IRS and baseball

[rushpat]

Got this one recently:



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"If Major League Baseball had the Same History as the IRS

and Federal District Courts"

By Sovereign Dave





Here is a fictional discussion between a father and his

son at the baseball game of the Washington Senators--had

the IRS and the courts been involved with baseball.



Son: Dad, I have a copy of the rulebook of baseball and

it says at Rule 1(Sect 2 [3] & Sect. 9 [4]) that "3

strikes is an out". Why in this particular game is "4

strikes and out" when the Washington Senators are up to

bat?



Dad: It used to be that way son in the early days when

baseball was the pastime. Everything was fair and "3

strikes" was the rule---everywhere. That all changed.

Flip forward to rule 16. There you will find that it

says, "The Senators have the right to swing 4 times

before they are out".



Son: That doesn't make sense! Who would come up with a

rulebook that says two conflicting things?



Dad: Yes, you're right son. The rules are not supposed to

be sequential. Just like the Constitution, the amendments

are not supposed to be sequential. If one changed the

other, it should really say that it repealed, amended or

rescinded the other.



Son: Well how do they get away with that?



Dad: Oh...years ago they got the umpires to rule a

certain way. The people are too stupid or ignorant to

think like you do. Frankly, they fell for the crapola

because they believed the umpires know it all.



Son: How did this all happen? What caused the ruination

of this honorable game?



Dad: The batters of the Washington Senators didn't like

the fact that they would only get 3 strikes. They wanted

more power. Just like the Federal Government. So,

figuring they were the seat of baseball they tried to

pass a law in 1894 saying that 4 strikes was an out. They

figured they had jurisdiction in all the other ballparks

of the states of the Union. They figured all the other

leagues owed them 4 strikes.



Son: What happened next?



Dad: As you can guess there were arguments. This had

never been done before. The 4-strike rule was allowing

the Washington Senators to gather too many home runs in

their park. Well a Pitcher by the name of Pollack

challenged the new rule and the challenge landed in the

most supreme of baseball courts at MLB Headquarters.

After a lengthy discussion, the MLB SUPREME UMPIRES ruled

that the new rule # 16 never changed anything. Rules in a

rulebook-just like the Constitution --cannot conflict

with each other; otherwise anarchy would be the result.

So they correctly ruled that when a batter got to 3

strikes, he was out. The fact he wanted to swing again

didn't change anything; he was still out! However, he was

of course free to voluntarily swing his bat. There was

however no duty to his cause to do so.



Swing all you want after 3; however 3 strikes is still

the rule for an out.



Read the rule 16 again just as you read it to me now that

you know this. Swinging a bat is indeed voluntary!



Son: Well, that makes sense. But why was the new rule

allowed to go thru in the first place?



Dad: Well the author of the rule (Taft) was quite tricky.

He wanted to give the impression that the rule was

something new because their 1894 law failed. So he

disguised it lawfully as something old to get it to pass.



Remember son, baseball today isn't what you see...just

what they want you to see! He did so to trick the people.

You see how well it worked? You fell for the trick when

your first read the #16 rule! Don't feel badly, many

lawyers fall for it too.



Son: Well if 3 strikes is still an out, then how come 4

strikes is sometimes an out today?



Dad: Well that has to do with jurisdiction of home plate.

Do you see that white box around home plate? That is the

territory of the Washington Senators. Oh...I know... you

could be at a game being played between the Angels and

the Dodgers and you think you are in California. That is

true...except for the batters box. It is the exclusive

jurisdiction of the Washington Senators. You will find

this in your rulebook; the Washington Senators have

exclusive jurisdiction over their own ball field in

Washington DC and the territories they own. That batters

box is their territory. They bought all the batter's

boxes. But the fans don't know that.



Son: Oh I get it! Just because a ballpark is in say

Atlanta, not all the territory in the ballpark belongs to

the Braves; some belongs to the Washington Senators! Well

what does that have to do with the fact that now 4

strikes is an out sometimes?



Dad: Everything! The umpire behind home plate just

appears to be an umpire. Oh, he's dressed in black just

like a judge, but he's not a real umpire. He, in the

jurisdiction of the Senators, is on the payroll of the

Senators. That's why they get 4 strikes when they come up

to bat. So when two teams that are not the Senators are

playing he gives a most fair ruling. This is to trick the

fans into thinking he is fair. But just watch when the

Senators are up at bat!



Remember son...Just like in Federal District Court...its

SEMBLANCE justice. Only the umpires of the MLB SUPREME

UMPIRES are fair umpires as they are Art III umpires. The

umpires behind home plate at every ballpark are not Art

III umpires and are appointed by the Washington Senators.



Son: Whoa...That's not fair! What happens when someone

challenges that rule?



