The Falwell v Flynt Trial (1984)

Asked about his first sexual experience by an interviewer, Reverend Jerry Falwell said, "I never really expected to make it with Mom, but then after she showed all the other guys in town such a good time, I thought 'What the hell!'" Falwell went on to describe a a Campari-fueled sexual encounter with his mother in an outhouse near Lynchburg, Virginia.  Neither the incestuous sex nor the interview ever happened, of course.  They sprang from the imagination of a parody writer for Hustler Magazine.  

 

When the "Campari parody ad" appeared in the November 1983 issue of Hustler, the founder of the politically-engaged organization Moral Majority sued, alleging defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.  The trial and appeals that followed would provide great theater, produce a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the First Amendment, and eventually lead to one of the most unlikely of friendships.

Shortly after his discharge from the Navy at age 22, Larry Flynt launched a career in the adult entertainment business that would, within just over a decade, make him one of the nation's best known pornographers.  When recession pushed his string of Ohio-based strip clubs toward bankruptcy in 1974, Flynt turned what had been a black-and-white newsletter called the "Hustler Newsletter" into the most sexually explicit magazine in the United States.  The publication in August 1975 issue of nude photos of Jackie Kennedy Onassis brought attention and dramatically increased sales for Hustler.   Obscenity trials soon followed, including one in Georgia, where Flynt was shot and paralyzed by a white supremacist outraged by photos in Hustler showing an interracial couple. 

Flynt's growing pornography empire also attracted criticism from many religious leaders, including the the Reverend Jerry Falwell. Falwell co-founded the socially conservative and politically active Moral Majority in 1979, an organization that was credited with helping to elect Ronald Reagan the next year.  Falwell promoted an anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-Israel agenda.  He was especially outspoken in his criticism of pornography, which he claimed threatened the moral health of the country.

In August 1983, Flynt and a group of editors and lawyers met in the conference room of Larry Flynt Publications in Los Angeles.  The group debated an idea for an ad parody that had been suggested by a consultant named Michael Salzbury.  Salzbury proposed a parody of the well-known advertisements for Campari, which featured celebrities relating their “first times” (playing on the obvious double-entendre) drinking the popular liqueur.  The parody, as the idea was developed, had Jerry Falwell recounting his “first time,” which turned out not to be not his first taste of Campari, but rather his first sexual encounter—a drunken adventure with his mother in an outhouse.  Falwell’s anti-pornography crusade always made him an inviting target for Hustler satire, and the group was especially enthusiastic about the parody ad because of what they saw as the humorous contrast between the outhouse encounter and the actual lifestyle of the evangelical teetotaler.  In the ad, Falwell is quoted as saying, "We were drunk off our God-fearing asses on Campari...and Mom looked better than a Baptist whore with a $100 donation." At the insistence of legal counsel, the group agreed to place at the bottom of the ad the words: "Ad parody.  Not to be taken seriously."

As he left a Washington, D. C. news conference in November 1983, Falwell was asked by a reporter whether he had seen the parody ad featuring in the latest issue of Hustler. He glanced at the ad and brushed off the reporter’s question.  Back home in Lynchburg later that day, however, Falwell asked a staff member to buy the current issue of the magazine.   Falwell later testified that when he saw the parody ad, “I think I have never been as angry as I was at that moment.”  He never believed, he said, that “human beings could do something like this” and “felt like weeping.”  The most troubling aspect of the satire, according to Falwell, was “the besmirching and defiling of my dear mother's memory.” 

Falwell decided to sue Larry Flynt and Hustler Magazine for $45 million.  To raise money for the legal effort, Falwell send out two mailings.  The first, addressed to a half million members of the Moral Majority described the ad parody, while the second mailing to 30,000 “major donors” included (with eight offensive words blacked out) a copy of the actual Campari ad.  Falwell's letter warned readers that "the billion-dollar sex industry, of which Larry Flynt is the self-described leader, is preying on innocent, impressionable children to feed the lust of depraved adults."  The letter concluded with a request: "Will you help me defend myself against the smears and slander of this major pornographic magazine--will you send me a gift of $500 so that we may take up this important legal battle?"  The two letters, plus a third letter sent to 750,000 Old Time Gospel Hour fans, raked in over $717,000 to fund Falwell's lawsuit.

Flynt counter-attacked in two ways.  First, he filed a copyright infringement suit against Falwell for republishing Hustler's Campari ad without permission.  (The suit was later dismissed by a federal district court in California on the grounds that Falwell's use fell within the "fair use" exception under the Copyright Act.)  Second, to add fuel to the fire, Flynt ran the Campari parody ad again--this time in Hustler's March 1984 issue.

Falwell chose Norman Roy Grutman, a flamboyant New York attorney who had previously successfully defended Penthouse Magazine against another suit brought by Falwell, to represent him in his suit against Flynt.  Grutman's "gloves off" style of litigating struck Falwell as just what was needed in a suit against someone he considered a world class scumbag.

Grutman's complaint, filed in federal court the Falwell-friendly Western District of Virginia, alleged three grounds for recovery: (1) the defendants used Falwell's name and likeness for commercial purposes without consent; (2) the defendants defamed Falwell by falsely accusing him of committing incest with his mother; and (3) the defendants intentionally "inflicted emotional distress" on Falwell through their malicious and outrageous publication of the parody ad.  Trial of the case would take place before Chief Judge James Turk.

Allan Isaacman, a Harvard-trained lawyer with a disarming "Huck-Finn-goes-to-law-school-quality"(1) about him, took control of the defense.  (The lawyers for the two parties  did not exactly hit it off.  In his book Lawyers and Thieves, Roy Grutman describes Isaacman as a "feret-faced attorney" with a "sharkskin" 

wardrobe" who "sunk to the level of his client.") Isaacman's basic strategy to was to present the parody ad as nothing more than a simple joke.  Of course, to many people it seemed, it was not clear why it was a joke--what's so funny about incest anyway?  The answer, as Isaacman developed his theme, was that the juxtaposition of a great evangelist with the image of a drunken encounter in an outhouse was obviously farcical and was intended, above all, to make a significant political statement about Falwell's alleged hypocrisy.

A Memorable Deposition

Grutman's pre-trial deposition of Flynt took place in a room at a federal prison in North Carolina, where the pornographer was temporarily residing as the result of a contempt of court conviction.  It came a low point in Flynt's life.  He was paralyzed, depressed, bearded and unkempt, suffering from painful bedsores, and on numerous medications.  Flynt was wearing blue pajamas and handcuffed to his hospital gurney as he rolled in for his deposition. 

What followed ranks as perhaps the most bizarre, vulgar, and self-destructive depositions in legal history.  It began with Flynt claiming or pretending to receive "radio signals."  Flynt interrupted a question from Grutman to transmit a message to an unseen friend over his imaginary radio: "Bravo November, bravo whiskey...Eleven bravo....They know what that means, Bob.  Can you give me an ETA on it?"  Answers damaging to the defense came in rapid succession and Isaacman seemed powerless to stop them, as Flynt responded to Grutman's questions even when his attorney said, "I instruct the witness not to answer that" (at more than one point telling his attorney "to shut up.") 

