Mr. Blestman's article is 99% right-on
Letters to the Editor
November 04, 2008
This letter is a response to the article by Szandor Blestman.
Mr. Blestman's article is 99% right-on. I am writing to discuss the omitted 1%, to target the Dim Mak pressure point strike that will allow "We The People" to take back the country, which is the nexus, or point of connection, of the people to the Federal government that has allowed an income tax to be fastened onto us. That nexus is Social Security.
The Federal Reserve is the main cancer on the body politic that has to be dealt with, but the question is "HOW?!" As most of the readers here are aware, the Federal Reserve System is actually a private, run for profit corporation, composed of member corporations, behind which are other banks, such as the Bank of England with a 50% share, various Wall Street investment banking houses, trusts, and finally a handful of families, such as the British Royals, Rockefellers, Rothschild's, etc. This banking system, and other central banks around the planet, all operate pretty much the same way, i.e., the monetization of debt via issuance of bond from the borrower (governmental entities) to the central bank, due and payable with interest. Only principal is lent out, the interest to repay must be aquired elsewhere, which, in turn, was created by borrowing/lending into existence, hence a viscious, inflationary cycle and in general a constant devaluation of currencies against real goods and services.
It is no accident that the 16th ammendment was ratified or claimed to have been ratified the same year that the Federal Reserve Act was passed. The income tax and the federal reserve system go hand in hand. The Federal Reserve has admitted, in writing, that the national debt is secured by the future labors of the American People. In otherwords, the income tax makes us slaves to the national debt.
The thirteenth ammendment specifically prohibits involuntary servitude, so how can the income tax as it is currently applied, i.e., to the wages of the average American worker, possibly be Constitutional? The answer is two fold ... firstly, the exact nature of the tax; secondly, the means by which you become liable.
The income tax was ruled to be within the bounds of the Constitution shortly after the passage of the 16th ammendment by the US Supreme Court, which stated that the income tax is NOT a direct tax, subject to the rule of apportionment, but rather an indirect tax, a special excise tax on government granted privilege, measured by the income, or profit, derived from use of said privilege. In the early days, there was little question as to the privilege, because virtually nobody was paying personal income tax, it applied mainly to the privilege of incorporation. What changed?
In 1935, Social Security was passed, everybody knew at the time that it was a 100% voluntary program. Withholding for Social Security started in 1937 on a voluntary basis. People signed up in droves, believing it to be a good deal. There were some holdouts who refused to participate on matter of principle, but increasing pressure was applied to them to sign up by their employers. I interviewed one such man back in 1990, who told me about how, from 1937 until 1941, he was pulled into the office of his supervisor again and again and asked to sign up. At first, it was "It's a great program, you won't miss the small amount taken out of your pay envelope." Then it became "Why do you have to be different, everybody else is signed up." It progressed to "Gosh darn it, Charlie, if it weren't for you, we would have 100% participation!" Finally, after the air attack on Pearl Harbor, it became "Everything has changed! If you want to keep your job here, YOU MUST SIGN UP!"
During that time period, the Public Salary Tax Act was passed, folding Social Security into the revenue codes. That was followed in 1940 with the Buck Act, which was a reciprocal taxing arrangement between the then 48 States and the Federal government, which allowed the Federal government to consider anyone who participated in a Federal program, i.e., Social Security, as if they were in the Federal zone. The trap was set.
In 1942, secret sessions of Congress discussed a big problem ... the country was out of the depression and into a wartime boom economy, leading to labor shortages and higher wages and more dollars in circulation. On the other hand, due to the war, there were real shortages of consumer goods on the home front. Gasoline was rationed, rubber for tires went to war, meat and butter were in short supply, etc. Rationing lead to what were called "black markets", really free markets where these goods and services were available at market price, which was a good deal higher than the prices with ration coupons. In otherwords, the inflation of the money supply was causing prices of real goods and services to be bid up due to supply and demand. Knowing that inflation causes the integrity of a fiat currency to be called into question, Congress and the Federal Reserve sought a method of controlling inflation by bleeding off buying power from the public. The nexus to the people for an income tax was already established, but they also knew that there would be riots if people were to receive a an annual tax bill in the mail at year's end. Enter Donald Duck and Beardsley Ruml, author of the current withholding system.
