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      "body": "![estrada-Grand_Canyon-viagem.png](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXiTrCJAxzV5QsYW8eGyThh3xUybQDbNhUdcEqTrLJ3od/estrada-Grand_Canyon-viagem.png)\n\nOne of the great many quotes provided by former President Ronald Reagan was: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ ”\n\nBut in examining the behaviors and attitudes of everyday people around the world, the overwhelming outlook would likely be the opposite. How is that possible, when it’s crystal clear that there exists not one nation on earth in which the people that inhabit it have any real chance at self-determination?\n\nThe great achievement of the United States — and its founding fathers, who learned all about oppression from the pre-revolutionary times as a British colony — was establishing a rule of law in which people were free to pursue their own interests, exploit their own talents and drive toward their own dreams. Additionally, that all men, male and female, are created equal in their sovereignty to that of King George of England.\n\nJust as soon as those early Americans won the Revolutionary War and gained that opportunity, the ruling class has been hard at work, nibbling away at that rule of law piece by tiny piece.\n\nFast forward 200 years, and much of what those early Americans achieved has withered away. Technology has been both a blessing and a curse, as the fascistic partnership between government and multi-national corporations has built a matrix of control at the height of the Information Age. \n\nThat information is being used against you, my fellow Americans, as many eagerly wait in long lines to spend $100s to grab the latest control device. Knowledge is power, but it’s hard to find that knowledge in the milieu of information sources disguising well-crafted messages as unbiased data.\n\nIt’s not difficult to imagine that politicians and oligarchs use this control grid for nefarious purposes, since We The People make it so simple for them to gain an advantage over us. We are blindly trusting a system and eagerly taking part in our own path to serfdom.\n\nAldous Huxley, author of the 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World, said as far back as 1962 that the ruling class has long been using repetitive messaging in order to influence the behavior of everyday people. “If you’re going to control any population for any length of time, you must have some measure of consent,” he said in an interview at Cal-Berkeley. “We are in the process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy, who have existed and who presumably always will exist, to get people to actually love their servitude. … to standardize the population, to iron out inconvenient human differences, to create so to say mass-produced models of human beings arranged in some kind of scientific caste system.”\n\nHe adds more here in a 1960s interview with journalist Mike Wallace. He most notably remarks: “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”\n\nLook at what is going on around the world right now. These controllers are promoting a world where the people are a sort of androgynous, one-size-fits-all herd, instead of an existence consisting of humans of differing appearances, talents, intellects, morals, attitudes, work ethics, languages, and cuisines.\n\nThese social engineers have been working overtime to play these beautiful human characteristics off against each other in the name of equality and getting along. The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights attempted to protect those differences in mankind’s diversity yet spell out the concepts of what could be provided to all humans on an equal basis without sacrificing the individual — ideas like freedom of speech, privacy and due process.\n\n“The United States is perhaps the final frontier for individuality, or may I say ‘was’ the final frontier,” said Adele Weiss, principal at Weiss+Associates, a European-based consultancy firm specializing in wealth building and the Federal Income Tax. “Our individuality is still there, and will always be there. But the government matrix is trying very hard to destroy it. This effort stresses the need to fight harder than ever to remain an individual, a sovereign human with our own free will.”\n\nThis fascistic oligarchy has long targeted the United States, because it stood up for its own sovereignty and also helped others fight for theirs. Part of the ruling class strategy was to cultivate patriotism for fighting wars on behalf of this oligarchy. Since the War of 1812, the National Government has found ways to fight wars — the Mexican American War of 1846, the Civil War 1861-65, the Spanish American War in 1898, WW I in 1914, WW II in 1941-45, the Korean War 1950-53, the Vietnam War 1963-75, wars in Bosnia, Somalia, Grenada, followed by the Gulf Wars I and II, and the war in Afghanistan that started in 2001 and after 15 years is still ongoing — with no apparent end to this profitable venture for the American oligarchs.\n\nIn addition to wars to keep people distracted, key tools used by those social engineers to break down any society has been the concept of a central bank, fiat currency and taxation. In the U.S., these three entities became a reality with one piece of legislation, the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Since that time, no markets have been truly free to determine prices of goods — they were always subject to the control and manipulation of a regulatory agency.\n\nWorld War II brought on the Bretton Woods Agreement, and the U.S. Dollar became the world’s reserve currency. Americans in the post-WWII era could buy newly constructed houses for $10,000; cars were cheap and the family was a strong unit, as a household could live comfortably on one person’s salary. It also meant that the global economy was now operating under the auspices of the Federal Reserve Bank, a consortium of private bankers.