Stephen Neitzke – Progress Pond

Russo’s "Freedom to Fascism"

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© by Stephen Neitzke, 2006 (2230 words)

We’ll talk some details. But, in the last analysis, Aaron Russo’s 2006 film, “America: Freedom to Fascism” is a force of nature. It rips through the secret society corruption culture’s history, from 1913 on.

Aaron Russo’s film is a deal-breaker. The deal — the social compact between Americans and their secretly-fascist-since-1913 national government — will be broken for most ethically normal Americans at the film’s first viewing. The Russo-shepherded truths are self-evident. The corrections obviously needed are massive.

Russo has outed the constitutional criminals and class-war slavers of the US-national-govt / private-central-banks partnership. And he’s done it in such a way as to present one of the first coherent-whole, high-impact pictures of their sneak-thief moves against Americans.

“America: Freedom to Fascism” is available in hi-Q DVD and pay-per-view. It’s also available for free viewing online through lower-Q Google Video. In its “final cut”, it runs 1 hour, 49 minutes, and some change. Go to Russo’s site at —

http://www.freedomtofascism.com/downloads/dvd.html

and scroll down through the list of options. Free viewing is at “Watch the Movie Online”. Just click on “Go”.

Less than two minutes into the film, Russo has nailed together the events of the unconstitutional personal income tax (February 1913 fraudulent ratification of the insufficient 16th Amendment) and the unconstitutional Federal Reserve (December 1913 illegal delegation of one of Congress’ essential legislative functions — the coining and valuing of money).

Money from the “voluntary compliance” personal income tax pays toward the national debt that the usury of the Federal Reserve stacks against the nation in daily windrows.

The Federal Reserve usury is like a giant magnifier for the superrich. Its treasonous “fractional reserve” hocus pocus creates indebtedness with every dollar created and loaned. The lawful counterfeiting of unsecured “fiat” money out of thin air — horrendously unconstitutional — multiplies the money supply ad nauseum, automatically reducing the value of the dollar while it creates automatic inflation. Every dollar created out of thin air has its bogus and usurous “interest rate” attached (read, “usury fee”), drawing very real compound interest. The overall effect is one of superprofits to the superrich private bankers who own the Federal Reserve — an ownership list that is as secret as is the amount of currency in the money supply — and daily increases of power within the Federal Reserve to go right on magnifying its profits and power.

The purpose of the personal income tax is to redistribute wealth upward and to control the civil society. The purpose of the Federal Reserve is to redistribute wealth upward and to control the civil society. The receivers of the redistributed wealth and the controllers of the society are the private owners of the Federal Reserve — not the government.

The timing of the secret societies’ income tax and Federal Reserve machinations is no mystery. It was the Reform Era. We the sovereign people were demanding state-level citizen lawmaking to end the Gilded Age’s Robber Baron corruptions. By December 1913, citizens in seventeen states had rammed direct democracy down the elitist throats of their state constitutions, and it looked like there would be many more. We were on the brink of a new political dynamic that could shut down all of the elites’ corruption machines. Courts across the country, including SCOTUS, had rejected the elites’ arguments and ruled citizen lawmaking intrinsic to the Constitution. We were scaring the hell out of the murderous elites. The only answer to their corrupt situation was more corruption.

For days after my first viewing of “Freedom to Fascism”, my mind continually replayed Russo’s quote from Paul Warburg, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and architect of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. The quote is from Warburg’s speech to the US Senate, 17 February 1950: “We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent“.

Predator elitism’s strategies for world government have been clear to them since the 1694 founding of the first central bank, the Bank of England. The authors of the Constitution knew and despised usurous central banks. They did everything they could to ensure that no such creature would ever hold power in the US. Surprise. Since the 1913 founding of the Federal Reserve, the intentions of the Constitution’s authors have been the laughing stock of the secret societies from Skull and Bones, to the CFR, to the Trilateral Commission, to the Bilderberg Group. Americans are way out on the edge of the near-future Owellian world government.

The central bankers knew, from their approx 220 years experience with the Bank of England and other European central banks prior to 1913, that American indebtedness would grow so large that the central bankers would eventually own the American nation.

