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JeannieW
It sounds like you are on fire and are asking for this forum to put you out.
Your request is essentially an appeal from judicial misbehavior. It's not clear how you got the impression that someone here could reverse the corrupt court in your favor…and in two weeks.
Can't be done. And it isn't something that this website does anyway…give legal advice that is.
Doesn't sound like you're street savvy enough to go into a bad neighborhood all by yourself. So, if your post describes your situation accurately, and you're not a mole trying to get legal advice here, you might get some of the help you need by going to the University Law School clinic in your area. The advanced students get research and counseling experience advising people who are strapped for cash. They are usually gung ho and not members of the bar that the judge can punish.
Thanks for this discussion. The fourteenth amendment has to be the most difficult and confusing of all (which is the way a corrupt government like Lincoln's war-power congress would like it to be).
I found it helpful to concentrate on the meaning of “United States” in the amendment because citizenship can't be understood without first understanding “United States”.
If, in sec. 1 of the Amendment “United States” means the organic soil and not the abstract corporation of sec. 4. my question is this…
Inasmuch as law runs with the land…exactly what soil-based jurisdiction is a citizen of the soil-based United States “subject” to? (As in “subject to the jurisdiction thereof…”. You can't be subject to multiple jurisdictions (as in multiple union states). So who has jurisdiction…taken from the words of the amendment itself…over a soil-based citizen of the soil-based United States?
Neo
Thanks for the research, I agree with Admin that it would be very useful to read the exact language in your communications with the congressman and the DOS. So please post them soon.
Quote:The only thing we should therefore be doing with regard to the passport, is not providing a SSN. And I'm here to tell you, they don't even blink over that. They have provided passports to numerous acquaintances of mine without the disclosure of a SSN.I also agree that fighting with DOS about SSNs is a waste of time. Eight years ago, I got a new passport by filling out a new application. I put N/A NONE for a SSN. The clerk said she couldn't process it without a SSN number. I responded that that was a personal decision of hers for which she could be held personally responsible. I suggested she check with her supervisor. Thirty seconds later (it might have been 27 or 28) she came back and sulkily took the application to process it and told me the IRS would fine me $500 for leaving off the SSN. I thanked her for the warning. The passport was issued and the IRS just plain forgot to issue the $500 Bill of Attainder.
Very few blink when I tell them I don't have a SSN. The ones that do have routinely backed down when their authority to require it has been challenged.
Bing
I'd forgotten about the wealthy Katharine Drexel whose life was dedicated to the education of black and native Americans. She used her family inheritance to start the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament as missionaries to those groups. Here are some facts for those who think all, or even most, white people are racists…
Quote:Katharine Mary Drexel (November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) is a Roman Catholic Saint and daughter of the wealthy Francis Anthony Drexel and Hannah Langstroth of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Katharine dedicated her life and considerable inheritance to the needs of oppressed Native Americans and Blacks in the West and Southwest United States, and was a vocal advocate of racial tolerance. To address racial injustice and destitution and spread the Gospel to these groups, Katharine established a religious order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. Because Katharine felt a universal need for education, especially among Blacks and Native Americans, she financed more than 60 missions and schools around the United States. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 2000, becoming the second canonized American-born saint (after Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton who was canonized in 1975).Then there are all of the uncanonized Caucasian missionaries to Africa and South America and other places who seek to enhance the lives of other races and cultures. There is a Franciscan missionary in the Southwest US, a linguist, who is helping native Americans of that region to write down and codify their native vocabulary and grammar for their descendants — most of whom speak English. There are two Maryknoll sisters, musicians, in South America who are helping an indigenous native tribe to write down its traditional music for posterity. And there are many more that I do not know personally.
When racial politics, including manufactured racial strife and political correctness, are taken out of the picture, we find humans helping and delighting in other humans. Those people, like Katharine Drexel make it plain that doing good is more powerful than doing evil which only exists between people by their consent.
Interesting and valid observations. But whining is the wrong reaction. Nobody ever influenced anyone by whining.
All of this happens because Caucasians simply CONSENT to it…they've bought the incredibly stupid idea that they are guilty of owning slaves…in some other life. And he who consents cannot complain of injury (or offended feelings). So if you're “white” (which means colorless) quit whining that the other kids are calling you names.
