Respectfully.
The U.S. Citizen argument is flat out Wrong.
U.S. Citizen was recognized in the California Constitution of 1848 and recognized in Congress in 1849, despite what the North Carolina Republic people teach and claim about the 14th Amendment.
Furthermore, the U.S. appears in the Articles of Confederation...or was that the Northwest Ordinance. That should make one who believes this nonsense blush for failing to consult their Fundamental and Foundational Documents.
Person in the 14th Amendment is not a new Citizen who is a Subject of government nor artificial person because the word "person" appears as the second word of the 5th Amendment.
That AGAIN should make one who believes this nonsense blush for failing to consult their Fundamental and Foundational Documents.
The only false constructs are Statute law of lawyers who have stolen the Office, Flag and Seal of THE PEOPLE to make fake and void law to oppress THE PEOPLE and enrich their Aristocracy, on where they are above THE PEOPLE and only accountable to each other.
That is plainly Unconstitutional in the Original Constitution of Michigan 1835, which the U.S. Congress signed on to and Approved as well as THE PEOPLE, and thus must be a point of our Fundamental Law.
There is no principle of law or fact to support a second government called "U.S." on American Soil that does not yield nor is subject to the Bill of Rights.
Summer before last a 14 year-old girl who was strip searched n the School of a County, of a State, in its administrative jurisdiction got her case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that she did in fact have 4th Amendment protections even in that place where all sorts of other rules exist and there is a corporation charter somewhere.
Last year in Heller v. D.C. it was made clear that the Incorporated Municipality of D.C. is a place where the 2nd Amendment is applicable and governs. The Battle of Rogue governments against the Rights of THE PEOPLE rages on.
In the Virginia Constitution of 1776, which precedes the Constitution for the United States of America (1787), it plainly states that there shall be no government within Virginia that is not subject completely to the Constitution, which included their Bill of Rights.
In the Same Constitution the Virginians also stated plainly and nakedly in Article I of their Bill of Rights, that MAN can enter into no societal contract that infringes upon UNALIENABLE Rights.
“The Constitution of Virginia
June 29, 1776
Bill of Rights; June 12, 1776
A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.
SECTION 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.” (emphasis added)
Yes that is Right not even a societal contract can be formed against Rights.
The U.S. Supreme Court in West Virgina Board of Education v. Barnette explains that the Rights protected by the Bill of Rights (by the way the 9th Amendment makes it all encompassing) can never be subject to an vote of any legislature nor majority nor power of office.
"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. " (emphasis added)
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette,
319 U.S. 624, 638 (1943)(Opinion, J. Jackson)
Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court has admitted and made clear that creatures of Constitution are completely subject to the Constitution from which they come. Therefore, no Legislature can create a corporation by their authority to violate the Constitution.
“…a creature of the Constitution. Its power and authority have no other source. It can only act in accordance with all the limitations imposed by the Constitution." Reid v. Covert, 354 US l (1957)
Finally, fraud vitiates the contract. The Declaration of Independence and no less than 3 original constitutions of 3 states (check New Jersey, Maryland ?, North Carolina ?, New Hampshire) explain that when the government ceases to protect the Rights of THE PEOPLE, it ceases to be the Government and THE PEOPLE owe it no allegiance.
So:
----there is no Corporate Charter for a U.S. that can Violate the Bill of Rights and THE PEOPLE.
----there is no corporation that can exist in America that usurps the THE RIGHTS of THE PEOPLE.
----there is no government corporation that is not subject to the THE RIGHTS of THE PEOPLE.
----there is no government nor subdivision therefore that can exist that is not subject to THE RIGHTS of THE PEOPLE.
----there is no legal construct called U.S. that is not the same as the United States of America that is not subject to THE RIGHTS of THE PEOPLE.
