Identifying My Anger & Frustration: Shall NOT be called into Question

You Will Submit!

There is one aspect of the contradiction between the Colorado Constitutions and how the State exercises it’s power of the People through the Criminal Justice Process that I simply am unable to come to terms with: If you have to defend yourself against felony charges levied by the State when you attempt to protect yourself, your family, your home, your property what is the purpose of the Constitution??

The simple reading of Article II Section 13 of the Colorado Constitution:

Right to bear arms. The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.

My “right” shall not be called into question.  I see no other possible interpretation of the Colorado Constitution. Yet, obviously, my right is being called into question. Yes, I think the Sheriff’s Department, the Social Services Department and the District Attorney’s Office are skirting the intent of the Colorado Constitution through their twisting of the Felony Assault and Felony Menacing laws but this not does explain WHY it is so easy for them to corrupt the plain interpretation of the Colorado Constitution. (“My Right Shall NOT be called into question”).

It is not simply “My Right” it is a fundamental protection for all of us who combine to form “The People of Colorado”.  Have we simply walked away from the Colorado Constitution and they (The State) has forgotten to inform The People for fear that we may exercise our other protected rights?:

Article II Section 2: People may alter or abolish form of government ­ proviso. The people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign and independent state; and to alter and abolish their constitution and form of government whenever they may deem it necessary to their safety and happiness, provided, such change be not repugnant to the constitution of the United States.

Not that I think the general population will ever stand up to the State and tell them to “get back in line or get out”. Thomas Jefferson wrote an interesting line in the Declaration of Independence:

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Mr. Jefferson demonstrated insight into the character of The People over two hundred years ago that transcends time and I expect every person who discovers this simple “truth” for themselves feels the hand of the State pressing them into oblivion.  When you are under the thumb of the force of the State it is incredibly difficult to contemplate the dangerous lack of attentiveness that has created your peculiar oppression resulting in incalculable frustration with your fellow Sovereigns. None the less, it is critical to leverage the heightened enlightenment and insight created through these tests of the soul to see past the personal struggle and return to the fundamental paradox that opens the door to the abuses of our fundamental rights: How did we let slip the chains that bind the Government to abuse our liberties?

Again we the immutable insight of Thomas Jefferson rings down the hallways of history:

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution” (1798)

Yet, here we sit and the chains have been removed from the mischief of men through the power of Government and the examples are staggering and ranging from “Taxation with Representation”, to Engaging in War without  following the process of the U.S. Constitution, to War Crimes committed by our elected officials with nary a word of abuse to my more local condition of struggling to understand how our State Constitution has become nothing more than a “God Damned piece of paper” (in the infamous quote attributed to George W. Bush in an Oval Office meeting in November of 2005).

Taxation Without Representation:

You could look at this issue from a number of different perspectives and come to the conclusion that we are indeed subjected to taxes we have never authorized.  The perspective I find incredibly compelling is from the perspective of the behavior of the Congress and the Federal Reserve.

First, there is no Constitutional Support for “fiat” (paper) money.  If you review the U.S. Constitution it is quite clear within Article II Section 10:

No State Shall .. coin Money, emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debt…

Within Article II Section 8 Congress is given the mandate to:

To Coin Money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of Weights and measures;

Then in you dig into the Coinage Act of 1792 you find the real definition of a “dollar” -> It is a unit of “weight”:

DOLLARS OR UNITS–each to be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard silver.

Note: One ounce equals 437.5 grains (A “troy ounce” equals 480 grains)

You do not need to be a scientist to realize that based on these definitions a “dollar” is not a piece of paper, it is a unit of weight of a specific amount, and quality, of silver.

