[Shadow_Group] Fw: Devolutionary Period

[shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca]

Devolutionary Period 
  From:  Encyclopedia of Advanced American Civics, © 2003, David R.
Deschesne 
devolve  " to transfer (duty, work, or responsibility) to someone
else:...(those who, because they are too busy or too ignorant to
discharge the higher duties of self-government, have been glad to devolve
them upon their representatives) -Charles H. Pearson." -
Thorndike/Barnhart World Book Dictionary, © 1969. 

   The period of time beginning loosely around 1900 and ending sometime
around the early 1920s is known as the "Devolutionary Period." The
Devolutionary Period is so-named, because of the huge transfers of power
which were being set up at the state and federal level in order to turn
control of our monetary system over to the soon to be established private
Federal Reserve Bank.  Because of the ultimate ability of the private,
run-for-profit, Federal Reserve Bank to fund our government with
fictionally-created, fiat money, our entire Congress, President and state
governmental infrastructures have become beholden, via legislative fiat,
to the private banks and corporations who fund all aspects of those
governing bodies.  The Congress, Senate, and President have, in effect,
due to the greed of temporary monetary gain at the genesis of the period,
and perpetuated by ignorance of all future lawmakers, as well as the
quiet acquiescence of the court systems, all devolved their
constitutionally-enumerated powers to the Federal Reserve bank and other
affiliated agencies, clubs, and corporations.  

"To put the matter bluntly, there is under way in the United States at
the present time a definite and determined movement to change our
representative republic into a socialistic democracy." - Why Should we
Change Our Form of Government?, ©1911 Nicholas Butler (Pres. Columbia
University), p. 4. 

   The beginning of the Devolutionary Period saw subtle but distinct
changes in the way our educational system, via the public schools,
teaches civics to the students.  While it began in the 1900's, the slide
has been steep and definite over the past 90+ years to the point that US
History, Civics, Government, Economics and all of the machinery that is
used to maintain and run a country is not taught to the people who,
ultimately will be electing public officials to do just that.

"There are many who feel that the rising generation of Americans is
growing up without any proper knowledge of the fundamental principles of
American institutions and American government.  Because of this lack of
knowledge, well-meaning men lend ear quite too readily to demagogues who
propose to them all sorts of schemes without any relation, save one of
antagonism, to established political principles...

..The Americans of an earlier day got their training in the fundamental
principles of citizenship from the stern facts which faced them.  This
was the school in which the nation's fathers were educated...

..Today, however, one hears much less of these fundamental principles. 
There are those among us, some of them in places of responsibility and
great influence, who call these principles out-worn, antiquated,
obstacles to popular government, and who would substitute the passing
desire of today for the carefully wrought design of all time." - Why
Should we Change Our Form of Government?, ©1911 Nicholas Butler (Pres.
Columbia University), pp. 99-100. Excerpts from an address before the
National Education Association at Denver, Colorado, July 6, 1909) 

   During the Devolutionary Period, many states slowly and quietly began
adopting military, or "admiralty" law which is reflected by the change in
their state flags to the gold-fringe border.  Maine adopted military
jurisdiction over their legislature and courts in 1909 with the "Act
designating the official flag of the State of Maine and describing the
same; providing for the carrying of such flag by the regiments of the
National Guard of the State to provide and have deposited in the office
of the Adjutant General a model of said flag and making an appropriation
therefore;"   The act describes the state flag as one with gold fringe
and tassels and was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.- Maine
House Journal, 1909, p. 63

   On March 6, 1902 the Bureau of the Census was established as a
permanent office (32 Stat. 51) within the Department of Commerce. 
Reporting alongside the Chief Economist to the Undersecretary for
Economic Affairs, the  Bureau of Census receives all birth and death
certificates from the states in an effort to keep track of the "human
resources."  It is interesting to note that humans began to be kept track
of by the Commerce Department - since they were soon to be utilized by
the government as collateral against future loans from the yet to be
formed Federal Reserve Bank. 

