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It is plain to see here that President Johnson saw far into
the future as to the potential for legal and political abuse of
such arbitrary powers -- powers that had never before been placed
into the hands of a bureaucracy that had not been subjected to
referendum by the people or constitutional question by any
federal court. This bill (which was passed over Johnson's veto)
did, in fact, set the precedent for hundreds of federal, state
and local bureaucracies that have since choked the lifeblood of
millions of Americans.
Also, this bill blatantly usurped all States Rights and
opened a very wide door for the further usurpation of these
rights, using other social agendas.
The reason Andrew Johnson was impeached was because he
fought so hard against this bill and the subsequent 14th
Amendment. His enemies purposely did not mention to the press
(nor to the public) the legal and political ramifications of this
bill which Johnson had so succinctly pointed out; but instead
they broadcasted the notion that he was reneging on Lincoln's
promises to "heal the wounds" of the nation by fighting full
rights for the Negro -- thus making it an emotional social issue.
In fact, Johnson was keeping Lincoln's promises by trying to
protect the rights of the newly freed slaves, as well as the
rights of those states which knew their own former slaves better
than anyone, and knew the Negroes were not yet ready for the
responsibilities of citizenship. As Johnson had predicted, after
passage of the bill, so many of the Negroes had indeed been
robbed of goods and property by white charlatans and/or thrown
into jails for breaking commercial laws they did not understand
that, when the Negroes did come to full awareness of the massive
duplicity perpetrated by these scoundrels, a racial hatred and
mistrust of all whites became a nationwide phenomenon that has
never been erased to this day.
The Final Axe Falls
After the bill was passed over Johnson's veto, and there was
no general hue and cry from the public, Congress then proceeded
with the next step -- the 14th Amendment. In order to understand
the ramifications of this heinous act of Congress, it must be
analyzed section-by-section:
ARTICLE XIV. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in
the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person
of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
[emphasis added]
In the very first line, the amendment states that all
persons born (all babies from this point on) or naturalized (the
newly freed slaves who were then just inhabitants of America) are
now citizens of the United States (the Federal Government) and of
the State (the State Government) where they lived. From the
Declaration of Independence on, all people in America who lived
here were Americans, residing in a particular geographical state,
and free to move from state to state, or even to another country.
The Federal Government, according to the Constitution, is a
corporate fiction that does the bidding of the body of collective
states called Congress. At this time, the state governments had
similar limited jurisdiction over their inhabitants, as did the
federal government. The state government's primary function was
to act as a collective voice of all its inhabitants to convey
their wishes to Congress. Congress controlled the federal
government.
The rule of Common Law, which was the law of the land at
that time, was carried out exclusively by the County Sheriff --
the Common Law concept of Posse Comitatus. Neither the State nor
the Federal Government had any jurisdiction in the County, where
Home Rule was the law. Only by permission or invitation by the
Sheriff could either of the other two governments step foot in
his County. The Civil Rights Bill, in one bold act, forced
Federal Government jurisdiction into the sanctity of State rule.
But Posse Comitatus still reigned in each state, and the
conspirators found the way to usurp jurisdiction here through the
14th Amendment.
Citizens, Subjects = Slaves
In order for any government to grab power and maintain it,
it must have "subjects" or "citizens". According to Black's Law
Dictionary (Sixth Edition), "Citizens are members of a political
community who, in their associated capacity, have established or
submitted themselves to the dominion of a government for the
promotion of their general welfare and the protection of their
individual as well as collective rights. (Herriot v. City of
Seattle, 81 Wash.2d. 48, 500 P.2d. 101, 109)"
So, by declaration of the 14th Amendment, all persons born
from that point forward, and all naturalized people, had just
become citizens (i.e. subjects) of the United States Government,
obviously without their knowledge (babies) or understanding (the
Negroes). The Federal Government had just reached past the
jurisdictional boundaries of the state and county lines and
claimed all its babies and all Negroes.
In Section 2, it then states that only males 21 years of age
who are citizens of the United States may be allowed to vote in
Federal and State elections. That means that only those men who
willingly claimed U.S. citizenship on voter's registration cards
(though they didn't realize the implications) were also brought
in as subjects of the Federal Government. (The Federal
Government's power and control are growing fast!) However, it
stipulated that those who had participated in rebellion (the
South) were excluded.
The Back Door
At this point, any intelligent person can figure out that
the Conspirators who were using this Amendment to claim all
Americans as its citizens -- by deception -- were obviously
performing an illegal and unconstitutional act. The conspirators
in Congress (and every Congressman knew what was being
perpetrated, and either promoted it or simply pretended not to
notice) established a "loophole" for themselves and to cover
themselves in case people began to catch on. This loophole was
15 Statutes at Large, Chapter 249 (Section 1), enacted July 27,
1868, one day before the 14th Amendment was declared "ratified".
You will not see this statute published anywhere except in very
old books. The Conspirators do not want their "citizens" to know
it exists, and it has never been repealed. The text follows:
CHAP. CCXLIX. -- An Act concerning the Rights
of American Citizens in foreign States
Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and
inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment
of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle
this government has freely received emigrants from all
nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship;
and whereas it is claimed that such American citizens, with
their descendants, are subjects of foreign states, owing
allegiance to the governments thereof; and whereas it is
necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim
of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally
disavowed: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That any declaration, instruction, opinion,
order, or decision of any officers of this government which
denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of
expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the
fundamental principles of this government.
On the surface, this seems to guarantee that "foreigners"
who live in the borders of America cannot be forced to claim
citizenship. But, what this also says is that anyone who wishes
to expatriate (i.e. renounce their U.S. citizenship) may do so,
by inherent right, and no one can deny him this right.
The Conspirators knew that, the "letter of the law" having
been satisfied with this exemption from compelled performance
(having U.S. citizenship thrust upon us), they could then hide
the exemption from general view, start promoting the "benefits"
of U.S. citizenship in the media (and later, in public schools)
and begin setting up all of us for manipulation to obey millions
of codes, statutes, and laws; exacting fines for breaking these
laws; and extracting license fees and taxes upon penalty of
seizure or jail.
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