On December 23rd, 1913 the Federal Reserve Act was passed creating the Federal Reserve Bank system in opposition to the U.S. Constitution.  While it could be argued that the Federal Reserve Act has dubious character as it was passed in The Senate, on December 23, 1913, agreed to it by a vote of 43 yeas to 25 nays with 27 not voting. The record shows that there were no Democrats voting “nay” in the Senate and only two in the House. The record also shows that almost all of those not voting for the bill had previously declared their intentions and were paired with members of opposite intentions. (Voting record on the conference report of the Federal Reserve Act. Vol. 51 Congressional Record, pages 1464 and 1487-1488, December 22 and 23, 1913)

Yes, you read that correctly, If the “no shows” had voted the Federal Reserve Act would have been defeated in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 52 (against) to 43 (yes). I have to wonder what kind of mischief was at work to create a situation where the majority of Senators opposed to the Act were not available to vote but if you ponder the date (December 23rd) one could imagine that they were at home for the seasonal holiday.

The Passage of the Federal Reserve Act is interesting from a historical perspective but is also a red herring: Congress never had the power to pass an act that would change the U.S. Constitution. Congress is not empowered to pass legislation that conflicts with the U.S. Constitution. There are only a couple of methods to change the U.S. Constitution and the standard legislative process is not included. The only method to change the U.S. Constitution is through the amendment process. Amendments may be processed either through the Congress or through a Constitutional Convention called into existence by two thirds of the States.  The Federal Reserve Act was NOT and did NOT amend the U.S. Constitution (just take a look at the U.S. Constitutions amendments and you will notice that it is suspiciously missing in action).

Instead the U.S. Congress simply abdicated their responsibility defined within the U.S. Constitution and created a privately owned Bank to handle their duties. Where were the “checks and balances” built into the structure of our government that were designed to protect the U.S. Constitution and the liberties (including prosperity) of the The People? Again, notoriously “missing in action”. This points to either collusion among the several branches of government or more likely to some shadow “master” coordinating or thwarting the actions of the independent branches through bribery and/or blackmail. (How do you explain that the existence of the Federal Reserve Bank has NEVER been ruled as un-Constitutional by the Supreme Court?)

Back to our insightful forefather for another quote and continued demonstrations of his prognostication:

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. — Thomas Jefferson

How does a private central bank lead to the economic termination of a country? There are a few methods private bankers use to subjugate the population including fractional reserve banking and control over the printing press (the amount of money in circulation).

Fractional Reserve Lending is insidious at best. For a moment consider that I am a bank that I have invested $100 in my bank.  With Fractional Reserve lending I may lend out more than the $100 I have in my bank. How much more, it is difficult to determine these days due to innovative financial instruments but if we follow the published guidelines for the Federal Reserve System (10% in reserves) I may lend out $1000 to my customers. Now I will make interest on my $1000 in loans and not on my $100 investment.

What a great deal!  I am able to increase my financial leverage by an order of magnitude simply by declaring that I am a bank.

For a moment let’s assume that I am the only bank (like the Federal Reserve).  How do my customers get the money to pay their loan back plus the interest they owe me?  If I am charging my customers a simple 10% interest rate for the $1000 they borrowed they will owe me $1100.  The problem is that I only loaned out $1000, the total available money in the system is only $1000 and there is no method my customers may use to pay back the full loan.

I do realize that is almost impossible to wrap your mind around the absolute absurdity of the fractional reserve banking “system”.  It is a system where the money supply must be constantly expanding or there is no hope that any borrower will be able to pay back their loans.

This is the back-door trap that always yields taxation without representation -> if the amount of money in the system is constantly expanding (based on a fixed asset value) then the value of each “dollar” must be constantly decreasing.  We commonly refer to this effect of the fractional reserve banking system as “inflation”. The bankers want us to believe that the value of the goods we need are constantly increasing (“inflating”) when the reality is that the opposite is true: the value of the money is decreasing (“deflating”) while the values of the goods are stable.

In basic economics were are instructed that “value” is a product of demand and supply (“Supply and Demand”).  As supply decreases and demand increase the “price” (value) increases. As supply is increased to meet demand the expected result is that price (value) decreases.  Unfortunately, this is nothing more than a magicians slight of hand when the medium of exchange (money) is under the manipulating power of a central bank exercising fractional reserve banking processes.  Supply of goods may stay constant and because the value of the medium of exchange (money) is decreasing the “price” increases (= Inflation).

