Sympathy for the Minarchist...

Sympathy for the Minarchist
Dec 2007

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm your average minarchist
The state is force but I'll say you can
Put a glove around the fist

I was around when Socrates
First used logic to debate
Made damn sure 'democracy'
Drowned his words and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
I'm sure you know my name
But what's puzzling me
Is why you play my game

In Roman times new liberty
Bought the wealth that set men free
They overthrew their overlords
And almost lived without a fee

I whispered soft
"You need the state"
Bought 'democracy'
With false currency

Pleased to meet you
Sure you know my name
But what's puzzling me
Is why you play my game

I watched in fear
When America
Overthrew a peer
For a taxless state

I shouted out
"Who'll make the roads you need?"
You stood and stared
And the state was saved

Let me please introduce myself
I'm your average minarchist
And I lay traps for anarchists
Who get stalled before they reach the truth

Pleased to meet you
I'm sure you know my name
But what's puzzling me
Is just why you play my game

Just as every state is false anarchy
And statelessness is peace
The state protects
What it pillages
And it just can't be restrained

So if you meet me
I will lie to you
'bout the roads, defense and schools
Use all your well-learned UPB
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah

Sleight of Hand

by FranG

Who created this circle of time, and the coordinates thereof? Where was his hands?
Who made the day, and placed us in the light that we’re aware of? Where was his hands?
Who made the night, that we may long for the day? Where was his hands?
Who made the sun and moon, and the stars we marvel along the Milky Way? Where was his hands?
Who made the sky, and the air needed for breath? where was his hands?
Who made the earth, and the places that provide shelter from certain death? Where was his hands?
Who made the sea, and the water for drink? Where was his hands?
Who made the vegetation, and the victuals for think? Where was his hands?
Who made my hands, and the faculties they serve? Where was his hands?
Who made this woman and child, whom uphold me and whom I preserve? Where was his hands?
Who made those people over there, who move about strangely and with unfamiliarity? Where was his hands?
Who made the creatures of song and dance, and the beasts that are scary to me? Where was his hands?
Who made the whirlwinds that throw, and the tides that smack? Where was his hands?
Who made the mountains to bleed, and who caused the earth to crack? Where was his hands?
Who made the story of God, and all of his wonders and horrors? Where was his hands? Oh, God! where are your hands?
Who made the government, with all of its blunders and supporters? Where was his hands? Oh, Government! where are your hands?
Who made these words that travel throughout the air, and have undressed before your eyes? Where is his hands? Oh, Author! where are your hands?

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Bon Appétit

by FranG

Oh! How the scent of your nectar has ignited
my thirst for your sweet juice. HONEY are you excited?
Put the COMB down, and open the hive’s door;
I’m coming to bee with you in your kitchen. I have more
calories to give you – but first come sit on my table. I hope
you don’t mind its top resting on the floor. Are you tempted to say nope?
simply to try 2 test me? Well don’t be 2 testy,
let’s instead get 2 messy; my 2 COCOA BEANS are indeed very eye catchy.
And with VANILLA BE-AN at their center, you’re guaranteed to receive,
a bitter CHOCOLAT-Y experience like none other. You won’t believe
the size of my AVOCADOS; go ahead and feel their ripeness.
But don’t squeeze too hard, we don’t need any BLUEBERRIES; a priceless
PEAR is needed for a BANANNA and PEACH split. Be careful of the stinger,
suck gently on the STRAW to get the most from the BERRIES. You’re the bringer
of the most savory SWEET POTATOES. Allow my mouth to add the ALLSPICE,
for a treat that's oh so very nice, YAMS! I say as you scream for more. Your WHEAT BUNS do entice,
so allow my BUTTER to lube them; forgive me God for I am a CINNAMON!
But they taste so good, please spare me like your servant Solomon - My tongue is the one
to massage your NAVY BEAN; O-LIVE a little and OIL my leafy CHARD.
I promise you’ll love my RICE, It’s the LONG-GRAIN variety, and BROWN with more bulk. The FIBER’s so hard,
it will shift your KIDNEY BEANS around - But don’t worry it doesn’t hurt.
Allow me to tickle you with the pickle too; I must be sure that you stay alert.
The RED FINGER is sure to PEPPER you up, so don’t fight the urge to sneeze.
I’ll be sure to bless you after a hard and loud CA-SHEW! But allow me please,
to add the ingredients to your SOUP bowl. It doesn’t matter if you’re not rich,
I’ll put a silver spoon in your mouth; be gentle in how you work your wrist.
My POTATO ain’t from Idaho, but still it can get low;
I’ll be a savage as I peel through the CABBAGE. Can you see it grow?
my CARROT STICK with it’s bright glow? It’s now time to SPLIT your PEA.
Your ONION is giving me tears, I feel like a helpless child who can’t yet see.
But we’re adults and don’t need the sweet milk; please bless me with your tart YOGURT.
I need the friendly bacteria, the protein, and “OOHHH!!” (squirt).
AL-MOND, that was great; your belly is now stuffed with good feed
Don’t worry, I’ll give you a ROSE and MARY, so we don’t have any FLAX over our SEED
LEN-TIL next time, Bon Appétit my sweet.

