by Arab tribes for centuries. 
					</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Lawrence's thesis was that a successful 
					rebellion required three elements. <br />
					First, the rebels must have an unassailable base, not merely 
					a physical base of operations but also a psychological fortress 
					in the mind of every soldier willing to die for his convictions. 
					<br />
					Second, in what he called the "doctrine of acreage'' (what 
					strategists now call the force-to-space ratio), Lawrence stated 
					that an insurgent victory required that the size of the occupying 
					force must be insufficient to pacify the contested area. <br />
					Finally, the guerrillas must have a friendly population. Although 
					the population need not be actively friendly, it must not 
					be hostile to the point of betraying the insurgents. This 
					support can be generated either from fear of retaliation or 
					sympathy for the guerrilla cause or both. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">The application of Lawrence's theory 
					to the current military situation in Iraq is not comforting. 
					First, the rebels seem to possess an unassailable base in 
					both physical and psychological terms. Within Iraq, hostile 
					forces have demonstrated an ongoing ability to launch numerous 
					daily attacks. The continuing inability to capture Saddam 
					Hussein is the most significant evidence of this problem.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Externally, there is a base of bordering 
					states that are failing to stop volunteers from infiltrating 
					Iraq. American troops have found foreign passports on the 
					bodies of enemy forces killed. Perhaps more troubling, however, 
					is the psychological "base'' the mind of the enemy. When religious 
					extremism is mixed with nationalistic fervor, it cements to 
					form the bricks of unshakeable conviction. As Lawrence himself 
					noted, "An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best 
					shot.'' <br />
					</font><font color="#000000">Then there is the force-to-space 
					ratio of coalition forces, which is clearly inadequate. The 
					Americans have only about 130,000 soldiers in Iraq. To match 
					the number of soldiers per inhabitant as the United States 
					has in Kosovo would require 526,000 troops in Iraq. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Finally, guerrilla victories can work 
					to slowly undermine US credibility while simultaneously building 
					support and gaining recruits for the insurgents. Over time, 
					guerrilla tactics tend to frustrate conventional troops, which 
					are increasingly likely to overreact by humiliating men and 
					offending women and thereby alienating the local population. 
					Though Iraqi guerrillas lack the necessary firepower and manpower 
					to forcibly remove the Americans, Lawrence would argue that 
					should not be their proper objective. Even while suffering 
					tactical defeats, the guerrillas could erode the will of the 
					Americans and thereby achieve a strategic victory. <br />
					</font><font color="#000000">As Henry Kissinger succinctly 
					stated: "The guerrilla wins by not losing. The army loses 
					by not winning." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">After liberating the region from the 
					Turks in World War I, Britain ruled the newly-formed country 
					of Iraq under a mandate from the League of Nations. The population's 
					gratitude for having been freed from 400 years of Ottoman 
					oppression was short-lived. There were uprisings and assassinations 
					of British soldiers and civilian administrators. Lawrence 
					was sent back to Baghdad to report on conditions there. He 
					wrote these haunting words: <br />
					"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a 
					trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and 
					honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding 
					of information. ... Things have been far worse than we have 
					been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient 
					than the public knows. ... We are today not far from a disaster." 
					</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Michael Keane, a lecturer on strategy 
					at the University of Southern California's Marshall School 
					of Business, is also a fellow of the US Department of Defense's 
					National Security Education Program.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">SYDNEY CONSERVATIVE SPEAKERS' CLUB</font></h3>
				<font color="#000000">The next meeting will be held Thursday, 
				30th October 2003. It will be an Open Night for the Audience to 
				have their say. Venue is the Lithuanian Club, 10 East Terrace, 
				Bankstown; approximately 600metres from Bankstown Railway Station. 
				Your cost of attendance is $4 - bring a friend for the first time 
				and there is no entrance fee. There are a variety of restaurants 
				along the South Terrace for those who require an evening meal 
				and the Lithuanian Club has ample parking facilities.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">ADELAIDE CONSERVATIVE SPEAKERS' CLUB</font></h3>
				<font color="#000000">Advance notice<br />
				The next CSC will be held on Monday, 3rd of November, and Adelaide 
				supporters will be treated to a Dinner Address by Dr. Alec Burton 
				of the Natural Health Association. Please note, this is a special 
				Dinner Meeting only. <br />
				Venue is the Public Schools' Club, 207 East Terrace (Cnr. Carrington) 
				Adelaide.</font>
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				<h3><font color="#000000">WHO IS ERNST ZUNDEL, AND WHY IS HE IN 
					JAIL?</font></h3>
				<p><font color="#000000">by Mark Weber, IHR<br />
					"For more than six months now, Ernst Zundel has been held 
					without charge in solitary confinement in Canada on the pretext 
					that he is a threat to national security. In fact, this 64-year-old 
					German-born writer, publisher and civil rights activist is 
					a political prisoner and a victim of great injustice.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Who is this man, and why is his case 
					important? Zundel was arrested at his home in Tennessee on 
					Feb. 5, where he had been living peacefully with his wife, 
					Ingrid Rimland, on the pretext that he missed an interview 
					date with immigration authorities. Two weeks later he was 
					deported to Canada, even though his wife is an American citizen. 
