The Lawball Game

Well the circus came to the next town over which is 7 miles and they put on 2 nearly 2 hour preformances which for this small populated area nearly sold out and hopefully was a success for the travelers who will return next year [they are already booked to stop, and a local lady went to clown school with the manager...yada yada]

It was not much of a circus for adults but everyone had a great time anyway, what was interesting was the people who did turn out were mainly adults, most of who have not done much traveling this year due to the high price of fuel, which is a wonder that the circus can even make it from town to town anymore and still give away all those "free" kids tickets.

Free, yes my 3 kids and my senior citizen mother all had free tickets, dad would go cause to much dust and inside a tent his asthma kicks in and well he just cant always breathe, but at 74 he said he has seen plenty of different types of "circus" acts already. I found it amusing the comments that people made about how high the price was on the concessions and another commented on that the circus would not allow any local concessions to be present, and at the same time they had 3 or 4 kids who all had "free" tickets to get in to see the show. It costs the troop big dollars to travel, they had 2 elephants, a couple tigers and a lion, several ponies which all cost not only to move but they need feed as well, elements that the people never see, the law behind the scene so to speak, without a few coins the performers could not get from town to town, the show would not move on, and the folks in Idaho would probably not be offered a ride on an elephant for $5 each with 4 people ata time twice around the circle...... come on, it is for a good cause is it not? temporary escape from the horror of the day, we did not think about war, fuel, riots, typhoons or fire, though when asked not to smoke in the tent that kind of went through several folks heads, for the most part common sense prevails in this area when it comes to possible fire danger. More to the point of my ramblings today, These people just dont get what it takes to move people, goods and services in today's marketplace, our 4 free tickets cost us when we got finished the other night, just $50, and i am sure the kids would have loved me to drop another $5 each for either pony or elephant rides, which many others did, and like i say it is for a good cause, entertainment once like that keeps folks happy for a while.

What i found interesting about my own kids reactions, My youngest was thrilled to see a performance on the unicycle and juggling flame, he hollered for more, my oldest son, liked the lady on the trapeze/swing doing the contortions, and my little girl could identify with the little gal just a wee bit older who handled doves..... they all laughed at the clown. My self i seen the elephant as a freezer full of meat with plenty left over for jerky, but I understand it would not be proper to really want to do that right now, but at 200 pounds of hay per day, i doubt i would be keeping one should the balloon go up and i had one in my care, the law of survival of my family would dictate that.

I suppose what surprised me the most was who actually showed up and that was all those adults without kids, maybe some years ago had the idea of running off to join the circus and wanted to relive a dream.

Today is just another day, the watchmen on the wall looks out for the trouble and hollers when it comes.

William

"Wheres my macaroni and cheese?, I want it now" ,yr 4 year old said about 2 minutes after I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he told me his answer. If I could have done that i wold be a miracle worker.

but he is not alone in his need for instant gratification, though his is from a lack of understanding the process of cooking times, most people grow up [maybe they grow up, i am 45 and according to my wife i have yet to get outside f the way of thinking of a teenager] and seem to have a need to please them self and NOW is the time frame. Maybe it stems from lack of understanding the concept of time. Time is a relevant term we use to divide the universe, but more over the concept of how long anything takes to achieve is never instant. ok we have instant rice, instant pudding and buy an movie online and download now and instantly watch it, but nothing really is truly instant and money wise it can not be or we will always be broke.

A fella recently gave me a book to read in which will change my life if i apply its principle's and change my way of thinking about money and after reading it, I already knew most of the problems i was facing, i just did not understand the why i was not able to change them, or how to go about it. It will be up to me in the coming months to make the changes and apply the methods to reach above the line i limited myself to.

My family gets by like others month to month, my wife complains like others do i am sure that we never go anywhere, or do anything and we are always broke, and buying things that she thinks will make her happy does not, and only adds to the need to have more instant gratification. I have been not much different, only i keep it inside. My money problems are a little different, after having taken the bankruptcy road a few years ago, we have no credit cards, though after the proceedings we received many offers and still do, but those hit the bin nearly as fast as they are opened to see what personal information they might contain.

I would not recommend bankruptcy as the first thing to try, we did to re-organize and try to save the property we were living on at the time, it did not work. I was ignorant of things i did not think iwas at the time, I know better now and it will not happen again.

Instant gratification, my son received his macaroni this morning against my better judgement, but he has at time also requested egg after egg and ended up eat half a dozen, and nope he is not a one of those overweight over fed kids...... but he is going to have to learn the time things take, and how to be satisfied with the other things dad makes for breakfast and not request, require, and demand something else be given him right now, or he too will end up in dire straits later in life, and blame his folks for not pointing him in the proper direction when he was a child. Surviving with enough to more than get by would be a whole lot better than sitting wondering where the next buck is coming from to get things covered and where the things are going to come from for next month or next year.

keep your powder handy.

more as i think harder on this ;-Þ

William

A couple days ago an email came saying that finally Wayne Hage was right, the government agencies could not do what they did as that was considered a "taking", to late for Rancher Hage, as he pased away a couple years back, then tragically his wife was killed in a car wreck shortly there after.... so his kids and estate benefit from the ruling.

http://www.startribune.com/nation/19751469.html?location_refer=Nation was the story from the AP that i received, and I followed the sagebrush rebellion for several years back when it started, though i never really understood it until i got older [it started when i was a sophomore in high school!!!]

