The following is an authorized reprint of an article recently received by V.P. Jesse Enloe from Mike Allen, a reporter in Show Low, Arizona.

SHOW LOW -- The utopian city of the future will be devoid of nationalism, racial strife and individual sovereignty, according to the latest information out of the White House. Tucked beneath the coattails of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an additional agreement implementing what has come to be called the La Paz Agreement that calls for the elimination of the United States/Mexico international Border at Arizona, New Mexico, California and Texas. The La Paz Agreement was implemented in January 1997 and calls for a 60 mile strip north and south of the border to be an open zone and will be called "Border Region 21."

The agreement is a new environmental program that eliminates sovereignty as well as the borders of the two countries with funding provided through the creation of the "Border Environment Cooperation Project" (BECC) and the North American Development Bank (NADBank). According to California Investigative Reporter Karen Bixman, the new region has literally created an area that combines both Mexico and the United States into one and will affect 10 Million people. The major purpose of Border 21 is to provide Sustainable Development to the newly created border region. According to treaty documents, Sustainable Development seeks to restructure education by "providing lifelong learning opportunities (OBE) and creates visioning councils which will limit urban sprawl, refurbishes land area to be designed for pedestrian and bicycle traffic and makes use of rail corridors for inter-community visions."

To manage the newly created region, US federal agencies and Mexican agencies have been combined. For environmental protection: The US Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources and Fisheries and Mexico's Secretariat for Internment and Secretariat for Social Development. For Natural Resources: The US Department of the Interior, the US Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Fisheries. For Border Water Resources: US-Mexican sections of the International Boundary and Water Commissions. For Environmental Health: US Department of Health and Human Services and Mexico's Secretariat of Foreign Relations and International Institutions such as BECC and NADBank.

Some of the key objectives of the agencies will be within the biodiversity and protected areas: 1) Improving and expanding protection of species and habitats. 2) Promoting sustainable management of natural resources in the entire border zone through productive projects to improve the quality of life for local communities. 3) Managing natural protected areas to guarantee the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. To manage this area properly, the US Geological Survey has acquired infrared aerial photography. The cameras will do mapping of the areas as well as the monitoring of proper land usage, forest management, water resources and the protection of natural resources. 4) Promoting sustainable aqua culture development while preventing habitat degradation and declines in resident species. 

Dallas - Congratulations are in order for the Dallas Morning News on the occasion of their joining the ranks of serious daily Newspapers. For the first time since they began to cover events surrounding the restoration of the Republic of Texas, the DMN published an article (authored by Michael E. Young, Staff Writer for the DMN, on Sunday March 23, 1997) in which the Republic was not vilified, libeled or otherwise misrepresented!

Mr. Young interviewed President David Johnson during the General Council Meeting at Richardson's Omni Hotel on Saturday 22 March, 1997. The article, printed on page 37A and 39A of the "Metropolitan" section of the Sunday edition, refers to former Consul General Richard McLaren as ".. ousted founder of the separatist group ..." Young then proceeds to say that said "founder" has "holed up in the mountains of West Texas, daring authorities to come after him." He also makes mention of a "second group," which claims they and not Johnson represent ".. the true provisional government ..," apparently refering to the so-called "Second Republic."

Young goes on to mention Mr. Johnson, ".. who is president of the republic's provisional government ..," and to quote him as saying that he remains "dedicated to bringing back the only legitimate government Texas ever had."

Then, in an unprecedented gesture of openmindedness, Young refers to the Council Meeting as ".. his [Johnson's] government's monthly meeting." Better yet, four paragraphs later Mr. Young confesses: "When he describes his vision of the new republic, where people are responsible for their own actions and juries decide cases by common law and not some sort of legalism, Mr. Johnson can be persuasive."

The rest of the article merely repeats the President's words concerning policies and issues facing the nation of Texas.

Mr. Young is to be commended for his clearly unbiased reporting and his honest, straightforward expression of interest in these events. This is journalism as one should expect from a staff writer of such a prestigious periodical.

The Website Manager.

Two of the General Council Members of the Republic of Texas explained Thursday night how they believe the People of Texas are being mistreated and how they plan to simplify their lives by convincing Texans they should be living according to the rules of a new Constitution of the Republic of Texas.
"We are not a militia group. We are not white supremacists. We are members of a sovereign country who believe that the judicial and legislative branches of the U.S. are out of control, who believe that taxation is out of control, and we propose to bring the Republic back to a nation of common law," Jesse Enloe, Vice President of the Republic of Texas, said to the 20 people who came to hear him Thursday night at the Daingerfield Courthouse Annex.

Mr. Enloe explained that the Congress of the United States failed, from 1836 until 1845, to annex Texas as a state because they did not have the authority to do so and were only able to pass a joint resolution to annex Texas.
"The movement that exists is the People of Texas working to lawfully reclaim the soil of Texas from the United States which has held Texas as a captured nation since 1865 after the end of the Civil War and thus, the end of the Confederacy," Enloe said.

Enloe condemned the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, which he said is controlled by 10 wealthy families and which has never been audited. He told his audience that the IRS, which he described as a "collection agency for the Federal Reserve Bank," is "the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the people of the country." When asked by a man in the audience how he and his group hope to accomplish bringing control of the state back under the control of the Republic, Enloe said that by "informing the citizens of Texas and getting them to exercise their rights, the movement will gradually rather momentum."

During his presentation, Enloe said that Texans in the Republic will not pay income taxes, to either the Republic or the United States, which is a "foreign country;" will not have seizure of property because of foreclosure; and will have an import-export tax to support the cost of government and a tax on U.S. corporations doing business in Texas. Among other changes Texans would see under the rule of a republic, he said, would be having all county commissioners being replaced by a sheriff and the raising of a lawful militia existing under the authority of a sheriff.

He said, "There will be no government price fixing, no future social security, a stable monetary system based on gold and silver, and a republic constitution based on common law and the beliefs of the founding fathers of the United States." "Texas has been divided into 30 land districts with a land office in each district as a basis for the eventual goal of making the Republic a self-governing nation," Enloe said.

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