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Show April 15, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 AT WAR WITH THE have been one of our first demands of Hanois patron saint, the Soviet Union, if detente had any meaning at all. To present it now as a reason for friendship with those who have already violated their promise to such information is provide hypocrisy. In the last few days Mr. Ford and Dr. Kissinger have taken us from hinting at invasion of Cuba to laughing it off as a ridiculous idea. . Except, that is was their ridiculous idea. No one else suggested it. Once again what is their policy? During this last year they carried on a campaign to befriend Castro. They persuaded the Organization of American States to lift its trade embargo, lifted some U.S. trade restrictions; they engaged in cultural exchanges. And then, on the eve of the Florida primary election, Mr. Ford went to Florida, called Castro an outlaw and said hed never recognize him. But he hasn't asked our Latin American neighbors to reimpose a single sanction, nor has he taken any action himself. Meanwhile, Castro continues to export revolution to Puerto Rico, to Angola, and who knows where else. As I talk to you tonight, negotiations with another dictator go forward. Negotiations aimed at giving up our ownership of the Panama Canal Zone. Apparently everyone knows about this except the rightful owners of the Canal Zone you, the people . of the United States. General Omar Torrijos, the dictator of Panama, seized power eight years ago by ousting the government. There have been no elections since. No civil liberties. The press is censored. T orrijos is a friend and ally of Castro and; like him, is He threatens sabotage and duly-elect- ed ist. guerrilla attacks on our installations if we dont yield to his demands. His foreign minister openly claims that we have already agreed in principle to giving up the Canal Zone. The Canal Zone is not a colonial possession. It is not a lease. It is sovereign U.S. Territory every bit the same as Alaska and all the states that were carved from the Louisiana Purchase. We should end those negotiations and tell the General: We bought it, we paid for it, we built it and we intend to keep it. long-ter- m Mr. Ford says detente will be replaced peace through by strength. Well, now that slogan has a nice ring to it, but neither Mr. Ford nor his new Secretary of Defense will say that our strength is superior to all others. In one of the dark hours of the Great Depression F.D.R. said, It is time to speak the truth frankly I believe former and boldly. of Defense James Secretary Schlesinger was trying to speak the truth frankly and boldly to his fellow citizens. And thats why he is no longer Secretary of Defense. The Soviet Army outnumbers and in ours more than reserves They us on weapons by 50. outspend Their Navy outnumbers ours in e. surface ships and submarines We are outgunned in three-to-on- e and their artillery tanks outnumber ours Their strategic nuclear missiles are larger, more powerful and more numerous than ours. The evidence mounts that we are NumberTwo in two-to-o- ne four-to-on- e. two-to-on- four-to-on- e. a world where it is dangerous, if not fatal, to be second best. Is this why Mr. Ford refused to invite Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the White House? Or why Mr. Ford traveled halfway round the world to sign the Helsinki Pact, putting our stamp of approval on Russias enslavement of the captive nations? We gave away the freedom of millions of freedom that was not ours people to give. Now we must ask if someone is giving away our own freedom. Dr. Kissinger is quoted as saying that he thinks ofthe U.S. as Athens and the Soviet Union as Sparta. The day of the U.S. is past and today is the day of the Soviet Union. And he added, ...My job as Secretary of State is to negotiate the most acceptable second-be- st position available. I believe in the peace of which Mr. Ford spoke as much as any man. But peace does not come from weakness or from retreat. It comes from the restoration of American military superiority. Ask the people of Latvia,. Estonia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and all the others East Germany, Bulgaria, Rumania ask them what its like to live in a world where the Soviet Union is Number One. I don't want to live in that kind of world; and I dont think you do either. Now we learn that another . high official of the State Continued from page harder, paid a higher price for freedom or done more to advance the dignity of man than the living Americans, the Americans living in this land today. There isn't any problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done. Then, get out of the way and lets have at it. Recently on one of my campaign trips I was doing a question and answer session, and suddenly I received a question from a little girl who couldnt have been over six or seven years old, standing in the very front row. Id heard the question before but somehow in her asking it, she threw me a little bit. She said, Why do you want to be President?" Well, I tried to tell her about giving government back to the people; I tried to tell her about turning authority back to the states and local communities, and so forth; winding down the bureaucracy; it might have been an answer for adults, but I knew that it wasn't what that little girl wanted, and I left very frustrated. It was on the way to the next stop that I turned to Nancy and I said I wish I had it to do over again because Id like to answer her question. Well, maybe I can answer it now. I would like to go to Washington: I would like to be President. Because I would like to see this country become once again a coungirl try where a little can grow up knowing the same freedom that I knew when I was six years old, growing up in America. If this is the America that you want for yourself and your children; if you want to restore government not only of and for but by the people; to see the American spirit uhleashed once again; to make this land a shining, golden hope God intended it to be. Id. like to hear from you. Write, or send a