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when they could not redeem the certificates for depositors, and they believed
that by claiming the American people were hoarding gold, precipitating a
banking crisis, they would then be off the hook. It suited Roosevelt’s plans
as a socialist to implement his “New Deal” agenda. The crisis permitted him
to seize control of the nation and maintain it by Executive Order (Martial
Rule). So he accepted the Federal Reserve Board’s request, which amended
the 1917 Wars Powers Act, giving the President license over all of the citizens
of this country, rather than just an enemy. We became the enemy of our
country under the language of the 1933 amended version of the 1917 War
Powers Act, and as far as the federal government is concerned, we remain so
to this day. It fits their purpose.
Congress returned from its annual recess and rubber-stamped Roosevelt’s
Executive Orders, and the Federal power grab began. From that day to
the present, the United States of America has been under emergency war.
Presidents and the Congress, to maintain and justify the enormous growth
in the power and socialist spending of the Federal government, have
systematically exploited powers and its people.
The States cooperated with the Federal government because they
benefited, right down to the County level, from a massive increase in their
tax revenues and powers which were available to them only under these
conditions. The real property of the individual citizenry could be taxed, as
well as all personal property owned by the individual.
The gold or lawful coin of the United States having been removed from
circulation set the stage for the fiat money of the Federal Reserve and the
resultant income generated from its use in the form of tax on the people’s
labor for the use of private money lenders. There being no constitutional
currency, Congress made law embracing the notion that the Federal Reserve
Notes were legal tender for all debts public and private, another violation of
their duty to protect and defend the Constitution, as no Amendment has
ever been passed permitting the use of anything other than Gold or Silver
Coin as lawful currency.
Tendering a debt however, is not the same as paying the debt. The debt
remains; it is merely tendered.
The area over which Emergency powers may be declared can cover part
of a state (city or county), several states, or an entire nation, as is the case
today.
The single most dominant feature of all emergency powers government
is civil authority. Civil courts cease to exist, being replaced by courts with an
appearance of legitimacy, but without the substance in the form of equity
and admiralty.