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IRS - probably the three most frightening letters in the English language. This deep-seated fear and loathing serves a very specific purpose. It serves to keep the People of America enslaved in submission to an illusion, a lie.  It is an emotional and psychological chain around the neck of the American people.

The IRS has a horrible reputation and has earned every bit of it, has by their own admissions committed crimes against innocent Citizens, and continues today to be the “Gestapo” of America. They confiscate more homes, destroy more families, take more money, ruin more lives, and commit more crimes than all the street gangs combined. They are indeed vivid proof that the greatest threat we face, as a nation, is our own Federal "Government." [The County Sheriff: America’s Last Hope. Author Richard Mack].

Here it is in a nutshell. The IRS is a private, debt collection agency for the private banking system known as the Federal Reserve Bank. The IRS is not a government agency. I repeat, the IRS is not a government agency. Never has been, never will be.

The IRS is formerly the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) situated in and with authority only in the Philippine Islands (Trust Fund # 61), and moved into Puerto Rico (Trust Fund # 62). In the 1950’s, with the stroke of the pen, the BIR was transformed into the current notorious IRS and brought onto the 50 united States. This was done without any Congressional authority whatsoever. There is no Congressional authority for the IRS to exist and operate in the 50 states recorded anywhere in any law-books. Again, keep in mind, that the IRS is the “Private, debt collection agency for the private banking system known as the Federal Reserve Banks”.

Due to the abysmal ignorance of the American people, most Americans do not realize that there are two title 26.

Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, is the "Debt Collection Manual" for the IRS.  This manual has nothing with "Constitutitonal Rights".  The IRS does not collect an "income tax".  The IRS is simply collecting a user fee due to the Federal Reserve Banks because we, Americans, are using a private credit system.  The user fee had to be disguised as an "income tax" to fool the American people.

Title 26, United States Code, is "non-positive" law, which means that no American Citizen is subject to it.  However, all "U.S. citizens" are subject to it.  In order to understand "U.S. citizen" you must go to 28 USC, section 3002.  Most American Citizens have voluntarily given up their Sovereignty in exchange for "immunities and privileges" of the 14th Amendment.There are literally hundreds of unilateral contracts by which American Citizens declare themselves to be "U.S. citizens" and thus subject to both Title 26s.  By becoming a "U.S. citizen", every American Citizen declares him/herself to be an "indentured slave" to the Federal Reserve Banking system with no Constitutional Rights whatsoever.  So then, Title 26, USC, is a private law that applies to "U.S. corporate 'citizens'", all employees of the corporation identified at 28 USC, section 3002.

Consider this fact. When an IRS agent wants to seize property from a Citizen in a County, they must first contact the Sheriff of the County and request assistance in the seizure. This is simply because the IRS agent has no authority to seize any property at all. So the IRS agent bamboozles the Sheriff into committing the crime for the IRS. When the Sheriff seizes property from a Citizen under the non-authority of the IRS agent, the Sheriff has committed a Second Degree Felony, Conversion of Property.

A second degree felony is incredibly serious. However, both the IRS agent and the Sheriff count on the abysmal ignorance of the Citizen who has no idea what their Lawful Rights are. Bear this point in mind, if the IRS agent has no authority to seize any property at all, then they cannot delegate or confer to the Sheriff what they themselves do not have. In addition, the Sheriff has no idea that he has engaged in a serious crime. Here is where the maxim applies, "Ignorance of the law, is no excuse for violating the law."  Hence the maxim, "the Law leaves the wrongdoer where it finds him".  We do not have an excuse based legal system.   Both the IRS agent and the Sheriff should be arrested and charged with Conversion of property, a second degree felony.

Tyranny is defined as: Dominance through threat of punishment and violence, oppressive rule, abusive government, cruelty and injustice. What better definition than this fits the abusive IRS.

America is using a private credit system wherein the medium of exchange are the Federal Reserve Notes that we call “Dollars”. Hence, the so-called “Income Tax” is in reality nothing more than a disguised “User Fee” that Americans must pay to the Federal Reserve Bank for using their private credit system. [research Title 12, USC].

The legal definition of "dollar" is "a gold or silver coin of a specific weight and with specific markings". Thus, a Federal Reserve Note, is not and cannot, ever be a dollar. A Note is not "money", see Blacks Law Dictionary. The Federal Reserve Notes in use are mere evidence of a debt.  I repeat for emphasis, Federal Reserve Notes are not dollars and can never be dollars.

The Federal Reserve Banking system is not a Federal government agency, there are not “reserves” and there is no real money. The Federal Reserve Banking system is a private cartel that has usurped the authority of the Congress to coin Money. Federal Reserve Notes are just as worthless or just as valuable as Monopoly Money used in the game “Monopoly”. If we go to this Constitution for the united States of America, Article I, section 8, we find that only Congress was given the authority “To coin money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”.