The biggie here is that the award came not from the initial lawsuit, but from "court of Claims" something many folks do not know about or understand, Somehow in the mix the original court of claims kind of fell out of favor and folks ended up going to the bankruptcy court for claims the past 50 or so years and there was a push to rid the several states of the court of claims altogether about 20 years ago....

It is great to see the award, no matter that the lawyer gets his fees and interest back to 1991 and gets a larger sum than the estate does, but shoot "thats truck driving" <---- inside joke and reference to an old song from long ago. Then too it is great to see that award as a precedence for just about any other taking the forest circus and BLM have done in shutting others off for so called "environmental concerns" it messed with someones livelihood without just compensation.... so perhaps the agency might try an appeal, though i doubt it would be much different in outcome, only that the ruling and any subsequent rulings would hinge on the appeal being upheld or overturned, so you probably wont see many suits filed right away using this as an authority for grounds..... though one can never tell cause ambulance chasers will gamble if they smell coin.

I think it is positive news, and great for the people, I can see where many folks could retain their grazing, mining, fishing, and irrigation rights without hassle now just from the one ruling. How does this effect, or affect us as survivalists? In a way that is not seen, cause it will cause the jack booted thugs, and those who are tyrants in positions of government to become a thoughtful servant to the people again before they make errors for their own agenda. One comment was on the above story no government employee will lose their job over it, maybe not, shoot most of the original players are probably retired by now, after all 30 years is a long time coming, but even if they were still on board, the FS has a policy of reprimanding a person in their permanent file and giving them the option of a promotion which means moving to somewhere else or quitting, not really much of a choice, most take the promotion even if it means moving to the middle of Georgia and being in charge of a 640 acre National Forest or something similar. nope you cannot fire a "civil servant" but they could just forget to fund the entire forest service and make them get a real job and be productive.



Still it is a good ruling to have happened. hopefully there will be more folks going in the similar direction and winning as well, after all all they are really getting is obligations of the united states, and not specie.

blueduck, who is just one of the last of the free radicals, not the last, nor the most radical.....

While I am a rebel, the one of last of the free radicals, and a somewhat politically outspoken in the community, I was suprised that a friend actually thought enough to ask my wife what he should do when it came to voting in the upcoming primary election on the issues of the local candidates..... imagine that, asking for my opinion, what is the world coming to? what do I know, I personally would toss them all into the fire and start over cause not one of them is better than the others, but i cant tell him that, that would be to radical, and yet at the same time truthful.... people wake up in different ways at times unusual and yet i do not want to have him or anyone else to close their eyes cause the truth is to unbearable....

He wanted to know if he should also vote for Ron Paul, as he wont win.... my opinion on this is vote for the candidate you want to, but not follow the herd and just cast it for the person you think is going to win as then they feel they get a "mandate" for ALL their ideas and push them through no matter what the cost [btw Idaho had its demon-cratic caucus in February, so its pretty much a republican primary]. Some of my friends are Libertarian party supporters [though I do not think they are members outright] and are supporting RP, not because he has a chance right now to win anything, but his platform is so similar to the Libertarian or at least along similar lines and not just lip service to the "g-D piece of paper" as republican leader GW was quoted calling the Constitution for the united States.

Politics is surely a hotbed of coals similar to religion, but survivalists and preppers need to take heed of the people running for office, their people they will place into the positions of power that are not elected, but granted as "favors" for supporting the person, and it is those people ultimately that are the threat to the livelihood of us all and our stocks.... canned stock, live stock and "paper" stock as well. We in the several states are facing troubled times, and the people who are coming up to be either re-elected or put into office for the next term are the ones who will either facilitate the downturn or keep the people out of the pit under the outside toilet facilities. I have been of the opinion the last 20 years or so that if you vote, you can not complain about the outcome of the election for in a "demon-acracy" of majority opinion [like the electoral college is majority opinion if they do not vote the way the people told them to]. Once you cast your mark, poke your chad, pull the lever, or whatever form you do for the election process, you have accepted the outcome of the rest of the people, only those who do not accept or in other words do not vote can complain about the election outcome...... so I live in a "catch 22" [thanks be to the American author Joseph Heller for that idiom] world, if I vote i can not really complain about the elected orficial, but if i dont vote would have my one vote made a difference..... one election in a local race it would have, on the grander political scale of a nationwide election of course it will not, for if the people choose one candidate and the EC votes the way it wants to the other gets in, and if the candidates dont like the outcome then the Supreme Court can step in and put the person into power like it has done for GW [no I am very happy the algorians did not come to power, i do not think i could stand someone who drives muscle cars and claims inventing the internet in the same breath and screams he is "green"] derogatory comments aside, the outcome of voting is supposed to be that of which the people truly want, and myself or anyone else telling another how we think they aught to vote is not right.... I prefer to bring the good and bad points out on all sides and hope the person I am talking to has the ability to make a decision on his own for the future of society and the good of mankind [like that will happen] and maybe just maybe i will re-register and cast a ballot this year again.....