\n\nSince the early 1970s, the U.S. standard of living, along with its corresponding social constructs, has been in decline. The dollar went off the Gold Standard in 1971, while the U.S. government and private citizens have lived under a rapidly expanding mountain of debt. The last quarter century has seen the U.S. government official debt explode to nearly $20 trillion, which is over $60,000 for every man, woman and child.\n\nTogether with other unfunded liabilities, like Social Security and pensions, the overall debt is closer to $200 trillion — over $600,000 per person.\n\nEconomic means aren’t the only weapon used to control the masses. In the name of the War on Terrorism, even basic tenets of a free society — freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, privacy and due process — are being targeted for the gas chamber.\n\n“It’s vital for people who hold these values close to their heart that they fight to retain them, not only for themselves but for others,” added Weiss, whose firm of over 3,000 clients helps people structure their life in such a way to minimize exposure to this technological matrix. “If you keep your hard-earned money in the U.S., along with yourself, you’re making it very easy to be controlled. Our Platinum customers learn how to create a financial presence outside the United States, to legally exit the U.S. tax system and minimize using the SSN - as I call it, the Socialist Surveillance Number.”\n\nBut this isn’t an American problem; it’s a global issue. European nations have been herded into a solitary unit called the European Union, and now droves of outsiders who have different moral values are flooding those countries, destabilizing them.\n\nThis influx of infiltrators have angered many Europeans. Great Britain is set to vote on leaving the E.U. on June 23. U.S. President Barack Obama, along with U.K. prime minister David Cameron, have all but threatened that the British standard of living will decline sharply if they vote to leave.\n\nThe Middle East is on fire, and the people of Brazil, Venezuela and Zimbabwe are suffering tremendously thanks to the huge control grid put in place by socialist dictators.\n\n“We’ve had a lot of people come to us extremely concerned about the global mess we’re in, but they’re contacting us seeking answers,” remarked Weiss. “Go look at the U.S. media right now. Practically none are offering solutions, and they certainly won’t suggest getting a majority of your money out of the country and denominated in a more stable currency. That would not sit well with their master controllers.”\n\nHenry Kissinger is credited as having stated, “It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived as true.” The matrix is controlled by the socialistic oligarchy in America and elsewhere. The time is now to protect your assets and your family before the tsunami arrives and all exit doors are closed.\n\nFor those seeking workable solutions in Asset Protection — along with legally leaving the U.S. tax system on a permanent basis — and about Weiss’ Platinum Service, please email [email protected].",
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So then, why is the opposite idea so prevalent among the millions of Americans?\n\nMuch of the confusion can be chalked up to the clever machinations of politicians, most of whom are Ivy League-educated lawyers. “Most people simply don’t realize that there are two very distinct definitions of the ‘United States’ and thus, there are two very different realities of what constitutes a ‘U.S. Citizen,’ ”added Weiss, who has studied the Federal Income Tax scheme for over 25 years. “This difference is at the heart of the confusion for most Americans.”\n\nYes, it’s true — there are two separate entities which are called the United States: the first being the Constitutional Republic comprised of the 50 states of the Union, and the second being the territories owned by the National Government, which is in itself a corporation.\n\nIn the Constitutional Republic, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are provided to each American born in this landmass, or naturalized there. 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People here live under the dominion and control of the U.S. Congress and are, for all intents and purposes, subjects to the crown of Congressional rule.\n\nIt is in this duality of meanings of terms like ‘United States’ and ‘U.S. Citizen’ that the National Government seeks to attract anyone it can into its web while it obfuscates the fine line of jurisdiction between these two separate regions with the common name ‘United States.’\n\n“This is why it is so important for American Nationals — a non-statutory term we coined to describe those born in the 50 states who have unalienable rights — to clearly define who they are,” Weiss went on to say. “If you simply establish yourself as a ‘U.S. Citizen’ on a federal form, the National Government will presume you are identifying yourself as one with no unalienable rights and thus are subject to their territorial jurisdiction.”\n\nThis is part of a not-so-elaborate (yet brilliant) way of entangling you in a scheme that dates back over a century. The Federal Income Tax of 1894 was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1895, as an unconstitutional act, as it was attempted without regard to the Rule of Apportionment. However, when William H. Taft became President in 1909, he took it upon himself to find a surreptitious way of getting the 16th Amendment passed without offense to the U.S. Supreme Court.\n\nTaft, a lawyer and Yale graduate, acknowledged that the Supreme Court declared an unapportioned Federal Income Tax to be unconstitutional (in the 1895 case of Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Company). Instead of giving up on the idea, he pushed for a Federal Income Tax to be created and levied upon the National Government itself, meaning those in the District of Columbia and territories. 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It doesn’t help matters that the National Government obscures the truth with its clever legalese.