The Power to Tax is the power to destroy.

A right cannot be taxed. We have Creator endowed unalienable rights that governments are instituted among men to secure — not destroy. The power to tax is the power to destroy — this famous quote is from the U.S. Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 327 (1819).   Daniel Webster, in arguing the case, said: “An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy,”

U.S. Supreme Court in Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105 overturned a state license tax as unconstitutional:

“It could hardly be denied that a tax laid specifically on the exercise of those freedoms would be unconstitutional. Yet the license tax imposed by this ordinance is, in substance, just that.

It is a license tax — a flat tax imposed on the exercise of a privilege granted by the Bill of Rights.

A state may not impose a charge for the enjoyment of a right granted by the Federal Constitution.”

U.S. Supreme Court in Butcher’s Union v. Crescent City 111 US 746:

“The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. … to hinder his employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.”

That’s right.  Your labor is your most sacred property.  How did you waive the right to your most sacred property? I should think that an honorable man would want to know why he no longer has a right to his most sacred property. 

Those who receive not a love for the truth shall receive strong delusion that they should believe a lie.

President Jefferson, concluding his first inaugural address, March 4, 1801:

“… a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government… “

Under the U.S. Constitution, in 1798, Vice President Thomas Jefferson reassured the people of Kentucky that they were free from all federal laws, except for the three crimes mentioned in the Constitution, “and no other crimes whatever”. He went on to say:

“(and all other their acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes other than those enumerated in the Constitution) are altogether void and of no force, and that the power to create, define, and punish such other crimes is reserved, and of right appertains solely and exclusively to the respective States, each within its own Territory.”

That’s right.  People in States are free. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

A dissenting opinion in the Supreme Court case Spreckels Sugar Refining v. McClain 192 U.S. 397:

“Keeping in mind the well settled rule that the citizen is exempt from taxation unless the same is imposed by clear and unequivocal language,..”

U.S. Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 US 316:

“We find, then, on just theory, a total failure of this original right to tax the means employed by the government of the Union, for the execution of its powers. The right never existed, and the question whether it has been surrendered, cannot arise. … The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”

U.S. Supreme Court in Magnano Co. v. Hamilton 292 US 40 quoting Veazie bank:

“The power to tax may be exercised oppressively upon persons, but the responsibility of the legislature is not to the courts, but to the people by whom its members are elected.”

And no, the 16th Amendment did not change this.  The US Supreme Court in Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 US 103 (1915)

…it was settled that the provisions of the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation.”

The Stanton case is confusing. As you puzzle your way through it, don’t forget that the defendant is a mining company profiting from a federal privilege.

Unknown to me, I found out too late that the IRS was taxing my wages in order to pay the perfectly legitimate indirect tax for an underground coal mine that I did not know about — and does not exist. If you are NOT a federal employee, your IRS files will prove that YOU ARE BEING TAXED FOR A FEDERAL PRIVILEGE that you do not know about.  My story is throughout the pages of NotFooledByGovernment.com

What is the meaning of the term “militia” in the Second Amendment?

The Revolutionary War ended when the peace treaty was signed.
The people who signed the peace treaty with the British might just know more than today’s lefty pundits.  After all, they authorized the United States to exist.

The Second Amendment:

A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

Notice that it is the right of the people  — NOT the right of the militia.

The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to add further restrictions on the government.  The Bill of Rights itself says so. Many people think that rights come from government. They have been fooled. Rights do NOT come from government. Government can only take away rights. The Bill of Rights DOES NOT grant any rights. The Bill of Rights adds further restrictions on government. The bill itself (Link) stipulates its purpose:

in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added”.

Some people like to argue about the word “militia” in the Second Amendment. They argue that the right to bear arms is only for the organized militia, or that militias are government agencies with government weapons, or that the militia is only State National Guards. BUT JOHN ADAMS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON WERE THERE AND THEY NEVER HAD SUCH THOUGHTS.

DO NOT BE FOOLED

Don’t be fooled by the word “regulated” in the phrase “A well regulated militia”. It does not mean “disciplined” nor even subject to a chain of command. The word regulated means governed by rules, or “subject to governing principles”. From Latin Regula “a general rule”.

We are already regulated by “a general rule” that created government. The first sentence of Declaration of Independence states that the Law of Nature entitles government to exist. According to Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law (a law encyclopedia published in 1765 and used in the Colonies) This rule of conduct applies with equal obligation to individuals and to nations. And indeed the jura summi imperii is the force that government must obey. For all political power is vested in the people.

THE SECOND AMENDMENT MILITIA IS “WE THE PEOPLE”
Your State’s Constitution will tell you who is in the militia.  Read it.  And notice that it does not require training as some people suggest.

