A Review of the Book, "From Sovereign to Serf"

[Editor's Note: the following is a book review from TDV Correspondent, Gary Kinghorn at Doug's Gultch in Cafayate, Argentina.  Gary is typical of many of the residents in Cafayate... smart, freedom loving and entreprenurial.  While here at TDV we don't believe we need a piece of paper (Constitution) to be free, Gary's review of the book "From Sovereign to Serf" shows how that document has been subjucated completely and is, in our opinion, just further proof that a minarchist system does not work.  A bio of Gary Kinghorn is below]

Bio: Gary Kinghorn is currently a senior marketing manager at Cisco in Silicon Valley, and is a part time ex-pat in Argentina at La Estancia de Cafayate. He is a long-time student of the Austrian School of Economics and previously worked as a financial advisor at Citigroup/Smith Barney. He continues to follow and offer advice on the economy, geopolitical landscape and asset protection strategies.

While on my extended stay at La Estancia de Cafayate in Argentina, I was fortunate to meet up with Roger Sayles, a full-time ex-pat living in Mendoza, about an 18 hour drive south of Cafayate. Roger is just getting ready to release a phenomenal new book, “From Sovereign to Serf, Government by the Treachery and Deception of Words”, (online download at http://serfs-up.com) based on his nearly 20 years of research into the rights and status that U.S. citizens have (and don’t have), and how we have evolved from Constitutionally protected, God-given liberties, to our current rogue police state and subservience to a faceless 1%.

We all like to speak about freedom and democracy, and most of us like to think we are still free and endowed with the rights of our Creator, but, as we should all be aware, the devil is truly in the details. In this case, there is a string of legal details, laws, declarations, policies and acts that have relegated nearly all Americans into a legal status that is legally equivalent to feudal serfdom. Most importantly, this was not done through general governmental incompetence, or misguided ideological attempts at making the country better, fairer or more efficient. This was treason and deliberate deceit on the part of the few, over the course of generations, to undermine the Constitution, and bring the US national back into a state of control and subjugation (and exploitation). In short, folks, we've been had. 

The myth of the land of the free does not fit your legal reality. But if we are not free, who then are we subjects to? Who is the Sovereign? And what obligations and debts are imposed upon us? And are we truly subjects, or have we identified ourselves with fictitious legal entities (e.g., a “U.S. Citizen”, a “person” or a “Corporation”) which have restricted rights and obligations? How did we “volunteer” to identify ourselves with such legal fictions, or were we forced? And is there a way out, once we have contracted ourselves into this status?

Roger has done a masterful job of enumerating exactly where our rights come from, how they are interpreted legally, and how they have been continually eroded since virtually the inception of the Republic, and certainly since the 14th Amendment and subsequent legal deceptions. This is a topic I have been looking into over the last several years, and been exposed to through various groups and activists, but I have not seen a clearer, more thoroughly documented explanation as to how we have arrived at the point we are currently at.

Perhaps the most important point to realize is that citizens of the US originally had God-given rights (to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), and the Constitution protected these rights, but did not grant them. However, any contract you make as an individual, or collectively with others, is more specific than the Constitution and can remove rights and assign obligations to you in exchange for compensation. For example, my contract with an employer removes certain rights to free speech I might otherwise have (against the disclosure of trade secrets, among others). And you have entered into many contracts, some hidden, and many misleading. Your birth certificate is a form of contract. Applying for a Social Security number is a form of contract. Getting a passport is a contract. If you have a bank account, you have entered a very lengthy contract which you almost assuredly have not read, nor understood.

Now you should be able to understand why our Constitution seems so irrelevant. The judge is ruling on a more specific contract, which you may not even know you entered into, and nobody will be quick to explain to you. What deceptions have been foisted on us in these contracts? This quote from Congressman Louis T. McFadden on the floor of Congress in the 1930’s is very telling: “The ‘New Deal’ lawyers now have no hesitancy in appearing in court and asserting that private citizens can contract away their constitutional rights”.

