Melchizedek: The Scam Continues!
Joey Smith
Dick Bowman wrote in message <6ku53e$ggr$0...@208.207.70.10>...
>On Sat, 30 May 1998 21:18:55 GMT, tze...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
>Thanks, tzemach for your post. "Agent" Smith is a wealth of
>miss-information, albeit typical for a government employee.
-
What information do you have that I am an "Agent" for anybody? I have never
claimed this, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar (but about par for the
course for a Melchizedek associate).
-
>Knowing that Smith is, or claims to be an IRS agent, explains a lot.
-
And, again, a complete lie and unfounded lie on your part -- but
understandable coming from a scamster.
-
> It's
>been my observation that most government bureaucracy employees are not able
>to hold down a job in the real world. They bully the public around trying
>to justify their own existence. In the future, we can ignore Smith's posts
>as mere rantings, since he is only trying to defend his existence on this
>earth.
-
And, again, a complete lie on your part. What sort of job do you hold down?
According to the Washington Post, some of the "jobs" the Melchizedek
higher-ups have held have landed them in the joint.
-
>You are correct on every point of your post. I'm always amazed at the high
>level of intelligence and insight of people like you who are able to see
>through the bluster and ramblings of those who feed at the government
>trough.
-
Well, let's talk about intelligence. A couple of days ago you claimed that
the Texaco Corporation was organized as a Pure Trust Organization, and that
Texaco's stock (and not trust rights) was listed on the New York Stock
Exchange. In retrospect, your intelligence is not very high if you believed
such a thing -- but probably about average for your typical Melchizedek
seminar attendee.
-
And of course you don't address the Washington Post article, which concluded
that Melchizedek was 100% scam and nothing more.
-
-- Joey Smith
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The Washington Post:
[V]ery little about Melchizedek makes sense. It
has no actual diplomatic headquarters: Don't go running for asylum
to its "embassy" at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue unless you can squeeze
yourself into a mailbox. Its founder, a Californian named Mark Logan
Pedley, has two swindling convictions. Its president, a woman who
goes by the names Mz. Pearlasia and Elvira G. Gamboa, was
successfully sued by the California State Banking Department to
prevent her from representing herself as a banker there.
Melchizedek says its several hundred banks hold a "net asset
value" of $25 billion, yet President Pearlasia remains in arrears to
the state of California, having failed to pay a court-imposed
sanction of $1,431.90 for her "bad-faith actions" related to the
lawsuit. On the whole, secular authorities tend to take a dim view
of the Dominion.
"It's a con artists' operation through and through," declares
John Shockey, head of the fraud unit in the office of the U.S.
Comptroller of the Currency. "It's a phony bank, a phony country, a
phony dominion -- the whole thing's a phony."
Richard Leiby and James Lileks, "The Ruse that Roared," Washington Post,
November 5, 1995, at C1.
mo...@iname.com
TO:
VICE PRESIDENT
HEAD OF HOUSE OF ELDERS
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT
Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem (Elder)
Your excellency,
In response to flame postings by alias "Joey Smith".
"Joey Smith" claims to be a member of the State Bar of Texas, however
even (his) knowledge of Texas State matters are lacking to say the least.
He doesn't even know whom he represents as a member.
His arguments are not soundly based.
He appears to base his comments on provincial knowledge.
He really needs to consider a basic grounding in International law.
From: "Joey Smith" <yj...@nospam.com>
Date: 1998/05/18
Message-ID: <eH5vz9mg9GA.252@uppubnews03>
Newsgroups: misc.taxes
Gosh, Jol, you're right!
And me a member, too.
But when was the Melchizedek Bar Association (referenced in their website)
formed, and to which tribunal does it respond to?
-- Joey Smith
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Jol Silversmith wrote in message ...
>In article <#VI6nyfg9GA.89@uppubnews03>, "Joey Smith"
><yj...@yyyy.zzzz.com> wrote:
>
>> Where is Geoffrey licensed to practice law? He'd better be licensed with
the
>> Texas Bar Association, or else he's practicing law without a license in
>> Austin (which can be a felony in Texas).
>
>In the interest of accuracy: The Texas Bar Association, a voluntary bar
>founded in 1882, ceased to exist as of 1940 when it merged with the
>newly-integrated State Bar of Texas.