So where is the Tax?  It is in your payroll check!  If I signed a contract with an employer in the year 2000 to provide my services for $50K per year, and I did a consistently great job and earned a 4% increase in pay each year you would expect that in the year 2010 I would be having my best year ever earning $74,012.21.  Here is the problem: while you were “earning” your pay increase the Federal Reserve Banking was busy stealing the profits from your dedicated efforts through inflation.  If we take the official government Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the “best case” representation of inflation here is what your salary profile would like from 2000 to 2010 (expressed in year 2000 dollars):

Of course this is not a complete picture as you are still paying your State and Federal Taxes based upon your pre-inflationary salary. So, lets make a ridiculous assumption that the combined tax rate for both the State and Federal Income Tax totals only 12 percent and look at how you are doing on an after-tax basis:

I want you to focus on the fact that your support of your State and Federal Government adds up to just less than $9K in 2010 ($8,881.47) while inflation (“banksters”) has gobbled up about 2X that amount ($16,494.73) in 2010.

Now we are able to take a look at the combination of inflation and income taxes on your take-home pay:

The result of these combined effects is to allow you to increase your real salary a paltry $4K over the course of 11 years. You would have to assume then your “merit pay increases” were aligned more accurately with cost of living pay increases. If you were lucky enough to receive steady pay increases over these difficult years (I know I didn’t) and aside from government workers I know very few in the private sector who were lucky enough to continue their employment with many years of 0% pay increases.

Unfortunately, this is NOT the complete story. In 1996 during the Clinton administration the government changed how they were calculating the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Instead of measuring real inflation they started the process of “substitution”. Their logic was that if the price of steak increased too much you would stop eating steak and switch over to hamburger. So, they would substitute the price of hamburger for steak and then calculate the CPI.

Of course, the CPI no longer measure real inflation and the only possible explanation for changing these statistics was to hide the real impact of inflation on the American working class. Fortunately, we still have access to the pre-Clinton CPI calculations from ShadowStats.com.

If we user the pre-Clinton CPI figures you will see WHY you should be absolutely enraged over the practices of the Federal Reserve Banking system.

Naturally, our optimistic (minimal) projection for Federal and State taxes are unaltered and that leaves us with the combined result of real inflation (ShadowStats) combined with income taxes to show a more accurate picture of our miserable “payday” performance:

I wish I could say it wasn’t true! The horrible reality is that simply due to inflation you have lost about 60% of your purchasing power in 2010 (using the year 2000 dollars). I realize you have been “feeling it” but this is a classic example of how government corruption (defined as NOT following the Constitution) is in plain sight and yet it takes some real work to calculate the numbers and gain an objective perspective on the harm done to The People. Do you honestly still believe that there is not a concerted effort to wipe out the middle-class in the U.S. economy?

These figures do not show the complete horror show to you and your families purchasing power. First, the CPI (both the official figure and ShadowStats) data for 2010 is extremely optimistic because the figures are not in yet. Most economists, with a history of accurately predicting the future, are warning us to expect hyper-inflation due to the “wild-spending” program of the Bush and Obama administrations in their attempt to “save the economy” by sending hundreds of billions of dollars over to the bankers.They are telling us that inflation may “take-off” soon.  This would be almost humorous if it didn’t spell out the final step in our financial destruction.

Second, certain real cost items have been removed from the CPI calculation that you use everyday. Instead of dwelling on an academic exercise to calculate the real impact to your pay check I think it is important to point out the obvious collusion between the Federal Government, the Federal Reserve Banking System and the Main Stream Media (your local news) to HIDE this information from you!!

