Saturday, July 21, 2001


Your Cash Is In The Mail

-- by Gordon Phillips, Founder and CIO: INFORM AMERICA!

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged", Chapter III, "White Blackmail".

PREFACE -- Since tax-consuming federal agents now routinely use various "undercover" aliases to investigate allegedly "politically incorrect" activities (your tax dollars hard at work), it is especially important that you, Dear Reader, understand that the following information is provided FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. It is NOT intended to assist you -- or anyone else -- in violating any law, state or federal. Each reader holds himself solely responsible for any actions he may decide to take as a result of exposure to the following politically very incorrect information.

Your Cash Is In The Mail

Contrary to what your mother may have told you, sending "cash" (Federal Reserve Notes (1) ) and totally blank U.S. postal money orders through the mails (or by private overnight courier such as UPS) can be a completely safe and deliriously freedom-enhancing experience. It can also offer financial privacy for those choosing to avoid participation in the inherently fraudulent Federal Reserve (2) banking scheme.

Ironically, in this modern day world of split-second cybercredit and electronic mail, sending a plain old first class letter with some FRN's wrapped inside a piece of paper covered with a lot of dark, dense print remains a very private way to do business.

Note: Blank 1040's also do nicely as wrapping paper, but be sure to use at least two. The government leaves indiscriminate piles of 1040's and other tax schedules in the post offices each spring. Certainly they don't want them to go to waste. Some folks have been known to grab an inch or two. Others have been know to fill in the handy NAME and ADDRESS lines at the top to remind the recipient who the mailing is from.

Bear in mind that there is no law compelling anyone in America to maintain or use a bank account, thereby making the use of cash in any amount entirely legal. Many large organizations continue to functioned successfully without a bank account. 

For example, the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship at 12 Carroll Street in Westminster, Maryland (of which I am a member) has been in continuous operation since 1984. The Fellowship has dozens of workers and numerous internal departments, yet has never to this day patronized the banking system, nor has it yet been paid a single dime via personal or business check. All transactions are conducted in cash and totally blank U.S. postal money orders.

As the government is well aware, millions of "dollars" have passed through Fellowship headquarters over the years, all in cash and totally blank postal money orders. To date, not a single FRN has been lost. Your mother would be amazed!

As an aside, why hasn't the FBI investigated the Fellowship for so-called "money laundering"? Why hasn't the Justice Department moved for an indictment? After all, isn't cash supposed to be evil, the last refuge of drug dealers and the CIA? (Oops, I wasn't supposed to mention that part about the CIA. Oops, I did it again). Could the answer have anything to do with the Fellowship's victorious 1996 win over the IRS in federal district court?

For 25 years your humble author maintained numerous personal and business bank accounts. I would occasionally get writers cramp I would write so many checks. Had anyone told me at that time that I would someday function quite comfortably and conveniently without any bank account whatsoever, I would have laughed out loud. The truth is, nearly a decade has now passed without my ever once overdrawing my pocket!

Back to our story. With regard to cash and money orders, the sending part is easy -- see the precautions below. The procurement part can be a different story. 

With each new unconstitutional statute and Draconian regulation passed into "law", America continues to metamorphose into the total, fascist police state dreamed of by the federalists now encamped in the Imperial City (which some still refer to as Washington D.C.). 

With each new tightening of the regulatory noose, the conditions pertaining to individual privacy and its attainment -- as the Framers understood the First Amendment -- continue to change. Therefore, anything written here could easily be out of date by the time you read this.

Having said that, here are some pointers to consider when purchasing money orders in general, and postal money orders in particular.

As I predicted years ago, the Post Office -- the one consistent point of government presence (ignoring satellites, that is) in virtually every American community from the largest to the most rural -- would be one of the primary mechanisms by which Big Brother would attempt to monitor, regulate and ultimately control "We The People". That prediction is now coming true.

To wit, when Queen Hillary tried to introduce nationalized government healthcare during the reign of King Klinton, her plan was to have medical ID cards issued through -- you guessed it -- the post offices. Already, Selective Service and the State Department have their postal kiosks for registration forms and passport applications.