\n\n“There is a distinct way that Americans born in one of the 50 states enter the books of the Internal Revenue Service,” says Adele Weiss, principal of Weiss+Associates, a European-based tax consultancy firm specializing in the U.S. Federal Income Tax. “They remain there year after year until they find the dark, narrow hallway that leads them out. Unfortunately, there isn’t a bright, neon sign directing those members to the Exit Door.”\n\nThe entry and exit doors Weiss is referring to are legal, yet the government preys on the unsuspecting public not aware of the legal ramifications of their decisions.\n\nThe Entry Door: An American enters the U.S. Tax Club when he files his first Form 1040 Individual Income Tax Return. This serves as the application to join the so-called “country club,” a club consisting of people whose membership is both mandatory and voluntary. Those who have no choice but to be members are those born in the District of Columbia and territories like Puerto Rico and Guam. They must pay dues every year, period.\n\nOf course, the largest segment of membership comes from those who voluntarily joined, those born in one of the 50 states of the Union and protected by The Constitution. They must pay dues every year until they voluntarily end their membership. This is the Exit Door that millions of people don’t realize is there.\n\n“Americans should ponder this for a moment: Why did I file my first Form 1040?” Weiss suggested. “Was there a law requiring it, or did I merely do it out of social convention?\n\n“The answer is: there is no law requiring it, even in light of the 16th Amendment, which only applies within federal territory. However once you indeed file, you become a target.”\n\nThe key, Weiss points out, is that there is an Exit Door, so that whether or not you made a mistake, you can choose to leave. This was a provision made so not to violate the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery and involuntary indentured servitude.\n\nThat Exit Door is found in statutory law at 26 USC 6013(g)(4)(A), where an election (voluntarily joining the U.S. Tax Club) may be revoked by the taxpayer.\n\n“Many of our clients wonder why lawyers and financial advisors have missed this important citation,” Weiss says, “but we also know the key is understanding jurisdiction and the somewhat cryptic phraseology used by politicians who want to gain an advantage over the populace.”\n\nTake a look at 26 USC 6013(g), the section that outlines the revocation procedure. The heading of that section reads, “Election to treat nonresident alien individual as resident of the United States.”\n\nThis introduces the term ‘nonresident alien individual’ into the lexicon. If you were to ask the average American on the street whether he was a nonresident alien, he would likely say, “Of course not!” But this was crafted specifically to draw you off the trail.\n\nAfter understanding that there exists two jurisdictions that are called the “United States,” it’s much easier to understand the meaning behind this vague terminology. In relation to the statutory United States, consisting of the District of Columbia and its territories, John Q. Public is “nonresident” as he resides in Arizona, Texas, Florida, etc. And he is “alien” to those statutory rules that apply only within D.C., Puerto Rico, etc.\n\nThis “nonresident alien” tag is tied into Federal Income Tax liability at 26 CFR 1.871-1(a) which describes the types of income considered taxable to aliens. 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That’s not to say that politicians never tried to levy an income tax upon the American people as a way for the National Government to bolster its revenues and expand its empire.\n\nThe U.S. Supreme Court kept getting in the way for those politicians and bureaucrats. In 1895, the Supreme Court deprived the National Government in its attempt to create an income tax, stating that such a direct tax must be a one-time tax and apportioned among the sovereign states according to population.\n\nWhen William H. Taft became President in 1909, he finally figured out a way to make the tax constitutional, as he proposed that Congress approve the 16th Amendment — the addition to The Constitution that allowed for a federal income tax — by stipulating that the tax would be levied only upon the National Government, those who worked for it and lived under its exclusive jurisdiction.\n\nOf course, this does not describe about 90% of the people who call themselves Americans. A provision in the tax code allowed any one of those 90% to join the tax system voluntarily, for any reason of their choosing. However, when they volunteered, they would be viewed by the National Government not as Americans living in the Constituional Republic but as U.S. Resident Aliens according to a federal regulation.\n\nBut, in order to remain a constitutional act and not fall into involuntary servitude by becoming a permanent burden, it had to be very clear that those who volunteered themselves into the tax system always had an exit door to voluntarily end their participation.\n\n“It’s very similar to joining a country club,” said Adele Weiss, principal at Weiss+Associates, a European-based firm specializing in the U.S. Federal Income Tax and providing wealth consultation. “If you choose to join a country club, you may do so. But, once you do, the annual dues become obligatory. That is, until you formally choose to end membership.”\n\nThe perplexing issue for those Americans who were never automatically made liable for the tax but “volunteered” themselves into it is the way they made that voluntary election in the first place. The 16th Amendment did not do that to Americans, as it was targeted only toward those working for the National Government or those born in territory belonging to the National Government.\n\nThe initial “election” to join the U.S. Tax Club comes when an unsuspecting American files his/her first Form 1040 Individual Income Tax Return. This serves as the entry point, though it fails as a valid contract if the contractee did so without being made aware of the full terms and conditions of the deal.\n\nMuch of that initial election comes out of social convention — an unfounded belief that an obligation truly exists. 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