In the 1939 Supreme Court case U.S. v. Miller, 307 US 174, we learn what the Second Amendment was about. In order to suppress a military coup that overthrows the government, we must be able to show up on the battlefields with weapons equal to the military, in order to take back our government. If you are prohibited from buying weapons equal to the military, then perhaps you do not live in a free country — perhaps “We The People” have lost control of what we created.

JOHN ADAMS signed the peace treaty with the British

President John Adams in his October 11, 1798 letter to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of Massachusetts:

An address from the officers commanding two thousand eight hundred men, consisting of such substantial citizens as are able and willing at their own expense completely to arm and clothe themselves in handsome uniforms, does honor to that division of the militia which has done so much honor to its country.”

That’s right. Almost 7 years after the Bill of Rights, and 18 years after Massachusetts was a state (by the way, John Adams wrote the Massachusetts Constitution) the militia consisted of citizens willing to completely to arm themselves at their own expense. Don’t be fooled into believing that this has changed. The Constitution does not change. Those who swore to defend it must perpetuate it. Congress has no authority to commit mutiny.

John Adams might just know why we created a government. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He signed the Peace Treaty with Great Britain authorizing the U.S. to exist. He was U.S. Vice President, U.S. President, Ambassador to several countries, primary author of the Massachusetts Constitution, and former Governor of Massachusetts.

Thomas Jefferson also signed the peace treaty with the British

Thomas Jefferson in his “Legal Commonplace Book” quoting a passage is from Cesare Beccaria’s Essay on Crimes and Punishments, originally published in Italian in 1764:

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one.”

Jefferson owned a copy of Beccaria’s treatise in the original Italian. He later purchased an English translation, published in London in 1809, which was sold to the Library of Congress (Sowerby, Entry 2349, 3:21).

JAMES MADISON

Federalist Paper 46 makes it clear that the militia must be able to overthrow a military coup.

“Extravagant as the supposition is, let it however be made. Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. And it is not certain, that with this aid alone they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the people to possess the additional advantages of local governments chosen by themselves, who could collect the national will and direct the national force, and of officers appointed out of the militia, by these governments, and attached both to them and to the militia, it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it.”

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The three things that are abhorrent to the U.S. Supreme Court.

There are only three things that are abhorrent in the USA according to the U.S. Supreme Court: Identification Credentials, forced oaths, and forced confessions.

Do not be fooled into thinking that these things are required by the same government that proclaims them to be abhorrent.

By the way, a signature under penalty of perjury is a forced oath. A forced perjury oath.

Identification Credentials

US Supreme Court Aptheker v. Secretary of State, 378 U.S. 500 (1964):

“Free movement by the citizen is of course as dangerous to a tyrant as free expression of ideas or the right of assembly and it is therefore controlled in most countries in the interests of security. … That is why the ticketing of people and the use of identification papers are routine matters under totalitarian regimes, yet abhorrent in the United States…

Freedom of movement, at home and abroad, is important for job and business opportunities – for cultural, [378 U.S. 500, 520] political, and social activities – for all the commingling which gregarious man enjoys. Those with the right of free movement use it at times for mischievous purposes. But that is true of many liberties we enjoy. We nevertheless place our faith in them, and against restraint, knowing that the risk of abusing liberty so as to give rise to punishable conduct is part of the price we pay for this free society. ..

Freedom of movement is kin to the right of assembly and to the right of association. These rights may not be abridged, …”

… Absent war, I see no way to keep a citizen from traveling within or without the country, unless there is power to detain him. Ex parte Endo, 323 U.S. 283 . And no authority to detain exists except under extreme conditions, e. g., unless he has been convicted of a crime or unless there is probable cause for issuing a warrant of arrest by standards of the Fourth Amendment. This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful – knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, …”

U.S. Supreme Court in Florida v. Bostick, 501 US 429, quoted part of an Arizona case Ekstrom v. Justice Court, 136 Ariz. 1: Here is the more complete quote:

The issue here, therefore, is whether the fourth amendment permits officers to stop and question persons whose conduct is innocent, unremarkable and free from suspicion. The question has frightening implications. The thought that an American can be compelled to “show his papers” before exercising his right to walk the streets, drive the highways or board the trains is repugnant to American institutions and ideals.”

By the way, the 1803 Supreme Court decision Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137, determined that the elected officers in Washington DC could not be issued government credentials proving who they were.

That’s right! They could not be issued any stinking government badges.  Maybe you can take your case up to the Supreme Court and get Marbury v. Madison overturned. But you want it overturned for a different reason than the lawyers expect — the Marbury case was also used to justify the groundless theory that judges can interpret the law.

Compelled testimony

Back in 1956 the Supreme Court determined in Ullmann v. United States, 350 U.S. 422 that punishments like loss of a job, or ineligibility for a passport are penalties for criminal acts, and now the same punishments are automatic until you are compelled to deny religious liberty.