Has that happened? We have (1) a national debt of $8.6 trillion, (2) the value of the dollar reduced to 4 cents in 1930 dollar-value by the continual inflation of the Fed’s unsecured currency watering down dollar value by continual increases of the money supply, (3) the Bush-Cheney package of tax cuts for the multinational, stateless superrich helping to skyrocket the national debt, (4) the absurd, unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous war in Iraq helping to skyrocket the national debt, while it provides war profiteering for the central bankers who finance it, with their phoney “interest” usury added on, (5) corporate taxation at an all-time low, and corporate tax evasion at an all-time high, helping to skyrocket the national debt, (6) a back-door, undebated, and undeliberated “Real ID Act” effective May 2008 — attached as a rider to a May 2005 funding bill for the Iraq war by the “Conference Committee” (one of the most evil, stupid, anti-democracy, and unAmerican corruption machines in the national government) — set to turn us into a very real police state for the benefit of money-power, and (7) the fascist leaders of the US, Canada, and Mexico — unchecked by their civil societies — about to use the media-hushed and secretive North American Union to reduce our three nations to the slave pool that the EU “Constitution” nearly achieved in Europe, summer 2005, and to replace the dollar with the central bankers’ Canusmex currency, the Amero, in the process.

Do the central bankers own our nation? Russo thinks so. Most of his film is about the details of that ownership. And the more details he lays on, the more persuasive his sustained argument is.

Near film’s end, he gives a 1991 quote from David Rockefeller, a member of predator elitism’s Council on Foreign Relations. It trumpets the criminal CFR’s secrecy, national ownership, and world-governing arrogance.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.

“It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.

“But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

“The supra national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”

I’m doomed to fail the CFR sophistication test. I’m convinced that the elites want to take away our rights, freedoms, and liberties to cut their costs, increase their profits, make their power over us predictable and safe, and turn our children into corporate zombies with short and miserable lives. There is no group of them that I’m willing to trust with the time of day, let alone the governance decisions that will rule human life worldwide. I’m unfit for their world. They’ll just have to kill me.

As such thoughts sink in and spread because of Russo’s work, Americans will become more and more combative. We didn’t come all this way to be gang-banged by a bunch of prissy superrich. The unconstitutional IRS wreckage of American lives like those of Joe Louis, Willie Nelson, and John Colaprete will beg vengeance. The unconstitutional wreckage of our rights, freedoms, and liberties under the 3-branch, Bush-Cheney fascist despotism will beg vengeance. There is a new wall-slamming, smash-mouth American politics coming.

In the first two minutes of film, Russo has already said that US Secretary of State Philander Knox fraudulently certified the 16th Amendment’s ratification. Because of this fraud, Russo says, the American people were led to believe that there was a legitimate, graduated tax on their labor and wages, when there was not.

Per several SCOTUS rulings since, the 16th Amendment granted no new taxation power. Constitutionally, we still have only indirect taxes, which are avoidable and must apply nationwide (excise tax is an example), and direct taxes, which are unavoidable and must be spread equally among the people (“apportioned” in tax jargon). The “graduated”, unapportioned, direct income tax, Russo and many of his conmmentators argue, is as unconstitutional today as it was the day after the 16th Amendment’s (fraudulent) ratification in 1913.

The fraudulent ratification of the 16th Amendment is a minimum-mention item. Go for the evidence.

The evidence shows that, instead of the approving 36 states required for and certified by Knox, there were only two — two — state ratifications that were constitutionally and legally valid (if the minor defects of spelling, capitalization, and punctualization are ignored).

As the evidence is examined, it becomes clear that Knox knew, or should have known, that he was certifying many invalid ratifications as genuine ratificaitons. The prima facie case for intentional fraud in Knox’s certification is overwhelming. See especially, the synopsis of William Benson’s research on the We the People web site; William Benson’s own site, The Law That Never Was; and the expanded Benson research — with defects chart — on Political Resources

To point the viewer at a recent piece of 16th Amendment evidence, Russo quotes US District Judge James C. Fox in a 2003 ruling: “If you … examined [the 16th Amendment] carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment”.

Judge Fox’s quoted statement can be found on page 23 of the ruling’s 26 pages. The ruling was in Sullivan v. U.S., 03-CV-39, US District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Wilmington, 21 March 2003. (Most readers will find the entire ruling riveting. Colonel Sullivan had asked for the court’s injunction against the US invasion of Iraq, arguing in depth that the president does not have the constitutional power to declare war, that only the Congress has that power, and that it was unconstitutional for Congress to delegate that power to the president. The hearing was held one day after the invasion formally began.)

There is nothing about Judge Fox’s ruling that is out-of-context with the case that Russo is making against government and private corporation unconstitutionalities.

Judge Fox used the invalid ratification of the 16th Amendment as an example to argue that some parts of the Constitution are in there because of long-term usage, despite those parts’ being properly unconstitutional. Judge Fox comments that no federal court will throw out the 16th Amendment, no matter what evidence of its improper ratification is brought, precisely because of its long-term use.