I try to bring humor in my thoughts, for a long while back, my mentor in the lawball game told me, make people, laugh, then make them cry and then make them mad enough to do something about the issue at hand. Well I dont think i ever got anyone mad enough to do what needed done, but i know I have had people laugh and cry at the issues, though who knows a few folks get mad at the drop of the hat and they tend to drop their own once in awhile.

Life is short, smile when you can and most people will wonder what you did or where you hid the body at.

[no harm is meant towards anyone in particualar as the spark of literary prowess has hit me, and the invisible fire has lit shuck and wants out] Recently I was struck by an admission of a person who said that they were once on a commission board and sat there without speaking out when an absurd HOA came up with "no hanging Clothes" or No Clothes lines in their subdivision..... edited to add herein that a few folks have contacted me about different people and to my surprise it seems this same subject has come up in many jurisdictions across the several states.... echoing a conspiracy of sorts against hangin "DIRTY LAUNDRY" [now if that dont spark a memory of a punk rock era lyric nothing will]

this sparks two thoughts, one definitions of different "tators" and the other mostly the sad continual passing of the republic for which we were supposed to have in favor of a demon-cratic process closely resembling socialism or communism cradle to grave care of the people, instead of the people being responsible for their own actions, more people need to read Fredrick Bastiat's book "The Law" , though in short it boils down to where there is law there is no republic, and where there is a republic there is no need for law..... the book was written awhile back...like way back in the another time and century, First published in 1850.

Onto the definitions of "tators"

The dict- tator..... is the person who would have everything their way at the cost of all others personal freedoms and lively hoods, the cost of having this type of person on board is costly to a community, and it no longer thrives when this type of person is allowed to rule over the community processes, mostly they are involved for personal gain and do not want to see the community thrive for it makes them smaller.

the spec- tator..... this is the person on the committee that just sits and and watches and does not speak out even though they know what is being presented is bad for the community as a whole and goes along with the crowd as to which way to lend their voice or vote in the matter.

the agi- tator..... this person is easily recognized as the one stirs the mix and brings the most absurd ides to the forefront, and most of those ideas as a whole can be used against the peopel to supress them and bring harm upon them eventually, if by nothing else a fine imposed by some taxing authority under another form of dict- tator in a "just-us" club.

the mashed- tator..... no this is not the person who heads to the bar after work and then goes to the meeting, this is the person standing up to the dict-tator for the people but the agi-tator calls them names like "patriot", "separatist", "consitutionalist" or other names meant to be derogatory, while the spec- tator watches and leans their vote towards to the agi-tator as the dict-tator beams with joy and happiness they don't have to be the agi-tator on this issue.

the common- tator..... is the person who just talks out both sides of their orfice, forever a "mugwump" sitting on the fence making comments to placate the people watching, commenting upon the issue but never taking a stance on one side or the other

the Fried- tator ...... this ends up as the bulk of the people after the meeting goes against them in favor of the dict-tator's wishes supported by the agi-tator and the spec- tator and the common- tator as the quorum carried the vote against the people.

there in a nutshell is the committee process we have across the several states to a large degree, a few people making the decisions that effect the bulk of the people against the real wishes of the people.... some done in secret closed door sessions, and others done in public without much advertisement cause they know if it gets out the meeting house will swel to over flowing and someone might just bring the oil to make "frenchfried-tators".

A republican form of government is where each individual is responsible for their own actions and liable solely for them, no limited liability passed along to others of society like we do so much today and tell the world we have a constitutional guarantee of demon-acracy, or that we live in a demon-acracy, though that is what it has become. a socialist experiment since the FDR "new deal" and continually supported by the communist party within the two major parties who have declared themselves affiliated with those that they may be elected to office.

Some folks will read my defintions above and it may hit home close to them, as they look into the mirror and see the "tator" they are, and not see the one they thought they were, I mean no name calling nor do I mean any harm for as a mashed-tator I would welcome others into the mix and then maybe someone else would sop up all the gravy poured on those of us who take a stand for right.....

More later

William

It has been an up and down year for me and my family, In February we lost granpa DJ, the kids grandad and my friend for the past 18 or so years who was married to my wifes Birth mother [no one even he knew my wife existed until about 8 years back except granny and a couple of her friends] then 3 weeks ago my mentor in the lawball game passed away after a battle with cancer brought on by his exposure to agent orange used by the Forset Service back in the early 1970's where he was cutting timber falling in the back country. He suffered from diabetes too in his last few years, and the meds he took to help that caused a problem this past year with his blood, the red cells were fine, the marrow produced the redcells, but the signal to replace the blood cells was absent from his brain to the marrow ergo he had to have a transfusion every 2-3 months, he refused the last one a few days before he passed away.

