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10 Mar '01
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17496.html
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Direct Response TV information request.
PLEASE DIRECT THIS TO YOUR VP/DIR OF MARKETING.
My name is Rich Ralston, Senior Product Director at American Telemedia(ATI).
ATI is a firm that specializes in identifying and marketing products/services using
Direct Response television commercials nationwide to generate sales and Leads.
We are interested in speaking with you about possibly working together in performing a
90 day television market test with one of your products. With positive test results, the
commercial could air nationwide with ATI sharing in the revenues generated by the commercial in lieu of any
airtime costs. ATI provides the airtime and call center with 800/888 telephone number at no cost
to you. For Lead Generator/Order line commercials an amount per lead is negotiated and paid
to ATI for each lead.
We have visited your website to find that you may have a line of products or services that may fit the
profile to be part of a Test Market Campaign where ATI provides all of the airtime for
the initial test market at no cost to your company. After the test, and with favorable
results, ATI will air the commercial on as many as 517 broadcasters around the country
with ATI sharing in the profits.
Your company retains all revenue for the duration of the test period.
Please visit our website where you can find detailed information on this preliminary invitation...
http://www.directresponsetv.tv .
After your review, please give me a call on my direct line at: (212) 894-3747 x7444.
to discuss the details and procedures.
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Direct Response TV information request.
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My name is Rich Ralston, Senior Product Director at American Telemedia(ATI).
ATI is a firm that specializes in identifying and marketing products/services using
Direct Response television commercials nationwide to generate sales and Leads.
We are interested in speaking with you about possibly working together in performing a
90 day television market test with one of your products. With positive test results, the
commercial could air nationwide with ATI sharing in the revenues generated by the commercial in lieu of any
airtime costs. ATI provides the airtime and call center with 800/888 telephone number at no cost
to you. For Lead Generator/Order line commercials an amount per lead is negotiated and paid
to ATI for each lead.
We have visited your website to find that you may have a line of products or services that may fit the
profile to be part of a Test Market Campaign where ATI provides all of the airtime for
the initial test market at no cost to your company. After the test, and with favorable
results, ATI will air the commercial on as many as 517 broadcasters around the country
with ATI sharing in the profits.
Your company retains all revenue for the duration of the test period.
Please visit our website where you can find detailed information on this preliminary invitation...
http://www.directresponsetv.tv .
After your review, please give me a call on my direct line at: (212) 894-3747 x7444.
to discuss the details and procedures.
We are now working on projects that will be on air during the Christmas Shopping Season.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:51:32 -0800
From: Raph Levien <raph(a)acm.org>
To: coderpunks(a)toad.com
Subject: Export of PDF Decryption code
Hi Coderpunks,
I realize this is, strictly speaking, a political rather than
technical issue, but at least it's directly related to getting
encryption code out there, and I figure that knowledgeable people will
be hanging out here.
Basically, I want to know under what circumstances we can safely
export PDF decryption code with versions of Ghostscript. We ship
Ghostscript under three licenses: GPL (for older versions), Aladdin
Free Public License (free redistribution but limitations on commercial
products; thus not DFSG), and under proprietary licenses to our OEM
customers.
Here are some relevant facts:
* The encryption in PDF is 40-bit RC4, with MD5 used to derive the RC4
key from the user-supplied password.
* Geoffrey Keating in Australia makes a patch available for Ghostscript
which adds the encryption capability.
* The competing xpdf package (distributed under GPL only) includes
support for PDF decryption.
I'd guess that we are allowed to freely distribute 40-bit RC4 with
both the GPL and AFPL versions as long as we cc: the BXA on all
releases, but for the commercial licensing, we'd have to advise our
customers that they need to go through the export licensing process
(no matter how pro forma) before including the code in their products.
Is this correct?
Thanks in advance,
Raph
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Issue 2 March 9, 2001
Today's Issue [Image]
The NASDAQ stumbled to a 27 month low Friday, driven in party by a
nasty earnings warning by chip maker Intel. The Nasdaq composite
index dropped 115.88, or just over 5 percent, to 2,052.85 during
Friday's session, it's lowest level since Dec. 17, 1998. The DOW
was battered too, falling 213.63, or almost 2 percent, to
10,644.62 managing somehow to stay up 1.7 percent for the week.
CNNfn stated in an article published Friday, that "analysts said
investors do not need to run for the hills in a panic." despite
the bloodbath in the tech sector quoting Seth Martin, an analyst
with IDEAglobal.com as saying, "I think stocks really are near
their lows at this point and I think investors are
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by the end of this year so if you believe in that, you have to
like stocks at these prices."
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Saf-T-Hammer Responds to Child Safety Lock Legislation
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--March 9, 2001--Saf-T-Hammer Corp. (OTCBB: SAFH
- news), the Scottsdale-based firearm safety and security company
today responded to the efforts of Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl's
March 1 reintroduction of the Child Safety Lock legislation he
authored.
Sen. Kohl has also authored the Youth Handgun Safety Act of 1994
and the Gun-Free School Zone Act, which makes it a federal crime
to knowingly bring a gun within 1,000 feet of a school or to fire
a gun in these zones.
``We are watching this legislation closely,'' said Robert Scott,
president of Saf-T-Hammer. ``There is a continuing, growing
awareness of the need for firearm safety solutions. The recent
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nation's attention again.''
The ``Child Safety Lock Act of 2001'' reintroduced into the Senate
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included in every sale and transfer of a handgun.
``All firearm owners, most of whom act extremely responsibly, have
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prevent unauthorized access,'' said Scott. ``The gun safety locks
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The bill would be an amendment to chapter 44 of title 18, U.S.
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Sen. John F. Kerry, Sen. Charles E. Schumer, Sen. Lincoln D.
Chafee, Sen. Richard J. Durbin and Sen. Jack Reed.
Polls show that between 75 and 80 percent of the American public,
including gun owners, favor the mandatory sale of child safety
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Attorney General Ashcroft confirmed the Bush administration
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shootings in which close to 800 people die. In addition, every
year 1,300 children usefirearms to commit suicide. ``The need is
definite and real,'' said Scott.
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"So anyway, I've been tripping around at lightspeed, and it's been
about six centuries local time since I set foot here, but when I
went back to the merchant square this chador greets me by name.
How long do they live, anyhow?"
"Well, that's an interesting question. We've done the DNA Analysis..."
"They don't use DNA. They've got some kind of lattice molecule."
"The title of the Biosurvey report for checking whatever mechanism
they use to pass on genetic information, is DNA Analysis."
"Okay... but it's misleading terminology."