It is exactly that federal bench motiff — that nothing be done about past unconstitutionalities — that Russo rightfully attacks throughout his film.

David Cay Johnston of the NY Times provides a pro-elites review of “Freedom to Fascism”. Under a mile-high headline that says, “Facts Refute Filmaker’s Assertions on Income Tax in America”, Johnston asserts that “every court that has ever ruled on those issues has upheld the constitutionality of the income tax”.

Whoa. Russo’s commentators provide eight SCOTUS decisions that squash the constitutionality of the income tax. Those SCOTUS decisions ruled that the 16th Amendment gave no new power of taxation, and did not alter the restrictions on taxation given in the Constitution. Equals unconstitutional income tax every time.

In fact, as the constitutionality argument unpacks, Russo documents that nobody in the IRS, from top to bottom, is willing to go on-camera to discuss the issue. He gets a former IRS Commissioner (Sheldon Cohen) on camera only to have him assert that SCOTUS rulings are “inapplicable” to the tax code. And he shows that lower federal courts continually bar SCOTUS decisions from being brought as evidence.

For example, US District Judge Dawson (presiding over his railroaded conviction of author Irwin Schiff) is quoted as saying, “I will not allow the law in my court room”. He rejects SCOTUS rulings as “irrelevant”. And he tells the jury, “You must follow the law as I give it to you”. Schiff was convicted on Dawson’s enforcement of jury ignorance.

(There are so many Bill of Rights violations and 18 USC 241 violations in Judge Dawson’s rulings, that he should already have been impeached and removed, criminally prosecuted and imprisoned. We impeached and removed three federal judges during the 1980s for unconstitutional rulings far less offensive to the Constitution and citizen rights than Judge Dawson’s.)

Russo’s material shows conclusively that no recent or lower court that has ever ruled on the constitutionality of the income tax is to be trusted. The juries that get the text of the law safely acquit the defendant. The judges are pro-elites mouthpieces who force convictions whenever they can. They are not about to rule against the cash cow that has financed the corruption machines since 1913.

And then NY Times towering giant Johnston writes: “… Mr. Russo says in the film that the 16th Amendment was never properly ratified and thus a tax on wages is unconstitutional. This claim has been made in various forms by thousands of tax protesters since 1913, and so far their batting average with the courts is .000.”

Pretty twisted stuff. The issue bearing on guilty/not-guilty is not the use by thousands of 16th Amendment unconstitutionality. The issue bearing on guilty/not-guilty is whether there is a law requiring US citizens to file an income tax return. “Show me the law”, defendant Harrell says in open court, and he will gladly pay his tax. “Show me the law” is the centerpiece throughout the film’s IRS seqment. IRS officials and judges go dark. No lights on. Nobody home.

Russo asks Harrell-case juror Marcy Brooks why officials don’t just show the law. Ms Brooks replies, “Because there is no law.”

Russo wades through the recent juries’ not-guilty verdicts for Whitey Harrell, Vernice Kuglin, Franklin Sanders (along with his twenty-three co-defendants) and former-IRS-agent-gone-truth-rogue Joe Banister. Against that back-drop of acquitals, he shows a recent video clip of former IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti saying: “When the matter is put to the test, which means in terms of court and enforcement action, there is a hundred percent success rate in shooting down these arguments”.

NYT Johnston’s zero batting average for tax protestors and IRS Rossotti’s hundred percent success rate in shooting down anti-income-tax arguments have a suspicious similarity. But neither has a factual basis.

David Cay Johnston’s pseudo-facts crash and burn against his mile-high headline.

With this film, the IRS hierarchy, the Federal Reserve and their international central banking cabal, the Congress, and the predator elites’ secret societies have already lost. However, given their nine-plus decades of arrogant, anti-Constitution winning, only a wall-slamming, smash-mouth American politics will convince them of their loss. Murderers do not stop murdering until they are stopped. And make no mistake, those people are psychopathic murderers anytime it means secret profits.

Ethically normal Americans, who will like the Russo film, will suddenly understand the culture of corruption in which Bush is immersed as he shouts that the Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper. Insider Bush, Empire prince of the blood, secret society predator from frat-boy “Skull and Bones” to king of the world in the boss-of-bosses secret society, the “Bilderberg Group”, would see the Constitution from the corruption culture’s point of view. From that point of view, the Constitution is just a godddamned piece of paper.

The corruption culture’s point of view is alien to ethically normal Americans — until they see the Russo film. Then the corruption culture’s point of view crashes home.