>
>See, e.g., "The State Bar Takes Over," 3 TEX. B.J. 276, 276 (July 1940);
>Ralph H. Brock, "Giving Texas Lawyers Their Dues: The State Bar's
>Liability Under Hudson and Keller For Political and Ideological
>Activities," 28 ST. MARY'S L.J. 47, 76 n.148 (1996); Ralph H. Brock, "'The
>Republic of Texas Is No More': .An Answer to the Claim that Texas Was
>Unconstitutionally Anexed to the United States," 28 TEX. TECH L. REV. 679,
>697 n.85 (1997).
>--
>Jol A. Silversmith____________...@post.harvard.edu
…Educating "joey smith"
=============================================
INTERNATIONAL LAW & OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO
DOMINION OF MELCHIZEDEK
A SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT ECCLESIASTICAL STATE
=============================================
Actual recognition of a State or Nation is not necessary.
Nations exist irrespective of recognition by other Nations.
A Nation merely requires other Nations that have made treaties
with it in the past to honor those treaties and make good on their word.
The law relative to this, as expressed by the united States of America,
states it very well.
At Title 18, United States Code (USC), section 1116 (b) (2) it expressly
states there that a "'Foreign government' means the government of a
foreign country, irrespective of recognition by the Unites States."
We can look no further into history and find that the law of nations
is the source of the foregoing principle in the United States,
"[f]or Vattel justly observes, as a consequence of the liberty and
independence of nations, 'that it does not belong to any foreign Power
to take cognizance of the administration of a sovereign of another country,
to set himself up as a judge of his conduct, or to oblige him to alter it."
-Alexander Hamilton, Pacificus, June 19, 1793.
Emer De Vattel, himself, so eloquently stated that,
"[s]ince men are by nature equal, and their individual rights and
obligations the same, as coming equally from nature, Nations, which
are composed of men and may be regarded as so many free persons
living together in a state of nature, are by nature equal and hold
from nature the same obligations and the same rights.
Strength or weakness, in this case counts for nothing.
A dwarf is as much a man as a giant is; a small Republic is no less
a sovereign State than the most powerful Kingdom."
-The Law of Nations, Vattel, page 7, section 18.
What are Nations ?
"Nations or States are political bodies, societies of men who have
united together and combined their forces, in order to procure their
mutual welfare and security.
Such society has its own affairs and interests; it deliberates and
takes resolutions in common, and it thus becomes a moral person having
an understanding and a will peculiar to itself, and susceptible at once
of obligations and of rights."
- The Law of Nations, Vattel , page 3, section 1.
Sounds like the Dominion of Melchizedek to me.
"Joey", is 'barking up the wrong tree'.
He(she) seems to have a lot of free time at his(her) disposal.
Has he(she) considered protesting against the bloodshed,genocide,
murder,rape etc of our fellow human beings around the world,
by despots ? Or does "'Joey's law'" promote and encourage this type
of activity ?"
"Joey Smith" who claims to be a member of the State Bar of Texas,
continues to attack a Nation that is based on peaceful and humanitarian
grounds, that renounces and abhors war.
A Nation that contributed to the halt of France's nuclear testing
in the Pacific, through press releases, diplomatic and spiritual action
around the world.
A Nation recently committed to assist the urban poor in the Phillipines.
Does "Joey" intend to attack other independent sovereign states,
like for example The State of Vatican City ?
Vatican City covers only 108.7 acres,
about as large as an average U.S. city park,
yet exercises spiritual sway over millions of people.
It has its own bank, issues coins and a rarely occupied jail.
-Helsinki Accord. Section VIII.
-Equal rights and self-determination of peoples.
"The participating States will respect the equal rights of peoples and
their right to self-determination, acting at all times in conformity with
the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and with
the relevant norms on international law, including those relating to
territorial integrity of States."
"By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of
peoples, all peoples always have the right, in full freedom, to determine,
when and as they wish, their internal and external political status,
without external interference, and to pursue as they wish their political,
economic, social and cultural development."
"The participating States reaffirm the universal significance of respect
for and effective exercise of equal rights and self-determination of
peoples for the development of friendly relations among themselves as
among all States; they also recall the importance of the elimination of
any form of violation of this principle."
-Helsinki Accord.
-Section X.
-Fulfillment in good faith of obligations under international law.
"The participating States will fulfill in good faith their obligations
under international law, both those obligations arisng from the generally
recognized principles and rules of international law and those
obligations arising from treaties or other agreements, in conformity
with international law, to which they are parties."
It is clear that men and women have united together and combined
their forces, in order to procure their mutual welfare and security
in the Dominion of Melchizedek.
This, combined with the above unquestionably demonstrates that
recognition of the D.O.M. is not necessary for its existence.