This authority given to Congress by this Constitution for the united States of America was not to be delegated to any private corporation for that corporation’s private gain.

The authority to coin money was usurped by the unlawful enactment of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The Federal Reserve Act is a "private law" passed by four Congressmen after the Congressional session closed in December of 1913. Congress can pass both private laws and public laws. Congress does not have to tell the American Citizens which law is private and which law is public. We are simply led to believe that all laws are public. This is propaganda and brainwashing at its best.

Starting from 1913, Americans voluntarily submitted to this private law through our own abysmal ignorance.  Once we submitted to this "private contract law" we became the slaves of the Federal Reserve System.

This was a silent coup d’ e-tat wherein the American People became the slaves of the Federal Reserve Bank. The “Killing Blow”, the coup de grace [pronounced gra]  was delivered upon the American People by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 by removing the Gold Standard from the American economy.  FDR assisted the FRB in heisting the gold supply from this country right out from under our noses.  The FRB is the single largest sting operation ever set in motion.  FDR knew what he was doing.

Since then, no American Citizen has actually paid for anything, we have just exchanged worthless Federal Reserved Notes for more worthless Federal Reserve Notes. All we do is lease the property from the “STATE OF NEW MEXICO”, we lease our cars, we lease our houses, WE OWN NOTHING. Since 1933 no American has owned their property in Allodium. That is why the "STATE OF NEW MEXICO" can take our property for just about any reason, i.e Eminent domain, failure to pay so-called "property taxes", state income tax, etc.

For anyone that has ever dealt with a debt collection agency, you know how nasty, mean and dirty they can be. Now, take that nastiness, that meanness and dirtiness and multiply it one hundred fold, there you have the attitude of the IRS.

Let’s continue down the Rabbit Hole. When an American Citizen gets into a dispute with the IRS, the IRS agent will not listen to any of your pleadings, your beggings or your excuses. Everything you do or say amounts to nothing with the IRS. If you dig in your heels and refuse to pay, the IRS starts sending you threatening letters with dire consequences for your non-cooperation.

If you still refuse to pay, the IRS will file a document called a “Notice of Federal Tax Lien” in the local County Clerk’s office. This is a very deceptive document. Keep one thing in mind a “Notice” is not the “Lien” itself. The “Lien” is a totally separate and distinct document from the “Notice”. The County Clerk, through abysmal ignorance files the “Notice of Federal Tax Lien” as if it was an actual “Lien”. These are two separate and distinct documents. The County Clerk never requests the actual “Lien” from the IRS agent. If they were to request this document, the IRS agent would get very irate and threaten the County Clerk for their non-cooperation. Of course, the actual “Lien” does not exist anywhere in the known Universe.

There is one more lawful requirement that the County Clerk must comply with before they can file the “Notice of Federal Tax Lien” or the actual “Lien” itself. The Federal Lien Registration Act requires “Certification” of the “Lien” itself. This would require that the IRS agent file an Affidavit wherein they identify themselves, and state under Oath that there is an actual “Lien” filed based on an actual assessment on form 23C against the particular American Citizen. When the County Clerk fails to verify “Certification” they violate the lawful requirements of the Federal Lien Registration Act.

The IRS never files the actual “Lien” because it does not exist. An actual “Lien” must be based on a lawful assessment on form 23C. In the entire history of the IRS, the IRS has never produced a form 23C showing an individual assessment against an American Citizen.

This so-called “Notice of Federal Tax Lien” is an act of “Financial Terrorism” because once this “Notice” is filed, you become a pariah, a financial outcast, you are branded as unfit, you are no longer a “good slave”, you are a rebel beyond the hope of redemption. Your slave “Credit Rating” takes a nosedive. You are practically ruined financially.

Interestingly, Section 803 of the so-called PATRIOT ACT defines terrorism as “any act intended to coerce or threaten a civilian population”. So by the very definition of “Terrorism”, the IRS is the largest, meanest, dirtiest, Terrorist Organization in the entire world.  However, the so called "government" has exempted itself, its political subdivisions and all federal corporate officers from being charged with "terrorism" under section 803.  Pretty convenient, huh!

If you still are not intimidated, the IRS will file a “Notice of Levy” with the County Clerk, and send copies to your bank(s) and employer. The County Clerk, through abysmal ignorance, files the “Notice of Levy” as if it were an actual “Levy”. These are two separate and distinct documents.

Again, keep in mind, a “Notice” is not a “Levy”. On this “Notice” alone, the bank then hands over all of your money to the IRS and you cannot even pay your bills. Your employer garnishes your paycheck, and again, you are the slave of the Federal Reserve Bank. Your Bank treats the “Notice of Levy” as if it were an actual “Levy”. Your employer also treats the “Notice of Levy” as if it were an actual “Levy”. The bank and your employer never request an actual copy of the “Levy” itself. Of course, the actual “Levy” does not exist anywhere in the known Universe.

