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THE INFORMER: A New History of America by The Informer - How George Washington Sold Out American Freedom

By Arthur Cristian

Created 07/27/2008 - 18:29

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If the anti federalist only knew the truth about how really, really bad common law was they have to read the History of the American Bar on atgpress. Common law was the poor man's hell. Here is some proofs I sent to John Wilson who just seems to love common law.

That's what you are dealing with John. If You pull Benedict on Admiralty 7th Ed. Vol 1 and 2 of the 26 vol set. It will trace Hammurabi all the way to present time. It was the creation of Admiralty / Maritime Law, The International Law of Nations. It started in India and China went to Europe , became Roman Law. was adopted by England. Went to America and America, Really the United States corporation, brought it inland in 1857, which no other country had done. They do now. The UCC is the source for admiralty law. If you don't believe me read , Southworth Machinery Co. Inc. vs F/V Corey Pride et al. 1993 AMC 2261. John, you will be shocked when you read this from the case on page 2266, " Reverse Erie-doctrine which requires that substantive remedies afforded by the States conform to governing federal maritime standards". John, all States operate under admiralty commercial law regardless what patriot myth says.

America as well as England and your Australia, operate on the basis of Admiralty law. All courts of the world adopted Admiralty ( Hammurabi Law) as their basis of operation. So did all the countries base their law on this as they are all commercial law. That's all they had in 1600 BC, it carried over to today. So any court you deal with is a private commercial court. This is what I have been telling you for years. I had to get you to recognize, by the question I threw at you on Hammurabi what you are dealing with. The only real law that trumps present day law of nations is the Lord Almighty's law. But people don't want that law yet they call themselves Christian? Ba Humbug I say because they are all liars and hypocrites, bar NONE. They want man's statute law of the law merchant.

John, there are no courts on natural law that exist today because everyone has been deemed a law merchant. Every one is considered to be a person of artificial character. No more does Man exist, so they discard what you call common law. Since all people are artificial entities in the eyes of the criminal law merchants posing as government, is why we have maritime /UCC statute law. Do you see any statute that has the word MAN in it?

NO, all you see is the term person. Person has only character while man has status. It is explained very clearly when you read what the Informer put on atgpress as to your character. Yes I said Character because what we have done, unbeknownst to you is you ( we) have placed ourselves into their submission based on myths. Read this http://www.atgpress.com/inform/tx021.htm [1]. John, after three readings of this, slowly so your core beliefs taught to you by criminals are destroyed, you can advance to all the admiralty articles by the Informer such as http://www.atgpress.com/inform/Admiralty/ad003.htm [2]. Yes John, everything we do is based on the Law of Hammurabi. Why us you ask? Because we all were cajoled into being members of the criminal establishment of the private commercial corporations called government.

If you don't believe that then simply read MANTA on the net where all States, United States and all so called agencies of same are called Private corporations. Here are a few The Senate http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_gml21 [3] Courts are all private http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_7hv2m0 [4] and http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_7kg868 [5] States are all private corporations
http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_f2frh [6] United States is a private corp
http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_hzm13r [7] IRS is a private corporation http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_hjnfcz [8] and http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_cq633y [9]

So you see John, the people were fed a bill of myths, not Rights. They lost God given rights when they became members of the establishment called government. I know you are not familiar with American TV, but back in the 70's there was a show called the Untouchables where Elliot Ness, a true man in the FBI, went after organized crime called the Mafia. He was eliminating the competition so the RICO establishment we call government would better control the people of America.

Yes John, when you read Benedict on Admiralty you see in there that even cars come under admiralty as commercial vehicles subject to registration licensing and statutory Maritime law that emanated from the Law of Hammurabi. People simply believed the corporation and went down to register the car and it immediately lost a consumer good designation in the UCC and became a piece of commercial equipment subject to being insured and requiring a Driver License.

See how blindly people follow corporate dictate. Only because they have been dumbed down by their private corporate educational system to make people lose any deductive reasoning and logic in thinking? People have no clue they are dealing in commerce and always have with private corporations hiding under the premise of a warm fuzzy feeling of government. All people have to do is not consent anymore and pull their asses out of contract with these private RICO establishments.

John, I can't begin to describe all that is needed to beat these criminal corporations. But read everything the Informer and Montgomery has placed on atgpress and throw away all that crap you learned through patriot myth and corporate mythology they taught you and you will see why I said you are so hard headed and ignorant of the true facts, that you will never win in their private commercial courts.

John, Admit it, we did it to ourselves when lulled into becoming a member of the Private corporations as a citizen/ resident in contract by our own consent to become artificial entities, which explains the need to capitalize our names to indicate we no longer have the status of MAN but now operate in the CHARACTER of an artificial entity called PERSON in their private corporation, only having PRIVILEGES they deem we ought to have as a subject/ serf/ slave that is stripped clean of most anything we think we own. As a member they throw out we have representation.

We don't, as Lysander Spooner said, They represent the corporation and have to protect that corporation at all costs and they say, to hell with the dupes that think we will do their bidding. No, John it's one huge Fraud fostered on us all. Since it is a private corporation they can say they have immunity from it's members when we attack them. But under CONTRACT, they are vulnerable under International Law of Hammurabi for they are under commercial law as stated by the Clearfield doctrine, Clearfield Trust Co. v. US, 318 US 363 (1943).

This case explains the Clearfield Doctrine;

" Governments descend to the level of a mere private corporation and takes on the character of a mere private citizen [where private corporate commercial paper (securities) are concerned]". . . "For purposes of suit, such corporations and individuals are regarded as an entity ENTIRELY separate from government." Bank of US v. Planters Bank, 9 Wheaton (22 US) 904, 6 L. Ed. 24

And John, here is why I kept telling you there are no " common law" courts. This is from an admiralty case B & W Taxi Co. v B & Y Taxi co. 276 US 518, wherein he is telling you that the common law is a fallacy.

"Books written about any branch of the common law treat it as a unit, cite cases from this Court, from the Circuit Court of Appeals, from the State Courts, from England indiscriminately, and criticize them as right or wrong according to the writer's notions of a single theory. ... If there were such a transcendental body of law outside of any particular State but obligatory within it unless and until changed by statute, the Courts of the United States might be right in using their independent
judgement as to what it was.

BUT THERE IS NO SUCH BODY OF LAW. THE FALLACY AND ILLUSION THAT I THINK EXIST CONSISTS IN SUPPOSING THAT THERE IS THIS OUTSIDE THING TO BE FOUND. Law is a word used with different
meanings, but law in the sense in which courts speak of it today does not exist without some definite authority behind it." Emphasis mine.

This is and below are excerpts from the Informer's books that were published over 18 years ago, so he knew then what I am telling you now, 18 years to late for you.

