THE UCC CONNECTION by Howard Freeman

"I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, be wise as a serpent and
harmless as a dove."

This is a slightly condensed, casually paraphrased transcript of tapes of a

seminar given in 1990 by Howard Freeman. It was prepared to make
available the knowledge and experience of Mr. Freeman in his search for an
accessible and understandable explanation of the confusing state of the
government and the courts. It should be helpful to those who may have
difficulty learning from such lectures, or those who want to develop a deeper
understanding of this information without having to listen to three or four
hours of recorded material.

The frustration many Americans feel about our judicial system can be
overwhelming and often frightening; and, like most fear, is based on lack of
understanding or knowledge. Those of us who have chosen a path out of
bondage and into liberty are faced, eventually, with the seemingly tyrannical
power of some governmental agency and the mystifying and awesome power
of the courts. We have been taught that we must "get a good lawyer," but
that is becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible. If we are defending
ourselves from the government, we find that the lawyers quickly take our
money and then tell us as the ship is sinking, "I can't help you with that--I'm
an officer of the court." Ultimately, the only way for us to have even a
'snowball's chance' is to understand the RULES OF THE GAME, and to come to
an understanding of the true nature of the Law.

The lawyers have established and secured a virtual monopoly over this area
of human knowledge by implying that the subject is just too difficult for the
average person to understand, and by creating a separate vocabulary out of
English words of otherwise common usage. While it may, at times, seem
hopelessly complicated, it is not that difficult to grasp--are lawyers really as
smart as they would have us believe? Besides, anyone who has been through
a legal battle against the government with the aid of a lawyer has come to
realize that lawyers learn about procedure, not about law.

Mr. Freeman admits that he is not a lawyer, and as such, he has a way of
explaining law to us that puts it well within our reach. Consider also that the
framers of the Constitution wrote in language simple enough that the people
could understand, specifically so that it would not have to be interpreted. So
again we find, as in many other areas of life, that -THE BUCK STOPS HERE!' It
is we who must take the responsibility for finding and putting to good use the
TRUTH. It is we who must claim and defend our God-given rights and our
freedom from those who would take them from us. It is we who must protect
ourselves, our families and our posterity from the inevitable intrusion into our
lives by-those who live parasitically off the labor, skill and talents of others.
To these ends, Mr. Freeman offers a simple, hopeful explanation of our plight
and a peaceful method of dealing with it.

INTRODUCTION
When I beat the IRS, I used Supreme Court decisions. If I had tried to use
these in court, I would have been convicted. I was involved with a patriot
group and I studied supreme Court cases. I concluded that the Supreme
Court had declared that I was not a person required to file an income tax--
that the tax was an excise tax on privileges granted by government. So I quit
filing and paying income taxes, and it was not long before they came down
on me with a heavy hand. They issued a notice of deficiency, which had such
a fantastic sum on it that the biggest temptation was to go in with their letter
and say. "Where in the world did you ever get that figure?" They claimed I
owed them some $60,000. But even if I had been paying taxes, I never had
that much money, so how could I have owed them that much?

NEVER ARGUE THE AMOUNT OF DEFICIENCY

Fortunately, I had been given just a little bit of information: NEVER ARGUE
THE FACTS IN A TAX CASE. If you're not required to file, what do you care
whether they say you owe sixty dollars or 60,000 dollars. If you are not
required to file, the amount doesn't matter. Don't argue the amount--that is a
fact issue. In most instances, when you get a Notice of Deficiency, it is
usually for some fantastic amount. The IRS wants you to run in and argue
about the amount. The minute you say "I don't owe that much", you have
agreed that you owe them something, and you have given them jurisdiction.
Just don't be shocked at the amount on a Notice of Deficiency, even if it is ten
million dollars! If the law says that you are not required to file or pay tax, the
amount doesn't matter. By arguing the amount, they will just say that you
must go to tax court and decide what the amount is to be. By the time you
get to tax court, the law issues are all decided. You are only there to decide
how much you owe. They will not listen to arguments of law.

So I went to see the agent and told him that I wasn't required to file. He said,
"You are required to file, Mr. Freeman." But I had all these supreme Court
cases, and I started reading them to him. He said, "I don't know anything
about law, Mr. Freeman, but the Code says that you are required to file, and
you're going to pay that amount or you're going to go to tax court." I thought
that someone there ought to know something about law, so I asked to talk to
his superior. I went to him and got out my Supreme Court Cases, and he
wouldn't listen to them. "I don't know anything about law, Mr. Freeman...."
Finally I got to the Problems Resolution Officer, and he said the same thing.
He said that the only person above him was the District Director. So I went to
see him. By the time I got to his office, they had phoned ahead, and his
secretary said he was out. But I heard someone in his office, and I knew he
was in there. I went down the elevator, around the corner to the Federal
Building and into Senator Simpson's office. There was a girl sitting there at a
desk, and she asked if she could help me. I told her my problem. I said that I
really thought the District Director was up there. I asked her to call the IRS
and tell them that it was Senator Simpson's office calling and to ask if the
District Director was in. I said, "If you get him on the phone, tell him that you
are from the Senator's office and you have a person who you are sending
over to speak to him--if he is can he wait just five minutes." It worked. He was
there, and I ran back up to his office. His secretary met me when I came in
and said, "Mr. Freeman, you're so lucky--the Director just arrived." The
Director was very nice and offered me coffee and cookies and we sat and
talked. So he asked me what I wanted to talk to him about. (If you ever have
someone say to you, "I'm from the government and I'm here to do you a
favor", watch out!--but we can turn that around and approach them the same
way.) So I said, "I thought you ought to know that there are agents working
for you who are writing letters over your name that you wouldn't agree with.
Do you read all the mail that goes out of this office over your signature?" The
Director said, "Oh, I couldn't read everything--it goes out of here by the
bagful." That was what I thought. I said, "There are some of your agents
writing letters which contradict the decisions of the supreme Court of the
United States. And they're not doing it over their name, they're doing it over
your name." He was very interested to hear about it and asked if I had any
examples. I just happened to have some with me, so I got them out and
presented them to him. He thought it was very interesting and asked if I
could leave this information with him, which I did. He said he would look it
over and contact me in three days. Three days later he called me up and
said, "I'm sure, Mr. Freeman, that you will be glad to know that your Notice of
Deficiency has been withdrawn. We've determined that you're not a person
required to file. Your file is closed and you will hear no more from us." I
haven't heard another word from them since. That was in 1980, and I haven't
filed since 1969.