The D.O.M. may be a dwarf in the eyes of "Joey Smith ", whoever he is,
yet D.O.M. is the sole lawful government of its' citizens, and simply is,
as a matter of law.
-Signed by a concerned citizen.
P.s.
Bless "joey smith" so that he might find the Kingdom of God".
[end]
R. Bryan
Joey Smith... or is it John Gill CPA... or maybe Mr. Duff...
no it's Constitutional Law... GEEZ.. where does it end?
Simple... it doesn't with them!
Dan Evans and Gwailo and agent69 stand behind his misdirecting crap.
It's obvious what 'their camp' is made of...
As you will notice "Center for Constitutional Law" posting from
cyberstar-nn047.vabch.com. This
is the same fool:
John Gill John...@Taxlaws.com
cyberstar-165.vabch.com = 209.96.153.165
Path=news.visi.net
IRS Audit au...@irs.org
cyberstar-165.vabch.com = 209.96.153.165
Path=news.visi.net
R.Bryan Imposter
Path: news:
zippo.com!
Joey Smith
Path from Virginia
dejanews.com
The Center for Constitutional Laws la...@freedom.net
cyberstar-162.vabch.com = 209.96.153.162 = www.vabis.com,
Path=news.visi.net
Patriot Foundation la...@freedom.net
cyberstar-168.vabch.com = 209.96.153.168
Path=news.visi.net
Freedom First Foundation fre...@prime.net
cyberstar-nn023.vabch.com = 209.96.154.23
Path=news.visi.net
The Center for Constitutional Reform ref...@freedom.net
cyberstar-nn021.vabch.com = 209.96.154.21
Path=news.visi.net
unknown nos...@spam.com
cyberstar-nn026.vabch.com = 209.96.154.26
Path=news.visi.net
John Gill John...@Taxlaws.com
cyberstar-165.vabch.com = 209.96.153.165
Path=news.visi.net
Interesting... isn't it?
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The Internet's Premier 'Income Tax Law' Web Site.
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tze...@my-dejanews.com
In article <OhEGBqV...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>,
"Joey Smith" <ith...@jjyy.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dick Bowman wrote in message <6ku53e$ggr$0...@208.207.70.10>...
> >On Sat, 30 May 1998 21:18:55 GMT, tze...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >
> >Thanks, tzemach for your post. "Agent" Smith is a wealth of
> >miss-information, albeit typical for a government employee.
> -
> What information do you have that I am an "Agent" for anybody? I have never
> claimed this, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar (but about par for the
> course for a Melchizedek associate).
Gee, maybe it was really an IRS agent pretending to be Joey Smith that
attempted an icq chat with me on Saturday morning. But, of course, since we
don't know who Joey Smith really is, it doesn't matter much, does it?
> -
> >Knowing that Smith is, or claims to be an IRS agent, explains a lot.
> -
> And, again, a complete lie and unfounded lie on your part -- but
> understandable coming from a scamster.
> -
> > It's
> >been my observation that most government bureaucracy employees are not able
> >to hold down a job in the real world. They bully the public around trying
> >to justify their own existence. In the future, we can ignore Smith's posts
> >as mere rantings, since he is only trying to defend his existence on this
> >earth.
> -
> And, again, a complete lie on your part. What sort of job do you hold down?
> According to the Washington Post, some of the "jobs" the Melchizedek
> higher-ups have held have landed them in the joint.
> -
> And of course you don't address the Washington Post article, which concluded
> that Melchizedek was 100% scam and nothing more.
> -
> -- Joey Smith
> -
Dear Joey: You left out the opinion of the Washington which is a rebuke to
you, namely: "Melchizedek has leaders, laws, religion, a flag, a disputed
homeland and an unreasonable territorial claim -- the textbook definition of
your basic nation-state. Who's to say it's phony?" and the Dominion of
Melchizedek "may be the ultimate post modern state".
Richard Leiby and James Lileks, "The Ruse that Roared," Washington Post,
November 5, 1995.
After being rebuked by the opinion of the Washington Post, John Shockey made
a new statement to the Jerusalem Report which quoted John Shockey as saying
that the Dominion of Melchizedek is a "junk country", objectively a step
above "phony", or the 100% scam that you, Joey Smith, falsely claimed was the
conclusion of the Washington Post.
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R. Bryan
It's been my observation that most of these scammers are not able to
hold down a job in the real world. They try to justify their own
existence in rantings,
They want us to believe that they rely on the courts and judges...
