Voluntary Slavery

January 16, in the year of our Lord 1995

Written by Christopher Holloman Hansen to his son Joshua Joel Holloman Hansen for his History Class.

At the trials held in Nuremberg following WWII a fantastic idea was adopted into the fabric of civilized law. That idea is this: Government, no matter how entrenched within the minds of the populous; how enriched with power, authority, and self aggrandizement; how endowed by the majority of the voting public with trust; whether within the military or civil sector, does not have within its powers the atoning grace to erase the actions and abominations of the individual committed or even encouraged or commanded under the laws of that government.

The judgment of the International Military Tribunal found that defendants were still legally responsible for their actions even though they were acting under the orders of superior authority stating:

[T]he true test... is not the existence of the order—but whether moral choice [in executing it] was in fact Possible.

Now is a time to remember history and consider what were the moral choices under the iron hand of Hitler and the S.S. and what were the possible consequences of those “moral choices.”

A “moral choice,” is in truth a Higher Law. A law which is given to mankind by, and I quote the Declaration of Independence, “Nature and of Nature’s God.” A law assumed by all mankind but more especially in these united States, is the law given us by, “Nature’s God,” that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that is: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness and that there is an eternal difference between right and wrong and that we are personally responsible for our own actions. Ignorance is not a defense against the behest of this Higher Law but knowledge of this Higher Law more fully condemns the educated.

A German Judge on trial at Nuremberg, received great condemnation not because he knew and enforced the law of the land but because he followed it when his education, personal knowledge and beliefs clearly told him the laws he enforced were wrong in the eyes of God. He failed the people of the world when he refused to obey the Higher Law of right and wrong. And it mattered not what the personal consequences may have been for him. He broke this Eternal and universal law and therefore was guilty of Crimes against Humanity and was sent to prison.

John Marshal and the Supreme Court of these united States proclaimed that the Constitution is the, “supreme law of the land,” but they were wrong in this. The supreme law of the whole world is that found In the Declaration of Independence: that we are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights, i.e. rights that cannot be abridged nor abrogated by any government or law.

When we take this into consideration then we must deem all laws that are in violation of this Highest Law, to be null an void and without merit or value and that we must not follow them.

I would like now to center on just one of these unalienable rights. The right of Liberty. The right to be free. The Constitution of the United States did not include this right to all people within its borders and so the Grantor of this right, “Nature’s God,” punished the country for its violation through the Civil War. At first the war was fought over State’s Right and Succession and the war did not bode well for the North. The tide of this war did not change until after the Emancipation Proclamation. The flaw within the Constitution was then what the battle was fought over and slavery was abolished. ABOLISHED! And these united States of America once again thrived.

But to think that other men are less than ourselves seems to be a natural flaw within men, whether inborn or learned we seem to have a tendency to consider men of different color, religion, origin or lessor financial status or education to be less than us in the eyes of God, and therefore seemingly available for our personal benefit even if it means constraining them by law or force. The Declaration of Independence corrects this incorrect conception when it states that all men are created equal making all people born under this covenant to be sovereigns, kings or queens without subjects. Therefore no man has the right, for any reason, to enslave another. Law, however, must be maintained and if a sovereign breaks a law that deprives another child of God of any of these God given rights then governments, instituted for the benefits of man, have the right to punish the lawbreaker.

But what if a law, written and enforced by a government, is in direct opposition to the right of all men to have Liberty? Or even the right of a single sovereign to freely claim their right or rights?

Should it be obeyed? Should It be opposed? Are we guilty of Crimes against Humanity if we, because of fear, ignorance or even collusion, obey and carry out or comply with such a law? The answer is, yes. Yes, because we become traitors to the very God that gave us those unalienable rights.

Here is what a court said about the issue: “All acts of the legislature apparently contrary to natural rights and justice are, in our law and must be in the nature of things, considered void... We are in conscience bound to disobey.” Robin vs. Hardaway, 1 Jefferson 109, (Va., 1772)

William Shakespeare said it eloquently:

When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

Abraham Lincoln expounded on Shakespeare’s thoughts when he said:

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

When the Dred Scott decision was handed down; right minded jurists, regular un-elected citizens, called to sit in judgement, who understood if only in their hearts, that slavery was wrong, refused to convict those that helped slaves to escape to their Right of Liberty.

It was their duty to do so.

It was their duty to negate this unjust law. It was their right under the Law of the Declaration of Independence, the Higher-Law, to help those that broke the unjust and immoral law of slavery and the Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott that supported it.

The six Justices that voted in the majority in the Dred Scott case were as immoral and contemptible in their decision as any Nazi collaborator and as accountable to God if not to any Earthly tribunal. Americans paid the price for these Justice’s actions with their dearest blood. The Civil War killed more Americans than any other war in our history.