Flynt seemed eager to take responsibility for the decision to place the parody ad: "Everything that has ever went in Hustler should have had my approval, and anything that went in that id not--the son of a bitch is either dead, got the shit kicked out of him, or dead."  Asked by Grutman whether he had "any information that Reverend Falwell ever committed incest with his mother," Flynt first claimed that the report came from Captain Joe Sivley of the Bureau of Prisons and later stated that he had an affidavit signed by three people from Lynchburg who witnessed the encounter from a nearby house.  He freely admitted that he ran the ad to "settle a score" with Falwell for his criticism of his private life and said he included the small disclaimer at the bottom only at the insistence of his in-house lawyer (David Kahn), who Flynt identified only "that asshole sitting over there."  His goal was "to assassinate" Falwell's integrity.  Flynt claimed the actual content of the ad was a collaborative effort that included the help, among others, of Billy Idol, Yoko Ono, Ted Nugent, and Jimmy Carter.

Asked by Grutman whether he had an aversion to organized religion, Flynt replied, "You better bet your sweet ass I do."  Does that go for the Bible too?  "Goddamn right I do."  Flynt launched into his philosophy of pornography and argued that he had been waging an unappreciated and secret war against child pornography and child molesters.  "What we got to stop doing is we got to stop fucking with the kids, you know," he said in a serious tone.  "When you mess with the kids, we got a special place for you, down here at the Rock."  Flynt said efforts to combat child molesters would be aided if Falwell was kept off the air: "Give him a pack of seed corn and send him to Israel and let him tell them what thou hath said."

The deposition deteriorated, ended with a string of venomous attacks by Flynt on Grutman and his client.  Flynt warned Grutman, "You're all going to be on your knees before we finish here."  He alleged that Falwell had been behind the assassination attempt on him in Georgia and issued a final threat: "I'm no longer settling for psychological pain.  You and Mr. Falwell and the rest of the 'Falwellians' have to crawl back to New Orleans, 'cause I'm the real one."

Alan Isaacman's main focus, as the opening of trial in Virginia loomed, was to get Flynt's off-the-wall deposition thrown out.  Isaacman feared what a jury might do if they watched the angry and self-defeating videotaped performance by his client.  He sought to convince Judge Turk that Flynt the videotape should be ruled inadmissible on the ground that Flynt was, at the time of his deposition, mentally incompetent because he was on medication and in the manic phase of a manic-depressive syndrome.  Grutman countered by arguing that the deposition should be admitted, with the jury free to consider Flynt's mental state in deciding how much weight to apply to his testimony.  After a pre-trial hearing, Judge Turk ruled in Flynt's favor and ordered the deposition excluded, only to reverse himself on the first day of trial.  The jury would see the videotape.

Jerry Falwell Goes to Court

Cover of the November 1983 issue containing the Campari parody ad

On December 4, 1984, Reverend Jerry Falwell settled into the witness stand in Judge Turk's Roanoke, Virginia courtroom.  At Grutman's urging, Falwell described his family's long history in Virginia, dating back to the founding of Lynchburg in 1757.  He told the jury about his father's troubles with alcoholism and said, "Since I became a Christian in 1952, I have been and am a teetotaler."  Falwell described his relationship with his mother as "very, very intimate" and said that she was "a very godly woman, probably the closest to a saint that I have ever known."  After a series of questions that developed Falwell's many ministerial accomplishments, Grutman returned to the subject of Falwell's mother: "Mr. Falwell, specifically, did you and your mother ever commit incest?"  "Absolutely not," Falwell replied. 

Falwell testified about the political activism that had propelled him to become "the second most-admired American behind the president."  Asked whether he "had attempted to influence public opinion against pornography," Falwell answered, "With every breath in my body."  Grutman handed Falwell copies of Hustler magazines and asked him to comment on various cartoons and couplings found in the publication:

Did you and Chief Justice Burger ever engaged in the kind of conduct [sodomy] that is depicted in the December 1983 [cartoon]?
We have not.
Does [this magazine] contain pictures of lesbians?
It does.
Full color?
Full color.
Does it show naked women lewdly exposing themselves?
Yes.
Does it have pictures of interracial sex?
It does....

From his skewering of Hustler generally, Grutman turned his attention to the Campari ad.  Falwell testified that his anger over the ad had lasted "to this present moment."  He described his reaction as the most intense he had ever had in his life.  He admitted that if "Flynt had been nearby, I might have physically reacted."  The ad, according to Falwell, "is the most hurtful, damaging, despicable, low-type personal attack that I can imagine one human being can inflict upon another."

When Larry Flynt took the witness stand on December 6, he looked far different than the man the jury saw in his videotaped deposition.  He looked relaxed and clean-cut in a three-piece suit.  Isaacman asked Flynt to tell the jury how he felt during his unfortunate encounter with Grutman five months earlier:  "I was in terrible pain...and I'd been in solitary confinement for several months, handcuffed to my bed most of the time."  He testified that, under the weight of his paralysis and mounting legal problems, he was suffering from paranoia and manic depression "that can trigger things." 

Turning to the parody ad, Isaacman asked Flynt to explain how he hoped readers would react.  "Well, we wanted to poke fun at Campari for their advertisements, because of the innuendos that they had," Flynt said.  The choice of Falwell for the ad was because "it is very obvious that he wouldn't do any of those things; that they are not true; that it's not to be taken seriously."  The target was all the more appropriate, Flynt argued, because of Falwell's political activities:  "There is a great deal of people in this country, especially the ones that read Hustler magazine, that feel that here should be a separation of church and state.  So, when something like this appears, it will give people a chuckle.  They know it was not intended to defame the Reverend Falwell, his mother, or members of his family, because no one could take it seriously."  Flynt testified that Falwell was "good copy" and that he bore no "personal animosity towards Reverend Falwell." 

In his cross-examination, Grutman began by asking, "Is it the Larry Flynt that we are seeing here today in court the real Larry Flynt, or is the real Larry Flynt the one we saw on the television screen in your June 15 deposition?"  Flynt answered calmly, "I'm more myself today than I was then.  And the reason why I didn't use any obscenities [in my testimony] is I see no reason to offend this jury here."  Grutman's research had turned up a despicable statement in Flynt's past and the attorney wanted the jury to know about it, the better to want to punish him with a hefty award of damages.  "In 1975, did you give an interview in which you said, 'I like to lay beneath a glass coffee table and--."  Isaacman leaped to his feet with an objection, but Grutman continued to shout over him: "and watch my girl shit--."   "I would beg Your Honor, please," Isaacman pleaded.  Judge Turk said, "I'll let him ask the question and then let's move on."  Grutman plowed ahead with Flynt's stomach-turning statement, which included not only an explicit description of excretory functions, but also his"fantasy" about having anal intercourse with ten-year-old paper boys and then slitting their throats with a razor.  Flynt tried gamely to explain the statement as "a bizarre joke that had no more seriousness that the Jerry Falwell parody," but one look at the jury could tell anyone that serious damage had been done to the defense game plan.  Later, Grutman asked Flynt about another interview, one conducted for Vanity Fair in 1984: "Do you remember saying of the Bible, 'This is the biggest piece of shit ever written'?"  Flynt could not recall the statement, but said he could not deny having made it.   

The plaintiffs called a psychiatrist, Dr. Seymour Halleck to the stand.  Dr. Halleck offered his appraisal of what made Flynt tick: "[Flynt] sees himself as a great human being fighting for noble causes and failing to achieve greatness only because of the malice of others.  At other times, he sees himself as a hustler or a prankster who is not really serious about anything....The most basic psychological characteristic of Mr. Flynt is that he thrives on attention and being in the limelight.  The world of plots and counterplots he has created with himself as the central figure is a world in which he cannot be ignored."

