By Anna Von Reitz
Civil rights are not--- strictly speaking--- rights, but are instead privileges conferred on
Territorial and Municipal citizens by the US Congress.
Citizens by definition serve the government, whereas Nationals are served by the government.
Therein lies the rub.A citizen lays down a greater or lesser portion of their natural sovereignty when they become a citizen. This is a natural consequence of their duty to serve the government.
In the wake of the so-called American Civil War black Americans were re-enslaved, not by
Citizens by definition serve the government, whereas Nationals are served by the government.
Therein lies the rub.A citizen lays down a greater or lesser portion of their natural sovereignty when they become a citizen. This is a natural consequence of their duty to serve the government.
In the wake of the so-called American Civil War black Americans were re-enslaved, not by
private slave owners, but by the Territorial Government of the United States
which arbitrarily conscripted them as citizens---public servants.They went directly from being chattel owned by individual private owners to being
considered public chattel owned via citizenship obligations to the federal
government. Thus, they acquired civil rights--- basically, whatever rights the
Congress wanted to give them---and lost their claim to the free exercise of all
their natural and unalienable rights.