"Anyway, according to the DNA Analysis, an individual chador only
ought to live about a hundred fifty years standard..."
"Only! That's thirty years longer than humans!"
"Captain, let me finish a sentence or two, okay?"
"Sorry, go ahead."
"Anyway, even though the lifespan is about a hundred fifty years,
their history records actions by individuals that apparently lived
for thousands of years."
"Is this that bizarre religion of theirs? With the masks passed
from one generation to the next and whoever wears the mask being
considered to be a particular person?"
"Partly. But it turns out that's not just a religion."
"What do you mean?"
"We thought it was religious at first, but it turns out that the
chador pheremonal system is very complex. In fact, those scent glands
below each eye produce tailored molecules in response to almost all
sense impressions. This is the basis of animal communications
on their homeworld. But it's not very discriminatory. Basically, the
scent glands will tell another chador anything that one chador knows
or actively remembers, whether or not they want the other one to know.
Learning to use those masks to cover the scent glands, so as *not* to
communicate everything indiscriminately, was the pivotal point of
chador civilization, the same way human civilization took off when
we learned to use language. Eventually, they developed their own
language, so that they could communicate as they chose without
removing their masks and communicating everything. The religion, the
whole 'I am the masks I wear' thing, came after."
"What's that got to do with the chador I saw this afternoon greeting
me by name?"
"He was wearing the same mask that the chador who saw you six
centuries ago was wearing."
"Huh?"
"The masks. Sense impressions get written into them as chemical
traces from the pheremones. The chador who's wearing the mask
today can "read" the pheremones, and therefore the sense impressions,
of the chador who was wearing it six centuries ago."
"Six century old pheremones? That encode my *face*?"
"It must be a very good mask. The cheap ones they sell tourists are
just toys. The primitive ones that are handmade out of natural
materials by backwoods savages on their homeworld are good for a
year or so. The modern ones that most chadors in the street are
wearing for the last thousand years or so, will preserve about
forty years, so that a chador can have the benefit of knowing some of
the stuff his or her parents experienced. But the really good ones -
the ones that a few very wealthy chadors can afford to have made -
can be filled with almost eight centuries of sensory memories. I'd
wager that your merchant friend had a very wealthy ancestor."
"No bet. The lens for the center eye looked like it was carved out
of a great big ruby. So, is there effectively any difference between
chadors? Do they have individual identities beyond those masks?"
"There is. But there's not. The chador you saw today was not the
same person the chador you saw those many years ago was. But he has
that earlier chador's memories - at least the ones experienced while
wearing that mask - available to him just about as easily as his
own. Under their law, he accepted all the contracts and agreements
and property of the mask when he accepted the mask, so legally he is
the same person. But he didn't get that mask when he was born. He
had a childhood and an adolescence where he wore his own mask, and
developed his own personality, and he is a different person. If the
mask was his father's, he probably wore some other family mask for a
long time as an adult before he inherited it. But, it may have been
his grandfather's or great-grandfather's, presented to him when he
reached maturity shortly after the patriarch passed on. It's just
like you - you have your ship's log, and you can read what the
previous owner of the ship got up to on any particular day. Under
some legal codes, you'd even be liable for crimes your ship's been
involved with before you got it - but you're not that person. "
"So he's worn other masks during his life."
"At least one. Probably still wears them from time to time, when he
doesn't want to be the merchant."
"So he puts on a different mask, and he's somebody else."
"According to the rules of their society, yes."
"A mask that contains all your childhood memories. Wow, I'd like
to have one of those."
"You must have had a happier childhood than I, captain."
"Um, sorry."
"Not your fault. Anyway, most chador languages have a lot of
different pronouns that we humans translate as 'I' or 'we'. The
nuances of meaning, in a culture where everybody has several
distinct identies, are lost on us."
"Wow. I'll bet crime and punishment is way different."
"Yeah. Usually, whoever committed a really heinous crime just
puts the mask away and never puts it on again. Effectively, the
criminal ceases to exist. "
"But eventually the police find the mask, right? I mean, if the
chador's memories are all in there, then that's it."
"The police find the masks sometimes, but they can't touch 'em.
For one chador to put on another's mask is a crime -- identity fraud
and rape rolled into one. While there are sensationalized cases
about chadors working for secret police in some of the more
backward and oppressive nation-states doing that, it's considered
an atrocity. Their equivalent of the UN considers it a crime
against humanity. Chadority. Whatever."
"And eventually their children inherit these masks?"
"And sometimes they publicly recite the crimes recorded therein, to
exonerate the wrongly convicted. And sometimes they take one whiff of
the mask and refuse it. Usually, they find it uplifting, but once in
a while - There was a sensational case a couple months ago, where a
young female chador inherited one of her father's masks - but the
first time she put it on, she shrieked, ripped it off again, and
threw it into a fire. Turns out there were two masks that looked
the same, but one of them was used for legal business and one was
used for.... well, we don't know. She won't talk about it."
"But you have your suspicions."
"I do indeed."
"Hmmm."
"They are a race very different from ourselves, captain."
"Not so different as you might imagine, Lieutenant. We all wear
our masks from time to time. Thanks for the information on chadors,
I don't think I really understood them before."
"You imagine you really understand them now?"
"A little, anyway."
The Captain walked out of the BioSurvey office and down the
street, musing.... he had fifty names on twenty worlds, and the
tangled histories stretched nine centuries of relativity-compressed
time behind him. At last, he thought, a client who can really
understand me.
"Good evening, Captain Abrams." The voice came from the shadows.
"Good evening, Muk'kelaama. I shall only be Captain Abrams again
for tonight, for you and Captain Abrams have business to discuss."
"Muk'kelaama is also, most of the time, not." The translator had
bobbled, but the idea was clear enough.
"Are you still interested in the items you wished to purchase last
time we saw each other, Muk'kelaama?"
"The persistence of ancestors' memories makes our culture slow to
change," said Muk'kelaama, as though talking to itself.
"I understand."
Muk'kelaama held out a small box.
Captain Abrams looked inside, and found it filled with rubies.
Gorgeous, flawless, perfect rubies the size of a fist.
Later that night a stealth shuttle dropped silently from the sky
in an out-of-the-way spot far from the city. Its stark lines and
composites defied radar, and its matte black finish defied lidar.
It flew like a brick with wings, but what the hell.
Dropping vertically onto its g-thrusters in a grassy meadow, it
popped the hatch as soon as it hit the ground - the hell with safety
regs and clearance - and immediately six chadors of military bearing
materialized around the edge of the clearing and converged on the
spot.
Quickly, they began unloading crate after crate of munitions.
