This is a follow-up to a post earlier this morning which looked at legal notices being filed which claimed the beneficiaries had access to a $33 Billion fund, although they may also be facing foreclosure or other financial distress.
The idea of a large, government-backed savings account secretly kept in our names appears to be drawn from the beliefs of those in many branches of the so-called “Sovereign Citizens” movement.
Here’s a summary by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks radical anti-government groups.
According to sovereign citizen researchers, the government has pledged its citizenry as collateral, by selling their future earning capabilities to foreign investors, effectively enslaving all Americans. This sale, they claim, takes place at birth. When a baby is born in the U.S., a birth certificate is issued, and the hospital usually advises the parents to apply for a Social Security number. Sovereigns say that the government then uses that birth certificate to set up a corporate trust in the baby’s name – a secret Treasury account – which it funds with amounts ranging from $600,000 to $20 million, depending on the particular variant of the sovereign belief system. By setting up this Treasury Direct Account (TDA), every newborn’s rights are split between those held by the flesh-and-blood baby and the ones assigned to his or her corporate shell account.
Sovereign citizens believe the evidence for their theory is found on the birth certificate itself. Since most certificates use all capital letters to spell out a baby’s name, JOHN DOE, for example, is actually the name of the corporate shell identity, also called a “straw man,” while John Doe is the baby’s “real,” flesh-and-blood name. As the child grows older, most of his legal documents will utilize capital letters, which means that his state-issued driver’s license, his marriage license, his car registration, his criminal court records, his cable TV bill and his correspondence from the IRS all will pertain to his corporate shell identity, not his real, sovereign identity.
To separate from their corporate shell, sovereign citizens use a series of convoluted steps, often shared with them by more veteran sovereigns. This can include actions such as filing documentation with their secretary of state’s office declaring themselves sovereign, signing it with red blood or ink thumbprints, and then having their new sovereign identity published in the newspaper.
To tap into the secret Treasury account that they believe exists, they file a series of complex, legal-sounding documents. For decades, sovereigns have attempted to perfect the process by packaging and promoting different combinations of forms and paperwork. The only touted success stories are from sovereigns who were in fact committing fraud against the government or private companies by creating counterfeit or fraudulent and fictitious documents. These sovereigns are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
These ideas have been adapted and used in Hawaii in a variety of ways.
A group on Maui was convicted on federal criminal nearly a decade ago after selling packets of documents to homeowners facing foreclosure. These included bogus bonds which supposedly drew on similar secret trust accounts. At least one other group has been selling Hawaii citizenship by claiming that when a treaty providing sovereignty to a Hawaiian government, all registered citizens will share in a huge, multi-billion fund that is being held in trust. The specifics vary, and the $33 billion figure being thrown around is higher than many other examples.
As strange as it seems, people are still falling for such claims. And efforts by law enforcement agencies, lawyers, and government officials try to debunk the claims are taken as “proof” of their validity by those who are consumed by a distrust of the government. It makes them easy marks for the con artists and fraudsters who target such affinity groups who share distrust of officialdom.
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Typical of the ‘educated’ and ‘progressive’ folks to focus on this tiny, deluded cohort. They’re really a ‘canary in the mine’ succumbing to the neo-feudalism/neo-medieval age we’re entering. They’re treating legal documents as ‘magic’ or ‘incantations’ with an obscure, hoped-for ‘treasure’ effect, and the creation of a special status, almost as if they wish to become ‘wizards.’ The rest of the society is trending this way, in many ways. Your phone, automobile, computer, solar panels, and more-and-more remote government bureaucracies, operate in ways you don’t understand. You can’t fix or dismantle or get into the inner workings of any of it. Their action is becoming the equivalent of magic, as far as the average citizen is concerned. Science become ‘the science,’ global warming become ‘climate change’ and skeptics become blasphemers, ‘deniers.’ Social theories become obscure unfalsifiable incantations of ‘systemic’ concepts operating mysteriously and implacably, placing the finger of guilt and fate upon some, victimhood on others. Let’s face it, this deluded cohort is just a little farther along on the spectrum, and looking at them through the microscope ….ought to get a little self-reflection, too.
I don’t think it’s “the ‘educated’ and ‘progressive’ folks” who have been leading the opposition to reality, if that’s what you were implying. Look at our ex-President and his supporters. But what you say about interacting every day with technologies we don’t understand is sobering.
You’re right, it is very troubling. ‘Something is happening here, and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones” (Bob Dylan), and John, I do not say you’re Mr. Jones! We all are, perhaps, though. However, I didn’t say the ‘educated’ and ‘progressive’ were leading the opposition to reality. Unfortunately, their basic philosophical approach is ‘reality’ is that it is
‘Whatever we say it is,’ and then rely on media & those ‘in-the-know’ to disparage and silence anyone else. The Marxist-Leninist Gramscian occupation of the cultural high ground with the Adorno-Marcuse-Rules-for-Radicals (Hilary’s Masters- thesis topic) ‘repressive tolerance,’ combined with medievalist academic ‘how many angels dance on a pin’ absurdities about sex, grammar, American history, and ‘my violence is speech, your speech is violence,’ are leading us down a dark path. Yes, the Trump followers were often somewhat deluded, that’s why the unindicted-despite-being–on-video FBI agent provocateurs combined with an Antifa stand down and a Pelosi-office refusal to prepare led to an ‘insurrection’ by deluded fools with no serious weapons. But to proclaim sole possession of ‘reality’ on one side of the political spectrum is ludicrous. Political realities and physics and geology are entirely different realms.
We agree about the outbreak of irrationality and none of us being immune. We may disagree about the failed insurrection of January 6, 2021. Those “deluded fools with no serious weapons” intended to take down American democracy in cahoots with their idol, Donald Trump. They made threats of violence against the Vice-President and legislators. They had supporters and still have apologists.
Thanks for clearing up the muddy waters . I haven’t seen Anyone yet come fourth and show their international war powers . Lol I summon any sovereign to step forth and expose their legal powers to the world, pick me up in you’re Lear Jet !