The NEW Whole Ball O' Wax (A Continual Post)

https://sttwcollegeyears.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/the-whole-ball-of-wax/

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This is yet another continued post.  New sections will be added to this post every day.  Please come back every day you can to read more.  If you don't come back (or don't come at all in the first place), you had best believe I will put in the extra effort to force it down your throats   :D

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All right people, it's time to poke the beast, and poke it well.

INTRODUCTION TO THE (NEW) BALL

Welcome to the NEW Whole Ball O' Wax, where we rip into all the issues we had in the OLD "Ball O' Wax", found here:

http://themightyswordamericasdeadlysins.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-whole-ball-o-wax-continued-post.html

By the by, my name is no longer Christopher William Bruce, I don't give two hoots what the state of Iowa, California, or any other state or the Government says.  My name is Christopher the Living Man, or any other name I damn well feel like calling myself...today, tomale, or any other day.

First, a few things that should be made very clear:  I am not a "sovereign citizen", a group of people that the Des Moines register tried to label me in with.  A sovereign citizen is an oxy-moron...sovereigns and citizens are two entirely different groups of people.  You are a citizen.  I am sovereign.  End of story...nice try, no cigar, ain't happenin'.  I am a sovereign or state citizen.  I reside in Iowa.  I am not a U.S. citizen any longer.  Each and every Native American is a sovereign.  Everyone born between 1789 and 1864 was a "sovereign" national.  This isn't some new faction of "domestic terrorist" my friends, sovereigns are worldwide, and have been around an awfully long time, as has the idea.  This is what our founding fathers had in mind for us....self-government, or government by the people; not government by tyranny or fear.

Second, I am not "anti-government", I am anti-tyranny.

Third, I am not a "law-breaker", nor do I consider myself above the law, or not in need of obeying what the state, county, city and federal government has laid down as "The Law".  I am, however, most certainly against our current and massively outdated and corrupt system of "law", as well as the judiciary that has put itself over us to enforce this "law".  I am also against the obvious monetizing of this legal system.  If you don't have the cash, there's no way to win.

That being said, it's time for the thoughtful and self-examination portion of our show.  I'd like for my readers to take a moment to ask yourselves some fairly simple questions.  These are not difficult to ask, but for some of you, they will be difficult to answer.  Most certain, however, is that your answers may be very difficult for you to accept; especially if it's a question that you've been conditioned to answer a certain way your entire life; and if you're being totally honest with yourself when answering them.

UNALIENABLE RIGHTS

Before we get started, however, I would like to discuss something with you that I believe we are very uneducated about;  your unalienable rights.  What this phrase means to our formerly free county is lost on the majority of U.S. Citizens, and you can firmly trust that this is very much by design.

So what is an an unalienable right?

It's been said that these rights have been known to be some of these;  Freedom of speech and religion, life, liberty, the pursuit, etc.  The commonly known list has been shortened for most; and is all but forgotten or unknown for the rest (and sure as Hell isn't being taught you, either, you'll notice).  Let's take a moment to list the majority of these rights.  Our forefathers' list may just need a bit of tweaking;

1.  The right to live and breath (exist)
2.  The right to reproduce
3.  The right to parent
4.  The right to move or travel
5.  The right to speak...period.
6.  The right to feel.
7.  The right to choose
8.  The right to have
9.  The right to create and destroy.
10.  The right to believe.

What is an unalienable right, then?  It's something you can do without interference...whether by another person, or by a ruling faction.

THE QUESTIONS

Now that you're a little better informed, let's move along to those questions, hmmm?

1.  Do you believe that you need a birth certificate or a "court of law" to tell you who you are?  Why?

2.  Do you feel the Government needs to be told that you married someone (or intend to marry someone) or that you had a child?  Why?

3.  Do you need permission to cross the street?  To mow your own lawn?  To go around the block?  To take a bus to the other side of town?  To ride a bike over to your friend's house?  So why is it that you need a license to drive a big hunk o' metal?

4.  Why do you think you need to have an I.D. to purchase wine or beer, or to get a bottle of either with dinner?  Isn't drinking or smoking a personal choice?  Shouldn't it be?  Didn't it used to be (The answers to those last two questions, by the way, are a resounding YES)?