It is Lawless People doing lawless things: http://www.uscourts.gov/outreach/resources/williampenntrial.htm
Lawless People continuing to do law less things:
“These are not extravagant expressions [Most Extrodinary Writ of Habeas Corpus ad subjincendum]. Behind them may be discerned the unceasing contest between personal [Page 372 U. S. 401] liberty and government oppression. It is no accident that habeas corpus has, time and again, played a central role in national crises wherein the claims of order and of liberty clash most acutely not only in England in the seventeenth century, [Footnote 8] but also in America from our very beginnings, and today. [Footnote 9] Although in form the Great Writ is simply a mode of procedure, its history is inextricably intertwined with the growth of fundamental rights of personal liberty. For its function has been to provide a prompt and efficacious remedy…” [remedy Lawyers and judges have usurped and tied down at every turn of use]
Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391, 399-401 (1963)
It is the Lawless Aristocracy of lawyers that infests every Branch of Government, every Office, every Court and both Parties to thrust their version of Statist Power down your throat.
It is servile and petulent America who is manipulated to serve those interests, who masochistically support the abuse of themselves and their progeny, who dare not understand Freedom. Liberty, Rights and the 9th Amendment, and who refuse their duty under Article 61 of the Magna Carta, which I do not offer my own self serving interpretation, but that of Sir Winston Churchill:
"Here is a law which is above the King and Parliament, and which even He and They must not and may not legally break. And in the event they or anyone else were to try to abrogate it, such attempt at abrogation shall have no force nor effect [1297] and can be safely ignored with no legal ill effect. In addition, in the event of successful attempts at abrogation of such liberties, customs, or rights, the King has commanded and do hereby compel any and all subjects to swear oath to join the barons to assail the properties and persons and families of those (saving the King, Queen and the royal children) who had successfully completed such abrogation, including but not limited to that of the individual Members of Parliament who had voted in favor of any such successful attempts at abrogation [1215]. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it."
--Quote by Sir Winston Churchill, 1956,
It is they. the sloth and petulent, who are the problem and will carry it forward into the Tea Parties as I have found.
There is no complex legal structure that defeats the Fundamental law of America that springs forth from the Rights of Englishmen at the English Bill of RIghts and Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 and 1689 respectively, and the Magna Carta 1215. only mind sets of the sloths who want things given to them.
But just as with the 5 other reissues of the Magna Carta by the Crown, the Lawyers are always busy moving the boundry stone of WHO and WHAT We ARE, and how they must serve THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.
I have personally discovered that even this present mass awakening of the People in the Tea Parties is false (as their leadership has railed at me and ejected me for showing what I have shown you), for they are Statist who want to be taken care of and to be given all that they demand,
The true Reformation is in the Continental Congress who has offered an actual course of action.
GOD'S speed and eternal Blessings to you,
Thurston Paul Bell
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Joe Stack-The Third Shot Heard Round the World Censored Posthumously
I have decided, being one censored myself by our free and restrained government, that it is not right that Andrew Joseph Stack III (GOD Grant him peace and great reward for his bravery and patriotism) be censored in death.
From the hearing of the words of so many who appeared in Washington D.C. on September 13, 2009, his words will ring in their hearts in one capacity or another.
The government is afraid of his speech.
They are afraid that the American People will humanize him.
They are afraid that THE PEOPLE will understand him.
They are afraid of the issues he raises, the lie that America is to those who turn off the talking heads and the TV and learn to think for themselves.
They are afraid not what we will do, as Joe incites none to action nor believed that anyone will act, but they are afraid of what YOU WILL THINK of words of a man's suffering as so many Americans do, alone and in silence, words that then galvanize us together in the suffering government has wrought.