The next point to understand is how the 14th Amendment created a pair (or more) of fictitious entities that undermine our God-given rights. Prior to the 14th Amendment, US Citizens (capital "C") were citizens of their respective states. The 14th Amendment created a new Federal jurisdiction, ostensibly for the recently freed slaves, declaring them to be U.S. citizens (small "c") under this Federal jurisdiction, and granting them certain "civil" (man-made) rights, not equal to the God-given rights declared in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Although not articulated in Roger’s book, the 14th Amendment, to my recollection, created a fictitious corporate entity, “The United States”, under a very different structure than the country existed prior to that point. The United States corporation went bankrupt in the 1930s and the future labor and land of its U.S. Citizens (i.e., serfs) were put up as collateral to the international bankers for the “money printed out of nothing” bailout we received at the time. But that’s probably a story for another day.

As Roger points out, the U.S. Passport application is one of the windows into this surreal legal world we have contracted into. If you have applied for a U.S. Passport and declared under oath that you are a U.S. Citizen, you have “volunteered” yourself into this more restrictive status of citizenship, and identified yourself with the fictitious entity created in the 14th Amendment for the purpose of restricting the rights of slaves. As “compensation” for your declaring yourself in this status and the obligations that go along with it (I’m just guessing here, but maybe having to pay the “voluntary” Income Tax might be a consequence), you presumably get a pretty blue folder with some gold embossed printing, and the ability to get onto airplanes bound for other countries (OK, so it may be worth it after all).

While Roger doesn’t focus nearly as much on the Social Security application and the birth certificate, also declaring newborns as U.S. Citizens, I know other groups that are equally focused on the legal ramifications here. I know of Christian groups that are working to get out from under the civil (govt.-granted and administered) rights they have contracted into by virtue of having a Social Security number. Searching for concrete legal mechanisms to get out from under these contracts is an arduous task. They are looking to rescind their Social Security numbers, electing to navigate life without one, nor a driver’s license or passport somehow, all in an attempt to reaffirm their God-given rights and their own Sovereignty, or to be subjects to God/Christ’s Kingdom, and not the state (or the international bankers if you think they are the Sovereigns, and not the state, but again that’s a topic for another day).

Roger makes a very interesting personal point, that indeed, for him, his journey has been something of a “spiritual battle”. He claims that each of his teachers along the way mentioned that to him, and for years he didn’t really appreciate what it meant. But amidst understanding everything he needed to research about Constitutional Law, Banking Law and finance, history, and geopolitical ramifications, this was how he finally understood it. Like it or not, it is a battle in which each of us is, or soon will be, heavily engaged. As he points out, “it is the ancient and timeless battle of good versus evil”. I’ll leave you for now with Roger’s own summary from his introduction which captures the importance of this book most eloquently:

“The United States is only the second country in history where man has been able to receive God-given, Natural Rights. We have been collectively tricked out of those Rights and been placed into the legal status of bondage and slavery. Legally, you are merely an asset owned or pledged by the federal government. International bankers own and control you and those whom you love as pieces of property to be used, bartered, bought and sold as collateral in their bogus paper money schemes! If that doesn’t make you mad or send chills up your spine, you may not be the person who is supposed to be reading this book.”

Comments

[VD]

When will this book be released?

And what is the first country that was able to receive God-given, Natural Rights?

[John]

"Perhaps the most important point to realize is that citizens of the US originally had God-given rights (to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness), and the Constitution protected these rights, but did not grant them"

This is so fundamentally important to understand that it's significance cannot be overstated. In a very real sense, the U.S. Constitution established the concept of the individual. Prior to that kings were understood to rule by divine right. Commoners (all the rest of us) were less than full human beings. We literally belonged to the lord of the estate we happened to be born on, and had to serve him.

But the Constitution changed all that. It made every man a king in his own right by revising the understanding of every man as granted rights by God, and since from God beyond the purview of government even to contemplate restricting.

Quite simply, without a belief in a creator of some sort, the rights reserved to men under the Constitution are just abstractions, and any people who thinks of themselves as the products of random evolution has already forfeited any legitimate claim to the rights guaranteed under the Constitution.