THE SUPREME COURT ON TRIAL

I thought sure I had the answer, but when a friend got charged with Willful
Failure to File an income tax, he asked me to help him. I told him that they
have to prove that he willfully failed to file, and I suggested that he should
put me on the witness stand. He should ask me if I spoke at a certain time
and place in Scott's Bluff, and did I see him in the audience. He should then
ask me what I spoke of that day. When I got on the stand, I brought out all of
the Supreme Court cases I had used with the District Director. I thought I
would be lucky to get a sentence or two out before the judge cut me off, but I
was reading whole paragraphs-- and the judge didn't stop me. I read one and
then another, and so on. And finally when I had read just about as much as I
thought I should, the judge called a recess of the court. I told Bob I thought
we had it made. There was just no way that they could rule against him after
all that testimony. So we relaxed. The prosecution presented its case and he
decided to rest his defense on my testimony, which showed that he was not
required to file, and that the Supreme Court had upheld this position. The
prosecution then presented its closing statements and we were just sure that
he had won. But at the very end, the judge spoke to the jury and told them,
"You will decide the facts of this case and I will give you the law. The law
required this man to file an Income Tax form; you decide whether or not he
filed it." What a shock! The jury convicted him. Later some members of the
jury said, "What could we do? The man had admitted that he had not filed the
form, so we had to convict him". As soon as the trial was over I went around
to the judges's office and he was just coming in through his back door. I said,
"Judge, by what authority do you overturn the standing decisions of the
United States supreme Court. You sat on the bench while I read that case
law. Now how do you, a District Court Judge, have the authority to overturn
decisions of the Supreme Court?" He says, "Oh, those were old decisions." I
said, "Those are standing decisions. They have never been overturned. I don't
care how old they are; you have no right to overturn a standing decision of
the United States Supreme Court in a District Court."

PUBLIC LAW V. PUBLIC POLICY

He said, "Name any decision of the Supreme Court after 1938 and I'll honor it,
but all the decisions you read were prior to 1938, and I don't honor those
decisions." I asked what happened in 1938. He said, "Prior to 1938, the
Supreme Court was dealing with Public Law; since 1938, the Supreme Court
has dealt with Public Policy. The charge that Mr. S. was being tried for is a
Public Policy Statute, not Public Law, and those Supreme Court cases do not
apply to Public Policy." I asked him what happened in 1938. He said that he
had already told me too much--he wasn't going to tell me any more.

1938 AND THE ERIE RAILROAD

Well, I began to investigate. I found that 1938 was the year of the Erie
Railroad v. Tompkins case of the Supreme Court. It was also the year the
courts claim they blended Law with Equity. I read the Erie Railroad case. A
man had sued the Erie railroad for damages when he was struck by a board
sticking out of a boxcar as he walked along beside the tracks. The district
court had decided on the basis of Commercial (Negotiable Instruments) Law:
that this man was not under any contract with the Erie Railroad, and
therefore he had no standing to sue the company. Under the Common Law,
he was damaged and he would have had the right to sue. This overturned a
standing decision of over one hundred years. Swift v. Tyson in 1840 was a
similar case, and the decision of the supreme Court was that in any case of
this type, the court would judge the case on the Common Law of the state
where the incident occurred--in this case Pennsylvania. But in the Erie
Railroad case, the supreme Court ruled that all federal cases will be judged
under the Negotiable Instruments Law. There would be no more decisions
based on the Common Law at the federal level. So here we find the blending
of Law with Equity. This was a puzzle to me. As I put these new pieces
together, I determined that all our courts since 1938 were Merchant Law
courts and not Common Law courts. There were still some pieces of the
puzzle missing.

A FRIEND IN THE COURT

Fortunately, I made a friend of a judge. Now you won't make friends with a
judge if you go into court like a 'wolf in black sheep country.' You must
approach him as though you are the sheep and he is the wolf. If you go into
court as a wolf, you make demands and tell the judge what the law is--how he
had better uphold the law or else. Remember the verse: I send you out as
sheep in wolf country; be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. We have
to go into court and be wise and harmless, and not make demands. We must
play a little dumb and ask a lot of questions. Well, I asked a lot of questions
and boxed the judges into a corner where they had to give me a victory or
admit what they didn't want to admit. I won the case, and on the way out I
had to stop by the clerk's office to get some papers. One of the judges
stopped and said, "You're an interesting man, Mr. Freeman. If you're ever in
town, stop by, and if I'm not sitting on a case we will visit.

AMERICA IS BANKRUPT
Later, when I went to visit the judge, I told him of my problem with the
supreme Court cases dealing with Public Policy rather than Public Law. He
said, "In 1938, all the higher judges, the top attorneys and the U.S. attorneys
were called into a secret meeting and this is what we were told: America is a
bankrupt nation--it is owned completely by its creditors. The creditors own
the Congress, they own the Executive, they own the Judiciary and they own
all the state governments. Take silent judicial notice of this fact, but never
reveal it openly. Your court is operating in a Admiralty Jurisdiction--call it
anything you want, but do not call it Admiralty.

ADMIRALTY COURTS
The reason they cannot call it Admiralty Jurisdiction is that your defense
would be quite different in Admiralty Jurisdiction from your defense under the
Common Law. In Admiralty, there is no court which has jurisdiction unless
there is a valid international contract in dispute. If you know it is Admiralty
Jurisdiction, and they have admitted on the record that you are in an
Admiralty Court, you can demand that the international maritime contract, to
which you are supposedly a party, and which you supposedly have breached,
be placed into evidence. No court has Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdiction unless
there is a valid international maritime contract that has been breached. So
you say, just innocently like a lamb, "Well, I never knew that I got involved
with an international maritime contract, so I deny that such a contract exists.
If this court is taking jurisdiction in Admiralty, then place the contract in
evidence, so that I may challenge the validity of the contract. What they
would have to do is place the national debt into evidence. They would have to
admit that the international bankers own the whole nation, and that we are
their slaves.

NOT EXPEDIENT
But the bankers said it is not expedient at this time to admit that they own
everything and could foreclose on every nation of the world. The reason they
don't want to tell everyone that they own everything is that there are still too
many privately owned guns. There are uncooperative armies and other
military forces. So until they can gradually consolidate all armies into a
WORLD ARMY and all courts into a single WORLD COURT, it is not expedient
to admit the jurisdiction the courts are operating under. When we understand
these things, we realize that there are certain secrets they don't want to
admit, and we can use this to our benefit.

JURISDICTION
The Constitution of the united States mentions three areas of jurisdiction in
which the courts may operate:
a.Common Law is based on God's Law. Anytime someone is charged
under the Common Law, there must be a damaged party. You are free
under the Common Law to do anything you please, as long as you do
not infringe on the life, liberty, or property of someone else. You have
a right to make a fool of yourself provided you do not infringe on the
life, liberty, or property of someone else. The Common Law does not
allow for any government action which prevents a man from making a
 fool of himself. For instance, when you cross over state lines in most
states, you will see a sign which says, "BUCKLE YOUR SEAT BELTS--IT'S
THE LAW.' This cannot be Common Law, because who would you injure
if you did not buckle up? Nobody. This would be compelled
performance. But Common Law cannot compel performance. Any
violation of Common Law is a CRIMINAL ACT, and is punishable.
b.Equity Law is law which compels performance. It compels you to
perform to the exact letter of any contract that you are under. So, if
you have compelled performance, there must be a contract
somewhere, and you are being compelled to perform under the
obligation of the contract. Now this can only be a civil action--not
criminal. In Equity Jurisdiction, you cannot be tried criminally, but you
can be compelled to perform to the letter of a contract. If you then
refuse to perform as directed by the court, you can be charged with
contempt of court, which is a criminal action. Are our seatbelt laws
Equity laws? No, they are not, because you cannot be penalized or
punished for not keeping to the letter of a contract.
c.Admiralty/Maritime Law is a civil jurisdiction of Compelled
Performance which also has Criminal Penalties for not adhering to the
letter of the contract, but this only applies to International Contracts.
Now we can see what jurisdiction the seatbelt laws (and all traffic laws,
building codes, ordinances, tax codes, etc.) are under. Whenever there
is a penalty for failure to perform (such as willful failure to file), that is
Admiralty/ Maritime Law and there must be a valid international
contract in force. However, the courts don't want to admit that they
are operating under Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdiction, so they took the
international law or Law Merchant and adopted it into our codes. That
is what the supreme Court decided in the Erie Railroad case--that the
decisions will be based on commercial law or business law and that it
will have criminal penalties associated with it. Since they were
instructed not to call it Admiralty Jurisdiction, they call it Statutory
Jurisdiction.

