ernment is inferior to the status of the constitution
that created it.
Subjects
Subjects are required to obey the legislation and are thus inferior in
status to their governments.
Subject.
Constitutional
law [sic]. One that owes allegiance to a sovereign and is governed
by his laws [sic] .... Men in free governments [sic] are subjects
as well as citizens; as
citizens they enjoy rights [sic] and
franchises; as subjects they are bound to obey the laws [sic] ....
Black's Law Dictionary, 1979
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Citizens
A U.S. citizen is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
All
persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the
State wherein they reside ....
U.S. Constitution, Amendment 14, section
1
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The
idea of jurisdiction extends to more than just the legislation. Jurisdiction
means power and control generally.
Jurisdiction....
1.
Law
[sic]. The right and power to interpret and apply the law [sic]:
courts
having jurisdiction in this district. 2. a. Authority
or control: islands under U.S. jurisdiction; a bureau
with jurisdiction over Native American affairs. b.
The extent of authority or control: a family matter beyond the
school's jurisdiction. 3. The territorial range
of authority or control ....
The American Heritage Dictionary
of the English Language, 1992
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A
legitimate government can have a legitimate jurisdiction. A de facto
government will have a de facto jurisdiction. A U.S. citizen is inferior
in status to the United States.
Part 2: Deficiencies
By
the time that I was in college, I was beginning to discover and to understand
the deficiencies of the United States. As I began to correctly perceive
the situation and to understand the likely future, I realized that both
the situation and the future are unacceptable.
I
realized that I'd innocently accepted obligations to a government that
routinely uses fraud, manipulation, coercion, misrepresentation of the
facts, failure to disclose the terms and conditions of its programs, failure
to keep its promises, and so forth. I began to understand that the
only options available to U.S. citizens are either compliance, evasion
and avoidance, or punishment. The United States will use any amount
of force to control, capture, or punish anyone who's discovered to be out
of compliance with its requirements. That has been true for a long
time. Examples, both large and small, abound. Among them are
the Sioux people who were performing the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, The
Confederate States of America, the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho,
the Branch Davidians at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, the MOVE group, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Montana Freemen, near Jordan, Montana,
and so forth. You can make your own list. Whatever examples
you prefer, in those kinds of situations people have been oppressed, displaced,
deprived of rights and property, imprisoned, wounded, maimed, or murdered
by agents of the United States acting under jurisdictions delegated to
the U.S. government by the U.S. constitution. The operation of the
United States is such that the difference between slavery and U.S. citizenship
is subtle, if it exists at all.
Part 3: Remedy
Each
individual must discover his own remedy. For now, most people seem
to be content to ignore their condition of servitude, to ignore the fact
that things are getting worse, to pretend that they're free, and to relax
in their gilded cages.
Most
people don't get interested in politics until the Gestapo kicks down their
door.
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I'm
not as gifted at self-deception as most other people.
I'm not willing to pretend that all is well. After I understood my
situation, I tried to correct it. I engaged in a series of strategies,
none of which worked.2
After I'd tried everything that could reasonably be tried and every effort
had failed, my only two remaining options were to either remain in the
scheme, thereby legitimizing it, or to divest myself of all connections
to it. I wasn't willing to do anything that would tend to support
or to legitimize a fascist police state so I began to divest myself of
obligations to the United States. I did things like rescinding my
driver's license, cancelling my Social Security number, al-
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