For US elected officials who pretend that there is anything about our national fascist despotism that is politics-as-usual until the IRS and Federal Reserve racketeering frauds are repealed, watch your six. Something’s going to be gaining on you. There is a new smash-mouth American politics coming. (See especially the “Unity America” action plan in “Open Letter to Susan–Making Bush-Cheney Null & Void”, 13 September 2006, on this blog.)

The specter of a Constitution-regaining, bloody revolution/civil-war is looming larger and closer.

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After seeing the Russo film, re-read some of the other

essays on DD Revival:

“The Fed–Jekyll Island Monster”,
07 July 2006.

“Homegrown American Fascism”,
05 September 2006.

2nd Look–State Govt Unconstitutionalities
Against Citizen-Proposed Law”,

08 October 2006.

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Crossposted from DD Revival

State Govt Unconstitutionalities

Crimes of the state govts are continually submerged by the horrendous lies and crimes of the national govt. The horrific treasons of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, passed by Congress in late September and signed into law 17 October, are just the latest anti-Constitution treasons by the 3-branch Bush-Cheney fascist despotism.

Because of the anti-Constitution, ex post facto, retroactive nature of most of the MCA’s provisions — in blatant violation of the Constitition’s Article 1, section 9, paragraph 3: “No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed”, felony conspiracies against rights in violation of 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 2441, which resulted in many felony murders in the torture gulag over the past three-plus years, were unconstitutionally exonerated, overturning Constitutional provisions with inferior statute provisions. Bush and the Congress created, not law, but a blatantly unconstitutional anti-law regime. That anti-law regime is both a felony conspiracy against citizen rights to have the torture/murder violations of 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 2441 upheld and a violation of the presidential and Congressional oaths of office to protect Constitutional rights — the combination of which is an act of treason, as defined for the secessionist state legislators in the 1860s.

Felony forfeits all immunities — legislative, executive, and judicial. Congresspersons voting for MCA-2006, and the Bush-usurper, should be immediately prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. They won’t be, of course, because this fascist despotism masquerading as our national govt controls all of our law enforcement and most of our courts.

For us to overcome the crimes of the national govt, we have to be able to use our sovereign direct democracy (DD) powers in the states where we already have citizen lawmaking rights. The I&R states are the key to any effective action plan that is capable of ending the Bush-Cheney fascist despotism. Unfortunately, the corruption machines of the elites have done their best to close off that approach. We need to understand what has happened in the I&R states and how to overcome those unconstitutional controls.
DD Recap

Direct democracy (DD), is rule by the people through constitutionally-defined governance components, which are decided by binding referendums.

The eight direct democracy governance components that are legal fact in various US state constitutions are the greatest corruption-fighting machine ever devised. They were put into those state constitutions by the greatest democracy movement of recorded history, our Reform Era. But the corruption-fighting machine that they represent has been crippled by a hundred years of unconstitutional lawlessness administered by the state govts involved. And the greatest democracy movement that ever was has been largely drummed out of our history books by the “Madisonian scholars” of academe, whose prestigeous professorships, prestigeous conference destinations, and prestigeous book publishing contracts enslave them to the class-race elite’s dictates.

There are eight constitutionally-defined DD governance components in the states. Two are administrative — election of representatives (in all states) and the recall (in 18 states). Four are legislative — constitutional amendment initiative (in 18 states), statute law initiative (in 21 states), statute law veto (“referendum” — in 24 states), and statute law affirmation (“referendum on existing state law” — only in Nevada, where it stopped an assault by state govt on women’s rights and Roe v. Wade in 1990). The final two are both legislative and consultative — constitutional amendment referral from the state legislature (in 49 states — it’s how the sovereign people authorize changes in their constitutions in every state except Delaware), and statute law referral from the state legislature (in 25 states at last count, but this “bait and switch” component is popular among corrupt legislators, and sure to increase — all such measures contain something the people want, but should be carefully reviewed for hidden traps that unfairly advantage the elites at the expense of ordinary people).

For the names of the states with each DD governance component, see States DD Chart on the Direct Democracy League site at http://ddleague-usa.net/statesDD.htm

Note that the eight DD governance components include the election of representatives. There’s nothing mystical about elections that set them apart from referendums. Elections are nothing more than binding referendums, voted by all eligible citizens in a given jurisdiction, as all referendums are. The arguments that claim distinctions between elections and referendums done for any other purpose are fallacious.

In the genesis of American DD, in the early 1900s, there was one primary purpose that came through in the DD literature. (DD was most often referred to then as ‘Direct Legislation’.) Its primary purpose was to achieve the genuine representative govt that the sovereign people had been promised in the Constitution — and that political corruption had robbed away.

