The “only” source of “freedom”
Posted in Of The People by R Lee Wrights on April 2nd, 2008 by Ed Lewis
“It is obvious, too, that if these alleged principals ever did appoint these pretended agents, or representatives, they appointed them secretly (by secret ballot), and in a way to avoid all personal responsibility for their acts; that, at most, these alleged principals put these pretended agents forward for the most criminal purposes, viz.: to plunder the people of their property, and restrain them of their liberty; and that the only authority that these alleged principals have for so doing, is simply a tacit understanding among themselves that they will imprison, shoot, or hang every man who resists the exactions and restraints which their agents or representatives may impose upon them.”
- Lysander Spooner, “No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority,” 1870
We the living souls called “human beings” - man, woman, and child - must come to understand what the freedom of man is, and the source of said freedom. We will at the same time come to understand also the source of tyranny that has engulfed us all.
Nearly every living one of us has been indoctrinated to other than the truth of the relation between man and “the government” he establishes.
The first question we must ask is, who or what created us? Was it the federal government of the District of Columbia? Did somehow the people existing there discover how to create human beings, and then create the some 285 million or so now living within the land of the states, and the millions more that died in the last 228 years?
No? Well then, did the people making up what we call “State government” discover how to create human beings, and then create the several millions living within each of the many states?
No? Well then, did the people making up what we call the county and city “governments” discover how to create human beings from the chemicals available in the environment, and then create the several millions living within each of the counties and cities, and, hence, the states?
No? Well then, do those in governing bodies have a contract with each of us stating that they or any one of them have control over our lives and our property?
No? Well then, how can any government entity that is only an abstraction - an artificial body or person in law - have any authority over the individual man? That is the question that will be answered.
Our union of states, as established by “The unanimous Declaration of Independence of the thirteen united States of America,” declared the people the sovereignty, which means that each of us is sovereign to one another and to all other groups of people.
Did the document, however, “give” rights to the people? Did it in reality create the union of states?
No, what created the union of states was force. It took the colonists - at least the 20-some percent that fought for human rights - repelling England and its representatives by wounding and killing hundreds of Englishman and others who would thwart human freedom.
This could have occurred with or without a written document, just as a man may repel an invader to his property with force.
Furthermore, we have natural “rights” to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, even if there were no declaration declaring the thirteen colonies as independent states from England. Man’s rights come before any government and have existed since man has existed. They are natural rights of Nature’s Creator that all men are born with and with which all men should live their lives free of any constraints by other men.
People talk about “constitutional rights.” There is no such thing. Our rights are NOT determined by a document or any number of documents. In fact, it matters not whether there is a Constitution or whether the Constitution binds any government entity or not.
After all, if the Constitution for the united States of America does not bind those in government to limiting actions to other than controlling the people, so what? The individual man has still not given up his individual inherent and natural rights to his life, his liberty, and his pursuit of happiness.
One may surrender his rights, though, if he chooses to sign a contract with another human being (governments are abstractions and cannot sign any bona fide contract). One does so when he contracts to do labor for another, providing he has full knowledge of the terms, and that both parties to the contract are bound to specific performances.
When people are voted or appointed into a government office, do they sign a contract with the people, and the people each sign a contract with the official?
The answer is obviously “no.” Therefore, each of us did not surrender our rights to the official or his office, nor is he bound by any contract to specific duties. He is not bound to protect our rights, any more than he is authorized to interfere with the rights of any one of us that has not signed a contract with him or “the government.”
Furthermore, an official is an artificial entity. He is not a flesh and blood natural person in his official capacity. He is a fiction. As a fiction, he may not be a party to a contract between “people.”
However, we each are bound by the rule that we may not interfere with the lives of other people but such bindings are moral - ethical - and dependent on integrity. Simply put, we in our life pursuits do have the moral and honest duty to never interfere with the lives of others.
No document written by men can guarantee this, particularly when there are not signers to a contract to do so. Also, no document written by man precedes human rights. Man - to put it simply - did not create rights. They are inherent in us as they are inherent in all animals, and were present in the first human to walk the Earth.
Each of us is a human being has the power to make agreements with others. We in making contracts are bound by morality and integrity to full disclosure of compelled performance by the humans who are party to the contract. Anything other than full disclosure - the full truth - is the intent to deceive or commit fraud. Fraud vitiates everything.
Furthermore, we cannot be made to accept any contract. We must do so willingly and voluntarily (coerced signings voids any contract). Signing under coercement, such as when a cop demands one either sign a traffic ticket or go to jail voids the document, the “ticket” as it is called.
Understand this. No other man, woman, or group of people - including artificial persons known as officials - has the power to sign a contract for the writer, unless he by contract gives power another to represent him. He has not given any man that authority, nor will he.
Thus, the majority may vote for this and that, but it makes no difference. Lacking a contract to the contrary, the writer’s rights remain his to exercise whether the majority likes it or not. He is a human being with natural rights that cannot morally or lawfully be removed from him, except by his own willingness and voluntarily waiving his rights through a bona fide contract following full disclosure.
When he is coerced into signing any document, it is void. It is based on force, not willingness or voluntary signing.
There is no such thing as an “understood” contract between a living being and a fictional person, such as government entities. Furthermore, there simply is no agreement between two or more people if there is not a document or testimony under oath of an agreement that each involved in the contract had specific demands of performance for specific benefits.
