An Analysis of Intent (1)
I received this via an email broadcast today.
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- An Analysis of Intent -
The enclosed papers contain a list of contracts for goods and services ordered by the Internal Revenue Service. These are existing contracts which are being fulfilled right now. The cost of those goods and services ranges from a few tens of thousands of dollars, to literally billions of dollars. There are 183 separate and distinct contracts listed on these 9 pages. All are current.
Some of the goods and services contracted for are as simple as a few thousand pistols and shotguns, and janitorial services. Other goods and services are more complex, such as a vast network of computerized cameras designed to automatically identify and screen visual information.
On page one we see that one million dollars worth of semi-automatic pistols have been ordered for 1998. One million dollars worth of pistols, at an average cost of four hundred dollars each, would equal two thousand five hundred pistols. Why would the IRS need 2,500 extra pistols, above the number of pistols they currently possess? Will 2,500 extra agents be hired? Will those agents who receive those pistols in 1998 become proficient in the use of those pistols by, say, the year 2000?
On page one we also see an order for 200,000 dollars worth of shotguns. According to the contract, the order is to be filled by the year 2000. At a cost of 200 dollars each (my estimate), that should net the IRS an extra 1,000 shotguns. Shotguns are excellent weapons for close quarters work, such as inside of houses, bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms. In the hands of a civilian law enforcement officer, a shotgun is not generally used as an out-of-doors weapon. The range is too limited. A shotgun also has the benefit of requiring less training to become proficient. Also, from the perspective of a forced entry team, a shotgun is a great morale booster. One thousand extra shotguns should go a long way in the year 2000.
Let us now return to our discussion of the more complex goods and services. The vast network of computerized systems designed to automatically identify and screen visual images are some of the more complex items. On page one there is the "Service Center Recognition Image Processing System." At one-hundred million dollars, that must certainly be a complex image processing system. What "Image" is being recognized and processed in that system? We should have the answer in less than 3 years. According to the contract, that particular system will be in full operation by the year 2001. It is only one of a number of interconnecting systems.
Another contract for another "Image System" appears on page four. It is being called an "Image-Based Input Processing System." Again, we can only speculate as to what is being referred to as the "Image." The image must refer to more than an identifying number, such as a social security number. There are already in existence scanners which will read and identify numbers. Our supermarkets have such devices which feed into a centralized computer. What the policy makers at the I.R.S. have in mind is something far more complex.
Perhaps the "Image" refers to a fingerprint, either a picture of one, or an actual human finger could be placed on a scanner and read. Another possibility is that the image referred to is a picture of a persons face, literally a snapshot. Maybe a camera connected to computers will be trained on an actual flesh and blood human face, and read it, as though the person's face were nothing more than a series of binary numbers.
If we speculate, just a bit further, but certainly well within the range of possibility, we can see further applications. Using telescopic lenses, an individual could be automatically identified from long distances, or even automatically selected from a crowd of people. A camera could conceivably pan across a crowd of people gathered at a football game, and automatically identify and fix on one person.
Using satellite communications, the Image-System could be used anywhere in the world. A portable hand-held camera, connected to the system, could be carried into the most remote areas of the world.
This second Image-System will be in operation in less than a dozen years, according to the contract. I presume that in some more strategic areas of our country the system will be in full operation much sooner. The cost is expected to be one-thousand million dollars, according to the contract. I'm phrasing the dollar figure in long form so that there will be no mistake; this totalitarian nightmare is going to cost us a lot of money, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
This list of contracts in my possession is only a small fraction of the total number of contracts associated with the I.R.S. There are over 180 separate contracts on these 9 pages alone. Most of these contracts involve some kind of computerized interface. Many of the contracts are for the direct purchase and application of computers and related hardware, software, systems and networks. Thousands of computer operators, technicians, programmers and designers are needed to service and maintain these systems. The continued yearly cost to service and maintain them will be enormous.
Each of the 183 contracts in this list would fill at least a number of pages, and some would fill hundreds of pages. Others, the more complex ones, would easily fill volumes. The number of people needed to service just the paper-work related to the ongoing maintenance of these systems, will cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Beyond the service, upkeep and maintenance of the various computerized systems, which will require paperwork, the systems themselves will each generate their own independent paperwork. Those millions of pieces of computer generated paper-work will need to be analyzed, filed and disseminated several times at several levels of the bureaucracy. From the person behind the computer screen to the agent in the field is a long and circuitous route. It is a route that involves a plurality of people along the way. The number of people needed to service the computer generated paperwork will require an additional hundreds of millions of dollars a year, in perpetuity.
Of the 183 contracts, 19 of them are for two hundred million (200,000,000), dollars, each. One contract is for five times that amount. Contracts for tens of millions of dollars, and hundreds of millions of dollars are sprinkled liberally throughout. Money is apparently no object to the I.R.S.
On page two there is listed a contract for the "Purchase and support of Data Encryption Radios." These cryptographic radios are to be purchased by next year, 1999. Our naval and military forces use such radios to keep secret information from getting into the hands of the enemy. When I was in the service such radios and other electronic encoding devices were called "crypto gear".
We can all appreciate the need to keep a secret, but the I.R.S. is purchasing fifty-million dollars worth of these data encryption radios and related support systems. I.R.S. intelligence apparently expects the amount of radio traffic, over the next few years, to be heavy and sustained. The level of secrecy suggested by the purchase of fifty million dollars worth of radio encryption hardware and support systems is equal to anything Orwell could have imagined. That level of secrecy would effectively seal off the I.R.S. from the American people. This is an existing contract. The I.R.S. is indeed being sealed off. It would appear from this and other contracts, that the word has gone out at the I.R.S. to batten down the hatches, and prepare for a siege.