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The Face of a Woman

by FranG

Oh! What joy it is to behold the Face of a Woman
Who drops gems of clarity in the space reserved for one man
Physical attributes do nothing to describe her stature
There is no tool capable of arresting the cheekbone and claiming capture
Her eyes know that you’re here, her nose knows that you’re near
But yet you do not see her, and just who she is is still not yet clear

Inside your mind she has implanted herself; “come find me” she has told you
Helplessly you seek her face, for she has the ultimate stronghold on you
In your lust you seek her, but follow not the steps she’s laid out
But still she is going nowhere; the danger exists only when your strength begins to fade out

Desperate for fulfillment, you follow she who signals with the index finger, and shows the hair only
And says “behold my waistline;” your head bows down and can stare only
She says “give me this” and “give me that’” “give me your soul, it’s for the taking”
Your confoundedness causes you to comply, and of your inner foundation a continual shaking
Upon her every command the shaking magnifies, as the Face of a Woman pours tears
These slow the shaking and bring clarity back, as you realize that you must move on from here

So you command your soul return home, as you look up and say goodbye to her with the hair and waistline
And with renewed zeal you seek the Face of a Woman, while reflecting on the events of the last place and time
She says you have sown the seeds of iniquity, but for those seeds “we are jointly responsible”
She says “your lust for me has damaged us. Please cease, lest we be lost in full”

Her reproach coils itself into the depths of your soul, and you suddenly realize the direction of her words
You head North, leaving south she with the hair and waistline, and her many friends engrossed in the herd
The Face of a Woman sits on high, but the path toward her has been weeded with the plants that are your iniquity
You see ‘the State’, sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers of she with hair and waistline, and their many male minions that are your enemy

As you tread afoot, you receive blow after blow from them all; the tears from the Face of a Woman shielding your soul
Alas! You reach the northernmost point of the path, the resting place of the Face of a Woman outside the midst of the storm
It is nothing short of majestic; and visible to you because you chose not to conform
Your eyes behold the splendor in every detail: from the alluring eyes to the crippling lips
From the encircling breasts, to the sheltering hips: her stare returned to you causing a great eclipse

The Face of a Woman is all too familiar; her wounds revealing what the mirror showed
Where your weeds of iniquity took upon you vengeance, while climbing north that dark and lonely road
As you approach the Face of a Woman, she prostrates toward you that you may see her magnificent crown
While you finally do what you longed all along: into her outstretched hands your soul you hand down
To which she graciously replies, “Thank you my King,” and leads you to the chair that is your throne
The Face of a Woman cries out with joy, “Thank you for our travails, for now we shall never be alone”

Upon these words, the scars of the Face of a Woman evaporate, and you suddenly feel painless
As you happily sit on the chair that bears your name, rejoicing in the fact that none other can claim it
To which you both look south to the place known as “the world,” and all of its attributes
On which you place your feet on its four corners, while endlessly looking into each others’ eyes, blissfully staring at the truth.


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The Wizard of Oswald, Chapter IV: The Devolution of Art

from: http://www.wizardofoswald.com/WOOIV.html

The Wizard of Oswald, Chapter IV: The Devolution of Art

Popular Art Undergoes Serious Deconstruction for the Past Century

Brandon Dean
WizardofOswald.com
Thursday, March 26th, 2009



















Johann Sebastian Bach, father of modern music

From Johann Sebastian Bach to "Sebastian Bach" of the ridiculously fake 80's band Skid Row, and from Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn to the pretentious crap that passes for "abstract art" nowadays, one can start to see a pattern from complicated art, requiring not only talent but the drive to accomplish, to artificial, commercial art, which requires nothing more than a look or an attitude--in other words, a profit motive.






















Edgar Allen Poe, 19th century American writer

From the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, a writer whom one needed at least half a brain and a decent education to follow, to the sophomoric "novels" of Dean Koontz, we see a degeneration of the English language. And one may successfully argue that the more words we understand, the higher our capacity for discerning external manipulations.






















Self Portrait by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 17th century Dutch painter

Taken all together--thanks to the emergence of legions of artificial pre-fab artists in the music, fine arts and literature fields--we can observe the devolution of art in living color and real time, right in front of us.

I've watched it my whole life: the degeneration of morals, the destruction of family values through use of commercials aimed at young kids to convince them their parents aren't cool, indoctrination into brain-sizzling video games, the praise of violence and sex on television, and endless other signs of a society's deconstruction. It only seems to get worse, and I'm not paying much more attention than I did fifteen years ago. I do believe it's time to pronounce the stranglehold of popular art as at least equal in malevolence to any other attack by the international banking elite.

Why do I see a conspiracy in this? Don't I see a conspiracy in everything? Sure, any crime involving two or more people.... Let's just make it easy and not mention things like Payola, or Bryan Adams, or how Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy missed the entire point of the books, simply to make it more profitable to the producers, or the fact that Hollywood can't seem to come up with half of a good idea any more, so they remake films that were actually great, but which now will be inexcusably bastardized and sensationalized. And ALL the major studios do it. Conspiracy?

If you're truly interested in discovering just a portion of how corrupt and collusive the Hollywood elite can be, read this (warning: that link leads to what essentially is an online book, so you may want to dig up your spectacles and make some Jiffypop).

B movies have gone from laughable, campy affairs, to big budget studio nightmares of repetitive, idiotic diatribes and shock imagery meant to startle more than stimulate.

Popular music has devolved from the maestros, who studied music for decades before achieving their well-deserved success, or were virtuosos who couldn't be held back by studying, to the modern day, where any schmo can walk into a music shop, spend a week's pay on a guitar, and annoy his neighbors till the stars fall and hell hosts the winter Olympics.

