The Star-Spangled Deception: The True History of the U.S. Constitution

Everyone knows that the State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime... It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or of alien. There is, for example, no human right, natural or Constitutional, that we have not seen nullified by the United States Government. Of all the crimes that are committed for gain or revenge, there is not one that we have not seen it commit—murder, mayhem, arson, robbery, fraud, criminal collusion and connivance.

—Albert J. Noch, On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays (1928)

Preface

The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called ownership is only by virtue of government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the state.

—Senate Document #43, 1933, Contracts in Gold

The governmental taking of property from one private owner to give to another in furtherance of economic development constitutes a permissible public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment."

—Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005).

Property to [the Nazis] did not mean possession by right, but by government permission.

—Leonard Peikoff, The Ominous Parallels, (Penguin Group, 1982) p. 183.

All property, indeed, except the savage's temporary cabin, his bow, his match-coat, and other little acquisitions absolutely necessary for his subsistence, seems to me to be the creature of public convention . . . All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and the propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such a disposition.

—Benjamin Franklin, a Mason, in a Letter to Robert Morris, Dec. 25th 1783; cf. Bigelow, John, ed.,The Works of Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1904

The first quote is from an article entitled Contracts Payable in Gold by George Cyrus Thorpe that was submitted into the United States Senate on April 24, 1933. Every American should be startled by the public admission that the government owns everything. 

The second quote is from a 2005 Supreme Court decision affirming that you have no property rights. Such was self-evident long before Supreme Court made its ruling: Consider that you don’t own the fruits of your labor when the average American works 5 months out of the year to pay all taxes. This the definition of slavery.

The third quote is from Professor Leonard Piekoff’s book The Ominous Parallels. Under Nazism, like here, the government owns everything.

The last quote is from Benjamin Franklin, a Mason, who in a private letter divulged his inclinations. As one writer explained, There is a reason that John Locke’s famous phrase ‘Life, Liberty, and property’ was changed in the Declaration of Independence to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." Although Thomas Jefferson did the draft of the Declaration of Independence, it was Benjamin Franklin, perhaps expressing his masonic views, who removed the right to property.

•You don’t own property either: When property taxes are extorted, you are in reality paying rent to the county or local authorities. Don’t pay it and they will repossess it.

•You don’t own your children when the government can impress them into military service under draft laws, and there is now talk of forcible drafts into public service.

•You don’t even own the dollars that you use in daily transactions: they belong to a private consortium of banks called the Federal Reserve. In fact, we have been lied to from the very beginning about our rights and freedoms.

Despite the overwhelming evidence, most Americans still believe they are free. The inability to accept the plain facts is called cognitive dissonance:

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Cognitive dissonance

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a belief of a person clashes with new evidence perceived by that person. When confronted with facts that contradict personal beliefs, ideals, and values, people will find a way to resolve the contradiction in order to reduce their discomfort.

In A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), Leon Festinger proposed that human beings strive for internal psychological consistency in order to mentally function in the real world. A person who experiences internal inconsistency tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and so is motivated to reduce the cognitive dissonance, by making changes to justify the stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding social situations and contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.

We have been programmed since birth that we live in the land of the free, the home of the brave, and in a democracy. None of this is true. In this book and others that are in the works, I expose the lies that enslave us.

This book strips naked the fraudulent U.S. Constitution: how we were swindled out of liberty by its adoption, by Lincoln’s subsequent 14th Amendment, and by FDR’s transformation of America into a socialist dictatorship.

I draw heavily on other researchers, just as they have in turn drawn on others. Hopefully the question and answer format I have chosen will get everyone through the disturbing propaganda we’ve been fed all our lives.

It is my belief that anyone with a rudimentary sense of justice and decency will work to change this evil system in every lawful manner possible. It is not treason to resist evil, it is treason against humanity to support it. This book will not please everyone, least of all those vipers in government. But to paraphrase President John Adams, Facts are stubborn things: they refuse to go away.

Ken Pealock

December 2018

Chapter 1

Introduction

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"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men."

—HENRY L. MENCKEN, 1926

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The often-cited classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds describes many widely-held delusions throughout history—from the tulip mania in 16th century Holland, where a single tulip root sold for four oxen—to an irrational belief in witchcraft, alchemy, and the fountain of youth. What it doesn’t mention is the most profound delusion of our time: a FALSE belief that the federal government and the underlying U.S. Constitution has lawful authority over 330+ million Americans.