wire! six-year-- Department, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, whom Dr. Kissinger refers to as his Kissinger, has expressed the belief that, in effect, the captive nations should give up any claim of national sovereignty and simply become a part ofthe Soviet Union. He says, Their desire to break out of the Soviet straightjacket threatens us with World War III. In other words, slaves should Id be proud to hear your thoughts accept their fate. and your ideas. I dont believe the people Ive Thank you, and good night. met in almost every State of the Union are ready to consign this, the last island of freedom, to the dustbin of history, along with the bones of dead civilizations of the The man who hates to past. Call it mysticism, if you will, divine a had God but I believe be asked, Whos calling? land this in placing when he places a telephone purpose between the two great oceans to be call, also despises having his a had who special found by those calls answered with a phone love of freedom and the courage to number. Everything fell into leave the countries of their birth. place one morning. our to forefathers From our 2 answered 2, weve modern-da- y immigrants, the secretary who was come from every comer of the guarding her days supply of ethnic and race earth, from every good morning greetings. a become weve and background May I speak to Mr. new breed in the world. Were asked the man, Smith? a have we and Americans slightly annoyed. We rendezvous with destiny. May I tell him whos asked ' the spread across this land, building calling? farms and towns and cities, and we secretary. 219-358did this without federal land planwas the renewal. urban or ning remarkably controlled Indeed, we gave birth to an enreply. tirely new concept in mans relation to man. We created government as Finish every day and be our servant, beholden to us and done with it. You have done those no except powers possessing what you could. Some voluntarily granted to it by us. blunders and absurdities no elite in Now a doubt crept in; forget them our nations capital would have us as soon as you can. believe we are incapable of guiding Tomorrow is a new day; own practice destiny. They our begin it well and serenely us telling mystery, by government and with too high a spirit to its too complex for our understanbe cumbered with your, old assume this, they ding. Believing nonsense. This day is all we might panic if we were to be told that is good and fair. It is the truth about our problems. too dear, with its hopes and Why should we become invitations, to waste a frightened?. No people who have moment on the yesterdays. ever lived on this earth have fought -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Numerical Names 11-8- 41 7, self-annoint- ed I.R.S. 1 I.R.S. man expanded the audit to include the partnership losses totaling $3,097 in connec- tion with the breeding and racing of horses although the same agent allowed the deduction of identical losses claimed by Dr. Fosters partner. The I.R.S. agent had disallowed such deductions as $1,000 in capital losses for 1969 and 1970, though the dentist easily was able to verify them; a deduction of $374 for copying services in 1970, though the dentist had a receipt; a $150 bill for business consulting services; $776 lost in betting on horses (although his winnings declared for the same year were declared as taxable income, and $235 paid to accountants to pre- pare the dentists 1969 tax return.) At the conference level, all of the above and other disallowed deductions were reversed to the tune of $13,000. But it was too late. His Medicaid income largely cut off (in 1972 he grossed $80,000 from Medicaid; in 1973 only $12,000), his bank credit cut off because the I.R.S. agent had badgered his banker once too often, the dentist found he could not pay the money he now owed the the government. As a result, in Internal Revenue Service informed him that he only had six weeks to finish up all of his work before I.R.S. would shut down his practice. Dr. Foster sold off what he could of his mid-197- 4, practice informed his patients that he would no longer be available to treat them and, early in the summer of 74, the I.R.S. cut off his telephone and padlocked the door of his office. Suddenly Dr. Foster found himself a celebrity of sorts as his story began appearing in the local newspapers. One newspaper story related that Dr. Foster had the Special Feb- -' ruary Tax Issue of this magazine on his desk, with the words, "Save this issue! scrawled upon the cover. Six weeks after padlocking the doctors office door, I.R.S. agents contacted him again this time with orders to "open you up again, according to Dr. Foster. A scheduled auction of his home was called off. But it was all for naught. Though he is still practicing at the same location, he works just part time, doing mostly routine procedures. "Ijust dont enjoy it any more, he says. "Its no longer any fun. Though he owes the Internal Revenue Service about $50,000 in back taxes, I.R.S. is leaving him pretty much alone these days.-Buhe is not leaving them alone. Two years ago Dr. Foster brought suit against the. Agency for damages of $1.7 million. Though the suit may not be heard for years, if ever, a . . t federal court judge is about to rule on whether Dr. Foster can, in fact, bring suit against the I.R.S. The law says that no suit can be brought on a tax matter but Dr. Foster is bringing suit not on a tax matter, but for the losses arising out of an investigation of tax liabilities. Should the judge rule in his favor, Dr. Foster will be one step closer to setting a precedent many other taxpayers are sure to follow the precedent that the I.R.S. is indeed liable for the economic consequences of its behavior. Dr. Foster is stoic. "Either way I win, he says. "If the judge rules in my favor, we go to trial. If he rules against me, the I.R.S. will probably seize my property but at least it will be over. Ive had enough. Theyve ruined me. Dr. Foster is not overstating the matter. During the past five years he has mopped floors, applied for welfare, seen the local ' bank foreclose on his home (he saved it by refinancing, at higher interest rates), and Continued on page 11 . - |