“The forfeiture of property on compelled testimony is no more abhorrent than the forfeiture of rights of citizenship. Any forfeiture of rights as a result of compelled testimony is at war with the Fifth Amendment.
”The Court apparently distinguishes the Boyd case on the ground that the forfeiture of property was a penalty affixed to a criminal act. The loss of a job and the ineligibility for a passport are also penalties affixed to a criminal act.

In 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court in Boyd v. United States, 116 US 616, at page 632 explained that

any compulsory discovery by extorting the party’s oath… is contrary to the principles of a free government … it is abhorrent to the instincts of an American. It may suit the purposes of despotic power, but it cannot abide the pure atmosphere of political liberty and personal freedom.”

Oaths

In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court’s Miranda v. Arizona decision, 384 U.S. 436 at page 459, acknowledged that Miranda’s famous right to remain silent comes from a long history of resistance to oaths.

In the student flag salute case Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 US 624, The Supreme Court said that:

“Such a statutory exaction is a form of test oath, and the test oath has always been abhorrent in the United States.”

The U.S Supreme Court in Girouard v. U.S., 328 U.S. 61 (1946):

The victory for freedom of thought recorded in our Bill of Rights recognizes that in the domain of conscience there is a moral power higher than the State. Throughout the ages men have suffered death rather than subordinate their allegiance to God to the authority of the State.” …

“[t]he test oath is abhorrent to our tradition.”

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These abhorrent themes are the basis for most of my content on NotFooledByGovernment.com

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I will leave you with these thoughts.

May you learn about the enemy within, and relearn liberty.  And maybe you will find out why you tolerate the abhorrent.

US Supreme Court, Laird v. Tatum, 408 US 1, page 28:

This case involves a cancer in our body politic. It is a measure of the disease which afflicts us. … Those who already walk submissively will say there is no cause for alarm. But submissiveness is not our heritage. The First Amendment was designed to allow rebellion to remain as our heritage. The Constitution was designed to keep the government off the backs of the people. … The Bill of Rights was designed to keep agents of government and official eavesdroppers away from assemblies of people. The aim was to allow men to be free and independent and to assert their rights against government. … When an intelligence officer looks over every nonconformist’s shoulder… the America once extolled as the voice of liberty heard around the world no longer is cast in the image which Jefferson and Madison designed, but more in the Russian image …”

U.S. Supreme Court in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, at page 485:

“In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that, in the administration of the criminal law, the end justifies the means — to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal — would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this Court should resolutely set its face

[Footnote 3] In re Pacific Railway Commission, 32 F. 241, 250, “of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from the inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.”

JAMES MADISON, speech in the Virginia Convention, June 6, 1788:

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

Dissenting Opinion in Robertson v. Department of Public Works 180 Wash 133, 39 P2d 596 (1934)
Complete freedom of the highways is so old and well established a blessing that we have forgotten the days of the “Robber Barons” and toll roads, and yet, under an act like this, arbitrarily administered, the highways may be completely monopolized. If, through lack of interest, the people submit, then they may look to see the most sacred of their liberties taken from them one by one by more or less rapid encroachment.”
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FOOTNOTE

* Well after the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, which lawyers insist is the “proof” of judicial authority, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Mr. Jarvis dated September 25, 1820 to refute this emerging dangerous doctrine: “To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. … their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible as the other functionaries are, to the selective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that, to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.”

Gold Fringed Flag Facts.

There are too many rumors about the gold fringed flag that flies in every courtroom1 that you are dragged into.

  • The U.S. flag is defined by law. The flag law is codified in Title Four of the United States Code. It does not have a yellow fringe.
  • When you are in a courtroom do you see a U.S. flag attached to a wall? A flag on the wall is attached to the real estate and appurtenant thereto. It is part of the land.
  • When you are in a courtroom do you see a U.S. flag with yellow fringe, not attached to a wall, but on a pole planted by dismounted troops? If so you have been given actual notice that you are under martial law. The citizen cannot complain because he has voluntarily submitted himself to such a form of government.

Here is the verifiable fact, from rock-solid sources.

The yellow fringe flag is a military2 flag. Understand the deceptions and do not be fooled3.

Many people assume that the military flag in courts is proof of Executive control over the court, but not Congressional control over the courts.  If you need to see more proof of Congressional Control of courts, read my post Martial Law Takeover of Courts.