The written law is relevant however the *tax protestor* crowd comes up
with the idiotic arguments, but they cannot find even a single court
case from the last twenty years to support their position. Nor can they
cite an Congressional records which would evince that Congress had any
intention other than to tax income. They are liars, period the end, and
they have almost uniformly been sanctioned or fined by the courts every
time they have advocated their stupid bubba theories. What is the point
of arguing this if the courts will not support it? The fact that
scammers and fraudsters are selling these hokey materials does not mean
that they will be of any defense against the IRS's collection actions;
and, indeed, as shown above, you usually get yourself into a much worse
hole by advocating these theories because the courts have consistently
believed that they are nonsense and have sanctioned or fined many of
those who have advocated them, and have upheld prosecutions for tax
evasion against many of those who tried to avoid paying taxes on these
grounds.
If you buy the materials which promote these theories you are a sucker,
but
if you actually follow them then you are a sucker and a fool.
Joey Smith wrote:
> Well, let's talk about intelligence. A couple of days ago you claimed that
> the Texaco Corporation was organized as a Pure Trust Organization, and that
> Texaco's stock (and not trust rights) was listed on the New York Stock
> Exchange. In retrospect, your intelligence is not very high if you believed
> such a thing -- but probably about average for your typical Melchizedek
> seminar attendee.
> -
> And of course you don't address the Washington Post article, which concluded
> that Melchizedek was 100% scam and nothing more.
> -
> -- Joey Smith
> -
> The Washington Post:
>
> [V]ery little about Melchizedek makes sense. It
> has no actual diplomatic headquarters: Don't go running for asylum
> to its "embassy" at 601 Pennsylvania Avenue unless you can squeeze
> yourself into a mailbox. Its founder, a Californian named Mark Logan
> Pedley, has two swindling convictions. Its president, a woman who
> goes by the names Mz. Pearlasia and Elvira G. Gamboa, was
> successfully sued by the California State Banking Department to
> prevent her from representing herself as a banker there.
>
> Melchizedek says its several hundred banks hold a "net asset
> value" of $25 billion, yet President Pearlasia remains in arrears to
> the state of California, having failed to pay a court-imposed
> sanction of $1,431.90 for her "bad-faith actions" related to the
> lawsuit. On the whole, secular authorities tend to take a dim view
> of the Dominion.
>
> "It's a con artists' operation through and through," declares
> John Shockey, head of the fraud unit in the office of the U.S.
> Comptroller of the Currency. "It's a phony bank, a phony country, a
> phony dominion -- the whole thing's a phony."
>
> Richard Leiby and James Lileks, "The Ruse that Roared," Washington Post,
> November 5, 1995, at C1.
tze...@my-dejanews.com
In article <35738036...@iname.com>,
Thank you for the enlightening and valuable posting above.
Joey Smith
tze...@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<6l0dnu$p9f$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <OhEGBqV...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>,
> "Joey Smith" <ith...@jjyy.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Dick Bowman wrote in message <6ku53e$ggr$0...@208.207.70.10>...
>> >On Sat, 30 May 1998 21:18:55 GMT, tze...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>> >
>> >Thanks, tzemach for your post. "Agent" Smith is a wealth of
>> >miss-information, albeit typical for a government employee.
>> -
>> What information do you have that I am an "Agent" for anybody? I have
never
>> claimed this, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar (but about par for
the
>> course for a Melchizedek associate).
>
>Gee, maybe it was really an IRS agent pretending to be Joey Smith that
>attempted an icq chat with me on Saturday morning. But, of course, since
we
>don't know who Joey Smith really is, it doesn't matter much, does it?
>> -
>> >Knowing that Smith is, or claims to be an IRS agent, explains a lot.
>> -
>> And, again, a complete lie and unfounded lie on your part -- but
>> understandable coming from a scamster.
>> -
>> > It's
>> >been my observation that most government bureaucracy employees are not
able
>> >to hold down a job in the real world. They bully the public around
trying
>> >to justify their own existence. In the future, we can ignore Smith's
posts
>> >as mere rantings, since he is only trying to defend his existence on
this
>> >earth.
>> -
>> And, again, a complete lie on your part. What sort of job do you hold
down?
>> According to the Washington Post, some of the "jobs" the Melchizedek
>> higher-ups have held have landed them in the joint.
>> -
>> And of course you don't address the Washington Post article, which
concluded
>> that Melchizedek was 100% scam and nothing more.