COURTS OF CONTRACT
You may ask how we got into this situation where we can be charged with
failure to wear seatbelts and be fined for it. Isn't the judge sworn to uphold
the Constitution? Yes, he is. But you must understand that the Constitution,
in Article I, Section 10, gives us the unlimited right to contract, as long as we
do not infringe on the life, liberty or property of someone else. Contracts are
enforceable, and the Constitution gives two jurisdictions where contracts can
be enforced--Equity or Admiralty. But we find them being enforced in
Statutory Jurisdiction. This is the embarrassing part for the courts, but we can
use this to box the judges into a corner in their own courts. We will cover this
more later.

CONTRACTS MUST BE VOLUNTARY

Under the Common Law, every contract must be entered into knowingly,
voluntarily, and intentionally by both parties or it is void and unenforceable.
These are characteristics of a Common Law contract. There is another
characteristic--it must be based on substance. For example, contracts used to
read, "For one dollar and other valuable considerations, I will paint your
house, etc." That was a valid contract--the dollar was a genuine, silver dollar.
Now, suppose you wrote a contract that said, -For one Federal Reserve Note
and other considerations, I will paint your house....' And suppose, for
example, I painted your house the wrong color. Could you go into a Common
Law court and get justice? No, you could not. You see, a Federal Reserve Note
is a "colorable" dollar, as it has no substance, and in a Common Law
jurisdiction, that contract would be unenforceable.

COLORABLE MONEY/COLORABLE COURTS

The word "colorable" means something that appears to be genuine, but is
not. Maybe it looks like a dollar, and maybe it spends like a dollar, but if it is
not redeemable for lawful money (silver or gold) it is colorable.' If a Federal
Reserve Note is used in a contract, then the contract becomes a "colorable"
contract. And "colorable" contracts must be enforced under a "colorable"
jurisdiction. So by creating Federal Reserve Notes, the government had to
create a jurisdiction to cover the kinds of contracts which use them. We now
have what is called Statutory Jurisdiction, which is not a genuine Admiralty
jurisdiction. It is "colorable" Admiralty Jurisdiction the judges are enforcing
because we are using "colorable money." Colorable Admiralty is now known
as Statutory Jurisdiction. Let's see how we got under this Statutory
Jurisdiction.

UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE

The government set up a "colorable" law system to fit the "colorable"
currency. It used to be called the Law Merchant or the Law of Redeemable
Instruments, because it dealt with paper which was redeemable in something
of substance. But, once Federal Reserve Notes had become unredeemable,
there had to be a system of law which was completely "colorable" from start
to finish. This system of law was codified as the Uniform Commercial Code,
and has been adopted in every state. This is "colorable" law, and it is used in
all the courts. I explained one of the keys earlier, which is that the country is
bankrupt and we have no rights. If the master says "Jump!" then the slave
had better jump, because the master has the right to cut his head off. As
slaves we have no rights. But the creditors/masters had to cover that up, so
they created a system of law called the Uniform Commercial Code. This
-colorable' jurisdiction under the Uniform Commercial Code is the next key to
understanding what has happened.

CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT
One difference between Common Law and the Uniform Commercial Code is
that in Common Law, contracts must be entered into: (1) knowingly, (2)
voluntarily, and (3) intentionally. Under the U.C.C., this is not so. First of all,
con-tracts are un-necessary. Under this new law, -agreements' can be
binding, and if you only exercise the benefits of a -agreement,' it is presumed
or implied that you intend to meet the obligations associated with those
benefits. If you accept a benefit offered by government, then you are
obligated to follow, to the letter, each and every statute involved with that
benefit. The method has been to get everybody exercising a benefit, and
they don't even have to tell the people what the benefit is. Some people think
it is the driver's license, the marriage license or the birth certificate, etc. I
believe it is none of these.

COMPELLED BENEFIT
I believe the benefit being used is that we have been given the privilege of
discharging debt with limited liability, instead of paying debt. When we pay a
debt, we give substance for substance. If I buy a quart of milk with a silver
dollar, that dollar bought the milk, and the milk bought the dollar--substance
for substance. But if I use a Federal Reserve Note to buy the milk, I have not
paid for it. There is no substance in the Federal Reserve Note It is worthless
paper given in exchange for something of substantive value. Congress offers
us this benefit: Debt money, created by the federal United States, can be
spent all over the continental united States, it will be legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and the limited liability is that you cannot be sued
for not paying your debts. So now they have said, "We're going to help you
out, and you can just discharge your debts instead of paying your debts."
When we use this -colorable' money to discharge our debts, we cannot use a
Common Law court. We can only use a "colorable" court. We are completely
under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Commercial Code--we are using non-
redeemable negotiable instruments and we are discharging debt rather than
paying debt.

REMEDY AND RECOURSE

Every system of civilized law must have two characteristics: Remedy and
Recourse. Remedy is a way to get out from under that law. The Recourse is if
you have been damaged under the law, you can recover your loss. The
Common Law, the Law of Merchants, and even the Uniform Commercial Code
all have remedy and recourse, but for a long time we could not find it. If you
go to a law library and ask to see the Uniform Commercial Code, they will
show you a shelf of books completely filled with the Uniform Commercial
Code. When you pick up one volume and start to read it, it will seem to have
been intentionally written to be confusing. It took us a long time to discover
where the Remedy and Recourse are found in the UCC. They are found right
in the first volume, at 1-308 and 1-103.