   "Beginning in 1880, the Bureau of Census recognized a "registration
area" within which death figures were collected suitable for the bureau's
purposes.  Birth figures were added in 1915.  By 1933 all states were
included in the registration area for both deaths and births." - Lincoln
Library of essential information, Frontier Press, 1965, Vol. II  p. 2116 

   The "National Guard" began replacing the state militias as early as
1907, which increased federal control over the states and began removing
the citizenry from their proper role in government - as protectors of
their own rights. (The "National Guard" was supposedly created by the
National Defense Act of 1916, but is mentioned by name in the Maine House
Journal, 1907, pp. 319, 681, 710, 730, and 806) 

   Debtor prisons were also being eliminated during the Devolutionary
Period.  Debtors prisons imprisoned people who borrowed money and did not
pay it back.  With the money system of that time being one based
primarily upon gold or silver, if one borrowed any money and did not
repay it, it was, in fact, considered stealing.   Since the upcoming
Federal Reserve Bank's theory of money practice was based upon credit
money, nothing of substantive value was actually going to be loaned out
(the monetizing of signatures via ledger-entry accounting would become
the new "money").  Debtors prisons had to be eliminated because this
loophole would soon be exploited for the defense of alleged debtors
because debt-based money is created from nothing and is impossible to
steal in that respect because there is no value contained in it other
than a ledger-entry at the bank.  Since banks counterfeit money from
nothing as a ledger-entry and exchange it for the promissory note, when
they attempt to place "borrower" (actually, "exchanger") in a debtor
prison for non-payment of the alleged "debt", he could bring up the
defense that the bank did not loan any of their own money - that is money
with intrinsic value - they simply created it from nothing the same way a
counterfeiter does and exchanged it for his promissory note, which they
accepted for equal value as an asset on their books. 

   This would expose the Federal Reserve's fraudulent fiat debt money
system for the absolute scam that it is and the whole "house of cards"
would come tumbling down around their ankles.  potentially millions of
angry Americans finding out they've been stolen from wouldn't be a pretty
picture, and there wouldn't be enough prisons to put them all in.

   After the "Panic of 1907", the National Monetary Commission was
created and headed by New York Senator Nelson W. Aldrich.  The NMC was
set up to review the nation's entire financial structure and make
recommendations to Congress regarding any changes which should be made. 
Senator Aldrich was also key in the formation of the Federal Reserve Act
which privatized our nation's money system. 

   In May of 1908, with the passage of the Aldrich-Vreeland Act, banks
were free to issue notes backed by commercial paper (or promises to pay)
and bonds of state and local governments 

   The sixteenth amendment to the US Constitution was proposed on July
12, 1909 which would allow for the federal collection of an income tax
that was not appropriated evenly among the states - contrary to the
constitution. 

On August 31, 1910, President Theodore Roosevelt made a speech at
Osawatomie, Kanasas where he advocated a graduated income tax and
inheritance taxes.  He also said, "I stand for the square deal; property
shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth."- Almanac of
American History, ©Brompton Books Corporation, p. 419   This appears to
be setting the stage for property to be the "servant" by acting as
collateral for the commonwealth's new loans of artificial money - an idea
that was still being formed by Aldrich's National Monetary Commission. 

   On May 11, 1911 in United States v. Grimaud, the U.S. Supreme Court
finds that the Federal Government, by reason of "administrative
discretion", has authority over forest reserves.  The Court withholds
outright delegation of legislative power, but in effect takes overall
authority away from the states.  This laid the groundwork for the
establishment of the 10 federal regions during the "New Deal" era of the
1930's and federalization of all land in the US in order to be handed
over to the banks as collateral against the loans which would be taken
out by the government.  In his first inaugural address in 1933, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, "...accomplishing greatly needed projects
to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources." 

   On February 25, 1913 the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was
fraudulently passed and accepted by a misinformed public, to be followed
by the Federal Reserve Act in December of that year.  On October 22, 1914
the Revenue Act passes Congress, imposing the first income tax on incomes
over $3,000. 

   The Devolutionary period also witnessed our Republican form of
government phased out and replaced by a populist/democratic national
government with the passage of the 17th amendment which took away the
right of the State Legislatures to delegate Senators to Congress and,
instead allowed Senators to be popularly elected by the people. 