Gold fringe American Flag

You have lived under martial law rule ever since the Civil War.  There are four levels of Martial Law: Military law, Military government, martial law proper, and martial law rule.
(see U.S. Supreme Court Luther v. Borden, 48 US 1 for the first three, then martial law rule was necessary for the 8 Amendments that specify, within the amendment, that Congress to enforce. Congress must enforce them because they are contrary to States’ common law, even if they are contrary to State Constitutions.   The separation of powers prevent Legislative power from control over the Judicial power except for the Constitutional checks-and-balances.)
Most Martial Law information on the internet is limited only to suspension of Habeas Corpus. Such as Martial law in the United States – Wikipedia but do not mention Martial Law Rule. The U.S. Constitution gives the President, alone, authority to declare Martial Law, even without Congress (just like Lincoln did). But only Congress can suspend Habeas Corpus. There can be martial law without suspension of Habeas Corpus.
In the U.S. Constitution, Judicial Courts are established by Congress from time to time (Article 3, section 1), whereas Legislative Tribunals are constituted (Article 1, section 8).
You will only see a gold fringed flag in a Legislative Tribunal, even if it calls itself a court.  “Courts” that are controlled by such things as a statute of limitations, or legislated minimum sentencing policies, are not judicial. Courts that fly the gold fringed flag are responsible for giving 14th Amendment citizens the six rights allowed by law. (see 42 USC 1981 for the six rights.  These are from the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871 enacted by Congress three years after the 14th Amendment).
That’s right.  When you decided that you didn’t want the thousands of unalienable rights that government was instituted among men to secure, you were given six rights.   Welcome to your Novus Ordo Seclorum secular new world order.

In my article on Martial Law, you will find out HOW TO RECOGNIZE MARTIAL LAW WHEN YOU SEE IT.  With more proof than you can tolerate.

  • The laws of Congress in Title 4 United States Code section 1 describe a United States Flag. There is no mention of yellow fringe. The national flag when representing the national civil jurisdiction has no yellow fringe on its borders.
  • A yellow fringe on a U.S. flag is in violation of Title 36, section 176(g).
  • But under martial law, the yellow fringe is required.

The 1925 Attorney General Opinion 34 OP ATTY GEN 483:

“The placing of the fringe on the national flag, the dimensions of the flag and arrangement of the stars in the union are matters of detail not controlled by statute, but are with the discretion of the President as Commander and Chief of the Army and Navy.”
“Ancient custom sanctions the use of fringe on the regimental colors and standards, but there seems to be no good reason or precedent for its use on other flags.” The Adjutant General of the Army, March 28, 1924.

1959 President Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10834 as originally published in Federal Register at 24 FR 6865 specifies a U.S. flag without a Fringe border.

Army Regulation AR840-10, 1 October 1979 requires fringe to be used on their flags.

“2-3. Sizes and occasions for display,

b. national flags listed below are for indoor display and for use in ceremonies and parades. For these purposes the United States flag will be rayon banner cloth, trimmed on three sides with golden fringe, 2 1/2 inches wide. It will be the same size as the flags displayed or carried with it.

c. Authorization for indoor display.

(4) each military courtroom.

The display of yellow fringe is prohibited outside the federal military jurisdiction, according to Army Regulation AR840-10 1-c(4) and 1-6e(3).

“1-6 Restrictions. The following limitations and prohibitions are applicable to flags, guidons, streamers, and components.
e. Unauthorized use of official flags, guidons, and streamers or replicas thereof, including those presently or formerly carried by US Army units, by other than the office, individual, or organization for which authorized, is prohibited except as indicated in (3) below.
(3) Recognized United States Army Division associations…”

States must protect you from the Gold Fringed federal tribunals.

“even in time of war, if the civil courts are open”

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FOOTNOTES

1.  Legislative Tribunals are constituted by Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution.  Whereas Judicial Courts are established by Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Don’t be fooled by legislative tribunals calling themselves courts.
A judicial court is authorized to exist if your Constitution authorizes it under the Judicial Article.  According to the language of the U.S. Constitution, Judicial courts are established.  Legislative tribunals are not established, they are constituted. Your state Constitution will be similar. It takes an Act of Congress to bring a legislative tribunal into existence.  Do not be fooled that they are called courts.
There is no Act of Congress before 1948 naming any Court “The United States District Court”, or “The United States Circuit Court of Appeals”. These two Courts did not exist before 1948.  They are NOT established by the Article III judicial branch of the U.S. government.  In 1948 Congress enacted Title 28 USC into Positive Law.  This title creates courts that do not possess the judicial power of the United States.  They can be delegated legislative authority only, because the Constitution did not establish them.  They can only possess legislative authority, because the legislature does not have any judicial authority to delegate to them. (such as Military jurisdiction — Again, a judicial court is established if the Constitution authorizes it under the Judicial Article).  They can possess the Military jurisdiction that the eight martial law amendments that specifically state that the amendment “shall be enforced by Congress”.  These two courts were created by statute  — Title 28 US Code. Before 1948 it was impossible for these two Courts to exist. Again: Article 1, section 8 authorizes Congress “To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court”. Legislative tribunals are not judicial courts.