REMEDY
The making of a valid Reservation of Rights preserves whatever rights the
person then possesses, and prevents the loss of such rights by application of
concepts of waiver or estoppel. (UCC 1-308.7) It is important to remember
when we go into a court, that we are in a commercial, international
jurisdiction. If we go into court and say, "I DEMAND MY CONSTITUTIONAL
RIGHTS," the judge will most likely say, "You mention the Constitution again,
and I'll find you in contempt of court!" Then we don't understand how he can
do that. Hasn't he sworn to uphold the Constitution? The rule here is: you
cannot be charged under one jurisdiction, and defend under another. For
example, if the French government came to you and asked where you filed
your French income tax in a certain year, do you go to the French
government and say, "I demand my Constitutional Rights?" No. The proper
answer is: THE LAW DOESN'T APPLY TO ME--I'M NOT A FRENCHMAN. You
must make your reservation of rights under the jurisdiction in which you are
charged--not under some other jurisdiction. So in a UCC court, you must
claim your reservation of rights under the U.C.C. 1-308. UCC 1-308 goes on to
say: When a waivable right or claim is involved, the failure to make a
reservation thereof, causes a loss of the right, and bars its assertion at a later
date. (UCC 1-308.9) You have to make your claim known early. Further, it
says: The Sufficiency of the Reservation--Any expression indicating an
intention to reserve rights, is sufficient, such as "without prejudice". (UCC 1-
308.4) Whenever you sign any legal paper that deals with Federal Reserve
Notes--in any way, shape or manner--under your signature write: Without
Prejudice UCC 1-308. This reserves your rights. You can show, at 1-308.4,
that you have sufficiently reserved your rights. It is very important to
understand just what this means. For example, one man who used this in
regard to a traffic ticket was asked by the judge just what he meant by
writing -without prejudice UCC 1-308' on his statement to the court. He had
not tried to understand the concepts involved. He only wanted to use it to get
out of the ticket. He did not know what it meant. When the judge asked him
what he meant by signing in that way, he told the judge that he was not
prejudiced against anyone.... The judge knew that the man had no idea what
it meant, and he lost the case. You must know what it means.

WITHOUT PREJUDICE UCC 1-308

When you use -without prejudice' UCC 1-308 in connection with your
signature, you are saying: -I reserve my right not to be compelled to perform
under any contract or commercial agreement that I did not enter knowingly,
voluntarily and intentionally. And furthermore, I do not accept the liability of
the compelled benefit of any unrevealed contract or commercial agreement.'
What is the compelled performance of an unrevealed commercial
agreement? When you use Federal Reserve Notes instead of silver dollars, is
it voluntary? No. There is no lawful money, so you have to use Federal
Reserve Notes--you have to accept the benefit. The government has given
you the benefit to discharge your debts with limited liability, and you don't
have to pay your debts. How nice they are! But if you did not reserve your
rights under 1-308, you are compelled to accept the benefit, and are
therefore obligated to obey every statute, ordinance and regulation of the
government, at all levels of government--federal, state and local. If you
understand this, you will be able to explain it to the judge when he asks. And
he will ask, so be prepared to explain it to the court. You will also need to
understand UCC 1-103--the argument and recourse. If you want to
understand this fully, go to a law library and photocopy these two sections
from the UCC. It is important to get the Anderson edition. Some of the law
libraries will only have the West Publishing version, and it is very difficult to
understand. In Anderson, it is broken down with decimals into ten parts and,
most importantly, it is written in plain English.

RECOURSE
The Recourse appears in the Uniform Commercial Code at 1-103.6, which
says: The Code is complimentary to the Common Law, which remains in
force, except where displaced by the code. A statute should be construed in
harmony with the Common Law, unless there is a clear legislative intent to
abrogate the Common Law. This is the argument we use in court. The Code
recognizes the Common Law. If it did not recognize the Common Law, the
government would have had to admit that the United States is bankrupt, and
is completely owned by its creditors. But, it is not expedient to admit this, so
the Code was written so as not to abolish the Common Law entirely.
Therefore, if you have made a sufficient, timely, and explicit reservation of
your rights at 1-308, you may then insist that the statutes be construed in
harmony with the Common Law. If the charge is a traffic ticket, you may
demand that the court produce the injured person who has filed a verified
complaint. If, for example, you were charged with failure to buckle your
seatbelt, you may ask the court who was injured as a result of your failure to
'buckle up.' However, if the judge won't listen to you and just moves ahead
with the case, then you will want to read to him the last sentence of 1-103.6,
which states: The Code cannot be read to preclude a Common Law action.
Tell the judge, -Your Honor, I can sue you under the Common Law, for
violating my right under the Uniform Commercial Code.' I have a remedy,
under the UCC, to reserve my rights under the Common Law. I have
exercised the remedy, and now you must construe this statute in harmony
with the Common Law. To be in harmony with the Common Law, you must
come forth with the damaged party.' If the judge insists on proceeding with
the case, just act confused and ask this question: -Let me see if I understand,
Your Honor: Has this court made a legal determination that the sections 1-
308 and 1-103 of the Uniform Commercial Code, which is the system of law
you are operating under, are not valid law before this court?' Now the judge
is in a jamb! How can the court throw out one part of the Code and uphold
another? If he answers, -yes,' then you say: -I put this court on notice that I
am appealing your legal determination.' Of course, the higher court will
uphold the Code on appeal. The judge knows this, so once again you have
boxed him into a corner.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION - TRAFFIC COURT

Just so we can understand how this whole process works, let us look at a
court situation such as a traffic violation. Assume you ran through a yellow
light and a policeman gave you a traffic ticket.
1. The first thing you want to do is to delay the action at least three weeks.
This you can do by being pleasant and cooperative with the officer. Explain to
him that you are very busy and ask if he could please set your court
appearance for about three weeks away. (At this point we need to remember
the government's trick: -I'm from the government, I'm here to help you.' Now
we want to use this approach with them.)

2. The next step is to go to the clerk of the traffic court and say, -I believe it
would be helpful if I talk to you, because I want to save the government some
money (this will gets his attention). I am undoubtedly going to appeal this
case. As you know, in an appeal, I have to have a transcript, but the traffic
court doesn't have a court reporter. It would be a waste of taxpayer's money
to run me through this court and then to have to give me a trial de novo in a
court of record. I do need a transcript for appealing, and to save the
government some money, maybe you could schedule me to appear in a court
of record.' You can show the date on the ticket and the clerk will usually
agree that there is plenty of time to schedule your trial for a court of record.
Now your first appearance is in a court of record and not in a traffic court,
where there is no record. When you get into court there will be a court
reporter there who records every word the judge speaks, so the judge is
much more careful in a court of record. You will be in a much better situation
there than in a traffic court. If there is no record, the judge can say whatever
he wants--he can call you all sorts of names and tell you that you have no
rights, and so on--and deny it all later.

3. When you get into court, the judge will read the charges: driving through a
yellow light, or whatever, and this is a violation of ordinance XYZ. He will ask,
-Do you understand the charge against you?'

4. -Well, Your Honor, there is a question I would like to ask before I can make
a plea of innocent or guilty. I think it could be answered if I could put the
officer on the stand for a moment and ask him a few short questions.' Judge:
-I don't see why not. Let's swear the officer in and have him take the stand.