5.  Do you believe the Government really needs to be involved with your life in order to make a purchase of a weapon, just because a few people got guns (that they could have gotten illegally anyway, and probably did) from someone and shot someone else?  Do you really believe that just because the Government requires you to not be a felon or to register to get a gun really stops criminals from using them or from shooting you?

6.  Do you think it's right that police officers are allowed to search you, your car, your house or your property at any time, with or without a warrant?

7.  Don't you believe that you should be able to communicate whatever you want to, to whoever you want to?  If not...WHY not?  Isn't it feasible, that as you have the freedom to speak, you also have an equal freedom to listen to what I'm speaking about freely...or not?

8.  Do you feel that it's right that you not only have to pay local, county, state and federal taxes that are supposed to cover most of the expenses of that Government, but also a tax on the money you work hard to make, as much as 50 percent?  How about having to pay for things that should be optional to be taken out of your checks; such has Unemployment "Insurance" (that can be denied you, depending on the circumstances) or Medicaid or Social Security that you may never need or live long enough to collect?

9.  Do you think it's right for you to have to continue to pay taxes on a car or a home that you've completely paid off, or lose them for the amount of taxes that you owe or weren't able to pay?

10.  Do you believe that you really have the say-so concerning who is to become our next President or Vice-President?  Would you be shocked to know that you haven't had a say so since 1787?

Now that you've answered these questions for yourself, let's dig into the questions some more, and, maybe with better explanations, you'll change your mind on some of those answers...

BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND IDENTITY

Birth Certificates weren't required until 1902.  In the United States, it's been made apparent that birth certificates are needed for these reasons, according to Wikipedia:

"Birth registration opens the door to rights to children and adults which many other human beings take for granted: to prove their age; to prove their nationality; to receive healthcare; to go to school; to take exams; to be adopted; to protection from under-age military service or conscription; to marry; to open a bank account; to hold a driving licence; to obtain a passport; to inherit money or property; and to vote or stand for elected office."

Now, we can, of course, tear a lot of this apart.  For one, who cares about proving your age?  I myself don't give a rat's behind who knows my age, nor do I myself care how old I am.  Most of the time, I don't want to know how eld I am.  As for proving my nationality, I can just tell you that.  I don't need a Government paper to tell me that.  To receive healthcare...oh, you mean Obama Care, or the previous choice, the choice to pay thousands of dollars for healthcare that's shit?  No thank you.  To go to school...oh, you must mean public Government school, where, if you don't learn, they just push you through.  I'll take home schooling Alex.  To take exams....REALLY?  Maybe I don't wanna take any of your stupid exams....thanks.  To marry....I can do that without you, I promise.  To open a bank account, so that I can be charged for having one, and incur no real interest, and put in money that you're someday going to cheat me out of, because the bank goes south?  I don't think so.  To hold a driver's license...that I don't need, according to the UCC.  Only commercial drivers are required to have them.  To obtain a passport - so you can track me everywhere I go.  To inherit money or property...and that happens to the majority of Americans how often??  To vote...well, you know my thoughts on that.  Our vote doesn't count for shit...you and I both know it.  If you don't, you damn well should.

Folks, you don't need, nor do you want a Birth Certificate.  A Birth Certificate is immediately monetized, and you are traded on the open market, and used as collateral to float loans from international bankers.  This is the Government's way of making sure you produce maximum profits, via your taxes, for your country and your home state, and is primarily used to make the United States money.  Try and get your ORIGINAL birth certificate.  Bet you can't get it anymore.  From what I understand, your original is locked in a vault in the United States treasury.  'Magine that.  Just like registering your car and titling your land, this is simply a source of revenue for the United States Government.

Your birth certificate is simply a way for the Government to keep track of you, and is not needed.  This is the paper you, and gives the Government a way to start a foreign situs trust in your name, and allows them to file charges against you in court...and yes, you guessed it, make them money in doing so.  Use a name of your choosing, and let's get rid of the Birth Certificate.  We don't need them to tell us who we are.  You are you.  Please make a note of it.

GETTING MARRIED AND HAVING KIDS

We've already discussed the birth certificate, so let's get right into marriage "licenses"  Now America, marriage is a right.  Asking for permission from the state or the Government to marry designates it as a privilege.  The state needs to butt out of whether marriage is allowed between two consenting adults, it's just an additional form of revenue, and we all know it.  In some states in the south, marriage licenses weren't required unless the couple was inter-racial, which puts the start of marriage licenses in the U.S. firmly after the civil war.  According to some, this was the start of the REQUIREMENT of marriage licenses.

