Subject: Reply to BAR Attorney Becraft
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:08:12 -0500
From: "Christian Law Fellowship" nbn@iresist.com 
To: Larry Becraft - becraft@hiwaay.net


Dear Attorney Lowell (Larry) Becraft, Esquire:

Thank you for the opportunity to address what appears to be a re-direction
of focus in order to avoid agreement with simple facts, or perhaps, for the
opportunity to correct your miscomprehension of simple facts.

Your attached "draft" - see below - appears to be a recycled E-mail sent out
by you over this past year numerous times. Its contents continue to evade
the real issues surrounding both the issuance of United States Notes -
backed by silver - and President Kennedy's Executive Order No. 11110.

Since early 1999, there appears to be a failure on the part of the draft's
author: to either understand the facts; properly address the facts with any
semblance of evidence; or, to discredit the existence of facts regarding the
issue altogether.

Should we be so concerned that the statutory authority of President Kennedy
to issue silver certificates was delegated to Treasury Secretary Dillon? Had
Dillon not done what the Executive branch required, Kennedy would have
replaced him. As Kennedy's Treasury Secretary - an Executive Branch
appointment - Douglas Dillon authorized the printing of United States Notes
backed by U.S. Treasury silver bullion and, in fact, had them printed. That
was what President Kennedy instructed him to do. Very few of these Series
1963A U.S. Notes ever made it into circulation, and those which had not yet
been circulated were destroyed immediately after Kennedy was assassinated.

You said, "There is no substance to this theory on the Net." Are you saying
that actual events, such as an issued Executive Order or the printing of
U.S. Notes, are of no substance? Does your statement bring validity to your
lack of argument? Apparently, you must think that your readers are mere
property... sub-intellects that are unable to reason, because they don't
have Attorney BAR membership cards. Ah yes, but you have a BAR card. Can we
therefore assume you intend us to regard you as 'Chief BAR Attorney, Squire
of Dis-information'?

A U.S. Treasury picture of a $5 United States Note, Series 1963A, can be
found at http://209.103.164.54/nbn/JFK.html  along with all the other facts
surrounding Executive Order No. 11110.

Is it possible that your apparent misguidance is orchestrated on behalf of
some hidden benefactor? Who might that be? If you are not reaping agreement
with us, then you might be sowing confusion under the direction of that
other benefactor.

Anthony Wayne


Christian Law Fellowship
http://lawgiver.org
aw@lawgiver.org

"Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty." -2 Cor 3:17 NKJV


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Becraft"
To: "James Hardin" = jhardin@mindspring.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:18 PM
Subject: Executive Order No. 11110


