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edwards@direct.ca (John Edwards)
<5b23md$e5b$1@aphex.direct.ca> wrote:

shaun@xcelco.on.ca wrote:

>Jeffrey wrote:
>> 
>> Daniel J. Lavigne wrote:
>> >
>> > Mike Guise wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Daniel J. Lavigne wrote:
>> 
>> Render to Caesar what is Caesar
>> but in the process
>> remember history
>> 
>> you cannot tax a nation into prosperity
>> 
>> JTS
>As is the case with third world countries, you cannot just give them
>money (tax breaks) and expect them to assimilate with the rest of us.

>btw ever heard the saying 'Give'm an inch and they'll take a mile'?

Maybe the solution is for all non indians to become indians?
John, North Vancouver, BC

taxfree@planeteer.com (Daniel J. Lavigne) responds:

The above re: �Ceasar� was not written by me. However, In a letter of
May 16, 1986 to:

Mr. Robert Roy,
Director, Taxation
Revenue Canada
1166 West Pender Street
Vancouver B.C.
V6E 3H8

Dear Mr. Roy,

It cause me no pleasure to tell you that, despite your cloaked
commentary, I knew, as you spoke in our first conversation, that you did
not have the courageous character of which you spoke.
 
Our second discussion, which I am led to believe caused you no personal
discomfiture, confirmed this beyond doubt.

In keeping with the Canadian Charter Of Rights I have asked for my day
in court.

To your ignominious shame, in apparent collusion with or in deference to
several revenue ministers, you continue to avoid court action to force
my compliance with Canada�s tax laws.

Your department�s tremulous response and your revenue minister�s quaking
refusal to meet my challenge not only cements your cowardly caricatures,
it holds to public view your government�s painful recognition of
humanity�s dire need of peace activists and groups.

Daniel J. Lavigne

(not satisfied with sticking the Director so, the letter continued on
the reverse side with margin comments and two of my poetical offerings) 

Greed� Gilded Guise

Caesar�s craven cowards
with
Consumate christian greed
build
Copper crusted chalices
to their
Coin corrupted creed.

Paying unto Caesar
Enhancing their nuclear might
Having lost their humanity
They risk eternal night.

Lying to their children
Living their own lies
They prayfully counsel murder
Insuring their paradise?

and:

Mankind straddles the abyss while
Cowards completing corruption�s curse
Push power�s pursuit past peace
Prevailing against reason
Ending our R�aison D�etre.

taxfree@planeteer.com continues:

With  slight alteration to John Edwards�s �Maybe the solution is for all
non indians to become indians?� so as to read  �Maybe the solution is
for everyone to reassess their humanity, their existence as sentients
and face the reality of the present?�, a reading of: 

�A Warning To Humanity� by the:

Union of Concerned Scientists, 
96 Church Street, Cambridge, Mass
02238-9105, USA

"Human beings and the natural world are on a
 collision course. Human activities inflict
 harsh and often irreversible damage on the
 environment and on critical resources. If not
 checked, many of our current practices put at
 serious risk the future that we wish for human
 society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and
 may so alter the living world that it will be
 unable to sustain life in the manner that we
 know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are
 to avoid the collision our present course will
 bring about."

may help them do so.

Also signed by 99 Nobel Prize winners, the complete
statement is archived at:

http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/page8.htm

taxfree@planeteer.com notes that some responses and inputs into this
thread have been guided by decent, concerned people. 

Some have been offered by outright bigots, racists and other fools. To
such I say "Try to wake up." 

To a safer, saner world. To the worldwide use of T2020-88. To the
develoment of reason.

Daniel J. Lavigne
Founder, Co-ordinator
International Humanity House

(Both of the above poems are copyright.)