Captain Abrams and Muk'kelama looked on, silently eyeing each
other, each wary for some last minute trick or trap.
Finally, the cargo lay upon the ground, and Captain Abrams raised
one hand to Muk'kelaama, closed in the fist of a revolutionary
salute the other might recognize from six centuries ago. "Good
luck," he said.
The door popped closed and the ship silently fell into the sky,
its perfectly tuned g-thrusters making no sound at all.
Muk'kelaama turned and found its general at its elbow, breathing
hard behind its mask. "With this much, sir, we can wipe out
entire cities! The revolution lives!"
Ace Novelty and Toy Company, each crate read. Inventory item
20063: Stink bombs.
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by ubik_heisenbergï¼ freedom.net 09 Mar '01
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09 Mar '01
There is no harm in using the ZIP code, if you lawfully
identify your State. I found out that no State legislature has
met to lawfully change the abbreviation of the State from the old
abbreviation to the new. Therefore, if you do not use the lawful
abbreviation for your State, but use the shorter new
abbreviation, you have to use the ZIP code.
Look on page 11 of the ZIP Code Directory and it will tell
you that the first digit of your ZIP code is the federal region
in which you reside. If you use 'AZ' for Arizona, you cannot use
the State Constitution to protect you, because you did not
identify your State. You used the ZIP code, which identifies
which federal region you live in. And Congress may rule federal
regions directly, but it cannot rule the Citizens of any State.
Accommodation Party
Let's look at how the States have become the accommodation
party to the national debt. There are many people I have talked
to, including the Governor, who are very concerned about this,
and who know that it could happen very soon.
If America is declared a bankrupt nation, it will be a
national emergency. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will
take over, and anyone who opposes the new government of the
creditors can be sent to a detention camp in Alaska. We will
have no rights whatsoever. They have already set up prison camps
with work camps nearby so the people can be used for slave labor.
It could be the governors, legislators, and other leaders who
would be hauled away to Alaska, while the people now
disenfranchised from power would likely be chosen to run the new
government. This could all happen very soon, as the national
debt is so large as to be unpayable. Even the interest on the
debt is virtually unpayable.
As I explained, the national debt -- more than three
trillion dollars -- is not owed by the continental united
States. It is the federal United States that had authority to
borrow bank credit. When Congress worked for the continental
united States, it could only borrow gold or silver, so the
national debt was borrowed in the name of the federal United
States. The federal United States has been bankrupt since 1938,
but the federal United States had to trap the States into
assuming the debt obligation of the federal debt.
In the Uniform Commercial Code, we find the term
"accommodation party."6 How did the States become the
"accommodation party" to the federal debt? The federal
government, through our money system, made the States deal in
Federal Reserve Notes, which means that everything the States do
is "colorable." Under the "colorable" jurisdiction of the
Uniform Commercial Code, all of the States are the accommodation
party to the federal debt.
Now, the concern is to find how we can get out of this
situation. I told the Governor that, in the Common Law and the
Law of Merchants -- that's the International Law Merchant --
there is a term called no-interest contract. A no-interest
contract is void and unenforceable. What is a no-interest
contract?
No-Interest Contract
If I were to insure a house that did not belong to me, that
would be a no-interest contract. I would just want the house to
burn down. I would pay a small premium, perhaps a few hundred
dollars, and insure it for 80,000 dollars against fire. Then, I
would be waiting for it to burn so I could trade my small premium
for $80,000. Under the Common Law and under international law of
the Law Merchant, that is called a no-interest contract, and it
is void and unenforceable in any court.
Unconscionable Contracts
In the Uniform Commercial Code, no-interest contracts are
called unconscionable contracts. The section on unconscionable
contracts covers more than forty pages in the Anderson Code. The
federal United States has involved the States as the
accommodation party to the federal debt, and I believe we could
prove this to be an unconscionable contract. We should get some
litigation into the courts before the government declares a
national emergency, claiming that this State has no lawful
responsibility for the national debt (of the federal United
States), because it became an accommodation party to this debt
through an unconscionable contract. If we have this litigation
before the courts under International Law when the nation is
declared bankrupt, the creditors would have to settle this matter
first, and it would delay them. They would want the new
government to appear to be legitimate, so they could not just
move right in and take over the State, because it would be in an
International Court. This is very important at this time.
Questions and Review
Note: These are some of the questions asked after the main
lecture. Some are re-statements of material presented earlier,
but they contain very valuable information which is worth
repeating.
Courtroom Techniques
Question: How did you "box in" the Judge?
This is easy to do if you don't know too much. I didn't
know too much, but I boxed them in. You must play a little dumb.
If you are arrested and you go into court, just remember
that in a criminal action, you have to understand the law, or it
is a reversible error for the court to try you. If you don't
understand the law, they can't try you.
In any traffic case or tax case, you are called into court
and the judge reads the law and then asks, "Do you understand the
charges?"
Defendant: No, Your Honor. I do not.
Judge: Well, what's so difficult about that charge?
Either you drove the wrong way on a one-way street or
you didn't. You can only go one way on that street,
and if you go the other way, it's a fifty dollar fine.
What's so difficult about this that you don't
understand?
D: Well, Your Honor, it's not the letter of the law, but
rather the nature of the law that I don't understand.
The Sixth Amendment of the Constitution gives me the
right to request the court to explain the nature of any
action against me, and upon my request, the court has
the duty to answer. I have a question about the nature
of this action.
J: Well, what is that -- what do you want to know?
Always ask them some easy questions first, as this establishes
that they are answering. You ask:
D: Well, Your Honor, is this a Civil or a Criminal Action?
J: It is criminal. (If it were a civil action, there
could be no fine, so it has to be criminal.)
D: Thank you, Your Honor, for telling me that. Then the
record will show that this action against [your name]
is a criminal action, is that right?
J: Yes.
D: I would like to ask another question about this
criminal action. There are two criminal jurisdictions
mentioned in the Constitution: one is under the Common
Law, and the other deals with International Maritime
Contracts, under an Admiralty Jurisdiction. Equity is
civil, and you said this is a Criminal action, so it
seems it would have to be under either the Common Law,
or Maritime Law. But what puzzles me, Your Honor, is
that there is no corpus delecti here that gives this
court a jurisdiction over my person and property under
the Common Law. Therefore, it doesn't appear to me
that this court is moving under the Common Law.
J: No, I can assure you this court is not moving under the
Common Law.
D: Well, thank you, Your Honor, but now you make the
charge against me even more difficult to understand.
The only other criminal jurisdiction would apply only
if there were an International Maritime Contract
involved, I was a party to it, it had been breached,
and the court was operating in an Admiralty
Jurisdiction.