That is — contrary to predator elitism’s propaganda, sophistries, and vacuous arguments — the purpose of DD was not to set up a “pure democracy” to weaken representative govt, but rather to set up citizen checks and balances on govt to strengthen it against the treasonous corruptors within and without. (See especially, The National Economic League, The Initiative And Referendum: Arguments Pro And Con By A Special Committee Of The National Economic League. © 1912, J.W. Beatson. Published at Cambridge, MA: Caustic-Claflin Co., Printers.)

State Govt Unconstitutionalities

Unconstitutional actions against citizen-proposed law are practiced by every govt in every state in which the citizens have I&R rights and powers (initiative and referendum petition processes — citizen lawmaking). The unconstitutionalities were snapped into place by each state’s legislature soon after citizens passed the constitutional provisions granting themselves I&R.

The unconstitutionalities keep the rabble down and the elites’ profits and power up and unlimited.

So it has always been. Constitutions and statutes have always been subordinate to the elites’ natural law of wealth and power. Vague constitutional provisions give elitist judges the leverage they need to arbitrarily decide in favor of their class. It’s a lesson in vagueness that the Constitution’s authors learned from ancient Rome’s Twelve Tables and the Magna Carta. The American elites knew that the British elites had worked around the rights of Englishmen ever since the Magna Carta.

Violation of our state constitutions date back to before the 1789 Constitution was unconstitutionally ratified, in violation of the standing, enviolable national constitution, the 1782 Articles of Confederation.

Violation of our constitutions by elites will remain our single largest political problem as long as we the sovereign people continue to allow it. We are indirectly responsible for our govts’ evils. Until we meet our responsibilities, our govts will go right on murdering ordinary people for profits and power worldwide. The tobacco death industry, and its kickbacks to the predator politicians, is just one of the many co-equal paradigms. Murderers do not stop. They are stopped or they go on murdering.

As soon as one state’s citizens walked off the I&R battlefield thinking they’d won, the constitutional criminals in the legislature began writing and passing statutes directing public officials and judges to perpetrate many different types of unconstitutional and felonious crimes against citizen-proposed law.

There are many variations on the theme, but the two most common groups of unconstitutional acts against citizen-proposed law are separation of powers violations and binding judicial review of proposed law.

Most of the separation of powers violations occur when executive branch officials perform legislative or judicial branch functions.

The Secretary of State is frequently ordered to write or re-write the ballot language. Writing the ballot language is an important legislative function, not an executive function. If the Secretary of State tried to write the ballot language for a legislature’s statute law referral to the people’s referendum, he or she would be tossed out on his/her ear.

The ballot language may very well be a factor in subsequent court actions that must interpret the intent of the citizen-proposed law. Subtle, misleading language written by an executive branch official who represents corporate predators, not the sovereign people, could easily result in an unfavorable court ruling.

Another popular trick in the separation of powers variation is for the Attorney General to deem that a particular citizen-proposed law is not clearly written or conflicts with the standing laws of the state, and must therefore be rejected.

The AG’s rejection action is unconstitutional on two counts. First, no executive branch official is permitted to reject a bill of law proposed in accord with constitutional provisions, regardless of whether that proposed law comes from the legislature or from civil society. Second, such an executive branch official’s binding judicial review of a proposed law would be unconstitutional even if done by a judge. No constitution, state or federal, defines the judicial power to include binding judicial review of proposed law. Binding judicial review can only be applied after the measure has been signed into finished law.

The only way for such cross-branch acts to be constitutional is for them to be specifically ordered in the state constitution.

The Nebraska constitution’s separation of powers is typical —

The powers of the government of this state are divided into three distinct departments, the legislative, executive and judicial, and no person or collection of persons being one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.

There are no provisions in any I&R state’s constitution, allowing such cross-branch actions in the handling of citizen-proposed law — with the sole exception of Massachusetts. I&R constitutional provisions there so heavily contradict other constitutional provisions that all Massachusetts I&R, since its inception in 1918, has been unconstitutional. Only a statewide constitutional convention will have the comprehensive power needed to sort it all out and eliminate the contradictions.

Outside Massachusetts, the most common unconstitutional stunt beyond the separation of powers violations is the “binding judicial review of proposed law” — done by judges who know exactly how unconstitutional their binding review is. Again, no US constitution defines the judicial power to include binding judicial review of proposed law. Nonetheless, this unconstitutional stunt is so common that it accounts for most of the delays and rejections of citizen-proposed law.

If state officials or judges pulled either of those stunts — separation of powers violations or binding judicial review — on legislature-proposed law, they would be impeached and removed before dinner.