The jury heard from other witnesses.  They listened to witnesses, such as conservative U. S. Senator Jesse Helms, vouch for the good character of Jerry Falwell.  An advertising agent for Campari testified that his company had nothing to do with the parody ad and was very upset by it.  A Moral Majority executive confirmed that Falwell was seriously distressed when he first saw the parody ad.  A doctor who treated Flynt testified that he was manic and heavily medicated at the time of his deposition.  Still, in the end, the trial was largely a two-man show: evangelist Jerry Falwell versus pornographer Larry Flynt.

Grutman told the jury in his closing argument that "the eyes of the country are on Roanoke."  The jury had a chance to stand up for decency and civility.  Grutman warned against "letting loose chaos and anarchy."  "Are you," Grutman asked, "going to turn America into the Planet of the Apes"? 

On December 8, Judge Turk instructed the jury on the libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims.  He threw out the appropriation claim on the ground that Falwell's name and likeness had not been used to promote a commercial product.  Judge Turk told jurors that for there to be a defamation the defendant must have made false statements about the plaintiff that were "reasonably understood as real facts."  The intentional infliction of emotional distress claim, on the other hand, required no such believability; it was enough if the defendant intended to inflict distress on the plaintiff and that his expression was outside accepted bounds of decency.

The jury of eight women and four men returned with their verdict later that day.  The jury concluded that the parody ad could not be understood as factual, and thus Falwell's libel claim failed.  The jury did, however, decide that Larry Flynt and Hustler Magazine intended to inflict cause Falwell emotional harm and did so in a way that offended decency.  The jury awarded Falwell $100,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages.  Given the judge's instructions, any other verdict would have been a surprise.

On to the Supreme Court

Flynt's defense lawyer, Alan Isaacman

Initial appeal rounds went to Falwell.  A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, unanimously upheld the jury's damage award.  The court relied heavily on Flynt's testimony that he intended through his ad parody "to assassinate" Falwell's character.The full appeals court turned down a request for rehearing en banc on a vote of 6 to 5.  Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a respected conservative jurist, wrote a dissent from the decision not to rehear the case  in which he warned that the precedent may stifle political satire which "tears down facades, deflates stuffed shirts, and unmasks hypocrisy."

Flynt's attorneys, Alan Isaacman and David Carson, filed a petition for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court.  After some initial reluctance caused by the distasteful nature of the publication and parody ad, institutions and organizations supporting a free press came to Hustler's aid in the form of amici briefs.  Among the groups sending arguments to the Supreme Court were The Richmond Times, Reporters Committee for a Free Press, and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.  On March 20, 1987, the Court announced that it would hear arguments in Hustler Magazine vs. Jerry Falwell.  Free speech supporters saw the case as an opportunity for the Supreme Court to expand upon its assertion of fact (not protected if false, damaging to another's reputation, and made recklessly) / expression of opinion (protected speech) distinction.

On the cold morning of December 2, 1987, spectators began lining up outside the Supreme Court building.  Jerry Falwell and his wife took seats in the front row of the spectator section of the full courtroom.  Ten minutes before arguments were scheduled to begin, Larry Flynt rolled in through a side-entrance.  The eight justices (one seat was vacant at the time) took their seats at the bench.  Chief Justice Rehnquist nodded to Alan Isaacman, standing behind the podium, and announced, "Mr. Isaacman, you may proceed whenever you're ready."

Over the next half-hour of oral argument, attorney Isaacman deftly handled a steady stream of questions from the bench.  Isaacman conceded that the state has an interest in protecting people from emotional distress, but he added, "If Jerry Falwell can sue because he suffered emotional distress, anybody else whose in public life should be able to sue because they suffered emotional distress. And the standard that was used in this case--Does it offend generally accepted standards of decency and morality?--is no standard at all. All it does is allow the punishment of unpopular speech."  Asked what public interest the parody ad could possibly serve, responded: "Hustler has every right to say that somebody who's out there campaigning against it saying don't read our magazine and we're poison on the minds of America and don't engage in sex outside of wedlock and don't drink alcohol. Hustler has every right to say that man is full of B.S. And that's what this ad parody says."

Norman Grutman followed Isaacman to the podium.  Grutman opened his argument with the words, "Deliberate, malicious character assassination is not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution."  He struggled with questions from justices about how a clear line might be drawn between the Campari parody ad and other hard-hitting political cartoons and satire.  Grutman suggested: "If the man sets out with the purpose of simply making a legitimate aesthetic, political or some other kind of comment about the person about whom he was writing or drawing, and that is not an outrageous comment, then there's no liability."  Justice Scalia and several other justices appeared unconvinced.  Scalia asked: "I don't know, maybe you haven't looked at the same political cartoons that I have, but some of them, and a long tradition of this, not just in this country but back into English history, I mean, politicians depicted as horrible looking beasts, and you talk about portraying someone as committing some immoral act. I would be very surprised if there were not a number of cartoons depicting one or another political figure as at least the piano player in a bordello."  Justice O'Connor also was concerned with providing clear guidance to satirists of all sorts: "In today's world, people don't want to have to take these things to a jury. They want to have some kind of a rule to follow so that when they utter it or write it or draw it in the first place, they're comfortable in the knowledge that it isn't going to subject them to a suit."  Grutman had no real answer.

On February 24, 1988, Chief Justice Rehnquist announced the decision of a unanimous Supreme Court reversing the jury's award of damages to Jerry Falwell.  Rehnquist wrote:

At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern....[I]n the world of debate about public affairs, many things done with motives that are less than admirable are protected by the First Amendment. '"Debate on public issues will not be uninhibited if the speaker must run the risk that it will be proved in court that he spoke out of hatred..." Thus while such a bad motive may be deemed controlling for purposes of tort liability in other areas of the law, we think the First Amendment prohibits such a result in the area of public debate about public figures.

Epilogue

In January 1997, thirteen years after their legal confrontation in Roanoke, Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell appeared together on The Larry King Show.  The conversation was unexpectedly civil and shortly afterwards, Falwell paid a surprise visit to Flynt in his Beverly Hills office.  In an article published shortly after Reverend Falwell's death in 2007, Larry Flynt described the relationship that developed between the two old adversaries:

...[O]ut of nowhere my secretary buzzes me, saying, "Jerry Falwell is here to see you." I was shocked, but I said, "Send him in." We talked for two hours, with the latest issues of Hustler neatly stacked on my desk in front of him. He suggested that we go around the country debating, and I agreed. We went to colleges, debating moral issues and 1st Amendment issues — what's "proper," what's not and why.

In the years that followed and up until his death, he'd come to see me every time he was in California. We'd have interesting philosophical conversations. We'd exchange personal Christmas cards. He'd show me pictures of his grandchildren. I was with him in Florida once when he complained about his health and his weight, so I suggested that he go on a diet that had worked for me....

My mother always told me that no matter how repugnant you find a person, when you meet them face to face you will always find something about them to like. The more I got to know Falwell, the more I began to see that his public portrayals were caricatures of himself. There was a dichotomy between the real Falwell and the one he showed the public.

He was definitely selling brimstone religion and would do anything to add another member to his mailing list. But in the end, I knew what he was selling, and he knew what I was selling, and we found a way to communicate....