   In the beginning years of the 20th century, most of the younger
Western States and many of the older ones had passed resolutions in favor
of a change from the nomination of Senators by the legislature of the
respective States to a popular election. (see Our National Government,
Perry Mason Company, © 1904, p. 121). Since the House of Representatives
was already popularly elected by the people at large, and the Senate was
beginning to be popularly elected as well, the States were finally
excluded from the decision-making at the federal level.  This effectively
abolished the Federal side of our bi-cameral system by relinquishing the
rights of the State Legislatures to nominate their own representative. 
Now both the House and the Senate are essentially popularly elected
"representatives" of the people with the States having no representation
at all.  Because Senators are now accountable to the people, instead of
the State legislatures, we now have a purely national/democratic
government only, with the abolition of the States' representatives and
the dissolution of the Republican form constructed by the Federal
Constitution 

    Some states began forming standing armies in the guise of "State
police" at the beginning of the De volutionaryPeriod.SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;
mso-spacerun: yes">  This new system of law "enforcement" was put in
place in order to enforce the future bankruptcies which were intended to
happen under the planned debt-based monetary system.  County Sheriffs
were slowly being federalized, as well as County Coroners being phased
out as elected officials who could serve writs on the Sheriff, stand in
for the Sheriff upon removal or retirement, and summon juries for
wrongful death investigations.   

   Driver's licensing and vehicle registration was beginning to be
implemented as a foundational idea in some states during the
Devolutionary Period, but did not take off until after the bankruptcy of
the United States in 1933.

"In general, the revenues fall into the following...categories... (2)
Fees, or highway-privilege dues, exacted from individuals or corporations
enjoying a special privilege of using the streets and roads of the state
in providing public services, such as those furnished by electric
railway, lighting, telephone, and water companies" (Only five states
reported receipts from this source in 1928.  The receipts, aggregating
$210,810, came principally from electric railways for paving between
tracks and for the use of state bridges.)" - Introduction to American
Government, Frederic A. Ogg, Ph D, LL.D. and P. Orman Ray, Ph D,  ©1931,
pp. 788-789. 

   Another seriously destructive act which was taking place during the
Devolutionary Period was that items of insignificant importance, which
should have been merely legislation in the form of a statute were
actually beginning to be encoded into the State constitutions across the
country.  Because a constitution should be the outline of how the
government is to run and amendments should be few and of significant
importance, adding acts of legislation to them only served to trivialize
and weaken them in the public mind all the way to present day. 

   We also, as a society, started treating our representatives as
"delegates" and demanded they represent the "will of the people" from one
moment to the next.  Since the learned and educated scholar was unable to
impress his knowledge and understanding of a matter over and above the
powerful force of the will of the people, our legislation began to slip
rapidly toward total democracy.  

   Referendums also came into use during the Devolutionary Period slowly,
but persistently, in order to reduce the power and effectiveness of
representatives; thus transforming us into a Democracy, rather than
Representative Republic.  

   The office of representative deteriorated further with the creation of
the recall vote.  Despite the lessons learned from the history of Athens
where generals were elected by popular vote and subject to recall every
two months (and that system of government eventually destroying itself),
we began subjecting representatives to the same brisk winds of change
that always occur within a populous by threatening them at every turn
with recall.  This further subjected them to the "will of the people" and
moved us even closer to a socialistic democracy.   

   The widespread use of un-elected commissions and/or associations began
to develop in the Devolutionary period.  With so-called "model"
legislation being drafted by lawyers, commissioners, or other un-elected
persons, the State legislature assumed less and less control over the
understanding of a law and delegated that authority of understanding
those groups.  Some sources of legislation come from such obscure groups
as:  The Council of State Governments, the American Law Institute, the
American Bar Association, the National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws, the Committee of Corporate Laws of the Corporations
Section of the American Bar Association, the National Association of
Secretaries of State, and the International Association of Commercial
Administrators, to name a few.  None of these entities are elected by the
people and the bills they produce are lackadaisically treated in the
various State Legislatures by being presented as "ought to pass" and
"ought not to pass" on the House floor with little or no debate or
understanding of the language presented.

   Acquiescence of our money supply and the control thereof was devolved
to a private, for profit corporation known as the Federal Reserve bank in
1913.  The Federal Reserve was authorized by Congress to legally
counterfeit money from nothing and loan said 'credit' to the government
and all of the citizenry.  Those colorable letters of credit, back by
nothing but a promise, were then to be paid in gold.  Since no gold was
loaned out and the loans required the principal plus interest to be paid
in gold, our nation quickly found itself unable to pay its bills which
culminated in the bankruptcy of the United States in 1933.  Like the
First Bank of the United States' and the Second Bank of the United
States' charters, the Federal Reserve bank also enjoyed an initial 20
year charter - which, coincidentally was due to expire and up for renewal
in 1933.