2.  If you were observant, you would notice that the Martial Law Amendments (13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26) have words within the Amendments themselves that Congress shall enforce them.  They are NOT self-enforcing as the Supreme Law of The Land that judges in every state would be bound thereby (Article 6 second paragraph).  Congress enforces them even if they  violate State Constitutions.

YES, you are under martial law.  According to Senate Report 93-549, written in 1973:

Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and control the lives of all American citizens”

3. Under the U.S. Constitution, in 1798, Vice President Thomas Jefferson reassured the people of Kentucky that they were free from all federal laws, except for the three crimes mentioned in the Constitution, “and no other crimes whatever”. He went on to say

“(and all other their acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes other than those enumerated in the Constitution) are altogether void and of no force, and that the power to create, define, and punish such other crimes is reserved, and of right appertains solely and exclusively to the respective States, each within its own Territory.”

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Why do we need governments?

We do NOT need governments. We can live by the law of nature. We did not have a centralized government for the first ten books of the Bible.

The first sentence of the Declaration of Independence tells us that the laws of nature entitles the United States to exist.

There is even a legal maxim that reverts us to the laws of nature:

 Legibus sumptis desinentibus, lege naturae utendum est. When laws of the state fail, we must resort to the laws of nature.

This principle was still valid when Abraham Lincoln made his First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861:

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”

Does that sound like Lincoln expected us to obey government powers because they are somehow ordained of God to be higher powers? Did Lincoln’s words go over your head? Perhaps you are so blinded by the god of this age (2 Corinthians 4:4) that you don’t understand why a president would speak of overthrowing government.

If you don’t understand why a president would speak of overthrowing government then you don’t understand authority. Abe knew where his authority came from. We The People are the jura summi imperii that created a limited government (limited to the 18 things we delegated to them). The blessing of Liberty was once secured to us posterity. The posterity of We The People are responsible for controlling the creature they inherited.

Government is an offspring* of society’s free will. Unfortunately, we did not control our creature. If society cannot obey it’s creator, don’t expect its creature to obey theirs. (there is mutiny all the way down the chain of command).
* a falling away has revealed a mankind (Greek anthropos) of perdition, the offspring of perdition/destruction.

We did not have a civil government for the first 10 books of the Bible. We did not need one then, and we do not need one now.

  • The God of the Bible consistently set men free. Abraham delivered us from Babylon. Moses delivered us from Pharaoh. Christ delivered us from Caesar.
  • Galatians 5:1 (KJV) “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
  • Second Corinthians 6:17 (KJV) Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
  • Revelation 18:4 (KJV) And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
  • Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods.

Paul tells us in Romans 13 that we are to obey [lawful] authority, and all [lawful] authority comes from God. He did not tell us to obey unlawful authority, which he specifically excluded in verse 3. Paul did not change his mind when he told us he would not be brought under the power of any, in First Corinthians 6:12.
Peter — the apostle who told us to obey God not man in Acts 5:29 — told Christians to submit to government in order to silence the ignorance of foolish men. (First Peter 2:15) and then in verse 16– not use your impunity from the law as a cloak of maliciousness.

The King James Bible is a government published Bible. Published in 1611 by the British government who also had executed Tynndale in 1536 for translating the Bible into English.  In 1611 the King James government published their revised version of the Bible. Shortly thereafter Pilgrims fled from the King James government and brought forth on another continent a new nation conceived in liberty. They did not bring the King James Bible to America. They brought the Geneva Bible. We rejected the nonsense that the definition of authority in Romans 13:1 refers to obeying civil government authority.

Steven Miller originally answered Jan 12, 2018

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How much is your Liberty worth?

It was once said that the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance. John Philpot Curran, July 10, 1790:

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime.”

Now that we have lost our liberty, what are the damages to you if you are innocent of any crime but detained, handcuffed or questioned and then released?
Damages to your liberty
When Tampa, Florida police detained Mr. Trezevant in 1984 for 23 minutes, he sued for $25,000.
Trezevant v. Tampa, 741 F.2d 336, determined that damages to liberty in 1984, accrued at a rate of more than $1000 per minute, which is more than 1½ million dollars per day.
That was in 1984 dollars, be sure to adjust your damages for inflation.
As you consider the damage to your own liberty, remember that you have equal protection of the law.
• As was the case in Trezevant, there is no requirement that there be an arrest
• As was the case in Trezevant, official policy or custom is the “moving force of the constitutional violation”
• As was the case in Trezevant, governments are liable for any unconstitutional deprivation of liberty caused by government “custom” even if such custom has not received formal approval through governing body’s official decision making channels
• As was the case in Trezevant, there is no requirement that the policy itself be unlawful
• Your State’s definition of Kidnapping does not require any element of physical restraint, nor does your State definition of “Unlawful imprisonment”.  Both are violations of liberty.
• As in Trezevant, such award is not excessive.
• And as in Trezevant, such award is compensatory not punitive.  To compensate for your loss of liberty, not to punish police behavior.
But Liberty is so much more than physical restraint.

