c/o general delivery
San Rafael, California
Postal Zone 94901/tdc
August 16, 1982
Counter Clerk
Mill Valley Post Office
751 E. Blithedale
Mill Valley, California Republic
Postal Zone 94941-9998/tdc
Dear Counter Clerk:
Thank you for your interest in our research. Yesterday, you
may recall that you asked me about my use of the letters "/tdc"
after ZIP codes. I am sorry that the Post Office was too busy
for us to discuss it on the spot. I want you to know that I have
noticed the cheerful efficiency with which you serve the public
at your counter, and do so with remarkable consistency. So, it
is with great pleasure that I am now able to return the favor of
your kindness and consideration.
The problem which I am about to describe to you has its
roots in old Europe, where many generations of banking families
made a lucrative discovery centuries ago. They found that banks
could profit more by loaning huge sums to governments, than by
making lots of small loans to individuals like you and me.
Governments, of course, are in a unique position to borrow huge
sums, and they have the police power to extract repayment from
their people.
In 1913, our Congress got in bed with these same European
banking families and passed legislation which created a private
credit monopoly known as the Federal Reserve System. This system
is no more federal than Federal Express. Moreover, there is no
"Reserve". These banks are privileged to loan money which they
don't have, through a special privilege known as "fractional
reserve banking". What really happened was that Congress
extended to this monopoly the privilege of counterfeiting money.
Congress benefits from this monopoly by borrowing huge sums
from it every year. You see, for decades now, Congress has been
spending much more money than it collects from taxation. It
"balances" the budget every year by putting ink on pieces of
paper and calling them bonds. These bonds are usually put up for
sale in the open bond market. But the federal deficits have
become so huge, there are not enough working people like you and
me to buy up all of these bonds every year. So, Congress walks
across the street to the Federal Reserve, which buys them from
Congress by printing ink on pieces of paper and calling them
"Federal Reserve Notes". Take a look in your wallet now, and you
will see an example of a Federal Reserve Note (or "FRN"). The
New York banking establishment refers to these bills as Federal
Reserve Accounting Unit Devices (F-R-A-U-D).
It is bad enough that this private credit monopoly has been
given the privilege to "counterfeit" money. (They call it
"credit creation via bookkeeping entries".) What makes the whole
scam so intolerable is that the American people get stuck with
the interest payments. Congress was forced, in effect, to "lien"
on the land and labor of all Americans as collateral for these
huge bank loans. Enter the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS is
really just a collection agency for the Federal Reserve banks.
The FED pumps money and credit into the economy, and the IRS
sucks it out of the economy, like two pumps, working in tandem.
If we had only one pump injecting money into the economy, without
a balancing pump to remove it from the economy, the value of our
dollar would diminish rapidly as inflation climbed like a sky
rocket into the stratosphere. This happened in Germany just
prior to World War II, so the bankers learned an important lesson
from that grotesque experiment in hyper-inflation.
What does all this have to do with ZIP codes, you ask?
Well, under American Law never repealed, Congress does not have
authority to obtain controlling interest in all Americans, such
that it can compel our specific performance to discharge any
third-party debt or obligation. Imagine walking into a
department store to buy a new toaster, and having the store clerk
send the bill to Willie Brown. In this example, you are
Congress; the store is the Federal Reserve; and Willie Brown
represents the American people (some of the time). Willie Brown
gets stuck with a transaction to which he was never a party. In
fact, he didn't even know about it!
Congress needs to deceive Americans into believing that they
are all "subjects" of the "United States". If you are subject to
the jurisdiction of the "United States", then you can be
compelled to pay taxes which are used to discharge the interest
payable on the huge principal deficit which Congress has amassed.
But, here's the rub. The Supreme Court in 1945 defined the term
"United States" to have three separate and distinct meanings.
These meanings are:
(1) the name of our sovereign nation, occupying the
position of other sovereigns in the family of nations
(2) the federal government and the limited territory over
which it exercises exclusive sovereign authority
(3) the collective name for the States which are united by
and under the Constitution for the United States of
America
The second of these three definitions is the most
interesting. It includes such areas of land as the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa,
but it does NOT include the 50 States of the Union, like
California, and Florida, and New York. Now, if you were born in
one of the 50 States of the Union, you were born outside of the
area defined by the second definition of "United States" and you
are, therefore, born a free Sovereign. A Sovereign is the
opposite of a subject. If you were born a Sovereign, there is no
way you can be "subject" to the jurisdiction of the "United
States" (unless you volunteer), particularly when the "United
States" in this context means only the very limited territory
over which Congress exercises its exclusive authority. Congress
does not exercise exclusive authority over any of the 50 States
of the Union. That's the American Law which has never been
repealed. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's definition of the
three "United States" was written in 1945, at the peak of the
first nuclear war on this planet. People had other things on
their minds!