I'll never admire him for his views or his opinions. To this day, I'm not sure if his television embrace was meant to mend fences, to show himself to the public as a generous and forgiving preacher or merely to make me uneasy, but the ultimate result was one I never expected and was just as shocking a turn to me as was winning that famous Supreme Court case: We became friends. (2)

Footnotes:
(1) Smolla, Rodney, Jerry Falwell v Larry Flynt: The First Amendment on Trial (1988), p. 18.
(2)  Flynt, Larry, Los Angeles Times, "My Friend, Jerry Falwell" (May 20, 2007)

     

  Falwell v Flynt Trial

Secession Fever Sweeping Europe Meaningless Without Debt Repudiation

While regional independence is superior to both the failing European Union and the façade of special interest controlled democracy, one further action should taken by any jurisdictions that choose secession: Newly restored sovereign nations should repudiate their share of the illegitimate sovereign debt when they exit existing unions and nation-states. Created by distant banking elites buying national politicians and parliaments to load up on sovereign debts that can never be paid off, this massive national debt load is illegitimate and destructive to existing and new national economies.

Governments have three ways to deal with debt loads of this magnitude: The first is hyperinflation designed to destroy the payoff value of the debt, second is the official repudiation of the debt or third, a combination of both options.

Attempting to hold the bankers accountable is not an option. The investment banks like Goldman Sachs and a few others have already made their money packaging and selling the debt and derivatives so they are now out of the deal. At this point, the world waits for eventual sovereign debt repudiation.

The first nations to repudiate sovereign debt will have the advantage; this is why restored nations should repudiate these debts and not burden their new national economy and citizens with this junk debt. In addition, these nations should repudiate their existing politicians and representatives, controlled by the financial elites who supported the debt accumulation; because once independence is restored there is nothing to stop politicians on the take from doing the same thing again.

European Style Secession Fever
Now, there is no question that regional secession has a bad reputation, primarily due to the bloodbath that took place in the United States from 1861 to 1865. Today, most national governments strongly oppose independence and secession because this legal and legitimate action reduces tax revenues. However, few governments would consider the deplorable Lincoln alternative of military conquest that killed almost 600,000 Americans, North and South.

Although the establishment press issues many negative news accounts about secession fever sweeping Europe, I believe this is actually a positive political development and possibly the only solution to the sovereign debt crisis. For instance:
The Return of the Venetian Republic?
Catalonia Secession From Spain
Bavaria Interested in Secession
Europe's Richer Regions Want Out
Secessionist Wave Sweeps Belgium
Flanders Wants Out of Belgium
Scotland Seals Terms of Historic Independence Vote
Some Want Out of the USA
Vermont Independence

It is time for the restoration of formerly independent countries, each with their own unique cultural and ethnic heritage, that were forced at gunpoint into larger empire states. My recommendation is to leave most of the illegitimate sovereign debt behind when they go.

Venice wants out of Italy, Catalonia out of Spain, Bavaria out of Germany, Scotland and Wales want to leave the United Kingdom, the Flemish want out of Belgium. Even Vermont and some in the South want to regain their former status as sovereign republics separate from the most debt-ridden empire in world history, the United States.

Just as important, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain and Portugal – and there are even demands in Germany itself – want to leave the EU and euro witches' brew created by their leaders. After all, the EU is a failure and these member nations may have to leave the European Union and restore their national currencies in order to grow their economies once again.

The Necessity of Sovereign Debt Repudiation
Once austerity measures and tax increases have bankrupted most of the private sector and the current sovereign debt crisis reaches critical mass, then every nation will repudiate most of its debts as well as renege on promised health and social benefits. Newly sovereign nations can act now to position themselves with a distinct advantage when this occurs. These nations will have been able to limit austerity measures, reduce confiscatory tax increases and safeguard their citizens' private wealth by repudiating sovereign debt. If these steps are taken immediately upon independence, they should be able to avoid the majority of economic collapse caused by the coming Western sovereign debt repudiation.

Citizens are deservedly outraged at their politicians, bankers and governments and new governments, taxing jurisdictions or political lines drawn on a map may provide some nationalist, cultural or historical benefits. But independence without repudiation will do nothing to solve the collapsing standards of living and crippling austerity measures I see in our collective future.

Most of the countries in the West will eventually default on their sovereign debts using a war or financial crisis as the excuse. Like the Reichstag fire under Hitler, the excuse can be either a manufactured black-flag event or a policy readied in advance and implemented when the right excuse comes along.

This will not happen until most middle-class wealth and benefits, including retirement and health benefits, are stolen using the twin theft traps of austerity or hyperinflation caused by the sovereign debt crisis. For once, even most government employees will be raped and pillaged, as their promised benefits will evaporate because in the future their make-work jobs alone will be enough to guarantee their votes. It isn't like most will or can work in the private sector after a lifetime of government employment.

History Shows All National Boundaries and Structures Change Over Time
All government boundaries and structures change over time. Comparing a map of early 20th century Europe, Asia or Africa with one outlining national boundaries or tax jurisdictions today makes that clear.

The same is true for governments, Russia being a case in point. It began the 20th century under a monarchy czarist government, became communist in 1917 and later returned to a similar centralized government under Putin, following the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union.

The United States fought for independence and was governed for over a decade under a confederation form of government like Switzerland until the Constitution was instituted. Then it was a decentralized republic until the Civil War when it shifted to an increasingly powerful Washington government until the early 20th century when it became an empire.

Early forms of governments began under tribal associations where chieftains led and the people followed. This was then often either supplanted or combined with religious institutional leadership to better control and manipulate the population and take their crops, wealth etc.

Later with the rise of the Roman republic and its transition under Caesar into a worldwide empire in the West, government ruled with some degree of benefit for the populations. Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, once again chieftains, who eventually became royalty and monarchs, ruled alongside the Church for centuries until the Protestant Reformation developed with help from the Gutenberg printing press. Then the Catholic and Protestant churches ruled in conjunction with monarchy and the divine right of kings. The Protestant movement split into many Churches and religious institutions, some in support of government and others in opposition.

At first, wealthy and educated people began to rightly clamor for a parliament and for a say in their government. This citizen input really improved government and for the first time made it accountable to the people – at least those educated and with property. This was probably a time of the best government in the West.
Parliamentary democracy grew in popularity along with the growth of money, trading and banking. Central banking actually began in Venice and broader forms of democracy were added so that wealthy banking families could rule behind the scenes under the cover of mob-rule styled democracy. As the power of monarchy and the Church weakened, democracy evolved into mob rule of the masses and politicians were forced to borrow and go into massive debt in order to stay in power by promising more than the government could provide. This in turn has led to the sovereign debt crisis the West is facing today.

This has now turned into an austerity and sovereign debt crisis, and people rightly long for a return to local accountability and leadership under their smaller and culturally distinct governments. The result is a growing secession movement toward regional, independent governments and away from the new but distant supranational governments like the European Union. This is good news for liberty and prosperity but bad news for the power elites wanting to control wealth and people across the Western world.

Following are a few thoughts on home rule, secession and the restoration of independent nations:

Follow the New Guard Rather Than the Old Elites
New nations today are usually the return to nation status of a country or region forced by previous military force or non-elective actions to join a union such as the EU. Supporters and advocates should follow the real independence leaders and parties rather than any "Johnny-come-lately," old-guard political hacks or existing parties who see their power and control challenged. Beware existing political elites who often will do anything to maintain their power base and financial incentives, even for a time becoming "patriots."

