Dear comrade-in-arms,

Following the widely noted and publicly televised OECD/FATF/QI Roundtable, hosted by the International Platform Association in Washington on 9 August ( http://www.solami.com/WAS.htm ),

a workshop on "human rights issues arising from highly intrusive investigative provisions" will be held on 13 September at the 19th Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime  ( http://crimesymposium.jesus.cam.ac.uk ), on which occasion will be discussed, a.o.,

Bruce Zagaris' latest paper "Exchange of Tax Information Policies at the Millennium: Balancing Enforcement with Due Process and International Human Rights - Is Big Brother the Taxpayer's Friend or Foe? or: When Taxmen are Allowed to Dictate the Law", Washington 9 August 2001;

"The Saint Louis Declaration" of June 2001 on "the fundamental human right for individuals" "to flee political and economic oppression ... and ... to move themselves and their property to nations of other political jurisdictions with levels of taxation and public services compatible with their individual tastes and preferences", World Taxpayers Association, National Taxpayers Union & 31 US and foreign taxpayer organizations, http://www.ntu.org; and

Adam Smith's First Canon on Taxation of 1776, i.e. the state's obligation to protect its taxpayers, and Whately's by now classical 1827 definition of taxes to be "the revenue levied from the subject in return for the protection afforded by the Sovereign."

and a further Roundtable addressing fiscal sovereignty concerns by Black Caucus members and other U.S. lawmakers, Caribian politicians and professionals of the financial services sector, is planned to be held in Grenada on 20 October 2001, hosted by the International Platform Association - in the event in cooperation with the organizers of the 6th Annual CARIBNEWS Multi-National Business Conference (see below; http://www.nycaribnews.com ) and with the participation of representatives of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the G-7/OECD's Financial Action Task Force (FATF), INTERPOL and other involved bodies,

prior to a private lawmaker/expert meeting in Dublin - tentatively scheduled for December and taking the place of the meeting originally planned for 25 August in London ( http://www.solami.com/London.htm ), which plan reflects the Irish fiscal sovereignty success story, as illustrated in Amity Shlaes' memorable Financial Times edpage story of 14 August 2001 "A tiger slumbers in Maine's northern woods".

Please consider participating in any or all of these events.  Perhaps a colleague of yours would appreciiate sharing this inside-track information with you.  To this effect, this fully hyperlinked message conveniently avails itself. At any rate, I take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation for the important contributions and supportive measures which, over the past several years of the implementation of this Project Billiard, I have been privileged to receive from many corners of the world.  And which I trust I can further rely on to complete the remaining work promptly, comprehensively and with effects lasting beyond the next election.  Indeed, this low-profile effort has progressed already to within sight of its ultimate success, which will be achieved when the current fiscal wildcat train of international bureaucratic lawmaking will have been brought to a halt, when those responsible for the current state of affairs will have been reined in, and wheen the powers that be will, for good meaasure, have thrown the OECD, FATF and IRS tax data exchange, Qualified Intermediary and other harmful initiatives into the dustbin of history.

Sincerely yours,

Anton Keller, Secretary
Good Offices Group of European Lawmakers
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