As I write, video surveillance cameras are being installed in post offices nationwide. I predict that these devices will soon be coupled with biometric facial recognition software, known to function at an accuracy of over 99.9% since no two humans have the same facial geometry. Nor can an individual's personal physiognomy be masked by facial hair, eyeglasses, etc. 

BULLETIN! Expect Congress to pass a law sometime soon banning the wearing of ski masks in public, non-recreational places. ;-)

This software is also accurate at up to 60 degrees off-axis, meaning that one does not have to be smiling straight into the camera in order for the software to match a suspect with an image stored in its database. This is reportedly how the Red Chinese government identified, and later caught (and are alleged to have tortured) the protesters in the Tiananmen Square uprising -- by using this same software to analyze archived video tapes of the freedom uprising. Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell's novel "1984", could only gape in wonder.

Under the banner of the so-called "War On Drugs", cash is now held to be evil by the United States government. Under new seizure statutes, the mere possession of large amounts of cash on your person can result in the cash being confiscated. You will not necessarily be arrested, but your cash will be taken from you and divvied up amongst "law enforcement" and "justice" system officials to fund further expansion of their treasured collectivist programs. In over 75% of such situations, no charges are ever filed and the cash is never returned. As I like to say, for a deeper understanding of these goings on, view any video version of "Robin Hood".

As was her husband when handpicked by the Bildebergers to be President and flown to Baden, Baden Germany in 1991 to receive his marching orders, Mrs. Clinton was herself invited to Georgia as the nominee for the presidency at a more recent Bilderbergers meeting (conducted by the usual gang of mattoid globalists).

When (not if) Ms. Clinton attains the White House in 2004 or 2008 (with hubbie Bill back in office, de facto) we'll have Mother Hillary to add to our growing federal family along with Uncle Sam and Big Brother. Note well: her new book has just netted her the largest single advance in publishing history, due to be released in 2003, just in time for a massive media-driven campaign makeover designed to present her in the kinder, gentler image of the cookie-baking mommie she once derided. Trust me, June Cleaver this woman is not. For fun, visit www.queenhillary.com. But I digress.

Back to our tale of plunder. Amtrak, the financially struggling national passenger rail system, has found a spiffy new way to generate revenue; by snitching. In return for sharing its passenger manifest with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Amtrak gets a bounty of 10% of any seizures made from its trains. More of your tax dollars, hard at work.

DEA agents use the information provided by the railroad to determine which passengers fit a predetermined "drug courier profile." Unwitting riders naive enough to have paid for their tickets with cash, or to have purchased tickets at the last minute, are questioned by federal agents who board the train. "Your papers, please!". If one of these travelers is carrying a substantial amount of cash, DEA agents confiscate it as a "drug asset" and Amtrak takes 10% off the top. Not a bad return on investment.

Some folks who need to travel with large amounts of cash have been known to use 100 FRN bills, rolled up tightly and stuffed into a money belt (you can usually cram in about seven; if you can't find a good money belt, get some Thunderwear from www.thunderwear.com). They've also been known to place bills in their shoes, underwear or elsewhere on their person where one likely will not be touched when searched. 

In a police state, it's always a good idea to keep a few hundred FRN's in one's wallet at all times as "surrender" bait. NYC police advise keeping some "mugging money" on your person lest a robber should shoot you out of sheer exasperation. When mugged by federal goons, the same basic advice pertains.

In these interesting times, purchasing big-ticket items with cash, or even items or services that most folks would not ordinarily purchase with cash, can render one immediately suspect. One such example is purchasing postal money orders. 

The Post Office has now established training programs to "teach" (i.e., brainwash) counter personnel to identify "suspicious" customers and to report on their "suspected" activities, all the while unbeknownst to the customer.

The Nazi-like mantra that is repeated several times on the smuggled postal employee training video I have in my collection states: "It is better to report an innocent transaction as suspicious, than to allow a suspicious transaction to go unreported." Read that again and try not to retch.

There is even a snazzy new form titled "Suspicious Transaction Report" that the obsequious clerk will complete the second you leave the post office, never alerting you to the fact that you have just been tagged as "suspicious".

The bottom line: The next time you go to the Post Office to purchase a money order, you too could get secretly reported to the federal government as a potential drug dealer, terrorist, or money-launderer. Your tax dollars hard at work.