That's where we are now. Or rather that's where we've been led, because we did not arrive at this new "enlightened" understanding of ourselves by pure chance. The kings of old never were that crazy about the commoners suddenly realizing that they were more than just the property of the rulers, and the nobles immediately went to work to restore the old order.

They've almost succeeded. It's late in the game, but they can only reduce you to their property again if you allow them to. I don't care what kind of God you choose to believe in, but get acquainted with the creator who gave you rights that no man or government can take away from you soon, and try to get others to understand and follow. Because I don't care what they taught you in school, you are more than just an animal to be controlled by elites.

[Dave]

This is the most interesting thing to come up in years to make the point of how you are treated by your master you pay. When I was a kid in the early 80's there were a number of import export guys who would have retired me then or gave me their children. ( not sure if that would be good ) Look up your tax status under IRS 7701 after part 50. Then look up your tax as a non-citizen national for all income that does not touch the US. After that you have a flat tax. Let me know what you think.

[taco]

International CENTRAL CENTRAL CENTRAL Bankers, not International Bankers. There is big difference. Occupy Wall Street and the communitarian central bankers who organized it LOVE that people believe "international bankers" are the faceless leaders. More distraction to confuse the masses.

[Claymore]

Who said there is freedom on the Internet?

http://rt.com/news/richard-stallman-free-software-875/

Richard Stallman (a socialist) explains!

[Truth]

Thomas Jefferson's original words are;
'Life, Liberty and Property'
To quote 'life; liberty and pursuit of happiness' is playing directly into the hands of those who usurp the constitution.

[mlb]

What most do not understand is that the "Citizens" are not the PEOPLE. The first 3 words of the preamble says: "We the People..." And not We the Citizens...

The Citizens are not the People. You cannot claim to be a citizen of the United States and claim constitutional rights. Citizens don't have those...they have Civil Rights, which are granted privileges by government. What is granted can be taken...or (civil) rights that have been given by men and not by God are subject to legislation.

When the citizens rights are being restricted by legislation...you need to pay close attention to the wording. Never in a 1000 years would congress or even State legislators restrict the People's Rights. It is always the (civil) rights of the citizens that are being restricted.

In Black's Law 5th ed. it says the following about the word "Citizen": "One who owes allegiance to a political community".
To explain this further...you can only "OWE" allegiance if you have "SWORN" allegiance. In fact, those individuals that are "citizens" are those that SWORE an oath to the Constitution such as Police Officers, Judges, Commisioners, Soldiers...ect...
This would explain why you [in the United States] are being dragged into an "Administrative Court" and not into a Judicial Court for victimless crimes such as Posession, Traffic violations ect...

I have been charged three times and have gotten the charges dismissed without even going to court by just letting them know that I am a People of the United States and not a Citizen of the United States.

Here in NC State Law under NCGS Ch.7A-3 (Judicial Powers) specifically says that the Inferior to the Superior Courts can only hear matters regarding "Impeachable Offenses". Since I am a private Citizen (People of the U.S.), I am not impeachable. I don't work for the government, I'm not a public official and I'm not a 14th Amendment citizen. So ALL statutory Law, either State or Federal does NOT apply to most individuals...only to those that swore allegiance.

Do you guys now see how they have turned this whole thing arround by making us believe that we are subject to THEIR laws?
The 1868 14th Amendment says: All person born or naturalized in the United States, AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF, are "Citizens" of the United States and Citizens of the States where they reside.

You have to be Subject to their Jurisdiction...otherwise you can't be a U.S. Citizen. If you never "Subjected" yourself, then you are a People of the United States. The People ARE THE LAW because they created this government. And congress can legislate anything they want...it will never apply to the PEOPLE of the United States. So I truly believe that ALL bad "Citizens" should be put into FEMA Camps...has nothing to do with the People.

www.1215.org is where you will opening your "Pandora's Box". I did this several years ago and it saved me a bunch of legal fees.

ps: GOVERNMENT = It's all GOVERN MENTal

[Grey]

I'm sorry to burst more bubbles about the false belief that the Constitution somehow reaffirmed our God-given rights (or the rights of the common people) but it was just another clever deception by the powers that be. None of us were privy to the Constitution, we did not help create it nor were we a party to it. The only people who benefited from the Constitution were the founders of this "nation". Not one "commoner" was allowed to sit in and listen to the debates and arguments that surely took place among the founders, it was a secret meeting. The only reason they trashed the Articles of Confederation is because the articles did not make us surety for the debt the founders incurred fighting the Revolutionary War.