He was a mentor in more than the law, for the 15 years I studied with him on and off, he taught me about gold prospecting, about machine work as he was a self taught machinist, about making firearms [2 of his cohorts spent time in federal prison for making of "auto-matic" firearms, now all three are together again] he taught me to make some of the best moonshine and brandy there is in the area but above all he taught me about people and to watch for what he called "the law of reactions"..... "by doing people see and by seeing those people will do" he used to tell me, and he was right....... for the most part.

He came to this part of the world in the mid 1960's after selling the California Mattress factory for what was at that time a small fortune following an action that happened in 1952 in which his dad was involved. His dad and 2 others fellas, one who owned the local "house of ill repute" and was a former safe cracker, stole a safe from an attorney who had hired the safecracker to do an insurance job and stiffed him the money said to be in the safe..... they stole it in Denver and found their way to this area only to hit a road block and thought it was for them, when they hastily turned around they dropped it out of the pickup and into the Salmon River..... Where it still lays to this day due to a lawsuit and the recovery stopped by the Army Corps of Engineers and the corporation of the state of Idaho. Why am I telling this, because I have been to the place where the safe is, and know that most likely no one will ever recover it or at least not for many years.... but it is part of his legacy.

In 1992 he recorded the papers that re-found the Sovereign Republic of Jesus the Christ's Universal Government, The recording were by D.O.O.R. or the Divine Order Of Redemption. the first real test of DOOR was in the Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris incident 240 miles to the North in Naples. DOOR presented paperwork in the Federal Court and the court recognized DOOR, and proceeded to supeonea witnesses for the prosecution [and you all thought all this time that the great lawyer from Wyoming got Mr weaver all those witnesses to testify] The Writ of Mandamus was a short 13 pages, but it was by no means short on power, and the ripple effect made caused a judge to get cancer and die a short time after signing his name to that Order...... the federal government can be fickle that way. back in those days we did not have the internet or perhaps more folks would know about DOOR and the things we did, we were granted an Original copyright and patent by the united States for our writings, we minted a coin and were asked by the secret service to cease and desist [though no formal Order ever came about, nor did anything happen when we did not] We caused the price of Silver to jump a whole dollar for a month when we petitioned H. Ross Perot for a letter of credit to purchase silver for our coins [well someone had to profit i suppose]. The word got out a little, and the coin at least once was sent in to the treasury to pay part of the national debt off with no response, but not returned either....... Ronnie was always using people as test cases... he would tell us to put something on paper into the court, the after it was done and heard his comment was "you did what?... well what happened, what did they say or do" and we would go on to another hearing in an action and cause more grief for the judges [or at least grief for the attorney's in front of the judge]

Ronnie would be right here with me today as I embark on anew venture of refining gold and other precious metals in a newly found hobby, for we had covered such in part when we talked of using chemicals to recover gold from the rivers and creeks and so forth..... different chemicals than what I am learning about but the laws of physics and chemistry still apply the same. The knowledge that both Ronnie and granpa DJ had is lost forever to time, some is written and some passed along to people like myself, but the not all knowledge can be passed along at once, nor can everything be learned by anyone individual. I miss their company, sometimes we were known to talk about a subject for 15-18 hours into the night and the next day and for several days we could hash over the same things..... Ronnie gave me a copy of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to read, you know the book that no one would print for Henry Ford so he bought the Dearborn press and put a copy in every model T sold..... When I read that book I told some folks that even if it was not a true book, some one read it and applied the things in it to the world and that is where we are at [and that was 15 years ago].

Ronnie was happy to know I still had the energy to fight in the court, he knew I had the appeal in progress and that they didnt want it so bad they returned my reply brief because it had the wrong color paper on the cover [so i fixed it from a light yellow to a cream cause the color they wanted is not available off the shelf] so we are still waiting for the Court of Appeals to act on it.....

Always wanting an adversary, Ronnie was one of a kind and unique in every way. People for the most part were afraid of him, not for what he was, but because very few people understood him or his ways, I only hope i can achieve part of what he did in life, hopefully he has the adversary he needed for eternity and beyond and Granpa DJ will probably be there backing him up as well.

more later

William

the lawball game has been harsh on my this year, losing ground and setting us into a panicy and hasty retreat to town to set up as best defense as we could, it has been tiring to say the least, but yet in the loss comes a victory, knowing that the only way we could have lost was the beligerent and outright compulsion of a judge to protect a foreign corporation against the fraud it committed. We are on appeal still with the coming year it still looks like we have a chance to regain the ground we lost and then some, however as corrupt as the court s are i do not pretend to be happy that i have the evidence in hand that can turn the suit around on a technicality yet.

It is far better to win on merits, however the very nature of taking a banking corporation on as an opponent is futile at best, for a win would mean a change in the very fabric of society it has come to think of as normal [i never have understood why the people of the several states have taken the fraud as normal] the money changers have done it so well that the people have given up freedom for security and expect no one to stand outside the box and try to change things for their self or family let alone for others who think they havesomething to lose [whatever that is they havent lost already].

Sometimes my knowledge seems extremist in that very few people can see what i do as the way things were once and still should be, relying on others to protect the freedoms and rights that are individual has put folks into the position of slave they are. Slave to the state, to the nation as a subject of the corporation, and slave to the banksters who have taken the very real tangible assets from the people and replaced those with notes of obligation of another corporation and have vieled the truth in enough mystery that the people believe the magicical hoax.