There are several things wrong with these two scenarios. Both the bank and your employer fail to verify several key pieces of information in dealing with the IRS agent.

First, they fail to ask for a copy of the IRS agent’s drivers license to verify that in fact they are who they say they are. Also, in case, the IRS agent has to be served with legal process, they can be located. All IRS agents have been given instructions to never provide this information to any one asking for it. Thus, the true identity of the IRS agent is never established. Pretty convenient, huh!

Second, the bank and your employer fail to request a copy of the “Pocket Commission” from the IRS agent. Every IRS agent receives what is called a “Pocket Commission”. This “Pocket Commission” identifies the IRS agent’s authority as to his/her actions. The most common “Pocket Commission” is what is called “Administrative”. This is identified with a capital “A” on their identity card. This means that this IRS agent can shuffle paperwork all day, but he/she does not have any “Enforcement” authority whatsoever.

The other “Pocket Commission” is what is called “Enforcement”. The word “Enforcement” might convey the message that this IRS agent actually has unlimited authority to “Enforce” something against American Citizens. That is not the case at all. They have an extremely limited scope of authority. In fact, they cannot enforce anything against American Citizens.

Both the bank and your employer fail to request a copy of the “Pocket Commission” from the IRS agent in order to establish the authority of the IRS agent. I am fairly confident that all agents that send out notices to banks and employers have an “Administrative Pocket Commission”. Thus, both your bank and your employer steal your money and send it to a Terrorist Agency known as the IRS.

Thirdly, the bank and your employer fail to request a copy of the actual assessment on form 23C. Again, never in the history of this country has an American Citizen been assessed an Income Tax on a form 23C. Without this so-called assessment on this specific form, form 23C, there is no debt. So the bank and your employer fail to verify this alleged debt and thus, steal your money.

Fourth, the bank and your employer fail to request of copy of the “Abstract of the Court Judgment”. This document would show that you were actually sued by the IRS and that you had your day in court. The Seventh Amendment of the Bill of Rights of this Constitution for the united States of America guarantees you the Right of Trial by Jury in any controversy where the amount shall exceed twenty dollars. Of course, you were never sued and you never had your day in court. Thus, your Due Process of Law Rights are totally violated and again, you are further enslaved to the Federal Reserve Bank.

So then, we come to the end of the Rabbit Hole. You have never owed any money to the IRS. The IRS is simply the enforcer, the debt collector for the Federal Reserve Banking System. However, because you are using a private credit system, wherein the medium of exchange are fancy pieces of paper called Federal Reserve Notes, you owe the Federal Reserve Bank a “user fee”. 

By way of information, the IRS does not have a bank account wherein your tax payments are deposited. All of your tax payments are deposited into the bank account of the Federal Reserve Bank in one region or another.

The Federal Reserve Banks and the IRS constitute the single largest sting operation, the single largest fraud and the single largest swindle in the history of the World.

In order to keep this "Alice in Wonderland" illusion going, the so-called "government" developed an entire industry to support and perpetuate this fraud. The tax preparation industry. Tax preparers, accountants, so-called Certified Public Accountants, self proclaimed financial gurus advising about tax loopholes, etc., etc.

All the current paycheck garnishments in the entire country could be stopped by having your employer request the above mentioned documents, to wit:

1.     A copy of the Driver’s License of the IRS agent

2.   A copy of the “Pocket Commission” showing the authority of the IRS agent

3.   A copy of the assessment shown on form 23C against the American Citizen

4.   A copy of the “Abstract of the Court Judgment” that verifies that you had a trial by jury.

As Sheriff of San Miguel County, I will provide educational classes to the County Clerk and the employers who are currently garnishing wages and paychecks to identify areas where they may have broken the law and unwittingly stolen their employees Federal Reserve Notes and thus committed “Conversion of Property”, a second degree felony.

Furthermore, I will work closely with the County Clerk through education and knowledge so that the Clerk can stop breaking the law and committing financial terrorism against the Citizens of San Miguel County.

When the Citizens of San Miguel County elect me as their new Sheriff in town, I will ban the IRS from San Miguel County, and if I catch an IRS agent within the boundaries of the county, without my permission, I will arrest them for TRESPASSING.
 

Rico S. Giron

Future Sheriff of San Miguel County

 

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 "The day has long passed when we can afford
to ignore the threat posed by individuals who
believe they are subject only to the laws
of their god and not those of our government."

 Stephen Higgins, ATF Director, 7/24/95.

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Do You Remember?