Marriage is a religious institution folks.  We don't need the Government to tell us that we can get married, nor do we need their permission to do so.  It's a right.  Period.

As for kids, we don't need the state's permission to copulate, to get pregnant, so it only makes a sordid amount of sense to not tell them when we decide to give birth to them, doesn't it?  This gives the state permission to stick their big overgrown noses into our affairs.  We don't need to tell them...and we shouldn't.

PERMISSION TO DRIVE (TRAVEL)

This issue is a hot spot of debate...not because I'm a sovereign or a "lawbreaker", as the Government would have you believe...but because you just...don't....need a license to drive!  The Uniform Commercial Code tells us that we need driver's licenses for only one reason...to drive a commercial or Government related vehicle.  Of course, they don't want you to know this.  Why?  C'mon people, use what sense you have.  If you didn't have an I.D. or a driver's license, how would they ever be able to a.  arrest you and charge you for crimes you supposedly commit, b.  how would they issue you tickets for doing something you can do just fine without them, c.  how would they make money off of you for having them, d.  how could they possibly require that you license your vehicle, insure your vehicle, etc., e.  They wouldn't be able to use the deprivation of this privilege and deprive you of driving to bring in money that you supposedly owe the state or a state run agency, etc...etc...etc.  This is not hard to figure out.  You do not require the state to tell you what you can drive, where you can drive, how you can drive, nor how long you can drive.  Put one foot in front of the other....there you go.  That's the ticket.  Now move.  There.  Did you need the state's permission to do that?  Nope.  It stands to reason then, that you don't need the state to tell you whether you can move around in a big honker piece of metal either.  Do you really believe that the license was invented at the same time as the automobile?  Not even close.  Am I saying you shouldn't be tested to drive a car?  No, not really.  But let's take a moment to look at the way the licensing system is taking severe advantage of us citizens, and maybe then licensing wouldn't seem like such a good idea.

First, lets look at all of the obvious businesses that make tons of money off of you having a driver's license, starting with those of the Government, from the Feds all the way down to your towns of residence.  There's licensing costs, testing costs, parking fines, registering, titling, insurance, SR-22 costs, court costs, probation fees, the cost of restoring your license, traffic ticket costs, etc.  I suppose you have to also count taxes, such as gas tax and car purchasing taxes, let alone jobs created and held by those in Governmental capacities too, such as police officers, sheriffs, parking meter maids, road construction crews, car salesmen/women, parking garage owners/employees, insurance writers, mechanics, truck stop employees, scale operators, DOT workers, etc.  

More importantly though, we should pay close attention to what they're doing to our driver's licenses these days.  Now, they say, because ID's and driver's licenses are so easy to duplicate these days, that they have to keep adding more technological enhancements to it.  This is so obviously a double-edged sword, my friends.  Just by scanning your wallet these days, you can tell who a person is, and what they've done practically their whole lives  They've got it to where you just have to pass a computer-laden cop on the street in your car, and they can bring up your whole DOT history.  Is this what you want?  Most people would say something to the effect of "Why worry?  I have nothing to hide, so why do I care?"  Yeah, maybe...but if you ever did...forget about hiding it, because you won't be able to.

Probably the most scary thing of all, however, is that they are now holding you criminally liable...if you don't have identification.  Yes folks, people are getting arrested for not having ID; and if you move, and don't have your address changed on your driver's license within 30 days, you can be criminally charged for not doing so.  This is when thinking that licenses and ID's are required...stops being funny.  This is obviously when we have to look at whether the ID or license are more for our benefit...or more for theirs.

THE NEED TO HAVE AN I.D. TO BUY THINGS

Another hot spot, in keeping with the previous section - in Europe, when you're old enough to look over a liquor counter, you're old enough to decide whether you can buy a beer or not.  The Europeans, as far as I'm concerned, have been around a few more centuries than we Americans have...I feel that they provide a damned good example for the rest of the planet.  As for smoking and drinking - whether you wish to die from lung cancer or be an alcoholic...is a personal choice, just like any other drug you partake in, sold or prescribed.  I feel this should be a choice you make for your life, and before I hear people say that sometimes you just shouldn't even be presented the choice, for all the damage it does to your life...just remember, that most of these things are of the earth...and they're the things that are illegal.  The ones that are manufactured, if prescribed...are legal.

