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I hate this damn article! It has kept me up nights, I can’t get my mind off of it and there are many, much more talented writers, who could write this thing. I would like for one of the young men that write for Alex Jones, like Kurt Nimmo or one of the Watson brothers to write this thing and then I could sleep better. So, it has not been without a great deal of soul-searching, prayer and anxiety that I finally decided to do this article. There appeared to be interest in it but to my way of thinking it is unnecessary. It is unnecessary because it has already happened. But history is important and hopefully will help us not to make the same mistakes all over again.

What This Article Is, and What it Isn’t

This article is a look at how we lost our Constitution, Common Law and how a dictatorship was established. I could spend 400-600 pages writing on the financial aspect of this travesty but I will leave that for the more talented writers out there. Not only that, just this topic alone should have at least 500 pages dedicated to it to do it justice. I will try to cover it in much less.

Seventy-eight years ago our country suddenly, and with little fanfare, transitioned from a Constitutional Republic to a Constitutional Dictatorship. And more amazingly, very few complained. When I asked my dad shortly before his death as to why this travesty was allowed to happen his response was, “Son, people were starving to death in this country, there were no jobs to be had, it sounded good to all of us. We didn’t know what the end result would be.” So, because America now finds itself in a position similar to the one my dad described, I will write this article to warn others what can happen when you trade liberty for security. You get neither!

Before I formally begin, I want to express my deep gratitude for the kindness, understanding and patience of the following people, living or deceased, who have in many ways contributed to this document: Mr. Lester E. Tisdale, Mr. Robert Kahltenbach, Dr. Eugene Schroeder, U.S. Rep. John Rarick, La., U.S. Rep Jim Traficant, Ohio, Mr. Howard Freeman, Mr. Bob Benson, Mr. Alfred Adask and Mr. Gary Graham. Honorable mention goes to: Barack H. Obama for pissing off most Americans enough that they are now willing to listen.

During the course of my life I have been very fortunate to have met some brilliant people. Some had multiple Ph.D.’s, heads of state, military leaders and the most brilliant have never gone beyond high school. One man that I knew never finished third grade but the common sense that he taught me was anything but common. I would call it Uncommon Sense. It seems like there was a major paradigm shift in my life around 1982 and it is not because of a head of state or Ph. D. but rather someone who struggled to finish high school. That is how my journey into studying government law and code began, by someone who was a simple contractor but dispensed WISDOM by the buckets full. Unfortunately, I was only smart enough to adsorb it a teaspoon at a time. To these brilliant people I say, “Damn you, because you changed my life forever. I love you for the truth that you revealed. I salute you for your sacrifice. May God go with you all.”

The Key

 Before I tell you the problem I will give the KEY to understanding the problem. It is Senate Report 93-549. This is the key to understanding the problem, IT IS NOT THE SOLUTION. If you truly want to understand the depth of the problem you need to use 93-549. It is difficult to find the 606 page full version of the report. Most copies are abbreviated online. Go to a federal depository library near you. The University of Texas at Arlington (as an example) is where I obtained mine. It was a lot cheaper to Xerox things then than it is now.

The Code

The excerpts used herein are from codified law, statutes and proclamations of the corporation known as and doing business as (DBA) the United States Government. No other texts will be used except to show deviation, intent or highlight the meaning of a passage or text. ***PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to challenge the findings of this article you must use the law of the land, codified federal code (USC) and no other source of information.***

Everyday I listen to people on the internet radio stations and get angry because they will make some statement like, “the TSA violated my 4th Amendment rights,” or “all the states have to do is exert or assert their 10th Amendment rights,” or “all we have to do is return to lawful (or Constitutional) currency backed by gold and silver.”

These arguments are invalid because they are based on an invalid assumption. That assumption is that the Constitution of the United States is still a LEGAL document. It has instead been LEGALLY set aside. NOTE: I said legally. Legally is not the same as LAWFULLY. Learn the difference because it is very important. See Black’s or Bouvier’s Law Dictionary for help.

Right now some of you are already saying “Hey, the Country Codger ain’t nothing but a crazy ol’ coot.” That is your opinion but if you have the guts to see this thing through, you will find out why I have stated the above comments the way I have.

I think political science professor Li Shuguang says it best when he wrote: “The difference (between the rule of law and the rule by law) is that, under the rule of law, the law is preeminent and can serve as a check against the abuse of power. Under rule by law, the law is a mere tool for a government, that suppresses in a legalistic fashion.”

In 1917 we went from the Rule of Law to the Rule by Law. How was this done? By using another rule called the Law of Necessity. What is the Law of Necessity? Simply stated the Law of Necessity states “necessity knows no law“ So what changed in 1917? War and war necessitated changing the law.

TWEA of 1917 (Or, was it the Patriot Act of 1917)

The idea behind the Trading With The Enemy Act of 1917 (TWEA) was very sound, restrict trade with hostile nations by foreign citizens here in the United States. Who could possibly oppose something this fundamental. If you are at war with Germany, as we were in World War I, and if you had a German owned corporation making fighter planes here in the US you wouldn’t want to have to fight those planes in the air over Germany. Or, if you had German nationals in the US sending gold and silver to Germany to fund the war you would want to stop that “trade” so that money could not be used to kill our G.I.’s. Right? Of course.

So how is this dangerous to our freedoms and how does it apply today? Easy. Part one first. It is dangerous to our freedoms because it gives the president the power to suspend the Constitutional protection of a trial by jury before such seizures are made, plus several other features of the Constitutional. But, no matter what, it establishes the fact that you can set aside the Constitution because of war and give the President extraordinary powers, not granted to the president in the Constitution. The Constitution only allows for the Writ of Habeas Corpus to be set aside during a war, nothing else (U.S. Const. Article 1 Sec. 9). The second part is much simpler. The TWEA of 1917 has never been repealed and can be found in the United Stated Code (USC from here on) 12 USC §95(a).

So what happened?

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