Presents
Pamphlet #338

AMERICA TODAY
by Beaver Cole

America is being ruled today by a "dictatorship".
To prove my point, how many times have you heard
or witnessed the government ruling against the "will" of the people?
A thousand times, or maybe hundreds of times?

There are three (3) branches to government:
the Executive Branch,
the Legislative Branch,
and the Judicial Branch.

Each has a responsibility to the Constitution
and the Sovereign People to whom they are to serve.
They are public servants, no more nor no less.
They are to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,
which few if any know anything about.

The Legislative Branch, which is Congress,
is charged with the Constitutional responsibility of our monetary system.
They have given this privilege to the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve is no more federal than the Federal Express.
The American people rent their money from a private banking cartel owning the Federal Reserve.
This rent is known as the National Debt.
The bulk of the ownership of the Federal Reserve System,
a very well-kept secret from the American citizenry,
is held by these banking interests: Rothschild Bank of London,
Rothschild Bank of Berlin, Warburg Bank of Hamburg,
Warburg Bank of Amsterdam, Lazard Brothers of Paris,
Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy, Chase Manhattan Bank of New York,
Goldman, Sachs of New York, Lehman Brothers of New York,
and Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York.

Now you know who is running America!
The Independent Treasury Act of 1921
suspended the de’jure (meaning "by right of legal establishment")
Treasury Department of the United States government.
Our Congress turned the treasury department
over to a private corporation, the Federal Reserve, and their agents.

Other than property tax, the Federal Reserve has never,
not once, been audited,
nor paid one cent of tax on the trillions of dollars
collected each year in the form of "interest" that the Sovereign People
are coerced out of in the form of income taxes.
How would you like to have trillions of dollars tax free!?

Income tax as it is applied today to the masses
of Sovereign People of the States is Un-Constitutional.

The Federal Government knows it; the Federal Reserve knows it;
the Internal Revenue knows it;
and millions of Americans are beginning to learn and know it also.

The phony income tax amendment was pushed through Congress in 1909
by Sen. Nelson Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr. and grandfather and namesake of Nelson A. Rockefeller.

At this time during the Taft administration,
Philander Knox served as the Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913.
Knox was for many years the primary attorney for the richest men in America,
including Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan and the Vanderbilts.

Just a few days before he left office in 1913,
to make way for the Wilson administration,
Knox proclaimed the 16th Amendment to be ratified,
even though he knew it had not been legally ratified.
The 16th Amendment was not ratified as Knox had fraudulently proclaimed.

Ratified or not, the United States Supreme Court has ruled:

"...[the 16th Amendment] conferred no new power of taxation...[and]...prohibited the...power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged...".

– United States Supreme Court in Stanton v. Baltic Mining (1916)

Article V of the U.S. Constitution controls the amending process,
which requires that three-fourths of the states ratify any amendment proposed by Congress.
In 1913, there were 48 States in the American union,
so to adopt any amendment required the affirmative act of 36 states.

The federal government claimed Kentucky
was the second state to ratify the 16th Amendment, on Feb. 8, 1910.
However, the records of the State of Kentucky show
that after the Kentucky House proposed a resolution to adopt the amendment
and sent it to the Senate, on Feb. 8, 1910 the Kentucky Senate voted upon that resolution,
but rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed.
Apparently, the Kentucky Senate never did ratify that amendment.
Federal officials, who had possession of documents showing this rejection,
nevertheless claimed Kentucky had ratified the amendment.

In Oklahoma, the proposed amendment was passed
by the language of the 16th Amendment in such a fashion
as to have a precisely opposite meaning.

The California legislative assembly never recorded any vote
upon any proposal to adopt the 16th Amendment.
And whatever California did adopt bore no resemblance
to what Congress had proposed.

Several states engaged in the unauthorized activity
of amending the language of the amendment proposed by Congress,
a power that these states did not possess.

Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington,
but this did not stop Philander Knox from claiming that Minnesota
ratified the amendment,
regardless of the absence of any documentation from the State of Minnesota.

In February 1913, Knox issued a proclamation
claiming that 38 states had ratified the amendment
– including Kentucky, California, and Oklahoma.

But since Kentucky had rejected the amendment,
California had not voted on it,
and Oklahoma wanted something entirely different,
the amendment was not legally adopted,
the number of ratifying States being only 35,
which Knox said included Kentucky, California and Oklahoma.

Then a total of 11 states failed to vote on the amendment,
plus Minnesota sent in nothing.

That would only leave 33 states,
less the states that took it upon themselves to change the amendment.

In the final analysis, if the process of the adoption of the 16th Amendment
is subjected to strict legal scrutiny, the amendment was never adopted.
Knox told a boldface lie.

Thus, Knox had created his clients’ the largest cartel in the world.
Nevertheless, the people were not buying into the tax scheme,
ever so cognizant that a 1894 income-tax
was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1895.

During World War I, the secretary of the Treasury
explicitly suggested use of "widespread propaganda"
to convince the public to forgo their "needless pleasures".