For that matter, I never did get along with the idea that, if you weren't prescribed it, it's illegal to take it.  If I get a migraine, and I don't have anything for it, but my best friend Chuck does...why should I be arrested for having a pill that Chuck slipped me to resolve the issue?  Why doesn't Chuck get equal blame for giving it to me?  Either way, this is another way that the Government feels they have a right to interfere with your life.  Even more annoying is the fact that everybody asks for ID now...most of them, no matter WHAT your age!!!  I'm sorry...but if I have wrinkles and grey hair, I believe I'm old enough to buy cigarettes or beer.  Neither here nor there, this shouldn't be anybody's business....but mine, thank you very much.  BUTT OUT!

NEEDING THE GOVERNMENT'S APPROVAL TO OWN OR PURCHASE WEAPONS

Now this is a big hottie, these days.  Of course, the answer is a big, fat, resounding hell no, we don't need their approval!  This is apparently under fire now; not because of terrorism...not because of mass shootings.  Folks, you know damn good and well that guns are not the problem.  We Americans didn't just up and develop a problem with owning guns lately...the Government is having a real problem getting them back out of our hands.  They don't want us owning the kind of firepower it takes to be a problem for them...so, it's easier to just make it look...like we have a problem.  We don't.  We haven't.  We never will.

Gun registration...like marriage licenses, were never required, until after the civil war.  Not unlike marriage licenses, they began to be required, because the southern states didn't want recently freed black slaves buying up rifles and shooting their former white owners, after being beaten half to death on their cotton farms.

It wasn't all that long ago...what, a year now; that Washington held a big gun show.  Because they had just passed a law stating that people would have to register their ownership of guns, the people of Washington gathered, and simply refused to do so.  Not because they didn't wanna....but because they didn't HAVE to.  They knew it...and so do we.  Folks, our current government knows we don't like them, nor do we like what they've become, and we certainly don't like what they're doing.  They've tried the easy way, asking us to give up our guns...and we not necessarily nicely refused.  Now they're demanding it, or making laws to get them out of our hands.  It's not working very well, so they're now employing other ways to do so.  One of the easiest ways is to just straight up pass the laws.  Sure, we may object to them or not follow them for a while...but as it's been in the past, we old timers won't be around forever...we'll die off, and a new generation that's used to the laws being there will someday take over, and the law will be there for them.  Another way they've done it is to put us in jail for some stupid reason...then just take them, because they're there.  The most ridiculous way they've done it of late is to start or fake mass shootings...and blame us for it, and maybe some day we'll  fall for that trick and just give it up.  Whatever it takes, I say.  I say, good luck with it all.  Don't give up those guns folks, not for any reason.  Guns are the only reason that America is still America.  Give that up, and you may as well just hand over the whole Constitution...not that we haven't already mind you, but you get the picture.

THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF COP STOPS

I dunno 'bout the rest of you folks, but I've been raised to believe, nearly all of my life, that anytime a cop asks you for your ID, by God, you had best produce it, and fast.  Cop stops you whilst you drive, you had best pull over and comply.  If he should ask you to search your car, things will go much better for you (if he finds something he/she shouldn't) if you say yes.  If a cop comes to your door and says he needs you to let him in - if you don't want to get shot, you had better do as you're told.

I cannot stress enough here, folks, that you are not under any pressure to do any of this.  This behavior (as well as your conditioned response) is a trick, and you have your rights.  Of course, these days, you don't....really have any rights, but only because you've a.  forgotten what they were, b.  weren't ever taught what they were, or c.  have been brainwashed into the belief that any time any part of Government comes to you, you had better do exactly what they say.  This, more than anything else in our time, pisses me off more than just about anything.  Folks, there is, in the 4th amendment to the Constitution for, and of, the United States of America, a protection against illegal searches and seizures.  Just because law enforcement of this day and age chooses to ignore those rights, or ways to legally circumvent that right, doesn't mean it IS right, nor does it mean you have to agree...to any of it.  Simply put, unless there is probable cause or you are suspected of committing a crime, these people, no matter what capacity they serve in, do NOT have a right to "detain" you, in any fashion, shape, or form, no matter if you're in your car, your home...whatever.  If they ask for your ID, you ask if they're detaining you, or to define the crime they are suspecting you've committed.  If there is nothing, you tell them to move along.  City, State, Federal, it doesn't matter.  They need probable cause, then they need a warrant to search....you, your car, or your home.