Note that the gauntlet of unconstitutionalities is only selectively applied — so that civil society doesn’t connect the dots.

Citizen-proposed law that is offensive to money-power is stopped — or worse, passed and turned into a nightmare of anti-DD, anti-sovereign-people, and anti-public-education machinations, as was the case with California’s Prop 13, limiting property taxes, in 1978.

Citizen-proposed law that is NOT offensive to money-power sails right on through. Such events prove that the system works — with deafening huzzahs from the predator politicians.

It’s been a successful strategy, helping to keep the people from noticing the unconstitutionalities, for over a hundred years.

And, please, no more specious arguments, claiming that there is some sort of viable distinction between legislature-proposed law and the citizen I&R petition. Both are proposed law, pure and simple.

The I&R petition proposes that a law be passed, not that an executive agency policy or judicial ruling be passed. The I&R petition, once approved by the sovereign people, becomes law, not anything else. The law that the approved I&R petition becomes is open to binding judicial review as law, just as is any law passed by the legislature. The I&R petition is a legislative function within the legislative power of govt and is, purely, proposed law having the protection of all applicable constitutional provisions.

And let’s be clear. There are two different levels of constitutional crime being committed against citizen-proposed law in the I&R states. They come together in one criminal conspiracy, but they are separated by the wide gulf of choice.

First, the legislatures begin with their blatantly unconstitutional statutes. They’re allowed to pass unconstitutional statutes, with impunity, until what they’ve done becomes part of a felony conspiracy.

The moment that any two or more individuals comply with any one of those statutes, the unconstitutional statute becomes not law, but an anti-law regime that is part of a felony conspiracy against rights, in violation of 18 USC 241. It also violates 42 USC 1983 — civil deprivation of rights by state officials or judges.

Felony forfeits legislative immunity. Every state constitution carries that exclusion from legislative immunity. Under 18 USC 241, any legislator who voted for the blatantly unconstitutional statute becomes a felony-perpetrating co-conspirator who can be criminally prosecuted in federal court, despite being an office-holder. (State-defined felonies have also been committed.)

Second, state officials and judges are perfectly capable of choosing to comply, or not to comply, with statute instructions that direct them to blatantly violate the fundamental constitutional law of their state’s and nation’s sovereign people. If they choose not to comply, there’s no crime. However, if they choose to violate constitutional law in the handling of citizen-proposed law, then they become perpetrators of felonious conspiracies against rights.

In the past hundred years, thousands of public officials and judges have chosen to violate their sovereign people’s constitutions and laws relating to citizen-proposed law. We can hold all of those constitutional officers responsible for knowing that they were violating constitutional and statute law.

Needless to say, any citizen who is deprived of rights by a criminal conspiracy of state officials or judges, can sue the co-conspirators in federal court on civil charges under 42 USC 1983. Makes no difference whether the criminal prosecution goes to trial or not. Torts have been committed against the persons of citizens.

Examples in Election 2006

In the upramp to every general election, state officials and judges use the gauntlet of unconstitutionalities to keep down the civil society’s attempts at good governance. Election 2006 is no exception.

In July 2006, BallotWatch, a site maintained by the I&R Institute, published a piece in PDF format titled, “Early Look At 2006 Ballot Measures”. In a section titled, “Removed and Struck Down”, this text appears:

“In June, the Colorado Supreme Court removed an initiative intended to deny government services to illegal immigrants on the grounds that it violated the rule that a measure concern only a single subject. In March, the Florida Supreme Court took a redistricting off the ballot also on single subject grounds. “State courts are aggressively wielding the single-subject requirement to deny voters the ability to vote on important policy issues. The Colorado decision is particularly problematic because the Court reasoned that multiple purposes behind the measure meant that it encompasses multiple subjects,” said IRI director and University of Southern California professor Elizabeth Garrett.

“In South Dakota, Secretary of State Chris Nelson (R) refused to place two initiatives on the ballot even though petitioners submitted the required signatures. Both initiatives would have repealed existing laws, one authorizing the state’s video lottery and the other a tax on cell phones. The measures were disqualified on the grounds that only a referendum could be used to repeal an existing law — initiatives can only be used to propose new laws. Interestingly, when the legislature originally passed the laws being challenged, a clause was attached to each declaring that they were “necessary for the support of state government”, making them not subject to a referendum.

“In Missouri, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D) refused to count the petitions for TABOR and eminent domain initiatives after questions arose about the petition process. The TABOR petitions were not counted because the pages were not numbered sequentially by county. The eminent domain petitions were not counted because the ballot title on the petition pages was “insufficient”. This was a Catch-22 for the petitioners since they used the ballot title that had been approved by the Secretary of State, but was declared insufficient by a circuit court after the petitions had already been circulating.”