I don't believe I have ever been under any
International Maritime contract, so I would deny that
one exists. I would have to demand that such a
contract, if it does exist, be placed into evidence, so
that I may contest it. But surely, this court is not
operating under an Admiralty Jurisdiction.
You just put the words in the judge's mouth.
J: No. I can assure you, we're not operating under an
Admiralty Jurisdiction. We're not out in the ocean
somewhere -- we're right here in the middle of the
State of [any State]. No, this is not an Admiralty
Jurisdiction.
D: Thank you, Your Honor, but now I am more puzzled than
ever. If this charge is not under the Common Law, or
under Admiralty -- and those are the only two
criminal jurisdictions mentioned in the Constitution
-- what kind of jurisdiction could this court be
operating under?
J: It's Statutory Jurisdiction.
D: Oh, thank you, Your Honor. I'm glad you told me that.
But I have never heard of that jurisdiction. So, if I
have to defend under that, I would need to have the
Rules of Criminal Procedure for Statutory Jurisdiction.
Can you tell me where I might find those rules?
There are no rules for Statutory Jurisdiction, so the judge will
get very angry at this point and say:
J: If you want answers to questions like that, you get
yourself a licensed attorney. I'm not allowed to
practice law from the bench.
D: Oh, Your Honor, I don't think anyone would accuse you
of practicing law from the bench if you just answer a
few questions to explain to me the nature of this
action, so that I may defend myself.
J: I told you before, I am not going to answer any more
questions. Do you understand that? If you ask any
more questions in regards to this, I am going to find
you in contempt of court! Now, if you can't afford a
licensed attorney, the court will provide you with one.
But, if you want those questions answered, you must get
yourself a licensed attorney.
D: Thank you, Your Honor, but let me just see if I got
this straight.
Has this court made a legal determination that it has
authority to conduct a criminal action against me, the
accused, under a secret jurisdiction, the rules of
which are known only to this court and licensed
attorneys, thereby denying me the right to defend my
own person?
He has no answer for that. The judge will probably postpone the
case and eventually just let it go. In this way, you can be as
wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove, but you must not go
into court with a chip on your shoulder and as a wolf in "black
sheep" country. Remember Jesus' words, "I send you out as sheep
in wolf country. Be as wise as a serpent, and as harmless as a
dove." Sheep do not attack wolves directly. Just be an innocent
little lamb who just can't understand the charge, and remember
-- they can't try you criminally if you don't understand the
charge. That would be automatically a reversible error on
appeal.
The Social Security Problem
If I were a young man, 18 or 20 years old and just starting
out in my first job, I would not want Social Security. With my
signature on the application I would write, "Without Prejudice
UCC 1-207," and I would reserve my Common Law rights. But, why
wouldn't I want Social Security today?
I got into the Social Security system in the 1930's, and I
paid into it dollars that had good purchasing power. Now, I'm
getting a promised return in Federal Reserve Notes which have
considerably less value. For example, in 1940, you could buy a
deluxe Chevrolet for 800 dollars. With today's Federal Reserve
Notes, that won't buy the rear fenders and trunk on a new
Chevrolet. If I were a young man, I would not want to put
Federal Reserve Notes into Social Security now, and get back
something later like the German mark after World War I -- when
it took a billion to buy a loaf of bread. They will give you
every Federal Reserve Note back that they promised you, but it
might not buy anything.
Assurance
Under the Uniform Commercial Code, you have the right, in
any agreement, to demand a guarantee of performance. So, don't
go to them and say, "I want to rescind my Social Security
number," or "I refuse to take it." Just take it easy and say, "I
would be happy to get a Social Security number and enter into
this contract, but I have a little problem. How can I have
assurance before I enter into this contract that the purchasing
power of the Federal Reserve Notes I get back at the end of the
contract will be as good as the ones that I pay in at the
beginning? They can't guarantee that, and you have a right under
the UCC to assurance of performance under the contract.
So, tell them, "Well, I cannot enter this contract unless
the government will guarantee to pay me at the end of the
contract with the same value Federal Reserve Notes that I'm
paying in. Both may be called Federal Reserve Notes, but you
know that these Federal Reserve Notes don't hold their value. I
want assurance on this contract that the Federal Reserve Notes
that I get in my retirement will buy as much as the ones that I'm
giving to you now in my working years." They can't make that
guarantee. If they won't give you that guarantee, just say, "I'd
be glad to sign this, but if you can't guarantee performance
under the contract, I'm afraid I cannot enter the contract.
Now, did you refuse or did they refuse? You can get the
sections of the Uniform Commercial Code which grant the right to
have assurance that the contract you have entered will be
fulfilled properly -- that the return will equal the
investment, and you can reject the contract using the Code.
Using their own system of law, you can show that they cannot make
you get into a contract of that nature. Just approach them
innocently like a lamb.
It is very important to be gentle and humble in all dealings
with the government and the courts -- never raise your voice or
show anger. In the courtroom, always be polite and build the
judge up -- call him "Your Honor." Give him all the "honor" he
wants. It does no good to be difficult, but rather be
cooperative and ask questions in a way that leads the judge to
say the things which you need to have in the record.
The Court Reporter
In many courts, there will be a regular court reporter. He
gets his job at the judge's pleasure, so he doesn't want to
displease the judge. The court reporter is sworn to give an
accurate transcript of every word that is spoken in the
courtroom. But, if the judge makes a slip of the tongue, he
turns to his court reporter and says, "I think you had better
leave that out of the transcript; just say I got a little too
far ahead of you, and you couldn't quite get everything in." So,
this will be missing from the transcript.
In one case, we brought a licensed court reporter with us
and the judge got very angry and said, "This court has a licensed
court reporter right here, and the record of this court is this
court reporter's record. No other court reporter's record means
anything to this court."
We responded with, "Of course, Your Honor, we're certainly
glad to use your regular court reporter. But, you know, Your
Honor, sometimes things move so fast that a court reporter gets a
little behind, and doesn't quite keep up with it all. Wouldn't
it be nice if we had another licensed court reporter in the
courtroom, just in case your court reporter got a little behind,
so that we could fill in from this other court reporter's data.
I'm sure, Your Honor, that you want an accurate transcript. (I
like to use the saying: give a bad dog a good name, and he'll
live up to it!) The judge went along with it, and from that
moment on, he was very careful of what he said.
These are little tricks to getting around in court. This is
how to be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove when we
enter into a courtroom. There are others using the same
information presented here who end up in jail, handcuffed and hit
over the head, because they approach the situation with a chip on
their shoulder. They try to tell the judge what the law is and
that he is a no-good scoundrel and so on. Just be wise and
harmless.