It's part of a massive customer surveillance program called "Under the Eagle's Eye," which has been covertly monitoring Americans for the past four years. Swap "Vulture" for Eagle and you are on the right track. This program, which has been in effect since 1997, trains postal clerks to watch for customers who act "suspiciously" while purchasing money orders, making wire transfers, or buying cash cards. If a customer does act "suspiciously," postal employees are required under pain of stiff penalties to fill out government Form 8105-B, also called a "Suspicious Activity Report" (SAR).

You can bet your bottom FRN that the information input into these forms, now made a part of the "point of service" terminal display, is instantly transmitted to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. I cover "FinCEN" extensively in my book "Losing Your Illusions". To receive and read my book for FREE for 30-days with absolutely no obligation to keep it (or other strings attached), click here --> http://www.informamerica.com/LYI_FREE_Book_Promo.htm

This new federal surveillance and reporting program is an offshoot of Bank Secrecy Act regulations, created in 1997 by the Treasury Department and supposedly designed to detect illegal money laundering, to track drug-related money and to catch terrorists. Although postal officials decline to reveal how many "suspicious" customers have been reported to law enforcement, the Post Office sells about F$9 billion in money orders a year. This means that tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans may already have been identified as potential drug dealers or money-launderers by postal employees. Perhaps you.

What are some activities alleged to be suspicious? Fidgeting in line (perhaps you're late for an appointment). Acting nervous (perhaps you suffer from agoraphobia). Counting cash in line or at the counter (perhaps you forgot to count it at home). Too bad, you lose. Also suspicious is the purchasing of money orders in large, even amounts, as if intended to be used as one might use American Express Traveler's Checks (the largest denominated postal money order than can presently be purchased is for 700 FRN's)

Remember, a blank postal money order is just as good as cash. When it arrives at its destination, the recipient can simply fill in whatever information he wishes in the "payee" and "payor" areas and use it to pay a bill. Once filled in, a postal money order can also be cashed at any post office (by presenting photo ID), or deposited to a bank account.

To clarify what is meant by "totally blank", the money order is left just as the clerk hands it to the purchaser, with the desired amount and current date machine imprinted, but with nothing whatsoever entered in either the "payee" or "payor" areas -- i.e., left totally blank.

Since the serial number on a postal money order now identifies the specific post office at which it was purchased, one might consider having a far away friend purchase one for him if that's where he'd like to appear to be located for purposes of a given transaction, if you get my drift. But again, I digress.

As per the nazi-esque training video I referred to earlier, the purchase of 1,000 FRN's worth of postal money orders on the same day will result in a request by the postal clerk for the hapless purchaser to produce state-issued photo ID ("Your papers, please!"). If the purchaser then asks the clerk for LESS than 1,000 FRN's worth of money orders in order NOT to trigger the photo ID "requirement", that is definitely considered "suspicious". A SAR WILL be filed. Resistance is futile: all must be assimilated.

The form will include a rough description of the purchaser, his height, weight, appearance, attire and "racial profile". If possible, the clerk will attempt to make note of the license plate on his vehicle. Of course, this poses no problem to well-prepared individuals who drive a vehicle registered to a trust. 

But, wait ... it gets worse! If the purchaser attempts to buy 3,000 FRN's or more worth of postal money orders at the SAME post office on the SAME day, he will also be requested to provide a Social Security Number. If he asks why on earth he has to produce a SSN just "to buy a few lousy money orders", or claims that he does not have (or cannot remember) his Slave Surveillance Number (3), or then asks the clerk for LESS than 3,000 FRN's worth of money orders in order NOT to trigger the SSN "requirement", that is considered EXTREMELY "suspicious"! A SAR form WILL be filed. Resistance is futile: all must be assimilated.

So what does our intrepid purchaser do if he needs to send, say, 5,250 FRN's across the country and wishes to use postal money orders? Present circumstances (which, again, could change any moment) would suggest the following possibility which stays well within the confines of the law. Again, this information is provided FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. 