Wow, what a revelation if one has deductive reasoning. Here is what the court said on authority, so the Lord does have definite authority for His Common (natural) Law written into the Bibles. This is evidenced by the Congress declaring by Public Law 97-280, 96 Stat 1211, that " * * * the formative influence the Bible has been for our Nation, and our national need to study and apply the teachings of the Holy Scriptures." So don't let the Vermin tell you that there is no longer a common law. Hit them back by saying that it is true that the English common law has been done away with but the Lord's common law still exists. Sorry but the English Common Law is the law of this land, because the supreme court uses it exclusively. They have to under the King's dictate under the Treaties.

Read The American Bar Journal No. 6, June 1938, (unbound Vol.XXIV), an article titled "What Has Happened to Federal Jurisprudence? by Albert J. Schweppe.

The English Common Law that is used was bastardized by the King AFTER the year 1066 and became Patriarchal (public policy) law when William the Conqueror took control. That is what we have today.

The common law you want is God's Natural Common Law. Under the English Common law, after being conquered by William, the English people no longer owned their land by allodial title; they lost the use of the forests because William took them as preserves. When you read The History of the American Bar by Charles Warren you will see that the English people despised the common law as being tyrannical and harsh, John.

This is what you want when you say common law? I think I have placed enough evidence before you that you are going to have to look at things in a different light. People think I am a little pushy but I am only trying to place before you all the evidence that says we screwed up when rejecting The Lord of all and going to Mammon for protection. He said He would not be able to help us if we chose Mammon. He was right , huh? Pray as we might, we took our allegiance from Him, which is all he wanted, and gave it to man, thereby not one soul in America is ever a Christian. Those that claim they are are either false prophets as the Lord said there will be or just plain ignorant and feign being Christian. Read this John and you decide http://www.atgpress.com/inform/cs068.htm [10] and finally this on allegiance that the Lord wanted from his creations http://www.atgpress.com/inform/cs067.htm [11]

Well John, it's up to you if you want to beat your head against the wall some more or change your thinking and get enough slaves together to see the knowledge to win. John, Don't buy from the corporation anymore and see how fact it dies. Of course 50 million or more will cause it to die faster when they all just say no, huh. Property taxes and all would never have to be paid to the private corporations. Who gave a bunch or robbers and thieves the right to put us into submission, John? Yup we did,. the dupes, the ignorant mass of asses, of which I was one of the mass of asses like everyone else, till I got my own education away from the private corporate "government".

Big Al
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BANKING
Hamilton's True Identity

So You Think the U.S. Still Has a Treasury
Gold and How it is Manipulated

Think #15 -IRS/Trust Codes
Redeem
Is this what makes you subject to an income tax
Use and Transfer

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GOVERNMENT

Jurisdiction over a National

Government Fraud
A Short Synopsis

CITIZENSHIP BY TREATY
The Bill of Rights Fraud
Part two

WHY DOES THE STATE HAVE JURISDICTION OVER ME?
The Bill of Rights Fraud Part I
Who Wants to Take an Oath?
Jurisdiction & The First Judiciary Act

Was Washington, D. C. A State Then - Now?
Oaths of Office
1868 Inaugural Speech of Governor Worth
When Was State Sovereignty Lost
Addendum
Congress Has No Jurisdiction to Levy an Income Tax
Congress ultimate administrator of the courts
An end to the debate on the 16th Amendment
WOW- The real 1930 Geneva Convention Books-Commentary
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United
States - 1930
Volume I - pages 232-237
Volume III - pages 6-9
Volume III - pages 10-13
Volume III - pages 96-97
Volume III - pages 102-106
Volume III - pages 141-146
Volume III - pages 155-157
Volume III - pages 268-269
Volume III - pages 291-309
Volume III - Pages 399-404
Volume III - pages 411-413
Volume III - Pages 459-461
Last of the Geneva Papers

Common man never created the constitution
Citizen= Subject
Fiction of law
The myth of the term Law of the Land
Perspectives
Definitions that enslave you
State, United States. Includes
This is not conjecture, this is not myth, etc

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PHONE TAX

For those people fed up with phone taxes
Illegal phone charges

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COMMON SENSE

SO YOU REALLY WANT A REPUBLIC?

Are You a Corporation Member

How the government got you in its clutches, slave.

YOU WANTED TO BE A CITIZEN - SO WHY COMPLAIN?

Are you a member of a community?

Black's Law Dictionary is a "Specialty" Dictionary

Think #13-Penalty Statutes
Going after the wrong people
How you are controlled by private corporations
Merry Go Round
The beginning of the big lie
Reality

Flawed redemption process
Regroup to find the truth
Documents

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TAXES

Sometimes Criminals Speak Truth
THE 1913 INCOME TAX FRAUD
What Does Federal Really Mean
Assessment Authority
26 USC 6331 Authorizing IRS
True Nature of Withholding Tax 1942 Revenue Act
What To Present Administratively That You Have No Income
Why All States Depend on Federal Determination to Tax You

Treasury Letter of 1866
TERMS not WORDS
SS# and TIN IS NOT THE SAME
The why's and wherefore's of the tax system
Tax Series #8-IRS not authorized to file Fed Tax Liens
Tax Series #9-Security and Money
Excise taxes Person and Taxes
Excise Taxes
1998 List of IRS sections affected
Person
Pollock v Farmers Loan and Trust
Scumbags

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WAR/EMERGENCY POWERS

The genesis of the emergency / war powers ACT
War Powers in America today
The question is why?

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SOCIAL SECURITY

When is a Social Security Number not a Social Security Number
AND
Will the real Beneficiary please stand up
The taxing statute imposing S.S. taxes

The History of the American Bar

The Bar in America - Part I
Introductory - Law Without Lawyers - Part II
Lawyers in the Seventeenth Century - Part III
The Colonial Bar of Virginia and Maryland - Chapter II
Colonial Massachusetts Bar -Chapter III
Colonial New York, Pennsylvania & New Jersy Bar - Chapter IV
Colonial Southern Bar - Chapter V
New England Colonial Bar - Chapter VI
The Law & Lawyers in England in the
Eighteenth Century-Chapter VII
Early American Barristers, & Bar Associations - Chapter IX
Part II - Federal Bar -Chapter X
The Federal Bar and Law, 1789-1815-Chapter XI
The Federal Bar & the Law, 1815-1830-Chapter XV
The Federal Bar & Law - 1830-1860 - Chapter XVI
The Progress of the Law - 1830-1860 - Chapter XVII
The Rise of Railroad & Corporation Law - Chapter XVIII

Admirality

Addendum to "The New History of America"
Padleford Case & Standing
Under Present Situation

Admiralty - Why?