US Supreme Court in Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 US 390, 399: The term Liberty

“… denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, to establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his/her own conscience… the established doctrine is that this liberty may not be interfered with under the guise of protecting public interest, by legislative action which is arbitrary or without reasonable relation to some purpose within the competency of the state to effect.”

Are you denied the right to contract, engage in any common occupation, acquire knowledge, marry, bring up children, worship God?

What better way to eliminate corrupt officers than to collect damages from their bond?

If you want a good online law course that explains procedures and rules showing how our courts work, I recommend this self-help course: How To Win In Court.

I also recommend RuleOfLawRadio.com

Jefferson’s definition of “liberty” and “republic”

Jefferson authored the Declaration of Independence.  He was one of the delegates sent to negotiate the peace treaty with the British.  He was there when your government was created.

Perhaps he knew more about the purpose of government than today’s pundits claim to know.

If his definitions are different than what the Constitution intended, then his acts on behalf of government were  fraudulently extorted for some other purpose.

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April 1819:

 I will however essay the two definitions which you say are more particularly interesting at present: I mean those of the terms liberty & Republic, aware however that they have been so multifariously applied as to convey no precise idea to the mind. Of Liberty then I would say that, in the whole plenitude of it’s extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will: but rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within the limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’; because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. I will add secondly that a pure republic is a state of society in which every member, of mature and sound mind, has an equal right of participation, personally, in the direction of the affairs of the society. Such a regimen is obviously impracticable beyond the limits of an encampment, or of a very small village—when numbers, distance, or force, oblige them to act by deputy, then their government continues republican in proportion only as the functions they still exercise in person, are more or fewer, and as in those exercised by deputy the right of appointing their deputy is pro hâc vice only, or for more or fewer purposes, or for shorter or longer terms.

You do not have liberty.

You do not have a republic.

If you do nothing to free yourself, you will suffer the consequences.

Why is democracy considered the best form of government?

Why is democracy considered the best form of government?
Originally answered Jan 5, 2019 by Steven Miller

Your question is entirely wrong. Democracy has always been the worst form of government. Here is all the proof you need to reform your thinking.

The U.S. Constitution does not contain the word DEMOCRACY because democracy has no place in America. You have no right to dominate others. Others have very limited right to dominate you.

In a democracy, a majority votes to force their will on others. But in a nation where everyone is created equal, those who know right from wrong will never covet their neighbors’ wealth, will not plunder the innocent, will not exercise dominion over others.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Any political party that seeks to dominate others is evil. Don’t send your benefactors out to take money (taxes) from your neighbors. The Constitution controls government, not people. Anyone who participates in an election agrees to the outcome, regardless of how abhorrent. Don’t dominate others. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. Using force (the force of law) to bleed your neighbors dry is evil. Using the force of law to regulate your neighbors out of business is evil.

In a republic, everyone has rights. Your Constitution guaranteed you a republican form of government. In a democracy, the misguided mobocracy forces their will on the minority. The word “Republic” comes from the Latin idiom `Libera res publica’, which means “free from things public”.

HISTORY

Bouvier’s 1870 Law Dictionary, Vol 1, page 13: “The term republic, res publica, signifies the state independently of its form of government.”

Frederic Bastiat in Economic Sophisms, Second Series, Chapter 1, The Physiology of Plunder, 1845:

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in a society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”

Alexander Hamilton:

“We are a Republic. Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”

James Madison, 1787, Federalist Paper #10:

“Democracy is the most vile form of government … democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretical politicians who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions”

Of course democracies are “spectacles of turbulence and contention.” They are only for those who would take the risk of loosing their rights in exchange for the chance to dominate others.

Patrick Henry:

“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.”

Fisher Ames, who was the author of the words of the First Amendment, said:

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.”

John Adams, 1815:

“Democracy … while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

“Between a balanced Republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

When we were convinced that it was no longer a sin to desire benefits at the expense of our neighbor “Faith, Hope, and Charity began to flee out of our Church”. [The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards, The First Conclusion.]

Each man becomes a new tyrant to freedom and liberty, rejecting God and cursing our children with debt and teaching them to “receive the reward of unrighteousness… with covetous practices, cursed children”. — Second Peter 2:13-14

Greek Historian Polybius The Histories Book 6, section 9:

“But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch.