UCC 1-207 Review
It is so important to know and understand the meaning of
"Without Prejudice UCC 1-207" in connection with your signature,
that we should go over this once more. It is very likely that a
judge will ask you what it means. So, please learn and
understand this carefully:
The use of "Without Prejudice UCC 1-207" in connection with
my signature indicates that I have reserved my Common Law
right not to be compelled to perform under any contract that
I did not enter into knowingly, voluntarily, and
intentionally.
And, furthermore, I do not accept the liability associated
with the compelled benefit of any unrevealed contract or
commercial agreement.
Once you state that, it is all the judge needs to hear. Under
the Common Law, a contract must be entered into knowingly,
voluntarily and intentionally by both parties, or it can be
declared void and unenforceable. You are claiming the right not
to be compelled to perform under any contract that you did not
enter into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally. And you do
not accept the liability associated with the compelled benefit of
any unrevealed contract or agreement.
The compelled benefit is the privilege to use Federal
Reserve Notes to discharge your debts with limited liability,
rather than to pay your debts with silver coins. It is a
compelled benefit, because there are no silver coins in
circulation. You have to eat and you can only buy food with the
medium of exchange provided by the government. You are not
allowed to print your own money, so you are compelled to use
theirs. This is the compelled benefit of an unrevealed
commercial agreement. If you have not made a valid, timely and
explicit reservation of your rights under UCC 1-207, and you
simply exercise this benefit rendered by government, you will be
obligated, under an implied agreement7, to obey every statute,
ordinance and regulation passed by government at all levels --
federal, State and local.
In Conclusion
The editor of this transcript has taken great liberties in
putting it to paper, in an effort to make it readable and
somewhat compact. He wishes to offer his gratitude to Howard
Freeman for the opportunity to work with information so
absolutely vital to our survival as dignified, unenslaved human
beings. He must also ask Mr. Freeman's forgiveness for any
errors committed in getting this in print.
The purpose of this transcript, as stated in the Foreword,
is to make this knowledge and wisdom available to as many people
as will take the time and trouble to read it. It is meant to be
supplemental to Mr. Freeman's recorded lectures, not a
substitute. Indeed, there is no substitute for hearing him
present this material in his own words. It is not just the law
and the facts that are important here, but the way they are used.
His numerous reminders of Jesus' commission to be "... like sheep
among wolves ..." cannot be overstated, and is certainly good
advice to us in all dealings -- not just in court or with the
government. Hearing him explain this in his own words brings to
life the practical application and usefulness of being "wise" and
"harmless." In fact, after being introduced to this approach, it
becomes difficult to imagine that any other way of defending
oneself from the government would be effective.
It goes without saying that none of this information
presented here is in any way, shape or form offered as legal
advice. For that, as you know, you must "get yourself a licensed
attorney."
Having said that, I feel obligated to point out that one of
the most difficult aspects of dealing with a licensed attorney
-- even a good one -- may be knowing just whose side he is on.
(He is, after all, an officer of the court!) So, for those of us
who have concluded that having an attorney means that you will
soon be chained, gagged and led to the gallows, this information
may be indispensable. For the extraordinary challenges of
appearing in court in one's own person -- in propria persona
-- there are few reliable sources of information. Learning to
defend ourselves, that is, being responsible instead of turning
over one more area of our lives to "professionals," may be the
only way to have any chance of digging ourselves out of this pit
of legal tyranny. Perhaps the greatest problem we face in
education today is the matter of widespread legal illiteracy.
Naturally, there will always be a number of people who just
don't care about these issues who either:
(1) have a soft life which is supported and maintained by
this secret system of law and the institutions which
have grown up around it ("I can make a bundle buying
these IRS-seized homes cheap and reselling them."), or
(2) don't believe that anything can be done about it ("You
can't fight city hall."), or
(3) simply don't have the energy or inclination to do
anything about it ("That's nice, but let's see what's
on TV.").
For those good "citizens," this whole effort may seem useless, or
even threatening. But, it is this writer's view that God did not
intend for us to spend our lives in statutory slavery for the
benefit of a handful of secret world manipulators, even if the
"masters" grant us some token pleasures and diversions. Human
dignity requires much more than entertainment. The door is there
and the key exists. We must find it and we must use it to return
to freedom!
Let us discover the mistakes we have made. Let us find
truth. Let us apply it with meekness and wisdom, and let us
gently but firmly reclaim the precious freedom which we have so
foolishly given up.
September 22, 1991
For More Information
I encourage anyone who is interested enough to read this far
to obtain a set of tapes of Howard Freeman and listen to them
carefully. A donation of $4.00 per tape would be appropriate.
This information was taken from tapes numbered 90-30, 90-31,
90-32 and 90-33, which may be ordered from:
America's Promise Ministries
c/o P. O. Box 157
Sandpoint, Idaho
Postal Zone 83864/TDC
(208) 265-5405
The next set of tapes (from 1991) are numbered 1004, 1005
and 1006, and contain vital material not found in this
transcript.
Footnotes:
1. Colorable. That which is in appearance only, and not in
reality, what it purports to be, hence counterfeit, feigned,
having the appearance of truth. Black's Law Dictionary,
Fifth Edition.
2. Actually, it is better to use a rubber stamp, because this
demonstrates that you had previously reserved your rights.
The simple fact that it takes several days or a week to
order and get a stamp, shows that you had reserved your
rights before signing the document.
3. Anderson, Uniform Commercial Code, Lawyers Cooperative
Publishing Company.
4. It is very important to get it into the record that you do
not understand the charges. With that in the record, the
court cannot move forward to judge the facts. This will be
covered later on page 19.
5. For more about this, see page 18.
6. UCC 3-415. "Accommodation Party." One who signs commercial
paper in any capacity for the purpose of lending his name to
another party to the instrument. Such a party is a surety."
(Surety: "One who undertakes to pay money or to do some
other act in the event that his principal fails therein.")
7. See UCC 1-201. General Definitions (3): "Agreement means
the bargain of the parties in fact as found in their
language or by implication from other circumstances
including courses, dealing or usage of trade or course of
performance."
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Remedy and Recourse
Every system of civilized law must have two characteristics:
Remedy and Recourse. Remedy is a way to get out from under that
law. The Recourse is if you have been damaged under the law, you
can recover your loss. The Common Law, the Law of Merchants, and
even the Uniform Commercial Code all have remedy and recourse,
but for a long time we could not find it. If you go to a law
library and ask to see the Uniform Commercial Code, they will
show you a shelf of books completely filled with the Uniform
Commercial Code. When you pick up one volume and start to read
it, it will seem to have been intentionally written to be
confusing. It took us a long time to discover where the Remedy
and Recourse are found in the UCC. They are found right in the
first volume, at 1-207 and 1-103.