An interesting way to deal with multicultural racism THAT WORKS is to simply call it racism. Use their own words against them. Just as FG and SEDM teach when they use the very words of the law against those who make…and then break…the laws. Just as FG and SEDM call government BS frivolous and even define it for them in communications…indict and convict the racists by using the “racism” epithet against them.
I once had a born again Muslim staff member who would try and usurp meetings by referring to Caucasians as “white devils”. I pointed out to him that the only racism he could speak about was his own…because that was his only area of racist expertise. He could put his racial hatred (that's what I called it!) on the agenda for the next meeting…and he could tell us what a racist he was for a full five minutes. And that was the end of it. Never heard another racial slur from him.
The same guy took time to pray ALOUD five times a day at work. I told him…at a staff meeting…that he could not hold public religious services on private property…without the owner's consent…and that he was disrupting the work and meetings of other staff members.
But I told him I'd make a deal with him.
I said he could pray privately and quietly…that Allah was not deaf to prayer and could hear him perfectly well. However, the deal was that every morning I wanted five vacation slips on my desk ready to sign. He would be on annual leave for fifteen minutes five times a day.
He objected at having to use his annual leave for his private prayer.
I told him that I thought his objection was an insult to Allah…that he would only take time to pray if someone else paid for the time…”prayer welfare” I called it.
He quickly agreed to provide the application slips for annual leave. I told him his first prayer of the day should be to ask Allah's forgiveness for the insult.
And as a good administrator would do…I followed up. Several times a week I asked him if he was using his leave time to pray. I told him I just wanted to be sure he wasn't wasting time…either office time or annual leave time…and that he was fulfilling his religious duty.
We turned out to be good friends. After that he was nothing but courteous to everyone and he routinely invited me…and other staff members…to break the Ramadan fast with him and his family.
Dealing with racism can actually be fun and interpersonally rewarding…as long as you're not scared silly to call racism racism. I did not disapprove of his racism…I offered him a pulpit for it. I did not refuse to allow him to pray…I encouraged it. But in any workable agreement there are terms…and it was the terms imposed on him…and consented to by him…that undermined his “right” to be a racist.
One's self respect can completely undermine the racism of others. It's actually a no brainer.
😛 to political correctness
Bing,
Good to have your voice back in the forums.
I did read the health care reform bill and virtually every paragraph is a description of how to avoid providing health care. The administrative hoops patients and their caretakers will have to jump through makes timely health care impossible…disease and death inevitable.
The people the bill applies to are the usual federal people…residents, individuals, who live in the United States (of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Marianas, the US Virgin Islands). Any readers of FG and SEDM memoranda of law would recognize immediately that the bill applies to federal officials operating trades and businesses on federal territory. The fines for non-compliance are bills of attainder/pains and penalties which congress can inflict on the slaves on its plantation…but not on nationals/non-resident aliens.
The interesting thing is that the health care reform bill is written in straightforward freshman level English. Anyone who knows the definitions of the words of art could read the thing easily…and sigh with relief that it does not apply to them.
- Quote:In the most personal way possible, I'm asking you for a favor: help us ensure that gay couples all across California keep their fundamental right to marriage ? the basic right to be treated just like anybody else.
In the 1980s a brain-dead social worker on the east coast decided that mentally handicapped people had a fundamental right to marry and have children. Because they should be treated like everyone else.
She played cupid between a mentally retarded man and woman with matching IQs.
She “trained” them in courtship…she found them an apartment and had it furnished. They did not integrate with the neighbors in their apartment complex because they lacked most of the subtle social skills for bonding effectively with those around them.
Since sexual interest is not adversely affected by a low IQ…the couple conceived a child…because a birth control schedule was to complex for them too adhere to.
It takes desire for a child to parent the child well. It takes a lot of quick thinking to anticipate a crawling infant's needs and potential dangers. It takes a lot of intellectual, emotional and natural talent to be a parent. It takes an organized system of values to decide important things for a growing child to engage in.
In a television documentary…the couple talked of the hardships they were experiencing and said outright…they never should have gotten married.
Though they were smart enough to learn their lesson…that they were people who needed to be taken care of and could not themselves be good caretakers…the brain-dead social worker insisted that she had done the right thing.