Repudiate Much of the Existing Sovereign Debt
Remember, all sovereign debt principal and interest/debt servicing accumulated over the last couple of decades are just a giant Ponzi scheme, run for the benefit of the banks selling the debt and the politicians using borrowed funds to buy votes and temporary political support. This is a most cruel and illegitimate type of generational theft and debt whereby politicians, banks and voters of one generation actually work together to better their situation at the expense of future generations.
Sadly, majorities in the West have chosen to steal from their children and grandchildren in order to live it up today. Instead of creating a legacy of wealth for their posterity, too many of this generation have stolen and squandered the economic future and prosperity of the next generations.

Create An Independent Currency
Why should a shadowy, central banking cartel have the sole, very lucrative franchise in each nation to create the fiat paper money supply out of nothing, thus enriching themselves and their backers at the expense of each nation and citizens? Central banks, if they exist at all, should be loyal and accountable to the nation in which they are domiciled and operate under close audit and supervision by the government and the people in each national jurisdiction. Of course, each nation should decide whether to offer fiat currency, a commodity-backed currency or currency competition including private alternatives.

Learn From Switzerland, the Only Successful Political Structure in the 20th Century

Each new and restored nation must, of course, meet the unique needs and demands of its population but why duplicate failure with the same politicians that earlier led that nation to ruin and bankruptcy? Although there are exceptions, the replacement of national government politicians with local or regional government politicians who formerly supported the federal structure – or in the case of the EU, supra-national government structure – accomplishes little of substance.
I consider Switzerland, with its decentralized confederation form of government held in check by its citizens through the political rights of referendum and initiative, to be the best government solution for prosperity and liberty. This is ultimately the reason Switzerland did not join the EU and why this nation with few natural resources is the economic success story of the world.

Therefore, to the coming restored nations of Europe, I wish you well in your attempt to break away from powerful interests and foreign central governments that have forced their control and authority over you. May you succeed in the restoration of a legitimate local and historical government that hopefully will avoid the mismanagement of your economy, exploitation of your resources and destruction of your heritage, culture and prosperity.

As you undertake this endeavor, keep this in mind: All government bureaucracies grow until contained, taxes rise until curtailed and politicians borrow and seek power until thrown out of office. A limited confederation style of government is the best way to ensure that power and authority remain with the citizens instead of the powerful interests that always seek to corrupt and take over government to benefit themselves over the citizenry.

Hopefully, all formerly independent nations and free people are able to peacefully withdraw from the larger nation-states with restored sovereignty, increased freedom and a limited, confederation form of government. They can thereby set a political and economic example for other nations in the EU and elsewhere that smaller, regionalized government is far superior to large, inefficient nation-states.
Remember, smaller is always better when talking about the size and extent of government.

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The Two Jewish-led Globalist Camps... In Competition For Global Control

There are two distinct ideological globalist camps, both led by Jews -- each camp competes with the other for global control:

1) THE LIBERAL CAMP

2) THE NEOCON CAMP (loosely the "Conservative" camp)

First off, it is critical to understand that each ideological camp was created, developed, and fine-tuned by Jewish intellectuals. Without Jewish intellectuals, there would be no radical liberal school of thought (Communism, Socialism, Trotskyism, and all their supporting submovements/ideas such as feminism, gay rights, political correctness, etc.). Similarly, without Jewish intellectuals, there wouldn't be a Neocon school of thought.

The liberal Jewish camp is primarily led by Trotskyite Jews (or just fairly left leaning Jews) and their Gentile followers. They one day want to see something close to a borderless world or at least a world with weak/unenforced borders (like we see in the European Union today) with a global government based on the United Nations concept (or perhaps even the UN itself). The liberal Jewish camp also includes those who subscribe to Alter-globalism, a less radical leftist approach to globalism (at least when compared to Trotskyism). Anyway, both the Trotskyites & Alter-globalists are the "do-gooders" who naively dream of a John Lennon "Imagine" type world. They feel they can "love their way" to global power (though they can become violent against anyone who opposes their worldview). In the 1960's they were called the "New Left" (e.g., Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Max Horkheimer, Saul Alinsky, etc).

The Neocon Jewish camp (plus their Gentile followers) also want a borderless world but with a global government revolving around a NY-DC-LONDON-JERUSALEM axis. These are the exploitative-type Jews, the Super-Elite, who want 95% of global wealth in their hands and the rest of humanity in a "global plantation" type condition. They feel they can bomb their way to global power. Incidentally, the cold war Gentile warriors (e.g., Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr., etc) and their Jewish globalist handlers (e.g., Henry Kissinger, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Milton Friedman, etc) fall in this camp.

Pick almost any influential Jew and they'll rather neatly fit into either the liberal camp or the Neocon camp. However, it should be noted that occasionally you'll find a Jew who is primarily in the liberal camp but with one foot in the Neocon/Zionist camp (out of "tribal" loyalty to Israel).

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME GLOBALIST JEWS, ORGANIZATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, ETC SHOWING WHICH CAMP THEY FIT IN
.NOTE: Some people on this list are not Jews. However, they are often referred to as "Jew-think Gentiles," i.e., they subscribe to and advance the globalist Jewish agenda (knowingly or unknowingly).NOTE: Many listed below are fully aware of the globalist agenda they are involved in. Others, however, are unaware and thus are simply "pawns", "tools", or "cogs in the machinery" of the globalist agenda they are (unknowingly) advancing.

LIBERAL GLOBALIST CAMP (JEWISH-LED) (in no particular order)
Noam Chomsky
George Soros and his Open Society Institute
The radical elements of the Democratic Party (e.g., Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders)
The Rockefeller Foundation
United Nations
Workers World
European Union
Any "Green" political party
Any Trotskyist, Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, Stalinist, Luxemburgist, Hoxhaist i.e., any socialist/communist ideologue (of course)
Any radical "progressive" organization
International Committee Against Racism (and any anti-racist organization)
Any anti-Fascist organization
Any anti-Nationalist organization (of course)
All Hollywood film and television studios
Media Education Foundation
Nearly all U.S. and European Colleges & Universities
Organizations fighting Global Warming (but only the higher ups in these organizations are aware of the globalist agenda, the rank-and-file are well-meaning tools)
Greenpeace (but only the higher ups in this organization are aware of the globalist agenda, the rank-and-file are well-meaning tools)
Sierra Club (but only the higher ups in this organization are aware of the globalist agenda, the rank-and-file are well-meaning tools)
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)
Michael Moore
Amy Goodman & the entire "Democracy Now!" lineup
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society)
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch (and just about any human rights organization)
Norman Finkelstein (very critical of Israel, advocates for a borderless world, a lifelong Maoist)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Naomi Klein
The Pope & much of the Vatican
The entire MSNBC lineup
Any radical/militant feminist organization
Any radical/militant gay rights organization
ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) - American Trotskyite organization
UAF (Unite Against Fascism) - British Trotskyite organization funded in part by George Soros
J-Street (with a foot in the ZIONIST camp but not in a militant way i.e., not in a "Likud-type" or "Kadima-type" way)
CODEPINK (radical feminist organization in the mold of militant, Anarcho-Communist Jewess Emma Goldman)
The Trilateral Commission (much debate surrounds the classification of this organization; I put it here)
L.A. Jews for Peace (each large city has a similar group)
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Foreign Policy (political journal/magazine)
Los Angeles Times
Ford Foundation
Tides Foundation (funded in part by Teresa Heinz-Kerry)
et al.