 Do You Remember?
http://removingtheshackles.blogspot.ca/2013/02/do-you-remember.html
 

Sunday, 24 February 2013

Do You Remember?

Do you Remember?

Who you are?  Where you come from?

Do you Remember why you are here?  Do you remember the Game?  The Experiment?

Maybe you don't........ yet.

That was part of the rules of The Game- rules that WE made when WE created The Game. Rules that WE agreed with Source to follow when we all decided to play the Grand Experiment.

The Game is played like a theatre production: The players take their turn, each playing their part on the Grand Experiment Stage. Rule number 1 is that they don't remember.... anything. They are blindfolded and not allowed to look at the rules of the game or the instructions. The players are placed on the stage, with no script and no cue-cards, to interact with each other and ad lib as they go along. The only clues they have are the musical score playing in the back ground and their wits- receiving hints and bits of information from each other as they move through their part.

When we all decided to play The Game, there were certain players that decided to play their part off stage. They didn't forget, they didn't put blindfolds on.  These Players hid behind the curtain and had complete access to the Rules and the Instructions of The Game, and because of that they knew exactly how the Grand Experiment would unfold. These Players decided to set themselves up as the Directors.

In the beginning of the Experiment, the Play ran somewhat smoothly.  The players interacted with each other, ad libbing as they went along, learning to take cues from the music playing in the background and their interactions between each other. Then the Directors started to exert their self proclaimed authority and began to meddle in the Game.  They started giving directions from the sidelines, making up rules that interfered with the Players- taking away their ability to really interact with each other by shouting new directions that caused separation and division between the Players, dividing them up into teams so that they lost their ability to work together as one whole group.

To keep the groups organized, the directors placed Leaders in the middle.  These were their brokers and were responsible for dictating to the rest of the group the new rules and regulations. They demanded absolute obedience, their voices drowned out the music playing in the background and over-rode the ability of the Players to interact with each other and to use their intuition and wits to work together.

The Directors allowed these leaders to dictate Rules to the Players, encouraging them to tie their groups together with ropes of fear and chains of distrust for anyone outside their group.  The Directors applauded as they thought that these bindings would tightly hold the groups together forever, regardless of whether the Experiment ended or not. They gloated in their superiority, thinking that they would remain in control forever....

... But they forgot something vitally important.

As the Grand Experiment started winding down, something amazing happened.  With in the various separate groups, Players began to realize that something wasn't right.  They began to listen to the music.  They began to remember that not only were there other groups on the stage, but that they too were in the same game.  As they remembered, they reached out to those in other groups, linking hands until the stage began to look like a giant web of interconnected BE'ings.  As they reached out for each other they began to break free of the ropes of fear, gravitating towards each other....

The Directors didn't like this AT ALL. Their shouts from off stage didn't get the players attention like it use to.  They knew that for them to remain in control they needed to step up their game.  So they jumped onto the stage, but they did it in disguise.  They took on the personas of BE'ings from history, from religious legend and lore.  The Directors entered centre stage and worked their way through the groups, throwing glamours over the leaders, convincing the Players that they were there to save them.... that only they, the Directors in the guise of "Divine" BE'ings had the answers to all their questions and that only through them could the Players attain their final goal.

It worked for a short while.  The Players beheld these exulted "Divine" BE'ings  and paid homage to them, regarding them with hope and awe.... and the Directors LOVED IT.  They loved it so much that they never wanted it to end.  Who cares about the Grand Experiment?!  Who cares about the end of The Game?!  Who cares about the Rules and Instructions that the Players all decided on and agreed upon together?!  Oh yes! They thought they could keep The Game going forever...

But.... they forgot something else that was vitally important.

The End of The Game.

The final act of the Grand Experiment was at an exact instant, a preordained moment in time that was unchangeable, unmoveable, unalterable.... even by them.  The Directors might of been playing the part of "Divine", but in reality they were players just like everyone else on the stage.  Yes, they were not blindfolded, Yes they knew the Rules and Instructions of the game, Yes, they remembered.... but they were just Players like everyone else in the Grand Experiment- EQUAL TO ALL.

The Directors waved all sorts of prizes in front of the players in an effort to keep them believing that they were "Divine".  Money, Money Money.... Freedom....

"Freedom?"  Wait a minute!  Players started once again listening to the Music, they started interacting with each other, questioning, asking, listening...  "Freedom?"  But..... ?

The Directors tried everything in their bag of tricks, yet the more they tried to convince the Players to worship them, the more the Players woke up.

Oh, the Directors knew the reason why.   They knew what was happening.  They tried to stop it, convinced that they could keep the Players dancing to their tune forever, but deep in their hearts they knew the Truth:

The Grand Experiment was over.  The Game was finished.

The one thing that the Directors forgot is that Source was also involved in The Game. The one thing they didn't know was that in among the players there were Guardians who's job it was to oversee the end of the Experiment.