I realize this statement will elicit a knee-jerk reaction from well-meaning individuals who believe the Constitution is the sacrosanct source and protector of our rights. But the truth is that the Constitution is a fraudulent document foisted on America for the benefit of powerful interests: it’s a paper fiction that plunderers hide behind. Allow me to explain this before you call me a bomb-throwing radical.

I am no more of an anarchist than Patrick Henry. My message is the same message that he and other anti-federalists argued during the constitutional debates. They opposed the creation of an all-powerful central government and predicted the end result would be tyranny. I’ve included an eloquent speech by Patrick Henry in chapter six wherein he warned of the evils that would befall our country if the defective U.S. Constitution were adopted. Sadly, almost all of his predictions came true.

Today, as everyone knows, the government is engaged in domestic spying on the very people whose rights government officials have sworn to protect. Massive databases have been compiled on every citizen in order to track who you are, where you are, what you look like, what you own, what you do in your bedroom, what you read, write, text and even what you think. If this isn’t the definition of a police state, I don’t know what is.

Meanwhile the same benevolent government enacts one unconstitutional law after another—some 4,000 federal crimes.  If regulations that may be criminally enforced are counted, the number of criminal offenses have been estimated to be 10,000 to 300,000, as pointed out in an article by Julie R. O’Sullivan in the Georgetown University Law Center. See 96 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 648-649 (2006). Every law is a restriction of freedom and this tyranny is manifested in the staggering number of incarcerated Americans languishing for years in the nation’s sprawling prisons, most of whom were frightened into a guilty plea or given the pretense of a fair trial.

Nearly 50% of federal prisoners are  serving lengthy sentences for the victimless crime of drug possession. At the same time the government is busy destroying lives with lengthy sentences for drugs, the government continues to smuggle drugs into the country. Is it any wonder the prison population now exceeds 2.3 million souls—the highest incarceration rate of any nation on earth? Not even the Soviet gulags reached this shameful number.

The same immoral government commits far more serious crimes by starting wars and by using drones to kill anyone suspected of being a terrorist, along with every man, woman or child who gets in the way. It’s big business.

Consider also that a documented 40% of the nation’s wealth was lost with the 2008 collapse of banks and financial institutions. All the while the Federal Reserve debases the currency by printing trillions of dollars in electronic fiat money (what it euphemistically calls quantitive easing). Most of these trillions of dollars have gone to the same banks and financial institutions involved in the collapse.

Although millions of Americans have lost their jobs and homes as a result, few of the of the people responsible have gone to prison. That’s partly because the government’s propaganda arms—mainstream TV and newspapers—are not telling the American people that the financial collapse was known to be inevitable but allowed to happen.

The political left and the right can’t be believed. The left assures us we live in a lawful democracy, that things will be better if we elect more democrats, accept more socialist theft, accept more diversity, and accept lots more gun control. The right assures us things will be better if we only elect more Republicans, accept a little less socialism, smaller tax hikes, and hold onto our guns a little longer. These contrasting solutions are presented to the American electorate as the only viable answers. Control the choices and you control change.

Many Americans see though this transparent game and seek truthful answers. Others don’t. They buy political books warning of the social and economic changes around the world: China is a growing economic and military threat, the U.S. is in decline, and this politician or that politician is no good. But buy my latest book and get involved, they urge us. Just don’t focus on the real problem: the Constitution. In secret, these men say If people don’t understand that the Constitution empowers us, they can’t interfere with our interests in keeping the system intact.

It is the purpose of this book and future volumes to convince you that the government, by means of a fraudulent and defective constitution—has enslaved America, contrived needless wars, pitted nation against nation, and brother against brother—all in the name of patriotism, national security, democracy, or human rights. True patriotism is towards our fellow men. The only loyalty I owe is to my countrymen or a moral government that respects the rights of everyone, regardless of status or nationhood.

Sadly, the U.S. government does not fit the bill. It is an existential threat to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. A popular Libertarian bumper sticker says it all: Government is a disease that calls itself a cure.

If you consider this radical talk, remember the words of Thomas Jefferson, writing in the Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government...it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.

Let me be clear that I’m not calling for the violent overthrow of any government. We don’t need a French Revolution that results in a harsher regime. What we need is peaceful and lawful change to a strictly limited federated government—an improved version of what we had for 8 years under the Articles of Confederation—not what was falsely promised under the federal Constitution. You will read in the