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‘The USA Inc.’ How America Was Hijacked,
Turned into a Corporation During Civil War BY MICHAEL
WING TIME NOVEMBER 19, 2022
They built a republic where God is above
all and where the people, created in His image, are sovereign. The people in
turn created their government to serve under them; it was to be small,
frugal, and limited—as we would expect our contractor to be. Looking at
today’s sprawling administrative state overreach though—with vaccine
mandates, endless spending, and leaders who think they are God—something
doesn’t jive. So what happened? The answer
is sequestered but simple: the republic was colonized by commercial law. This obscure fact was swept under the
rug and kept shuttered in the dark for over 150 years. Yet, a burgeoning
subset of Americans is uncovering this controversial chapter of American
history, while also reclaiming their freedom by readjusting their status from
“U.S. citizen” to “state national.” The status of state national is both
old and new. Now, it denotes one who owes allegiance to the state they inhabit.
But it also harks back
to what the Founding Fathers envisioned a sovereign people to be. Today, state nationals have been revealing
a hidden history: In short,
the British never lost the Revolutionary War; they just deployed
corporatocracy. The powers of Europe bid their
time: the spat between the Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian
Anti-Federalists was merely an entrée for a grand usurpation that began during the Civil War. Through legal chicanery, agents of the Crown managed to recast
Americans as British subjects lost at sea. America was hijacked by commercial
law and became the “United States of America Inc.” It sounds far-fetched, but one state
national, Ann Vandersteel, 55, a reporter and chairwoman of the Zelenko Freedom Foundation, shared her
experience after reclaiming her freedom. In 2021, she got a call from former
congressional candidate Bobby Lawrence, a state national guru, who laid out
said history and supplied her with her freedom bundle, the legal
documentation she needed to readjust her status. She dove in and spent a year
verifying and cutting through red tape, before emerging a free woman on the other
shore. She shared some of her journey with The Epoch Times. Hijacked
by a Corporation? “It was the 14th Amendment that made us citizens of a federal government
that became a corporation,” Vandersteel said. “That’s where they stole it. That’s really the big hijack—and of course, the Civil War had
problems.” Ratified in 1868, the 14th Amendment declares in plain English
that states shall not abridge the privileges of U.S. federal government
citizens. This overtly abridges state government
sovereignty, and slyly employs the word “privilege” to substitute “right” (as
in natural right), implying that government may retract those privileges from
citizens who misbehave, irrespective of their constitutional rights. Section 1. of the 14th Amendment reads as
follows: All persons born or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the
United States and of the state wherein they reside. No State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens
of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. After the Civil War bankrupted
the United States confederate trade union, a Crown-owned corporation was
formed to replace it. “They incorporated the 10 square miles around
Washington D.C.,” Vandersteel said. “After that corporation … you became a municipal servant to the
corporation of D.C.” During the Forty-First
Congress, the Columbia Organic Act of 1871 openly states the fact: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That
all that part of the territory of the United States included within the
limits of the District of Columbia be, and the same is hereby, created into a
government by the name of the District of Columbia, by which name it is
hereby constituted a body corporate for municipal purposes, and may contract
and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have a seal,
and execute all other powers of a municipal corporation not inconsistent with
the Constitution and laws of the United States and the provisions of this
act.