NEOCON GLOBALIST CAMP (JEWISH-LED) (in no particular order)
Benjamin Netanyahu
Rothschild Family
Alan Dershowitz (though a liberal on social issues)
Sheldon Adelson
Dennis Prager
Michael Medved
Most (or at least many) Clear Channel AM talk radio hosts
Bush Family
Dick Cheney
Henry Kissinger
Daniel Pipes
The radical elements of the Republican Party (e.g., Newt Gingrich, John McCain)
Ann Coulter
The Weekly Standard (political magazine)
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Times
Any publication by Rupert Murdoch
Foreign Affairs (political journal/magazine)
Freeman Center for Strategic Studies
JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs)
Saban Center for Middle East Policy
NATO
Pentagon
European Jewish Congress
Koch Brothers
Steven Spielberg (though a liberal on social issues)
Rush Limbaugh
Ayn Rand (particularly her economic ideology)
Alan Greenspan
Ben Bernanke
Leo Strauss (known as the father of the Neocon movement)
Chaim Weizmann (key historical figure)
David Ben-Gurion (key historical figure)
AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee)
CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)
Hoover Institution
The CATO Institute
WTO (World Trade Organization) - the WTO facilitates tariff free trade, thus allowing for the use of wage-slave labor in the third world
NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA and all other "free" trade pacts
World Bank
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
AEI (American Enterprise Institute)
WJC (World Jewish Congress)
Simon Wiesenthal Center
The entire FOX News lineup
Pamela Geller
et al.

Lastly, to understand how the Neocon camp (often referred to as the "New World Order") uses the liberal globalist camp to carry out much of the necessary "trenchwork" for its NWO goals to be realized, please read my article, Anti-fascists Are VERY Useful To The New World Order.

ASIDE: These two competing ideological camps - when thought of simultaneously - are often referred to as the "left-right paradigm." Frequently, you'll hear political pundits use the expression, "the phony left-right paradigm." Let us consider the word "phony" as used in this expression. Is the left-right paradigm "phony?" Yes and no. Yes, it is "phony" in the sense that neither side (or "camp") offers anything beneficial to average people. On the other hand, no it is not phony, since the verbal battles between both camps are authentic. We often see each side arguing with the other (e.g., the Democrats -vs- the Republicans, MSNBC -vs- Fox News, etc). Some have wrongly suggested that such verbal battles are "phony," i.e., an orchestrated "show" for mass consumption to create the illusion that two distinct sides exist and that one side offers "solutions" whereas the other side doesn't. This idea of it being a staged show is totally false. There are indeed two sides, and they authentically do not like each other. For example, when you hear the Neocon Dennis Prager tearing into a liberal such as George Soros, this is not an "orchestrated show"; Prager sincerely despises Soros (and vice versa). Thus to summarize the point I'm trying to make -- there are two distinct camps/sides and they sincerely don't like each other. The "phony" part applies when either side claims to be the "good side." The truth is that neither side is the good side since the average person gets a raw deal by both the left and right i.e., by both the Liberal camp and Neocon camp.

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The Scouts who grew up to be in Obama’s Homeland Youth

We ran an article yesterday from It Makes Sense Blog depicting the Department of Homeland Security’s FEMA Corp, comparing them to Hitler’s Youth.  Apparently this training has been going on since at least 2009.

An article posted in the New York Times back in May of 2009 shows boy and girl scouts being trained to combat terrorism, illegal immigration, and drugs.  This subject was covered in the alternate media to a large extent, but other than the New York Times article, was given little coverage in the mainstream.

Here is the article:
IMPERIAL, Calif. — Ten minutes into arrant mayhem in this town near the Mexican border, and the gunman, a disgruntled Iraq war veteran, has already taken out two people, one slumped in his desk, the other covered in blood on the floor.
The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas and loud shots — BAM! BAM! — fired from behind a flimsy wall. They move quickly, pellet guns drawn and masks affixed.

“United States Border Patrol! Put your hands up!” screams one in a voice cracking with adolescent determination as the suspect is subdued.
It is all quite a step up from the square knot.

The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence — an intense ratcheting up of one of the group’s longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters.

“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”

The training, which leaders say is not intended to be applied outside the simulated Explorer setting, can involve chasing down illegal border crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down terrorists and taking out “active shooters,” like those who bring gunfire and death to college campuses. In a simulation here of a raid on a marijuana field, several Explorers were instructed on how to quiet an obstreperous lookout.

“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”

One participant, Felix Arce, 16, said he liked “the discipline of the program,” which was something he said his life was lacking. “I want to be a lawyer, and this teaches you about how crimes are committed,” he said.

Cathy Noriega, also 16, said she was attracted by the guns. The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range.

“I like shooting them,” Cathy said. “I like the sound they make. It gets me excited.”
If there are critics of the content or purpose of the law enforcement training, they have not made themselves known to the Explorers’ national organization in Irving, Tex., or to the volunteers here on the ground, national officials and local leaders said. That said, the Explorers have faced problems over the years. There have been numerous cases over the last three decades in which police officers supervising Explorers have been charged, in civil and criminal cases, with sexually abusing them.

Several years ago, two University of Nebraska criminal justice professors published a study that found at least a dozen cases of sexual abuse involving police officers over the last decade. Adult Explorer leaders are now required to take an online training program on sexual misconduct.

Many law enforcement officials, particularly those who work for the rapidly growing Border Patrol, part of the Homeland Security Department, have helped shape the program’s focus and see it as preparing the Explorers as potential employees. The Explorer posts are attached to various agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police and fire departments, that sponsor them much the way churches sponsor Boy Scout troops.

“Our end goal is to create more agents,” said April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent and mentor at the session here.

Membership in the Explorers has been overseen since 1998 by an affiliate of the Boy Scouts called Learning for Life, which offers 12 career-related programs, including those focused on aviation, medicine and the sciences.
But the more than 2,000 law enforcement posts across the country are the Explorers’ most popular, accounting for 35,000 of the group’s 145,000 members, said John Anthony, national director of Learning for Life. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, many posts have taken on an emphasis of fighting terrorism and other less conventional threats.
“Before it was more about the basics,” said Johnny Longoria, a Border Patrol agent here. “But now our emphasis is on terrorism, illegal entry, drugs and human smuggling.”

The law enforcement posts are restricted to those ages 14 to 21 who have a C average, but there seems to be some wiggle room. “I will take them at 13 and a half,” Deputy Lowenthal said. “I would rather take a kid than possibly lose a kid.”
The law enforcement programs are highly decentralized, and each post is run in a way that reflects the culture of its sponsoring agency and region. Most have weekly meetings in which the children work on their law-enforcement techniques in preparing for competitions. Weekends are often spent on service projects.
Just as there are soccer moms, there are Explorers dads, who attend the competitions, man the hamburger grill and donate their land for the simulated marijuana field raids. In their training, the would-be law-enforcement officers do not mess around, as revealed at a recent competition on the state fairgrounds here, where a Ferris wheel sat next to the police cars set up for a felony investigation.
Their hearts pounding, Explorers moved down alleys where there were hidden paper targets of people pointing guns, and made split-second decisions about when to shoot. In rescuing hostages from a bus taken over by terrorists, a baby-faced young girl screamed, “Separate your feet!” as she moved to handcuff her suspect.
In a competition in Arizona that he did not oversee, Deputy Lowenthal said, one role-player wore traditional Arab dress. “If we’re looking at 9/11 and what a Middle Eastern terrorist would be like,” he said, “then maybe your role-player would look like that. I don’t know, would you call that politically incorrect?”
Authenticity seems to be the goal. Imperial County, in Southern California, is the poorest in the state, and the local economy revolves largely around the criminal justice system. In addition to the sheriff and local police departments, there are two state prisons and a large Border Patrol and immigration enforcement presence.