The Directors yelled louder.  They gave orders to the group leaders, orders that fell apart before they could be executed.  They ran from group to group, doing anything they could to keep the other Players from listening to the Music. They altered the script, they tried to yell louder than the music.... but it didn't work.

The Guardians began to wake up from their waking sleep. They looked at the Directors pretending to be "Divines" and said "You are NOT "Divine"!  For if you are "Divine" then others would have to be "UnDivine".  YOU are Players just like WE are Players- WE are ALL EQUAL!"  They reached out to each other, grasping hands together, connecting group to group all over the Universal stage in a giant net of light.  The Light got brighter and brighter until even those still under the glamour of the Directors could see it through their blindfolds.

As Players woke up they took off their blindfolds and they began to remember who they were.

WE ARE ALL EQUAL

As above, so below.
As below, so above.

EQUAL

....The final chapter of this tale is being written right now and You are part of it.

It's time to take off your blindfold.  The Game is over.  The Experiment is done.

Breathe deeply, look around you and remember who you are and why you are here.

Remember that we are all EQUAL.

It's time to tell the self appointed Directors that we are done with their cheating and deceptions.  They are NOT Divine.  They are the same as us: Players in The Game, and the Game is now over.


...Shall we write this last chapter all together?

 

 "Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.  “If You’re In–You Are Out: Vote all incumbents OUT! "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution" .-Abraham Lincoln. Remember the real terrorists, are the one's in positions of power, wearing designer suits, fancy on the outside but stained with the blood of many within.  "Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality." ~ Michael Ellner Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! -- Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Akbar’s Dream

Akbar’s Dream

Well, I dream'd
That stone by stone I rear'd a sacred fane,
A temple, neither Pagoda, Mosque, nor Church,
But loftier, simpler, always open-door'd
To every breath from heaven, and Truth and Peace
And Love and Justice came and dwelt therein…

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) – Akbar’s Dream

Bahá’í House of Worship, New Delhi, India

Last night I attended an unforgettable presentation by Bahá’í architect Fariborz Sahba, a Canadian architect of Persian descent who now lives in San Diego. Mr. Sahba, who is the world-renowned architect of the magnificent Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi, India, opened his presentation with the above passage from the poem “Akbar’s Dream” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

I would like to share a few of the highlights from that presentation, but before doing so I would like offer a brief story concerning Mr. Sahba.

In a previous life I was living in Connecticut as an airline pilot based at JFK. In fact I had just relocated to Connecticut from the San Francisco Bay area in late 1986, several months prior to the dedication of the New Delhi Temple in December of that year. I had hoped to attend the New Delhi dedication, but my schedule did not permit me to do so.

Among the Bahá’ís in Connecticut with whom I became acquainted was a female Bahá’í architect of Persian descent who shared with me a story of her great disappointment in not being selected as the architect for the New Delhi House of Worship. She had attended graduate school in architecture in Teheran and was a contemporary of Mr. Sahba. She knew him as an architecture student with rather unorthodox ideas and one whom she felt was perhaps outside the mainstream of contemporary architectural design concepts.

In the early 1970s there had been a world-wide competition to select a design for the proposed Bahá’í House of Worship on the Indian sub-continent. At that time there were similar houses of worship located in Europe (Frankfurt, Germany), Africa (Kampala, Uganda), Australia (Sydney), Central America (Panama), North America (Wilmette, IL near Chicago), and the Pacific Islands (Tiapapata, Samoa).

My Connecticut friend Nushin and Fariborz Sahba were both young architects with little experience when news of the house of worship design competition was released, and both intended to submit design proposals. Although both were Bahá’ís, there was no requirement that the architect for the house of worship be a member of the Bahá’í Faith; and in fact, several Bahá’í houses of worship have been designed by non-Bahá’ís.

Nushin related to me that she believed deeply that she was destined to be the architect for the new temple. She set aside an entire summer to work on nothing else but her design proposal for the New Delhi temple. When she completed and submitted her proposal, she felt confident that hers would be selected.  And when she saw the proposals submitted by other architects, including the one submitted by Mr. Sahba, she felt even more confident that she would be getting the commission as the architect of the new Indian Temple. She said that she ridiculed the Sahba design for a building representing the shape of a lotus blossom, believing not only that it could not be built, but that it violated the fundamental principles of architectural design by attempting to replicate in a building the shape of an object that occurs in nature.

When the results of the design competition were announced and the Sahba lotus blossom design was selected, Nushin was stunned. She believed that the judges in the selection process had made a serious mistake and that the Sahba design, if successfully constructed, would be ridiculed and that it would be an embarrassment to the Bahá’í Faith. Of course, when she related this story some years later, she had realized how wrong she was and acknowledged that her own design was amateurish and pedestrian in comparison to the magnificent vision created in the mind Mr. Sahba.

