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The Organization of Associated Sovereign Independent States^™

Forget Financial Privacy Unless the OECD/FATF is Stopped NOW!

Los Angeles, 2000 November 8 (OASISNA) -- DB, founder of OASIS, warns that if the OECD/FATF [1] [2] succeeds in destroying tax-haven mini-state sovereignty and in gaining control of their financial and banking policies, that individual financial freedom and privacy will be destroyed world-wide.

Are you a small investor hoping to become a large investor, a retiree, an international business person, or do you have dreams of becoming one of them?  If the "offshore" tax havens go under, you can kiss your chances of any significant wealth accumulation and financial (retirement) security, financial and personal privacy, and freedom good-bye.

Why?  The "bar" to getting offshore has been raised continuously for several decades.  Now, where the bar was is being bricked in.  "Going offshore" has long offered a way of escaping the onerous tax policies of the high-tax high-regulation nations, making it possible to increase wealth much more rapidly offshore than onshore.
 
But, because of communications and transactional difficulties, going offshore was once the financial "escape valve" only for those who had already accumulated a little wealth.  Now, with improved communications and transactional technology, one would think offshore opportunities would be opened up for the smaller investor.
 
So would it be, except that the OECD nations are bullying the tax-haven mini-states into providing more "transparency" in financial transactions. (Meaning the "Big Brother" OECD nations want the ability to look over everyone's shoulders, worldwide, not just in their own nations.   These governments, especially the United States, the so-called bastion of freedom, insist that they own you, your labor, and your profits, no matter where generated.)
 
Because of this, it is becoming increasingly difficult to open and maintain offshore accounts with any degree of privacy at all.   Thus, it is becoming harder, if not impossible, for the smaller investor to participate in offshore investment opportunities.   And the higher net worth individuals are also finding, as mentioned above, that the OECD is busily bricking in the exits.   The object is to make more and more people totally dependent on government and their hand-maidens, corporations and insurance companies, for their "financial security", and thus even more subservient.

Are you a government official in an "offshore" tax-haven mini-state?   If so, resign yourself to reverting back to or remaining a minor functionary in a financially impoverished backwater outpost.

Why?  A few mini-states can offer tourism attractions.   Most cannot.  Financial services can be a major portion of a mini-state's economy.  If providing those services is no longer viable, the mini-state economy will revert to impoverishment.   Or do you hope to become a "welfare client" of a major nation?

Are you a banking or other service provider in an "offshore" tax-haven mini-state?   If so, you can kiss your business good-bye.

Why?  If what are now considered tax havens (or privacy havens or money havens) provide no more privacy or opportunity to accumulate wealth relatively tax free than in one of the OECD high-tax, high-regulation nations, why should anyone in any of those nations bother trying to go "offshore" and patronize your services?

OECD/FATF Agenda on Track, but it Can be Stopped

I predicted back in mid 1999 that, if we make it through Y2K with few or no problems, and the large governments retain their ability to spy, control, and tax, that we will see a reinvigorated and aggressive attempt to consolidate control over all aspects of global life, commerce, and investment.  We made it through Y2K OK, and they are doing it.

As evidence of the correctness of my prediction, consider the renewed "drug-war" initiatives, WTO initiatives, and OECD/FATF initiatives to put the tax-haven mini-states out of business, since the beginning of the year 2000.  Consider the latest (as of this writing, November, 2000) high-handed U.S. government privacy violation success -- getting offshore credit card transaction records.

I receive many financial and retirement newsletters, both print and electronic.  There is lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth about what is going on, but no one, to my knowledge, is DOING anything to even stop, much less reverse, the OECD/FATF juggernaut.

Yes, there are cryptography and e-currency conferences, where the aim is to foster improved secure private communications and transactions.   But what good is a secure communications method if neither end of the communications process has a secure physical base somewhere?

Yes, there are "financial" and "wealth" seminars galore, where the aim is to explore the ever-dwindling "tax loopholes". What happens when there is no more room for a person of even substantial means to maneuver?

No one is attempting to organize, other than myself, that I know of, a coalition of mini-states, financial and other offshore service providers, and concerned investors to reverse this dangerous trend.

Financial Privacy e-mail Addresses Needed NOW!