“My uncle was a sheriff’s deputy,” said Alexandra Sanchez, 17, who joined the Explorers when she was 13. Alexandra’s police uniform was baggy on her lithe frame, her airsoft gun slung carefully to the side. She wants to be a coroner.
“I like the idea of having law enforcement work with medicine,” she said. “This is a great program for me.”
And then she was off to another bus hijacking.

Rod Class gets FOURTH Administrative Ruling "Gov't Offices are Vacant"- All Gov't Officials are "Private Contractors"

Yes, you read that correctly; it is true, and is now on the court record; black ink on white paper. Please read on:
A lot of us have been exposing the crime of the UNITED STATES corporation for many years, but until recently, no one has had the proof that all government offices are vacant; no one is home; those supposed government offices/agencies are being occupied by PRIVATE CONTRACTORS and are NOT being occupied by a legitimate government body.

This is equivalent to the ice cream man knocking on your door and extorting taxes from you. He has no lawful authority to do anything other than drive the ice cream truck - he's not a government official; he's an ice cream man.

Your supposed government officials are nothing more than ice cream men/women who are fraudulently extorting money from you and your family; throwing you in prison; taxing you to death; stealing your children and imposing their will on you, and enforcing their own internal-statutory rules and codes upon you and your family.

Rod Class has now received FOUR Administrative Rulings that prove what many of us have felt to be truth: What you think is government; what you think are legitimate Government Officials/Senators/Congressman/Policeman/Governors/Tax Collectors, etc. are nothing more than private contractors, extorting money from American Citizens and failing to pay off the public debt as they are instructed to do by the 1933 bankruptcy.

What they have done is this:
These people have switched places with the average American Citizen. They are enforcing their own Administrative codes, that are only meant for THEM, upon regular Citizens who are not being paid by the corporation. The supposed elected officials have hoodwinked the country into an employment position without pay. They themselves are taking public money to occupy government seats/positions/agencies, when they are nothing more than private contractors ... Felony!

They are treating us as if we are paid government employees; enforcing their own internal rules-regulations-codes, and statutes on the average Citizen, as well as conveniently forgetting to send us our weekly/monthly government employment check.

I've been preaching this for the last year + with no avail on this forum. Perhaps now, people will begin to listen and take action.

In these radio shows, Rod explains his Administrative Rulings from the various Judges; explains the con, and shows you, where in their very own US Codes the above aforementioned information is spot on.

There are a few shows you need to listen to, and here are some bullet points of those shows:
1. All BAR attorneys are prohibited from representing John Q. Public; can only represent gov't officials and employees within their own agencies, their BAR Charter says so.

2. Any Judge that prohibits you from representing yourself or hiring a defense other than a BAR attorney, are in fact, committing a felony on the bench in violation of the Taft-Hartly Act (running a closed union shop) and the Smith Act (overthrow of Constitutional form of Gov't)

3. Anytime an BAR attorney represents someone in a case against you, you can now claim that person is incompetent; a ward of the state, with no standing to sue.

4. Any and all tax collectors, police officers, sheriffs dept's, DOT, tag agencies, BAR attorneys, Judges, Highway Patrol, supposed elected officials, are nothing more than private contractors, who can now be brought up on fraud charges for impersonating a public official while receiving federal funding.

5. Any and all home, vehicle, credit card loans are supposed to be discharged through the Treasury window, in compliance with the 1933 bankruptcy laws. These scumbags are double dipping and never discharging the debt like they are supposed to. They are embezzling the funds and pocketing them for themselves.

6. Every person sitting in prison today was railroading by a BAR attorney who's first allegiance is to the State; who had no lawful authority to represent them; who worked in concert with the State to perpetrate a fraud upon it's victims.

7. Orders from Administrative courts prove for the fourth time, an agency of the State is NOT an agency under the State.

8. Elected Officials are claiming 11th Amendment sovereignty, when it's actually you and I that hold 11th Amendment sovereignty. They are getting paid by the corporation, you and I are not.

9. They have admitted to the crime of no one actually holding a public office; they are filling corporate seats and defrauding the public.

10. Political subdivisions are not getting their 40% funding from the Feds as they are supposed to get.

11. These Judges have admitted (black ink on white paper) that all these State Offices are ........... EMPTY!

12. Now we have Administrative paperwork - ruling these public offices aren't part of the State agencies.

13. Attorney Generals may not practice law; can't represent the people who are not public officials.

14. If the State is a 3rd party interloper in your Marriage (marriage license); Vehicle Title (State Registration), etc. then they are liable for 1/3rd of the cost to manage the daily activities of that contract.

15. If the State demands you have a Drivers License and Tag your vehicle because it is registered with the State, then as the owner of the vehicle, the State is required to pay for the vehicle, the tags, licensing, fuel, tires, oil, etc. and they are also to pay you a salary for driving a State owned vehicle; it says so in their own Highway Safety Act and USC - CFR rules and regulations.

16. We now have the court orders that goes back and nullifies any and all IRS and Tax cases, Foreclosures, Credit Card Debt, cases or actions. These people never had the lawful right to demand anything of you; they are corporate actors, not a legitimate government body.

17. Judge admits the 1933 bankruptcy, and no way to pay off anything because of Federal Reserve Notes; all public debt is t be discharged through the Treasury.

18. Only the Secretary of Transportation can hear traffic cases; all traffic cases are civil, not criminal.

19. If you're not being paid for you time, you are not required to have one of their CDL or CMV licenses; it's prohibited.

20. Says we now have a major labor dispute on our hands; US corporation running a slave racket against American Citizens without the pay.

21. United States Codes (USC) and Titles #1 thru #50 are void; have never been passed by Congress; all have been repealed.

As I've been saying for a very long time on this forum: If you are not getting a weekly or monthly paycheck from the so called federal government aka UNITED STATES or one of it's sub corporations such as the STATE OF ***, then their statutory rules (not laws), codes and regulations DO NOT APPLY TO YOU ......... Period!

There is so much information packed into these last six calls, I can't even begin to share it in this post. If you want your freedom; if you want to know with 100% surety that the foreign corporation known as the UNITED STATES has zero authority over you unless you are receiving a weekly paycheck from them, take the time to listen to call #646 through #651 here:
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=4...
Scroll down the page and click on the orange "Listen" button; a pop up player will appear for your listening pleasure.

And believe me: This is pure listening pleasure, with the court filings; rulings and US Code to back it all up.

By the time you finish these few short shows, your fear of the government will be a thing of the past.