Remedy
The making of a valid Reservation of Rights preserves
whatever rights the person then possesses, and prevents the
loss of such rights by application of concepts of waiver or
estoppel. (UCC 1-207.7)
It is important to remember when we go into a court, that we
are in a commercial, international jurisdiction. If we go into
court and say, "I DEMAND MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS," the judge
will most likely say, "You mention the Constitution again, and
I'll find you in contempt of court!" Then, we don't understand
how he can do that. Hasn't he sworn to uphold the Constitution?
The rule here is: you cannot be charged under one jurisdiction,
and defend under another. For example, if the French government
came to you and asked where you filed your French income tax in a
certain year, do you go to the French government and say, "I
demand my Constitutional Rights?" No. The proper answer is:
THE LAW DOESN'T APPLY TO ME -- I'M NOT A FRENCHMAN. You must
make your reservation of rights under the jurisdiction in which
you are charged -- not under some other jurisdiction. So, in a
UCC court, you must claim your reservation of rights under the
UCC 1-207.
UCC 1-207 goes on to say:
When a waivable right or claim is involved, the failure to
make a reservation thereof, causes a loss of the right, and
bars its assertion at a later date. (UCC 1-207.9)
You have to make your claim known early. Further, it says:
The Sufficiency of the Reservation -- Any expression
indicating an intention to reserve rights, is sufficient,
such as "without prejudice". (UCC 1-207.4)
Whenever you sign any legal paper that deals with Federal Reserve
Notes -- in any way, shape or manner -- under your signature
write: Without Prejudice UCC 1-207.2 This reserves your rights.
You can show, at 1-207.4, that you have sufficiently reserved
your rights.
It is very important to understand just what this means.
For example, one man who used this in regard to a traffic ticket
was asked by the judge just what he meant by writing "without
prejudice UCC 1-207" on his statement to the court. He had not
tried to understand the concepts involved. He only wanted to use
it to get out of the ticket. He did not know what it meant.
When the judge asked him what he meant by signing in that way, he
told the judge that he was not prejudiced against anyone ....
The judge knew that the man had no idea what it meant, and he
lost the case. You must know what it means.
Without Prejudice UCC 1-207
When you use "Without Prejudice UCC 1-207" in connection
with your signature, you are saying:
I reserve my right not to be compelled to perform under any
contract or commercial agreement that I did not enter
knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally. And,
furthermore, I do not accept the liability of the compelled
benefit of any unrevealed contract or commercial agreement.
What is the compelled performance of an unrevealed
commercial agreement? When you use Federal Reserve Notes instead
of silver dollars, is it voluntary? No. There is no lawful
money, so you have to use Federal Reserve Notes -- you have to
accept the benefit. The government has given you the benefit to
discharge your debts with limited liability, and you don't have
to pay your debts. How nice they are! But, if you did not
reserve your rights under 1-207.7, you are compelled to accept
the benefit, and therefore obligated to obey every statute,
ordinance and regulation of the government, at all levels of
government -- federal, State and local.
If you understand this, you will be able to explain it to
the judge when he asks. And he will ask, so be prepared to
explain it to the court. You will also need to understand UCC
1-103 -- the argument and recourse.
If you want to understand this fully, go to a law library
and photocopy these two sections from the UCC. It is important
to get the Anderson3 edition. Some of the law libraries will
only have the West Publishing version, and it is very difficult
to understand. In Anderson, it is broken down with decimals into
ten parts and, most importantly, it is written in plain English.
Recourse
The Recourse appears in the Uniform Commercial Code at
1-103.6, which says,
The Code is complementary to the Common Law, which remains
in force, except where displaced by the Code. A statute
should be construed in harmony with the Common Law, unless
there is a clear legislative intent to abrogate the Common
Law.
This is the argument we use in court.
The Code recognizes the Common Law. If it did not recognize
the Common Law, the government would have had to admit that the
United States is bankrupt, and is completely owned by its
creditors. But, it is not expedient to admit this, so the Code
was written so as not to abolish the Common Law entirely.
Therefore, if you have made a sufficient, timely, and explicit
reservation of your rights at 1-207, you may then insist that the
statutes be construed in harmony with the Common Law.
If the charge is a traffic ticket, you may demand that the
court produce the injured person who has filed a verified
complaint. If, for example, you were charged with failure to
buckle your seat belt, you may ask the court who was injured as a
result of your failure to "buckle up."
However, if the judge won't listen to you and just moves
ahead with the case, then you will want to read to him the last
sentence of 1-103.6, which states:
The Code cannot be read to preclude a Common Law action.
Tell the judge:
Your Honor, I can sue you under the Common Law, for
violating my right under the Uniform Commercial Code. I
have a remedy, under the UCC, to reserve my rights under the
Common Law. I have exercised the remedy, and now you must
construe this statute in harmony with the Common Law. To be
in harmony with the Common Law, you must come forth with a
damaged party.
If the judge insists on proceeding with the case, just act
confused and ask this question:
Let me see if I understand, Your Honor: Has this court made
a legal determination that sections 1-207 and 1-103 of the
Uniform Commercial Code, which is the system of law you are
operating under, are not valid law before this court?
Now, the judge is in a jamb! How can the court throw out one
part of the Code and uphold another? If he answers "yes," then
you say:
I put this court on notice that I am appealing your legal
determination.
Of course, the higher court will uphold the Code on appeal. The
judge knows this, so once again you have boxed him into a corner.
Practical Application -- Traffic Court
Just so we can understand how this whole process works, let
us look at a court situation such as a traffic violation. Assume
you ran through a yellow light and a policeman gave you a traffic
ticket:
1. The first thing you want to do is to delay the action at
least three weeks. This you can do by being pleasant and
cooperative with the officer. Explain to him that you are
very busy and ask if he could please set your court
appearance for about three weeks away.
(At this point, we need to remember the government's trick: "I'm
from the government. I'm here to help you." Now, we want to use
this approach with them.)
2. The next step is to go to the clerk of the traffic court and
to say:
"I believe it would be helpful if I talk to you, because I
want to save the government some money (this will get his
attention). I am undoubtedly going to appeal this case. As
you know, in an appeal, I have to have a transcript, but the
traffic court doesn't have a court reporter. It would be a
waste of taxpayer's money to run me through this court and
then to have to give me a trial de novo in a court of
record. I do need a transcript for appealing, and to save
the government some money, maybe you could schedule me to
appear in a court of record."
