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GET THAT GOLD FRINGE OFF MY FLAG!
Tue Apr 15 15:01:19 2003
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GET THAT GOLD FRINGE OFF MY FLAG!

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FLAGS DETERMINE COURT JURISDICTION AND THE LAW

ATTENTION: Just as you are aware that there are two ‘united states’ one which is comprised of the ‘Republic states’ and the other comprised of the ‘United States’ which without authority of law incorporated itself in 1871 and 1874, are you aware that there are also two separate and distinct ‘flags’ for each of these ‘united states’ and it is the flag appearing within the sanctuary of the ‘bar’ in court which determines the laws applying to that court?



FLAG #1: Flags with gold fringe, gold braid, gold eagle, gold spear, or gold ball atop the flagpole establishes the jurisdiction of the admiralty, maritime or administration jurisdiction. President Roosevelt describes this type of flag in 1933 and it’s described by Army Regulation in 1979. This is an article 1 (one) jurisdiction court flag “guilty until proven innocent” war powers act.



U.S. ARMY AR 840-10 MANUAL FOR COURTS MARTIAL. Gold fringe flag is admiralty except indoors. Indoors the gold-fringed flag only flies in military courts and therein when dealing with administrative matters are summary court martial proceedings against civilians.
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FLAG #2: Article III (three) of the united states constitution describes the jurisdiction of the court by the American flag of peace under Title 4 U.S.C. 1. This flag is described as red, white and blue with stripes of red and white horizontally placed in alteration. Under the jurisdiction of the American flag of peace the united states constitution is alive and well and all rights are preserved. People are ‘innocent until proven guilty.’ The jurisdiction of the ‘American Flag’ is the determining factor upon which all citizens rights are determined.

NOTE: This means that the gold trimmed flag must be removed from all state and state funded buildings.
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Re: GET THAT GOLD FRINGE OFF MY FLAG!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/flag.htm

Greetings.I just read your article on the Yellow fringe on our beloved US
flag and just had to commend you on the article. I wrote our Congressman
and told him how outraged I was to see this disgrace of our symbol of Liberty
in which he wrote back and said that it was just on it for decoration and
that it does not mean it represent 'Maritime Laws'.I was angry at his
response in which I have the letter he wrote me in some files in which I
plan to post as soon as I can go through my files.I read about the
'Yellow Fringe' in a powerful book tiltled 'Judges,Lawyers and other
destroyers about 2 years agp and have told people myself about this
terrible insult to our US flag and have really learned a lot about the
activites that goes on in our nations captial and hope to do my part
in getting this message out to as many people as I can.Again God bless
you
Leslie H Powers
e-mail moses@naxs.net
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=31086
Sent By: avoice@mtangel.net
Date: Sat Apr 12, 2003 9:27 pm
Subject: The United States Civil Flag of Peacetime

Declaration of Independence - 1776
Articles of Confederation - 1777
The Constitution for the United States, Its Sources and Its Application
Our Enemy, The State by A. J. Nock
The Classic Critique Distinguishing 'Government' from 'STATE'
Trial By Jury by Lysander Spooner
Undermining The Constitution by Thom. J. Norton
A History of Lawless Government
The Law by Frederick Bastiat
The United States Civil Flag of Peacetime

We the People of the United States, actually have two national flags, a
military flag and a civil flag for peacetime. They have several important
distinctions and meanings.

Almost all Americans think of the Stars and Stripes "Old Glory" as their
only flag.

And IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!

The Stars and Stripes originated as a result of a resolution adopted by the
Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress at Philadelphia on June 14,
1777, for use on military installations, on ships, and in battle, directing
that a U.S. flag consist of 13 stripes, alternating red and white; that a union
be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.

Prior to, during the War for Independence, and after under the Articles of
Confederation, smuggling was seen as a patriotic duty of the citizens of the
thirteen independent and sovereign states, but after the ratification of the
Constitution and the establishment of a new nation, smuggling needed to be
stopped. The new nation depended on the revenue from customs tariffs, duties
and taxes on imported goods in order to survive.

