Thursday, August 16, 2018

Bingo, Crime and Politics


By Anna Von Reitz

My article the other day mentioned the fact that political parties are lobbying organizations and need to be regulated the same way that other lobbyists are scrutinized and limited.  Color that a timely end to all the shenanigans, the Diebold Machines, and the Clinton Foundation.

For some reason, that idea came as a huge surprise to many people who had never thought of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party as political lobbies.

And the next thought that arose like a lightning bolt was: "OMG! They are supposed to be lobbying Congress, not running it!"

Bingo!

The Big Switch


By Anna Von Reitz

So how did your nationality get combined with citizenship?  A friend from Australia recently sent me a nicely summarized list of legislative acts from the 1920 through the late 60's, and what it very neatly summarizes is a fundamental change that happened in the 1940's and which has never been corrected.

At the beginning of the legislative history there were numerous "Nationality Acts" in the 1920's and 30's.  Then, beginning in the 1940's all of these became "Nationality and Citizenship Acts".  This is where your nationality got confused and "lumped together" with your political status as a "citizen" or not. 

The organizations passing all these "Nationality and Citizenship Acts" were all functioning in Territorial jurisdictions, so it was no big leap for them to include "citizenship" presumptions with the topic of "nationality".  For them, the two are synonymous. 

If you live your life as a "resident" (temporary sojourner) in the "State of Wyoming" (a Territorial State of State) you are a federal "citizen" by definition, so that your nationality and citizenship are tied together.