Now, again, I will say that it's likely that they'll find a way to get around what they're required to have...but if you're on your toes, you'll know that you have to agree to be searched.  Make them ask...then make them produce a warrant.  If they have no viable reason to "detain" you, they have to let you keep walkin'.  If you're living in one of those lovely states where they say you have to have an ID, you tell them that you have one...and unless you've committed an actual crime, then you don't have to produce one.  If you're in your car, and they ask you for your driver's license, registration and car insurance card, you ask them what crime you've committed, and if you're being detained for committing a crime.  If they try and give you the ol' "You ran a red light" routine, tell them to bring the red light to you, so you can face your accuser.  If it's on police video, ask for the tape.  Then ask them for the statute that states that you can't pass through a red light while it's red and there's a police officer behind you.  Keep the fire to their feet.  Don't sign any tickets, and don't agree to searches.  I don't care if there's a lump in the seat beside you that looks like a dead body...unless there's a cold dead hand spilling out below it, they have no right to pull you out of your car.  Tell them no, they can't search your car.  If they come to your home, open the door only for a visible warrant (that you can see through the window or the peephole), and should you open the door, lock the door, step outside, and pull the door closed behind you.

Should you happen to be driving through an illegal cop stop for drunk drivers, tell them they have no right to do it, and don't agree to a breathalyzer.  Folks, you don't live in Red China....you're an American.  The only reason they get away with these, and radar checkpoints, is because we allow it.  Stop allowing it.  You have rights.  This includes the right to drive freely without entrapment stops.  These people have no right to do anything to you, until you say "Sure officer."  These are YOUR employees.  Claim your rights of "the people", and fire them, if they're abusing those rights.  They work for you.  Sometimes, it's good to remind them that the only reason they have jobs is because you pay their salaries.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Here's one I happen to have a lot of personal experience with.  Should you be able to speak freely?  Oh, but of course.  The trick here is, does the person listening have to like what you're talking about?  No again.  Should crimes be associated with it?  Sorry.  Can't agree.  Speaking freely is....speaking freely.  Therefore, no matter what you say, you should not be able to be arrested for it.  See people, it's like this.  If I don't like what the President says, he can't be arrested for it...so why should I?  Well, what about threatening people?  Sorry, gotta go with logic here...if you can't carry out your threat, or if you're just talking smack, again...no crime committed.  In addition, in this digital age, there are too many ways to ignore or block what's being said.

Now, there are most certainly exceptions to the rule here...If someone threatens the President's life, sure....take it seriously.  If there's a bomb threat, of course.  But if they're obviously not able to carry that threat out, to Hell with that person.  And here's another one, maybe the person making threats was incited into doing so, like I was...so what about the inciting party?  They don't have to be arrested??  C'mon people, use yer heads.  If the guy threatening you lives 100 miles away and doesn't have a car, chances are he's just mad, or talking smack.

Oh, but what about harassers and stalkers, you wonder?  Guys, c'mon.  If they're calling you...block the damn number, or change it.  If they're harassing you in emails, dump it in the spam folder, or make a new email account...better yet...DON'T READ IT!  If they come to your house?  Then have them arrested.  'Til then, screw 'em!  


Here's a good example of how ridiculous things have gotten.  People are offended these days way too easily.

Once, I made a new flyer for a business I was planning to start.  I spread them around town, and came back later to try and figure out why I wasn't getting any business.  Everywhere I had put one up, they were taken down.  Everywhere I had asked to have someone put it up for me, there was nothing there.  Finally, I asked one place, a diner, what was going on.  They said that someone, a regular customer, had read it, and had been offended by something in it.

