From: Raymond Rickert (rrickert@fast.net)
Subject: USA BANKRUPT
Newsgroups: misc.legal
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Date: 1995/10/11

"The ultimate ownership of all property is in the syaye:individual so called "ownership"
is only by virtue of government,i.e.law, amounting to a mere user: and must be in accordance
with law and subordinate to the necessities of the state"

"My investigations convince me that during the last quarter of a century
the average production of gold has been falling off considerably. The
gold mines of the world are practically exhausted. There is only about
$11,000,000,000 in gold in the world, with the United States owning
a little more that 4 billion. We have more than $100,000,000,000 in debts
payable in gold of the present weight and fineness....As a practical matter
these contracts cannot be collected in gold for the obvious reason that the
gold supply of the entire world is not sufficient to make payment"

Congressman Traficant on the house floor, March 17,1993

"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. Members of Congress are
official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any bankrupt
entity in world history, the U.S. government"

"I want to show you where the people are being imposed upon by reason of
the delegation of this tremendous power. invite your attention to the
fact that section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act provides that whenever the
government of the United States issues and delivers money, Federal Reserve
notes, which are based on the credit of the nation-they represent a
mortgage upon your home and my home,and upon all property of all the
people of the nation-to the Federal Reserve agent, an interest charge
shall be collected for the government."

"That is the equity of what we are about to do. Yes; you are going to
close us down. Yes, you have already closed us down,and have been doing it
long before this year. Our Presidentsays that for 3 years we have been on
our way to bankrupcy ever since we began to allow the financial mastery of
this country gradually to get into the hands of a little clique that has
held it right up until they would send us to the grave."

"Since March 9th 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared
national emergency.....under the powers delegated by these statutes
(Emergency Act of 1933, the Trading with the Enemy Act October 6,1917 as
amended in March 9,1933) the president may; seize property;organize and
control the means of production,seize commodities;assign military forces
abroad;institute martial law;seize control of transportation and
communication;regulate the operation of private enterprise;restrict
travel;and,in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all
American citizens." "A majority of the people of the United States have
lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and
governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying
degrees,been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national
emergency.....from,at least, the Civil War in important ways shaped the
present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency".

"It is only with the extent of powers possessed by the district courts,
acting as instance courts of admiralty,we are dealing.The Act of 1789
gives the entire constitutional power to determine "all civil causes of
admiralty and maritime jurisdiction' leaving the courts to ascertain it's
limits, as cases may arise."

A little side note if you read the Declaration of Independence our forefathers
have a list of crimes commited by the English King. Colonists tired of the King
interfering with their freedoms and fought for our independence. Many of these
same conditions exist today as the Kings of the United States are taking away
our freedoms.

Many brave Americans died to preserve our freedom all over the world, what
these brave service personell fought,suffered and died for the American Citizen
is giving away without a whimper, this is tragic.