Admiralty Rules

Admiralty in Tax Cases

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The United States Isn't a Country — It's a Corporation! by Lisa Guliani

This article by Lisa Guliani was published on this Serendipity website sometime prior to February 2004. This is proven by the page as archived on the Wayback Machine (see also the page at March 8, 2005). This article has also been published on many other websites. Someone using the name "Reality Bytes" published (no earlier than 2010) a ripoff of this article on The Hub under the title The Corporation Of The United States Of America Is It True? We Are Not Under Common Law?. This person is now claiming copyright infringement. This is laughable. "Reality Bytes" is a blatant plagiarizer, as shown by the textual comparisons below.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
— Preamble of the original "organic" Constitution

"We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
— Excerpted from the Declaration of Independence of the original thirteen united states of America, July 4, 1776

Fourth of July 2002 has come and gone, and Americans honored the holiday with a renewed patriotic fervor that reminded me of the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976. As is customary, traditional fireworks displays took center stage and scores of people turned out to witness the dazzling show in the summer sky. With mixed feelings, I sat with friends on a crowded Pennsylvania sidewalk beneath a glittering, mesmerizing explosion of color, pondering the keen sense of sadness and betrayal that overwhelmed my spirit. Looking around at the huge crowds gathered for the annual events, I thought silently, "We are not free." In truth, we have not been a free people for a very long time.

We celebrate this day in honor of our "independence". We call ourselves a free people in a land of liberty. Our anthems proudly sing the praises of this nation, and we raise our voices, wave our flags and join in song — but how many Americans realize they are not free? This is a myth perpetuated by the powers-that-be in order to avoid any major civil unrest, and to keep us all living under the thumb of a militaristic corporate Big Brother within the illusions that have been created for us. The truth of the matter is this: what freedom has not been stolen from us, we have surrendered willingly through our silence and ignorance. As Americans, most of us have no idea how our freedoms are maintained — or lost. Apparently, our ancestors didn't have a good grasp of this either. It is sad, but it is also very true.

Don't point to that beloved parchment, the Constitution, as a symbol of your enduring freedom. It is representative of a form of government which seemingly no longer exists in this country today. The Constitution has been thrown out the window, the Republic shoved aside and replaced with a democracy. The thing is; most people in this country remain unaware that this is so because they simply do not know the truth — what lies beyond the myths. Your so-called government is not going to tell you, either.

To even begin to understand what has happened to the Republic, we must look backward in time to the period following the Civil War. We must go back to the year 1871, which was the beginning of the decline of the Republic. When we examine what happened during that time in our history, we begin to piece together this troubling, perplexing puzzle that is "America" — only then should we answer as to whether we are indeed a "free" people or not.

So, let's roll backward into the past for a moment. It is time we learned what they didn't teach us in school. It is far more interesting than what they DID tell us. I think you'll stay awake for this lesson.

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The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. I refer you to the "Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62. On this date in the history of our nation, Congress passed an Act titled: "An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia." This is also known as the "Act of 1871." What does this mean? Well, it means that Congress, under no constitutional authority to do so, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, which is a ten mile square parcel of land.

What??? How could they do that? Moreover, WHY would they do that? To explain, let's look at the circumstances of those days. The Act of 1871 was passed at a vulnerable time in America. Our nation was essentially bankrupt — weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Civil War itself was nothing more than a calculated "front" for some pretty fancy footwork by corporate backroom players. It was a strategic maneuver by European interests (the international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the neck (and the coffers) of America.

The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone's pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers. If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you and me (the borrower) into a subservient position. This was true back in 1871 as well. The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.

In essence, this Act formed the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Note the capitalization, because it is important. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, moved right in and shoved the original "organic" version of the Constitution into a dusty corner. With the "Act of 1871," our Constitution was defaced in the sense that the title was block-capitalized and the word "for" was changed to the word "of" in the title. The original Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers, was written in this manner:

"The Constitution for the united states of America".

The altered version reads: "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA". It is the corporate constitution. It is NOT the same document you might think it is. The corporate constitution operates in an economic capacity and has been used to fool the People into thinking it is the same parchment that governs the Republic. It absolutely is not.

Capitalization — an insignificant change? Not when one is referring to the context of a legal document, it isn't. Such minor alterations have had major impacts on each subsequent generation born in this country. What the Congress did with the passage of the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia. The kind of government THEY created was a corporation. The new, altered Constitution serves as the constitution of the corporation, and not that of America. Think about that for a moment.

Incidentally, this corporate constitution does not benefit the Republic. It serves only to benefit the corporation. It does nothing good for you or me — and it operates outside of the original Constitution. Instead of absolute rights guaranteed under the "organic" Constitution, we now have "relative" rights or privileges. One example of this is the Sovereign's right to travel, which has been transformed under corporate government policy into a "privilege" which we must be licensed to engage in. This operates outside of the original Constitution.

So, Congress committed TREASON against the People, who were considered Sovereign under the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution. When we consider the word "Sovereign," we must think about what the word means.

According to Webster's Dictionary, "sovereign" is defined as: 1. chief or highest; supreme. 2. Supreme in power, superior in position to all others. 3. Independent of, and unlimited by, any other, possessing or entitled to, original and independent authority or jurisdiction.

In other words, our government was created by and for "sovereigns" — the free citizens who were deemed the highest authority. Only the People can be sovereign — remember that. Government cannot be sovereign. We can also look to the Declaration of Independence, where we read: "government is subject to the consent of the governed" — that's supposed to be us, the sovereigns. Do you feel like a sovereign nowadays? I don't.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a constitutional historian to figure out that this is not what is happening in our country today. Government in these times is NOT subject to the consent of the governed. Rather, the governed are subject to the whim and greed of the corporation, which has stretched its tentacles beyond the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia — encroaching into every state of the Republic. Mind you, the corporation has NO jurisdiction outside of the District of Columbia. THEY just want you to think it does.

You see, you are presumed to know the law. This is ironic because as a people, we are taught basically nothing about the law in school. We are made to memorize obscure factoids and paragraphs here and there, such as the Preamble, and they gloss over the Bill of Rights. But we are not told about the law. Nor do our corporate government schools delve into the Constitution in any great depth. After all, they were put into place to indoctrinate and dumb down the masses — not to teach us anything. We were not told that we were sold-out to foreign interests and made beneficiaries of the debt incurred by Congress to the international bankers. For generations, American citizens have had the bulk of their earnings confiscated to pay on a massive debt that they, as a People, did not incur. There are many, many things the People have not been told. How do you feel about being made a beneficiary of somebody else's massive debt without your knowledge or consent? Are we gonna keep going along with this??

When you hear some individuals say that the Constitution is null and void, think about how our government has transformed over time from a municipal or service-oriented entity to a corporate or profit-oriented entity. We are living under the myth that this is lawful, but it is not. We are being ruled by a "de facto," or unlawful, form of government — the corporate body of the death-mongers — The Controllers.

With the passage of the Act of 1871, a series of subtle and overt deceptions were set in motion — all in conjunction and collusion with the Congress, who knowingly and deliberately sold the People down the river. Did they tell you this in government school? I doubt it. They were too busy drumming the fictional version of history into your brain — and mine. By failing to disclose what THEY did to the American People, the people became ignorant of what was happening. Over time, the Republic took it on the chin to the point of a knockdown. With the surrender of their gold in 1933, the People essentially surrendered their law. I don't suppose you were taught THAT in school either. That's because our REAL history is hidden from us. This is the way Roman Civil Law works — and our form of governance today is based upon Roman Civil Law and Admiralty/Maritime Law — better known as the "Divine Right of Kings" and "Law of the Seas", respectively. This explains a lot. Roman Civil Law was fully established in the original colonies even before our nation began and is also known as private international law.