>> -
>> -- Joey Smith
>> -
>Dear Joey: You left out the opinion of the Washington which is a rebuke to
>you, namely: "Melchizedek has leaders, laws, religion, a flag, a disputed
>homeland and an unreasonable territorial claim -- the textbook definition
of
>your basic nation-state. Who's to say it's phony?" and the Dominion of
>Melchizedek "may be the ultimate post modern state".
>
>Richard Leiby and James Lileks, "The Ruse that Roared," Washington Post,
>November 5, 1995.
-
The Washington Post wrote that tongue-in-cheek. No reasonable reader could
walk away with any other perception than that Melchizedek was and is a scam.
For instance:
-
The Comptroller of the Currency:
-
It's a con artists' operation through and through," declares John Shockey,
head of the fraud unit in the office of the U.S. Comptroller of the
Currency. "It's a phony bank, a phony country, a phony dominion -- the whole
thing's a phony."
-
Or how about this charming quote from the Washington Post Article:
-
"The nagging question: Why does Melchizedek want publicity? Having developed
this bad reputation with bunko squads, why would it invite scrutiny by the
press? Any reporter with the gumption to check Lexis-Nexis is bound to come
across Melchizedek-related stories with such headlines as: "Action Taken on
Pyramid Scheme" (The Financial Times, Aug. 8, 1995) "Plot Thickens in Phony
Bank Scheme" (Times of London, Aug. 8, 1993) "Insurer Chartered by Phony
Country" (Orange County Register, Feb. 2, 1993) "District Probes Off-Shore
Companies for Fraud" (Washington Business Journal, Feb. 25, 1991).
-
"William Barrett of Forbes magazine exposed Melchizedek in a January 1991
report titled "Father of His Country," which tracked the global dealings of
the elusive Branch Vinedresser, also known as Mark Logan Pedley. Back then,
"ambassador" Vinedresser claimed to own the island of Malpelo, 300 miles off
the Pacific coast of Colombia -- never mind that the island belongs to
Colombia.
-
"After the Forbes report, Pedley landed in the hoosegow in California for
parole violations. He had been a codefendant with his father, David, in a
Mexican peso conversion swindle. Pedley Sr. had a record of four
convictions, including stock fraud."
-
-- Joey Smith
Joey Smith
Maybe the Dominion of Melchizedek will declare War on the U.S. like it did
on France!
-
"In Hong Kong this summer, a judge sentenced a young Austrian baker to six
months in jail for attempting to cash checks totaling $500,000, drawn on the
Asia Pacific Bank of Melchizedek. The baker called himself Crown Prince
Gerald-Dennis Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and held a diplomatic passport as
Melchizedek's "ambassador at large." According to an account in the South
China Morning Post, the judge dismissed the idea that the whole thing was a
joke, saying, "A fraud on the banking system of Hong Kong is a very serious
business." Beyond being an annoyance to bankers and bureaucrats, the
Dominion of Melchizedek enjoys toying with journalists. A few weeks ago, the
Dominion grew testy with France when President Jacques Chirac insisted on
detonating nuclear devices near desolate atolls in French Polynesia. Fax
machines at news-radio stations spit out a press release, datelined
Jerusalem and headlined "NATION DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE." It explained:
"Under the Constitution of the Dominion of Melchizedek, WAR has been
declared on France. On November of 1994, Melchizedek acquired sovereignty
over one of the three Karitane islands in the South Pacific from the obscure
Kingdom of Polynesia. The declaration of war became a necessity to protect
Karitane from damage that has occurred from the nuclear testing in the South
Pacific. The declaration is made on behalf of all mankind.
"It is with reluctance that the Polynesian Melchizedek Dominion declares war
on France, since up till recently France was considered a silent ally. The
Ruthenian Melchizedek Dominion is considering aiming at France the nuclear
weapons left behind in the Carpatho mountains by the Soviet Union as
leverage in the war.
"No doubt confused and sidetracked by the Comoran Island crisis in the
Indian Ocean (which also involved those trigger-happy French), most
journalists ignored the provocative fax. Gravely concerned, we called the
Melchizedek Embassy in Washington for more information and were sent
follow-up communiques that attempted to clear up everything.
""There has been a leak concerning our pending Declaration of War which we
have not yet released to France," one fax read.
"A leaked threat of war? How could this possibly happen?
""We're not entirely sure," Vice President Korem elaborated by telephone.
"We were working on a possible official declaration of war to send to
France, but before we could do that, we started getting calls from radio
stations asking if we'd declared war on France. We were only discussing it
and somehow it turned into a press release."