5. -Is this the instrument that you gave me?' (handing him the traffic citation)
Officer: -Yes, this is a copy of it. The judge has the other portion of it.' -Where
did you get my address that you wrote on that citation?' Officer: -Well, I got it
from your driver's license.' (Handing the officer your driver's license) Is this
the document you copied my name and address from?' Officer: -Yes, this is
where I got it.' -While you've got that in your hand, would you read the
signature that's on that license?' (The officer reads the signature) -While
you're there, would you read into the record what it says under the
signature?' Officer: -It says, 'Without prejudice, UCC 1-308.'' Judge: -'Let me
see that license!' (He looks at it and turns to the officer) -You didn't notice
this printing under the signature on this license, when you copied his name
and address onto the ticket?' Officer: -Oh, no. I was just getting the address--I
didn't look down there.' Judge: -You're not very observant as an officer.
Therefore, I'm afraid I cannot accept your testimony in regards to the facts of
this case. This case is dismissed.'

6. In this case, the Judge found a convenient way out--he could say that the
officer was not observant enough to be a reliable witness. He did not want to
admit the real nature of the jurisdiction of his court. Once it was in the record
that you had written 'Without prejudice' UCC 1-308 on your license, the judge
knew that he would have to admit that:
d.you had reserved your Common Law rights under the UCC;
e.you had done it sufficiently by writing 'Without prejudice' UCC 1-308 on
your driver's license;
f.the statute would now have to be read in harmony with the Common
Law, and the Common Law says the statute exists, but there is no
injured party; and
g.since there is no injured party or complaining witness, the court has no
jurisdiction under the Common Law.

7. If the judge tries to move ahead and try the facts of the case, then you will
want to ask him the following question: Your Honor, let me understand this
correctly: has this court made a legal determination that it has authority
under the jurisdiction that it is operating under, to ignore two sections of the
Uniform Commercial Code which have been called to its attention? If he says
yes, tell him that you put the court on notice that you will appeal that legal
determination, and that if you are damaged by his actions, you will sue him in
a common law action--under the jurisdiction of the UCC. This will work just as
well with the Internal Revenue Service. In fact, we can use the UCC with the
IRS before we get to court.

USING THE CODE WITH THE IRS

If the IRS sends you a Notice of Deficiency, this is called a presentment' in the
Uniform Commercial Code. A -presentment' in the UCC is very similar to the
Common Law. First we must understand just how this works in the Common
Law. Suppose I get a man's name from a phone book--someone I have never
met. And I send him a bill or invoice on nice letterhead which says, -For
services rendered: $10,000.00.' I send this by Certified Mail to him at the
address taken from the phone book. The man has to sign for it before he can
open it, so I get a receipt that he received it. When he opens it, he finds an
invoice for $10,000 and the following statement: -If you have any questions
concerning this bill or the services rendered, you have thirty days to make
your questions or objections known.' Of course, he has never heard of me, so
he just throws the bill away and assumes that I'm confused or crazy. At the
end of thirty days, I go to court and get a default judgment against him. He
received a bill for $10,000, was given thirty days to respond. He failed to
object to it or ask any questions about it. Now he has defaulted on the bill
and I can lawfully collect the $10,000. That's Common Law. The UCC works
on the same principle. The minute you get a Notice of Deficiency from the
IRS, you return it immediately with a letter that says: The presentment above
is dishonored. your name has reserved all of his/her rights under the Uniform
Commercial Code at UCC 1-308. This should be all that is necessary, as there
is nothing more that they can do. In fact, I recently helped someone in
Arizona who received a Notice of Deficiency. The man sent a letter such as
this, dishonoring the 'presentment.' The IRS wrote back that they could not
make a determination at that office, but were turning it over to the
Collections Department. A letter was attached from the Collections
Department which said they were sorry for the inconvenience they had
caused him and that the Notice of Deficiency had been withdrawn. So you
can see that if it is handled properly, these things are easily resolved.

IMPENDING BANKRUPTCY
On my way here, I had a chance to visit with the Governor of Wyoming. He is
very concerned that if he runs for office this November, that there won't be a
State of Wyoming at the end of four years. He believes that the International
Bankers might foreclose on the nation and officially admit that they own the
whole world. They could round up everybody in the state capitol building, put
them in an internment camp and hold them indefinitely. They may give them
a trial, or they may not. They will do whatever they want. As I explained
earlier, it has not been expedient to foreclose on the nation until they could
get everything ready. This is where the Federal Emergency Management
Agency comes in. It has been put in place without anyone really noticing it.

FEMA
FEMA, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been
designed for when America is officially declared bankrupt, which would be a
national emergency. In a national emergency, all Constitutional Rights and all
law that previously existed, would be suspended. FEMA has created large
concentration camps where they would put anyone who might cause trouble
for the orderly plan and process of the new regime to take over the nation.
Even a governor could be thrown into one of these internment camps, and
kept there indefinitely. This is all in place now, and they are just waiting to
declare a national emergency. Then even state governments could be
dissolved. Anybody who might oppose the new regime could be imprisoned
until a new set of laws could be written and a new government set up. The
Governor knows all this, and he is very concerned. He doesn't want to be in
office when all this happens. I visited with him and I told him that there are
certain action we should take right now. I think we should consider the fact
that, according to the Uniform Commercial Code, Wyoming is an
accommodation party to the national debt. To under-stand this we must
realize that there are two separate entities known as the United States.

THE ROTHSCHILD INFLUENCE

When America was founded, the Rothschilds were very unhappy because it
was founded on the Common Law. The Common Law is based on substance,
and this substance is mentioned in the Constitution as gold or silver. America
is a Constitutional Republic--that is: a union of the States under the
Constitution. When Congress was working for the Republic, the only thing it
could borrow was gold or silver, and the Rothschild banks did not loan gold or
silver. Naturally, they did not like this new government. The Rothschilds had
a deal with the King of England. He would borrow paper and agree to repay in
gold. But these united States, with their Constitution, were an obstacle to
them, and it was much to the Rothschild's advantage to get the colonies back
under the King. So the Rothschilds financed the War of 1812 to bring America
back under England. Of course, that didn't work, so they had to find another
way.

THE FLAW IN THE CONSTITUTION: TWO NATIONS IN ONE

It was around the time of the American Civil War that they discovered a flaw
in the Constitution. The flaw was Article I, Section 8, Clause 17. Remember
that there are two nations called -United States.' What is a nation? See if you
would agree to this definition: Whenever you have a governing body, having
a prescribed territory containing a body of people. Is that a nation? Yes. We
have a governing body in the Republic--the three branch government. There
are the legislative, the executive and the judicial branches, with a
constitution. There is a prescribed territory containing a body of people. This
is a Constitutional Republic. But, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 gave
Congress, which is the legislative branch of the three branch government,
exclusive rule over a given territory known as the District of Columbia,
containing a body of people. Here we have a nation within a nation. This is a
legislative democracy within a Constitutional Republic. When Congress was a
part of the Constitutional Republic, it had the obligation of providing a
medium of exchange for us. Its duty was to coin gold or silver. Anyone who
had a piece of gold or silver could bring it in and have it freely minted into
coin. This was the medium of exchange for the Republic. But, in the
Legislative Democracy (over Washington D. C.), Congress is not limited by
the Constitution. Congress has exclusive rule over the District of Columbia.
The legislators can make the law by a majority vote--that makes it a
democracy; they have the authority to have administrative agents to enforce
their own law; and they have courts in the legislative branch of government,
to try their own law. Here we have the legislature making the law, enforcing
the law and trying the law, all within the one branch of government. This is a
one branch government within a three branch government. Under the three
branch government, the congress passes law which has to be in harmony
with the Constitution, the executive enforces the law passed by the congress,
and the judiciary tries the law, pursuant to the Constitution.