Do gooderism got out of control when the brain-dead social worker abdicated her professional judgment (though she doesn't appear to have had any to begin with) when she decided she had a fundamental right to force others to exercise their fundamental rights.
Gay people have lived quiet spousal lives for hundreds and hundreds of years. It has always been a personal choice for them.
Now it is not a personal matter, but a political matter which attempts to force society at large to change its own views of what a marriage is to accomodate the gay definition of marriage as universally acceptable.
The brain-dead social worker matchmaker politicized the marriage issue on behalf of the mentally retarded. The gays are doing the same thing. In the case of gays, it has nothing to do with marriage but with exercising political power. The arguments they favor for marriage such as control of the spouse's property after death is solved by joint ownership with survivor benefits. Access to the spouse in times of illness is solved by power of attorney. A boyfriend taking his boyfriend to the senior prom is not a fundamental right…but a policy issue for the school to decide. There are many other things to add to the list that can be disposed of quickly.
Fundamental rights can only be exercised by those who can do so responsibly. Should institutionalized mentally defective people be able to exercise their fundamental right to keep and bear arms?
Can gays use an undemonstrated fundamental right to marriage as a means to recruit children to the values and morally and physically risky behaviors of a gay life-style?
Liberal politics provides vague, easy, contradictory slogans as answers to complex matters. And so, as usual, no one has ever made a rational argument that there is a fundamental right, that is a right under the natural law, to gay marriage recognized by society at large through its laws.
Napolitano, Kagan and Sotomayor all look like brothers who may have been separated at birth and are now reunited on the SC. <_<
Ron Paul has to be one of the most real of all Americans. For years and years he has warned a sleepy people about the fed and its unlawful “Money”. With virtually no public support nor support among House members…he stayed the course and spoke the truth to Americans who were simply not listening.
Now with his son joining the fray…things may get even better.
If there was a Medal of Honor for speaking the truth to power…it should definitely go to Ron Paul.
(The medals for FG and SEDM could only be awarded as a franchise by the federal government…So their medals for speaking truth to power will be awarded in heaven 🙄 )
Well whoda thunk the fed was behind it all. 😮
You've arrived at the wrong site.
Your questions need to be directed to…and are readily answered…at http://www.irs.gov.
BTW a certificate of service is not the same thing as a certificate of mailing. The IRS is probably right that they have not been 'served'.
Many people, even investment gurus, simply do not understand gold and that its value never changes.
When people used gold coins for commerce, or paper receipts for gold coins, gold bought what it bought. There was no virtual standard…such as the US dollar…to give gold an artificial value. Saying that gold will rise in value to $3000 makes value a 'word of art' that…like all words of art…expresses a built in contradiction. Just as 'person' means 'an artificial entity'…'value' means 'valueless'. Gold going “up” to 3000 dollars an ounce or one million dollars an ounce only means that you will get far more VALUELESS pieces of paper if you sell your intrinsically valuable gold.
Why anyone would spend gold on colored pieces of paper that is not even good for writing on is a mystery buried deep in the human psyche (other mammals don't seem to have the problem).
On the other hand…buying a one ounce gold coin for $3000 simply means that the seller of the coin asked for more valueless pieces of paper to hand over the coin. Highway robbery you say. Yes…but the seller is the one who got robbed by taking worthless pieces of paper from you. Each piece of paper is equally valueless whether it bears the number 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100.
Gold simply does not change in value and that is why people buy it and own it.
If you were a courtier in the court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1560…you would have paid one ounce of gold to buy a good suit of clothes to go to court.
Today, 2010, if you buy a good suit of clothes to go visit Queen Elizabeth II some 450 years later…it will cost you one ounce of gold.
Gold neither loses nor gains value no matter how monopoly money fluctuates. Its value stability (its unchanging purchasing power) is the reason people dump paper and get gold.
To decide to buy gold because it is going “up” is an uninformed decision. It's the same kind of thinking that makes people “invest” in a company. They hope the stock goes “up”. The paper stock may trade at increased prices…but those prices mean nothing if the value of the company's assets remains the same. The early dot.com companies are a good example. Their was no value… no solid assets… in those companies. But their stock went up and up…but not in value just in numbers…because the stock did not represent anything of tangible value…just like paper currency.
