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The Register - biometric monitoring enhances privacy (yeah right)
by Jim Choate 10 Mar '01

10 Mar '01

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/17496.html -- ____________________________________________________________________ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. Locke The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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by Cheap Tickets 10 Mar '01

10 Mar '01

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Direct Response TV Info Request
by American Telemedia, Inc. 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

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. We are now working on projects that will be on air during the Christmas Shopping Season. Looking forward to your prompt reply. Sincerely Yours, Rich Ralston, Product Director, American Telemedia, Inc. directresponsetv(a)onebox.com If your received this message in error and did not optin for FREE ADVERTISING Please click here: cleannmachine(a)yahoo.com and enter remove in the subject line. ATI is testing a new Web initative and we are still working the bugs out. Thank You Very Much

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Direct Response TV Info Request
by American Telemedia, Inc. 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

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. We are now working on projects that will be on air during the Christmas Shopping Season. Looking forward to your prompt reply. Sincerely Yours, Rich Ralston, Product Director, American Telemedia, Inc. directresponsetv(a)onebox.com If your received this message in error and did not optin for FREE ADVERTISING Please click here: cleannmachine(a)yahoo.com and enter remove in the subject line. ATI is testing a new Web initative and we are still working the bugs out. Thank You Very Much

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Direct Response TV Info Request
by American Telemedia, Inc. 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

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. We are now working on projects that will be on air during the Christmas Shopping Season. Looking forward to your prompt reply. Sincerely Yours, Rich Ralston, Product Director, American Telemedia, Inc. directresponsetv(a)onebox.com If your received this message in error and did not optin for FREE ADVERTISING Please click here: cleannmachine(a)yahoo.com and enter remove in the subject line. ATI is testing a new Web initative and we are still working the bugs out. Thank You Very Much

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Export of PDF Decryption code (fwd)
by Jim Choate 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

____________________________________________________________________ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. Locke The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- -------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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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Stocknight- After Market Edition
by Stocknight ListServer 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

[Stocknight.com] [Image] [Image] 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 bargain-oriented right now. They believe in some sort of comeback by the end of this year so if you believe in that, you have to like stocks at these prices." We'll see on Monday as earnings statements continue to be released. Breaking News [Image] At StockNight we prefer to publish news in our Breaking News section that truly is "Hot off the Press." When at all possible we try and work with news that has been released after the marker's close or late in the trading day. Today, at roughly 22 minutes after Friday's market close Saf-T-Hammer (otcbb: SAFH) issued a statement that many of our readers will undoubtedly find interesting given the tragic school shooting of this week. Here is part of the release: 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 school shooting in San Diego tragically brought the issue to the nation's attention again.'' The ``Child Safety Lock Act of 2001'' reintroduced into the Senate last week under Senate Bill S 436, calls for safer keeping of firearms including the requirement of child handgun safety locks included in every sale and transfer of a handgun. ``All firearm owners, most of whom act extremely responsibly, have an obligation to store and secure their firearms in a manner to prevent unauthorized access,'' said Scott. ``The gun safety locks manufactured by our company have proven to be effective, inexpensive and easy to use.'' The bill would be an amendment to chapter 44 of title 18, U.S. Code and is co-sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. Jon Corzine, 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 locks with guns. In addition, according to public reports from last year's campaign, President Bush indicated he supports the idea of mandatory child safety locks and would sign a bill that required the sale of a child safety lock with all new handguns. Attorney General Ashcroft confirmed the Bush administration supports the mandatory sale of child safety locks during his Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year. Each year, teenagers and children are involved in more than 10,000 accidental 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. Please click here to read the remainder of this release: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010309/0231.html Disclaimer: StockNight.com is owned by Integrity Media Inc. (IMI) and associated with Market Pathways Financial Relations Incorporated (MP). 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Cypherpunk Fiction
by Ray Dillinger 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

"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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The UCC Connection: Free Yourself from Legal Tyranny (3/3)
by ubik_heisenberg＠freedom.net 09 Mar '01

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." # # # Return to Table of Contents for Howard Freeman ________________________________________________________________________ Protect your privacy! - Get Freedom 2.0 at http://www.freedom.net

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The UCC Connection: Free Yourself from Legal Tyranny (2/3)
by ubik_heisenberg＠freedom.net 09 Mar '01

09 Mar '01

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) ) ________________________________________________________________________ Protect your privacy! - Get Freedom 2.0 at http://www.freedom.net

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