I offer you his words as transmitted to me. The cross appeared in the electronic language it was transmitted to me in, such might be a precursor to his canonization as Saint Joe American:
(one more thing for those in Israel: Baruch Goldstein is a Hero!)
it now begins
†"If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?”† The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time.† The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken.† Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it.† I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head.† Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy.† Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all.† We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers.† Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”.† I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood.† These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. †Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours?† Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies.† Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”.† It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system?† Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand.† Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand.† The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is.† If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?†
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s.† Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English.† Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions.† In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy.† We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God).† We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living.† However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0.† It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie.† It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father.† I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.† My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker.† Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement.† Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement.† All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time.† When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me).† I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread.† I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made.† I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
_††††† "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
_††††† "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
_††††† "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
†
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated.† The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d).† Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave.† Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time.† I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity.† This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”.† Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise.† The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists).† This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.† If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks.† Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s.† Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that.† The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco.† However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall.† Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed.† Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare.† Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months.† This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive.† Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY!† After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change.† Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while.† So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done.† I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work.† The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA.† This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income.† I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need.† The sleazy government decided that they disagreed.† But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out.† Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present.† After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again.† But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle.† After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order.† I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting.† Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit.† By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented).† Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone.† The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything.† Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”.† Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone.† The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government.† Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough).† In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.† It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants.† I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after.† But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change.† I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less.† I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are.† Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.† The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different.† I am finally ready to stop this insanity.† Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
†
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
†
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010"
From the hearing of the words of so many who appeared in Washington D.C. on September 13, 2009, his words will ring in their hearts in one capacity or another.
The government is afraid of his speech.
They are afraid that the American People will humanize him.
They are afraid that THE PEOPLE will understand him.
They are afraid of the issues he raises, the lie that America is to those who turn off the talking heads and the TV and learn to think for themselves.
They are afraid not what we will do, as Joe incites none to action nor believed that anyone will act, but they are afraid of what YOU WILL THINK of words of a man's suffering as so many Americans do, alone and in silence, words that then galvanize us together in the suffering government has wrought.
I offer you his words as transmitted to me. The cross appeared in the electronic language it was transmitted to me in, such might be a precursor to his canonization as Saint Joe American:
(one more thing for those in Israel: Baruch Goldstein is a Hero!)
it now begins
†"If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?”† The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time.† The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken.† Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it.† I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head.† Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy.† Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all.† We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers.† Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”.† I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood.† These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. †Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours?† Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies.† Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”.† It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system?† Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand.† Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand.† The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is.† If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?†
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s.† Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English.† Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions.† In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy.† We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God).† We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living.† However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0.† It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie.† It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father.† I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.† My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker.† Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement.† Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement.† All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time.† When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me).† I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread.† I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made.† I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
_††††† "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
_††††† "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
_††††† "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
†
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated.† The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d).† Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave.† Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time.† I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity.† This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”.† Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise.† The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists).† This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.† If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks.† Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s.† Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that.† The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco.† However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall.† Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed.† Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare.† Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months.† This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive.† Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY!† After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change.† Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while.† So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done.† I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work.† The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA.† This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income.† I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need.† The sleazy government decided that they disagreed.† But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out.† Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present.† After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again.† But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle.† After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order.† I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting.† Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit.† By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented).† Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone.† The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything.† Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”.† Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone.† The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government.† Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough).† In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.† It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants.† I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after.† But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change.† I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less.† I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are.† Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer.† The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different.† I am finally ready to stop this insanity.† Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
†
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
†
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010"
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Debt Crisis Admitted - Dollar Damage Imminent
When the TARP plan was suggested (September 2008?) I watched Paul Krugman, Professor Milner from Carnegie Mellon and some unknown from the Treasury Department debate it on News Hour/PBS.
Krugman and the Treasury guy were in favor.
Professor Milner said he had seen and advised in similar problems from Sweden to Chile and TARP was not the answer, that printing money was not the answer.
Krugman flip-flopped to Milners side before it was over.
Krugman was later given the Nobel Prize for Economics and flip-flopped again to the side of his friend Bernanke.
Bernanke was quoted before he was Fed Chairman as saying if a crisis occurred he would throw hundred dollar bills from a helicopter to solve the problem, one former CIA Operative explained to me in spring of 2007.
In reality, what he did do is throw hundreds of Billions of Dollars from a helicopter over his Friends places at Goldman Sachs, AIG, JP Morgan/Chase, Bank of America. (This was seen in 1987 and disclosed in the Tim Meitz book 'The Catastrophe of October 19, 1987 . . . and Beyond)
So plainly the plan has been all along to print money.
Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and Martin Weiss and many others have said over and over again that the government printing money was not the solution to the contrived collapse caused by an unregulated financial industry that was a glorified and institutionalized Gambling Operation.
Even Gerald Clenete of Trends Journal has been moved to call the Recovery a Wallpaper recovery of paper money and call this the Greatest Recession leading to the Greatest Depression.
Last week an Asian Hedge-Fund manager (Mark Farber) on CNBC caused an uproar on set when he stated that America would default on its debt. http://www.businessinsider.com/cnbc-anchors-freak-out-after-marc-faber-says-us-will-default-2010-2
Here is the pinch...of this article.
A. The Media is now admitting to the rise the Debt Crisis...that is coming...and the people who created it by the endless printing of money cannot stop it even with all of the Democrats and Republican Horses and Men as they cannot put Humpty Dumpty Economy (that sat on morally falling Wall Street) back together again.
B. The Media now does not believe that the Democrats are the answer, but that the sacrifice of Reason, Rights, Liberty, and Freedom on the Altar of Consensus by the Hand of both Parties is the answer.
C. The Media and is showing America, by their reports on the reasoning behind the Bayh Decision, that the Money Powers will collapse the Political and Economic Systems if THE PEOPLE do not leave the debauched Two Thug System alone, and learn to like whatever they contrive to foist THE PEOPLE upon.
The Money Powers and Politicians do not appreciate the Majority of Americans bringing the meddling issues of Constitution, Freedom, Liberty, Prosperity of the People, and inperpetuum rights into the political sphere.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35434448/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/
Krugman and the Treasury guy were in favor.
Professor Milner said he had seen and advised in similar problems from Sweden to Chile and TARP was not the answer, that printing money was not the answer.
Krugman flip-flopped to Milners side before it was over.
Krugman was later given the Nobel Prize for Economics and flip-flopped again to the side of his friend Bernanke.
Bernanke was quoted before he was Fed Chairman as saying if a crisis occurred he would throw hundred dollar bills from a helicopter to solve the problem, one former CIA Operative explained to me in spring of 2007.
In reality, what he did do is throw hundreds of Billions of Dollars from a helicopter over his Friends places at Goldman Sachs, AIG, JP Morgan/Chase, Bank of America. (This was seen in 1987 and disclosed in the Tim Meitz book 'The Catastrophe of October 19, 1987 . . . and Beyond)
So plainly the plan has been all along to print money.
Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and Martin Weiss and many others have said over and over again that the government printing money was not the solution to the contrived collapse caused by an unregulated financial industry that was a glorified and institutionalized Gambling Operation.
Even Gerald Clenete of Trends Journal has been moved to call the Recovery a Wallpaper recovery of paper money and call this the Greatest Recession leading to the Greatest Depression.
Last week an Asian Hedge-Fund manager (Mark Farber) on CNBC caused an uproar on set when he stated that America would default on its debt. http://www.businessinsider.com/cnbc-anchors-freak-out-after-marc-faber-says-us-will-default-2010-2
Here is the pinch...of this article.
A. The Media is now admitting to the rise the Debt Crisis...that is coming...and the people who created it by the endless printing of money cannot stop it even with all of the Democrats and Republican Horses and Men as they cannot put Humpty Dumpty Economy (that sat on morally falling Wall Street) back together again.
B. The Media now does not believe that the Democrats are the answer, but that the sacrifice of Reason, Rights, Liberty, and Freedom on the Altar of Consensus by the Hand of both Parties is the answer.
C. The Media and is showing America, by their reports on the reasoning behind the Bayh Decision, that the Money Powers will collapse the Political and Economic Systems if THE PEOPLE do not leave the debauched Two Thug System alone, and learn to like whatever they contrive to foist THE PEOPLE upon.
The Money Powers and Politicians do not appreciate the Majority of Americans bringing the meddling issues of Constitution, Freedom, Liberty, Prosperity of the People, and inperpetuum rights into the political sphere.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35434448/ns/politics-the_new_york_times/
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