The government which was created for the District of Columbia via the Act of 1871 operates under Private International Law, and not Common Law, which was the law of the Constitutional Republic. This is very important to note since it impacts all Americans in concrete ways. You must recognize that private international law is only applicable within the District of Columbia and NOT in the other states of the Union. The various arms of the corporation are known as "departments" such as the Judiciary, Justice and Treasury. You recognize those names? Yes, you do! But they are not what you assume them to be. These "departments" all belong to the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. They do NOT belong to you and me under the corporate constitution and its various amendments that operate outside of the Constitutional Republic.

I refer you to the UNITED STATES CODE (note the capitalization, indicating the corporation, not the Republic) Title 28 3002 (15) (A) (B) (C). It is stated unequivocally that the UNITED STATES is a corporation [see note]. Realize, too, that the corporation is not a separate and distinct entity from the government. It IS the government. YOUR government. This is extremely important. I refer to this as the "corporate empire of the UNITED STATES," which operates under Roman Civil Law outside of the Constitution. How do you like being ruled by a cheesy, sleazy corporation? You'll ask your Congressperson about this, you say? HA!!

Congress is fully aware of this deception. You must be made aware that the members of Congress do NOT work for you and me. Rather, they work for the Corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. Is this really any surprise to you? This is why we can't get them to do anything on our behalf or to answer to us — as in the case with the illegal income tax — among many other things. Contrary to popular belief, they are NOT our civil servants. They do NOT work for us. They are the servants of the corporate government and carry out its bidding. Period.

The great number of committees and sub-committees that the Congress has created all work together like a multi-headed monster to oversee the various corporate "departments." And, you should know that every single one of these that operates outside the District of Columbia is in violation of the law. The corporate government of the UNITED STATES has no jurisdiction or authority in ANY state of the Republic beyond the District of Columbia. Let this sink into your brain for a minute. Ask yourself, "Could this deception REALLY have occurred without the full knowledge and complicity of the Congress?" Do you think it happened by accident? You are deceiving yourself if you do. There are no accidents or coincidences. It is time to confront the truth and awaken from ignorance.

Your legislators will not apprise you of this information. You are presumed to know the law. THEY know you don't know the law, or your history for that matter, because this information has not been taught to you. No concerted effort has been made to inform you. As a Sovereign, you are entitled to full disclosure of the facts. As a slave, you are entitled to nothing other than what the corporation decides to "give" you — at a price. Be wary of accepting so-called "benefits" of the corporation of the UNITED STATES. Aren't you enslaved enough already?

I said (above) that you are presumed to know the law. Still, it matters not if you don't in the eyes of the corporation. Ignorance of the law is not considered an excuse. It is your responsibility and your obligation as an American to learn about the law and how it applies to you. THEY count on the fact that most people are too uninterested or distracted or lazy to do so. The People have been mentally conditioned to allow the alleged government to do their thinking for them. We need to turn that around if we are to save our Republic before it is too late.

The UNITED STATES government is basically a corporate instrument of the international bankers. This means YOU are owned by the corporation from birth to death. The corporate UNITED STATES also holds ownership of all your assets, your property, and even your children. Does this sound untrue? Think long and hard about all those bills you pay, all those various taxes and fines and licenses you must pay for. Yes, they've got you by the pockets. Actually, they've had you by the ass for as long as you've been alive. In your heart, you know it's true. Don't believe any of this? Read up on the 14th Amendment. Check out how "free" you really are.

With the Act of 1871 and subsequent legislation such as the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment, our once-great nation of Sovereigns has been subverted from a Republic to a democracy. As is the case under Roman Civil Law, our ignorance of the facts has led to our silence. Our silence has been construed as our consent to become beneficiaries of a debt we did not incur. The Sovereign People have been deceived for hundreds of years into thinking they remain free and independent, when in actuality we continue to be slaves and servants of the corporation.

Treason was committed against the People in 1871 by the Congress. This could have been corrected through the decades by some honest men (assuming there were some), but it was not, mainly due to lust for money and power. Nothing new there. Are we to forgive and justify this crime against the People? You have lost more freedom than you may realize due to corporate infiltration of the so-called government. We will lose more unless we turn away from a democracy that is the direct road to disaster — and restore our Constitutional Republic.

In an upcoming article, we'll take a closer look at the purportedly ratified 14th Amendment and how we became "property" of the corporation and enslaved by our silence.

I am saddened to think about the brave men and women who were killed in all the wars and conflicts instigated by the Controllers. These courageous souls fought for the preservation of ideals they believed to be true — not for the likes of a corporation. Do you believe that any one of the individuals who have been killed as a result of war would have willingly fought if they knew the full truth? Do you think one person would have laid down his life for a corporation? I think not. If the People had known long ago to what extent their trust had been betrayed, I wonder how long it would have taken for another Revolution. What we need is a Revolution in THOUGHT. We change our thinking and we change our world.

Will we ever restore the Republic? That is a question I cannot answer yet. I hope, and most of all — pray — that WE, the Sovereign People, will work together in a spirit of cooperation to make it happen in this lifetime. I know I will give it my best shot — come what may. Our children deserve their rightful legacy — the liberty our ancestors fought so hard to give to us. Will we remain silent telling ourselves we are free, and perpetuate the MYTH? Or, do we stand as One Sovereign People, and take back what has been stolen from the house of our Republic?

Something to think about — it's called freedom.

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My heartfelt thanks goes out to the following people for their gracious and generous assistance in researching this subject: Ken S. of American Revolution II Online News, Paul Walker of RMN News, Bob Taft, Stanooch, and Willy Whitten — true Patriots, one and all.

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Editor's note: Actually in the U.S. Code the term "United States" is said to have any of three meanings:

US CODE: Title 28,3002. Definitions (archived here)

(15) "United States" means —
   (A) a Federal corporation;
   (B) an agency, department, commission, board, or other entity of the United States; or
   (C) an instrumentality of the United States.

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Further reading:

• Thomas J. DiLorenzo: Truth About the 14th Amendment

• Kirwan: FEMA — The Plan to Kill America

• Control of Government

• Ed Lewis: Who's the boss in America?

