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The Jarbidge Declaration of Sovereignty
July 4, 2000 A.D.
We the Sovereign Citizens of Elko County, Nevada, endowed by our Creator with the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and Property, have peacefully assembled this day in Jarbidge, Nevada, in league with our fellow Sovereign Citizens of the State of Nevada, a sovereign Republic in her own right, and her sister Western States, indeed of all the 50 united States of America, here in person or here via spirit symbolized by thousands upon thousands of shovels gathered by friends and compatriots throughout our nation and thus represented by those actually present do hereby exercise legal control and assert our Rights as Freemen and Freewomen to be self-governing under God, under the Declaration of Independence, the national Constitution, and the Constitutions of the individual sovereign Republic States: To be possessed of Individual and State Rights of ownership of land and property to be controlled, used, governed and possessed by “We the People”. Indeed: Without the benefits of property derived from labor and enterprise of man as stewards of the earth there can be no Life, Liberty or Pursuit of Happiness; That man is commanded by our Creator to Labor in bringing forth and harvesting the fruits of the earth via mining, agricultural pursuits, lumbering, hunting, organizing, manufacturing, distributing and marketing to provide food, clothing and shelter for mankind to sustain life, to please the heart and gladden the eye and allow man to achieve economic independence for himself, his family, and his posterity; that mankind cannot obey the Creator’s commands without the rights of Life, Liberty, and control of Property; that To Secure these Rights and Liberties, governments are instituted of God with the consent of the governed; that He holds men accountable for their acts in making laws and administering them; that no government can exist in peace except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of Conscience, the right and control of Property, and the protection of Life.
As so eloquently expressed in the Declaration of Independence: “... That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it... Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their duty to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
History records several indisputable facts: That most men and generations of men have been slaves to the institutions of government under Pharaohs, Kings, Czars, Dictators and Tyrants; that Tyranny by definition is the combining together of unrestrained Executive, Judicial and Legislative powers; that the extent of tyranny is determined not only by the form of government but by the size and scope of government. The Federal Government is now a virtual Empire, being the largest and most extensive government in the history of the world.
Reflecting upon the lessons of history, George Washington, Father of our Republic, observed: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
In order to contain the fire the founders established a contractual government of Law under the CONSTITUTION: Separating the Executive, Judicial and Legislative powers, specifying and limiting the duties so designated.
Fearful of the nature of government to usurp power from the People and their Posterity, The Founders refused to ratify the Creation of The Constitutional Convention unless the “BILL OF RIGHTS” was added thereto.
The Preamble of the Bill of Rights declares: The convention of a number of States having at the time of their adopting The Constitution, expressed a desire, IN ORDER TO PREVENT MISCONSTRUCTION OR ABUSE OF ITS POWERS, THAT FURTHER DECLARATORY AND RESTRICTIVE CLAUSES SHOULD BE ADDED:…(Emphasis added).
It is self-evident that the Federal Government has escaped the confines of the Constitution. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that we should declare some of the compelling causes which provoke this DECLARATION of SOVEREIGNTY:
The recent history of the Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States.
The Feds have erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. Appropriately, the alphabet is heavily taxed to list some of these federal bureaucracies—BLM, BATF, OSHA, IRS, FSA, EPA, SSA, DEA, LEA, LSC, NEA, WSA, NRCS, CNCS, FBI, FHA, HUD, BIA, EEO, AAHPI, LEO, MMD, NRLPD, SSD, GSB, IRM, WHABNP, BOF, USF&WS, CIA, BA&T, VETS, FHA, CFSA, A&PHIS, ADC, RDA, NRCS, ITA, NANG, FPD, FDA, GSA, PBS, FSSB, OOEH&E, TDD-H, FAO, MMD, NRLP, BOAT, SSS, FAA, SS, VA, VBIAA.
These alphabet bureaucracies are not authorized by the Constitution, and violate the 1st, 2nd 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Amendments. They combine powers in unelected bureaucracies and boards which in turn deprive sovereign citizens of life, liberty and property (Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas are examples) without due process of law. These same bureaucrats deprive the peaceful and law-abiding citizens of their Rights: to Keep and Bear Arms; their Free Exercise of Religion; their Right to Be Secure in their persons, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures; and their Right to trial by a jury of their peers according to rules of common law.
These same unlawful alphabet boards and bureaucracies impose arbitrary and capricious rules, regulations and excessive fines upon the people, placing “We the People” in the deplorable condition of involuntary servitude.