It is more than my own fight, and if you can view a copy of the film America Freedom to Facsism by Arron Russo, i suggest you do so. If you need a copy and cannot find one contact me and we shall see if i can help find one for you..... But are you ready to get mad? Ready to make a stand? Ready to take your life back into your own self determination? many people think they are but very few will actually do anything to start down that path. The LAW is simple. The Supreme Law of the land is over looked until you take a stand and make it what it was intended to be, and all the contrary code will fall by the wayside as it is far fetched to make a few people look like they are deserving of being given a reward for writing such drivel and kept on board for another year to do the same.... start with the constitution, and then read Marbury vs Madison 1803 united States Supreme court ruling, then your path will ignite as you open your eyes up to other things in the Lawball game.

Can it be done? yes, and yesterday i was losing ground until i used a phrase i had been reading and discusing with other folks who also appear "In Propia Persona, Sui Juris" or in their own right with all rights to compently contract in tact [no thats not the defintition you get in a law bokk its a boiled down defintion of my own] anyhow the judge was telling me that I had got everything i asked for in the Notice of appeal becuse there was no trial and I had asked for standard transcripts of ALL the hearing held in pre-trial, anyhow it was going south looking like i was not gonna get any of them which are pertinent to the appeal and my reversing the Orders the Judge gave out both Orally [written nowhere but on those hearing transcripts] and written, the oral orders are the ones that will get me a win on technicalites.... and my property back, let the banksters sue the state for their laywers incompetence and the bar for letting them have the licsense, not my problem. Anyhow in the course of things i decided right then and there to tell the judge that I have a contract with the court for the court to provide those hearing transcripts as requested on the Notice of hearing, and through the granting of the "In Forma Pauperis" so the county/state picks up the tab for the several hundred pages of transcripts which will be delivered....

CONTRACT the word made the judge jump, fgacial expression changed and he immeadiately changed his tone and demeanor and told me he would immeadiately have the one hearing transcibed that i was appealing from, and if i wanted any others to submit the exact dates of those within one week to him in writing..... very powerful what i said, or how i said it.... as much as ive been in front of those courts and in the gallery studying the words that others say in the "theater" especailly the attorners, I come closer each time to understanding the inner workings of that evil black cloaked darkness that has enslaved the people of the several states through their own ignorance.....

My mentor once told me, we all are running around in circular room trying to find the answer in the corner, yet all we have to do is look up and there is no roof, just a short wal to jump over.... and we are free, I believe that the contract that people dont know they have is that key..... i have only just begun to understand the hidden contracts of the corporation through the social insecurity administration, a trust in which the cardholder is the "trustee" and the beneficiary is the agency fund.... banksters rely on the trustee to slave themselves to that number, and the corporation requires that numnber to recive some of the 132 privledges as it sees fit associated with that number..... yes it is now required to be compliant with the new governement [corporate] agency of homeland insecurity... but once understanding the contract and what it is, a person gets one step closer to actually not being a slave to the "federal corporation" and its counterpart of each "corporate state" as opposed to each once independant state republics [however they are still there if you want them to be].

Lawball is a wonderful game to play if you keep the procedure done properly, ive missed a couple steps here and there, had a few stebacks, and yet after yesterday i am making headway and am one step closer to getting back the proerty taken unlawfully from my family under fraud.

There is always hope, never give up.

Blueduck

William
Central idaho Republic

The following came in my email yesterday, Independence Day, July 4 2006, some 230 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independance, some folks never realize the reason why we celebrated yesterday, some people never realize the sacrifices to throw out a tyrannical government of King George of that day.... some 230 years later the machine of the King seems like it is still upon us, but no one seems to care anymore, and those who do care believe they might lose their fortunes they have accumulated and tithe to the government in hopes of pleasing that feudal lord and keeping the estates they have..... but for a whim that may be true, as at any given day or time the feudal lord might increase the tithes, rent or taxation without representation and wage war upon a foreign nation or state to make profit for some obscure corporation that has nothing to do with the safety of the people of the several states, yet the people cower and send their sons and daughters and wives and husbands into the abyss to appease the corporation of the UNITED STATES [not to be confused with the united States of North America which was recognized as a nation/ tribe by signing of the Treaty of Delaware 1778]. That we as a people are ignorant of the happenings in the political arena is not by chance, but by design, for if the people as a whole were to be informed as were the colonists of 1776, the people today would rise up and revolt against the corporate machine that has entwined itself into the lives of the people and those responsible for this hoax would be set upon and scourged and publicly flogged that those who follow as public servants would not dare to rise up against the people again to try and enslave them as has happened silently over the past 200 years give or take a couple.

I know not who authored the following piece, or i would give credit where it is due, it is a sobering read to know the men who lost their estates were as wealthy as what today Bill Gates is said to be [imagine a 2 million dollar pledge of support 230 years ago in the federal reserve accounting unit denominations or fraud of today] as one reads the sacrifices of yesterday for the position we are in today just think that those who sacrificed so much would probably turn over in their graves at what the people have allowed to happen, and especially in the past 70 years alone.