I can't even fathom how some of these authors manage to publish their toilet paper, but all you have to do is sit down, read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and then really try to compare that to any book written in the last thirty years, with a few exceptions. We're speaking a different language today, although we still call it English.

The driving force behind the human being, from where I stand, is creation. Man creates ideas, which shape realities. Without creation, the individual lacks luster. All of us create on different levels, whether it is a great work of art, a cabinet for a kitchen, or an amazing equation. Maybe you know how to create a mood. It could be anything. Art, in all forms, is the one creation of the human race which has no literal, pragmatic reason for existing. It is created and experienced for purely aesthetic purposes, from infinite individual perspectives. Art is the one abstract relaxation of the human race. The carpenter finds comfort and satisfaction in his creation, just as the painter finds comfort and satisfaction in his creation. Without this comfort and satisfaction, very bad things happen. Shall we talk about the Soviet Union, Red China, or Cambodia? In all three countries, anyone with a creative force was rounded up and slaughtered, in a so-called attempt to cull the "bourgeoisie" from society. When the creative force was gone, you had "sewers of seeds and hewers of wood," (read the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to understand fully what that meant) who could create nothing but food and fuel. And regardless of these diabolical attempts to stifle the human spirit, artists are still doing what they do, in all three of those countries ...

Creation shapes the future of humanity, on both the broadest and narrowest scales. Without it, we have no hope of fighting off the intellectual assault we are under, whether it be through lack of writers to inform us, musicians to scream it at us, or visual artists to put it right in front of our faces.

The point of creating art is not to create beauty, but to draw the person experiencing it into the mind and soul of the artist. The gardener creates a piece of art (if he wishes) simply by trimming plants, just as the housewife creates a work of art for supper, and together with her spouse, creates the most amazing of all human creations: the human being...

copyright Brandon Dean, 2009

Man vs. the Lord

Man vs. the Lord
A Psalm of Francis

1. Who is man to try to compete with the Lord? What is the height of his wisdom?
2. Man dare not look at the Sun, for he will go blind - But the Sun bows to the Lord.
3. The Lord makes the tide rise with the Moon like a magnet, but man cannot make them go down while at sea.
4. The breath of the Lord will knock anyone off balance, while the breath of man will not even fan you.
5. The stars hold their place in the sky, but the pebbles of man fall back to the earth.
6. Man reaches up, and his hands do not touch the sky. But the Lord marvels the sky with a bear hug.
7. Man’s skyscrapers reach into heaven, but they cannot bend down and touch their toes.
8. His social, economic, and financial systems remain out of balance, however the ecosystems of the Lord lack blemish.
9. His philosophy is complex and contradictory, while the Lord's is uncomprehensible yet harmonic
10. His mind conjures many concoctions, but they forever fall short at the feet of the Lord
11. His greatest homes hold only thousands, but the home of the Lord houses more than a billion
12. His food and drink is from the scraps of the Lord's table; his nourishment comes when the Lord says so - Any fasting of the Lord will decimate man.
13. His missiles come fast from a cannon, but the cannon in heaven doesn't have to be reloaded
14. His tanks give chase, but cannot swim; his boats engage in hot pursuit, but cannot walk; his aeroplanes ascend and descend, but this is not perpendicular; neither can it zigzag nor hop about the earth.
15. His Frankensteins speak words, but know not what they say; they cannot return dialogue without first consulting their instruction manuals.
16. Their skeletons are hard and brittle, but the bones of the Lord are hard and durable.
17. Their stature is fixed in its dimension, but that of the Lord forever regenerates itself.
18. The mother board of the best CPU is heavy, static and dumb; but the brain is light, malleable, and intelligent.
19. The spinal cord of man ascended not to heaven, for he has bent it in the direction of the east and the west.
20. His chakras from the base to the crown spin not; albeit those of the Lord are resistant to brakes.
21. Man attempts to massage embryonic stem cells, but the Lord ordained flesh.
22. The seminal fluid and placenta of the Lord provides speedier development for the child than the nutritional choices of man.
23. The Lord provide succor to come from the breast of a woman; that child is the Lord's!
24. The pipes of man corrode and burst under pressure, yet the veins of the Lord contain even blood.
25. Man employs fiber optics for his ends, but the endings of the nerves carry more light.
26. The eye of his camera doesn't see the dust coming, but the eye of God adjusts accordingly.
27. His ears hear not the sound of treason; his nose cannot smell the scent of danger.
28. Man marvels at infinity, and wonders what numeric precedes it; but the Lord knows that which follows it.
29. He cannot divide a thing by zero, but the Lord created the Earth from nothing.
30. He still hasn't conquered Leviathan; and the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot continually evade him.
31. He is a slave to gold and rubies, but it is the Lord only who manufactures these.
32. The beasts in the fields howl and give thanks to the Lord, but man's scream is that of arrogance and pride.
33. The aquatic of the sea breach the water's surface, and arise to give a dance of praise, but the dances of man are lewd unto himself.
34. The fowl of the air sing a song of joy to the Lord during their swoops, but man chants in a monotone manner with sword on the battlefield.
35. The trees of the forest whistle at the presence of the wind, but man whistles to his brethren in wait as the unsuspecting approach the snare.
36. The creatures of God's hand praise the Lord, and enjoy good health; but man be riddled with cancer, pneumonia, meningitis, osteoporosis, tooth decay, and others reserved for the disobedient.