Note that the last-mentioned action is a very common one-two govt punch, in which a judge makes an unconstitutional binding judicial review, directing an executive branch officer to re-do his/her unconstitutional legislative function until it is done right. This absurdity of unconstitutionalities accounts for a very substantial number of citizen-proposed laws being delayed from one general election for the two years until the next general election.

All of the state govt actions described in the BallotWatch extract are unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous.

Costs of the Unconstitutionalities

When constitutional criminals reach outside the state’s constitution to delay, alter, and/or reject citizen-proposed law, the dollar and human costs are incalculable.

The harm done is far beyond the delays, alterations, and/or rejections of an individual I&R petition. The people-abusive and costly corruptions that the citizen-proposed law would have ended are continued. The good-governance advantages that would have been enjoyed by most citizens, if not all, are lost. Citizens with good ideas for resolving political problems are deterred from speaking up in the future. Violence is done to constitutionally guaranteed rights. The govt sworn to protect the people’s rights has blatantly refused to protect those rights, perpetrating with impunity a treason defined in the 1860s. And, constitutional criminals set themselves above the rule of law — the single most important legal principle of our nation — betraying, defiling, and violating it, with impunity.

The unconstitutional and arbitrary blocking of state-level citizen-proposed law is the predators’ first line of defense against limitation of their illicitly-gained profits and power. It prevents those same good-governance policies from ganining national traction.

For example, citizens in many I&R states have tried to pass initiatives ending regressive personal income taxes, and replacing them with progressive sales taxes. Of course, sales taxes to support state services would cost the luxury-item-buying elites a lot more money. State govts have unconstitutionally thrown out all such progressive taxation attempts for decades.

Both Major Political Parties

It is very important for this simple fact to register in your brain. Compute this.

The hundred years of lawlessness against I&R by thousands of officials and judges in roughly half of our state govts has been knowingly participated in by the leadership of both major political parties.

The leadership of both major parties have been involved in creating hundreds of unconstitutional statutes that provide continual variation on the theme of lawlessness against citizen-proposed law — so that the people will not focus on the lawlessness of any one variation.

No rebuilding of either political party will save us from the predators. The leadership of both political parties are predators.

Both political parties are self-contained corruption machines, ready to cooperate with the other on any issue that benefits the class-race elite, the corporate predators, or the predator politicians themselves.

Postscript

Our DD corruption-fighting machine is muddied but extant. We have the power to clean it up and put it back in the hunt for which it was intended.

If the 1-party, 3-branch, fascist despotism in Washington DC has its way, we are already too late. Their tentative locks on our now-privatized and easily hacked electoral system, their tentative locks on the US District Attorneys and many of the US District Courts, and their tentative lock on the Department of Justice, with its central role in the obstruction of justice for all of the despotism’s players, may mean that the state govt constitutional criminals are as untouchable as are the national govt’s constitutional criminals. It’s all tentative now, and we have the power to break those tentative locks — but it will become permanent if we allow it to continue much longer.

It’s all on us. There is no help coming. See the “Unity America” action plan in “Open Letter To Susan–Making Bush-Cheney Null & Void”, 13 September 2006, on DD Revival.

Until we are organized enough to have citizen action groups that reach across state lines, looking for constitutional crimes and their perpetrators, we will be largely ignorant of what is being done to us. Until we have those wide-ranging citizen action groups, we won’t have the leverage to clean up our DD corruption-fighting machine.

Organizing is the next big thing.

“The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.” Frederick Douglass said that about his people regaining their freedom in the 1860s.

The meek shall inherit the earth by taming the elites, their govts, and their corporations — and then enjoying each other’s company.

Cross-posted from DD Revival

Military Commissions and Bush-Nazi Enabling Act of 2006

Snarkistic reportage plus legal torque

Reportage

WASHINGTON, DC: Tuesday, 17 October 2006 — The presidential usurper and Overworld Empire prince of the blood, Georgie Bush-Nazi, has signed the Military Commissions and Bush-Nazi Enabling Act of 2006. Constitutionalists can go fish. Sieg Heil.

Ex post facto law is now the law of the land, gloriously reversing the Constitution and making innocent all of those who were guilty of felony murder in the Bush-Nazi’s torture/murder gulag. That includes Georgie Bush-Nazi his very own self, as well as the Pentagon hierarchy of the Overworld Empire Minister of Middle East Wars, Donald Rumscheisskopfin and the Central Gestapo Agency heirarchy of the Bush-Nazi’s private army, General Michael Hayden-Heydrich’s Central Gestaspo Agency. All of the torture/murderers are now innocent as a newborn baby. Sieg Heil.

