"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil,
and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."
Abuses and Usurpations
Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the
exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these
will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
oppress.
Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, Aug. 4, 1857 |
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Usurpations
Usurpation is the exercise of powers by an agent which have
not been delegated to him by the principal. In a constitutional
republiclike the United States of America, acts by officials are
legitimate only if they are consistent with and based on a constitution,
a body of laws which are superior to all subsequent statutes and other acts of
officials, which embodies all delegations of power, and which may
recognize certain rights to further define the limits on the powers
delegated. It is a fundamental principle that all acts of officials not derived
from the delegated powers of the constitution are null and void from
inception, not just from the point at which a court may find them
unconstitutional. Every person who has an encounter with the acts of officials
has the duty not only to obey legitimate official acts, but to help enforce
them, but, when there is a conflict among acts of officials, to enforce the
superior one, which, when an act of an official is in conflict with the
constitution, means enforcing the constitution and not the act in conflict with
it. Judges and other citizens do not decide constitutionality, but
discover it, and every person who is involved with any act by an
official has a nondelegatable duty to make a determination of the
constitutionality of that act. This determination is called constitutional
review, and, when exercised by a judge in a case, judicial review.
Since the ratification of the Constitution for the United States and each of
its properly ratified amendments, there have been numerous acts by officials,
including statutes, regulations, executive orders, court rulings, and ordinary
decisions and actions taken while on duty and under color of law, which have
been unconstitutional, and in many cases, in violation of civil rights of
persons and of constitutional laws. We will try to identify some of the worst
of such violations of the Constitution, and discuss how compliance with the
Constitution can be restored.
-
Jefferson:
Federal Criminal Powers Limited
-
Income Tax
Amendment Never Ratified
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Law and
Anti-Law
- Federal
Jurisdiction Brief by attorney Larry Becraft.
- Constitution:
Fact or Fiction, by Dr. Gene Schroder. Examines Emergency Rule and
other violations of the Constitution.
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Constitution
Violated, Not Suspended Letter to Dr. Gene Schroder from Jon Roland,
May 14, 1995.
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Is the
Constitution Suspended? Article from The New American by Thomas
A. Burzynski, Feb 5, 1996.
Political corruption begins with every voter who votes his pocketbook
instead of for what's good for the country. There is little difference between
the selling of his vote by an elected official and the selling of his vote by a
voter, to whatever candidate promises him some benefit.
Jon Roland, speech during his campaign for Congress, 1974 |
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In politics nothing gets done until you first create a channel of
corruption.
Jesse Cuellar, cynical observer of the political scene, 1982 |
Abuse in general
Besides usurpations, there is a larger class of abuses which include
corruption and violations of constitutional statutes. It becomes a matter of
special concern to citizens when officials conspire with one another to not
enforce the law against such corruption, and use the resources of government
and the powers of their offices to cover up such crimes or otherwise protect
the perpetrators, whether such crimes are committed by officials themselves or
by powerful persons who are allowed to become a privileged class that is above
the law. When officials fail to enforce the law, citizens must step in and take
action to see that the laws are enforced, and replace those officials with
others who will do their constitutional duty.
-
Constitution
in Peril
-
The Shadow
Government
-
The Cost of
Corruption and Abuse
- List of Public
Corruption Cases Compiled by attorney Larry Becraft.
- Political
Corrections. And see particularly the
Federal Zone.
- Defrauding
America, Rodney Stich Criminal activities by the U.S. Government
- Office of Human Radiation
Experiments So you think all this stuff is the rantings of
paranoids? Here is the government admitting it does it!
- The
Controllers By Martin Cannon. Paper on government mind-control
research. Although originally written as a hypothesis on alien abductions, it
is largely of interest for what the author has uncovered from public sources on
research that involves actual or potential abuse.
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James Norman & Jim
Quinn Interview of James Norman, formerly Senior Editor of Forbes
Magazine and now with Media Bypass Magazine, by Jim Quinn, DJ of WRRK 96.9 FM
in Pittsburgh, December 7, 1995. Exposes criminal activities of high officials.
- Abuses by
BATF
- Dave Feustel Archives
Much interesting material.
- SAFAN Stop All Federal Abuses
Now Internet Newsletter published by Dot Bibee, Pensacola, Florida
- Dark Alliance
Three-part series of articles, with a postscript, in theSan Jose
Mercury-News by Gary Webb, August 18-20, 22, 1996. Presents evidence of
involvement of CIA and other U.S. government agencies in the international
narcotics trade.
- Invisible
Contracts, by George Mercier Presents interesting theory of the
legalistic fictions used by usurpers.
Confirmed abuses
- The Wounded Knee
Massacre This massacre of Native Americans in 1890 led to an armed
standoff in 1973. Also see
From Wounded Knee to
Capitol Hill, an article by Jeremy Schneider.
- Waco: The Massacre at Mount Carmel
Links to sites and documents on this incident.
- Ruby Ridge 1992 assault on Weaver
homestead in Idaho.
- Congressman George Hansen
Read how this respected former congressman was persecuted for his reform
efforts.
- The Tatum
Chronicles Chip Tatum served as a black ops pilot for the U.S.
government during the periods 1971-78 and 1980-91, and was given the code name
Pegasus. Under orders from U.S. government officials, he ran drugs and killed
persons who got in the way of the criminal operations of those officials. Then
he became a whistleblower, and was prosecuted for it. He has recently been
released from prison. This is his story.
- Michael Williams Read how feds
abused this former backer of Gary Hart, and why he now lives in exile, warned
not to return to the U.S.
Suspected abuses
- Oklahoma City Bombing Alfred P. Murrah
Building, April 19, 1995. Suspected complicity by government agents.
- JFK Assassination Dallas, Texas, November
22, 1963. Suspected complicity by government agents.
- RFK Assassination 1968. Suspected
complicity by government agents.
- MLK Assassination Suspected complicity by
government agents.
- Possible Aviation Coverups
Incidents such as TWA 800.
Independent Counsel's Report
Called a "referral", it is technically a presentment of the
grand jury.
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