Blueduck is

William
Central Idaho state

What of the sacrifice of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence?!


What kind of men were the 56 signers who adopted the Declaration of
Independence and who, by their signing, committed an act of treason against
the crown? To each of you the names Franklin, Adams, Hancock, and Jefferson
are almost as familiar as household words. Most of us, however, know
nothing of the other signers. Who were they? What happened to them?

I imagine that many of you are somewhat surprised at the names not there:
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry. All were elsewhere.

Ben Franklin was the only really old man. Eighteen were under 40; three
were in their 20s. Of the 56 almost half -24- were judges and lawyers.
Eleven were merchants, 9 were landowners and farmers, and the remaining
12 were doctors, ministers, and politicians.

With only a few exceptions, such as Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, these
were men of substantial property. All but two had families. The vast
majority were men of education and standing in their communities. They had
economic security as few men had in the 18th century.

Each had more to lose from revolution than he had to gain by it. John
Hancock, one of the richest men in America, already had a price of 500
pounds on his head. He signed in enormous letters so "that his Majesty
could now read his name without glasses and could now double the reward."
Ben Franklin wryly noted: "Indeed we must all hang together, otherwise we
shall most assuredly hang separately." Fat Benjamin Harrison of Virginia
told tiny Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts: "With me it will all be over in a
minute, but you , you will be dancing on air an hour after I am gone.

These men knew what they risked. The penalty for treason was death by
hanging. And remember: a great British fleet was already at anchor in New
York Harbor.

They were sober men. There were no dreamy-eyed intellectuals or draft card
burners here. They were far from hot-eyed fanatics, yammering for an
explosion. They simply asked for the status quo. It was change they
resisted. It was equality with the mother country they desired. It was
taxation with representation they sought. They were all conservatives, yet
they rebelled.

It was principle, not property, that had brought these men to Philadelphia.
Two of them became presidents of the United States. Seven of them became
state governors. One died in office as vice president of the United States.
Several would go on to be U.S. Senators. One, the richest man in America,
in 1828 founded the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. One, a delegate from
Philadelphia, was the only real poet, musician and philosopher of the
signers (it was he, Francis Hopkinson - not Betsy Ross who designed the
United States flag).

Richard Henry Lee, A delegate from Virginia, had introduced the resolution
to adopt the Declaration of Independence in June of 1776. He was prophetic
in his concluding remarks:

"Why then sir, why do we longer delay? Why still deliberate? Let this
happy day give birth to an American Republic. Let her arise not to
devastate and to conquer but to reestablish the reign of peace and law. The
eyes of Europe are fixed upon us. She demands of us a living example of
freedom that may exhibit a contrast in the felicity of the citizen to the
ever increasing tyranny which desolates her polluted shores. She invites us
to prepare an asylum where the unhappy may find solace, and the persecuted
repost. If we are not this day wanting in our duty, the names of the
American Legislatures of 1776 will be placed by posterity at the side of all
of those whose memory has been and ever will be dear to virtuous men and
good citizens."

Though the resolution was formally adopted July 4, it was not until July
8 that two of the states authorized their delegates to sign, and it was not
until August 2 that the signers met at Philadelphia to actually put their
names to the Declaration.

William Ellery, delegate from Rhode Island, was curious to see the signers'
faces as they committed this supreme act of personal courage. He saw some
men sign quickly, "but in no face was he able to discern real fear." Stephan
Hopkins, Ellery's colleague from Rhode Island, was a man past 60. As he
signed with a shaking pen, he declared: "My hand trembles, but my heart does
not." "Most glorious service"

Even before the list was published, the British marked down every member of
Congress suspected of having put his name to treason. All of them became
the objects of vicious manhunts. Some were taken. Some, like Jefferson,
had narrow escapes. All who had property or families near British
strongholds suffered.