The Treasury Department implemented what it called a "campaign of education"
regarding the income tax.
Its "essential features" included government-supplied news stories
and editorials as well as encouragement of special cartoons and films.

Perhaps the most intriguing feature was its use of the clergy.
The commissioner of Internal Revenue reported that "Thousands of clergymen,
at the suggestion of the Bureau,
made taxation the subject of at least one sermon."

As a result of the "patriotic response" aroused "
dissatisfaction and complaint over the burden imposed by taxation were minimized."
Government officials commented that
"the groundwork was laid for securing in ensuing years of prompt
and regular response to revenue demands."

To perpetuate its success, the Bureau of Internal Revenue advocated
"the most intensive cultivation of intelligent public opinion"
(U.S. Treasury Department 1919: 964-65, 974).

The citizens of America still didn’t buy into the scheme
of income tax allowing politicians to coerce them out of their hard earned money.

But the greedy politicians would not give up.
To increase public awareness and acceptance of the income tax,
the government used volunteer public speakers to persuade the American people
that paying taxes was their patriotic duty to support the war effort.

One-third of the cost of World War I was paid for by income taxes.
Additional funds needed for the war effort were provided through war bonds,
liberty loans and other government borrowing.

At the beginning of World War II, in 1939 about 15 % of the people paid income tax.

That’s all!

The government called on Walt Disney to produce a cartoon to support the war effort.
Disney agreed and made a cartoon with Donald Duck.
The cartoon urged the average American to save,
not spend, their money...but to pay income tax to support the war.
(Cartoon): You don’t wanna forget our fighting men, do you laddy?
Donald: "No, Sir!!!"
Then you’ll have to meet your tax payments...
Donald also informed,
"that it is ‘your privilege, not just your duty,
but your privilege to help your government
by paying your tax and paying it promptly’."

More than 32 million people saw the film in the first few months of 1942,
and a Gallup poll reported that "37 percent felt the film had affected their willingness to pay taxes."

Without doubt,
such government propaganda manipulated political information
in ways that raised the expected marginal cost of income tax resistance.

Revenues increased dramatically.
In 1941 the government collected $7.4 billion in taxes.
By 1945, the tax total had increased to $43 billion.
At the end of the war the government had 80%
of American families paying income tax.
The willingness to pay income taxes
and to buy more bonds demonstrated the deep involvement of the civilians
caring and support to the military.

Politicians had at last found the key to the unyielding pocket books of America.
As the president and Congress imposed ever higher income taxes,
tax payment was wrapped in patriotism and remains so today:
the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War,
wars fought on behalf of the United Nations, Defense systems,
supporting foreign governments in the name of freedom, etc.

Sixty years later nothing has changed;
Americans are still paying taxes
and being dumbed down by propaganda provided by the governments
and the controlled media.

Docile as we may be, with fluoride in our drinking water,
we are entertained with sports, recreation, movies,
and just about anything else you can name all for sanctioning taxation.

Public education being controlled by governments
has also played a key role in developing a subservient citizen towards taxation and government.

To prove this point we need only to look at what we are being told today.

The government says "Budget Surplus,"
a normal person would say, "No, Excessive Taxation", or "Abusive Taxation".

The government says it’s "their money",
a normal person would say, "No, it’s my money!"

The government doesn’t trust you with "your money",
and therefore must decide on how it will be spent.

And being a people fearful of the tyrants in government, we say nothing.

The truth is there is no Constitutional law for income tax
as it is applied to the masses today.
 

Another hoax that the American people
has been made to believe is that Social Security is mandatory.

Social Security is 100% VOLUNTARY!
People are learning the truth.
Many corporations do not withhold or match employees donations
for the employees personal retirement fund, nor should they.
If it were law, they would have to have the Social Security program in force.
Many city, county, state and schools have opted for private programs.
Again I say, if it were LAW, they would be required to remain rather than substituting.
The term "Social Security" itself means that America has become a Socialist Country!

"There is no prospect that today's younger workers
will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them."
- Dorcas Hardy, former Social Security Commissioner
and author of "Social Insecurity",
quoted in the December 1995 Reader's Digest.

"All we have to do now is to inform the public
that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus."
- Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.  January 24, 1996

Yes, Mr. Bush, you and millions of other government and elected employees need to get focused!
You need to get some Texas grit!
You cannot represent One World Government nor press
the agenda to establish One World Government
and represent America and the Constitution at the same time.

And I emphasize this must apply to all elected and appointed officials.
The Constitution is not about the UN Charter,
nor is the UN Charter about the Constitution.
America is not about One World Government,
nor is One World Government about America.

"If we stuck to the Constitution as written,
we would have:
no federal meddling in our schools;
no Federal Reserve;
no U.S. membership in the UN;
no gun control;
and no foreign aid.

We would have no welfare for big corporations,
or the "poor";
no American troops in 100 foreign countries;
no NAFTA, GATT, or "fast-track";
no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights;
no attacks on private property; no income tax.

We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments,
most of the agencies,
and most of the budget.

The government would be small, frugal, and limited." – Congressman Ron Paul (1998)

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