In last night’s presentation, Mr. Sahba narrated a slide presentation showing the temple as it took shape over the ten year period of construction on the site outside New Delhi which had at one time been a village with the name “Baha Pur”

(translated from Hindu as the house of Bahá’í according to an Indian tour guide listed below). This unique and spectacularly beautiful house of worship has been acknowledged in more than four hundred publications worldwide, and is now the most visited building in the world. It has been described by the Times of London as “the Taj Mahal of the 20^th Century”.  

Mr. Sahba described the evolution of his design concept during an extended research trip to India. Although he had encountered the lotus blossom theme throughout India in various religious buildings and in ancient archeological excavations, he had never considered it a theme for his design. He was also aware of the frequent appearance of the lotus blossom theme in other Asian and middle Eastern cultures. But he considered it inappropriate architecturally to attempt to emulate nature in the design of a building.

One day he met a Bahá’í physician in India who called his attention to the lotus blossom as an important symbol of peace, purity, love, and immortality in Indian culture. Still Fariborz was not thinking of the lotus blossom as the basis for the design of a house of worship. Yet it kept coming up in his travels around India and in his conversations with the people of the nation, until the idea for the design upon which he ultimately settled began to take shape in his mind. He was clear that the design concept was not the result of a dream or a vision of some kind, but rather a gradual process that led him to his creative destination.

Mr. Sahba explained that at the time construction was to commence, his office was located in London, and he had engaged the services of one of Britain’s most experienced construction project managers to take charge of the on-site management of the construction. Fariborz said he envisioned himself relaxing in his office in London, while consulting regularly with his project manager in India. But then the calls from India became more frequent and more frantic, while the problems described became steadily more serious. Finally, one day the British project manager appeared in Mr. Sahba’s office in London, proclaiming that the Lotus Temple could not be built, that the Indian workers were hopelessly inept, and that he would be crazy to try to continue with the project.

At that point, Mr. Sahba proceeded to New Delhi with his family, hoping to straighten things out and return to London in short order. As it turned out, he remained in New Delhi for ten years, sometimes working 18-hour days. Construction was carried out entirely by native workers using primitive tools and traditional Indian construction techniques, and continued 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No imported tools were allowed on the site by the Indian government. Yet in order to construct a building containing not a single straight line, three dimensional reference points in space had to be accurate to within 2 millimeters. So Mr. Sahba devised a system to produce this accuracy with simple wood frame scaffolding to access the structure as it rose from the ground.

Other problems arose – the workers arrived with their entire families, intending for husband, wife, and children all to work. Fariborz allowed the women to work, carrying construction materials in baskets on their heads, but insisted that the children must be educated, and built special schools on the site for the hundreds of children of the workers. This school became famous throughout India, and government officials visited the school frequently to show it off to visitors and to use it as a model for other schools to be built throughout the country.

Mr. Sahba wanted to ensure the safety of his workers, and initially insisted on hardhats and steel-toed shoes for all the workers. Local officials were alarmed, advising him that on a construction project of this size, with temperatures on the site frequently exceeding 120 degrees F, he could expect to experience at least 15 to 20 fatalities among the workers, but that if he insisted on hardhats and safety shoes, there would be many more deaths among the workers, since perspiration under the hardhat would be constantly running down into the workers’ eyes, and they would not be able to safely navigate over the traditional bamboo scaffolding with heavy shoes on their feet. Mr. Sahba finally relented, realizing that that these concerns were valid. So he devised elaborate safety rules and procedures, and completed the entire project without a single  death or serious injury among the workers. 

The local fire department inspected the site. He was warned that the high temperatures on the site and the vast quantities of wooden forms for the cement structure as well as the large areas of wooden scaffolding and protective tarpaulins protecting the wet cement from the monsoon rains presented an extremely high fire risk. They went on to advise him that they did not have equipment which could reach the heights of the structure nor did they have hoses long enough to deliver water to the site. Accordingly, Fariborz was advised, he was on his own as far as fire protection was concerned . So Mr. Sahba devised elaborate fire safety rules and continuous fire monitoring, together with a system for storing water above the structure which could be released on to the structure in the event of a fire. No fire ever occurred on the site in the entire ten year construction period.

Mr. Sahba made several references to the extremely high esteem in which he held the native workers who built the temple. He had great respect for them and for their skills in using the very primitive tools with which they were accustomed to working. One day he learned from one of his supervisors that a worker had been criticized by his neighbors for accepting payment of a salary for working on the construction of a house of God. In the Indian culture, this type of work was expected to be done on a voluntary basis without compensation since it was in the service of God. This worker related to his supervisor that he told the neighbor that he needed to support his family, but that he would compensate for the acceptance of salary for his work by working twice as hard. Mr. Sahba indicated that this type of dedication and reverence for the work they were doing was typical of the workers he employed, and many of them have become lasting friends.

