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September 30, 2002

The Age of Confusion

By Ed Lewis

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."  Alexander Hamilton, l775

We Americans have heard of “constitutional rights”.  Nearly all of us – including Supreme Court justices – have often used the phrase, but it has been used with little understanding of “natural or unalienable rights”.

No man or woman born of American Citizens in one of the 50 states – a Citizen of the United States of America – has “constitutional rights”.  Such would mean that rights were granted by a document written by men that, in turn, would mean men are granting other men “rights”.  Such would not be rights but would instead be privileges and immunities granted by the few to the many.

The problem with this is that privileges and immunities can be changed at the whim of those who make and enforce laws.  It is well established that without armed law enforcers and corrupted courts, no law based on government regulation of artificial entities could long stand when applied against the rights of the American people.

Let us assume that you want to start a business.  You apply for a business license because some artificial entity has told you that you had to – it’s the law.   

The very act of applying for a business license begins removing your rights as an American Citizen.  You are actually applying to become a “privileged” ‘citizen of the United States’.  You are pleading for privileges and immunities granted by government and requesting your conversion to an artificial entity – an artificial person.

You have asked the government to grant you the privilege of using your property – your talents and other property – to trade for the property of others, actions that are based in reality on natural rights.   

If the government grants you the privilege and issues you a business license, you then have privileges and immunities granted by government.  You have effectively given up your natural rights and – in doing so – caused yourself to become an artificial entity under the regulation of government.  You have declared the source of you to be the United States, not your creator.

You are now liable to pay fees to the State (meaning the various levels of government), from annual license renewals to tax derived from the privileges and immunities granted you, whereas before you were not liable for any fees of any nature.

Regardless of the number of generations following you that operate the business, the business owners – your progeny – will always be under the authority of the State to regulate its activities.  A thousand generations will make no difference – the source of the business was the State and so the State will for all time have the authority to regulate it and any person who is part of the business.

We must begin teaching our people the truth in the authority of government.  Below are a few of the items that all Americans must be absolutely clear on if we are to have any semblance of the country created by our founders remaining as a beacon of hope for world peace.  As these are reviewed, think in terms of “servitude” (slavery) verses “being free”.

We must teach that no free man or woman is under the jurisdiction of any level of government.  We are divinely created and are sovereign to all man-made governing devices. 

We are the bosses – elected/appointed officials are the servants.  Are those elected or appointed to offices not called “public servants”?  Are they not required to subsequently take a sacred Oath to uphold and defend the Constitution?  Isn’t the Oath to assure the natural (unalienable) rights are protected from over-zealous, crooked, and/or ignorant people in government?

We must teach that the Constitution does not grant rights – it secures rights by limiting government.  Thus, we must understand ourselves and teach our young that rights are superior to – and not of – written instruments by man. 

In other words, our rights are not subject to any intervention by any other man, woman, or any artificial creation, including the enemy of rights and liberty – The Government.  The rights existed long before any written document was forged and will remain long after written documents are no longer needed for only fairness and equal treatment – Peace – to exist between all peoples on Earth.

The Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches were established to monitor one another with specific duties given each – the Checks and Balances System. 

Above all we must teach and understand ourselves that there are no gray areas – we are either slaves or we are free men and women.  Free men and women need no permission from their creations to exercise rights – only slaves need permission as they exercise privileges, not rights.

We – the people of the United States of America – must defend the real America, not the America of myth created by the federal and state governments.  We must begin and force all government into the Age of Enlightenment, leaving the Age of Confusion – a.k.a. the Age of Corruption – behind.

We simply cannot delay any longer.

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