State Sovereignty?? Part 4 - Causes for New Secession

Continued from Part 3

The passage of the 17th Amendment was unconstitutional

"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote." (U.S. Const., Am. 17)

The 17th Amendment was proposed to the States in May of 1912, and ratified less than one year later. This amendment caused a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the federal government. The States, previously controlled the Senate via direct appointment of their respective Senators, but this amendment effectively eliminated the voice of the states from the government almost entirely (see Part 2). But though the required three-fourths of the state legislatures voted for the measure, this particular amendment required unanimous approval, i.e., ratification from each of the states then in the Union. Not only did they not receive ratification from all of the then 48 United States, but the State of Utah specifically rejected the Amendment. This is significant because the Constitution guarantees each state in the union a republican form of government.

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..." (U.S. Const., Art. IV, Sec. 4)

So what exactly is meant by "republican form of government?"

republic - 1 a (1): a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2): a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1): a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2): a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government

Basically a republic is a government with some sort of constitution which is unchangeable by legislators, who derive their authority from the governed, while legislating for the public or nation as a whole. In other words, some things are just off limits to legislators. When it is said that supreme power resides in a body of citizens, that power is represented and reflected in the constitution for the land. Vattel describes the constitution of a state as:

"The fundamental regulation that determines the manner in which the public authority is to be executed, is what forms the constitution of the state. In this is seen the form in which the nation acts in quality of a body politic, how and by whom the people are to be governed, — and what are the rights and duties of the governors. This constitution is in fact nothing more than the establishment of the order in which a nation proposes to labour in common for obtaining those advantages with a view to which the political society was established." (Law of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. 3, Sec. 27)

The Constitution also, regards to amendments, states more affirmatively:

"...no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate." (U.S. Const., Art. V)

And what exactly is meant by suffrage?

suffrage - 2: a vote given in deciding a controverted question or electing a person for an office or trust3: the right of voting : franchise ; also : the exercise of such right

I don't know if the Constitution can be any more clearer than that. Though the Constitution can lawfully be amended by a vote of three-fourths of the states, it cannot be amended to eliminate the representation of any of the States by virtue of the guarantee made them in the original body of Constitution. The passage of amendments, such as the 17th Amendment, serve to silence any state who does not vote positively in favor of it. And it may be construed that silence, i.e., a not voting on the proposal is acquiescence; however the State of Utah positively rejected the amendment. The entire amendment should thus be void for, if for no other state, Utah at the very least. But I'd argue that the 17th Amendment is voidable by any state on the grounds that it is against the letter and spirit of the Constitution. Proposing the question itself is illegal, and such a material change to the document must result in an entirely new document. This because the 17th Amendment contradicts the original text of the Constitution.

In Federalist Paper 10, James Madison argued that that the main difference between a democracy and a republic is the scheme of representation. Below is an excerpt of Madison speaking on the ills of democracy, and the cures of a republic.

"From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such 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. Theoretic 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. A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking." (Federalist Papers #10)

The 17th Amendment in effect has shifted this country from a republic to a democracy, with the federal government now appealing solely to the citizens of this country, and is totally unconcerned with the states as political entities. Democracies promote demagogue politicians, who promise their constituents everything under the sun in return for their votes. The same constituency controls the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the Office of President; this is a pure democracy. The layers of representation between the United States and the people have been reduced a great deal, the next step can only be the fascism. The federal government is de facto a national government; the 50 States existing in form only.

In addition to Utah's affirmative rejection of the 17th Amendment, in which she should be commended for asserting her rights, the following states, in order of their admission into the Union, were silent on the question: Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Of these 10, it is interesting to note that: a) 6 states were part of the original 13, b) 9 states were admitted into the Union before the year 1820, and c) 6 of the states were officially part of the Confederate States of America, and an additional 2 states serving as dual or border states in the American Civil War. It appears the minority from the Civil War is losing yet another battle against the majority.

The 16th Amendment serves as the guise for a constructive fraud

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." (U.S. Const., Am. 16)

If you're of the belief that you owe income taxes on your income because of the above amendment, you're in for quite a shock. There may in fact be circumstances other than this amendment where you are in fact liable for an income tax, but the details of those are beyond the scope of this writing. Here we shall deconstruct the myth that the 16th Amendment gave the Congress new income taxation powers. But first, a quick summary of Congressional powers is warranted.

In the enumerated powers section of the Constitution, it states that:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States" (U.S. Const., Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 1)

and in the section that limits Congressional power, it states that:

"No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken." (U.S. Const., Art. I, Sec. 9, Cl. 4)

There are basically two types of taxes: 1) taxes on transactions, and 2) taxes on property. Taxes on transactions are excises, duties, etc. and are covered in Art. I, Sec. 8 of the Constitution. An example of this type of tax is the State of California and the State of Texas paying a duty for the import of say rice from a foreign nation. The Constitution requires that California and Texas pay the same amount of tax, i.e., $5 per barrel of rice imported or 5% of the value of all imports. These are considered indirect taxes, and must be equal throughout the United States.

The second type, taxes on property, do not tax transactions, but rather property directly. These are direct taxes which occur whether or not any transaction has taken place. Examples of these are property taxes, vehicle taxes, etc. and are usually recurring in nature, for the transaction of acquiring the property is a one time event. These taxes the Constitution requires to be paid in proportion to the census. For example, if California is twice as populous as Alabama, any direct taxes levied by Congress must be double for California what they are for Alabama. And because the tax is direct, a percentage of wealth is not applicable, for that would be a form of apportionment not in proportion to the Census. For example, continuing with the scenario of the two states above, let's say that Alabama and California have equal property values. Here a direct tax of say 5% of property value would produce an equal tax burden upon the states. However the Constitution is clear that the apportionment must be in proportion to the Census, that's the lawful criteria.