One of the ways in which Congress deceives all Americans
into thinking they are its "subjects" is to utilize
jurisdictional traps like the ZIP code. In the DMM, you will
find that ZIP codes are actually optional (see DMM 122.32). If
we utilize this optional "benefit" which Congress is providing
for us, we are presumed to be volunteering ourselves as
"subjects" of Congress. That may sound pretty stupid, at first
glance, but it gets worse. Federal judges are now under so much
pressure to keep the money flowing into the banks, they have
developed a technique called "silent judicial notice". That's a
fancy way of saying they don't have to tell you that you made
yourself a subject of Congress by using ZIP codes. And the
government is always fond of telling people that ignorance of the
law is no excuse. But, of course, this is fraud and it's just as
illegal for the government to do it as it is to counterfeit
money.
Now, we finally arrive at "/tdc". You cannot be compelled
to honor or perform under any contract if you were under Threat,
Duress, or Coercion ("tdc") when you entered the contract. It's
like extortion: you aren't really "cooperating" when someone
extorts your cooperation. Actually, a criminal commits a serious
crime against your person to extort your cooperation for
anything.
The ZIP code is like extortion, on a small but real scale.
Postal clerks tell us our mail will move a lot slower if we don't
use ZIP codes, and they are probably right. You would know! But
we have to pay the same amount for first class, whether or not we
use a ZIP code, and remember that ZIP codes are defined as
optional in the DMM. So, if we use ZIP codes, our mail moves a
lot faster, but the federal government is thereby entitled to
treat us as subjects and force us to pay interest on their huge
federal deficit. If we don't use ZIP codes, our mail moves much
slower (the "duress"), we still have to pay the full postage due,
but at least we avoid becoming "subjects" of Congress. Being
free of Congress is our right as Americans, even when Congress is
nowhere nearly as corrupt as it is now. In fact, I think it is
fair to say that in the 200+ years of our brief history as a
nation, this is probably the most corrupt Congress we have ever
had in America.
The way around this dilemma is to use ZIP codes under
threat, duress, and coercion. Specifically, we are being
threatened with subjugation (slavery?) to Congress for utilizing
a neat sorting scheme which expedites the delivery of everyone's
mail. This threat also means that we did not enter the "ZIP code
contract" voluntarily, because we had to pay the full postage
regardless of whether we used the ZIP code or not. But at least
we retain our right to avoid becoming a slave to the Federal
Reserve banks.
The whole situation would be different if there were a
different rate for mail addressed without ZIP codes, and if the
federal government would fully disclose the jurisdictional trap
which it has created with ZIP codes. The federal government's
failure to disclose fully all the terms and conditions attached
to its contracts means that the federal government is guilty of
fraud, pure and simple. And fraud nullifies, or "vitiates"
everything it touches, all the way back to the beginning, even if
that's your original birth certificate, or your original SS-5
Social Security application (not the SSN or SS card, but the
application for an SSN). Recall now that the New York banking
establishment refers to our money as Federal Reserve Accounting
Unit Devices (F-R-A-U-D).
For your information, I have enclosed some additional
information on this problem. Please feel free to share these
materials with anyone you choose. Our research is open and
available to the public, because we have nothing to hide. We are
passionate and dedicated to restoring Constitutional government
to America, whereby the rights of individuals are supreme.
Governments at all levels should be our public servants, because
we are the public and they are the servants. They should not be
permitted to utilize threat, duress, and coercion to extort our
cooperation with their fraudulent debt schemes. It is just as
illegal for them to do it as it is for you and I to do it!
Thanks so much for your interest and for keeping an open
mind at this most difficult time in our nation's history.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ John E. Trumane
Account for Better Citizenship
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c/o general delivery
San Rafael, California
Postal Zone 94901/tdc
December 26, 1982
Counter Clerk
Mill Valley Post Office
751 E. Blithedale
Mill Valley, California Republic
Postal Zone 94941-9998/tdc
Dear Counter Clerk:
Happy Holidays to you!
This letter is a follow-up to my previous letter to you,
dated August 16, 1992. At that time, you may remember asking me
about my use of "/tdc" on mailing labels.
Among other things, in my letter I explained how ZIP codes
do expedite the delivery of mail (you would know!) and how the
unqualified use of ZIP codes creates a legal presumption that the
user is "subject" to Congress. I also explained why a failure to
use ZIP codes can and does delay the delivery of mail.
Enclosed please find a photocopy of an envelope which I
recently received in San Rafael. This envelope arrived with an
extra adhesive sticker on the front of the envelope with the
following text:
YOUR MAIL HAS BEEN DELAYED
DUE TO INCORRECT ADRESS [sic]
AND/OR ZIPECODE [sic]
As you can see from the attached photocopy, I have spelled
the words on this adhesive sticker exactly as they are shown. By
any chance, does the USPS now refer to them as "zippy" codes?
This photocopy is, therefore, conclusive proof that the U.S.
Postal Service does discriminate against the non-use of ZIP
codes, contrary to the "Postal Reorganization Act", Section 403,
(Public Law 91-375).
Sincerely yours,
/s/ John E. Trumane
Account for Better Citizenship
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