I wonder what is worse; that we are too ignorant to figure this out for ourselves (I include myself in that set of ignorance because for many years I had NO IDEA of this hidden tax through inflation. In fact, I really stumbled across it this year {2010} after I finished my taxes.  I decided to take a look at why we are feeling such a “pinch” on the home-front financially so I began my research, performed my calculations and all I am able to say is that I am extremely frustrated with myself, with my neighbors, with ALL of US.) or that when confronted with the factual reality many of our bothers and sisters simply refuse to believe the mathematics. Of course, I do understand that we were tricked.  We operate in good faith assuming the Government and the Federal Reserve and the Bankers are NOT out to steal from us…. geez, we are not too bright.

How MUCH MONEY are we prepared to allow these Bankers to STEAL?! Inflation, outrageous interest rates on loans, Banker Bailouts…. HOW MUCH MORE DO THEY NEED? The answer is obvious once you start to pay attention => They want it ALL!

Summary:

You might think that I have lost track of my original point in creating this update: My inability to comprehend how the Colorado Constitution is being ignored in the felony charges laid against me, depleting my family of the precious few resources we have access to in an idealistic fight to stand up to the corruption (again, defined as the government not following the Constitution) of our local government employees.

What I have attempted to do is show you through analogy how I think this is possible. If you are blind to the impact of the Federal Reserve Banking System to your ability to prosper through direct stealing due to inflationary manipulation of the monetary system to your pocket book HOW would you be aware of anything more sublime?  How would you know to even look at the abuse of the Colorado Revised Statutes to subvert our fundamental right to Keep and Bear arms to protect yourself, your family, your home or your property?

I don’t have time today to write the analogous description of illegal wars or international war crimes committed by our elected officials.  Honestly, I might not have time to write those descriptions prior to trial as time marches on. If I am found guilty I may never write those descriptions.

The point of today’s post is to challenge you to turn the T.V. OFF and start thinking for yourself.  Based on the limited research I have done I know that our Federal and State Governments are the most corrupt (not following the Constitution) organizations in the history of this once great nation.  The redeeming quality of the U.S. is not it’s government, it is the Quality of The People. Unfortunately, The People are almost comatose today and unless they shake the cobwebs from their brains there will be nothing left for our children!

Maybe there is nothing you are able to do to help either my family or me. Maybe it is impossible for you to attend my trial and at least witness the corruption first hand so that you may inform your communities with the facts. Yet, if there is anyone you love, one neighbor, one child, one grandchild you owe it to them to “wake up” and become part of the solution you want to see.

I realize that as I become more stressed I tend to harden my rhetoric in my attempts to shake you lose from your perspective of “there is nothing I can do” or “I didn’t know” and while there is a part of my soul that hurts from pushing so hard I realize that this may be the only service that I may provide you and your loved ones. It is not a pretty situation and it will take the hearty and brave to exert enough energy to correct the current destructive path our government officials have determined to undertake. I hope you reflect on this fundamental challenge and take yourself out of the Democrat or Republican mind set because the truth is that there is absolutely no difference between a Democrat or Republican “elected official” (They are all corrupt and are not following the Constitution).  It will only be when the average Joe is elected to serve our community that we will have any chance of bringing liberty back to our posterity.

Our good neighbors down in Texas have a change to light the fires and kick the tires to get this rocket-ship of liberty back in the air: It is time to put Debra Medina in the Governor’s Mansion and send the signal flare to every other State that we do NOT need professional politicians!  What we need are caring people who are connected with the reality of the working families and are not in the hip pocket of these banker thieves.

I can’t get our local State Representative for Adams County to care about the abuse of power in the criminal charges filed against me… just does NOT CARE. Of course, he shook my hand and asked for my support when he was running for office and then once elected turned into exactly the thing he was campaigning to replace.  Our society, our political structure is infected with a strange disease and the only answer is education.  Every one of us has to cowboy-up and do the hard work to research our history to understand where the wrong path was taken and fight to return this State, this Nation back to path of promoting Liberty and Justice For All.

Friends, where are You?  Who will stand in the court room to witness the corruption and report their finding back out to the community? Don’t you understand that I am experiencing FEAR but I am doing my best to not be consumed and take the proper steps for all of us? (I know — I am an idiot — It is the same old tune….)