So with this brief explanation, let's move to the 16th Amendment. The amendment was proposed in an attempt to nullify the Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. Supreme Court decision which ruled that unapportioned income taxes were unconstitutional. In response to this decision, the 16th Amendment was proposed and ratified. Shortly after, Congress passed another income tax law but this law too was shot down as unconstitutional in the Brushaber vs. Union Pacific R.R. Co. decision in 1916. Below is an excerpt from the case regarding the language and effect of the 16th Amendment.

"The various propositions are so intermingled as to cause it to be difficult to classify them. We are of opinion, however, that the confusion is not inherent, but rather arises from the conclusion that the 16th Amendment provides for a hitherto unknown power of taxation; that is, a power to levy an income tax which, although direct, should not be subject to the regulation of apportionment applicable to all other direct taxes. And the far-reaching effect of this erroneous assumption will be made clear by generalizing the many contentions advanced in argument to support it, as follows: ..... ....But it clearly results that the proposition and the contentions under it, if acceded to, would cause one provision of the Constitution to destroy another; that is, they would result in bringing the provisions of the Amendment exempting a direct tax from apportionment into irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that all direct taxes be apportioned. Moreover, the tax authorized by the Amendment, being direct, would not come under the rule of uniformity applicable under the Constitution to other than direct taxes, and thus it would come to pass that the result of the Amendment would be to authorize a particular direct tax not subject either to apportionment or to the rule of geographical uniformity, thus giving power to impose a different tax in one state or states than was levied in another state or states. This result, instead of simplifying the situation and making clear the limitations on the taxing power, which obviously the Amendment must have been intended to accomplish, would create radical and destructive changes in our constitutional system and multiply confusion." (supra)

Basically what the court is saying is that a direct tax on income violates the apportionment requirement; and if the argument is to be made that income taxes are excise taxes, then the amendment would cause for unequal taxes, which would violate uniformity requirement of excise taxes. In short, the 16th Amendment is a nice piece of sophistry.

I will now go into the history of why Americans are paying this tax. Income taxes were slowly introduced into the public sphere under President Roosevelt via the Wealth Tax Act of 1935. This was a depression era tax on the rich, and affected a very small subset of the population. Naturally the public outcry was minimal or non-existent over such a measure. Congress next codified all tax statutes into the Internal Revenue Code of 1939. This was completed on February 10, 1939. Just two months later, the Public Salary Tax Act of 1939 was enacted. This was supposed to be a tax on the income (direct tax) of all public officials in the then 48 States of the Union. But this was deceptive for the term "State" as used in the Act meant the District of Columbia and federal territories. Nevertheless not many people were effected by the tax.

Congress next passed the Buck Act of 1940 (see 4 U.S.C. 105-110) to allow the then 48 States to tax federal public officials, thus extended the public officials to both state and federal employees (remember here too the term "State" means the District of Columbia and federal Territories). But despite these additions, the mass of Americans would not pay income taxes until President Roosevelt's Victory Tax Act of 1942 was enacted as a wartime measure. President Roosevelt would call this bill "the greatest tax bill in American history." Below is a quote from a teaching document from the IRS's website explaining the Victory Tax:

"In 1939 only about five percent of American workers paid income tax. The United States’ entrance into World War II changed that figure. The demands of war production put almost every American back to work, but the expense of the war still exceeded tax-generated revenue. President Roosevelt’s proposed Revenue Act of 1942 introduced the broadest and most progressive tax in American history, the Victory Tax. Now, about 75 percent of American workers would pay income taxes. Because so many citizens paid the tax, it was considered a mass tax. To ease workers’ burden of paying a large sum once a year, and to create a regular flow of revenue into the U.S. Treasury, the government required employers to withhold money from employees’ paychecks. Additional taxes were put in place in 1943. By war’s end in 1945, about 90 percent of American workers submitted income tax forms, and 60 percent paid taxes on their income. The federal government covered more than half its expenses with new income tax revenue."

Now remember direct taxes are illegal, however this was passed as a wartime measure pursuant to the Constitution; to wit:

"To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years" (U.S. Const., Art. I, Sec. 8, Cl. 12)

The Victory Tax was enacted in October of 1942, and repealed within two years in May of 1944. Unfortunately, nobody ever told the American public, and they continued to volunteer paying federal income taxes. Ask an IRS agent to show you the specific statute that makes Americans residing in the 50 States liable for federal income taxes, and you will be sure to either befuddle or anger him; the lack of an answer to your question notwithstanding.

The increase in individual taxes received by the U.S. government from 1934 to 1944 is a whopping 4,591.7%; and, when including taxes on social security payments, went from comprising about 15% to more than half of total government receipts (Budget for Fiscal Year 2005; Historic Tables, Sec. 2, Table 2.1; p. 29). The trend would not reverse, but instead continue to increase in the Left direction.

Why aren't the States calling the federal government out over this obvious constructive fraud being perpetrated by the Feds? Americans obviously would not be volunteering to donate funds to anyone when they themselves are strapped with debt. Then the income tax paid for half the federal government's expenditures, but today income taxes on individuals account for more than three-fourths of its total revenue. As mentioned in Part 3, the Feds award hundreds of billions of dollars in grant money to the states, but what does the United States government produce? This money comes from the States, and attached to it are federal mandates, and then a fraction of the money goes back to the states. The rest is to be used at the discretion of the United States government to fulfill its dreams of conquest, etc. If ever there were a time to divorce themselves from an enlarged and overreaching government, it is now.

The Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933

First the Preliminaries (President Woodrow Wilson)

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 is often attributed as the cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s. But this country has always had market crashes and recessions/depressions. However, the Crash of 1929 was the first under the Federal Reserve System, a private "money trust" granted an exclusive monopoly over the national banking system, and the issuance of the nation's currency. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the Fed. It was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, a progressive and populist who was largely influenced by Louis D. Brandeis, a Zionist whom Wilson would appoint to the Supreme Court in 1916 after becoming President of the United States.

Wilson often spoke out against a rich elite class of business men whom he referred to as "trusts," and credited control of the nation to them and their interests. Wilson based his political career on dismantling these so called trusts and returning control of the country back to the people of the United States. Below is an excerpt from Wilson's "The New Freedom":

"That is the difference between a big business and a trust. A trust is an arrangement to get rid of competition, and a big business is a business that has survived competition by conquering in the field of intelligence and economy. A trust does not bring efficiency to the aid of business; it buys efficiency out of business. I am for big business, and I am against the trusts. Any man who can survive by his brains, any man who can put the others out of the business by making the thing cheaper to the consumer at the same time that he is increasing its intrinsic value and quality, I take off my hat to, and I say: "You are the man who can build up the United States, and I wish there were more of you." Therefore, when a small group of men approach Congress in order to induce the committee concerned to concur in certain legislation, nobody knows the ramifications of the interests which those men represent; there seems no frank and open action of public opinion in public counsel, but every man is suspected of representing some other man and it is not known where his connections begin or end. This money trust, or, as it should be more properly called, this credit trust, of which Congress has begun an investigation, is no myth; it is no imaginary thing. It is not an ordinary trust like another. It doesn't do business every day. It does business only when there is occasion to do business. You can sometimes do something large when it isn't watching, but when it is watching, you can't do much. And I have seen men squeezed by it; I have seen men who, as they themselves expressed it, were put "out of business by Wall Street, because Wall Street Found them inconvenient and didn't want their competition. " (supra)

Ironically for Wilson, his policies had the effect of directly contradicting what he preached. Brandeis, who shared Wilson's view regarding the trusts, and specifically the money trust, wrote the following in "Other People's Money":

"But wealth expressed in figures gives a wholly inadequate picture of the allies' power. Their wealth is dynamic. It is wielded by geniuses in combination. It finds its proper expression in means of control. To comprehend the power of the allies we must try to visualize the ramifications through which the forces operate " (Other People's Money, Ch. 2, "How the Combiner's Combine").

So was Wilson duped into actually strengthening the money trust, or was he a willing participant? I find it hard to believe that a man of his caliber could be so easily fooled. It's too bad Wilson didn't follow the acts of Christ while positioning himself as a Christ-like figure.

"...and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
14: And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16: And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise." (John 2:13-16, KJV)

Vattel states it as follows:

"Since the state is surely for the goodness of the money and its currency, the public authority alone has the right of coining it. Those who counterfeit it, violate the rights of the sovereign, whether they make it of the same standard and value or not. These are called false-coiners, and their crime is justly considered as one of the most heinous nature. For if they coin base money, they rob both the public and the prince; and if they coin good, they usurp the prerogative of the sovereign. They will never be inclined to coin good money unless there be a profit on the coinage: and in this case they rob the state of a profit which exclusively belongs to it. In both cases they do an injury to the sovereign; for the public faith being surety for the money, the sovereign alone has a right to have it coined. " (Law of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. 10, Sec. 107)

The Federal Reserve System created on Wilson's watch is nothing more than a legalized counterfeiting racket, whose operations would set the stage for the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and set the stage for the treason that would soon result from it.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

During the three year interim between Roosevelt assuming office, the economic situation had gotten drastically worse. The Federal Reserve contracted the money supply some 40% since the time of the Crash. As mentioned above, prior stock market crashes were not under the watch of a central bank, and the markets usually turned themselves around in a year or so's time. But the Fed's drastic reduction in the supply of credit to member banks caused a credit freeze, which caused numerous banks to default on their loans; mostly to other banks. The Federal Reserve Act created the nexus of banks (all national and some state banks) that would all fall like dominoes from the instability of a few. The bank failures were responsible for causing runs on the banks.

The people have every right to demand payment of their property. But Roosevelt would enter office and receive a present in the form of a piece of legislation known as "the Emergency Banking Act of 1933." The Act also had parts in it known by other names, i.e, the "Gold Hoarding Act" and the "Bank Conservation Act." In short, the Emergency Banking Act declared Americans as enemies to the United States government, and thus would give the President the authority to regulate essentially all their financial transactions. The Gold Hoarding Act gave the Secretary of the Treasury the power to seize the gold of all Americans on a whim in the name of saving the "currency system" of the United States. The Bank Conservation Act would give the United States Comptroller of the Currency the power to appoint a conservator over any national bank at his sole discretion. And if this wasn't bad enough, the conservator would be paid a salary from the assets of his assigned bank.