• TREASON — A NOTICE TO PUBLIC SERVANTS

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If we are stupid enough to surrender our freedom to a bunch of lousy international bankers, then we deserve to live in bondage.  — Lisa Guliani

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A comparison of this article with the ripoff by "Reality Bytes":

Lisa Guliani	"Reality Bytes"
We celebrate this day in honor of our "independence". We call ourselves a free people in a land of liberty. Our anthems proudly sing the praises of this nation, and we raise our voices, wave our flags and join in song — but how many Americans realize they are not free?	The day is recognized as a day to celebrate our "Independence". A celebration of free people living in the land of Liberty. We sing songs of the greatness of our country, we wave our flags in joyous, patriotic, euphoria. In reality there are not many Americans that have the realization that they are not Free.
This is a myth perpetuated by the powers-that-be in order to avoid any major civil unrest, and to keep us all living under the thumb of a militaristic corporate Big Brother within the illusions that have been created for us.	This is an illusion that the countries controllers immortalize to avoid the People realizing the truth. It allows them to keep the population under the militaristic control of a Big Brother Conglomerate of corporate control.
The truth of the matter is this: what freedom has not been stolen from us, we have surrendered willingly through our silence and ignorance. As Americans, most of us have no idea how our freedoms are maintained — or lost. Apparently, our ancestors didn't have a good grasp of this either.	The Freedoms which have not been stolen from us, we have given up willingly through ignorance and apathy. Allowing ourselves to be distracted by baubles and shiny objects like children. We the people had no idea how to maintain our Freedoms or for that matter, how they could be taken from us.
Don't point to that beloved parchment, the Constitution, as a symbol of your enduring freedom. It is representative of a form of government which seemingly no longer exists in this country today.	Those in denial will immediately shout about the parchment known as the Constitution. That is the Symbol of Freedom for the people. It symbolizes the Representative form of government that no longer exists in the United States of America.
The Constitution has been thrown out the window, the Republic shoved aside and replaced with a democracy. The thing is; most people in this country remain unaware that this is so because they simply do not know the truth — what lies beyond the myths.	The Constitution is dead and the Republic has been replaced with a corrupt form of Democracy. The saddest part of this fiasco is that most Americans will never know or realize exactly what it was that they lost. They will never see the Truth behind the lies.
To even begin to understand what has happened to the Republic, we must look backward in time to the period following the Civil War. We must go back to the year 1871, which was the beginning of the decline of the Republic.	To start to see the Truth and to understand what happened to this great Republic, we need to start at the period after the Civil War. It was in the year 1871 that the decline and elimination of the Republic began.
So, let's roll backward into the past for a moment. It is time we learned what they didn't teach us in school.	Let us delve into the History of the country, the History that is not taught in school!
The Congress realized our country was in dire financial straits, so they cut a deal with the international bankers — (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone's pie) thereby incurring a DEBT to said bankers.	The Congress knew that our country was bankrupt, so they made an arrangement with the International Bankers to run up a Debt to these Foreign Banks ( the Rothschilds of London were investing in many enterprises Globally).
If we think about banks, we know they do not just lend us money out of the goodness of their hearts. A bank will not do anything for you unless it is entirely in their best interest to do so. There has to be some sort of collateral or some string attached which puts you and me (the borrower) into a subservient position.	One thing that everyone knows about banks is that they do not lend money simply to be kind. The only way that a Bank would enter into a contract is if it would benefit the Bank. Some kind of Collateral, or some kind of scheme that would put the population into servitude to the Banks would be necessary.
The conniving international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States (a prize they had coveted for some time, but had been unable to grasp thanks to our Founding Fathers, who despised them and held them in check), and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.	The sneaky and manipulating International Bankers would not lend money to our financially troubled nation without some stipulations. They came up with a devious scheme to gain control over the country that they had desired for a long time. The Founding Fathers detested these Foreign Entities and kept them at bay until the Act of 1871 was passed.

And so on. It is obvious that "Reality Bytes" has taken Lisa Guliani's article, reworded it, and published it on The Hub as his own work (and he then accused websites which had published her article of copyright violation — pretty stupid of him). "Reality Bytes" is clearly guilty of blatant plagiarism. The Hub should thus remove his article to protect their reputation. — But a year has gone by, and the article has not been removed, so we can conclude that The Hub is a site whose articles, if well-written, are likely to be ripoffs of articles from other sites (by people seeking to make money by exploiting the work of others, more talented than they are).