The message below was addressed to a person I met last night, a non-Baha’i who attended the presentation and who had visited the Lotus Temple site in New Delhi two months prior to its completion in 1986. He was provided a complete tour of the site and explanations of some of the engineering issues which arose during the construction.

I asked him - what were his impressions during his visit? He said he was struck by an atmosphere on the site which was unusually quiet and serene for a construction site, and that the faces of the workers reflected a seriousness and dedication of purpose which was unusual for construction workers.

Following his presentation, Mr. Sahba was asked if he ever had any doubts that the building he had designed could be built. While I cannot recall his entire answer, I do recall his statement to the effect that if one defined a clear goal, worked hard toward that goal with persistence and determination to succeed , and trusted in God, that goal could be achieved.

While I have been deeply moved by the magnificent cathedrals of Europe (particularly the Chartres Cathedral in France), by the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, and by our own Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette, IL. I believe that the New Delhi Baha’i House of Worship speaks to the soul like no other building I have ever seen. I feel truly blessed to have had the opportunity to meet the creator of that architectural marvel, and to hear him share in person the experience of creating such an extraordinary expression of the power of unity of mankind.  

David F. LaRocque

February 24, 2013

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Bahá'í House of Worship

[2]

The Bahá'í House of Worship was first mentioned in [1] is the designation of a place of worship, or temple, of the Bahá'í Faith. The teachings of the religion envisage Houses of Worship being surrounded by a number of dependencies dedicated to social, humanitarian, educational, and scientific pursuits, although none has yet been built to such an extent.[2]

The Bahá'í House of Worship was first mentioned in Bahá'u'lláh's book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, as the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Arabic: مشرق اﻻذكار‎ "Dawning-place of the Mention of God"), and the details of the institution were then elaborated by both Bahá'u'lláh and his successor, `Abdu'l-Bahá.^[3]
Bahá'í literature directs that a House of Worship should be built in each city and town, and emphasizes that its doors must be open to all regardless of religion, or any other distinction. The Bahá'í laws emphasize that the spirit of the House of Worship must be a gathering place where people of all religions may worship God without denominational restrictions.^[3] The Bahá'í laws also stipulate that only the holy scriptures of the Bahá'í Faith and other religions can be read or chanted inside in any language; while readings and prayers may be set to music by choirs, no musical instruments may be played inside.^[3] Furthermore no sermons may be delivered, and no ritualistic ceremonies practiced.^[3]

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

    First Bahá'í House of Worship

The first Bahá'í House of Worship was built in the city of 'Ishqábád, then ruled by Russia and now the capital of Turkmenistan. It was started in 1902 and completed in 1908. The design was prepared by Ostad Ali-Akbar Banna, and the construction was supervised by Vakílu'd-Dawlih, later named one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.^[3][12]

'Ishqábád is located in the desert plain of western Turkmenistan near the foothills of the Alborz Mountains. Under the protection and freedom given by the Russian authorities, the number of Bahá'ís there rose to over 1,000 and for the first time anywhere in the world a true Bahá'í community was established, with its own schools, medical facilities, cemetery, etc. Eventually the Bahá'ís in 'Ishqábád decided to build the institution of the spiritual and social heart of the Bahá'í community: the Mashriqu'l-Adhkár.

The House of Worship itself was surrounded by gardens. At the four corners of the garden were four buildings: a school, a hostel where travelling Bahá'ís were entertained, a small hospital, and a building for groundskeepers. The Bahá'ís lived as much as possible in proximity to the House of Worship. It was the centre of the community materially, as well as spiritually. The House of Worship in 'Ishqábád has been the only house of worship thus far to have the humanitarian subsidiaries associated with the institution built alongside it.^[12]

After serving the community for two decades, the House of Worship was expropriated by the Soviet authorities in 1928 and leased back to the Bahá'ís. This lasted until 1938, when it was fully secularized by the communist government and turned into an art gallery. The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake seriously damaged the building and rendered it unsafe; the heavy rains of the following years weakened the structure, and it was demolished in 1963 and the site converted into a public park.^[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_House_of_Worship

Other references:

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/04/17/religion-journal-the-making-of-delhis-lotus-temple/

http://india-tour.us/india-places/lotus-temple/

http://www.delhicapital.com/monuments-in-delhi/lotus-temple.html

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/tennyson/akbarsdream.html

From: David LaRocque [mailto:dlarocq@roadrunner.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 10:32 AM
To: XXXX
Subject: Lotus Temple presentation by Architect Fariborz Sahba

Robert,

I hope you found the talk by Architect Fariborz Sahba and the creation of the stunning Lotus Temple in New Delhi interesting.