Within days of obtaining his office, Roosevelt would use his new powers and declare a national banking holiday. National banks were closed and conservators were appointed, about half of which would not reopen. A month later, in April of 1933, Roosevelt issued his infamous Executive Order #6102, requiring all Americans to turn over their gold to the Federal Reserve banks in exchange for "any other form of coin or currency coined or issued under the laws of the United States." Anyone not in compliance with the law and this executive order faced jailtime. In a carefully calculated coup d'etat, the "money trust" that President Wilson spoke of would take physical possession of the wealth of the American people, and would use the hands of government officials to do so.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated....." (U.S. Const., Am. 4)

As bad as this sounds, the real treason would occur two months later. The Gold Repeal Joint Resolution (aka HJR 192) was passed on June 5, 1933, stating that gold clauses in financial instruments "obstruct the power of the Congress to regulate the value of money of the United States." Section (a) of the Act states:

"That (a) every provision contained in or made with respect to any obligation which purports to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency, or in an amount of money of the United States measured thereby, is declared to be against public policy; and no such provision contained in or made with respect to any obligation hereafter incurred. Every obligation, heretofore or hereafter incurred, whether or not any such provisions is contained therein or made with respect thereto, shall be discharged upon payment, dollar for dollar, in any such coin or currency which at the time is legal tender for public and private debts. Any such provision contained in any law authorizing obligations to be issued by or under authority of the United States, is hereby repealed, but the repeal of any such provision shall not invalidate any other provision or authority contained in such law. " (HJR 192)

So with the passage of this Act, Congress essentially stated that gold as money is contradictory to the public policy of the United States; this of course after they took the gold first. But HJR 192 is diametrically opposed to the U.S. Constitution, which clearly states:

"No State shall....make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts..." (U.S. Const., Art. I, Sec. 10, Cl. 1)

Vattel states:

"...gold and silver became the common standard of the value of all things: and to prevent the people from being cheated, the mode was introduced of stamping pieces of gold and silver in the name of the state, with the figure of the prince, or some other impression, as the seal and pledge of their value. This institution is of great use and infinite convenience: it is easy to see how much it facilitates commerce..." (Law of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. 10, Sec. 105)

So Congress is either in direct violation of the Constitution, or we are not operating under the Constitution. As mentioned in an earlier part of this writing, silence is acquiescence. If the people are to object, it must make its objection crystal clear.

Congress would then sweeten the pot with the Banking Act of 1933 (aka the Glass Steagel Act) passed a few weeks later. It created the FDIC to insure the deposits for federal reserve banks, and invited non member state banks to join in the system. This would be an offer too hard to resist given the seizure of gold that had been appropriated from the public into the hands of the Federal Reserve Banks (not the member banks, the regional banks), along with the added sweetener of federal insurance for its deposits.

Finally on January 30, 1934, Congress passed the Gold Reserve Act, which barred gold clauses from being issued with any federal reserve notes (see 12 U.S.C. 411). While HJR 192 dealt with notes in circulation, this Act would deal with newly printed notes. Shortly after this, gold was revalued from $20.67/oz to $35/oz; thus debasing the dollar some 42%. After all, the American public would pay involuntarily for all of Roosevelt's socialist New Deal programs with nearly half of their wealth, of which they could not obtain because of the Roosevelt's horrendous Executive Order. To complete the heist, a few technicalities would be cleared up: 1) the Banking Act of 1935 would established the FDIC permanently, and 2) the Gold Clause Act would pass on August 27, 1935 eliminating the words "against public policy" from the text of HJR 192, in an attempt to obfuscate its underhandings.

In all, about 26% of all banks failed, and about 20% were consolidated, resulting in an ultimate reduction of the banks to about half the 1929 number. The stock market crash only served to make the Fed, i.e., the private "money trust" even more powerful.

American money abroad

After the termination of World War II, Europe was in ruins. In fact, the United States was the only major nation that remained unscathed by the war; with the exception of Pearl Harbor of course. The goal now was to rebuild the world and to strengthen capitalism and promote international trade. In 1944, it emerged at the Bretton Woods conference that the United States would take a leadership role in this new global alliance between 44 of the world's nations. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were created with this agreement, and it was decided that the currencies of the member nations would be pegged to the U.S. dollar, the U.S. dollar itself would be pegged to gold. Thus it was the U.S. dollar that was to be the world's liquid currency, with a gold backing it confiscated from the American people.

Because of the U.S. dollar's privileged status, and the status of the WW2 tattered and third world nations, the U.S. was in a prime position to pillage. With communism, exemplified by the Soviet Union, serving as the external threat which needed to be combated, the United States would pillage third world countries for their resources, and send the excess profits to favored western European countries to help them rebuild their economies. Europe would then use the free dollars to pillage third world countries further still. This plan of rebuilding favored Western nations was known as the Mashall Plan, and in a span of 4 years, from 1947 to 1951, the United States would give away $13.3 billion under the plan before ended it.

The policy of the United States was to flood the world with dollars, and it did this by running balance of payments deficits with nations. The U.S. initially would invest in foreign countries (military expansion for aid, etc.), such as under the Marshall Plan, during the 1950s when the U.S. economy was booming, or by running trade deficits with member nations. It soon became clear that the U.S. was pursuing reckless financial policies, and thus in the late 1960s, a run on the dollar occurred internationally, just as it did domestically in the 1930s. The United States would not issue the agreed upon gold to the countries, and instead President Nixon issued Executive Order #11615 in August of 1971 and killed any convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold. In a televised speech, he would blame the "international money speculators" for the dollar crisis, and not the reckless policies of this country. The U.S. would now kill the gold clauses for its dollars internationally, just as it had done domestically. This was an act of war, though the U.S. would suffer no consequences for its illicit acts.