- Francis Lewis, New York delegate saw his home plundered and his estates in
what is now Harlem, completely destroyed by British soldiers. Mrs. Lewis
was captured and treated with great brutality. Though she was later
exchanged for two British prisoners though the efforts of Congress she died
from the effects of her abuse. - William Floyd, another New York delegate,
was able to escape with his wife and children across Long Island Sound to
Connecticut, where they lived as refugees without income for seven years.
When they came home they found a devastated ruin. - Philips Livingstone had
all his great holdings in New York confiscated and his family driven out of
their home. Livingstone died in 1778 still working in Congress for the
cause. - Louis Morris, the fourth New York delegate, saw all his timber,
crops, and livestock taken. For seven years he was barred from his home and
family. - John Hart of Trenton, New Jersey, risked his life to return home
to see his dying wife. Hessian soldiers rode after him, and he escaped in
the woods. While his wife lay on her deathbed, the soldiers ruined his farm
and wrecked his homestead. Hart, 65, slept in caves and woods as he was
hunted across the countryside. When at long last, emaciated by hardship, he
was able to sneak home, he found his wife had already been buried, and his
13 children taken away. He never saw them again. He died a broken man in
1779, without ever finding his family. - Dr. John Witherspoon, signer, was
president of the College of New Jersey, later called Princeton. The British
occupied the town of Princeton, and billeted troops in the college. They
trampled and burned the finest college library in the country. - Judge
Richard Stockton, another New Jersey delegate signer, had rushed back to his
estate in an effort to evacuate his wife and children. The family found
refuge with friends, but a Tory sympathizer betrayed them. Judge Stockton
was pulled from bed in the night and brutally beaten by the arresting
soldiers. Thrown into a common jail, he was deliberately starved. Congress
finally arranged for Stockton's parole, but his health was ruined. The
judge was released as an invalid, when he could no longer harm the British
cause. He returned home to find his estate looted and did not live to see
the triumph of the revolution. His family was forced to live off charity. -
Robert Morris, merchant prince of Philadelphia, delegate and signer, met
Washington's appeals and pleas for money year after year. He made and
raised arms and provisions which made it possible for Washington to cross
the Delaware at Trenton. In the process he lost 150 ships at sea, bleeding
his own fortune and credit almost dry. - George Clymer, Pennsylvania signer,
escaped with his family from their home, but their property was completely
destroyed by the British in the Germantown and Brandywine campaigns. - Dr.
Benjamin Rush, also from Pennsylvania, was forced to flee to Maryland. As a
heroic surgeon with the army, Rush had several narrow escapes. - John
Martin, a Tory in his views previous to the debate, lived in a strongly
loyalist area of Pennsylvania. When he came out for independence, most of
his neighbors and even some of his relatives ostracized him. He was a
sensitive and troubled man, and many believed this action killed him. When
he died in 1777, his last words to his tormentors were: "Tell them that they
will live to see the hour when they shall acknowledge it [the signing] to
have been the most glorious service that I have ever rendered to my
country." - William Ellery, Rhode Island delegate, saw his property and home
burned to the ground. - Thomas Lynch, Jr., South Carolina delegate, had his
health broken from privation and exposures while serving as a company
commander in the military. His doctors ordered him to seek a cure in the
West Indies and on the voyage he and his young bride were drowned at sea. -
Edward Rutledge, Arthur Middleton, and Thomas Heyward, Jr., the other three
South Carolina signers, were taken by the British in the siege of
Charleston. They were carried as prisoners of war to St. Augustine,
Florida, where they were singled out for indignities. They were exchanged
at the end of the war, the British in the meantime having completely
devastated their large landholdings and estates. - Thomas Nelson, signer of
Virginia, was at the front in command of the Virginia military forces. With
British General Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown, fire from 70 heavy American
guns began to destroy Yorktown piece by piece. Lord Cornwallis and his
staff moved their headquarters into Nelson's palatial home. While American
cannonballs were making a shambles of the town, the house of Governor Nelson
remained untouched. Nelson turned in rage to the American gunners and asked,
"Why do you spare my home?" They replied, "Sir, out of respect to you."
Nelson cried, "Give me the cannon!" and fired on his magnificent home
himself, smashing it to bits. But Nelson's sacrifice was not quite over.
He had raised $2 million for the Revolutionary cause by pledging his own
estates. When the loans came due, a newer peacetime Congress refused to
honor them, and Nelson's property was forfeited. He was never reimbursed.
He died, impoverished, a few years later at the age of 50.

Lives, fortunes, honor Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of
Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were
captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost
wives, sons or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were
brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts
and driven from their homes. Twelve signers had their homes completely
burned. Seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected or went
back on his pledged word. Their honor, and the nation they sacrificed so
much to create is still intact.

And, finally, there is the New Jersey Signer, Abraham Clark.

He gave two sons to the officer corps in the Revolutionary Army. They were
captured and sent to that infamous British prison hulk afloat in New York
Harbor known as the hell ship "Jersey," where 11,000 American captives were
to die. The younger Clarks were treated with a special brutality because of
their father. One was put in solitary and given no food. With the end
almost in sight with the war almost won, no one could have blamed Abraham
Clark for acceding to the British request when they offered him his sons'
lives if he would recant and come out for the King and Parliament. The
utter despair in this man's heart, the anguish in his very soul, must reach
out to each and one of us down through 200 years with the answer: "No." The
56 signers of the Declaration of Independence proved by their every deed
that they made no idle boast when they composed the most magnificent curtain
line in history. "And for the support of this Declaration with a firm
reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

They gave you and me a free and independent America. The history books
never told you a lot of what happened in the Revolutionary War. We didn't
just fight the British. We were British subjects at that time and we fought
our own government! Most take our liberties for granted...We shouldn't.

Contracts

sounds intriguing right? boring maybe, over most peoples head so they never really read the contents or they skim over the bulk of the wording just reading it here and there believing the words mean the same as they did once upon a time back in grammar school when Mrs Smith taught us in English class...... but verbiage is the language of contracts, words appear the same and mean something completely different, but that is The Lawball Game, it promotes controversy, the way attorners make their income is from controversy. The days of a handshake and verbal contract are far behind the people of today, at age 44 i can remember such a contract, and still hear of such once in awhile today, but not for anything important.