You can show the date on the ticket and the clerk will usually
agree that there is plenty of time to schedule your trial for a
court of record. Now, your first appearance is in a court of
record and not in a traffic court, where there is no record.
When you get into court, there will be a court reporter
there who records every word the judge speaks, so the judge is
much more careful in a court of record. You will be in a much
better situation there than in a traffic court. If there is no
record, the judge can say whatever he wants -- he can call you
all sorts of names and tell you that you have no rights, and so
on -- and deny it all later.
3. When you get into court, the judge will read the charges:
driving through a yellow light, or whatever, and this is a
violation of ordinance XYZ. He will ask, "Do you understand
the charge against you?"4
4. "Well, Your Honor, there is a question I would like to ask
before I can make a plea of innocent or guilty. I think it
could be answered if I could put the officer on the stand
for a moment and ask him a few short questions."
Judge: "I don't see why not. Let's swear the officer in
and have him take the stand."
5. "Is this the instrument that you gave me?" (handing him the
traffic citation)
Officer: "Yes, this is a copy of it. The judge has the
other portion of it."
"Where did you get my address that you wrote on that
citation."
Officer: "Well, I got it from your driver's license."
(Handing the officer your driver's license) "Is this the
document you copied my name and address from?"
Officer: "Yes, this is where I got it."
"While you've got that in your hand, would you read the
signature that's on that license?" (The officer reads the
signature) "While you're there, would you read into the
record what it says under the signature?"
Officer: "It says, 'Without Prejudice UCC 1-207'."
Judge: "Let me see that license! (He looks at it and turns
to the officer.) "You didn't notice this printing under the
signature on this license, when you copied his name and
address onto the ticket?"
Officer: "Oh, no. I was just getting the address -- I
didn't look down there."
Judge: "You're not very observant as an officer.
Therefore, I am afraid I cannot accept your testimony in
regards to the facts of this case. This case is dismissed."
6. In this case, the Judge found a convenient way out -- he
could say that the officer was not observant enough to be a
reliable witness. He did not want to admit the real nature
of the jurisdiction of his court. Once it was in the record
that you had written "Without Prejudice UCC 1-207" on your
license, the judge knew he would have to admit that:
a. you had reserved your Common Law rights under the UCC;
b. you had one it sufficiently by writing "Without
Prejudice UCC 1-207" on your driver's license;
c. the statute would now have to be read in harmony with
the Common Law, and the Common Law says the statute
exists, but there is no injured party; and
d. since there is no injured party or complaining witness,
the court has no jurisdiction under the Common Law.
7. If the judge tries to move ahead and try the facts of the
case, then you will want to ask him the following question:
Your Honor, let me understand this correctly. Has this
court made a legal determination that it has authority under
the jurisdiction that it is operating under, to ignore two
sections of the Uniform Commercial Code which have been
called to its attention?
If he says "yes," tell him that you put the court on notice that
you will appeal that legal determination, and that if you are
damaged by his actions, you will sue him in a common law action
-- under the jurisdiction of the UCC. This will work just as
well with the Internal Revenue Service. In fact, we can use the
UCC with the IRS before we get to court.
Using the Code with the IRS
If the IRS sends you a Notice of Deficiency, this is called
a "presentment" in the Uniform Commercial Code. A "presentment"
in the UCC is very similar to the Common Law. First, we must
understand just how this works in the Common Law.
Suppose I get a man's name from a phone book -- someone I
have never met. And I send him a bill or invoice on nice
letterhead which says, "For services rendered: $10,000.00." I
send this by Certified Mail to him at the address taken from the
phone book. The man has to sign for it before he can open it, so
I get a receipt that he received it. When he opens it, he finds
an invoice for $10,000 and the following statement: "If you have
any questions concerning this bill or the services rendered, you
have thirty days to make your questions or objections known."
Of course, he has never heard of me, so he just throws the
bill away and assumes that I'm confused or crazy. At the end of
thirty days, I go to court and get a default judgment against
him. He received a bill for $10,000, was given thirty days to
respond. He failed to object to it or ask any questions about
it. Now, he has defaulted on the bill and I can lawfully collect
the $10,000.
That's Common Law. The UCC works on the same principle.
The minute you get a Notice of Deficiency from the IRS, you
return it immediately with a letter that says:
The presentment above is dishonored. [Your name] has
reserved all of his/her rights under the Uniform Commercial
Code at UCC 1-207.
This should be all that is necessary, as there is nothing more
that they can do. In fact, I recently helped someone in Arizona
who received a Notice of Deficiency. The man sent a letter such
as this, dishonoring the "presentment." The IRS wrote back that
they could not make a determination at that office, but were
turning it over to the Collections Department. A letter was
attached from the Collections Department which said they were
sorry for the inconvenience they had caused him and that the
Notice of Deficiency had been withdrawn. So, you can see that,
if it is handled properly, these things are easily resolved.
Impending Bankruptcy
On my way here, I had a chance to visit with the Governor of
Wyoming. He is very concerned that if he runs for office this
November, that there won't be a State of Wyoming at the end of
four years. He believes that the International Bankers might
foreclose on the nation and officially admit that they own the
whole world. They could round up everybody in the State Capitol
building, put them in an internment camp and hold them
indefinitely. They may give them a trial, or they may not. They
will do whatever they want. As I explained earlier, it has not
been expedient to foreclose on the nation until they could get
everything ready. This is where the Federal Emergency Management
Agency comes in. It has been put in place without anyone really
noticing it.
FEMA
F E M A, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been
designed for when America is officially declared bankrupt, which
would be a national emergency. In a national emergency, all
Constitutional Rights and all law that previously existed, would
be suspended. FEMA has created large concentration camps where
they would put anyone who might cause trouble for the orderly
plan and process of the new regime to take over the nation.
Even a governor could be thrown into one of these internment
camps, and kept there indefinitely. This is all in place now,
and they are just waiting to declare a national emergency. Then,
even State governments could be dissolved. Anybody who might
oppose the new regime could be imprisoned until a new set of laws
could be written and a new government set up. The Governor knows
all this, and he is very concerned. He doesn't want to be in
office when all this happens.
I visited with him and told him that there are certain
actions we should take right now. I think we should consider the
fact that, according to the Uniform Commercial Code, Wyoming is
an accommodation party5 to the national debt. To understand
this, we must realize that there are two separate entities known
as the United States.
The Rothschild Influence
When America was founded, the Rothschilds were very unhappy
because it was founded on the Common Law. The Common Law is
based on substance, and this substance is mentioned in the
Constitution as gold or silver. America is a Constitutional
Republic -- that is, a union of the States under the
Constitution. When Congress was working for the Republic, the
only thing it could borrow was gold or silver, and the Rothschild
banks did not loan gold or silver. Naturally, they did not like
this new government.