This was followed by the
rollout of a vast commercial law overlay extending well beyond the District
of Columbia to govern the entire nation, replacing and nullifying what the
Founding Fathers established. It did much more than that also, but to unpack
this colonization we must first understand jurisdictions of land and sea. Privateers On the Land: A War Over Legal
Jurisdiction The bedrock of American law
is common law. It underpins the Constitution
and our God-given rights, tracing its roots to the Bible. English common law
germinated in the local customs of early Europe as a dispersed hodgepodge of
traditions that were compiled by 9th-century Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the
Great in his “Doom Book.” It was later echoed in the Magna Carta and was
eventually systematized by Sir William Blackstone, whose voluminous commentaries
became the American legal system. Under this system, people are living souls with God-given rights. On the other hand, commercial
law, which predates the Bible, is Roman civil law. It once governed commerce on the high seas and
therefore is also called admiralty, maritime, or simply sea law. It was Emperor Justinian who employed
duplicitous language to cast real things as legal fictions (corporations),
allowing captains to incorporate their vessels and not be held liable if
their cargoes were pirated on the high seas. Corporations, which serve to
profit the shareholders, are ubiquitous today; legal fictions overlay
businesses, property, and even people. Unlike real things, corporations can
be dissolved with the stroke of a pen. They were quite literally called
“soulless vessels.” So, like privateers colonizing
the land, admiralty law inundated and
unseated common law in America. Common law Article III courts were replaced by admiralty law
Article I courts, and a comprehensive commercial overlay captured everything:
from the congress to the courts, from motor vehicles to the people
themselves. But how could a people become corporations? The birth certificate
registry was introduced. “From the time you’re born
through a birth canal, you’re recognized by the government powers that be
that you have been in a body of water and therefore subject to admiralty law
when your parents are unwittingly and unknowingly, tacitly giving you to the
state by awarding you through a birth certificate and a social security
number,” Vandersteel told the
newspaper. “Those are tacit agreements
that you’ve now contracted. You’ve created a vessel for your living being
child, with your all-caps birth
certificate and your social security contract.” Before the birth certificate
was instituted in 1900, parents simply wrote their children’s names in the
family Bible and it was law. Now, right from birth, people are claimed by
admiralty law jurisdiction; our silence equals tacit agreement. The birth
certificate and other contracts make us subject to the corporation’s
policies—their mandates, codes, and ordinances—often at the expense of our
constitutional rights. This was followed by a slew of
debt slavery instruments being implemented, some of which include the Federal
Reserve Act (1913), the Social Security Act (1935), the Bretton Woods Agreement (1944), and the removal of the United States from
the gold standard (1971). We went from having a republic under God
to one ruled by global bankers and corruption, the opposite of what the
Founding Fathers would have thought “de jure.” Nor was the government even a
government any longer in the de jure sense; it became a de facto government,
a for-profit, foreign-owned corporation itself serving foreign interests. As admiralty law is so
ancient, it permeates our language, often miring us in a maze of
jurisdictions outside our awareness. Vandersteel shared just a trifle to illustrate this colonization: ·
The word “person” overlays the word “people.” A person is legal fiction, denoting a dead
corporate vessel; a people is a living man,
woman, or child with a soul. Person stems from maritime law: on a ship, there
were roles such as captain, first mate, boatswain’s mate—and there was
“purser on land,” who held the purse, went ashore, and paid the ship’s bills.