People buy gold because it goes neither up nor down. The only thing going up is the number of pieces of worthless paper that passes for money. There is no value increase.
Even though the government doesn't do it…many people back their own paper currency holdings with gold by owning the metal EVEN WHEN THE ECONOMY IS BOOMING (which is to say…when most people are going deeper into debt by maxing out their credit cards at the malls and SUV showrooms).
For example, there was a company called Josten's…and it made virtually all of the high school and college class rings in the country. After 1972 when US currency floated free of any metal backing…Josten's had a very large cache of gold (some of which was used for manufacturing rings) as part of its assets. This created real value for the company as the US dollar fluctuated on world markets. Josten's ignored the government's action and backed its paper currency dealings with their own gold. They were assured not to have to earn and spend increased pieces of paper on buying gold for their business…but the business itself was a thing of value because of its excess gold holdings beyond what was needed for jewelry.
The only measure of gold's value is what REAL goods you can trade it for. There is no other standard by which it can be measured. And that is what should underlie a decision to buy gold (in “good times” of easy credit…and in “bad times” of high inflation and expensive credit)…not some panicky reaction to fluctuations in paper currencies.
Prollins
I'll pray that the words “Fear not, for I am with you” and the admonition not to worry about what to say…the words will be given you as you need them. I hope those two things will put a reassured smile on your face on Monday in your interview with the bank 🙂 .
The next thing I'll pray for is that you KEEP IT SIMPLE…by not answering questions that are not asked…by not overloading the banker with new found information that he or she is unfamiliar with and that you may not have fully digested yourself. This wouldn't be the time to “enlighten” them. Let them talk…and ask them what possibilities are open to the bank and to you and how they can help arrive at a solution good for both you and the bank.
As with all unsolicited advice…please feel free to ignore all of the above.
All the best.
The scam is so simple.
Greece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal max out their credit cards and can't pay their debts. The EU idiots all get together and say “Here's my credit card, apply the credit line to Greece. Now their cards are maxed out. Trying to solve a debt with another debt has got to be one of the most psychotic, irrational notions that ever hit the planet.
But it's all supposed to happen. Everything is moving along on schedule. The bankers who run the scam want fiat currencies to fail because they have outlived their usefulness. And cash is relatively anonymous even though they try to control it through reporting requirements.
The next step…probably using cell phones since even kids all over the world have them…is to digitize all transactions through some device that you point at a soda machine, or at a turnstile in the train station, or in a bar, or a Nevada house of ill repute.
The next step is simply for the bankers and their collection agencies to know where you are every minute of the day and how much “money” was paid into your digital device by your employer and how much and where you spent it.
Things like EZ passes, and their equivalents, devices that allow you to go through toll booths without stopping, are already getting people used to the idea…and liking it. And governments are already deciding if you exceeded the speed limit by getting to the next toll booth too fast. Then they simply send you a ticket…and they know it was you because they took your picture as you looked up to show your pass to the electronic reading device.
No need for a cop witness to go to court…no need for a traffic court and arguments about jurisdiction. There is no need for due process of law because you allowed your car and yourself to be photographed at the scene of the “crime” by taking action (holding up the EZ pass) and thereby giving CONSENT (it's still required!!) to be tracked and have evidence gathered on you…in real time…during your waking hours. You cannot complain of an injury if you consent. (The “You” in these comments is, of course, generic).
The undisputed material facts in the electronic record show that you convicted yourself in order to save 2 minutes and 45 seconds waiting in line to pay a toll.
It is no accident and no “crisis” that fiat currencies are failing. They are supposed to. I think it was FDR who said something to the effect that “governments never do anything by accident.” And it was Rahm Emmanuel who said “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
So fiat currencies can be replaced easily with digital devices that are the equivalent of an implanted microchip…and connected directly to government data bases…irs, homeland security, department of justice, etc.
Already most people don't use cash, but some form of digital payment device like a credit card…or a toll booth pass. There will be no need for IRS computer upgrades. People will be giving, in real time, the government and its agents all the information they need to tax, prosecute, and generally harass you…and you will consent to provide the indisputable evidence for them to do it.
People think electronic tracking devices, like toll booth passes, make their lives easier. They can't think from A to B. They're actually making their lives harder and their government chains heavier.
The change to electronic devices and the cashless society should happen in the very near future.