That's right, a "constitutor" is someone who is liable for a debt. The "Constitution" (the first three letters say it all) was drawn up for one purpose; to make the citizens of the several states liable for the debt, along with their posterity. You see, King George funded both sides of the Revolutionary war. The war bankrupted the United States and the forefathers had no way to pay the money back. There was nothing in the Articles of Confederation that could be used to make us slaves. So our noble forefathers decided to sell us all out and make us pay the debt for them, in perpetuity. There is a little known supreme court ruling that proves what I am writing. It basically states that none of us were a party to the Constitution and thus we do not fall under its protections.

The only people who are truly free on this planet either live deep in the Amazon or are part of the establishment. Do you think David Rockefeller or Lord Rothschild carry money around with them? They don't have to, that's how free they are. They live on a completely different level then the rest of us. They can literally get away with murder because they are the ones who have created the present system which enslaves us.

-Grey.

[kayceecody]

The one thing that i remember the most clearly over the past 39-40 years of my school days at Brandeis University in1970's are my student adviser's words that when he was growing up that his grand parents and parents used the term "‘goyishe kup,’" meaning that the "Non-Jews are Stupid"

Later in life I learned that the exact translation of "GOYISHE KUP" means that the "Cattle are STUPID"..

I remember him recalling whatt his father told him when he was growing up in Eastern Europe. One of them being that when his father was in high school he and a group of friends would skip school early on Fridays and go over to his friend's father's butcher shop. That they would buy at cost any cows , goats or sheep that had not been butchered by the end of the day on Friday before the begining of shabat . They would take the cow home and wash it and then the boys would procede to "beat the udders of the cows so that they would swell up and turn pink" so as to sell them to the "GOYISHE KUP" as milk producing cows.

The part that I remember him asking me if the East Europeans are so naive, so gullible and so stupid to buy old "non milk producing cows" from a bunch of young Jewish Boys.

So thinking of it now I agree with the Jewish saying that the "GOYISHE KUP" are indeed" Stupid" as they believe that a Bunch of Arab Moslem Kids who were not able to Fly a Cessna Airplane took it upon themselves to FLY a Jumbo 747 and outwitted the US Militaryand Civilian authorities. The the Jewish Lightning Insurance Scam is still alive and well and been put to good use in putting 15 million down and comming out with 7 billion dollars for buidings that no one wanted to buy because it would have cost a billion dollars to remove the asbestos from. yeh I agree that the Non-Jews are indeed "GOYISHE KUP" or "STUPID CATTLE"!

[Brent]

Most guys will say that they would shoot an intruder that entered their home in the middle of the night and attempted to steal the flat screen, silver ware and gold clubs. These same men, however, will not shoot criminals that stole trillions of their and their countryman's monies. Thieves like Carl Levin and Joe Lieberman...Hank Paulson, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein have stolen so much wealth that it boggles the mind. Yet, no one is getting shot??
Everyone is apparently waiting for the "other" guy to make the first offensive moves. tick tick tick tick...

[Mary]

kayceecody, millions, if not billions of peoples, of all races, throughout the entire planet, know full well who took down the twin towers and why. I don't know anyone, but as you say "a jew" who would beat a defenceless animal, to profit through deception. Mossad motto: "By way of deception, thou shall do war." Your "stupid cattle" comments, serve only to expose your own ignorance.

[Ida Jo Tocco]

After it is all said and done it will amount to what is posted in the sacred writings of the new covenant at Matthew 11:12, the kingdom suffereth violance and the violent take it by force! How does our savior say he will take his kingdom back? Is it our example?