I got to thinking about it, and the more I thought about it, the madder I got.  For starters, what are the chances that the customer this person was referring to was going to read it twice?  Let 'em be offended once, what are they going to do, stop coming to their favorite restaurant forever because of some idiot flyer they got offended by?  And here's what happened, now that you did that...the offended person may be happy, but the offending party got offended by your taking it down, and you not only cost yourself that guy ever being a customer, plus whoever else he takes to telling about it, you cost him business.  All because of one person getting offended, who wasn't going to stop coming in because you didn't take it down anyway, more than likely.

On another occasion, I asked some friends of mine to put some flyers by the register for me.  I came in another day with more, and asked if he had gone through the ones he'd had.  He said yes, so I left him some more flyers.  I turned to leave, but then remembered something I had forgotten, and went back in, to catch the guy throwing away the flyers that I'd paid good money to print up.  I was furious.  Why would you do something like that, to a friend no less, I asked him.  He said some business man friend of his didn't like the information on the flyer, and told him he shouldn't put them there.  Now, of course, this was the sort of thing that not everyone would like, more so, it involved corruption.  But if you don't like it, don't read it...more so, don't pick them up!  Leave them for someone else!  Instead of this, the business owner/friend cost himself a very good friend...all because some guy, who had the choice not to read the flyer or say anything about it, told him to throw them away.

If you don't like it...don't read it, don't listen to it, don't watch it, don't open it.  Just like you have the freedom to speak, you also have the freedom not to listen.  Don't arrest people for talking...how stupid is that!

PAYING INCOME TAXES

We all know, as Americans, that the taxes we pay, all 6,000,000 of 'em, are just getting ridiculous now.  Taxes are everywhere, on everything, as many as 4-6 different taxes on certain things we buy every day.  We know they're getting higher and more ridiculous all the time...yet we just lump it up and sit on it, chalking it up to a fact of life.

Some of these taxes I can certainly understand...but one stands out as the most unbelievable of them all, and one that I was certain I would someday see repealed in my lifetime.  But then, our Government does know its business...or they'd be out of business.  I'm sure this particular tax has been dogged many times, more than likely during the course of its inception back when it was introduced to America, but as the decades have dragged on, less bitching and more "fact of life" acceptance of it has taken its place.  But folks, I believe the time has come for us to once again bring an end to this tax, more than any other, and that's our Income Tax.

Thanks to Amendment 16 to the Constitution (which neither I nor my parents or grandparents remember passing, codifying or ratifying), we are, of course, required to pay taxes on our income.  This wouldn't be so bad, but did you notice that everyone counts your gross as the money you make, even when you're talking about child support payments or paying your taxes.  I'm sorry guys, but you don't make what you make, not until your taxes are removed from your paychecks.  Your "NET" income should be your gross, and your gross shouldn't even be considered as a part of what you make; mainly because you don't make that.  This holds true for salaries you make at your new jobs.  You don't make that, not take-home, anyway, so why even consider that to be what you make?  Salaries should be reconfigured for your situation, and for the number of dependents you have.  What good is it to tell someone they make 30,000 a year, if 12,000 of that is removed from your checks?

Just one of those beefs, you know what I'm sayin'.

Anyway, the point being, how is it that we Americans have come to accept what could be easily the most unfair tax ever imposed on our lives?  Well, of course, you notice that the Amendment was passed around the time that International Federal Banks came into our lives.  That's one reason.  And, just like everything else that happens in this great country of ours, I'm sure that it was quietly done, and sneakily done as well.  I'm sure the original amounts taken were quite small, and just like everything else done in business, the price increases just crept along and crept up, little by little, bit by bit, 'til it became the monster we all know and feed today.

It's my belief that we have lived with this for far too long already.  Other income based tax systems have been introduced, and should be given a fair shake.  Information on one of the best replacement systems, the "Fair Tax" can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax

and here:

http://www.factcheck.org/2007/05/unspinning-the-fairtax/

By the way, it's important to mention that this concerns ALL taxes imposed on the American people today, not just the income tax.  All additional taxes all tons and tons of them, would be simply replaced by this single tax system, and all of today's taxes would no longer exist.

Even if the Fair Tax system were to take hold, however, should we really be paying taxes on our income?  I know all of you want to say no...so do it already!!  Let's at least ask for a detailed explanation on what all of our taxes actually pay.  I'm sure we can get those answers anyway, just for the Googling...but as they say, you can't believe EVERYTHING...or is it Anything?  That you read on the internet.  If nothing else, I'm sure they leave out as much detail as they can.