Dad: If they do so out of the batter's box they are

forced to deal with the Internal Strike Service. This

service "collects strikes" when the new player volunteers

for Strike Withholding. It also issues a Notice of Strike

Deficiency against the player or tries to get them to

attend Strike Court if they disagree. From the day the

non Senator player joins the team they are made to

believe that they owe one of their strikes--for each time

up at bat--to the Senator's for the privilege of playing

ball. They don't realize that outside of the Senator's

territory they have a right to play ball.



What if they disagree when they're up at bat you ask?

This means they are in the batter's box. The umpire

doesn't allow them to bring up the rulebook. He says he

makes the rules. He is correct; he does in that territory

because the batters consent to be there. They

volunteered. He can legitimately make all the rules he

wants for the Washington Senators. He just doesn't tell

the players that the rules are only for the Washington

Senators. Tricky!



Son: Well who would be stupid-enough to volunteer for

that... of all things?



Dad: They don't know they volunteered. They know

something is wrong and they incorrectly assume that the

umpire is a fair umpire like those on TV or those at the

Supreme Umpires. Because of their heritage they want to

believe in justice. That "want to believe" is used

against them.



You see son, the umpire figures that because they stepped

into the box, they agreed to his rules. It's that simple.

He makes the rules. The player consents to be there and

hence consents to his rules. There is one cardinal rule

amongst umpires-never let this be known.



Son: So lets say the player from say the Braves figures

he's entitled to "4 strikes" too--just like the Senators.

He gets into an argument at home plate--which is the

umpires and the Senators jurisdiction. He brings up the

rulebook subject, and promptly gets thrown out of the

game! All the while he scratches his head at how this

umpire can lawfully do this and screams its not fair;

after all he read the rulebook too.



Dad: Exactly! Worse, the umpire insults him by calling

his arguments frivolous and without merit and quotes

15,000 other umpire decisions. Remember son those

decisions are not real umpire-judicial decisions. They

are just more rules for the Senators alone. The player

leaves feeling that all those decisions can't be

wrong-indeed, it must be that the Washington Senators are

entitled to 4 strikes while he is not. Its classic

"sanctioning the victim"--just like the book, Atlas

Shrugged.



Son: Well obviously the fans can't agree with this

policy!



Dad: Intrinsically deep inside they know something is

wrong. But they can't "put their finger on it". Many have

come to believe that the Senators are actually entitled

to 4 strikes! Incredible... but read sometime about the

Stockholm Syndrome and you will understand this. The

Senators claim that they are the major power in baseball

and without them and their umpires

that the whole game would collapse. Unbelievably the rest

of the teams and their fans "buy" this knowing that the

Senators only control their own ballpark and the small

home plate's in each team's ballpark. Its classic

brainwashing! The fans love the CONCEPT of baseball so

much that they want to believe. They even recite the

Pledge of Baseball Allegiance to a flag of all things,

even though their own religion warns about false idols

and graven images.



Son: Is this why the fans boo the player that objects to

the rule?



Dad: Yes. He didn't give up his "fair share" of strikes.

By the way, the umpire uses the fans like a Federal

District Court "judge" uses the jury. Let's say the

Braves were up at bat and the batter insists he wants a

4th strike. Did you notice that when the umpire gets what

he calls a "4 strike protestor" how he treats him? He

yells to the fans that only he can judge the rules and

they are to judge the facts. Did the player have 3

strikes he yells to the fans? The fans yell back-- just

like in Jesus' day, "Yes, and throw the '4 strike

protestor' out of the game!" The fans never get a chance

to question the legitimacy of the 4-strike rule--just the

facts. The umpire has now "washed his hands" of the whole

affair. The fans concur! Even

though they know it will hurt their team!



The rules are so engrained that no one realizes a time in

baseball when ALL the umpires were fair. The pursuit of

happiness existed then. Worse yet the Senator's have even

controlled the tickets at the games and get the fans to

declare that they are Senator Fans. Read the back of your

ticket about the implied contract. It says you are a

Baseball Fan. What they didn't tell

you was that term Baseball Fan is described in the rule

book as a Senator Fan.



Tricky twice! Just like a US CITIZEN declaration.



Son: Do the umpires fear that someday some player will

win the argument?



Dad: What they really fear is the fans catching on to

what they've been doing all these years. That is their

fear. It is not imagined; it's real!



Son: Yes, I notice that even my Little League game's

umpires are unfair when the state or municipal team is up

to bat.



Dad: Sadly son, the Senator's even convinced the smaller

leagues to do essentially the same thing via the Buck

Ruling. If they are part of ruining baseball too for

their own smaller jurisdictions, they can't blame the

Senators.



Son: Baseball isn't free, fair or just anymore. It is not

a part of the pursuit of happiness but is something evil

and deceptive. I don't like the game.



Dad: Forget THEIR game son for their game will fail. Lets

simply "retire elsewhere" and play sandlot ball in

pursuit of happiness. Others will see we are fair and

happy and they too will want to play. That is the

heritage of sovereigns.



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