Walt Disney was contracted to do a cartoon to promote the income tax to the American People as needed for victory. The character was Donald Duck, and the message was we can all accept an income tax or we will all be going "Heil Hitler!" Beardsley Ruml became known as "pay as you go Ruml" as he promoted a system of withholding directly from worker's paychecks. This started in 1943 as the so-called "Victory Tax". People were told not to worry, this was a temporary wartime measure. This temporary WWII wartime measure celebrated its 65th birthday this past July.
Interestingly enough, to this day, Social Security is still, on paper, 100% voluntary. If you were to write the Social Security Administration, they will tell you, in writing, that "a Social Security Number is 100% voluntary and not required to live or work in the United States". There IS NO LAW that REQUIRES anyone to have an SSN to obtain or hold a job here in the United States, with a few exceptions, such as non resident aliens and/or Federal employees, or officers or employees of Federal corporations such as the US Post Office.
Furthermore, the Social Security Administration has previously admitted in writing that without an SSN it would be impossible to have taxable income. Private sector employers in any of the several states are required to ask for an SSN, but the worker is NOT REQUIRED to furnish one. Prior to the IRS being required by law to put all of their documents online, the procedure for what to do if no SSN was furnished was stated on page 2 of IRS publication 515, and later on page 3. It stated that an employer was under no duty to withhold if the worker provided a written, signed statement to the effect that he or she was a citizen or resident of the United States. Now try getting a job without an SSN!
The simple, plain truth is that the income tax, with a few legitimate exceptions such as Federal employment, non resident aliens, deriving an income from overseas, etc. held in place by a wall of ignorance, fear, and a handful of lawyers in large corporations who advise going along to get along. If the income tax were likened to "The Matrix" most people would point to the IRS and say "AGENT SMITH!" but they would be wrong. The IRS would be the mindless, search and destroy robots, known as the "squiddies" or "sentinels". Agent Smith would be Corporate America and the unions. Corporate America forces their workers into Social Security and by virture of that, on the same (according to the IRS) voluntary form known as the W-4, income tax withholding. The unions have simply rolled over, allowing this to happen. They should have, at a minimum, demanded that the companies provide full disclosure in plain language regarding the voluntary nature of the SSN and form W-4.
In summary, the Federal Reserve System has turned us into slaves to support a system of monetized debt. It has done this via the income tax. The connection to the people that allows an income tax is, 99% of the time, the so-called "voluntary" participation of the worker in Social Security via the SSN/form W-4/form 1099. Use of the SSN is held in place by a wall of ignorance, fear, and the deliberate malfeasance of Corporate America, BUT NOT BY LAW, which is a fact that the vast majority of attorneys just don't know. Just ask a few what year an SSN was made a requirement to obtain a job and not a one will tell you what the Social Security Administration will admit in writing, which is, it is still 100% voluntary. The bottom line is that there IS NO LAW to overturn, there is only CORPORATE POLICY. Attack that corporate policy, force corporations to hire without an SSN and/or do business such as insurance, brokerage, and banking without the number, and the main support that props up the system of monetized debt is kicked out.
As I see it, there are two methods of attack. The first is to pick a target such as a bank or an insurance company. Mass fifty or so people in every city to tie up the target institution all day, attempting, one at a time, to obtain an account or a policy without an SSN. Go to all the different branch offices, one after the next, and repeat. Waste as much of their time as possible. Wear a hidden michrophone and/or camera. Set them up for lawsuits on the basis of discrimination against you on the basis of your religion, which prohibits you from using an SSN. If enough people participate, small claims actions would be fine. On any given day, a German Shepard might be able to take on a Doberman Pincer, but even the biggest dog will succumb to a few thousand fleas biting him at the same time.
The second point of attack is to push for and pass ballot initiatives demanding full disclosure in plain language regarding the SSN. These initiatives can be disguised as measures to help stem the tide of identity theft, with the full disclosure of tax liabilities as an "unintended consequence" or "side effect". Anyone who opposes the measure can be attacked as on the side of identity theft, which, as everybody knows, funds Al Qaida, therefore anyone who opposes the measure is obviously with Bin Laden. We can say that it's "for the children" and if it prevents only one child from the horrors of having his identity stolen it would have been worth it. The initiative must provide criminal and civil sanctions against employers/banks/insurance companies etc. who refuse to comply. After all, it's for the children ... OUR children, so they can once again live in a Republic, with the Federal government out of their hair and once again bound down by the chains of the Constitution.