Purser on land became correlated with person; it is a corporation. It was the 14th Amendment that introduced
this diction into the Bill of Rights, replacing the word “people.” ·
The use of all-caps typeface, as in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, or
THE WHITE HOUSE, denotes a corporation. This is
why the names on birth certificates (and headstones) are in big letters. ·
There is much to say about the American flag. Here we will mention only
that the gold admiralty fringe stitched
onto some American flags and the eagle device atop the flag pole represent
the captured republic. The constitutional American
flag is unadorned. ·
A “motor vehicle” is legal fiction that overlays an “automobile.” A motor vehicle is partially owned by the state; drivers merely receive
a certificate of ownership, making them subject to codes of commerce. Automobiles
denote something that is private property. ·
“Police” stems from the term “policy enforcement” or “policy corporate
enforcement” and has nothing to do with enforcing the law and everything to
do with enforcing codes, mandates, and ordinances. A “sheriff” is the de jure
law enforcement agent of the people, who enforces the law of the land. The overlay is endless. Commercial law colonization is
so thorough that to find freedom would require a paradigm shift that many
would find jarring—like hitting a brick wall, perhaps. There are pitfalls for
the unwary (therefore, this is not legal advice). State nationals and similar movements have been labeled
“paper terrorists” by certain agencies. Yet many are seeing the movement
build steam. There are even whispers of a certain former Republican president
being onboard. Charting a Course for Land and Common Law Like Odysseus, state nationals
have charted a legal voyage home. They have wrought a proven process to
reclaim sovereignty. Upon receiving her freedom bundle, Vandersteel completed
an “affidavit of truth,” airing her grievances against the current regime and
declaring her contracts null and void—just as the Founding Fathers aired
their grievances to the King of England and declared independence. “I
recognize the construct of fraud: case law 1878 United States vs Throckmorton. Fraud
vitiates everything,” said Vandersteel. “I’m calling out the fraud, saying
I’m not participating in the fraud.” This construct of fraud
carries over to the 14th Amendment itself, which was ratified without proper
consent from the necessary two-thirds of the states. “People were under duress after the
Civil War. They had literally legislatures in the southern states that were
told you must sign this or there’s no admittance back to the union,” she
said. “Instead of even giving them an option to think about it, they replaced
them at the state level.” This means there’s not only a legal path to freedom
on an individual citizen level but also a national level. Given the
opportunity, Vandersteel said she would gladly advise our Republican leaders,
such as DeSantis and Trump, of this little factoid. Congressional Record from the Proceeding and Debates of the 90th Congress, First Session, pages 15,641 and 15,644. (Public Domain) If Trump returns in 2024, she might also
advise him to unincorporate D.C., and revoke the Federal Reserve Act while
he’s at it. That would go a long way toward restoring the law of the land as
the Founding Fathers established it. Last summer, Vandersteel received
her passport recognizing her state national status. She now has limited
diplomatic immunity, and no longer pays income tax. “I didn’t even
file,” she said. “Because if I send them any paperwork, even a notice to say
I’m extending or whatever that’s like a tacit agreement to contract, and the IRS is a United Nations chartered
foreign entity.” For Vandersteel, though, it’s not about paying taxes. It’s about
living as God intended. The movement has seen a boon.
Thousands of Americans are attending Lawrence’s seminars across the country.
Meanwhile, top echelons of the MAGA movement have hinted at allegiance with
state nationals. Both Vandersteel and Lawrence point to several instances of
Donald J. Trump signaling his support, such as in his statement at CPAC
2021 in Texas: “We will take back that glorious White
House that sits so majestically in our nation’s capital,” he said (at
1:30.00). “Beautiful White House—that’s small letters—White House … and it is
the most beautiful house of all.” Of course, “small letters” would
denote lowercase typeface, signaling that the corporation will be dissolved. Vandersteel also mentioned what Trump said
at a Rally
in Wilmington, North Carolina (at 7:55), in September: “Think
of it, Ivanka—Ivanka is a very good person. Don Jr., he’s a good person. Eric
is a good people.” In other words, one of his sons is no longer a dead
corporate vessel subject to admiralty law but a living man under God. While critics might call this
“misinformation” designed to rouse QAnon conspiracy
theorists, state nationals aren’t so sure, though there’s one way to find
out. Vandersteel had been speaking at the ReAwaken America
Tours alongside Eric Trump, General Michael T. Flynn, and the
late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. Will Eric let the cat out? “When I see Eric next week at
Pennsylvania in Mannheim speaking there, I’m going to ask them about it,” she
said. “I’m going to have that clip cued up on my phone and go, ‘What did your
dad mean by this?’ and see what he says. I’m going to try and read his face.” Share your stories with us at emg.inspired@epochtimes.com, and continue to get your daily dose of inspiration by signing up for the Inspired newsletter at TheEpochTimes.com/newsletter Michael Wing is a writer and editor based in Calgary,
Canada, where he was born and educated in the arts. He writes mainly on
culture, human interest, and trending news. |
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