Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:06:01 -0800 From: Vin_Suprynowicz@lvrj.com (Vin Suprynowicz) Subject: a new message from Vin Suprynowicz To: vinsends@ezlink.comJan. 30, 2001
Hi, Folks --
Most of you will recall I was hired on last fall as editor of "Financial Privacy Report," out of Berkeley, California.
With the able assistance of associates like Deke Castleman (the editor who made "Send in the Waco Killers" the book it is) I got to work upgrading the content of that publication. We produced four issues between last November and the February edition, which is now in the mail to subscribers. The consensus seems to be that we succeeded in expanding the newsletter's usefulness, readability, and breadth of coverage.
However, on Jan. 16, FPR's publisher, Dan Rosenthal, informed me that he has now sold Financial Privacy Report to his previous editor, Mike Ketcher. And Mr. Ketcher in turn now tells me he plans to re-assume editorial responsibilities; my services as editor are no longer required.
Depending on the terms of their agreement, either Mr. Ketcher or Mr. Rosenthal is, of course, responsible for fulfilling the subscriptions they have sold, or else issuing refunds.
But in the meantime, this sudden change leaves me and Deke geared up to produce a hard-hitting, fact-filled monthly newsletter about freedom, taxes, asset protection, and privacy. As a matter of fact, as you read this, I'm winging my way to Central America for 10 days, researching offshore banking and investment opportunities there. (It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.)
There's certainly no doubt about the demand for straight, fearless, well-researched reporting on these subjects -- in an era when surveillance technology and government tracking initiatives continue to grow by leaps and bounds, ensnaring thousands who have always thought of themselves as "law-abiding citizens."
So, the step I'm announcing turns out to be a "no-brainer." With the help of a few friends, I'm launching my own newsletter, "Privacy Alert," effective March 1. I think the subtitle, "Keep Your Guns, Keep Your Gold, Keep Your Freedom," pretty well indicates the direction our work will continue to take.
The report on my Central American explorations will be right there in the inaugural issue (which will be mailed in early March), along with an introduction to the supporting cast of consultants, experts, authors, and assorted freedom fighters we've enlisted along the way, as well as updates on the work we started with FPR -- the anonymous Austrian bank account and ATM card; why your own computer can be your worst enemy; a book review or two, and -- as a bonus -- a supplement containing my epic report on the ongoing federal effort to drive Western ranchers off the land.
So, does this mean those of you who recently subscribed to "FPR" now have to "double down?"
The answer is "No." The basic subscription fee for "Privacy Alert" is $96, with an introductory discount rate of $72 per year for those who write in now -- just like the old "Financial Privacy Report." (And those of you who missed the boat last fall -- are you sure you wouldn't like your file of the new "Privacy Alert" to start with Vol. I, No. 1? The time to act is now.)
But for those who subscribed to FPR between November and Jan. 15 to read my stuff, here's the way we're going "above and beyond the call" to make you whole: Mail me the envelope in which you received any of the past four issues of FPR, including the February issue which was just mailed (my last as editor) -- or heck, just a PHOTOCOPY of that envelope bearing your address -- and I'll send you the first nine issues of the new "Privacy Alert" (through November, 2001) free of charge ... no matter whether you stay subscribed to the old FPR, or not.
Or, if you like, you can send in that empty FPR envelope bearing your address and $72 ($82 for overseas addresses -- and we'll also gladly accept foreign gold or silver coin or even current paper currency in non-dollar denominations; just contact Glen at patriot@thespiritof76.com for an exchange rate), and I'll sign you up for a 21-issue subscription -- you get the first nine months free and the next year at the special charter rate.
Of course, anyone who didn't sign up for FPR can still subscribe to the new Privacy Alert at the charter rate of $72 for the first 12 issues. (Mail those checks or money orders to Privacy Alert, 1475 Terminal Way, Suite E for Easy, Reno, NV 89502.)
But here's the best news: My book-publishing company, Mountain Media, is about to release the first non-fiction book written by L. Neil Smith, Libertarian science-fiction novelist extraordinaire. "Lever Action -- Essays on Freedom" is a monumental 472-page tome (retail price $21.95) containing Neil's inimitable essays, speeches, and patented rants on Libertarian philosophy, Republicrat and Libertarian politics, and the Second Amendment ... as well as "Science Fiction and Media."
And "Lever Action" is yours, FREE, for the price of a charter subscription to Privacy Alert.
That's right: Just send in $72 in cash, money order, or check payable to "Privacy Alert" and we'll send you 12 issues of the newsletter, PLUS a first edition of Neil's new book, as a bonus.
Finally, for anyone who just wants to know what the heck we're talking about, send me a buck. That's right, slip a single green Federal Reserve Note "dollar" into an envelope (wrap something around it so it doesn't show) and mail it to Privacy Alert, 1475 Terminal Way, Suite E for Easy, Reno, NV 89502 (U.S.A.) ... and I'll mail you the first issue of "Privacy Alert" as a sample, with no obligation.
If we don't start now, teaching the next generation what liberty really means ... and protecting the assets they'll need to survive whatever the welfare-police state has in mind ... who do we think will do it?
The government?
The old advice is to look at unexpected developments as opportunities. I think this is an opportunity for all of us. I hope I see a lot more of you joining us on board "Privacy Alert."
In Liberty,
-- Vin
Vin Suprynowicz, vin@lvrj.com
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right." -- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken
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