Pete Sagi
Mr. Blestman's article is 99% right-on. I am writing to discuss the omitted 1%, to target the Dim Mak pressure point strike that will allow "We The People" to take back the country, which is the nexus, or point of connection, of the people to the Federal government that has allowed an income tax to be fastened onto us. That nexus is Social Security.
The Federal Reserve is the main cancer on the body politic that has to be dealt with, but the question is "HOW?!" As most of the readers here are aware, the Federal Reserve System is actually a private, run for profit corporation, composed of member corporations, behind which are other banks, such as the Bank of England with a 50% share, various Wall Street investment banking houses, trusts, and finally a handful of families, such as the British Royals, Rockefellers, Rothschild's, etc. This banking system, and other central banks around the planet, all operate pretty much the same way, i.e., the monetization of debt via issuance of bond from the borrower (governmental entities) to the central bank, due and payable with interest. Only principal is lent out, the interest to repay must be aquired elsewhere, which, in turn, was created by borrowing/lending into existence, hence a viscious, inflationary cycle and in general a constant devaluation of currencies against real goods and services.
It is no accident that the 16th ammendment was ratified or claimed to have been ratified the same year that the Federal Reserve Act was passed. The income tax and the federal reserve system go hand in hand. The Federal Reserve has admitted, in writing, that the national debt is secured by the future labors of the American People. In otherwords, the income tax makes us slaves to the national debt.
The thirteenth ammendment specifically prohibits involuntary servitude, so how can the income tax as it is currently applied, i.e., to the wages of the average American worker, possibly be Constitutional? The answer is two fold ... firstly, the exact nature of the tax; secondly, the means by which you become liable.
The income tax was ruled to be within the bounds of the Constitution shortly after the passage of the 16th ammendment by the US Supreme Court, which stated that the income tax is NOT a direct tax, subject to the rule of apportionment, but rather an indirect tax, a special excise tax on government granted privilege, measured by the income, or profit, derived from use of said privilege. In the early days, there was little question as to the privilege, because virtually nobody was paying personal income tax, it applied mainly to the privilege of incorporation. What changed?
In 1935, Social Security was passed, everybody knew at the time that it was a 100% voluntary program. Withholding for Social Security started in 1937 on a voluntary basis. People signed up in droves, believing it to be a good deal. There were some holdouts who refused to participate on matter of principle, but increasing pressure was applied to them to sign up by their employers. I interviewed one such man back in 1990, who told me about how, from 1937 until 1941, he was pulled into the office of his supervisor again and again and asked to sign up. At first, it was "It's a great program, you won't miss the small amount taken out of your pay envelope." Then it became "Why do you have to be different, everybody else is signed up." It progressed to "Gosh darn it, Charlie, if it weren't for you, we would have 100% participation!" Finally, after the air attack on Pearl Harbor, it became "Everything has changed! If you want to keep your job here, YOU MUST SIGN UP!"
During that time period, the Public Salary Tax Act was passed, folding Social Security into the revenue codes. That was followed in 1940 with the Buck Act, which was a reciprocal taxing arrangement between the then 48 States and the Federal government, which allowed the Federal government to consider anyone who participated in a Federal program, i.e., Social Security, as if they were in the Federal zone. The trap was set.
In 1942, secret sessions of Congress discussed a big problem ... the country was out of the depression and into a wartime boom economy, leading to labor shortages and higher wages and more dollars in circulation. On the other hand, due to the war, there were real shortages of consumer goods on the home front. Gasoline was rationed, rubber for tires went to war, meat and butter were in short supply, etc. Rationing lead to what were called "black markets", really free markets where these goods and services were available at market price, which was a good deal higher than the prices with ration coupons. In otherwords, the inflation of the money supply was causing prices of real goods and services to be bid up due to supply and demand. Knowing that inflation causes the integrity of a fiat currency to be called into question, Congress and the Federal Reserve sought a method of controlling inflation by bleeding off buying power from the public. The nexus to the people for an income tax was already established, but they also knew that there would be riots if people were to receive a an annual tax bill in the mail at year's end. Enter Donald Duck and Beardsley Ruml, author of the current withholding system.