The vehicle for reversing this attempt by the OECD/FATF to destroy mini-state sovereignty and individual financial privacy is The Organization of Associated Sovereign Independent States (OASIS).   OASIS need your support, and OASIS needs it NOW!   I need e-mail addresses for the following:

• Prime Ministers, Finance Ministers, Trade Ministers, and other specific government officials of mini-states, from Alderney to Vanuatu. [3].

• Opposition leaders of mini-states, from Alderney to Vanuatu.  (The incumbent leaders of several of the mini-states have "caved in" to the OECD or are wavering.   The preservation of their financial privacy policies -- and their economies -- is an issue the opposition leaders can run with.)

• Specific bankers (actual bank officials) of banks in and doing business in mini-states, from Alderney to Vanuatu.

• Owners and operators of services such as mail services, legal services, and information services in, and doing business in, mini-states, from Alderney to Vanuatu.

• Officers of associations such as bankers' associations, tourist boards, and Chambers of Commerce in mini-states, from Alderney to Vanuatu.

• Journalists and editors, of both print and electronic media, based in or reaching mini-states, from Alderney to Vanuatu.

• International financial and privacy gurus such as, but not limited to, Bauman, Browne, Casey, Coxon, Davidson, Grabbe, Hill, Lattman, Maybury, Melnik, Nestmann, Pugsley, Rees-Mogg, Schultz, Scott, Soros, Templeton, etc.

• Major players in pro-freedom and pro-privacy think tanks, foundations, and businesses.

Note that specific e-mail addresses for specific individuals, i.e., "arealperson@be.gov", are much preferable to the "black hole" e-mail addresses, such as "info@be.gov", of organizations and governments.

Yes, granted, I could perhaps laboriously compile or obtain lists of such e-mail addresses, but time is of the essence (not to mention the expense).   You do know what is coming on January 1, 2001, regarding reporting requirements for offshore bank holdings of U.S. Securities?

If you have ANY such addresses, it would be in YOUR INTEREST to provide me such.

If you know of ANYONE having such addresses, it would be in your interest to put me in touch with them and/or obtain such addresses for me.

Mini-State Government, Banking, and Service Provider Support Needed NOW!

If you are a government official or a banker or service provider, it would be in your interest to provide me e-mail addresses of those in similar positions -- e-mail addresses of your associates AND of your competitors.   (If we don't stop OECD/FATF from destroying the financial privacy offered by the tax-haven mini-states, you won't have to worry about your competitors -- all of you will be out of business, or at best, marginalized.)

Also, If you are a government official, banker, or service provider in one of the targeted or soon-to-be-targeted mini-states, it also would be in your interest to HELP FINANCE MY EFFORTS and assist in getting OASIS established and viable.

It would be in your interests to assist me in organizing an establishing meeting [4].   It would be in your interests to provide legal and logistical support [5].

Twenty or more supporters, such as mini-state governments, banks, legal firms, etc., each providing $500 or more a month [5], a rather modest amount in the international arena, would provide a major impetus to establishing and implementing the OASIS agenda [6] of individual financial privacy and freedom and the continued viability of the tax-haven mini-states.

Your Support Needed Now

I feel that if this situation has not begun to be turned around within a few months, say six months maximum, that you can forget about privacy, financial freedom, tax relief, and personal freedom anywhere in the world.   Once the OECD/FATF gains complete control, it's all over.

I need e-mail addresses and financial support for OASIS now.   Or you can just roll over.  Once the personal privacy and tax-reduction benefits of the tax-haven mini-states are eliminated, it could be generations, if ever, for freedom and privacy to be regained.

OASIS is committed to the principles of political and economic freedom worldwide, the free flow of persons and capital worldwide, and reducing the political and economic power and control of the large nation-states over the smaller nation-states and individuals worldwide.

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Footnotes:

[1] OECD defined: http://www.bean-d.com/oasis/glossary.php#OECD
[2] FATF defined: http://www.bean-d.com/oasis/glossary.php#FATF
[3] List of Countries: http://www.bean-d.com/oasis/members.php#CountryList
[4] A Call to a Meeting: http://www.bean-d.com/oasis/oasis-organizing-meeting.php
[5] Additional Support Option Information: http://www.bean-d.com/oasis/support-oasis.php
[6] The OASIS Agenda: http://www.bean-d.com/oasis/oasis-mission.php#AGENDA

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