* * *
"Such pacifism would seem at odds with declaring war on France (in
retaliation, by the way, for France's recent nuclear tests in the Pacific)
but then, very little about Melchizedek makes sense. It has no actual
diplomatic headquarters: Don't go running for asylum to its "embassy" at 601
Pennsylvania Avenue unless you can squeeze yourself into a mailbox. Its
founder, a Californian named Mark Logan Pedley, has two swindling
convictions. Its president, a woman who goes by the names Mz. Pearlasia and
Elvira G. Gamboa, was successfully sued by the California State Banking
Department to prevent her from representing herself as a banker there.
"Melchizedek says its several hundred banks hold a "net asset value" of $25
billion, yet President Pearlasia remains in arrears to the state of
California, having failed to pay a court-imposed sanction of $1,431.90 for
her "bad-faith actions" related to the lawsuit. On the whole, secular
authorities tend to take a dim view of the Dominion.
head of the fraud unit in the office of the U.S. Comptroller of the
Currency. "It's a phony bank, a phony country, a phony dominion -- the whole
thing's a phony." "
-- Joey Smith
mo...@iname.com wrote in message <35738036...@iname.com>...
Joey Smith
Yawn. Maybe you can get the entire population of Melchizedek together to
decide this issue -- AT&T won't have any trouble at all with a conference
call of 5 of less.
-- Joey Smith
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tze...@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
<6l19tm$tuh$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
tze...@my-dejanews.com
In article <eENjEhi...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>,
"Joey Smith" <ith...@jjyy.com> wrote:
>
> Maybe the Dominion of Melchizedek will declare War on the U.S. like it did
> on France!
> -
Joey: Why do you leave out the below parts of the Washington Post article?:
Copyright 1995 The Washington Post
The Washington Post
November 05, 1995, Sunday, Final Edition
SECTION: OUTLOOK; Pg. C01
LENGTH: 2914 words
HEADLINE: THE RUSE THAT ROARED; It's War! Island Nation Targets France in
Ruthenian Missile Crisis
BYLINE: Richard Leiby; James Lileks
BODY:
"We have declared war; we have declared war in an honorable cause. And we
must, with honor, bring that war home to the enemy." -- From "The Mouse That
Roared"
IT IS A SAD fact of modern life that anyone with a fax machine and a few
spare nuclear devices can declare war nowadays. France, for example, lately
has been threatened with atomic hellfire by the Dominion of Melchizedek -- a
mysterious island nation whose leadership consists of such colorfully named
personages as Branch Vinedresser (the minister plenipotentiary) and G.M.R.
Wijbers (minister of European affairs).
You might suspect that Vinedresser and his cabinet are sprung from the same
sort of puckish imagination that gave us the pugnacious Duchy of Grand
Fenwick in the classic 1955 novel "The Mouse That Roared." Though it lists
diplomatic offices in Washington, Rome and Jerusalem, the Dominion of
Melchizedek can't (yet) be found on any map. Its only apparent land holding
is an uncharted, Gilliganesque isle, 14 miles square, in the conveniently
remote South Pacific --which it supposedly purchased for $ 5 million last
year.
Melchizedek (pronounced mil-KIZ-uh-dek) also claims an alliance with the
dispossessed peoples of Ruthenia, who dwell in the Carpathian mountains of
Eastern Europe and have no country as such. Ruled over the years by the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and
Ukraine, the Ruthenians may or may not have access to nuclear weapons left
behind in the former U.S.S.R.
Does this mean the rulers of Melchizedek, like the wine-makers of Grand
Fenwick, now have control of The Bomb?
Probably not Melchizedek may be merely a ruse, but getting to the truth
requires a walk down a bizarre labyrinth that includes a home-brew religion
(what religion?), officials' names that change with kaleidoscopic ease and a
history of more legal proceedings (what legal proceedings?) than
"Melchizedek" has syllables. Based more on tax laws than territory,
Melchizedek may be the ultimate post-modern state. It appears to exist mainly
so that money can be whisked through shell banks. It calls to mind the
prophesy issued in the movie "Network" that, in the future, corporations
would replace nations. It even has elements of performance art: Invent your
own country for fun and profit. Let a thousand Branch Vinedressers bloom.
Melchizedek calls itself "an ecclesiastical and constitutional sovereignty
based on the principles of the Melchizedek Bible" (in the Old Testament,
Melchizedek is the "king of righteousness" who blessed Abraham). "Our
ultimate spiritual goal is to usher in the millennium of peace and
righteousness," says Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem, who serves in Washington
as ambassador plenipotentiary and vice president of Melchizedek.