  Today, the Federal Reserve Bank effectively controls our military
because: 

    "Pursuant to the Defense Production Act of 1950 and Executive Order
10480 of August 14, 1953, as amended, the (Federal Reserve) board
prescribes regulations under which the Federal Reserve banks act as
fiscal agents of certain government departments and agencies in
guaranteeing loans made by banks and other private financing institutions
to finance contracts for the procurement of materials or services which
the guaranteeing agencies consider necessary for the national defense." -
Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance, Glen G. Munn, ©1983, pp. 350 - 351. 

   Please note in the above excerpt from the Encyclopedia of Banking and
Finance how the Federal Reserve banks act as agents and, as the
guaranteeing agencies, they decide and approve loans for materials or
services which they consider necessary for the national defense.  This is
just a brief illustration how events established during the Devolutionary
Period have transpired over a short period of time and expanded the
powers of the privately-owned Federal Reserve Bank. 

   Because all money is created from nothing and collateralized by the
labor and property contained within the United States, the events that
have been listed above as transpiring during the Devolutionary Period
must have taken place in order for a fiat, ledger-entry money system to
be formed.   

Just prior to the Devolutionary Period was the formation of the
Organization of American States (1890) which is a multi-lateral agreement
between all nations in the Western Hemisphere for a form of regional
government that would eventually operate under the auspices of a global
dictating body.  The OAS finally received its charter in 1948.  The
Inter-American Defense Board, the oldest permanently constituted,
international military organization in the world (formed in 1942) acts as
the technical military advisor for the OAS. - U.S. Government Manual,
2000-2001, pp. 585-589. 

   In summary, the powers that set the Devolutionary Period into motion
accomplished the following goals: 

1.)  National Guard replaces State Guard/a.k.a. Militia 

2.)  Military/Admiralty jurisdiction over the citizenry 

3.)  Unconstitutional income tax 

4.)  Foundation laid for Driver's licensing/vehicle 

       registration 

5.)  Foundation laid for use of Birth/Marriage Certificates 

6.)  Federalization of the National Forests for use as 

       collateral on future loans. 

7.)  Begin the elimination of the County Coroner's office 

8.)  Begin Federalizing Police and Sheriff offices 

9.)  Elimination of Debtor Prisons 

10.)  State Police begin forming 

11.)  Phasing out of Republican form of government at the 

        national level. 

12.)  Privatization of the nation's monetary system and 

        transferring the wealth (gold) to a privately-owned 

        central bank. 

13.)  Consolidating the Bureau of Census under the 

        Undersecretary for Economic Affairs within the 

        Department of Commerce. 

14.)  State Constitutions began to be amended with mere acts 

        of legislation, instead of true legitimate amendments. 

15.)  Representatives began to bend to the "will of the 

         people" from one day to the next - moving us toward 

         a total democracy (rule by the majority). 

16.)   The recall vote was instituted in order to threaten 

         representatives with removal if they did not do the 

         will of the people. 

17.)   Our public education system began to stop teaching 

          civics and political science from the standpoint that 

          the founders began with.

18.)   Initiatives and referendums replace power of representatives.

19.)   The widespread use of un-elected commissions and associations in
writing

          legislation.

20.)    Congress devolved power over the money to a private, for profit

          central bank - the Federal Reserve.

21.)    National Sovereignty began eroding with the entertainment of the 

          concept of the Organization of American States.

 

The logical culmination of all of these new powers was to set the country
up for domination by a world governing body headed up regionally by the
Council on Foreign Relations (formed in 1921) and administered by the
Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply of all the (credit) money
our country unfortunately adopted as a national currency.  After World
War I was created, it was hoped by the powers who functioned during the
Devolutionary Period that the US would accept the League of Nations
treaty for that purpose.  The treaty was rejected, but all of the
framework was finally in place to plunge the nation into unpayable debt,
an ultimate bankruptcy and eventual receivership all under the perceived
control of "official authorities" who are individually too
compartmentalized to understand how their own job (i.e. state police,
national guard, tax assessors, bankers, etc.), as established during the
Devolutionary Period effects changes on a geopolitical scale. 

  
 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/shadowgroup-l/attachments/20041111/ca6bc258/attachment.html>