					Claiming that he is a national security threat, Canadian authorities 
					have been holding Zundel since Feb. 19. The Canadian Security 
					Intelligence Service (CSIS) - something like the American 
					FBI - supports this charge by citing tenuous and years-old 
					ties by Zundel to "white supremacist" groups. While acknowledging 
					that he is not violent himself, CSIS also argues that material 
					published by Zundel might cause "like-minded individuals to 
					engage in violence." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">'Holocaust denial' is against law in 
					a number of countries<br />
					There is absolutely no basis for the "security threat" charge. 
					Zundel's life is an open book. He is a peaceful man with no 
					record of violence. During the 40 years he lived in Canada, 
					he was never convicted of a crime. In fact, he has himself 
					been a victim of hate and violence. He survived at least three 
					attempts on his life, including a devastating arson attack 
					against his residence. Jewish groups are demanding that Zundel 
					be deported to Germany, where he faces years of imprisonment 
					for the "thought crime" of "denying the Holocaust."<br />
					("Holocaust denial" is against the law in Germany, France, 
					Switzerland and some other European countries.)</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Zundel is in prison not because his 
					views are unpopular, or because he's a "security risk." He's 
					in prison because Jewish groups want him there. He's a prisoner 
					because he promotes views that the Jewish-Zionist lobby considers 
					harmful to its interests. This lobby is the decisive, critical 
					factor in the decades-old campaign to silence him. The only 
					sustained and institutionalized effort to imprison him has 
					come from this lobby, which includes the Simon Wiesenthal 
					Center, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canadian Holocaust 
					Remembrance Association, and the League for Human Rights of 
					B'nai B'rith (with the Anti-Defamation League, its counterpart 
					in the US). </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Veteran investigative journalist speaks 
					out for Zundel<br />
					A few prominent Canadians have been speaking out against the 
					unjust treatment of Ernst Zundel. One such person is Bill 
					Dunphy, a veteran investigative journalist and editor for 
					the daily <i>Hamilton Spectator</i>. He spent six years probing 
					Canada's "white supremacist" movement, and got to know Zundel 
					personally. Although he has no sympathy for Zundel's views, 
					in a hard-hitting column (<i>Hamilton Spectator</i>, May 14) 
					he told readers: "Our government has seized and branded Ernst 
					Zundel, stripped him of his human rights, tried him in secret 
					and found him wanting, and will now hand him over to a foreign 
					government anxious to throw him in jail... Zundel - who did 
					this country a favour by wiping off the books our disgraceful 
					False News laws - has never once been convicted of a criminal 
					offence in this country, never once found to have violated 
					the hate crime laws that rest snugly around the throat of 
					free expression in this country. <br />
					"Calculating correctly that there was no political cost, no 
					'down side' to slipping on the jackboots to kick a reviled 
					old man out of our country, our government cobbled together 
					their best insults and innuendo, and Lord knows what secret 
					'vidence,' and branded Ernst Zundel a threat to national security. 
					<br />
					"I know this man, his local and international contacts and 
					I know this movement. And after reading the 58-page 'unclassified' 
					summary of the government's case, I can assure you there is 
					no justice here. Their 'evidence' is riddled with errors and 
					misinformation, hearsay and inflammatory innuendo. Dead men 
					walk again, and the shattered bits of shoddy secret networks 
					long since collapsed under the weight of their own ineptitude 
					are made whole and menacing once again. It is a shameful piece 
					of dishonest, unreliable tripe."</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> The trendy Toronto weekly <i>Eye</i> 
					pointed out in an editorial (May 15) that "declaring Zundel 
					a terrorist now is not the result of any startling new information," 
					but rather "it has to do with political pressure ..." <br />
					The paper added: "The new security certificate admits Zundel 
					has 'virtually no history of direct personal engagement in 
					acts of serious violence.' It labels him a terrorist partly 
					because he 'seeks to destroy the multicultural fabric and 
					underpinnings of Canadian society.' Citing opposition to official 
					multiculturalism as a type of terrorism risks expanding the 
					war on terror to include everyone to the right of Pierre Trudeau. 
					<br />
					"Anti-terrorism provisions should not be used as a catch-all 
					solution. Misapplying terminology in this way damages its 
					credibility, and undermines the efforts against real terrorism. 