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The united states Of America  is a corporation owned by foreign interests Below are two articles covering the fact that, since the Act of 1871 which established the District of Columbia, we have been living under the UNITED STATES CORPORATION which is owned by certain international bankers and aristocracy of Europe and Britain.   In 1871 the Congress changed the name of the original Constitution by changing ONE WORD -- and that was very significant as you will read.   Some people do not understand that ONE WORD or TWO WORDS difference in any "legal" document DO make the critical difference. But, Congress has known, and does know, this.  I'm told this corporation, established in 1871, will be cancelled by NESARA and NESARA will also restore the ORIGINAL Constitution which assists in restoring our Constitutional Rights and the Bill of Rights and our rights as described in the Declaration of Independence.  1871, February 21: Congress Passes an Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia, also known as the Act of 1871* With no constitutional authority to do so, Congress creates a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, a ten mile square parcel of land (see, Acts of the Forty-first Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62).  The act -- passed when the country was weakened and financially depleted in the aftermath of the Civil War -- was a strategic move by foreign interests (international bankers) who were intent upon gaining a stranglehold on the coffers and neck of America.  Congress cut a deal with the international bankers (specifically Rothschilds of London) to incur a DEBT to said bankers. Because the bankers were not about to lend money to a floundering nation without serious stipulations, they devised a way to get their foot in the door of the United States. The Act of 1871 formed a corporation called THE UNITED STATES. The corporation, OWNED by foreign interests, moved in and shoved the original Constitution into a dustbin. With the Act of 1871, the organic Constitution was defaced -- in effect vandalized and sabotage -- when the title was capitalized and the word "for" was changed to "of" in the title. * Info from yet unpublished book, "Pentimento: Freedom Revisited." As you will see when reading, just as much of my knowledge of the Trading with the Enemy Act came from Gene Schroder, et al. this, too, came from elsewhere -- from Lisa Guilian of Babel Magazine, whom I first "met" by way of an article by Patrick Bellringer. So, we cooperate as we study and learn the truth.  C. E. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the constitution of the incorporated UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  It operates in an economic capacity and has been used to fool the People into thinking it governs the Republic. It does is not!  Capitalization is NOT insignificant when one is referring to a legal document. This seemingly "minor" alteration has had a major impact on every subsequent generation of Americans.  What Congress did by passing the Act of 1871 was create an entirely new document, a constitution for the government of the District of Columbia, an INCORPORATED government. This newly altered Constitution was not intended to benefit the Republic. It benefits only the corporation of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and operates entirely outside the original (organic) Constitution. Instead of having absolute and unalienable rights guaranteed under the organic Constitution, we the people now have "relative" rights or privileges. One example is the Sovereign's right to travel, which has now been transformed (under corporate government policy) into a "privilege" that requires citizens to be licensed.  By passing the Act of 1871, Congress committed TREASON against the People who were Sovereign under the grants and decrees of the Declaration of Independence and the organic Constitution.  [Information courtesy of Lisa Guliani, www.babelmagazine.com. The Act of 1871 became the FOUNDATION of all the treason since committed by government officials.]  The UNITED STATES Isn't a Country - It's a Corporation! In preparation for stealing America, the puppets of Britain's banking cabal had already created a second government, a Shadow Government designed to manage what the common herd believed was a democracy, but what really was an incorporated UNITED STATES. Together this chimera, this two-headed monster, disallowed the common herd all rights of sui juris. [sovereignty]  Congress, with no authority to do so, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia, a ten-mile square parcel of land. WHY and HOW did they do so? First, Lisa Guliani of Babel Magazine, reminds us that the Civil War was, in fact, "little more than a calculated front with fancy footwork by backroom players." Then she adds: "It was also a strategic maneuver by British and European interests (international bankers) intent on gaining a stranglehold on the coffers of America. And, because Congress knew our country was in dire financial straits, certain members of Congress cut a deal with the international bankers (in those days, the Rothschilds of London were dipping their fingers into everyone's pie).  . . . . There you have the WHY, why members of Congress permitted the international bankers to gain further control of America. . . . . . "Then, by passing the Act of 1871, Congress formed a corporation known as THE UNITED STATES. This corporation, owned by foreign interests, shoved the organic version of the Constitution aside by changing the word 'for' to 'of' in the title. Let me explain: the original Constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers read: 'The Constitution for the united states of America.' [note that neither the words 'united' nor 'states' began with capital letters] But the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' is a corporate constitution, which is absolutely NOT the same document you think it is. First of all, it ended all our rights of sovereignty [sui juris]. So you now have the HOW, how the international bankers got their hands  on THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA." To fully understand how our rights of sovereignty were ended, you must know the full meaning of sovereign: SOVEREIGN "Chief or highest, supreme power, superior in position to all others; independent of and unlimited by others; possessing or entitled to; original and independent authority or jurisdiction."  --Webster-- In short, our government, which was created by and for us as sovereigns -- free citizens deemed to have the highest authority in the land -- was stolen from us, along with our rights. Keep in mind that, according to the original Constitution, only We the People are sovereign. Government is not sovereign. The Declaration of Independence says, "government is subject to the consent of the governed." That's us -- the sovereigns. When did you last feet like a sovereign? As Lisa Guliani explained:  "It doesn't take a rocket scientist or a constitutional historian to figure out that the U.S. Government has NOT been subject to the consent of the governed since long before you or I were born. Rather, the governed are subject to the whim and greed of the corporation, which has stretched its tentacles beyond the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia. In fact, it has invaded every state of the Republic. Mind you, the corporation has NO jurisdiction beyond the District of Columbia. You just think it does. "You see, you are 'presumed' to know the law, which is very weird since We the People are taught NOTHING about the law in school. We memorize obscure facts and phrases here and there, like the Preamble, which says, 'We the People. establish this Constitution for the United States of America.' But our teachers only gloss over the Bill of Rights. Our schools (controlled by the corporate government) don't delve into the Constitution at depth. After all, the corporation was established to indoctrinate and 'dumb-down' the masses, not to teach anything of value or importance.  "Certainly, no one mentioned that America was sold-out to foreign interests, that we were beneficiaries of the debt incurred by Congress, or that we were in debt to the international bankers. Yet, for generations, Americans have had the bulk of their earnings confiscated to pay a massive debt that they did not incur. There's an endless stream of things the People aren't told. And, now that you are being told, how do you feel about being made the recipient of a debt without your knowledge or consent?  "After passage of the Act of 1871, Congress set a series of subtle and overt deceptions into motion, deceptions in the form of decisions that were meant to sell us down the river.  "Over time, the Republic took it on the chin until it was knocked down and counted out by a technical KO [knock out]. With the surrender of the people's gold in 1933, the 'common herd' was handed over to illegitimate law. (I'll bet you weren't taught THAT in school.) "Our corporate form of governance is based on Roman Civil Law and Admiralty, or Maritime, Law, which is also known as the 'Divine Right of Kings' and the 'Law of the Seas' -- another fact of American history not taught in our schools. Actually, Roman Civil Law was fully established in the colonies before our nation began, and then became managed by private international law. In other words, the government -- the government created for the District of Columbia via the Act of 1871 -- operates solely under Private International Law, not Common Law, which was the foundation of our Constitutional Republic. "This fact has impacted all Americans in concrete ways. For instance, although Private International Law is technically only applicable within the District of Columbia, and NOT in the other states of the Union, the arms of the Corporation of the UNITED STATES are called 'departments' --i.e., the Justice Department, the Treasury Department. And those departments affect everyone, no matter where (in what state) they live. Guess what? Each department belongs to the corporation -- to the UNITED STATES. "Refer to any UNITED STATES CODE (USC). Note the capitalization; this is evidence of a corporation, not a Republic. For example, In Title 28 3002 (15) (A) (B) (C), it is unequivocally stated that the UNITED STATES is a corporation. Translation: the corporation is NOT a separate and distinct entity; it is not disconnected from the government; it IS the government -- your government. This is extremely important! I refer to it as the  'corporate EMPIRE of the UNITED STATES,' which operates under Roman Civil Law outside the original Constitution. How do you like being ruled by a corporation?  You say you'll ask your Congressperson about this? HA!! "Congress is fully aware of this deception. So it's time that you, too, become aware of the deception. What this great deception means is that the members of Congress do NOT work for us, for you and me. They work for the Corporation, for the UNITED STATES. No wonder we can't get them to do anything on our behalf, or meet or demands, or answer our questions. "Technically, legally, or any other way you want to look at the matter, the corporate government of the UNITED STATES has no jurisdiction or authority in ANY State of the Union (the Republic) beyond the District of Columbia. Let that tidbit sink in, then ask yourself, could this deception have occurred without full knowledge and complicity of the Congress? Do you think it happened by accident? If you do, you're deceiving yourself.  "There are no accidents, no coincidences. Face the facts and confront the truth. Remember, you are presumed to know the law. THEY know you don't know the law or, for that matter, your history. Why? Because no concerted effort was ever made to teach or otherwise inform you. As a Sovereign, you are entitled to full disclosure of all facts. As a slave, you are entitled to nothing other than what the corporation decides to 'give' you. "Remember also that 'Ignorance of the law is no excuse.' It's your responsibility and obligation to learn the law and know how it applies to you. No wonder the corporation counted on the fact that most people are too indifferent, unconcerned, distracted, or lazy to learn what they need to know to survive within the system. We have been conditioned to let the government do our thinking for us. Now's the time to turn that around if we intend to help save our Republic and ourselves -- before it's too late. "As an instrument of the international bankers, the UNITED STATES owns you from birth to death. It also holds ownership of all your assets, of your property, even of your children. Think long and hard about all the bills taxes, fines, and licenses you have paid for or purchased. Yes, they had you by the pockets. If you don't believe it, read the 14th Amendment. See how 'free' you really are. Ignorance of the facts led to your silence. Silence is construed as consent; consent to be beneficiaries of a debt you did not incur. As a Sovereign People we have been deceived for hundreds of years; we think we are free, but in truth we are servants of the corporation. "Congress committed treason against the People in 1871. Honest men could have corrected the fraud and treason. But apparently there weren't enough honest men to counteract the lust for money and power. We lost more freedom than we will ever know, thanks to corporate infiltration of our so-called 'government.'  "Do you think that any soldier who died in any of our many wars would have fought if he or she had known the truth? Do you think one person would have laid down his/her life for a corporation? How long will we remain silent? How long will we perpetuate the MYTH that we are free? When will we stand together as One Sovereign People? When will we take back what has been as stolen from the us?  "If the People of America had known to what extent their trust was betrayed, how long would it have taken for a real revolution to occur? What we now need is a Revolution in THOUGHT. We need to change our thinking, then we can change our world. Our children deserve their rightful legacy -- the liberty our ancestors fought to preserve, the legacy of a Sovereign and Fully Free People." [Posted 8/27/02, www.babalmagazine.com/] From a speech in Congress in The Bankruptcy of The United States United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303. Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House: "Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913) "Hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve - in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a "beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System. In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend THE FEDERAL United States CORPORATION [emphasis added] all the credit "money substitute" it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn't have any assets, they assigned the private property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers. Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another. ."