The Bush-Nazi is now the Glorious Decider of which American citizens are terrorist-dissenters and which secret rendition prison will be used for their infinite detention.

Habeas corpus is no longer an option in the terrorist-dissenter system. Seig Heil.

The MCBNEA orders the Torture/Murder Gulag administrators to go right on with their secret rendition prisons and their torturing and murdering, now with impunity through law legitimately made by the glorious Nazi despotism. Sieg Heil.

Shortly after signing the MCBNEA, the Bush-Nazi flew his own F-22 Raptor to the undecorated site where he buried the Constitution alive. His g-suit nut-case was bigger than ever.

At the burial site, the Nazi Congress had blown the hole out of solid granite, using Special Nazi Politicians C-4. (All Congresspersons have been given Secret Service protection from the “Hunt Down and Kill” program being preached by citizen insurgency groups, who are now themselves being hunted down and killed by Hayden-Heydrich’s Gestapo, under the Citizen Seditions Act.)

The Bush-Nazi tossed his “goddamned piece of paper” into the still-smoking hole, ceremoniously ordering his Schwarzweissrotes Hakenkreuz Stadtbesirktrollen Sturmabteilung to fill in the hole with poured synthetic granite from Gros Halliburton. He then waddled his gigantic nut-case back to his F-22 and roared off into the sunset. Sieg Heil.

Nazi SCOTUS are falling all over themselves, carving up the Constitution’s tombstone — while the Nazi State Legislatures sporadically erupt with deafening huzzahs on Nazi all-channel cable TV.

Most Americans won’t notice for years. They’re too busy getting their piece of the pie and grinding their axes for whatever and whomever they’ve been divided against by the Nazi Corporations and Politicians Bund. All hail divisiveness. Help stamp out unity.

Georgie Bush-Nazi wins again. Heil, Georgie Bush-Nazi. Sieg Heil. Sieg Heil. Sieg Heil.

Torque

Felony denial of habeas corpus, felony indefinite detention with no access to habeas corpus, and felony conspiracies against US citizen and Geneva Conventions rights resulting in the felony murder of detainees — under 18 USC 241 and 18 USC 2441 — occurred in the gulag (military prisons and CIA secret prisons in countries outside the US) long before Bush signed the unconstitutional ex post facto MCA, which exonerates those crimes retroactively. Bush signed the MCA, not into law, but into a blatantly unconstitutional anti-law regime. His act of signing perpetrated felony conspiracies against rights and violated his oath of office, the combination of which is an act of treason, defined for secessionist legislators in the 1860s.

The majority of Congress — all Republicans and many Democrats — are co-conspirators in the establishment of this anti-law regime, perpetrating felonies against rights and violating their oaths of office, the combination of which is an act of treason, defined for the secessionist legislators in the 1860s.

At minimum, Congress’ passage of the MCA shields those guilty of the conspiracy to commit felony torture and murder of detainees in the gulag, and, in so doing, makes all assenting Congresspersons felonious accessories after the fact, in violation of 18 USC 3 — “Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact”.

Felony forfeits all immunities, legislative, executive, and judicial.

All felonious Congressional accessories-after-the-fact should be criminally prosecuted immediately, convicted, fined, and imprisoned for the 15-year maximum allowed by the statute for accessories, when the principles in the crime are punishable by life imprisonment or death.

All co-conspirators in the felony gulag murders — including Bush — should be criminally prosecuted immediately, convicted, and either sentenced to life imprisonment or executed.

The only things preventing those prosecutions are the treasonous obstructions of justice perpetrated against the American people by the Gonzales hierarchy at the Department of Justice and in the DOJ’s US District Attorney system.

The obstructions of justice — the collusion-collapsing of constitutional checks and balances — marginalize everything we say in complaint. We need effective action against the 3-branch fascist despotism that is now masquerading as our national govt.

We need to get the Republicans out of power and the Democrats into power with Election 2006. But that lesser-of-evils voting won’t make the nut, even if we can get around the Diebold election hacks. The Democratic Party is just another of the class-race elite’s corruption machines that we need to turn off and dismantle.

Before and beyond Election 2006, we need to organize cross-country direct democracy citizen action groups (DD-CAGs) for something like the “Unity America” action plan described in “Open Letter To Susan”, 13 September 2006, on this blog. See also, “Organized–Unorganized”, 14 October 2006, also on this blog.

Cross-posted from DD Revival