Walt Disney was contracted to do a cartoon to promote the income tax to the American People as needed for victory. The character was Donald Duck, and the message was we can all accept an income tax or we will all be going "Heil Hitler!" Beardsley Ruml became known as "pay as you go Ruml" as he promoted a system of withholding directly from worker's paychecks. This started in 1943 as the so-called "Victory Tax". People were told not to worry, this was a temporary wartime measure. This temporary WWII wartime measure celebrated its 65th birthday this past July.
Interestingly enough, to this day, Social Security is still, on paper, 100% voluntary. If you were to write the Social Security Administration, they will tell you, in writing, that "a Social Security Number is 100% voluntary and not required to live or work in the United States". There IS NO LAW that REQUIRES anyone to have an SSN to obtain or hold a job here in the United States, with a few exceptions, such as non resident aliens and/or Federal employees, or officers or employees of Federal corporations such as the US Post Office.
Furthermore, the Social Security Administration has previously admitted in writing that without an SSN it would be impossible to have taxable income. Private sector employers in any of the several states are required to ask for an SSN, but the worker is NOT REQUIRED to furnish one. Prior to the IRS being required by law to put all of their documents online, the procedure for what to do if no SSN was furnished was stated on page 2 of IRS publication 515, and later on page 3. It stated that an employer was under no duty to withhold if the worker provided a written, signed statement to the effect that he or she was a citizen or resident of the United States. Now try getting a job without an SSN!
The simple, plain truth is that the income tax, with a few legitimate exceptions such as Federal employment, non resident aliens, deriving an income from overseas, etc. held in place by a wall of ignorance, fear, and a handful of lawyers in large corporations who advise going along to get along. If the income tax were likened to "The Matrix" most people would point to the IRS and say "AGENT SMITH!" but they would be wrong. The IRS would be the mindless, search and destroy robots, known as the "squiddies" or "sentinels". Agent Smith would be Corporate America and the unions. Corporate America forces their workers into Social Security and by virture of that, on the same (according to the IRS) voluntary form known as the W-4, income tax withholding. The unions have simply rolled over, allowing this to happen. They should have, at a minimum, demanded that the companies provide full disclosure in plain language regarding the voluntary nature of the SSN and form W-4.
In summary, the Federal Reserve System has turned us into slaves to support a system of monetized debt. It has done this via the income tax. The connection to the people that allows an income tax is, 99% of the time, the so-called "voluntary" participation of the worker in Social Security via the SSN/form W-4/form 1099. Use of the SSN is held in place by a wall of ignorance, fear, and the deliberate malfeasance of Corporate America, BUT NOT BY LAW, which is a fact that the vast majority of attorneys just don't know. Just ask a few what year an SSN was made a requirement to obtain a job and not a one will tell you what the Social Security Administration will admit in writing, which is, it is still 100% voluntary. The bottom line is that there IS NO LAW to overturn, there is only CORPORATE POLICY. Attack that corporate policy, force corporations to hire without an SSN and/or do business such as insurance, brokerage, and banking without the number, and the main support that props up the system of monetized debt is kicked out.
As I see it, there are two methods of attack. The first is to pick a target such as a bank or an insurance company. Mass fifty or so people in every city to tie up the target institution all day, attempting, one at a time, to obtain an account or a policy without an SSN. Go to all the different branch offices, one after the next, and repeat. Waste as much of their time as possible. Wear a hidden michrophone and/or camera. Set them up for lawsuits on the basis of discrimination against you on the basis of your religion, which prohibits you from using an SSN. If enough people participate, small claims actions would be fine. On any given day, a German Shepard might be able to take on a Doberman Pincer, but even the biggest dog will succumb to a few thousand fleas biting him at the same time.
The second point of attack is to push for and pass ballot initiatives demanding full disclosure in plain language regarding the SSN. These initiatives can be disguised as measures to help stem the tide of identity theft, with the full disclosure of tax liabilities as an "unintended consequence" or "side effect". Anyone who opposes the measure can be attacked as on the side of identity theft, which, as everybody knows, funds Al Qaida, therefore anyone who opposes the measure is obviously with Bin Laden. We can say that it's "for the children" and if it prevents only one child from the horrors of having his identity stolen it would have been worth it. The initiative must provide criminal and civil sanctions against employers/banks/insurance companies etc. who refuse to comply. After all, it's for the children ... OUR children, so they can once again live in a Republic, with the Federal government out of their hair and once again bound down by the chains of the Constitution.
Pete Sagi