Also, many of Rod’s current filings against the infrastructure are at: http://harveyw26.minus.com ...some may be easy to download, some may not !
And for those of you who are new to the forum and want to get a better grasp of all this prior to or after listening to the calls, here are some of my more informative posts on the matter at hand:
Public Notice to Gun Grabbing Politicians:
http://www.dailypaul.com/246514/public-notice-attention-to-a...
So the Government wants you to collect a sales tax?
http://www.dailypaul.com/245362/have-a-business-and-the-govt...
Your Home Loan was paid the day you signed the note:
http://www.dailypaul.com/244590/want-to-stick-it-to-the-bank...
The real reason for the 14th Amendment:
http://www.dailypaul.com/244553/they-created-the-14th-amendm...
What's the One Document in your possession that gives you the authority to rule over my life?
http://www.dailypaul.com/244165/whats-the-one-document-you-h...
Can the State be an actual injured party? ..... No, it cannot!
http://www.dailypaul.com/243521/can-the-state-be-an-injured-...
Having a Social Security # is not a contract with the State/Feds:
http://www.dailypaul.com/243164/social-security-is-not-a-con...
Trust Law, your Rights and how to enforce them:
http://www.dailypaul.com/243090/trust-law-your-rights-and-ho...
Why you should never hire an attorney:
http://www.dailypaul.com/242260/this-is-why-you-should-never...

Hopefully now in light of these Administrative Court Rulings people will now come to realize the fact, that Unless You Are Getting A Weekly Check From Government, Their Statutory Rules-Codes-Regulations They Put Off As Laws, Have Zero Force Or Effect On You Personally
No Contract = No Jurisdiction

Did you fill out an employment contract with the State; are they paying you for your services? If not, why the hell are you following their rules?

This is how we change our current form of Government back to the Republic is was initially intended to be.

If you don't take the time to listen to at least those last six shows at the link above, you are overlooking the most important information ever to come to light within the Liberty Movement.

Stop looking for a savior to save us from tyranny and listen to the shows I've provided. Now you are your own savior - Individually, now you can make a HUGE difference in our political structure and form of government.

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HERE COMES EVIL, By Lasha Darkmoon

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
— Macbeth, iv.i.4

This article was published yesterday here ; and subsequently, here and here.

In a few weeks’ time, Americans will face the grim prospect of choosing a new government, either headed by the same president or by a new one. Why a grim prospect? Because the choice is between an aggressive war criminal and a draft dodging, chickenhawk warmonger, both of them puppets of organized Jewry. No matter who you vote for, you end up with dystopia. You end up with wickedness in high places.

It’s only a matter of time before the masses are shaken from their slumber and realize that the world that awaits them is a world under the dominion of evil.

Our government is now controlled by a criminal cabal. Our country is a loony bin where the crazies are in charge. Our cities are crime factories. Our banks are run by bandits who steal from the poor. Our schools are production lines for the manufacture of morons. Our places of work are venues of legalized exploitation and servitude. Our news is horror fiction. Our courts are coin-operated machines that crank out injustice. Our laws are dirty jokes. Our heroes are villains. Our celebrities are abominations. Our politicians are psychopaths at large. We live in an America where torture has now been normalized and murder is legal—an Orwellian world too terrifying even for Orwell’s imagination.

Here are some facts that will help to persuade you that the American Dream has morphed into a nightmare—that the country we now live in is a police state masquerading as a democracy.

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“I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government,” Jewish columnist Joel Stein wrote in the Los Angeles Times in December 2008.  “I just care that we get to keep running them.”

Mr Stein’s reckless candor in admitting that the Jews ran America was to cost him his job at the LA Times.

If Americans have lost their country to organized Jewry, they lost it slowly and imperceptibly. Indeed, most Americans remain unaware that their country no longer belongs to them. They fervently believe they still live in a democracy. This was a takeover not without precedent, however. It had happened to Germany. It had happened to Russia. It has now happened to America.

 

Read the rest of this excellent read here:

 

http://www.darkmoon.me/2012/here-comes-evil-by-lasha-darkmoon/

US Govt Massacres Virginia Family: Blamed On Obama Re-Election After So-Called ‘Killer’ Threatens To Expose US Govt Secrets

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die  “Several of my former colleagues were and still are Blackbird employees. They do a lot of recruiting in FBNC,” says a retired special operator, using the acronym for U.S. Army Special Operations Command’s home base of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. “Their business is heavily weighted towards the dark side.”

From The Daily Mail linked below:  ‘He said he wanted to expose something at work’

The United States govt has massacred an entire family in the state of Virginia while the mainstream media has blamed it upon the murder-suicide of ‘a man distraught over the potential re-election of Barack Obama‘ after the so-called killer, Albert Peterson, threatened to expose govt. secrets.

Massacred by dark forces within the US govt were 13 year old Christopher Peterson, 16 year old Matthew Peterson and their parents, Albert and Kathleen Peterson. Both Kathleen and Albert had been employed by ‘highly secretive’ defense contractors Blackbird Technologies and Northrop Grumman. Blackbird Technologies, an offshoot of the infamous Blackwater/XE paramilitary group, is run by ex-CIA and Blackwater spook Cofer Black and is responsible for ‘tracking’targets of US Defense, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Communities, including Osama bin Laden. It’s also believed that Blackbird Tech is responsible for tracking Americans on Barack Obama ‘secret kill list’.

Though the mainstream media was quick to push the cover-up that Albert Peterson was suicidal and depressed over the potential re-election of Barack Obama, the likelihood of a long time employee of Northrup Grumman with Top Secret security clearances falling into the category of a suicidal killer are highly unlikely. If they knew he was mentally unstable, why would the government have allowed him to maintain the Top Secret security clearance that he still had?

“Peterson had recently lost a beloved uncle to suicide, and reportedly battled mental illness himself – including severe paranoia – for years.”

According to a neighbor who had met with the family at a picnic earlier in the day of the massacre:

Neighbor Jeremy Wilcox told local news radio station WTOP that the family had attended a community picnic together on Sunday and “showed no signs of any problem.”

Pictured below are Albert Peterson and his wife Kathleen and their two sons, murdered by highly secretive elements within the US government over Albert’s threats to expose top secret information that he had at work, according to The Daily Mail.

Kathleen Peterson had been employed by Blackbird Technologies, an offshoot of the infamous Blackwater/XE paramilitary group run by ex-CIA spook Cofer Black, who also happened to be the VP of Blackbird Technologies. According to Blackbird Technologies own website: Blackbird Technologies, Inc. is a technology solutions provider whose mission is to solve challenging problems for customers in the Defense, Intelligence, and Law Enforcement Communities. We apply our technical expertise, innovation, and operational experience to meet our customers’ unique and complex challenges. Blackbird’s core competencies are: Tagging, tracking, and locating expertise, including experience with technical systems that provide a clear picture of operational assets and targets Customized hardware and software development combined with quick-reaction, rapid-prototyping capabilities Specialized communications, including devices and networks that are global, secure, and reliable—even in hostile environments Information security solutions, including offensive and defensive capabilities that keep systems protected and data safe Blackbird’s engineers, scientists, researchers, and analysts develop practical, field-ready solutions designed to address the toughest issues facing our customers. We successfully meld science with robust and reliable communications technology; fuse data and create multi-level data dissemination systems; and develop specialized networks that meet stringent requirements for reliability, security, and attribution. We may never know what information Albert Peterson had threatened to expose about the US government but we do not that a highly orchestrated cover-up is now in progress. The propaganda mainstream media is playing their usual part and the ‘usual candidates’ linked back to the mercenary army of Blackwater/XE and the CIA are scurrying away to the woodwork after they’ve brutally massacred a lovely family, including two teenage boys who will be dearly missed by their classmates and community. The videos below tell this twisted tale from several different angles. What do you believe, that a man who threatens to expose govt secrets would thereafter slaughter himself and his family due to his fears over Obama being re-elected or was he massacred for threatening to expose top secret govt info, such as Obama’s secret kill list? Knowing the players involved and their track record of lies, the answer is clear to me.