Such pacifism would seem at odds with declaring war on France (in
retaliation, by the way, for France's recent nuclear tests in the Pacific)
Beyond being an annoyance to bankers and bureaucrats, the Dominion of
Melchizedek enjoys toying with journalists. A few weeks ago, the Dominion
grew testy with France when President Jacques Chirac insisted on detonating
nuclear devices near desolate atolls in French Polynesia. Fax machines at
news-radio stations spit out a press release, datelined Jerusalem and
headlined "NATION DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE." It explained:
Under the Constitution of the Dominion of Melchizedek, WAR has been declared
on France. On November of 1994, Melchizedek acquired sovereignty over one of
the three Karitane islands in the South Pacific from the obscure Kingdom of
Polynesia. The declaration of war became a necessity to protect Karitane from
damage that has occurred and will occur from the nuclear testing in the South
Pacific. The declaration is made on behalf of all mankind.
It is with reluctance that the Polynesian Melchizedek Dominion declares war
on France, since up till recently France was considered a silent ally. The
Ruthenian Melchizedek Dominion is considering aiming at France the nuclear
weapons left behind in the Carpatho mountains by the Soviet Union as leverage
in the war.
In any event, he denied that the Dominion was serious about using its nukes
to protest nuclear testing: "The indication is that our people in Ruthenia
are threatening to do that without our approval." The weapons, Korem warned,
"are available to us if we want to use them. But we're caught in a dichotomy
-- our principles are peace, and to use nuclear weapons would run against our
ideals. We want to establish the government on Earth that would be a model
for other governments to follow."
The next day, Korem couldn't resist the temptation to insert The Washington
Post into this diplomatic tango. "If you choose to write about [Melchizedek]
you may use said article as a platform to announce our declaration of
spiritual war on France, not to harm, but only to bless our enemies," he
faxed. "This is our way of registering our protest against further nuclear
testing."
Obviously, Melchizedek craves legitimacy. But so far, only one government has
given it any diplomatic recognition: The Central African Republic. (Since
this article there has been more recognition from other nations)
So: Melchizidek has leaders, laws, religion, a flag, a disputed homeland and
an unreasonable territorial claim -- the textbook definition of your basic
nation-state. Who's to say it's phony?
There's even an April 1995 letter that the U.S. Immigration of Naturalization
Service sent to the Dominion's embassy address. The letter requests "some
item of uniform insignia from your country's law enforcement services," to be
displayed in an exhibition of global law enforcement badges at the Atlanta
airport in 1996. The INS is putting together the display for the Olympics and
fired off a form letter to everyone on a list supplied by the post office.
Included in its listing of high officials is one Larry W. Axmaker, "Governor
of the Dominion Olympic Team, co-founder of Dominion University." The
university exists solely on the Internet, offering instruction by e-mail.
Finally, we meet. Ambassador Korem is a striking figure, dressed in a loose
tunic and sporting a cap worthy of an extra in a Cecil B. De Mille biblical
epic. His beard flows to mid-chest, after the custom of "the Nazarites," he
explains. Korem introduces his wife, Pearlasia, a Filipino resplendent in a
red silk blouse and hand-woven skirt laced with thick golden threads.
Larry G. Madrigal of Virginia Beach, another Melchizedekian "ambassador,"
offers evidence of the Dominion's wealth. He opens his briefcase and produces
a royal purple velour bag. With the flourish of a jeweler, Madrigal invites a
reporter to inspect the bag's contents. It's a gleaming, authenticated one-
pound bar of platinum, worth about $ 6,500. There's 33 1/2 tons more where
that came from, says Madrigal -- worth close to $ 440 million and available
to back Melchizedek's currency.
The delegation also presents a copy of the Melchizedek Bible, price $ 24,
which is the Word as "metaphorically translated" by David and Mark Pedley,
who received their instructions from God while in prison. "Only God reveals
noumenon and phenomenon," reads Genesis 1:1 of this bible. Both David and
Mark Pedley were persecuted men, says Korem. But for religious leaders,
"being a political prisoner goes with the territory," he notes. "Martin
Luther King, Ghandi, the Biblical characters Moses, Joseph, Jeremiah, Paul,
and even Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons, were in prison or died in
prison."
No need to mention what happened to Jesus Christ. Or, for that matter, David
Koresh.
But Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem ..........says his nation has "millions"
of spiritual citizens. A reporter asks for proof of various alliances and
territorial claims and Korem supplies reams of (documents) decorated with
gold seals. He hands over a "diplomatic passport" with the caveat that the
reporter should not "abuse that power" by attempting to use it to beat D.C.
traffic tickets.