First of all, a law abiding citizen who did not wish to be thought of as "suspicious" might refrain from buying postal money orders in large, even amounts such as 350.00, 500.00 or, God forbid, 700.00, the maximum. Random, credible amounts such as 499.99, 549.95, or even 679.79 might be far less inclined to arouse the suspicion of modestly salaried and potentially envious clerks. If interrogated at the counter, one might comment that one just changed banks and the checks haven't been printed yet. 

But how to rustle up 5,250 worth? Well, that depends on where one resides. If in an urban area with many different branch post offices, a multi-day expedition to all of these surveillance outlets would make it a simple matter to gather the target amount while avoiding buying 1,000 worth at any one post office on the same day. 

One or more friends, teenagers or grateful (and nameless) street persons could also be tipped to wander in and make the purchases for one. Or one could sign up as a client of a proxy purchasing service such as Jaguar Business Concepts. Suffice it to say that a free person will always find a way to obey the law!

Now, how to get those variably denominated fiat coupons to their destination? Here are some ways in which cash and totally blank postal money orders can be sent through the mails while still allowing for a good night's sleep. Thousands of folks have been known to actually do this for decades now with no losses. 

They place the wrapped "notes" in a sealed #9 envelope (available at all Office Max, Staples, and other business supply stores) both addressed and return addressed back to themselves. They then place this sealed inner envelope, without postage, inside a sealed (4) #10 security business envelope (available at all the same locations), addressed to the intended recipient.

If postal sorting machinery should damage the outer envelope, which is highly unlikely, the inner envelope would be exposed, return addressed to the sender, postage due. 

For further peace of mind, one might use Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, and/or the new service, Delivery Confirmation, all of which require a signature on the receiving end (5). The Post Office does not YET require photo ID simply to sign for a letter or package, but I predict that day will be with us soon. 

If you prefer not to support your destroyers (another warning from Ayn Rand) and wish not to patronize the postal service, use UPS instead. Avoid Fedex; I've personally seen Fedex misroute several overnight envelopes. If provided advance notice of the UPS tracking number, you can log on to their web site and track the progress of your expected shipment yourself. For privacy, go to a cyber café, pay cash to use a computer, and log on to the UPS site through a redirection browser such as www.anonymizer.com. But again, I digress.

Stay happy, stay private, and have a nice day FinCEN!

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Footnotes For Your General Interest

(1) Seen in its proper light, the Federal Reserve Note (FRN) is mere scrip -- a fiat tax anticipation coupon bearing the likenesses of various deceased notables, including the traitor, Hamilton, and the usurper, Lincoln (Jackson was a good guy). The FRN is a debt instrument, no longer backed by gold or silver, and is lent, not spent, into circulation. It is also not a "dollar" which is a unit of measure, like a gallon, mile, or minute. What exactly is the FRN a "dollar" of, paper? Debt?

(2) The Federal Reserve System (FRS) is no more federal than Federal Express. It is not "Federal", it has no "Reserves" and is not a "System". The FRS is a private banking monopoly -- a corporation and not a government agency. The majority of its Class A voting stock is held to this day by several wealthy, foreign families. Billions of dollars in annual interest payments on America's current $6 trillion dollar federal debt (give or take a few hundred billion) are paid directly to this international banking cartel which pays no state or federal income taxes (property taxes only). And there are no "reserves": Consumer, business and government loans are not made from deposits stored in bank vaults. Through the magic of "fractional reserve banking", credit is monetized -- literally created out of thin air -- as loans recorded as assets on bank ledgers. The money to repay the interest charged on these loans does not yet exist and can only come into being through the act of future borrowing! If all loans outstanding were paid off all at once, our money supply would cease to exist. That is why our ballooning federal debt will always increase and can never mathematically be repaid. This is covered extensively in "Losing Your Illusions".

(3) In 1995 at the age of 49, I executed an affidavit to the Secretary of the Treasury to revoke the SS-5 application for a SSN I submitted to the Social Security Administration at age 18, and to rescind my signature therefrom. Non-enumerated life suits me just fine.

(4) In his book "How To Be Invisible", author J.J. Luna recommends not using package sealing tape to seal the envelope, since that might draw the unwanted attention (and suspicion) of a mail sorting clerk.

(5) Many folks have devoted hours to practicing an entirely illegible (but faithfully reproducible) signature. The non-dominant hand works nicely as well for this purpose.