What we know about the I.R.S. is only what they allow us to know. Even our elected officials, in the highest offices, are afraid to investigate the I.R.S. too closely. What we know about the I.R.S. comes only from the official mouthpiece of the I.R.S. In as far as the I.R.S. is a closed system, in virtually total control of internal information, it has some of the characteristics of an autonomous sovereign nation.
On page two there is a contract for "Subminiature Audio Recorders and Playback Units". Subminiature recorders are designed to secretly record conversations. The I.R.S. wants to take receipt of one million dollars worth of those recorders within the next two years. There is also a contract, page 3, for "Video Surveillance Systems". Those "Video Surveillance Systems" are probably nothing more than cam corders, but fifty-thousand dollars buys a lot of cam corders. There's also a contract, Pg. 5, for "Conversion of Surveillance Vehicles". The date to complete those conversions is 1999, at a cost of one million dollars. The cost of those conversions does not include the purchase price of the vehicles, or the price of the camera equipment, telephoto lenses and listening devices. I can only guess at the cost of each conversion, but at a cost of five to ten thousand dollars for each conversion, the math becomes very simple. One million dollars will convert anywhere from one hundred to two hundred cars, trucks and vans to surveillance vehicles. The cost for the vehicles, equipment and personnel is separate. Those separate costs are easily in the tens of millions of dollars, or more.
On page 5, one of the contracts reads "Asset Forfeiture Management Support". The I.R.S. is the only agency of the U.S. Federal government that is not required by Congress, or the President, or the Supreme Court to even make a pretense to abiding by Constitutional due process. That freedom allows the I.R.S. lawyers to be extraordinarily effective at seizing peoples' assets. Nevertheless, ten million dollars will be spent to improve the efficiency of asset seizures.
The money being extracted from the American people is being used to improve those very methods of extraction. It's a vicious circle that feeds on itself. Related to asset forfeitures is the contract, pg. 6, entitled "Audit of Asset Forfeiture Fund". The cost of that internal audit is one million dollars. The fund itself must be considerably more than $1,000,000 (one million dollars), otherwise, why spend that amount of money to audit the fund. The more important question is, however, what is the nature of this so-called fund? The source of the fund is probably self explanatory in the name of the fund. The source is the seized assets of Americans. As a fund it is a source of supply, a stock of ready cash set aside for internal use of the I.R.S. The control on those funds, outside of the I.R.S., would be very limited, or non existent. In effect, the fund becomes, for the I.R.S. bureaucracy, a slush fund, to be used at the discretion of those in power. The seizure of assets is profitable to the I.R.S. in its continued growth and expansion. Those seizures and the fund are the definition of a police state. They are the mechanics of a police state. All totalitarian police states feed off their host.
Twenty-five million dollars, page 5, is devoted to "Multimedia/Advertising Services". This twenty-five million dollars is presently being spent in the various mass-media as a public relations ploy to win the hearts and minds of the American people. Through television and radio commentaries and talk shows we've been hearing about the kinder and gentler I.R.S. In newspaper and magazine articles and editorials we've been reading the same thing. From the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, from the L.A. Times, UPI, Associated Press, A.B.C., C.B.S., N.B.C., and C.N.N., we've been hearing that a new day has dawned. This is going on, from coast to coast, in every state in the country. The I.R.S. has the equivalent of a propaganda minister to oversee this multimedia advertising contract.
Twenty-five million dollars will also pay doctors of psychology to take surveys and analyze the expressed thoughts of Americans. Such analysis will allow the I.R.S. to present to Americans the desired image of the I.R.S. The I.R.S. is now considered to be dramatically changed for the better. The kinder and gentler image taking shape seems to be that of a big friendly circus bear. It's big and kind of clumsy, but not anything to worry about. The flip side of this image begins to seep through our subconscious, not anything to worry about, just a little careful handling, keep it fed, and there's not anything to worry about.
On page 6 there is the "Public Broadcasting Service, Tax Clinic". It's a public service from the I.R.S. How friendly can you get! That's downright neighborly. And Americans had to cough up only a half million dollars for this service.
In the last few paragraphs, do we see a pattern? Would it be too much to say that an organ of the U.S. Federal Government practices thought control? Is government sponsored thought control something found only in totalitarian countries?
The strategy of the I.R.S. is to treat the awakening American resistance as an image problem. As the new image is being created in the minds of the American people, the I.R.S. is becoming far more efficient than it ever was.
In the Baltimore Sun newspaper of February 27, 1998, we get a better feeling for reality. On page 1B we find the following headline: "I.R.S. Offers Tips to Ukrainians". The article opens with this statement, "Tax officials from the former Soviet Republic learn the methods used here to gather revenue." The article refers to "high-level tax officers" who are here for a "crash course in I.R.S. methods". Apparently the methods used in the former Soviet bloc are not as efficient as those used by the tax collecting arm of the U.S. Federal Government.
The article continues, "Lewis L. Kubiet, an I.R.S. revenue officer, told the Ukrainians that civil procedures such as tax liens on property, asset seizures, and court ordered garnishment of wages - are all key tools to the I.R.S. arsenal". Yes indeed, and if "civil procedure" fails, then there are a few thousand shotguns and pistols to back it up.
The Ukrainians complained that in their former Communist country the judges and bankers can not be relied on to cooperate with the tax collectors, so liens and asset seizures might not be as effective. One of the reasons, suggested in the article, for the compliant nature of American banks, is the U.S. Federal Government strings attached to American banks through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The strings attached to the American judges, and their courts, can be seen in the fringed flag on a pole, which flies in every court in every county, state and city in our nation. That fringed flag, in the court, connects every court and judge to the U.S. Federal Government in Washington, D.C.
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