The visitor wonders whatever became of the Pedleys, father and son. Is Pedley
Sr. truly dead? "We don't know," Korem says. "In our hearts, he's alive."
We can be sure of this much. The Dominion of Melchizedek is not a gag. Like
the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, it is a work of art. Melchizedek's leaders may
(or may) not own an island. But they do possess a pound of platinum. They
can't launch nukes. But they can give creative bankers many interesting
investment alternatives.
Ultimately, the French need not worry. Melchizedek will not sweep the
Olympics.
Richard Leiby is a Washington Post editor and reporter. James Lileks is a
Minneapolis talk-radio host and columnist for Newhouse News Service.
GRAPHIC: Illustration, Paul Corio for The Washington Post; Photo by
Washington Post's Photographer, Mr. Dudley M. Brooks.
Joey Smith
Because I didn't have permission to reprint the entire article as you
apparently do, Oh Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem.
-- Joey Smith
tze...@my-dejanews.com wrote in message
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In article <uuz$nbij9...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>,
"Joey Smith" <ith...@jjyy.com> wrote:
> -
> The Washington Post wrote that tongue-in-cheek. No reasonable reader could
> walk away with any other perception than that Melchizedek was and is a scam.
>
Washington Post article?:
Copyright 1995 The Washington PostThe Washington Post
November 05, 1995, Sunday, Final EditionSECTION: OUTLOOK; Pg. C01
LENGTH: 2914 words
this article was published there has been more recognition from other nations)
But Tzemach Ben David Netzer Korem ..........says his nation has "millions"
of spiritual citizens. A reporter asks for proof of various alliances and
territorial claims and Korem supplies reams of (documents) decorated with
gold seals. He hands over a "diplomatic passport" with the caveat that the
reporter should not "abuse that power" by attempting to use it to beat D.C.
traffic tickets.
The visitor wonders whatever became of the Pedleys, father and son. Is Pedley
Sr. truly dead? "We don't know," Korem says. "In our hearts, he's alive."
We can be sure of this much. The Dominion of Melchizedek is not a gag. Like
the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, it is a work of art. Melchizedek's leaders may
(or may) not own an island. But they do possess a pound of platinum. They
can't launch nukes. But they can give creative bankers many interesting
investment alternatives.
Richard Leiby is a Washington Post editor and reporter. James Lileks is a
webmaster
obviously has had some sort of negative experience with "The Dominion of
Melchizedek" or someone from there. Perhaps Joey would like to tell us
all who appointed him the sole discretion as to which countries can
exist and which ones can not. Who should give out information on them
and who can not. By the way, Joey, just because someone says that "The
Dominion of Melchizedek" or any other sovereignty is not a real country
or just a fraud, whether it is the comptroller of the currency, the
president of the USA, or some old reporter, it does not make it the
truth. I am sure that we have all had the experience to see something in
print that was not exactly as we new it to be. In short Joey, you may be
better served by making your opinions known to all without making it
known that you, for one, obviously have some form of hidden agenda.
Webmaster
Marshall Rice
>Maybe the Dominion of Melchizedek will declare War on the U.S. like it did
>on France!
I don't often visit alt.business offshore these days because the group
is awash with spam. I have only just spotted the following, which I
think is worth crossposting in full.
>"In Hong Kong this summer, a judge sentenced a young Austrian baker to six
>months in jail for attempting to cash checks totaling $500,000, drawn on the
>Asia Pacific Bank of Melchizedek. The baker called himself Crown Prince
>Gerald-Dennis Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and held a diplomatic passport as
>Melchizedek's "ambassador at large." According to an account in the South
>China Morning Post, the judge dismissed the idea that the whole thing was a
>joke, saying, "A fraud on the banking system of Hong Kong is a very serious
>business." Beyond being an annoyance to bankers and bureaucrats, the
>Dominion of Melchizedek enjoys toying with journalists. A few weeks ago, the
>Dominion grew testy with France when President Jacques Chirac insisted on
>detonating nuclear devices near desolate atolls in French Polynesia. Fax
>machines at news-radio stations spit out a press release, datelined
>Jerusalem and headlined "NATION DECLARES WAR ON FRANCE." It explained:
>"Under the Constitution of the Dominion of Melchizedek, WAR has been
>declared on France.
Interesting. So if Melchizedek is ever taken seriously, indeed, if
Melchizedek has the status it claims, any assets held by its "citizens"
or "corporations" anywhere in Europe risk being seized as enemy
property.
--
Marshall Rice