SOVEREIGNTY, Who Needs It?

ONE OF THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS people have concerning Sovereign & state Citizenship (aside from wanting to know the latest info on which words to capitalize) is: Why bother? That is, why go through all the hassle —of trotting down to the country recorder to file a revocation of the powers of attorney attached to a Social Security number; challenging the [right] to drive; writing letters to the IRS, Justice Department, franchise tax boards and others; and steadfastly refusing any and all government assistance (including disaster relief as some Southern California inhabitants have discovered is tied in to their SS numbers)?

There are three answers to this question: Practical, Philosophical, and Psychological.

First, the practical: There is no question that the government (federal, state, and local) can provide some with a cushy lifestyle via inflation, welfare, credit, entitlements, grants, limited liability, and raw, naked Power. In order to support this non-productive class, however, a much larger productive class must be tapped to pay the bills. Even though much can be financed by expansion of the money supply via the Federal Reserve, the productive class just still create the goods that fiat currency buys.

The odds are you are part of the productive class. You are most likely a net tax-payer, not a net tax-receiver. You pay into Social Security with no assurance that the money or even the system will be around when you retire (what you pay in goes right out to current recipients, a classic Ponzi-style pyramid scheme). You put savings into a bank account at 2-3% interest- which allows the bank to loan out six times as much money, usually to finance credit cards on which they receive 15-21% interest-with no guarantee (except the ‘full faith and credit of United State’) that a credit collapse or currency revaluation won’t suck your future dry. You have 30% or 40% or 50% of your paycheck withheld for state taxes, federal taxes, disability insurance, and more. You try to protect some of your wealth for your retirement by putting as much as you can into an IRA (oh, they changed the laws, making IRA’s worthless-put it in a 401(k) and hope they don’t do the same to that), trusting that you’ll be able to get it out decades from now when it may or may not have any value. You pay car registration for the privilege of driving (revocable at the whim of the state), you pay unending taxes upon your land (or, via rent, pay the taxes or your landlord) for the privilege of not being run off of it.

I think you get the point.

The practical side of re-establishing your primary Citizenship is that Citizens/Sovereigns of the states are not required to pay any of this.

The Sovereignty does not finance the national debt, they are not considered ‘national resources; they need not pay tribute to a master.

However, so few people inside or outside government understand this, that-realistically - one runs great risks consistently asserting one’s Sovereignty. (Not the least of which is being consider a fruitcake!)

Some of the obvious risks are: arrest and impounding of one’s conveyance due to the arresting officer’s mistaken notion that a Sovereign traveling in a peace of machinery is a ‘person’ ‘ driving a ‘motor vehicle’ in ‘traffic.’ Likewise, a tax-collector often mistakes a Citizen for a ‘resident’ or ‘taxpayer’ or ‘employee’ and must be corrected in their notion via tedious letter exchanges or even through courtroom proceedings. And once in the court for whatever reason, one must convince a judge comfortable in dealing with ‘residents’ and ‘US citizens that a state Citizen is not subject to the summary judgments and usurped powers of attorneys that pervade the system.

So why bother with the hassle? That’s where the Philosophical argument enters.

Our forefathers (in spirit as well as ancestry) fought a bloody revolution to wrest Sovereignty from the Crown and devolve it to the People. Many died in that struggle. Many more died in the second American revolution (the so-called ‘Civil War’) when federalism ran roughshod over the rights of state Citizens to impose an inferior US citizenship on Americans and create a subject class. Countless more have died since then in the wars and police actions of persons in government who believe that they wield the power of life and death over their ‘resources.’ [You!]