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Charles Dickens as a Critic of the United States

by Louie Crew First appeared in Midwest Quarterly 16.1 (1974): 42-50.
© 1974 by Midwest Quarterly; © 2004 by Louie Crew     Many contemporary critiques of American civilization are anticipated by that of Charles Dickens, who as England's celebrated novelist and democratic reformer first visited the United States in 1842, early in his career.  Dickens' account of the visit, American Notes, was one of the first British viewpoints to demonstrate that an Englishman did not have to be an aristocrat to distrust the American rhetoric.  Dickens charged Americans with incivility, arrogance, anti-intellectualism, a predilection for violence, and hypocrisy, particularly about anti-democratic policies such as slavery.  The book initially stirred a controversy among American readers, who resented Dickens as an outsider and peremptorily dismissed his views.  Except for the academic effort to place the book within the Dickens canon, American Notes has since been largely ignored.  Dickens' literary advisor and biographer John Forster (I, 185f) left the impression that the book would have been better not written.   Dickensian Ada Nisbet (p. 205) suggests that Forster tried to suppress American Notes because it was "a serious blow to Dickens' prestige and popularity."  The late Edmund Wilson once said that Dickens' "picture of the United States in 1842, at a period of brave boastings and often squalid or meager realities, has a unique and permanent value" (The Wound and the Bow, p. 28).  Literary scholars have not expressed much interest, however.  Students of history and American civilization would be well advised to.
    What upset the Americans with their hero, whom they greeted as the most welcomed visitor since Lafayette (Forster, I, 186), was his stand in favor of International Copyright.  Without it American publishers were paying no royalties on imported manuscripts.   Few people of good will thought the policy equitable, but their objection was to Dickens' use of his platform as a guest artist to speak out on business and politics.  When he did so, some accused him of petty self-serving, in spite of the fact that International Copyright would also serve the interests of American authors, then ignored or short-changed by publishers who could easily pirate foreign materials.  In any event, Dickesn was equally disturbed by his sponsors' undemocratic desire to muzzle him, to make him take the stance of an uncritical hero, as if democracy were a fait accompli on this side of the Atlantic.  As the copyright issue inflated, it became for Dickens a symptom of a much more pervasive disease, name the American preoccupation with image-making.
    A little reflection would have warned the Americans that the man who had uncompromisingly leveled at evils in England (to the pleasure of the Americans) would be sensitive to similar evils wherever he found them.  Yet even native critics had so insecure a footing in the new republic  (or so little grasp of the national temper) that they did not come to the alien's defense.  Dickens became a lone crusader, embarrassing the literary and the political establishment which had hoped to honor him.
    It is still easy for American scholarship to react emotionally and politically to American Notes.  Dickensian Harry Stone (pp. 477-478) takes a patriotic view:

He was unable to see America with the eyes of the immigrant, the settler, the visionary, or even the sympathetic traveler. . . .   Dickens had no realistic conception of America as a growing, expanding nation. . . .  He despised the rickety settlements along the Ohio because they were rickety settlements and aspired to be more.  There was no belief in what they might become;  there was no understanding of what the people who lived in those settlements were doing.

Of course, once argue the other side, that "the people who lived in those settlements" were preparing for one of the bloodiest fratricidal wars in history.  Or even for Korea and Vietnam?  It is easy for purely literary judgments not to remain "pure," to be contaminated with a naive politics of G. P. western films.  The normal course for literary scholars is to wish that their artist had stayed out of the political arena.  Professor Nisbet complains:
 

But the sorriest spectacle of Dickens trying to prove all the world wrong about American Notes and its author was when he rushed into print at the time of the Civil war with his "I-told-you-so-in-1842" boast (p. 215)

Yet on may question what is sorry about truth  Page after page of American Notes was devoted to showing the dangers of civil disorder in high places, the dangers of easy acceptance of public brutality, the dangers of lectures about culture without substantial efforts to support a culture.  Certainly these factors must be weighed in any assessment of the Civil War, as Dickens himself maintained:

My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I  distrusted in America, had, at that time, any existence but in my imagination.  They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country since, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really did exist.  (American Notes, p. xi)

    A fresh reading of American Notes is sure to persuade many readers that Americans past and present have over-reacted to the book and have distorted the purposes of the writer.  In f act, Dickens was not altogether hostile to his hosts, and his account never stoops to yellow journalism.  It is better viewed as an honest record of his culture shock.  Edmund Wilson compared Dickens' edxperience to that of "'fellow travelers' of yesterday [who] went to seek in the Soviet Union" (p. 23), a crisis in which Dickens was forced to confront his own Englishness and his own middle-class lifestyle.  It is important to note, however, that Dickens did not let his stance as gentleman keep him from visiting ungentlemanly haunts.  He made a concerted effort ot meet the "other America," often visiting third-world institutions such as jails, work houses, factory workrooms, and asylums.  He even expressed concern about the wages of housemaids in the White House (VIII, 125).  It is true that Dickens did not share the current widespread American distrust of gentlemanliness in a democrat.  Nor did he share the Americans' uncritical acceptance of the rhetoric of democracy.  When speaking of the ridiculousness of behavior at Congress, Dickens reminded his Yankee readers:

In the first place--it may be from some imperfect development of my organ of veneration--I do not ever remember having fainted away, or having even been moved to tears of joyful pride, at the sight of any legislative body.  I have borne the House of Commons like a man, and have yielded to no weakness, but slumber, in the House of Lords (VIII, 118)

    Overly senstive American readers seem not to have noticed that Dickens did not spare English residents or tourists any of his criticism.  He described one English thief, met in jail, as "a villainous, low-browed, thin-lipped fellow, with a white face; who had as yet no relish for visitors, and who but for the additional penalty, would have gladly stabbed me with his shoemaker's knife (VII, 103).  About English settlers he said:

Of all grades and kinds of men that jostle one in the public conveyances of the States, these are often the most intolerable and the most insufferable companions. . . .  These countrymen of ours display and amount of insolent conceit and cool assumption of superiority, quite monstrous to behold. (VIII, 112)