Thus, a State or political subdivision of, and even the federal government working from the false premise that we each are corporations under their regulatory power is as false a premise as one can imagine. Since the officials of these artificial creations by man are fictions in law in their official capacities, they simply do not have the means of signing a contract with us in our individual capacities as people.
Officials in their official capacities may, though, make contracts with other artificial creations, such as one creating a “corporation”, and then accepting the compelled benefits and performances required by the government entity making the contract.
Thus, the extent of their power is to make agreements with other fictions. But, to reiterate, a fiction - an artificial person - has no authority to sign a contract with a human name. How could they - they are not human, they are artificial.
We, however, are human beings with natural rights. We human beings guided by morality and integrity, and a bona fide Christian name that identifies our being human, can sign contracts.
No other man may infringe upon these rights, unless we by contract give another the authority to interfere. Thus, the government unless it can produce a bona fide contract signed after full disclosure, and willingly and voluntarily, has no say so whatsoever in the behaviors of any human being born as a Citizen in one of the 50 states.
Thus, the government is not the source of rights, nor does it have the authority to grant rights to people or to deprive them of rights. Therefore, it cannot be the source of freedom.
The majority cannot determine what are to be or not to be rights. Human rights long pre-date any majority of people currently living or having lived in the past. Rights belong to the individual. Therefore, the majority is not the source of freedom.
Thus, rights are simply in existence, with or without a written record, although those rights have been written down in a multitude of fashions, such as the Ten Commandments (avoiding interference of the rights of others), the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and thousands of treatises about human rights.
Therefore, when people - and they are no more than other people to each of us - are elected/appointed to offices of governing bodies made by men, it depends upon the elected/appointed people’s morality and integrity to NOT interfere with the rights unalienable to our people.
To do otherwise is immoral and thoroughly lacking in integrity. Thus, every State and the United States Code have statutes governing the actions of these people who are - in their official capacities - not natural persons but are artificial persons.
These artificial “persons” known as “officials” can make rules and regulations governing themselves and other artificial “persons.” Therefore, laws written by men in artificial positions may only govern other artificially created entities.
These are the rules we mistakenly through decades of indoctrination call “law,” when in fact such “laws” apply only to those created by the created and artificial government. They are nothing more than “administrative rules” regulating artificial persons.
Thus, we must come to understand that this means each human being is the law unto himself, so long as he does not interfere in the lives of the others. He has in personam jurisdiction over himself, and is not in the jurisdiction of any artificial entity.
In the final analysis this means that each of us are free to do as we wish with our property, meaning our lives, behaviors, and all that we accumulate during our tenure on Earth. No other or group of others has any authority to control our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
In summary, government is NOT our creator. It is a complete fiction made up by people to take care of certain matters for the whole of the people. It depends, as stated above, on officials having morality and integrity to do their duty. What happens, though, when those elected/appointed to office lack in morality and integrity?
We then have a government that deprives us of our human rights. How? It uses its own creations to force compliance. It is no different than an invading army coming in and using force to make people bend to its will. The army takes our property - our lives, our liberty, and denies us our pursuit of happiness.
This could not be done without legions of armed enforcers of the government, and the hiring of those willing to use all forms of force to limit the actions of the people, whether beatings, killing, unlawful incarcerations, and depriving people of their other properties, whether tangible or intangible.
Government as it now is, is nothing but force applied to the people.
It is up to the people to repel the force, and no other. Certainly, the armies of law enforcers and the judiciaries of the government are not going to repel governments’ dictates that millions of laws in contradiction to human rights be enforced. They could - but they will not as long as they profit from it.
Folks, we must learn, know, and practice that we people are living breathing human beings that are independent of all other human beings, whether individually or as a group.
We are next to our Creator in authority. Without enough of us understanding that we the people are responsible for assuring freedom - liberty - we will forever dwell in forced slavery to government.
Those in government simply do not have authority over living souls - the people. They never have had authority but have established “power” through being willing, as Spooner states, [to] “imprison, shoot, or hang every man who resists the exactions and restraints which their agents or representatives may impose upon them.”
Make no mistake, People. Government is not in business to protect our rights, or to protect us from those that interfere in our rights. It is in the business of control and making a profit from controlling the people, depriving them of all human dignity and rights, and the willingness to do whatever is necessary to do away with human rights.
Do not ever believe that our freedom - our liberty - depends upon people the likes of Bush, or Kerry, or any other man that might become president.
Do not believe that the people put in Congress, or the judiciary, or any State or political subdivision of will protect human rights. All are corrupt and rely on force to protect their immoral and unlawful attacks against the rights of man and the American people.
Therefore, our freedom - our liberty - depends directly and solely on us - We, the People - and not those elected/appointed as “officials.” It is up to us as individual humans to protect and preserve our rights.
This means that we each whether any others are doing so or not, must have the faith and intestinal fortitude - the guts - to stand in the face of tyranny, demanding our rights as human beings, and demanding that we are not the fictions created by government to subdue and control our right to live free of government intrusion.
There simply is no alternate, because no matter what and regardless of written documents, those actually elected or those appointed to offices will become corrupted, just as thousands upon thousands of public officials have been corrupted in the past, in the present, and no doubt in the future.
We, the people, therefore, have sole responsibility for securing our freedom.
Thus, the source of human freedom - the only source - lies within us, the People. It is the spark we call “living”, and the right to live our lives as we see fit.
Ed Lewis is a columnist at Liberty For All. Contact Mr. Lewis at ofthepeople@cvalley.net.