As for all of the "added benefits" that they supposedly need to remove from our paychecks, it should be obvious that these should be optional.  Did you notice that they raised the ages to get social security benefits?  The reason given us was that our life expectancy is higher.  I wouldn't count on that being entirely accurate information.  I suppose it could be that we're living longer...but look at how much more dangerous it is to live on this planet now-a-days...is it really possible that, on the average, we're living longer?  Not with all the wars, diseases, mortality rates I've been seeing.  No America, I firmly believe that the age went up to be sure that we're pretty much dead before we receive it, and if for some reason we live long enough, that it won't be long before we're dead, and no longer get it...just like lottery wins in the millions that only seem to go to little old ladies, I think the age went up to make sure that we don't catch the Government with their hands elbow deep in the cookie jar, stealing our benefits.

PAYING TAXES ON THINGS THAT YOU OWN 100%

One of the things about paying taxes that probably bugs me more than the idea of income tax, is paying taxes on things that you own, free and clear.  You've made all the payments on your new car...but is it really your car now?  Is that so?  Then why do you still pay taxes on it every year, depending on its value?  And, of course, there's the matter of your home, or your real estate.  Now, I could understand paying taxes on real estate...if you were making money off of your real estate...but for one building home owners, who only wish to own a home?  This is another one that grinds my gears, something fierce.  Even after the mortgage is paid off, and the loan is through, you still have to pay taxes on your property.  If you don't, you lose your property...but not for what it's worth, but for the value of the property taxes.  Therefore, there's a group of individuals sitting on their thumbs just waiting for that year when your life went south...so that, when you don't pay the property taxes, they can just buy up your property...for the taxes that you haven't paid.  Wow.  So, all those years you made your payments, and your house is GONE, because they cheated you out of 1,000 in tax returns this year, and you weren't able to make your taxes.  All those years working for the American Dream, gone in a half an auction bid.  Worse yet, it probably went to someone that makes money hand over fist buying up property like yours for a living.  Not much differently than just about everything else that defines our great nation, the rich make out like bandits, and you poorer souls, you pay the consequences.

Oh they give you reasons for paying those taxes, of course.  Water, sewage lines, electricity provided your neighborhood, the roads, etc...but even if you live in rural America, these taxes haunt you until the day you croak.  I'm sorry, but if you own it you own it.  If you're still paying the taxes on it...and you could lose it because you don't, then in my opinion, you never do own the damn thing.  'Nuff said on that note.  Let's move on.

Last question, FINALLY, huh?

DOES YOUR VOTE REALLY COUNT?

I've discussed this in other articles, of course...and my feelings on it, of course, have not changed, not even a little.  It's important that we give the citizens the illusion that our votes on who goes into the 2 most important offices in the county matter.  I'm sorry, but the facts show that it does NOT, nor has it mattered since 1787.  This is the date that the electoral college came into being.

Now, I think it should be obvious to the American people, since we have had 3 election outcomes that did not reflect popular vote it should also be obvious that something is wrong with this system.  Actually, for me, once is more than enough.  Anytime the "electors" don't go with popular vote, that to me means that we most certainly do NOT decide, in any way shape or form, who it is that becomes either the President...or his/her Vice.  Ultimately, if your "electors" don't vote the way that you do, then you plain ol' have...no....say.

You notice, though, that the illusion is pretty convincing.  First, the conventions make it look like we're getting what we want, but how do we really know?  The nomination didn't go to who yelled for their candidate the loudest, of course.  So how is it that anyone really knows who it is that we actually put in?  The answer to that has always been, we don't.  Worse yet, we never will know.

That this method of electing the 2 highest offices came to be so early in our nation's history tells me one very important thing.  Early on, someone figured out that, if left up to the people, we could put just about ANYONE in the highest offices of the land....and we can't have that!  No Sir!  So instead, we put the electoral college in as a safeguard...to ensure that, if the wrong choice started to win, that we wouldn't be the ones who put him there.

Your vote, America, for President, matters not.  You do not have a say, nor does your vote count in this case.  A lot of the population pretty much realizes this already, but do you notice that not a lot has changed?  That's because it just can't.  If it were to, God only knows who'd make it in, hmm?

