[e-gold-list] RE: Gold Age, DGC's & Government Goof-Balls

[Steve Schear]

At 08:19 AM 8/9/2006, HeronAerospace Groups wrote:

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>In early 2001 we were raided by the SS (on the pretense of suspected
>credit card fraud -- how nice, I try to get their help, or should I say
>help them, on this issue and give them leads for over a year and they
>come after me instead), interrogated for over 8, 10, 12?+ hours (I can't
>recall the precise # at the moment, but it was definitely between 8 & 10
>hr) that day&night, most of our equipment and records are confiscated
>and our home is completely trashed.

As many people have learned (e.g., Martha Stewart), through sad experience, 
never, ever, talk with these guys.  Absolutely no chit-chat.  Even (or 
maybe especially) if you have done nothing wrong, they will try hanging you 
with your own words.  Let your lawyer, even a those cheap-suit legal-aid 
guys, tell them you have nothing to say.

>In case you don't
>know, in the US a local Sheriff has the right & authority to
>forbid/resist Federal Actions by the FBI & SS, or any other Federale if
>they feel there is insufficient cause, merit, evidence, etc. for the
>action (until a higher authority says otherwise, and even then there
>still may be a fight -- in common law tradition, the Sheriff is expected
>to protect his people even from the King, when the King is wrong).

I wonder whether it might be useful to become a good friend of the local 
Sheriff, maybe even make him a silent partner (nothing underhanded), so 
that when the feds show up he/she absolutely refuses to permit the raids on 
his turf?  What would happen in such a stand-off?

>why do I know person X; how did I first meet person
>X, or Y,  or Z; do I know person Q, R, S, etc...etc. . . etc...

Again, even more reason not to answer....

>I got most of the computer equipment back in
>useless condition, and of my records/papers that were taken(stolen) very
>important things were missing, like my aerospace research , and contact
>lists related to gun-launched rockets & Gerald Bull (3 years of very
>hard work).

Hard lessons to learn.  When operating  business that may be targeted, in 
order to deal with these people, you must think as a spy or criminal, for 
example:
- Do not use your PC for anything other than a VPN client into encrypted 
partitions at offshore data havens (file space and bandwidth is 
cheap)  That way the PCs are cheap, have no proprietary data on them and 
you can buy new ones and resume your business within a day after you are 
released.
- Do not have any paper documents. Digitize them as they arrive and store 
in a remote, encrypted, partition.
- Avoid U.S. bank accounts or at least keep only a minimal working capital 
in them
- If you are really paranoid, have an offshore lawyer keep parts of the 
partition access keys in a safe and instruct him that they can only be 
turned over to you (you and/or your partners have the missing parts of the 
keys) in his presence and not in the custody of law enforcement (a duress 
clause).

Steve

 


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