					It has also, of course, damaged the integrity of our refugee 
					system."</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Similar concerns have been voiced by 
					the <i>Daily Times</i> Colonist of Victoria, British Columbia. 
					In an editorial, "Even Zundel Merits Fairness" (May 9), the 
					paper declared: "... The way the federal government is trying 
					to get rid of Zundel is wrong - it is using law that is so 
					sweeping in its scope that it may be, as Zundel's lawyer Doug 
					Christie argues, unconstitutional. It would allow him to be 
					deported on evidence that amounts to mere assumption and subject 
					him to a kangaroo court process where no defence can be mounted. 
					<br />
					"The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service calls Zundel 
					the patriarch of Canada's white supremacist 'movement.' It 
					argues he is a risk to national security - a finding essential 
					for his deportation under this procedure - because he is trying 
					to 'destroy the multicultural fabric and underpinnings of 
					Canadian society.' "... Most Canadians would be surprised 
					to learn that the country's multicultural fabric could be 
					torn apart or society toppled by Zundel's rants which are 
					not, in fact, broadcast widely. But this is the basis for 
					CSIS's security certificate against Zundel." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">The Canadian Association for Free Expression 
					(CAFE), a leading free speech advocacy group, is demanding 
					Zundel's immediate release. "Mr. Zundel is quite literally 
					a political prisoner," says CAFE director Paul Fromm, who 
					has also been acting as Zundel's legal representative in his 
					detention hearings. "He is being held in solitary confinement 
					solely for the non-violent expression of his political views."</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> The allegation that Zundel might be 
					a threat to national security "is mischievous nonsense," says 
					Fromm. "Zundel has been politically active in Canada for 40 
					years. He's a public figure. His writings and speeches are 
					available on-line. He's been investigated for years by the 
					police. He's an open book. Zundel has never advocated or practised 
					violence, nor have his followers," Fromm adds. "He's a pacifist 
					and a publisher." </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">A Life of Struggle<br />
					Ernst Zundel, who sometimes describes himself as a "Swabian 
					peasant," is an outgoing, good-humored man who is blessed 
					with a rare combination of unflagging optimism and practical 
					ability. He maintains this infectious spirit even under very 
					trying conditions. He is an unusually alert and sensitive 
					individual with a keen understanding of human nature. He knows 
					how to persuade, cajole and encourage his supporters to give 
					their best for the greater good. He inspires confidence, loyalty 
					and affection. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">Zundel's two lengthy trials - the 1985 
					trial lasted two months, and the 1988 trial lasted four months 
					- have been the closest thing anywhere to full scale debates 
					on the Holocaust issue. For the first time ever, "Holocaust 
					survivors" and Holocaust historians were closely and critically 
					questioned under oath about their claims and views. Zundel 
					was found guilty in the 1985 trial, but the verdict was set 
					aside by the provincial appeals court. It ruled that the judge 
					in that trial had, among other things, given improper instructions 
					to the jury, and had improperly excluded defense evidence.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> In May 1988, at the conclusion of the 
					second Zundel trial, the jury declared him guilty. A few days 
					later, he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment. On appeal, 
					Canada's Supreme Court threw out the conviction, declaring 
					on August 27, 1992, that the archaic "false news" law under 
					which he had been convicted was a violation of the country's 
					Charter of Rights. This was not only a personal vindication 
					by Canada's highest court; Ernst Zundel secured an important 
					victory for the rights of all Canadians.</font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000"> Zundel's next great legal battle was 
					fought out before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in Toronto 
					on charges, instigated by Jewish groups, of promoting "hatred 
					or contempt" against Jews through the "Zundelsite" Internet 
					web site (www.zundelsite.org), operated by Ingrid Rimland 
					from the United States. In this legal action, as the Tribunal's 
					presiding Commissioner declared, the truth or validity of 
					the supposedly "hateful" items was not a consideration. The 
					Tribunal ultimately ruled against Zundel, declaring the "Zundelsite" 
					to be unlawful. </font></p>
				<p><font color="#000000">After four decades in Canada, including 
					a failed effort to acquire Canadian citizenship, he moved 
					to the United States, where he married Ingrid in January 2000. 
					For two years they lived quietly in the mountain region of 
					eastern Tennessee. Of this remarkable man, Robert Faurisson 
					wrote in 1988: "Zundel may once again go to prison for his 
					research and beliefs or be threatened with deportation. All 
					this is possible. Anything may happen when there is an intellectual 
					crisis and a realignment of historical concepts of such a 
					dimension. Revisionism is the great intellectual adventure 
					of the end of this century. Whatever happens, Ernst Zundel 
					is already the victor." http://www.ihr.org/news/030923Zundel.html</font>
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