“A simple democracy is the devil’s own government.” 1,2 This must have been a popular saying. This quote is often attributed to several American patriots. Most often to Benjamin Rush, or Jedidiah Morse (the “father of American Geography”), but it was actually written by a Presbyterian pastor.
[1.] L.H. Butterfield, ed., The Letters of Benjamin Rush, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951), 454, quoting John Joachim Zubly, Presbyterian pastor and delegate to Congress, in a letter to David Ramsay in March or April 1788.
[2.] William Elder, Questions of the Day, (Philadelphia: Henry Baird publisher, 1871) page 175, attributes the quote to Thomas Jefferson.

A CANCER SORE WHICH EATS TO THE HEART OF THE CONSTITUTION
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787. Thomas Jefferson. In the paragraph starting at the bottom of page 290:

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. … The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

[Venality is the condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption. The use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. The American Heritage Dictionary]
Why would he mention subservience?

SUBSERVIENCE.
Actions speak louder than words. You are a slave to whom you obey. (Romans 6:16). Once you salute your new master you have acknowledged that you are the inferior, no longer equal.

Welcome to your Novus Ordo Seclorum secular new world order.

The words ballot and bullet are etymologically the same word. You have no right to dominate others with a ballot, or a bullet. Both are just as evil. We are endowed by our Creator with a free will. You had no respect for the rights of others. By registering to vote, you declare that you want a chance to dominate others. You got what you wanted. You consented to be governed. You wanted a system of domination. By registering to vote, you consented to the outcome. Again: you got what you wanted. You have no right to complain.

YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED

Do you have a God-given right to be protected against the consequences of your acts? Do you have a right to be protected against God’s discipline? Which god protects you?
Maxim of Law: Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. He has invited what has come, and he must accept it.

The Supreme Court in U.S. v Cruikshank case, 92 U.S. at 551:

“It is the natural consequence of a citizenship which owes allegiance to two sovereignties, and claims protection from both. The citizen cannot complain, because he has voluntarily submitted himself to such a form of government.”

In a democracy, which we have had since 1933, you can vote to plunder others and demand benefits. You too can exercise your democratic rights to persecute others. But, you must suffer the consequences.
You have a right to create any kind of political system, But, this time, you delegated to your servants a power to create gods/saviors/benefactors to provide for you, protect you and lord over you. Isn’t this the essence of creating (graven) false images of a god to be worshiped?
Every voter has agreed to abide by the outcome of the election, even if he finds it abhorrent. Governments’ derive their powers from the consent of the governed. You have consented to be governed. So you’ve agreed, by registering to vote, that any misguided majority determines your moral values. Even the Supreme Court (92 US@551) said: “The citizen cannot complain, because he has voluntarily submitted himself to such a form of government.” Registered voters consent to be taxed. Conversely, there would be no taxation without representation. Memorize this legal maxim: “He who consents to an act is not damaged by it.” Did your government school teach this?

[a classic argument for Christians to not participate in society is Leo Tolstoy’s What I Believe published in Russia in 1884.]
If you are a registered voter, you have consented to the results of the election. If an election passed a bond issue, then you agreed to have a lien on your property until the bond is paid, even if you didn’t vote.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Those with a conflict of interest will insist on dominating their neighbors.
`Conflict of interest’ is legal terminology for those who can influence a government decision to enrich themselves. This is not limited to Elected Officials or civil servants. Welfare partakers are, by voting, also influencing government to receive their check. Anyone who receives a government check, be it a paycheck or an entitlement check has a conflict of interest that prohibits them from voting. Voting becomes, for them, a government granted privilege that can be revoked at any time. On the other hand, Government’s sovereign masters have a right to control their servants. Jura Summi Imperii.

You are no longer in a Republic. Prove it to yourself. Ask yourself some questions: Can a majority of Congressmen, and a judge now conspire to take all your rights from you? Can a city government prohibit you from owning a dog unless you first beg for permission and pay a fee? Can you repair your front porch without begging for permit and paying a fee?
Democracy cannot be considered as a form of government. Although it starts as a form of government, it quickly dissolves into corruption. The moment a politician makes a promise, is the moment democracy ceases to be a form of government. To use a public office to grant favors to those who elect you is corruption. It is the very definition of corruption. Go look it up in a law dictionary. DEMOCRACY IS CORRUPTION. According to John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government section 222 the use of a public office to influence your electors will “cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security…”

Ben Franklin, closing speech at the Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787:

“I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other.”

The LORD Himself warned you in First Samuel 8:5-17 that government will tax, tax and tax until you cannot stand it (and back then it was just 10%). You were warned that your elected king would take, take, take until society collectively wants God back into their life, but God will not answer your prayers (God honored your free-will, you got what you wanted, stop complaining). First Samuel 8:18 “And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.”