Having surreptitiously deprived us, the sovereign citizens, of our property via excessive taxation and regulations and yoking us and our posterity with trillion dollar debt, the Federal Government unabashedly and relentlessly continues its assault upon private property. Propagandizing the unwary and uninformed with a continual barrage of unfounded and preposterous suppositions and theories under color of science and in the name of spotted owls, wild horses, bull trout, global cooling or warming, ozone, asbestos, ecology, ad infinitum: All of which suppositions and theories assume and assert that individual property owners such as ranchers, farmers, fishermen, campers, travelers, hunters, loggers, miners and businessmen are exploiters of the earth and enemies of the people and that the government is the beneficent protector of these “endangered species and habitats.” Consequently, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost as the BLM, FS, EPA, etc. close down farms, mines, ranches, saw mills, water resources, and business enterprises, further impoverishing our people and making us dependent upon foreign imports for our sustenance. In reality, the productive Free American Citizen has become the real “Endangered Species.”
According to Article I section 8 of the Constitution, The Federal Government is to exercise control over Washington D.C. (not to exceed ten Miles square) and “…to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be for (as specified) The Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful Buildings.”
Under color of law the Federal Government currently has de facto control of over one third of the land mass of our nation situated within the borders of the 50 sovereign States. More than Eighty-seven percent of Nevada’s land mass (98.4% of Lincoln County!) for example is under de facto control of the Federal Government.
Ostensibly philanthropic and private organizations such as the Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy are actually Federally subsidized entities and constitute, in conspiracy with each other, the greatest threat to private property extant in America today. The Feds harass, intimidate, sue at law, and generally make unprofitable private enterprise and private property ownership. The Ecological Do-Gooders then move in to buy out ranchers, etc. and establish “reserves” and “wilderness areas” accessible only to politically correct elitists. Removing private property from County tax roles in Nevada further weakens and impoverishes local government entities and private enterprise.
Driving livestock off the range in Elko County, the Feds have established more tax consuming jobs for the bureaucrats to fight fires as the uneaten regenerating plants and grasses burn in vast and raging infernos that coincidentally destroy habitat for all wildlife.
The Feds, using myriad schemes, including Presidential Executive Orders, designate vast acreages as wetlands, wilderness areas, National Monuments, etc., grab vast areas of land illegally and/or unlawfully assert Federal control. For example:
- As recently as of Jan. 9, 2000, Clinton designated well over a million acres in Arizona and California as “National Monuments”.
- In 1996, 1.7 million acres of land in Utah was decreed “The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument”.
- The Black Rock Desert in Washoe, Pershing and Humboldt Counties is now under Federal assault.
- Churchill County families have had their lives shattered by Federal barrages of lawsuits and regulations that encumber their precious Water Rights.
- Even Native American Indians are being harassed by “environmental” controls on their reservations.
The Feds have also combined with others to subject us to jurisdictions (United Nations, UNESCO, IMF, WTO, GATT, NAFTA, etc.) foreign to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: National Parks and much of the land mass under de facto control of the Feds and even overt territorial possessions such as the Panama Canal are being transferred to the control of these foreign tyrannies and to foreign nations such as Communist China.
In recognition of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress. We have and will continue to importune before Commissioners, Judges, Legislatures, Governors, The United States House of Representatives and Senate, and before Presidents.
Official statements and petitions have been drafted by our County Governments, by our Legislatures and by our States… strong and clear laws and resolutions such as the Nevada Public Lands Ownership Act and The Tenth Amendment Resolution adopted by Nevada and many of her sister States which positively assert our Constitutional Rights.
We have also asserted our rights at Jefferson Canyon, Nye County; Kelly Springs, Elko County; and Yucca Mountain, Clark County, Nevada.
These and similar protests and petitions from many organizations of the people and from Sister States have been essentially ignored by the establishment media and by our Federal servants as the long train of abuses advances on track to a New World Order.
Consequently, We here, peacefully assembled in Jarbidge, Nevada on July 4, 2000 in actuality and as representatives of Sovereign heirs of the American Heritage, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good people of this community, County, State and Nation, figuratively and literally dig our shovels into our free soil to re-open this road, this land, these resources to the people to be utilized, directed controlled and governed by established local and State Governments created and sustained by Sovereign Citizens imbued with God given authority to be self-governing and free of illegal Federal control and ownership, foreign jurisdictions or any other manifestations of tyranny: That, government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth, but have a new birth of freedom; and, for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
Declaration prepared by Committee of 56, Committee of Correspondence:
Thomas Jefferson, Chairman
P.O. Box 5242
Elko, Nevada
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