The Rothschilds had a deal with the King of England. He
would borrow paper and agree to repay in gold. But, these united
States, with their Constitution, were an obstacle to them, and it
was much to the Rothschild's advantage to get the colonies back
under the King. So, the Rothschilds financed the War of 1812 to
bring America back under England. Of course, that didn't work,
so they had to find another way.
The Flaw in the Constitution:
Two Nations in One
It was around the time of the American Civil War that they
discovered a flaw in the Constitution. The flaw was Article 1,
Section 8, Clause 17.
Remember that there are two nations called "United States."
What is a nation? See if you would agree to this definition:
Whenever you have a governing body, having a prescribed
territory containing a body of people.
Is that a nation? Yes. We have a governing body in the Republic
-- the three-branch government. They are the legislative, the
executive, and the judicial branches, with a constitution. There
is a prescribed territory containing a body of people. This is a
Constitutional Republic.
But, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 gave Congress, which is
the legislative branch of the three-branch government, exclusive
rule over a given territory known as the District of Columbia,
containing a body of people. Here we have a nation within a
nation. This is a Legislative Democracy within a Constitutional
Republic.
When Congress was a part of the Constitutional Republic, it
had the obligation of providing a medium of exchange for us. Its
duty was to coin gold or silver. Anyone who had a piece of gold
or silver could bring it in and have it freely minted into coin.
This was the medium of exchange for the Republic.
But, in the Legislative Democracy (over Washington, D.C.),
Congress is not limited by the Constitution. Congress has
exclusive rule over the District of Columbia. The legislators
can make the law by a majority vote -- that makes it a
democracy; they have the authority to have administrative agents
to enforce their own law; and they have courts in the
legislative branch of government, to try their own law. Here, we
have the legislature making the law, enforcing the law and trying
the law, all within the one branch of government. This is a one-
branch government within a three-branch government.
Under the three-branch government, the Congress passes law
which has to be in harmony with the Constitution, the executive
enforces the law passed by the Congress, and the judiciary tries
the law, pursuant to the Constitution.
THE THREE-BRANCH CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC and the ONE-BRANCH
LEGISLATIVE DEMOCRACY are both called THE UNITED STATES. One is
the federal United States, and the other is the continental
united States.
Are You a United States Citizen?
If you say that you are a United States citizen, which
United States are you referring to? Anyone who lives in the
District of Columbia is a United States citizen. The remaining
population in the fifty States is the national citizenry of the
nation. We are domiciled in various sovereign States, protected
by the constitutions of those States from any direct rule of
Congress over us. In the democracy, anyone who lives in those
states known as Washington, D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, or any of
the other federally held territories is a citizen of the United
States (D.C.).
We must be careful with our choice of words -- we are not
citizens of the United States. We are not subject to Congress.
Congress has exclusive rule over a given territory, and we are
not part of that territory.
When did Congress get the authority to write the Internal
Revenue Code? It is found in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of
the Constitution. To pass that law, they only needed a majority
vote. There is no other way that they could pass laws directly
affecting individuals. Title 26, the Internal Revenue Code, was
passed as law for another nation (remember our definition of
"nation"), but Title 26 is not consistent with the Bill of
Rights. If you try to fight the IRS, you have no rights -- the
Code does not give you any of your constitutional rights. It
simply says, "You failed to file an income tax form. You failed
to perform in some specific manner."
Remember, under the Common Law, you are free to do whatever
you want as long as you do not infringe upon the life, liberty,
or property of anyone else. If you do not want to perform, you
don't have to. The only way you can be compelled to perform
under the Constitution in the continental United States, is if
you have entered a contract. But, if you are not under a
contract, you cannot be compelled to perform. How can you be
compelled to file an income tax form, or any form?
When Congress works for the Republic, every law it passes
must be in harmony with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
but when Congress works for the Legislative Democracy, any law it
passes becomes the law of the land. (Remember, Congress has
exclusive legislative control over federal territory.)
If you are charged with willful failure to file an income
tax 1040 form, that is a law for a different nation. You are a
nonresident alien to that nation. It is a foreign corporation to
you. It is not the Republic of the continental united States
coming after you; it is a foreign nation -- the legislative
democracy of a foreign nation coming after you.
If you get a Notice of Deficiency from the IRS, it is a
presentment from the federal United States, so then you can use
the UCC to dishonor it, and you can also mention that you are
among the national citizenry of the continental united States,
and you are a nonresident alien to the federal United States.
You never lived in a federal territory and never had an income
from the federal United States.
Furthermore, you cannot be required to file or pay taxes
under the compelled benefit of using the Federal Reserve Notes,
because you have reserved your rights under the Common Law
through the Uniform Commercial Code at 1-207.
Original Intent of the Founders
The Founding Fathers would never have created a government
that was going to boss them around! There were 13 sovereign
States. They were nations, and they joined together for
protection from foreign enemies. They provided a means by which
the union of the sovereign States could fend off foreign enemies.
But, they never gave the Congress of the federal United States
direct rule over any Citizen of any State. They were not going
to be ordered around by that government they set up.
Federal Regions
The supreme Court has declared that Congress can rule what
Congress creates. Congress did not create the States, but
Congress did create federal regions. So, Congress can rule the
federal regions, but Congress cannot rule the States. How have
we been tricked into federal regions?
The ZIP Code Trick
Remember how the government always come to us and says, "I'm
from the government and I'm here to help you." The government
went out into the various States and said, "We don't want you to
go to all that trouble of writing three or four letters to
abbreviate the name of the State -- such as 'Ariz.' for
Arizona. Just write 'AZ' instead of 'Ariz.' Or, you can just
write 'WY' for Wyoming, instead of 'Wyo.'" So, all of the States
of the union have got a new two-letter abbreviation. Even a
State such as Rhode Island has a new abbreviation. It is "RI"
instead of "R.I." They have just left off the periods. When you
use a two-letter State abbreviation, you are compelled to use a
ZIP code, because there are so many States, for example, which
start with M. ME is Maine. MI is Michigan. How many people dot
every "i" or make an "i" that looks like an "e"? With MA, MO,
MN, MS, etc., and some sloppy writing, you could not tell one
from another. So, we have to use the ZIP code in order to tell
them apart. But, if you wrote "Mich." or "Minn." or "Miss.",
there would be no real problem telling which State it was.
(continued in The UCC Connection: Free Yourself from Legal Tyranny (3/3) )
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