I came across this book HOW I CLOBBERED EVERY BUREAUCRATIC CASH-CONFISCATORY AGENCY KNOWN TO MAN by Mary Crofts, where she claims to have set up herself as a sovereign person owning the rights to herself. As such both the governments of Canada and the US have no legal grounds to impose their laws upon her. She claims that those governments are in fact liable for the debt of each of their respective citizens. This debts add up to hundreds of millions of dollars per person. Lets see if I can recreate her reasoning. No doubt I will leave something of importance out. The history here is a bit convoluted but here are some highlights.
Image via WikipediaIn 1868 The 14th Amendment created a new class of citizen. "All men" (and women) are created equal as stated in the Declaration of Independence as a sovereign now became "a person", a subject to the Federal Government.
In 1871 the Federal Government formed itself into a CORPORATION and pulled itself from under the Constitution.
In 1913 the Federal Reserve Central Banks were created; nominally under congressional review but actually owned by a conglomerate of international bankers including the Rothschilds of the Bank of England, J.P. Morgan of Chase Manhattan and the Rockefellers of National City Bank of New York, now part of Citigroup.
During the twenties with gold as the money standard most of it flowing into the US as a result of WWI and advancing technology and manufacturing. Conspiracy theory has that in order to get the gold flowing back to Europe the banking interests finagled the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
In 1933 The US Government finding itself bankrupt passed the House Joint Resolution 192 effectively declaring bankruptcy and taking the US off the Gold Standard and into a system of fiat money where the banks create what they need.as they need it,
As a result of HJR 192, and from that day forward (June 5, 1933), no one in this nation has been able to lawfully pay a debt or lawfully own anything. The only thing one can do, is tender in transfer of debts, with the debt being perpetual. The suspension of the gold standard, and prohibition against paying debts, removed the substance for our common law to operate on, and created a void as far as the law is concerned. This substance was replaced with a "PUBLIC NATIONAL CREDIT SYSTEM" where debt is "LEGAL TENDER" money.
Back to the 14th amendment "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
So if I understand this correctly the US government has agreed to transfer the debt of each citizen to itself giving each citizen unlimited credit, But that's not what happens, Here is why:
For a guy like me with no Job, no prospects and owing money this looks like a perfect solution. I jump through a few hoops such as copy writing my name, Taking control of the strawman bearing my name under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and voila! the US Government has no jurisdiction. Neither do state or local governments. Plus I get unlimited credit backed by the US Government under a process knows as redemption. So being naturally skeptical I am doing my due diligence investigating these claims.
What I have found on the web are many sites claiming they can help you through the process of reclaiming your strawman but of course their's is a convoluted process that needs to happen. If you give them whatever amount of money they ask for they will get it done. But as far as I could find no one outside these sites has actually benefited from the various processes described. In face people have been fined and jailed for even bringing the matter up in court. Here is more from Mary Crofts
However, those of us who choose to take on the responsibility of having created the world precisely the way it is and opt to take on the responsibility for changing it via the ONLY means possible - that of changing our minds and hearts from fear, dependency, irresponsibility, and blame to that of love, self-reliance, accountability, forgiveness, and Christ Consciousness will have a slightly different perception of what is actually going on. Since the Debt Game was designed for the purpose of perpetrating debt in order to control others, the Illuminati want us to continue to ‘pay for’, everything that we use, with our labour. As we ‘owe’ more, we must labour more. Since all we have of life are ‘time’ and ‘energy’, the less we have for our own purposes, then the less life we have to do what we have been created to do - create a world of the ‘happy dream’. As long as we are giving our time, energy, and lives to the corporations/ banks/ Illuminati, then the more time we are devoting to their plans - that of the nightmare. Its your life; choose. Isn’t it better to live your life under your own time, energy, and principles than to give your life to faceless, heartless corporations the plan of which is to destroy not only the lives of you and your family but also the life of our planet.
I have mixed emotions about all of this on one hand I would like it to be true especially the part about being able to own your strawman and to not be liable for any debt incurred by the strawman. But I do find it difficult to believe. Ether the government has been engaged in a vast international conspiracy and we have been the victims of piracy, or nothing that was said here matters.
My youngest brother fell into a crowd that believed something similar. He went to some meeting and the guy said things about it being illegal for the government to tax a "free man" and all sort of other stuff.
