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Part 1: Hierarchy The idea that someone can be above the legislation suggests that a hierarchy of status exists in political doctrine. Such is indeed the case. Sovereigns Predictably, the definitions of sovereigns that are provided by the dictionaries are deceptive. Considering that the dictionaries are produced and distributed under government licenses and that the people who read them were educated in the government schools, it isn't surprising that the dictionaries successfully convey misinformation. The deception regarding sovereigns is a lie of omission. That is, the idea of sovereign status is restricted to kings, queens, emperors, and "the people" as a theoretical body politic. I haven't encountered a dictionary in which sovereignty is described as a possible status of an ordinary person. In fact, a sovereign is anyone who isn't under the jurisdiction of any institution of government and who doesn't have any obligation to any institution of government. A sovereign has the highest possible political status. Anybody can be a sovereign. Constitutions Here's another idea that you won't find in the dictionaries. A valid constitution is a creature of sovereigns.
Constitutions that are made by delegates, that is, by people who are acting under authority that was given to them by other people, are constitutions in name only. That consideration alone is sufficient to relegate the U.S. constitution to the status of a de facto constitution.1
A constitution, be it valid or de facto, is a creature of the people who created it. Thus, sovereigns would be superior in status to a valid constitution that they created. Similarly, delegates are superior in status to the de facto constitutions that they create. Governments A legitimate government is a creature of a valid constitution. A de facto government is a creature of a de facto constitution. In either case, the status of a gov-
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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.
Citizens A U.S. citizen is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
The idea of jurisdiction extends to more than just the legislation. Jurisdiction means power and control generally.
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.
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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lowing my voter's registration to expire, and
so forth. Within a few years, I terminated all of my obligations
to any institution of the United States.
Later, in 1997, I was told by Kevin Veltfort, a lawyer, that I was still a U.S. citizen because I'd failed to execute the government's procedures for terminating my citizenship. It's a typically stupid attitude for a lawyer. He missed the whole point of my position. I don't need the government's authorization. I can declare myself to not be a citizen and that's sufficient. That's the whole point. The authority resides in me, not in the government. I'm not a citizen because I say so. Any opinion to the contrary, inside or outside of the government, is in error. Part 4: Conclusion
Hack Fu Sam Aurelius Milam III I don't know what the hackers have been doing for all of these years. According to the government news media, they've done nothing but create silly nuisances, make pointless attempts to penetrate or disable databases, and seek the unethical acquisition of wealth. I'm skeptical about what's reported by the government news media. I don't know any hackers so I can only speculate. Maybe they've been doing things that are more useful than what has been reported. I hope so. Whatever the case, I recently had a thought that suggests the hackers' dream, his greatest possible challenge. If I was the aliens, then I'd long since have established internet access. Here's the challenge. If a hacker located the alien's access point to the internet and hacked into their computers, and did it without getting caught, then he'd be the ultimate hacker ever, the legendary hacker for all time. I can't help but to wonder if the hackers are working on it. Better yet, maybe it's already been done and the genius who did it is smart enough to keep quiet about it. That's a secret of which I'd love to be informed. Letter to the Editor
Stephen, of Hililani, Hawaii
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Stray Thoughts Sam Aurelius Milam III Sacrifice You don't protect liberty by sacrificing it. You protect liberty by exercising it. The Department of Homeland Security is presently the biggest threat to liberty. Scene of the Crime Identity theft happens when you get a Social Security number. After that, your identity cannot be stolen from you because you're no longer its owner. Primal Space The universe is the first miracle, the miracle in which all other miracles exist. End-of-the-Year Comment
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Acknowledgments My thanks to the following: SantaClara Bob; Lady Jan the Voluptuous; my mother; Dewey and Betty; Stephen, of Mililani, Hawaii; and FL, of Delano, Calfironia. editor
Court Quotes From Humor in the Court and More Humor in the Court, by Mary Louise Gilman, editor of the National Shorthand Reporter. Forwarded by Don G.
Funny Quotes by Famous People Original Source Unknown. Forwarded by Millie, of Baltimore, Maryland My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. Jimmy Durante
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