I have heard some people who have gold and silver bullion stashed watching the skyrocketing inflation hoping that soon the Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denomination [FRAUD] will plummet into history and then they can trade their metal into the worthless paper and pay off their mortgage..... well they never read their contracts, and while for the most part they can put those "current" FRAUDs into a bank account and boost the number in the account and then draw the account down with a "negotiable instrument" [check] and make a mortgage payment, they really have not paid in FRAUDs...... but their mortgage note if they read it does not allow payment in "currency" it demands payment in "lawful money of the united States of America" meaning that since everyone knows the FRAUDs are only evidence of an obligation of the united states and traded as if they were "cash, lawful money of the united states" that once that "currency" has devalued and is no longer the current trading stamp, the banks and mortgage companies will not accept such paper for payment on a mortgage note, because the people ha vent read the VERBAGE in the contract they signed.....

And another good real estate pickle that 99.9% of the people get themselves into is a purchase contract that usually reads "For the sum of ten dollars cash lawful money, and other valuable considerations...." just when did you pay ten dollars cash lawful money? the lawyer says oh it is just a formality..... really? well for such a formality you just denied yourself a Trial by Jury in matters of controversy EXCEEDING 20 DOLLARS. nope you bought the property for only 10 dollars, however some are still written as "for the sum of Twenty Dollars and other valuable considerations......" get your s out and look, then if you can put your place on the market and run like the dickens when someone else buys it..... and when you buy another place, well then have the VERBIAGE of the CONTRACT corrected to read in part "..... For the sum of 21 Dollars and other valuable considerations....." hey if the lawyer balks cause it really doesn't matter as he says, then find a new lawyer or write the contract yourself, or since it doesn't matter so much then they wont mind correcting the verbiage..... will they..... And you are then put in a position for something that others will be eventually denied.....

Now back to thinking you can "re-pay" your mortgage with FRAUDs.... since 12 USC 411 acknowledges that federal reserve notes CAN BE TRADED for lawful money of the united States, then it has be true that FRAUDs are not lawful money, but obligations as stated therein. it has been this way a long time and people are ignorant, people deserve what they get in the end, because they rely upon someone else to take care of the details and have a belief that there will never be a problem with them paying off the PROMISSORY note they "executed" and bound to the property they bought by a mortgage "DEED OF TRUST" which if a person reads the laws surround such a deed of trust a person will find that it is not a trust at all, because a trust would protect all parties and the beneficiary could not change the "trustee" at all..... trustee is the person put in charge to make sure that all parties do their part right? wrong..... not in real estate mortgages..... they only protect the beneficiary and do not care for the people who signed the note and in some cases are so arrogant that they refuse to follow the laws of the state, knowing that their "brethren" another lawyer who has become a judge will uphold their actions even if they have to give up a cut of the transaction under the table...... after all who is gonna report a bribe to the judge when it is doe all the time? its just business practices right?

If the papers you sign for a contract do not contain a definition clause then the verbiage is open to interpretation by any lawyer, and any judge. If you end up in Court sometimes when the mortgage company or collector is from a different state their lawyers will try to have a different states laws become the ruling factor in the action, above all make the state you reside in laws be the controlling laws, for then the supreme court of that state can make the decision if the lower court judge is corrupt and plows you over....... if the supreme court will take the action cause they like they secure feeling they get from being surrounded by the banksters.

Read the contract before you and your partner sign it, then put a line through anything you don't like, initial it, and sign on the line, if the offering company does not like it, then an agreement cannot be met, after all you are borrowing your own money, the bank can not loan you any of their investors money.... it is the law..... don't believe me, then you better research a few more items. If everyone would stand up against the banksters and the "Money Changers" the world would still spin and the sun would come up tomorrow and the power would shift back to the people, not the corporate banksters who will not take back the same currency they give out for re-payment on a debt. A person cannot discharge a debt with another debt [obligation] the debt can only be discharged with limited liability, so the FRAUD cannot be used after it collapses and you can purchase a wheelbarrow of it for a ounce of silver....... better make a new plan my friends, get out of debt whilst it is still feasible to do so and do not get back in..... sell the house, sell the car, buy a chunk of ground for few hundred FRAUDs [some people think they still have some value] in a remote part of the country, build a roof over a tent and ride a bicycle to town, work for minimum wage and buy what you can not grow and haul water back to the tent.... got a few more FRAUDs then build a shack and put up some solar panels.... declare bankruptcy if you can and get out of the debt you have left, most likely you wont lose the piece of ground that is not improved on..... talk to a bankruptcy lawyer about what you can and can not have for possessions..... it is surprising how much a person or couple can keep without losing it all.... been there done that and we are better off by a little, just looking for the piece of ground i just wrote about..... as renting and cost of raising 3 kids is eating away the meager funds we bring into the family each month as prices rise we lose a little more ground, all from a bad contract and failure to fully understand that contract when we signed it....... never again..... hopefully.

More later and hopefully sooner... comments are welcome, as with anything else i can be wrong and admit that i do not know EVERYTHING and I AM NOT A LAWYER, nor do i play one on television.

William