"As the engagements of a treaty impose on the one hand a perfect obligation, they produce on the other a perfect right. The breach of a treaty is therefore a violation of the perfect right of the party with whom we have contracted; and this is an act of injustice against him." (Law of Nations, Bk. II, Ch. XII, Sec. 164)

On October 19, 1976, Congress officially amended the Bretton Woods Act to prohibit the Treasury Secretary from setting a dollar par value per ounce of gold. Although attempts had been made to revalue the dollar to gold after Nixon's initial breach, from $35/oz to $38/oz to $42, this official act is when the dollar "officially" floated. The price of gold went through the roof, which meant that the U.S. dollar was worthless. The price of gold would go from $20/oz before the depression, to $35/oz during the New Deal and Bretton Woods Era, to $965 as of the time of this writing in February 2009. The dollar has been devalued by 98% as a result of the United States international escapade of pillage and conquest at the expense of the American people.

With the U.S. dollar now being totally fiat, Congress would now decide that the American people were not enemies of war, and reverse that provision in Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act in 1977 (see 50a U.S.C. 5). Congress would also quietly repeal Roosevelt's Gold Hoarding Act in 1982 (see 12 U..S.C. 248(n)) After the currency has been completely wrecked, Congress will allow the American people to repurchase their gold on the open market at a price 50 times higher than when it was confiscated from them. The United States government has reduced its citizens into economic serfs, and has done the exact opposite of what a responsible nation ought to do.

"The end or object of civil society is to procure for the citizens whatever they stand in need of for the necessities, the conveniences, the accommodation of life, and, in general, whatever constitutes happiness, — with the peaceful possession of property, a method of obtaining justice with security, and, finally, a mutual defence against all external violence." (Law of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. II, Sec. 15)

America today (2009)

As of the last few decades, American imperialism has amplified, mostly due to the fall of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. After the official dollar detachment in 1976, America could no longer dupe the world with by printing more dollars, especially since so many were on the foreign markets. But countries were still in possession of these dollars nevertheless. The United State's new strategy for running empire would now be to borrow those same dollars back from the nations of the world. From about 1975 onward, the national debt increased exponentially some ten times over. The United States now finances its world empire on the promise to redeem it's dollars at a future date for some unspecified consideration. It would meddle in the internal affairs of any nation who's policies contradict whatever its agenda is; such agenda usually being self-serving and a direct detriment to its fiduciary; to wit, the American people.. The United States have not yet given the American people its gold back, and so do foreign nations really believe they will be reimbursed for their investment in American Treasury bills?

And if this is not bad enough, the current president of this disarray government has a shadow of substantial doubt over his head that he is not a a "natural born Citizen." Over a dozen lawsuits have been filed against Obama challenging his citizenship, and he has elected to spend millions of dollars challenging them, rather than simply proving that he meets the criteria to be President. The natural-born clause is in the Constitution for a reason, for the founders of the United States wanted to assure the allegiance of the President to the country he would be serving. Such a person would diligently represent the United States, and be the face of the U.S. to other nations of the world. Thomas Jefferson stated the following danger regarding foreigners:

"[Is] rapid population [growth] by as great importations of foreigners as possible... founded in good policy?... They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their number, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass... If they come of themselves, they are entitled to all the rights of citizenship: but I doubt the expediency of inviting them by extraordinary encouragements." (Thomas Jefferson on Immigration)

On they following the rules, Jefferson noted:

"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular." (supra)

The Office of President is the highest political office of the land, and it is not too much to ask that one furnish proof that the rules are in fact being followed, instead of relying merely on one's word that they are. Vattel notes:

"If education had not the power of familiarizing the human mind to the greatest absurdities, is there any man of sense who would not be struck with astonishment to see so many nations suffer the legitimacy and right of their princes to depend on a foreign power? The court of Rome has invented an infinite number of obstructions and cases of invalidity in marriages, and at the same time arrogates to itself the right of judging of their validity, and of removing the obstructions; so that a prince of its communion cannot in certain cases by so much his own master as to contract a marriage necessary to the safety of the state..." (Law of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. V, Sec. 67)

Today, the obstructions are called "lack of standing," and the judge and jury of deciding who or who has not standing is the federal courts? But this is fraudulent as the people have the right to decide all controversies and uncertainties when the law proves it cannot or will not.

"All the disputes that arise in society are to be judged and decided by the public authority. As soon as the right of succession is found uncertain, the sovereign authority returns for a time to the body of the state, which is to exercise it, cither by itself or by its representatives, till the true sovereign be known." (Law of Nations, Bk. I, Ch. V, Sec. 66)

Conclusion

The 50 States of America today, under the leadership of the United States government, has turned into a cesspool of licentiousness, where fraud and corruption have become the way of life. The United States through deceit has reversed the order of everything it has touched. In Part 1 of this writing, we established that 13 independent states created a national government to exercise sovereign authority delegated to them by their citizens. In the second Part, we established therefore the duty owed the states and the people by the United States government. In Part 3, we spoke of reclaiming sovereignty when it is being exercised improperly, and above we have outlined the gross abuses of the United States sovereign authority. In short, it has established a mechanism for pillaging the people, and have implemented such to near perfection. In addition, it has soured relationships with foreign nations, and thus suffered us to potential harm for they exercising their due justice against the United States. A rogue nation can be stopped by none other than its citizens, and until they voice their outcry; verbal at first, and if the "redress of Government" falls on deaf ears, physical at end. With more and more states asserting their 10th Amendment right, and protecting their political sovereignty, let's hope they understand the principles laid out in this writing, and exercise justice accordingly.