I remember Richard's close friend David Conrad moved out here after they had a falling out over the Taco Bell case*. David and I did a lot of research and he shared a lot of the research he and Richard had done together in California.
Richard's research is good and it was very interesting what happened between David Conrad and myself. This has to do with transposing a
de jure state jurisdiction and citizenship (pre-1861) to a
de facto state like Colorado (1876).
We were both lecturing and attending Tuesday night Law Club meetings and going through the old Congressional Records and David, I will call him Sri (he had administratively changed his name to Sri David C. ROBERTS) wanted me to find some material about the origins of the Territory of Colorado for preparing this Approbation of the Declaration of Independence.
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That was when I discovered the nature of the Territory of Colorado was a war chest based on gold ('59ers) finds in Auraria and Central City. Buchannan had been setting up the Territory for ratification and Lincoln was carried by the Freemasons to the White House only to prosecute the Civil War one day before the ratification of the Territory of Colorado could cure in law (30 days).
I touch upon this a little in my video because it was Governor Gilpin who initiated the fiat currency of the Emergency of 1861. Pay attention around the 5:00 minute mark.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...06869308133588
I imagine Richard MacDonald is a Mason and Sri boasted that he was "Second Chair" in the California Jurisdiction when he lived out there. The Freemasons carrying Lincoln to the White House is reflected in a letter about carrying a walking cane to inauguration - a symbol of the Masons as lobbying the Civil War (attached). [The legendary Albert Pike for the South in orchestrated opposition was high in Scottish Rite Masonry and wrote
Morals and Dogma.] And as a result, the territorial aspects about titles of nobility have been largely lost to historical cover-up. That is to say, note that the Territory of Colorado had the de jure Thirteenth Amendment in the federal constitution decades after it allegedly failed ratification according to the Constitution
of the US.
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Ergo a man in Colorado may access competent common law but not on the merits of state citizenship like taught by Richard MacDonald. When I uncovered this in the Congressional Record Sri became very upset with me, especially when I lectured about it; saying that one had to take Richard's work in context of a state ratified prior to March 28, 1861. This dashed Sri's hopes after already buying and building here, that he could apply state citizenship in Colorado like California as he had been researching it with Richard. (I hear he patched things up with Richard and has since moved back to California.)
Subsequently a fellow researcher with Richard - William Thornton lectured in Colorado and I pointed out the same matter of context. He agreed in the cafeteria and addressed it a little in his lectures about courts of record.
http://friends-n-family-research.inf...m_Thornton.wmv
The lesson being, that state citizenship is a tough row to hoe
anywhere when you consider you defeat the cash cow of traffic infractions - a major cash cow
anywhere. In Texas and California it is possible to access a foundation in law for such claims. In states like Colorado Refusal for Cause in the cognizance of the US through an evidence repository is much more stable.
Regards,
David Merrill.
* Administrative letters resulting in a high school kid being paid all summer because he got fired the first day on the job for no SSN.