Socialists always run out of other people’s money. Socialist bullies gang up to force their will on you. We called it fascism. They cannot use a Republic.

Government exists to secure the blessings of liberty. Don’t claim to live in a free country if you have never seen liberty.

For more information on how you lost your rights, read my book The Citizen Cannot Complain.

What is the best way to change someone’s political views?

Political views have killed more people in history than any other disease.  Defend truth rather than try to change your enemies.

Thomas Jefferson had a good suggestion:

“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. For ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.”
–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 30 July, 1816

Don’t waste your life casting pearls before swine.

The Apostle Paul also had  a good suggestion in his letter to Ephesians:

have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

Every Law Dictionary will tell you that: Contra principia negantem non est disputandum. There can be no debate with one who denies fundamentals.

Many people cannot understand the ways of God.

  • Romans 8:7 – Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • The Almighty Himself gives them over to reprobate minds according to Romans 1:28. Without understanding, arrogant, inventing ways of doing evil, senseless, faithless. And yes, ruthless.
  • 2 Timothy 3:7 ever learning but never arriving at a knowledge of the truth
  • Proverbs 1:7 (KJV) fools despise wisdom and instruction.

But you have a duty to engage them in some small way. You may be their only inspiration to accept eternal salvation according to Second Timothy 2:23 to 3:7- (NKJV):

“But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! … always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

My suggestion is to refer them to my free essays at NotFooledByGovernment.com

Steven Miller · Originally answered Jan 13, 2019

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Food disparagement laws.

Are you a terrorist?  If you criticize the food industry, the answer is yes. The food disparagement laws work with the Patriot Act to put food critics through the Just-Us (Justice) grinder.

Back when we had a constitutional government, the ONLY food law was “In all contracts for the sale of provisions there is an implied contract that they shall be wholesome.”  It was then up to a jury to determine the facts.

But now everything is illegal.  How did this happen?  Let’s take a closer look.

The regulated U.S. food industry IS NOT ABOUT providing you with wholesome foods.
The U.S. FDA allows 1,452 food additives and an additional 47 color additives. Not including the USDA additives. While the European Union allows only 12 additives.

Telling the truth about the food industry is now a crime.  Since I am not a medical doctor, it was already a crime for me to tell you that eating citrus can prevent scurvy, or drinking a glass of water may help prevent dehydration.  But the food disparagement laws take these crimes to a new level. It is now the crime of terrorism if your true statement disrupts the food industry.  Link: https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/disparagement-law-the-patriot-act-and-the-food-industry-44263

It might even be a crime for me to tell you that if you eat the typical American diet, you will die a typical American death.

INJUSTICE

Before the Patriot Act existed, Oprah was put through the grinder when she told her audience that she would not eat a hamburger.

And since environmental regulations require most seafood to now be imported, guess what happens when you import Lobster tails, while obeying all known laws. You go to prison . This was also mentioned in John Stossel’s video Everything is Illegal.

Now that environmental regulations regulate hard working fishermen out of business, they can do it to you. Just like they forced family farmers out of business. Just like they forced factories out of the country.  Speak up now while you have a chance. Communism must have government control of the means of production. They already control most of your food supplies and your congress.

Foreign ownership of U.S. farms has skyrocketed in the past two years. Because we are no longer allowed to take care of ourselves, the U.S. has now become the world’s largest debtor. China is our largest creditor, and China will start rationing our food.

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  • I don’t have an essay on Genetically Modified food, but here is a movie that explains the controversy. Here.
  • NaturalNews.com has news you can use.  It is banned as fake news by the mainstream media.
  • The book Three Felonies a Day by attorney Silverglate documents that there are so many laws —  the average “law abiding” American now commits three felonies a day
  • And a book One Nation Under Arrest by Paul Rosenzweig explains why everything is now illegal.
  • And a book Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything by Gene Healy.
  • When They Come For You by David Kirby
  • John Stossel essay Everything is Illegal.
  • Due Process when everything is illegal. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2203713
  • http://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/11/04/david-barton-explains-how-you-could-be-committing-three-felonies-a-day
  • www.mic.com/articles/86797/8-ways-we-regularly-commit-felonies-without-realizing-it
  • John Stossel’s investigative report proves that it takes a minimum of 65 days to start a lemonade stand.
  • https://www.hg.org/legal-articles/disparagement-law-the-patriot-act-and-the-food-industry-44263

Oprah was able to hire enough lawyers to defend herself against the cattlemen’s predators. She won her six week trial .  If you are an unfortunate victim, you may also be interested in How To Win In Court” self-help course. Learn the procedures and practices that run American courts. If you do not know how to defend your rights in their courts, you will lose.

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