THE THREE BRANCH CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC and the ONE BRANCH

LEGISLATIVE DEMOCRACY are both called THE UNITED STATES. One is the
federal United States, and the other is the continental united States.

ARE YOU A UNITED STATES CITIZEN?

If you say that you are a United States citizen, which United States are you
referring to? Anyone who lives in the District of Columbia is a United States
citizen. The remaining population in the fifty states is the national citizenry of
the nation. We are domiciled in various sovereign states, protected by the
constitutions of those states from any direct rule of Congress over us. In the
democracy, anyone who lives in those states known as Washington D.C.,
Guam, Puerto Rico, or any of the other federally held territories is a citizen of
the United States [D.C.]. We must be careful with our choice of words--we are
not citizens of the United States. We are not subject to Congress. Congress
has exclusive rule over a given territory, and we are not part of that territory.
Where did Congress get the authority to write the Internal Revenue Code? It
is found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution. To pass that law,
they only needed a majority vote. There is no other way that they could pass
laws directly affecting individuals. Title 26, the Internal Revenue Code, was
passed as law for another nation (remember our definition of 'nation'), but
Title 26 is not consistent with the Bill of Rights. If you try to fight the IRS, you
have no rights--the Code does not give you any of your constitutional rights.
It simply says, -You failed to file an income tax form--you failed to perform in
some specific manner.' Remember, under the Common Law, you are free to
do whatever you want as long as you do not infringe upon the life, liberty or
property of anyone else. If you do not want to perform, you don't have to.
The only way you can be compelled to perform under the Constitution in the
continental united States, is if you have entered a contract. But if you are not
under a contract you can not be compelled to perform. How can you be
compelled to file an income tax form, or any form? When Congress works for
the Republic, every law it passes must be in harmony with the Constitution
and the Bill of Rights, but when Congress works for the Legislative
Democracy, any law it passes becomes the law of the land (remember,
Congress has exclusive legislative control over federal territory). If you are
charged with Willful failure to file an income tax 1040 form, that is a law for a
different nation. You are a non-resident alien to that nation. It is a foreign
corporation to you. It is not the Republic of the continental united States
coming after you, it is a foreign nation--a legislative democracy of a foreign
nation coming after you. If you get a Notice of Deficiency from the IRS, it is a
presentment from the federal United States, and then you can use the UCC to
dishonor it, and you can also mention that you are among the national
citizenry of continental united States, and you are a non-resident alien to the
federal United States. You never lived in a federal territory and never had any
income from the federal United States. Furthermore, you cannot be required
to file or pay taxes under the compelled benefit of using the Federal Reserve
Notes, because you have reserved your rights under the Common Law
through the Uniform Commercial Code at 1-308.

ORIGINAL INTENT OF THE FOUNDERS

The Founding Fathers would never have created a government that was
going to boss them around! There were 13 sovereign States. They were
nations, and they joined together for protection from foreign enemies. They
provided a means by which the union of the sovereign states could fend off
foreign enemies. But they never gave the congress of the federal United
States direct rule over any citizen of any state. They were not going to be
ordered around by that government they set up.

FEDERAL REGIONS
The supreme Court has declared that Congress can rule what Congress
creates. Congress did not create the States, but Congress did create federal
regions. So Congress can rule the federal regions, but Congress can not rule
the States. How have we been tricked into federal regions?

THE ZIP CODE TRICK

Remember how the government always comes to us and says, -I'm from the
government and I'm here to help you.' The government went out into the
various states and said, -We don't want you to have to go to all that trouble
of writing three or four letters to abbreviate the name of the state--such as
Ariz. for Arizona. Just write AZ, instead of Ariz. Or you can just write WY for
Wyoming instead of Wyo.' So all of the states of the union have got a new
two-letter abbreviation. Even a state such as Rhode Island has a new
abbreviation. It is RI, instead of R.I. They have just left off the periods. When
you use a two-letter state abbreviation, you are compelled to use a zip code,
because there are so many states, for example, which start with M. ME is
Maine--MI is Michigan. How many people dot every 'i', or make an 'i' that
looks like an 'e'? With MA, MO, MN, MS, etc., and some sloppy writing, and
you could not tell one from another. So, we have to use the zip code in order
to tell them apart. But if you wrote Mich., or Minn., or Miss., there would be
no real problem telling which state it was. There is no harm in using the zip
code, if you lawfully identify your state. I found out that no state legislature
has met to lawfully change the abbreviation of the state from the old
abbreviation to the new. Therefore, if you do not use the lawful abbreviation
for your state, but use the shorter new abbreviation, you have to use the zip
code. Look on page 11 of the Zip Code Directory, and it will tell you that the
first digit of your zip code is the federal region in which you reside. If you use
AZ for Arizona, you cannot use the state constitution to protect you because
you did not identify your state. You used the zip code, which identifies which
federal region you live in. And Congress may rule directly federal regions, but
it cannot rule the citizens of any state.

ACCOMMODATION PARTY
Let's look at how the states have become the accommodation party to the
national debt. There are many people I have talked to, including the
Governor, who are very concerned about this, and who know that it could
happen very soon. If America is declared a bankrupt nation , it will be a
national emergency. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will take
over, and anyone who opposes the new government of the creditors can be
sent to a detention camp in Alaska. We will have no rights whatsoever. They
have already set up prison camps with work camps nearby so the people can
be used for slave labor. It could be the governors, legislators, and other
leaders who would be hauled away to Alaska, while the people now
disenfranchised from power would likely be chosen to run the new
government. This could all happen very soon, as the national debt is so large
as to be unpayable. Even the interest on the debt is virtually unpayable. As I
explained, the national debt--more than three trillion dollars--is not owed by
the Continental united States. It is the federal United States that had
authority to borrow bank credit. When Congress worked for Continental
united States, it could only borrow gold or silver, so the national debt was
borrowed in the name of the federal United States. The federal United states
has been bankrupt since 1938, but the federal United States had to trap the
States into assuming the debt obligation of the federal debt. In the Uniform
Commercial Code, we find the term, 'accommodation party.' How did the
states become the 'accommodation party' to the federal debt? The federal
government, through our money system, made the states deal in Federal
Reserve Notes, which means that everything the states do is 'colorable.'
Under the 'colorable' jurisdiction of the Uniform Commercial Code, all of the
states are the accommodation party to the federal debt. Now the concern is
to find out how we can get out of this situation. I told the Governor that in the
Common Law and the Law of Merchants--that's the International Law
Merchant--there is a term called no-interest contract. A no-interest contract is
void and unenforceable. What is a no-interest contract?

