America ... Occupied! 

                                By 
 
                         Donald L. Cline

    What follows is a hurried, very rough draft outline of a book 
I am writing, and therefore what I say here is "copyright january 
1991 by Donald L. Cline," and "all rights reserved."  As you will 
note,  there  are  some quotes and other sources  I  have  quoted 
specifically; there are some others I have paraphrased as best  I 
can  from  memory -- in those cases, please rest assured  I  have 
seen the documentation; in most cases I have the documentation in 
my files and will find it when I flesh this out more in the  next 
draft, and in any case I know where to find the source documenta
tion  when  I  need it.  When I write the  final  manuscript  the 
quotes and dates and times and places will be as specific and  as 
precise as it is possible to be.  In the interest of getting this 
completed quickly and onto the bbs, however, I have not  bothered 
to  search out some of the more obscure items for this piece.   I 
think you will find more than enough documentation in support  of 
the  title, however, and there is more -- lots more --  available 
to anyone who will look for it. 

Disclaimer:   nothing  I say here is legal advice.   This  is  my 
opinion based upon extensive research into the political  history 
of  our  nation, who is destroying it, who is getting  paid,  and 
why.   The  following  is an exercise of my  right  of  political 
expression. 

    I'm  am  going to begin with a quotation  which,  I  believe, 
accurately expresses the general mood of the founding fathers  of 
our  nation (those who were in favor of revolution, at least)  at 
the time of our conflict with britain: 

     "if ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity  of 
servitude  better than the animating contest of freedom, go  home 
from  us  in peace.  We seek not your counsels or  arms.   Crouch 
down  and  lick the hands which feed you.  May  your  chains  set 
lightly  upon you, and may posterity forget ye were our  country
men." -- Samuel adams (1722-1803) 

    And I am going to add the following: 

                        Warning! 

If you use any of your inherited and unalienable rights,  includ
ing those secured to you by the constitution of the united states 
of  america, to resist abusive and  unconstitutional  government, 
you may be prosecuted and imprisoned as a criminal; you may  lose 
your  job; you may lose your home; you may lose your friends  and 
family;  you may lose your life, and you will most  assuredly  be 
confronted  by any one or more of the several government,  quasi-
government, and non-government agents and agencies (pretending to 
represent  government) for your stand.  You must be  prepared  to 
accept this adversity as the price you pay for liberty. 

If you cannot do this, do not take the first steps! 

--  (Included on the first page of the freedom books  offered  by 
the  national  commodity  & barter association  (ncba),  8000  e. 
Girard  avenue, #215, denver, co 80231, as a benefit  of  member
ship.) 

    The  past does not always foretell the future, but those  who 
fail  to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.  We,  as  a 
people,  and  as a nation, have been down this path  before,  and 
with one exception we have never failed to fall into the trap. 

    The one exception was the american revolution.  This was  the 
only  time  in  history we, or any people of any  nation  in  the 
world,  knew  who  we were fighting, knew we  were  fighting  the 
actual  enemy and not his proxy, and knew what we  were  fighting 
against (economic and political feudalism) and knew what we  were 
fighting for (liberty and equal justice under the law). 

    Even  at that, only about 3% of the american population  sup
ported  the  american revolution.  The rest  were  either  tories 
(wanting to stay english) or didn't care one way or the other. 

    We  won the american revolution against the best-trained  and 
most  modern,  in both tactical training and  materiel,  military 
machine of the world.  And we won it, primarily, because  england 
was distracted by several other brushfires licking at its breech
es,  and  couldn't devote its full attention to us. 

   Can you imagine the apoplectic fury of the english lords at the 
sheer  effrontery of those rebels?  "My gawd!"  Many  undoubtedly 
profaned,  "we are englishmen!  Those yanks are mere rabble!   We 
have a right to the riches of the new world; we colonized it!  We 
supported  those  damnably expensive colonies through  all  these 
years  of drought and famine, and now they have  the  unmitigated 
gall  to  tell us to shove off!  This is insufferable!   I  won't 
have  it,  I  tell you!"  (I don't do english  lords  very  well; 
you'll have to pretend.  But I hope you get my point.) 

    England lost a great deal when the american colonies  thumbed 
their  nose and went their own way, and I don't believe  the  old 
line aristocratic families have ever forgiven us for it.   Ameri
ca,  on the other hand, wasn't doing too well either:  the  arti
cles  of  confederation weren't working well,  primarily  due  to 
their  failure  to  address the question of a  stable  medium  of 
exchange  that all people could depend upon.  The  history  books 
tell us there was also the problem of collecting taxes to pay for 
the  national government; the articles had no teeth in  them  and 
the various states paid taxes, or didn't, at their whim. 

    In actual fact, however, the problem of taxation was  second
ary:  the  real, number-one problem was a fluctuating  medium  of 
exchange:  in other words, untrustworthy money.

   How confident would you be in the stability of your world  if 
the day before yesterday you bought a loaf of bread for a dollar, 
and  yesterday it cost you five, and today three dollars, and  in 
all likelihood it will cost you 45 cents tomorrow, and next  week 
the price might be nine dollars?  How would you feel if you  were 
a  working  tradesman, and this client paid  you  in  connecticut 
dollars, and that one paid in massachusetts dollars, and  another 
in north carolina dollars, and you knew that pennsylvania dollars 
held up pretty well but all the rest would vary in value from zip 
to  half face value before you could get to the  bank? 

     These were the problems facing our country on the eve of  the 
constitutional   convention.   "The  wheels  of  government   are 
clogged,  and  we are descending into the vale of  confusion  and 
darkness.  No day was ever more clouded than the present.  We are 
fast verging to anarchy and confusion."  -- George washington, in 
a  letter to james madison on the eve of the constitutional  con
vention. 

    The  sole  purpose of the constitutional convention,  as  de
scribed  by  alexander hamilton in a report to congress  in  1786 
recommending  that there be a convention, was "to take into  con
sideration  the  trade  and  commerce  of  the  united   states." 
    
Prior  to  the constitutional convention, a man by  the  name  of 
roger  sherman wrote a book called "a caveat against  injustice."  
The  two remaining copies in existence were located a  few  years 
ago  by f. Tupper saussy, and reprinted, with the  re-publisher's 
comment that it was positively appalling (and I agree!) that  the 
communist manifesto, by a professional bum named karl marx,  had, 
down  through  the decades, enjoyed a worldwide  publishing  rate 
second  only to the bible, while this book -- arguably  the  most 
important book on economic theory ever published, and very  defi
nitely the basis for the economic provisions of the u.s.  Consti
tution -- was suppressed, hidden, burned, and having dwindled  to 
only  two fragile and crumbly copies, was completely  unknown  to 
the scholars of the 20th century. 

    Roger  sherman, by the way, was the only man whose  signature 
appears  on all four of the main documents formative of  our  na
tion:  the "declaration of the causes and necessity of taking  up 
arms,  july  6,  1775", the "declaration  of  independence,"  the 
"articles    of   confederation,"   and   the   "united    states 
constitution."   According  to thomas  jefferson,  roger  sherman 
wrote the economic-related passages of the u.s. Constitution, and 
also (according to thomas jefferson) "never said a foolish  thing 
in his life." 

    A mere nine months after the u.s. Constitution was  ratified, 
the  december 16th, 1789 edition of the pennsylvania gazette  had 
this  to  say:  "since the federal constitution has  removed  all 
danger of our having a paper tender, our trade has advanced fifty 
percent.  Our monied people can trust their cash abroad, and have 
brought their coin into circulation."