Are we, as Citizens of the United States of America, any better than the people of Germany during Hitler’s reign? Are we any better than those six Justices that allowed Slavery to continue? I will offer the hypothesis that we as a nation, by our inaction, our complacency and self-inflicted ignorance are more accountable to the people of this world for the loss of life and liberty than any so called evil empire in history.

This is the reason why: Because we have allowed ourselves, through apathy and fear, to become slaves. Not chattel slaves as was the case before the Civil War, but unknowing slaves to our own government and to the men that control it.

“But I am not a slave,” you say. “I am free.”

I contend that you are not free! And here are my reasons why:

Mayer Amsched Rothchild, a prominent European banker in the eighteenth century said:

Permit me to issue and control the money of the nation and I care not who makes its laws.

Thomas Jefferson knew of this threat and warned us about it when he said:

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Do you know who, “issues and controls the money of,” this, “nation”? Do we have a homeless problem in America today?

The President of the Bank of England in the 1920’s, SIR JOSIAH STAMP, said:

Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits, to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits.

Pope Pius XI said:

In the first place, then, it is patent that in our days, not wealth alone is accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination are concentrated in the hands of the few, who for the most part are not the owners but only the trustees and directors of invested funds, which they administer at their own good pleasure...This domination is most powerfully exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, also govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying so to speak, the life blood of the entire economic body, and grasping in their hands, as it were, the very soul of production, so that no one can breathe against their will...

Congressman Louis T. McFadden United States Congressman and former Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency understood this modern form of slavery very well. He said:

Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation’s debt.... The wealth of these United States and the working capital have been taken away from them and has either been locked in the vaults of certain banks and the great corporations or exported to foreign countries for the benefit of foreign customers of these banks and corporations. So far as the people of the United States are concerned, the cupboard is bare.

The Federal Reserve (Banks) are one of the most corrupt institutions, the world has ever seen. There is not a man, within the sound of my voice, who does not know that this Nation is run by the International Bankers.

L. Tolstoy

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal—that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Robert Hemphill, a former Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta helps us to understand:

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

James Madison also understood it:

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.

Even the Bible warned us but we did not heed the very counsel of God:

Proverbs 22:7—The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Deut. 28:43&44—The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

The Constitution says, “Congress shall have power... To coin Money, regulate the value thereof.” No Amendment was ever passed to change this and simple law cannot outweigh nor change the Constitution. But Congress, in 1913, in an act of treason, gave its law bound obligation and duty, “To coin money, and regulate the value thereof,” to a private system called the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor is it a Reserve. The Fed is a foreign owned private bank. That’s right, a foreign owned bank controls our monetary system and is totally free from the control of Congress to control the money of the nation, our nation. And so it is that Rothchild’s plan has reached fulfillment within our nation.

Did this happen over night and without planning? To even consider that assumption borders on the edge of idiocy. The hero of the American Socialist movement, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said: “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way.”

And what was the intention of those who planned to take over our money? What would they gain? The answer was given by London bankers themselves through their agent in the Hazard circular in July of 1862,

Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power and all chattel slavery abolished. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan, led on by England, is that capital shall control labor by controlling wages. The great debt that the capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. To accomplish this the bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting for the Secretary of the Treasury to make this recommendation to Congress. It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, as we can not control that. But we can control the bonds and through them the bank issues.

Salmon P. Chase, (Lincoln’s Secretary to the Treasury) unwittingly helped the European Bankers accomplish their stated goals by piloting the 1863 banking act in the United States. He never forgave himself, subsequently saying:

My agency, in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act, was the greatest mistake in my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people should be arrayed on one side, and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never seen before in this country.

These Bankers sought the slavery of all free men and still do today.

Horace Greely the man who gave us “Go West Young Man” knew the truth as well. In 1872 he said:

We have stricken the shackles from four million human beings and brought all laborers to a common level, not so much by the elevation of the former slaves as by practically reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

Horace Greely in effect called the American workers Slaves. Slaves to the bankers as was prophesied in the Bible quotes above.

Abraham Lincoln understood this form of slavery and sought to halt its progress by issuing $150,000,000 in United States Notes or greenbacks. Lincoln was assassinated.

Were Lincoln’s actions a threat to the plan of the bankers to enslave us? The following was taken from the London Times of the same period,

If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or - it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.

Please remember that the monarchs of the globe, at the time this was written, were effectively controlled by this same problem. They had allowed the bankers to ’issue and control the money,’ and were just the well paid and privileged enforcers of European slavery.

President Wilson said, in 1916, that because he had signed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 giving power to only a few men that:

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominate men. I have unwittingly betrayed my country.

And with his signature our free government was destroyed, as was declared necessary in the London times only forty years previous.

The officers of the Federal Reserve are this nation’s slave owners. A large part of the National debt is owed to these bankers. We are slaves to this, “Iniquitous money system,” but what is the tool that keeps us in line? Who are our direct taskmasters that force us to pay off the debt created to enslave us? The Nazi’s had the Gestapo. USSR had the KGB. So whom would the bankers use here in America?