Is not the tedium of mistaken arrest for ‘traffic’ offenses or the occasional appearance in court a microscopically smaller price to pay for freedom than what Nathan Hale or Crispus Attuck paid? Especially when you can win with the proper arguments, because the Law is squarely (if obscurely) on your side?. The American Revolution did not end in 1776, or 1792, or 1814, or 1865. It continues to this very day. Valiant patriots fight for freedom in the courts, on the street corners, on cable TV, in meeting halls, on computer networks, and in newspapers and magazines. The war, now, is with words, not weapons. What is the risk a New Sovereign runs? A musket ball in the back? A rope of rough hemp around the neck? (Oops... I mean jute. US citizen are prohibited from using anything made from the cannabis plant!) Impressment on board a galleon swarming with scurvy sailors?

Hardly.

The risk these days amounts to the cost of notarization and filing fees, certified mail and postage, time spent churning out letters and notices to government agencies, time invested in learning the Law — the true law as preserved and passed on by our Founding Fathers - and informing others about it, and venturing out of one’s comfort zone into the world of assertiveness. Some very few may stumble and end up (temporarily) in the slammer, but so what? When Emerson asked jailed tax-rebel Henry David Thoreau what he was doing in there, Thoreau is attributed as replying "Henry, what are you doing out there?"

We cannot quail when faced with such meager threats when those who first envisioned a nation of freemen faced - and endured - far worse.

Has the slave mentality so pervaded our thinking that we can be ordered to fight and die for ‘the national interest’ but cannot conceive of living and struggling for our own personal freedom? It is in this realm that the Psychological argument holds sway.

After a brief 13 years of total freedom, some Americans created the Constitution and almost immediately the drive began to misconstruct it and undo all our hard-won freedoms. The concept of the Sovereign Citizen’s superiority to the government has been so eroded by the existence of US citizen-subjects that nearly no one can think in terms other than slavemaster dichotomies. Even New Sovereigns, at their darkest hours of discouragement’s, ponder whether the government will ‘allow’ them to assert their Citizenship.

This is how far we have descended for the lofty heights enjoyed by our forebears. This is why it is so important to stand up and declare your Sovereignty in spite of all who belittle it and misunderstand you. It is supremely important to one’s own self-esteem to shake off the slave mentality and behave as a Sovereign.

Think about the myriad ways in which the slave mentality serves as the chain - the only chain - that binds us to another. Because US citizens are considered nothing more than freed slaves, infants, or mental incompetents, the government graciously accepts power of attorney via such contracts of voluntary servitude as drivers’ licenses, SS numbers, mortgages, voter registration, signatures on 1040 forms, procurement of government loans, payment of land taxes, & etc. Once the government presumes one to possess the status of a subject of Congress, it does indeed offer all the benefits of slavery: limited liability and insurance (because a US citizen is considered too stupid to avoid risk), credit (too short-sighted to save for big-ticket items), housing (incapable of knowing to come in from the rain), police protection (not to be trusted with weapons of self-defense), and much, much more!

All this, however, comes at a price: everything US citizens create is property of the government(s) — including their children.

Think about that. Your car: If you own it, why can they imprison you, fine you, then impound and sell the machine if you do not pay annual tribute in the form of vehicle registration (which is explicitly imposed "in lieu of a property tax," according to California’s DMV)?

The land and home you ‘own’: if you stop paying taxes on it, what happens? It’s taken away! That can only happen if you do not in fact own it but merely rent it from your Master.

The guns you buy and carry to protect yourself, your family, and the Republic: there are more than 25,000 statutes regulating a US citizen’s "right" to keep and bear arms. That civil right can be — and is — taxed, regulated, and withheld at the will of the persons in government who "grant" constitutional rights conditionally to their subjects.

Your children: stored while young in public school concentration camps where gunfire (from resident criminals who ignore legislation) makes it impossible to concentrate and later, when older, subject to a military draft any time the government declares an emergency. And now, subject to national service (a civilian draft) as ‘payment’ for student loans — above and beyond repayment of principal and interest to the Bankers. And with the White House engaging in ‘generational accounting; the tax burden on the children of current US citizens is projected to be 71%!

