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Show (jy WESTERN AMERICANA HOW SERIOUS i IS THE MORALITY CRISIS? (See Page 6) it it it -- flndependenf cated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and es .fs? TftJth itititjtititjtitjtitititjtitititjtjtjtjtitjtjtjtititjtititjtitjtjtititjtjrjtitjtitjtititititit Volume 2 No. 12 Framn By Reed Benson and Robert Lee From Review Of The News, July 7, 1971. Published weekly. While campaigning for Republican Congressional candidates in Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 31, 1970, President Richard Nixon declared: When I was elected President of the United States, I made some promises to the people of America. People of America expect their Presidents and they have every right to expect their Presidents to keep their promises. One of the pledges made by Republican candidate Nixon in 1968 was included in his Party's platform for that year: We will not provide aid of any kind to countries which aid and abet the war efforts of North Vietnam. On September 12, 1968, while addressing the annual convention of the American Legion, candidate Nixon declared that there should be no trading with any nation, including the Soviet Union, that aids the enemy in certain metals; agricultural , Union, and the satellites industrial and office equipment ; household appliances; electrical apparatus in general industrial or commercial use; certain electronic and communications equi- trade with the Communist countries of Eastern Europe rose by a resounding 30 per cent last year, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. . . . Russia was by far the biggest Red block customer for American products. 99 And on June 10, 1971, the White House announced the first broad steps in the termination of U.S. controls on a large list non-strateg- ic sic U.S. exports to the People's Republic of China. The official announcement continued: The items to be released from trade controls. . .include: most farm , fish and forestry products; tobacco; fertilizers; coal; selected chemicals; rubber; textiles; pment; certain automotive equipment and consumer goods. It was further noted that The President has also decided to terminate the need to obtain Department of Commerce permission for the export of wheat, flour and other grains, to Red China, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, suspending the 50 percent U.S. shipping requirement for these items. In other words, Mr. Nixon's campaign pledges have not only been violated, but his Administra-tio- n has now moved far, far beyond even the scandalous level of trade with the enemy conducted by the Johnson Admi- nistration. This despite the growing number of American lives being taken in Vietnam at the hands of Communist forces in with A.B.C. commentator Howard K. Smith on March 22, 1971, the President said, It is the events that cause the credibility gap, not the fact that a President deliberately lies or misleads the people. That's my opinion. No advocate of moral relativism and situation ethics could have said it better. Wage and Price Controls On June 17, 1970, during an address to the nation, Mr. Nixon asserted: I will not take this nation down the road of wage and price controls, however politically expedient that may seem. At that time, Congress was considering a measure which would ' .0. Box 6274 Salt L J give the President standby i authority to impose wage and price controls. But the Chief Executive claimed he did not want such authority, and Administration officials branded the move an attempt by Democrats fi Continued On Page 4 wof an President Richard M. Nixon R.S. MAN SUES audit they made of his records a few months ago. In his petition, presented to the . U.S. District Court, Mr. Belnap states that at the time the audit was instigated he was led to believe that he had no recourse other than to submit his records for audit and that he would be punished if he refused. He alleges that the records were thus obtained by fraud, deceit and intimidation..ccording to Item Wayne Belnap 6 of his petition, Petitioner has In an unprecedented move, Mr. learned, that Respondents (IRS) Wayne Belnap, Granger, Utah cannot legally or Constitutionally force the production of private businssman, brought suit against the United States Internal records. He petitions that the Internal Revenue Service return Revenue Service and their agent, Raymond Turnidge. Mr. Belnap is all his private records. In an interview with Mr. claiming that certain rights guaranteed him under the U.S. ConstiBelnap, he cited court eases uptution have been violated by the holding his petition where the IntemalRevenue Scrviceas a result Internal Revenue Service has authorized. The Constitution Belnap declared that the 4th provides the separate branches of government which are the legis-- 1 a t i v e, judicial, and executive. access to private records. As basis for his suit, Mr. Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees an individual the right lo privacy and the right to be secure in his property and his papers. The 5th Amendment safeguards an individual from and the filing of the income tax return in its present form is a document of self-incriminati- Mr. Belnap and the Constitu- further said, tion is the Supreme law of the land and transcends any law that is not in harmony with it. Mr. Belnap staled in his interview that, In my opinion the like Internal Revenue-Servicother agencies of the executive e, department of government, is not a legally constituted body It clearly provides that neither of these branches can encroach upon the jurisdiction of the Revenue Service and other agencies of the executive department make their own rules, enforce their own rules, and judge their own rules through mock courts outside the legally established courts. This denies an individual access to air his grievances through legally established courts and therefore means that he is deprived of due process of law as guaranteed by the Constitution. Mr. Belnap said further, This also means Serials Order Departnent University of Utah Libraries Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 u ?. si i 1 !? t u Continued On Page 6 Second at t : other. In conflict thereof, Mr. Belnap states, the Internal because it is not constitutionally ake City. Utah 84106 1 1 been denied THE UTAH INDEPENDENT P j Eastern Europe. During a televised interview LOCAL ing dispatch from the Washington Post for May 27, 1971: U.S. July 16, 1971 Frame North Vietnam. supplied by Red China, the Soviet An indication of how the President has kept his promises regarding Communist aid and trade is contained in the follow- of 250 Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Class Salt Postage Paid Lake City, Utah 873 j i -- - - - - ' - |