NO-INTEREST CONTRACT
If I were to insure a house that did not belong to me, that would be a no-
interest contract. I would just want the house to burn down. I would pay a
small premium, perhaps a few hundred dollars, and insure it for 80,000
dollars against fire. Then I would be waiting for it to burn so I could trade my
small premium for $80,000. Under the Common Law and under international
law of the Law Merchant, that is called a no-interest contract, and it is void
and unenforceable in any court.

UNCONSCIONABLE CONTRACTS
In the Uniform Commercial Code, no-interest contracts are called
unconscionable contracts. The section on unconscionable contracts covers
more than forty pages in the Anderson Code. The federal United States has
involved the states as the accommodation party to the federal debt, and I
believe we could prove this to be an unconscionable contract. We should get
some litigation into the courts before the government declares a national
emergency, claiming that this state has no lawful responsibility for the
national debt (of the federal United States), because it became an
accommodation party to this debt through an unconscionable contract. If we
have this litigation before the courts under International Law when the nation
is declared bankrupt, the creditors would have to settle this matter first, and
it would delay them. They would want the new government to appear to be
legitimate, so they could not just move right in and take over the state,
because it would be in an International Court. This is very important at this
time.

COURTROOM TECHNIQUES
This is easy to do if you don't know too much. I didn't know too much, but I
boxed them in. You must play a little dumb. If you are arrested and you go
into court, just remember that in a criminal action, you have to understand
the law or it is a reversible error for the court to try you. If you don't
understand the law, they can't try you. In any traffic case or tax case you are
called into court and the judge reads the law and then:

Judge: Do you understand the charges?

Defendant: No, Your Honor, I do not.
Judge: Well, what's so difficult about that charge? Either you drove the wrong
way on a one-way street or you didn't. You can only go one way on that
street, and if you go the other way it's a fifty dollar fine. What's so difficult
about this that you don't understand?

Defendant: Well, Your Honor, it's not the letter of the law, but rather the
nature of the law that I don't understand. The Sixth Amendment of the
Constitution gives me the right to request the court to explain the nature of
any action against me, and upon my request, the court has the duty to
answer. I have a question about the nature of this action. Judge: Well, what is
that--what do you want to know? Always ask them some easy questions first,
as this establishes that they are answering....

Defendant: Well, Your Honor, is this a Civil or a Criminal Action?

Judge: It is criminal. (If it were a civil action there could be no fine, so it has to
be criminal)
Defendant: Thank you, Your Honor, for telling me that. Then the record will
show that this action against (your name) is a criminal action, is that right?
Judge: Yes.
Defendant: I would like to ask another question about this criminal action.
There are two criminal jurisdictions mentioned in the Constitution: one is
under the Common Law, and the other deals with International Maritime
Contracts, under an Admiralty Jurisdiction. Equity is Civil, and you said this is
a Criminal action, so it seems it would have to be under either the Common
Law, or Maritime Law. But what puzzles me, Your Honor, is that there is no
corpus delecti here that gives this court a jurisdiction over my person and
property under the Common Law. Therefore, it doesn't appear to me that this
court is moving under the Common Law.

Judge: No, I can assure you this court is not moving under the Common Law.
Defendant: Well, thank you, Your Honor, but now you make the charge
against me even more difficult to understand. The only other criminal
jurisdiction would apply only if there was an International Maritime Contract
involved, I was a party to it, it had been breached, and the court was
operating in an Admiralty Jurisdiction. I don't believe I have ever been under
any International Maritime contract, so I would deny that one exists. I would
have to demand that such a contract, if it does exist, be placed into evidence,
so that I may contest it. But surely, this court is not operating under an
Admiralty Jurisdiction. You just put the words in the judges mouth.

Judge: No, I can assure you, we're not operating under an Admiralty
Jurisdiction. We're not out in the ocean somewhere--we're right here in the
middle of the State of __(any state)___. No, this is not an Admiralty
Jurisdiction.

Defendant: Thank you Your Honor, but now I am more puzzled than ever. If
this charge is not under the Common Law, or under Admiralty--and those are
the only two criminal jurisdictions mentioned in the Constitution--what kind of
jurisdiction could this court be operating under?

Judge: It's Statutory Jurisdiction.

Defendant: Oh, thank you, Your Honor. I'm glad you told me that. But I have
never heard of that jurisdiction. So, if I have to defend under that, I would
need to have the Rules of Criminal Procedure for Statutory Jurisdiction. Can
you tell me where I might find those rules?

There are no rules for Statutory Jurisdiction, so the judge will get very angry
at this point.
Judge: If you want answers to questions like that, get yourself a licensed
attorney. I'm not allowed to practice law from the bench.

Defendant: Oh, Your Honor, I don't think anyone would accuse you of
practicing law from the bench if you just answer a few questions to explain to
me nature of this action, so that I may defend myself.

Judge: I told you before, I am not going to answer any more questions. Do
you understand that? If you ask any more questions in regards to this, I'm
going to find you in contempt of court! Now if you can't afford a licensed
attorney, the court will provide you with one. But if you want those questions
answered, you must get yourself a licensed attorney.

Defendant: Thank you, Your Honor, but let me just see if I got this straight.
Has this court made a legal determination that it has authority to conduct a
criminal action against me, the accused, under a secret jurisdiction, the rules
of which are known only to this court and licensed attorneys, thereby denying
me the right to defend my own person?

He has no answer for that. The judge will probably postpone the case and
eventually just let it go. In this way, you can be as wise as a serpent and as
harmless as a dove, but you mustn't go into court with a chip on you shoulder
and as a wolf in -black sheep' country. Remember to go out as sheep in wolf
country, be wise as a serpent, and harmless as a dove. Sheep do not attack
wolves directly. Just be an innocent little lamb who just can't understand the
charge, and remember that they can't try you criminally if you don't
understand the charge. That would be automatically a reversible error on
appeal.

THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROBLEM

If I were a young man, 18 or 20 years old and just starting out in my first job,
I would not want Social Security. With my signature on the application I would
write, 'Without prejudice' UCC 1-308, and I would reserve my Common Law
rights. But why wouldn't I want Social Security today? I got into the Social
Security system in the 1930's, and I paid into it dollars that had good
purchasing power. Now I'm getting a promised return in Federal Reserve
Notes which have considerably less value. For example, in 1940, you could
buy a deluxe Chevrolet for 800 dollars. With today's Federal Reserve Notes,
that won't buy the rear fenders and trunk on a new Chevrolet. If I were a
young man, I would not want to put Federal Reserve Notes into Social
Security now, and get back something later like the German mark after World
War I--when it took a billion to buy a loaf of bread. They will give you every
Federal Reserve Note back that they promised you, but it might not buy
anything.