THE CURRENT JUDICIAL METHOD OF "JUSTICE"

For those of you that aren't aware of the extend of how justice is done in America (as well as how it's SUPPOSED to be done), this section is for you.

Every case that happens in a court of law these days is supposed to begin as a civil matter, or is supposed to be handled in what we American's USED to call a Common Law Court.  In case you weren't aware of it, Common Law or Civil cases don't do a damn thing for the State's income.  Therefore, America has been slowly but surely turned away from Common Law, and its courts are now courts of equity.  This way, the state, county and federal courts have more power, and can now make money off of its citizens.  Here is an example of how our judicial system is supposed to handle every matter that comes before its judges:

A complaint is supposed to be filed by a plaintiff, or a wronged party.  For example, if you burn down someone's home, the wronged party, the plaintiff, is supposed to file a sworn "civil" complaint against you, in a Civil Court.  It's the plaintiff's job to set the Jurisdiction that's used, the Judge does not do this.  There is, by the way, no such thing as a "criminal matter."  There are only civil matters.  The "Judge" presides over this matter, and is simply there to rule on the matter, once the complaint is officially made.  He is only there to decide if a crime has been committed, and rules in the defendant's favor, or in favor of the plaintiff.  A monetary damage is then supposed to be assessed in the case, and a bill of debt is tendered, and the defendant should be ordered to pay his debt, and be given a time period to make good on payment of the debt.  Should the defendant not pay his debt, the matter should then be brought into the public sector, and the defendant, should he/she be unwilling to pay, should then be jailed.  Should the plaintiff's complaint be false, and be ruled as false, the judge would find that no debt is owed by the defendant, and the defendant should then be allowed to counter-sue, either at the same time as the case is brought against him/her, or after favor is found for the defendant.  Every case where the defendant is found to be in the wrong, the defendant should be allowed to pay his debt, ruled to be owed to the plaintiff, before the defendant is jailed for the crime committed.

The way it works in an equity court, is that the plaintiff gives his case to the office of "The State", represented by whatever county you're in, or the County Attorney's office.  If you're being charged Federally, the plaintiff becomes "The United States".  The reason this is done is so that the State, or the Country as a whole, can make money from you, as can the represented party.  The other reason it's done this way, is that there is no one sworn statement made by a single person...you are up against a legal fiction, a false corporation, with no option to "counter-sue", since corporate laws differ from personal laws.  This also means that no individual, or a "person", can file charges.  If the state feels that there is no money to be made from the case, they can opt not to file charges in the case.  This is wrong, America.  Relief is not an option, unless the State, or the United States, asks for it.  Not only that, but the option to pay your "debt to society" no longer exists, unless relief is asked for by the "plaintiff", the charging party.  What's more, opportunity to pay is bypassed in these cases, and the defendants are now ordered directly to jail, as if they haven't paid.  As for what remains of civil or common law proceedings, the courts will make their money here as well, in the form of filing fees, with the lawyers fending for themselves...which is why there is no shortage of lawyers that won't take cases unless they see dollar signs.

Because of shows like The People's Court, and Judge Judy, which are, by the way, "civil" courts, it would appear to America that this is how it's done.  It's not until things happen to you, or until remedy is asked for, that you figure out what's really happening in our "Courts of Law".

What's really funny about the way it's done, is that the American public has no idea what's going on anymore, nor are they aware of the deceit that's been snuck into this...until post conviction remedies are asked for.  Then all of a sudden, it's no longer a criminal matter...it's now back to being a civil matter again.  That's because what is being done here is wrong, and the courts of equity are simply fleecing America for all it can before they're found out.

Not convinced?  Call the police, and attempt to file charges against someone.  This no longer happens, in case you haven't noticed.  All you can do is file a police report, and hope that the charges are picked up by the state or U.S. Attorneys.  If the charging entity, the corporate fiction, chooses not to consider what's happened to be a crime, there are no charges filed.  Another thing you'll notice, is that you can now be arrested for Federal crimes long before any charges have even been filed...which could be as long as 30 days.  This means you can be arrested, not charged, and not given a bail for up to 30 days.

Thank God for people like me, or you'd never know these things, eh?  As long as I'm me, and I'm free, you can best believe you'll be told the truth.

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