ReplyDeleteHe pay no taxes for two years and boom! The IRS swooped in and hit him with back taxes, interest, and penalties. Stupid twit came within a couple of hairs of going to prison. He worked three jobs for about four years to pay it all off.
On the surface what you write about seems like a good idea, but I soon started getting this "dirty Libertarian" or Anarcho-capitalism feel to it. They seem to think civilization would work find and dandy with everyone the lone masters of all their money and property and no government.
It's impossible to have property without governement. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteSuppose there was no such thing as government, and you were walking along a field, and came across a NO TRESPASSING sign. Would you turn around? Why? No government, no deed to the property. The person who supposedly "owns" the land can't call the police and have you evicted. If he's bigger and stronger than you, I suppose he could beat you up. But suppose you're the one that's bigger and stronger? You can beat him up. Private property is meaningless under those circumstances.
And if you believe the government should exist ONLY to protect private private property, then the people with the most property, the wealthy, get the most out of government. Remember, they're the same people who WHO BELIEVE IN SMALL GOVERNMENT. Those without private property, the poor, meanwhile live basically anarchist lives, though their anarchy is restricted to certain parts of town.
The Gold Standard? For starters, why gold? Why not silver, bronze, tin, coal? And to say the government did something illegal by going off the gold standard assumes there's a law on the books that says the government HAS to stay on such a standard. No such law exists.
Many economists think the gold standard actually CAUSED the Great Depression. Here's how. Before money, people bartered, they traded one good or service for another. Kind of inconvenient if the person whose goods you want doesn't in turn want your service. So money came into being as a stand-in. Money backed by a finate supply of gold was fine as long as goods and services remain stable, as they did for centuries. But then toward the end of the 18th century comes the Industrial Revolution. Goods and services increased dramitically. Unfortunately, noone could mine enough gold to keep up with the all those new goods and services. By the 1930s, it had reached critical mass. Going off the gold standard helped END the Great Depression.
i've known about this for years, and have yet to hear of anyone making it work. seems to me that you would have be so far off the grid, and/or under the radar, that no one would even notice that you didn't pay taxes.
ReplyDeleteand i think both things are true-vast conspiracy and nothing matters. that's what you get from a buddhist anarchist!
@Kirk, Agreed, although going off the gold standard resulted in fiat money money. Money that can just be created with a signature and a transfer of electrons from one computer to another. which is why the so called-national debt makes little sense to me. Our money is backed by our productivity working as wage slaves to pay off the national debt with taxes on the money that was created to pay our salaries.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found amusing in the littel reasearch I did is that each of these websites has a religious agenda in the form "that large sums of money will come to you in mysterious ways" Magical Thinking at its worst.
Back @Kirk: The anarchy you describe could be of several forms. It could (and usually has) result in fighting over that property but it could just as easily (and it has) result in a sharing of resources unmandated by any government. The 2nd works well when there is a plethora of resources, the first usually results from shortages. But our problems on this planet are generally not from shortages, our problems result from imperfect logistics of distribution distribution of resources.
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ReplyDeleteI wasn't trying to suggest that, minus government, we'd automatically be fight each other. What I'm saying is that if there's no government, and you attempt to RETAIN the idea of private property, then, yes, if you live near other people, then, yes, you'll be putting up your dukes a lot.
ReplyDeleteEverybody nowadays is so used to the concept of private property, that most don't realise it's an invented concept, a human construct, that doesn't exist in a state of nature. Until it was colonized, the private property didn't exist in the Americas. Until southern Africa was colonized, it didn't exist there either. Nor did it exist in Polynesia until it was colonized. Notice I'm using the word "colonize" a lot?
Inflating the money supply can decrease the national debt, and the debt, in fact, decreased during the 1970s, when inflation was high. If we have inflation in the future, then the debt will decrease again. That's not to say inflation is a good thing, only it's not neccesarily the worst thing that can happen to the economy. Inflation is relatively low at the moment, yet we're not exactly living an era of robust economic growth. Get of the income tax, ad you know what would happen? You'd just end up with a much higher sales tax, a tax that would hurt people with lower incomes that those with higher incomes (which is why people with high incomes favor such a tax). And there was just as many wage slaves, if not more, during the Gold Standard era as there are now. In fact, the term "wage slave" was coined, by Upton Sinclare, during the gold standard era. If you feel your wages, or whatever you're getting is unfairly taxed, you'll have to look elsewhere for a solution
I should have proofread much of that. "We'd automatically be fight each other" I sound like Tonto.
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