After the Constitution was bypassed and the Federal Reserve System was created its enforcement arm also needed to be created so in 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment (the Income Tax) was also implemented. This had to be done so the bankers’ plans to create slaves of Americans could be fulfilled. Thomas Jefferson understood the bankers and their plans when he prophesied of what would occur if we allowed what the bankers have indeed done:

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpet-ual debt. We must take our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements.

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence, which in private life would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy to avoid burdening the people and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money which might be used to corrupt the principles of our government...

And so it is that the bankers can reach into your pocket and keep Americans in slavery by debt and servitude.

Did you ever wonder why the Government wastes so much money on obviously useless and unneeded projects? The reports of Government waste are so prevalent that news programs question them, Sit Coms ridicule them and comedians make a living joking about them. Is our Government so stupid that it cannot cut off this wasteful spending?

Of course not.

Our Government and the bankers that buy our Congress and President and control the bureaucracy must spend more money than the taxpayers can support in order to keep the debt going and keep us enslaved.

“But that can’t be true,” you say.

Ninety percent of President Kennedy’s Cabinet were made up of men that openly supported this system. They all belonged to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Warren Christopher was in President Carter’s Cabinet.

President Clinton promised to bring new faces to Washington. Warren Christopher is in his Cabinet. Warren Christopher is a ranking member of the Council on Foreign Relations. This is but one instance in an endless procession of CFR cabinet members.

But there is no real difference between Republican or Democratic administrations. The CFR maintains its strangle hold on our Government within both Parties. The Federal Government has grown sixteen times its 1960 size under both Republican and Democrat administrations.

Why must it continue to grow at such a rate when the need of Government has not even doubled?

Because the American worker has been so resilient, so undaunted by challenge that they have continued to succeed financially against all odds that have been placed in their way and have remained too prosperous.

But the inevitable has happened: The weight of the debt, created by our, “Iniquitous money system,” controlled by the Federal Reserve, has overpowered even the American spirit and is slowly dragging us down. Our standard of living is no longer increasing as in years past. Our children will be lucky to even equal our standard of living and the nation as a whole will continue its downward spiral.

I make you this promise: that under Bill Clinton, the federal government will grow and the debt will not be reduced one cent while he is in office, nor will it under any Republican president even with the Republicans in control of congress. The reason I can say this so emphatically is because Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich are members of the CFR.

So shout and sing Hail to the Chief when you see him next and realize that he is more than your President, he is one of your masters.

So as we watch our Declaration of Independence and Constitution trampled under the feet of these bankers what can we as “Individuals” do?

If we are to assume that the Higher Law states that Liberty is an unalienable right granted by God and that no Government has the right to remove our Liberty by any law, then we are Duty Bound to disobey all law that contributes to the slavery of America and with our slavery the slavery of the world. If we do not rebel against such so called laws then we are guilty of “Crimes Against Humanity” and will be viewed by history as either ignorant slaves or co-conspirators, and cowards.

Remember what the courts at Nuremberg proclaimed:

[T]he true test... is not the existence of the order—but whether moral choice [in executing it] was in fact Possible.

Do you have the same “moral choice,” to disobey this “order,” of slavery as the defendants at Nuremberg? Of course you do.

When the, “moral choice,” was placed before the signers of the Declaration of Independence they pledged, “our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” They were willing to lose everything, to even die in order to overthrow tyranny.

“But they were an organized group,” you say.

That is not the question. The question before the court at Nuremberg was whether the moral choice existed. It did indeed exist even though the cost of it to any German that denied it would have most likely have been the loss of life, liberty and fortune. It was the same choice that faced our Founding Fathers. It is the same choice we face today!

Are you willing to make the same kind of commitment to Liberty or are you, guilty of crimes against humanity by inaction. Remember the Founding Fathers warned us:

Beware of tyrants masquerading as public servants.

Sir Hartley Shawcross, used familiar words of our America’s founders during his closing argument at Nuremberg:

The Charter of this Tribunal,... gives warning for the future— I say, and repeat again, gives warning for the future, to dictators and tyrants masquerading as a State that if, in order to strengthen or further their crimes against the community of nations they debase the sanctity of man in their own countries, they act at their peril, for they affront the International Law of mankind.

In the 1700s, Johann W. von Goethe made today’s problem very clear when he said:

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

David Rockefeller said it another way:

Freedom—is the absence of the awareness of restraint.

Thomas Jefferson confirmed it when he said:

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.

The majority of this nation falsely believes they are free because they are unaware of their bondage. Let us pray for and work toward the day that this nation will end self imposed ignorance and learns the well-documented truth once again and then like our Founding Fathers pledge life, fortune and honor for the animating contest of freedom?

Yours in Faith,

Christopher Holloman Hansen for The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty

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