| Hey Jim,
|
| There is some misconception on the Net regarding a Kennedy
| assassination theory which is wrong. I drafted the below to address this
| argument:
|
| Executive Order No. 11110
|
| There is currently floating around the Net one theory of the Kennedy
| assassination based upon certain legal documents. According to this
| idea, Kennedy was assassinated because he was about ready to start
| issuing silver certificates; to prevent him from doing so, the "powers
| that be" had him killed. Please understand that what I offer below
| explaining the flaw of this argument does not mean that I am an
| apologist for the Fed or banking industry; it should be obvious from my
| site that I am not. I only offer these comments because this argument
| demonstrates just one of the completely erroneous arguments which are
| allegedly based upon the "law" but are not.
|
| When Congress enacts a law, it often delegates authority to enforce and
| administer the law to some executive official, typically the President.
| Naturally, the President does not personally attend to such duties and
| must himself delegate to others within the Executive branch. The
| Agricultural Adjustment Act of May 12, 1933, was one of these acts and
| it permitted the President in §43 to issue silver certificates.
|
| Public Law 673 enacted by Congress in 1950 allowed the President to
| delegate his statutory functions to others within the Executive branch.
| It provided:
|
| The President of the United States is hereby authorized to designate and
| empower the head of any department or agency in the executive branch, or
| any official thereof who is required to be appointed by and with the
| advice and consent of the Senate, to perform, without approval,
| ratification, or other action by the President (1) any function which is
| vested in the President by law, or (2) any function which such officer
| is required or authorized by law to perform only with or subject to the
| approval ratification, or other action of the President: ...
|
| Pursuant to this statutory authority, on September 19, 1951, President
| Truman issued Executive Order No. 10289, which delegated to the
| Secretary of the Treasury lots of the statutory duties of the President.
| This executive order provided in part as follows:
|
| By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of
| August 8, 1950, 64 Stat. 419 (Public Law 673, 81st Congress), and as
| President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
|
| 1. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby designated and empowered to
| perform the following described functions of the President without the
| approval, ratification, or other action of the President:
| (a) The authority vested in the President by section 1 of the act of
| August 1, 1914, c. 223, 38 Stat. 609, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2), (1) to
| rearrange, by consolidation or otherwise, the several customs-collection
| districts, (2) to discontinue ports of entry by abolishing the same and
| establishing others in their stead, and (3) to change from time to time
| the location of the headquarters in any customs-collection district as
| the needs of the service may require.
| (b) The authority vested in the President....
|
| Thereafter, this executive order listed another 8 statutory powers of
| the President which he was delegating to the Treasury Secretary, the
| substance of which is not important for this discussion. Please remember
| that this delegation to the Treasury Secretary was to be exercised
| "without the approval, ratification, or other action of the President."
| It should also be noted that this particular executive order did not
| delegate to the Treasury Secretary the authority to issue silver
| certificates granted to the President in the 1933 law noted above.
|
| From 1933 until 1963, the President alone possessed the statutory
| authority to issue silver certificates. But then on June 4, 1963,
| President Kennedy amended Truman's 1951 Executive Order No. 10289 by
| Executive Order No. 11110. This particular order read as follows:
|
| AMENDMENT OF EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 10289
| AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE PERFORMANCE OF
| CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AFFECTING THE
| DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
|
| By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of the
| United States Code, it is ordered as follows:
|
| SECTION 1. Executive Order No. 10289 of September 19, 1951, as amended,
| is hereby further amended -
|
| (a) By adding at the end of paragraph 1 thereof the following
| subparagraph (j):
|
| (j) The authority vested in the President by paragraph (b) of section 43
| of the Act of May 12, 1933, as amended (31 U.S.C. 821 (b)), to issue
| silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard
| silver dollars in the Treasury not then held for redemption of any
| outstanding silver certificates, to prescribe the denominations of such
| silver certificates, and to coin standard silver dollars and subsidiary
| silver currency for their redemption," and
|
| (b) By revoking subparagraphs (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 thereof.
|
| SECTION 2. The amendment made by this Order shall not affect any act
| done, or any right accruing or accrued or any suit or proceeding had or
| commenced in any civil or criminal cause prior to the date of this Order
| but all such liabilities shall continue and may be enforced as if said
| amendments had not been made.
|
| JOHN F. KENNEDY
| THE WHITE HOUSE,
| June 4, 1963
|
| By this executive order, the statutory authority of the President to
| issue silver certificates was delegated to the Treasury Secretary. In
| Kennedy's administration, the Treasury Secretary was Douglas Dillon, a
| man from a banking family and known established power in the banking
| community. Kennedy delegated the authority to issue silver certificates
| to Dillon and his successors and this power could be exercised "without
| the approval, ratification, or other action of the President."
|
| The only reasonable conclusion which may be reached based upon the
| facts are the exact opposite of the argument made on the Net. For some
| 30 years, the President himself held the power to issue silver
| certificates. But some 5 months before his assassination, Kennedy
| delegated this power to Dillon, and Dillon could do as he pleased with
| this power. To assert that Kennedy was by Executive Order No. 11110
| getting ready to issue silver certificates is contrary to the plain
| facts. Instead, Kennedy was surrendering this power and delegating it to
| the Treasury Secretary, who then (and as always) has been someone from
| the banking industry. There is no substance to this theory on the Net.
|
| Larry
becraft@hiwaay.net

Christian Law Fellowship