Here are a couple of links relating to the Lotus Temple (you may note that Mr. Sahba also designed the Iranian Embassy in Beijing):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fariborz_Sahba

http://www.sahbaarchitect.com/

The Most Visited Building In The World - An Evening with Architect Fariborz Sahba

http://carlsbad.patch.com/events/the-most-visited-building-in-the-world-an-evening-with-architect-fariborz-sahba

FLORIDA PORK CHOPS

FLORIDA PORK CHOPS

Anything else you need from Florida??? We have 30 foot Boas and Pythons that should make fine steaks!!!!

Shot this Rooter just 30 miles north of Sarasota. Suggest you check on the label on your Easter ham.

And they wonder why most Southerners are armed? I rest my case. Pork-Chops - Anyone?

Cute little pig ...That was killed in King's Point, Sun City Center, FL. They call them Piney Wood Rooter's.

There was a documentary on about a month ago about these PIGS growing up rapidly in the US .. Evidently they're all over Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida and other states. Did you ever

wonder what happens to those people that just leave home and disappear but their car is found out on a dirt road?

Between Bigfoot and these monsters, I think we know! This one was killed by a Medical Radiology worker...

What would you do if this beast was coming at you?

Run for dear life? Climb a tree? Or simply get run over?

Over 1,800 lb. wild boar shot and killed in King's Point.

Yep......only in Florida!
We were told to stand still because their eye sight is poor. By standing still they probably would not see you and walk right on by. And NO you can't outrun them!!

MAKE YOURVOICE HEARD ON THIS ONE NOW!!!!!!!

MAKE YOURVOICE HEARD ON THIS ONE NOW!!!!!!!

HURT: We're from the government and we're here to learn everything about you Posted: 19 Mar 2013 08:53 PM PDT Washington Times  03.19.2013 Rage over the waste and injustice of agents sent by the federal government to bang on doors of law-abiding citizens to ask probing, creepy questions is normally something that bubbles up only every ten years. But, the federal government being the cancerous leviathan that it has become, this outrage is now an annual occurrence. (MEANING THEY WILL BE BACK ONCE YEAR!) The first census in 1790 asked a bare minimum of questions essential for establishing congressional districts of equal populations. Despite the abhorrent practice of slavery at the time — and the counting of blacks for purposes of their fractional apportionment — the whole endeavor was aimed at fairness. In the 223 years since, the census has spawned an entire federal bureaucracy with tentacles reaching into the farthest hidden crannies of the country. It asks darkly invasive questions that are unnecessary at best. At worst — which is almost always the case with the Federales — the questions are aimed at twisting fairness inside out. It is how bureaucrats in the federal government summarily pick winners and losers in some small town thousands of miles away. So drunk on this power and addicted to all this intimate, private information of law-abiding citizens, the government could no longer get its fix just every ten years, as required by the Constitution to maintain congressional district of equal populations. So, these sicko data voyeurs turned it into a never-ending annual habit — forever snooping, demanding, collecting and massaging data. And then forever slapping down hard-workers and taking their earnings to give away to those they deem to be the losers who cannot be winners without the “helping hand” of the federal government. Like all Orwellian schemes, this diabolical obsession comes with a harmless-sounding name. The “American Community Survey,” as if it is nothing more than the local Girl Scout troop stopping by to offer you little boxes of sweet, crunchy goodness — all for a good cause! The feds want to know exactly who you are and the color of your skin. “Race is key to implementing any number of federal laws and is a critical factor in the basic research behind numerous policies,” the Census Bureau explains, without a hint of irony. “Race data are required by federal programs promoting equal employment opportunity and are needed to assess racial disparities.” And they want to know your “relationships” with all the people in your house. And they want to know of any “disabilities” and — ominously — what time you leave for and return from work every day. These creepos even want to know how many bedrooms you have and all about your plumbing and even your “fertility.” Related to the “virginity test” now popular in Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood, the federal fertility probe is crucial, they tell us, as “a basic planning tool for agencies of the government.” What? Forget data addiction, these people should be forced to register as sex offenders. And, of course, they want to know exactly how much you are making, including wages, tips and even that loan you got from your grandmother. Why? We ask these questions to get key statistics used to determine poverty levels, measure economic well-being, and gauge the need for economic assistance,” the bureau explains. In other words, they need the information to determine the winners and losers so that government bureaucrats thousands of miles away can pick new winners and losers. After staging a rare, genuine filibuster on the Senate floor, Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, last week introduced Senate Bill 530 to remove the criminal  penalty for those who refuse to take part in this annual  federal creep-fest that is not even required by the  Constitution.  You can add this legislation to the growing nationwide mantra of “Stand with Rand.” full story here