You and your fellow Americans are not governing yourselves through representatives in a constitutional republic but under the auspices of a private corporation operating as a commercial venture... and your courts only function under the "color" of law, Admiralty, the law of commerce. In other words, your legal "code" gives an impression of the law; it is a façade of the law. You are not now protected under the Bill of Rights nor the Constitution of the united States of America. The power of those historic documents was lost over a hundred years ago.
The private corporation rules by illusion and propaganda, but occasionally those illusions fade for a moment and you can see the dark shadows that furtively control your lives. You've seen them at work with the Paulson Bailout Bill just a few weeks ago. The Constitution is not in operation. That's why an appropriations bill started in the Senate whereas the Constitution requires that all money bills begin in the House of Representatives. Nearly a trillion dollars was voted by the Senate and the bill sent along to the House where they changed their mind and voted for the Bailout of the Banks. It was totally unconstitutional but nobody made a fuss.
You can see the irrelevance of the Constitution in the manner in which eligibility requirements for being President were ignored. Neither Obama nor McCain were eligible to be President but that didn't stop their campaigns. Hillary Clinton is not eligible to be named Secretary of State since she was elected to be a Senator from the State of New York. Your current president has described the Constitution as "just a goddammed piece of paper." He's right, actually, but the truth hurts.
Your dilemma in the United States is mirrored by the dilemma in Australia and other Commonwealth countries and around the world. Different methods are sometimes used but the effect is the same. We are all ruled by an illusion of public governance through elected representatives who really work for a conglomerate of private corporations...THE MACHINE.
Are you ready to take the red pill or will you choose the blue pill? Will you wake up or will you choose to go back to sleep and live in your illusions?
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