ASSURANCE
Under the Uniform Commercial Code, you have the right in any agreement, to
demand a guarantee of performance. So, don't go to them and say, -I want to
rescind my Social Security number,' or -I refuse to take it.' Just take it easy
and say, -I would be happy to get a Social Security number and enter into this
contract, but I have a little problem. How can I have assurance before I enter
into this contract that the purchasing power of the Federal Reserve Notes I
get back at the end of the contract will be as good as the ones that I pay in at
the beginning. They can't guarantee that, and you have a right under the
UCC to assurance of performance under the contract. So tell them, Well, I can
not enter this contract unless the government will guarantee to pay me at
the end of the contract with the same value Federal Reserve Notes that I'm
paying in. Both may be called Federal Reserve Notes, but you know that
these Federal Reserve Notes don't hold their value. I want assurance on this
contract that the Federal Reserve Notes that I get in my retirement will buy
as much as the ones that I'm giving you now in my working years.' They can't
make that guarantee. If they won't give you that guarantee, just say, -I'd be
glad to sign this, but if you can't guarantee performance under the contract,
I'm afraid I can not enter the contract. Now, did you refuse or did they refuse?
You can get the sections of the Uniform Commercial Code which grant the
right to have assurance that the contract you have entered will be fulfilled
properly--that the return will equal the investment, and you can reject the
contract using the Code. Using their own system of law, you can show that
they cannot make you get into a contract of that nature. Just approach them
innocently like a lamb. It is very important to be gentle and humble in all
dealings with the government or the courts--never raise your voice or show
anger. In the courtroom, always be polite, and build the judge up--call him
'Your Honor.' Give him all the 'honor' he wants. It does no good to be difficult,
but rather to be cooperative and ask questions in a way that leads the judge
to say the things which you need to have in the record.

THE COURT REPORTER

In many courts, there will be a regular court reporter. He gets his job at the
judges pleasure, so he doesn't want to displease the judge. The court
reporter is sworn to give an accurate transcript of every word that is spoken
in the courtroom. But if the judge makes a slip of the tongue, he turns to his
court reporter and says, -I think you had better leave that out of the
transcript; just say it got a little too far ahead of you, and you couldn't quite
get everything in.' So this will be missing from the transcript. In one case, we
brought a licensed court reporter with us and the judge got very angry and
said, -This court has a licensed court reporter right here, and the record of
this court is this court reporter's record. No other court reporter's record
means anything in this court.' We responded with, -Of course, Your Honor,
we're certainly glad to use your regular court reporter. But you know, Your
Honor, sometimes things move so fast that a court reporter gets a little
behind, and doesn't quite keep up with it all. Wouldn't it be nice if we had
another licensed court reporter in the courtroom, just in case your court
reporter got a little behind, so that we could fill in from this other court
reporter's data. I'm sure, Your Honor, that you want an accurate transcript. (I
like to use the saying; give a bad dog a good name, and he'll live up to it!)
The judge went along with it, and from that moment on, he was very careful
of what he said. These are little tricks to getting around in court. This is how
to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove when we enter into a
courtroom. There are others using the same information presented here who
end up in jail, handcuffed and hit over the head, because they approach the
situation with a chip on their shoulder. They try to tell the judge what the law
is and that he is a no-good scoundrel and so on. Just be wise and
harmless.

UCC 1-308 REVIEW

It is so important to know and understand the meaning of Without prejudice'
UCC 1-308, in connection with your signature, that we should go over this
once more. It is very likely that a judge will ask you what it means. So please
learn and understand this carefully: The use of -'Without prejudice' UCC 1-
308,' in connection with my signature indicates that I have reserved my
Common Law right not to be compelled to perform under any contract that I
did not enter into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally. And furthermore, I
do not accept the liability associated with the compelled benefit of any un-
revealed contract or commercial agreement. Once you state that, it is all the
judge needs to hear. Under the Common Law, a contract must be entered
into knowingly, voluntarily and intentionally, by both parties, or it can be
declared void and unenforceable. You are claiming the right not to be
compelled to perform under any contract that you did not enter into
knowingly, voluntarily and intentionally. And you do not accept the liability
associated with the compelled benefit of any unrevealed contract or
agreement. The compelled benefit is the privilege to use Federal Reserve
Notes to discharge your debts with limited liability rather than to pay your
debts with silver coins. It is a compelled benefit, because there are no silver
coins in circulation. You have to eat, and you can only buy food with the
medium of exchange provided by the government. You are not allowed to
print your own money, so you are compelled to use theirs. This is the
compelled benefit of an unrevealed commercial agreement. If you have not
made a valid, timely and explicit reservation of your rights under UCC 1-308,
and you simply exercise this benefit rendered by government, you will be
obligated, under an implied agreement, to obey every statute, ordinance and
regulation passed by government, at all levels--federal, state and local.

IN CONCLUSION
The editor of this transcript has taken great liberties in putting this to paper
in a effort to make it readable and somewhat compact. He wishes to offer his
gratitude to Howard Freeman for the opportunity to work with information so
absolutely vital to our survival as dignified, unenslaved human beings. He
must also ask Mr. Freeman's forgiveness for any errors committed in getting
this in print. Its purpose, as stated in the Foreword, is to make this knowledge
and wisdom available to as many people as will take the time and trouble to
read it. This is meant to be supplemental to Mr. Freeman's recorded lectures,
not a substitute. Indeed, there is no substitute for hearing him present this
material in his own words. It is not just the law and the facts that are
important here, but the way they are used. His numerous reminders of Jesus'
commission to be -...like sheep among wolves...' cannot be overstated, and is
certainly good advice to us in all dealings--not just in court or with the
government. Hearing him explain this in his own words brings to life the
practical application and usefulness of being -wise' and -harmless.' In fact,
after being introduced to this approach, it becomes difficult to imagine that
any other way of defending oneself from the government would be effective.
It goes without saying that none of this information presented here is in any
way, shape or form offered as legal advice. For that, as you know, you must
-get yourself a licensed attorney.' Having said that, I feel obliged to point out
that one of the most difficult aspects of dealing with a licensed attorney--
even a good one--may be knowing just whose side he is on (he is, after all, an
officer of the court)! So for those of us who have concluded that having an
attorney means that you will soon be chained, gagged and lead to the
gallows, this information may be in-dispensable. For the extraordinary
challenges of appearing in court in one's own person--pro per--there are few
reliable sources of information. Learning to defend ourselves, that is, being
responsible instead of turning over one more area of our lives to
-professionals'--may be the only way to have any chance of digging ourselves
out of this pit of legal tyranny. Perhaps the greatest problem we face in
education today is the matter of widespread legal illiteracy. Naturally, there
will always be a number of people who just don't care about these issues who
either:

•have a soft life which is supported and maintained by this secret system
of law and the institutions which have grown up around it ('I can make
a bundle buying these IRS-seized homes cheap and reselling them'), or
•don't believe that anything can be done about it ('you can't fight city
hall'), or
•simply don't have the energy or inclination to do anything about it ('that's
nice, but let's see what's on TV').

For those good 'citizens' this whole effort may seem useless, or even
threatening. But it is this writer's view that God did not intend for us to spend
our lives in statutory slavery for the benefit of a handful of secret world
manipulators, even if the 'masters' grant us some token pleasures and
diversions. Human dignity requires much more than entertainment. The door
is there and the key exists; we must find it and we must use it to return to
freedom! Let us discover the mistakes we have made, let us find the truth, let
us apply it with meekness and wisdom and let us gently but firmly reclaim
the precious freedom which we have so foolishly given up.