In an effort to keep the slaves happy, the bread and circuses are distributed freely. In order to keep them paying, the public schools and government-franchised news media relentlessly drive home half-truths that the Constitution ‘grants’ civil rights (it does, but only to US citizens — Sovereigns have inalienable rights that the Constitution allegedly protects); that some of the responsibilities of US citizenship are to pay taxes, vote, and obey all statutes, codes, and regulations (again, true for US citizens, false for Citizens of the states); that all the freedoms gained in the Revolution are still ours today (they are for the Sovereignty, but not for the overwhelming majority defrauded into acquiring federal subject status); and that the United States is not an Empire, but is humanely dedicated to delivering the blessings of democracy to an eagerly waiting world (if one believes that, I have a bridge in Sarajevo priced to move).

Think about the crippling effect of considering one self a US citizen. First, one cannot perform any human action without pausing to think, " Is this permitted?" Since nearly everything has been declared illegal by statute and is allowed only on the procurement of a permit ( and the payment of a tribute), the US citizen develops a subject's epistemology: one’s actions are determined not by one’s own rational mind, but by reference to statute. Instead of following any action that might better his lot, a 14th Amendment citizen spends much of his life paralyzed by indecision: does he invest an inordinate amount of time locating the proper authority to beg permission or proceed without it and wait to be caught?

When faced with the demand to pay a government agency some expropriative amount, a US citizen will scrape up the money and pay, even if it means going hungry or into debt, to avoid face-to-face confrontation with an agent of the corporate state.

Fearing above all things the discomfort of admitting that they are not free, most simply do nothing with their existence, content to work for the government nearly half their lives, watch TV, and wait for age 65, when — they are assured — the government will take care of them completely and they can finally live off the slave labor of the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of themselves and others.

If faced with a treat from a thug, the US citizen looks vainly about for a government agent to protect them, instead of reacting to the threat with instant, withering self-defense. Told by his masters to comply with any demand, the federal slave meekly surrenders his property, just as he would to the tax man, then whimpers that the streets are unsafe and calls for more police, more prisons, and more aggressive victim-disarmament.

Encountering a new food, drug, or idea, the US citizen’s first thought is not "How wonderful!" but, "Is it safe? Is it approved? Has the proper agency examined it and declared it Good for me?"

There is no room in such a psychology for the pioneering spirit, for the dare-all, risk-all attitude that made these fifty countries great. A New Sovereign rejects the slave mentality utterly. A New Sovereign never seeks the permission or approval of any other than his own rational mind and moral sense. The Citizen stands tall and unbowed, secure in the knowledge that their actions better their own life and infringe not one iota on the liberty of others.

A Sovereign does not enthrall his future with easy credit and mortgages on the very Land on which he lives.

A Sovereign travels freely on the roads of America, paying tribute to no highwaymen, begging no plutocrat for the ‘privilege’ of locomotion.

A Sovereign provides their children with real education, not the socialistic, democratic creamed corn of the lowest-common-denominator government schools.

A sovereign learns the Law and speaks of it without shame or reservation, since the Law is for all.

A Sovereign pays only the taxes legally required of them, and cannot be cowed, coerced, or defrauded into paying a red cent more.

A Sovereign takes risks, but does not run to the government for relief from the realities and costs of failure. He does not demand that others share his risk without their consent.

A Sovereign rejects the easy justice and summary judgments of the Law Merchant. The common law is the best defender of their rights. A citizen stands tall in court, unashamed to demand - with cool-headed dignity — the rights and respect his status requires, never copping a plea, never bending the truth.

Most of all, a Citizen Sovereign is prepared to extend the lantern of freedom to all who would open their eyes to the light and welcome others into its expanding boundaries. The New Sovereigns stand ready to spread the seed of liberty across the planet and even to the stars, for our Right to Travel is as limitless as our ingenuity, and who but a free people have the courage, the determination, and the right to settle the new frontier?