Dickens was quick to observe that a "celebrated" Scotsman, Dr. Crocus, was given to democratic cant without substance even more so than many of the locals (XIII, 180-182).  In his account of the Lowell experiment, Dickens used an American manufacturing system to take a swipe at England's class system:  "And there is no manufacturing population in Lowell, so to speak:  for these girls (often the daughters of small farmers) come from other States, remain a few years in the mills, and then go home for good" (IV, 69-70).  If Dickens attacked Americans for their propensity for violence, it was not without allusion to "those good old customs of the good old times which made England, even so recently as in the reign of the Third King George, in respect of her criminal code and her prison regulations, one of the most bloody-minded and barbarous countries on the earth"  (III, 51).  Even Dickens' middle-class concern about the lack of creature comforts in a few places is balanced by much praise for American accommodations.     What is particular effective about Dickens' stance as an Englishman and as a gentlman is that he never allowed those roles to squelch his role of objective observer.  He claimed:

    This book is simply what it claims to be--a record of the impressions I received from day to day, during my hasty travels in America, and sometimes (but not always) of the conclusions to which they, and after-reflections on them, have led me; a description of the country I passed through; of the institutions I visited; of the kind of people among whom I journeyed; an of the manners and customs that came within my observation.  (Forster, I, 264)

The anger which is important to American Notes is the anger explicit in his criticism of specific evils, never anger levelled at the critics of his views.  Usually he mutes his emotions and allows the issues to speak for themselves, as in the long chapter on slavery (XVII), in which he cited article after article from the Americans' own papers to reveal that slaveowners were not honest in their claims that most of their number avoided brutality.  Also he cited American sources to demonstrate that gentlemen who tolerate slavery are also violent with other gentlemen.     It is imperative to note how many specific individuals Dickens manage to observe and describe in American Notes, particularly when one considers the limitations imposed upon one on a tour given much publicity.  His involvement with the populace manifests itself noticeably in his concern for the immigrants and settlers.  He described two New York Irish laborers with much immediacy:
 

You might know them, if they were masked, by their long-tailed blue coats and bright buttons. . . .   It would be hard to keep your model republics going without the countrymen and countrywomen of those two laborers.  For who else would dig, and delve, and drudge, and do domestic work, an make canals and roads, and execute great lines of Internal Improvement? (VI, 81)

In the midst of a Cincinnati Temperance Convention Dickens singled out, with particular pleasure, "the Irishmen, who formed a distinct society among themselves, and mustered very strong with their green scarves, carrying their national Harp . . ."  (XI, 162).  Furthermore, Dickens repeatedly described specific settlers met in the West, observing generally that "it is a singular though very natural feature in the society of these distant settlements, that it is mainly composed of adventurous persons in the prime of life"  (XIII, 177).  He was repeatedly sensitive to the danger of romanticizing the adventure, however, as in his telling reference to the "simple Welsh schoolmaster with his wife and child; who came here, on a speculation of greater promise than performance" (XIV, 191) and in his brief vignette on a restless Western landlord,
 

one of the very many descendents of Cain proper to this continent, who seem destined from their birth to serve as pioneers in the great human army:  who gladly go on from year to year extending its outposts, and leaving home after home behind them; and die at last, utterly regardless of their graves being left thousands of miles behind, by the wandering generation who succeed. (XIV, 186)

Once Dickens describes with great empathy the "Little Wife" going out to meet her husband with their child whom the husband has never seen (XII, 172f.).  He also described a pathetic scene of immigrants newly arrived from  England and Iceland to the hardships of Canadian settlement:  "Cant as we may, and as we shall to the end of all things, it is very much harder for the poor to be virtuous than it is for the rich; and the good that is in them shines the brighter for it"  (XV, 211).  Dickens always selected as objects of his empathy individuals in some way victims of the American Dream, be they Irish, as above, or Indians (See IX, 142; XII, 165ff. XIV, 195f.), Negroes (as in IC, 131ff.), or just dirty old innkeepers by the score.  Dickens literally climbed over the country trying  to get closer to these people.  He was reticent only when alienated by the braggadocio and blind patriotism of certain individuals, such as the gentlema "with two sentiments, one of which was, Somebody for ever; and the other, Blast everybody else!" (XIII, 179) or the man who said of his "valiant and ferocious" uncle that "he shouldn't wonder if he were to follow the said captain to England, 'and shoot him down in the street, wherever he found him'" (XIV, 192).     Dickens allowed American Notes some deeply personal moments.  He described his disappointment with the prairie beyond St. Louis, which he had anticipated with great relish (XIII, 182ff.).  In contrast, he shared his awe of Niagara (XIII, 199-201).  H admitted his homesickness, poignantly when he described a New England grave yard that "would have been better for an old church:  better still for some old graves" (V, 72) and again when he is nervously urgent at the inconveniences which threaten to delay their journey "toward Niagara and home"  (XIV, 194).
    Still another dimension of Dickens' account often overlooked by supersensitive patriots is the rich humor which pervades American Notes.  Perhaps now that English Oxbridgeans can admit the B. T. A. Degree ("Been to America Degree") is a recurrent private status among them, Americans are free to realize that Dickens earned his B. T. A. by making way for Babbitt and even for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  The frauds the duke and king therein are foreshadowed in Dickens' outsider observations.  Dickens is willing to be comic even at his own expense, as in his early account of his seasickness (I, 3f.) and in a later steamer trip where he is awakened in the middle of the night by a man opposite a thin partitions saying:  "Boz is on board, my dear. . . .   Boz keeps himself very close. . . .   I suppose that Boz will be writing a book by-and-by, and putting all our names in it!" (XIV, 199).
    If Dickens' jokes about our nationalism still sting, perhaps it is just as well.  He worked to remind us that a country is not great merely by saying so.  He put fort ideals of honesty, and suggested that we might achieve more of such ideals if we could laugh at the pigs in our streets, the tobacco juice on our carpets, our provincial bragging, our humorless religious sects which encourage alienation more than warmth, our "darning" of our mothers more than of ignorance, our praising giants of physical stature more than those of character, etc.  The humor of American Notes is more than a traveler's awkwardness at not being able to acquire refreshment at a temperance hotel, though that is part of it (XIV, 191).  Sometimes it is almost a morbid humor, as in the incident of "two little boys" fighting it out with real pistols (XVII, 241).  American Notes will contineu to mock those who cannot laugh with it.  Such is the healthy function of successful satire.

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Works Cited

• Charles Dickens, American Notes (London, The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens, 1957).  Roman capitals refer to chapters, arabic numerals to pages.
• John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, ed. A. J. Hoppe (London, 1966).
• Ada B. Nisbet, "The Mystery of Martin Chuzzlewit,"  Essays Critical and Historical Dedicated to Lily B. Campbell (Berkeley, 1950).
• Harry Stone, "Dickens' Use of His American Experiences in Martin Chuzzlewit,"PMLA LXXII (1957), 464-478
• Edmund Wilson, The Wound and the Bow (New York, 1947)

 

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