In 1790, with the customs laws firmly in place, Secretary of the Treasury
Alexander Hamilton set to work devising adequate means of enforcing the
year-old regulations. "A few armed vessels, judiciously stationed at the
entrances of our ports," Hamilton suggested, "might at a small expense be made
useful sentinels of our laws." Congress concurred, and that year appropriated
$10,000 to build and maintain a fleet of ten revenue cutters, which were to be
placed under the charge of the customs collectors, whose responsibilities would
be enforcement of the tariff laws. Along with financial responsibility,
Hamilton demanded that the officers be servants of the people. "They [the
officers] will always keep in mind that their Countrymen are Freemen and as
such are impatient of everything that bears that least mark of a domineering
Spirit."

Nine years later, Congress refined the revenue cutters' role in customs
operations with the passage of the Act of March 2, 1799, known as the Customs
Administration Act. In particular, Congress determined "the cutters and boats
employed in the service of the revenue shall be distinguished from other
vessels by "an ensign and pendant, with such marks thereon as shall be
prescribed and directed by the President of the United States." Additionally,
the Act permitted commanders of revenue vessels to fire at other vessels
failing to respond "after such pendant and ensign shall be hoisted and a gun
fired by such revenue cutter as a signal." By this act the Revenue Marine
(later called the Revenue Cutter Service) ensign served as the seagoing
equivalent of a policeman's badge, the distinctive sign of the vessel's law
enforcement authority.

The job of designing the distinguishing ensign eventually fell upon Oliver
Wolcott, who had replaced Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury in
1795. On June 1, 1799, Wolcott submitted his design to President John Adams for
approval. Wolcott's proposal featured an ensign of sixteen stripes, alternating
red and white, representing the number of states that had joined the Union by
1799, with the Union to be the Arms of the United States in dark blue on a
white field. It is significant that Wolcott turned the arrangement of the
stripes ninety degrees to vertical to differentiate the new revenue cutter
ensign from the U.S. Flag, to denote civilian authority under the Treasury
Department, rather than military authority under the War Department.

Through usage and custom, horizontal stripes had become adopted for use
over military posts, and vertical stripes adopted for use over civilian
establishments. The Civil Flag, intended for peacetime usage in custom house
civilian settings, had vertical stripes with blue stars on a white field. By
the Law of the Flag, this design denoted civil jurisdiction under the
Constitution and common law as opposed to military jurisdiction under
admiralty/military law.

Although intended just for Customs house usage, the new Civil Flag became
adopted by both customhouses and merchants, and others who could afford them,
to show their civilian nature and not under military control. The practice of
using the Customs Flag as a Civil Flag became encoded in law in 1874 when
Treasury Secretary William. A. Richardson required all customhouses to display
the Civil Flag.

On May 26, 1913, with the approval of Senate Bill S. 2337, (shortly after
the fraudulent declaration by Secretary of State Philander Knox, that the 16th
Amendment had been ratified, and during the same weeks that the Federal Reserve
system and the IRS were established) the U.S. Coast Guard absorbed the Revenue
Cutter and the Life Saving - Lighthouse Services, becoming a part of the
military forces of the United States, operating under the Treasury Department
in time of peace and as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the
Secretary of the Navy, in time of war.

The Civil Flag used by the cutter service was modified, placing the Coast
Guard insignia on the stripes in the field , and was adopted under Coast Guard
authority, losing it's original significance of civilian authority, which by
then had long been forgotten. As the Federal government acquired more control
over the States and their citizens during and after World War II, by 1951 the
original Civil Flag had been phased out completely, it's existence left as an
artifact of time in a few old photographs and a rare mention in old books.

Today, the last vestige of the Civil Flag, the U.S. Coast Guard flag, being
under the civil jurisdiction of the Department of Treasury during peacetime, is
identical to the revenue cutter ensign, but with the service insignia
emblazoned on the stripes in the field.

It is still seen as the shoulder patch of U.S. Customs employees but it too
now has the gold fringe signifying Admiralty/Military/Law Merchant
jurisdiction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850 before the War
Between The States has this description of the U.S. Civil Flag in the
introduction, "The Custom House" ---

". . . Here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very
enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice
of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a
half hours of each forenoon, floats or droops, in breeze or calm, the banner of
the republic; but with the thirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of
horizontally, and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post of
Uncle Sam's government is here established. Its front is ornamented with a
portico of half-a-dozen wooden pillars, supporting a balcony, beneath which a
flight of wide granite steps descends towards the street Over the entrance
hovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, with outspread wings, a
shield before her breast, and, if I recollect aright, a bunch of intermingled
thunder- bolts and barbed arrows in each claw. With the customary infirmity of
temper that characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by the fierceness of
her beak and eye, and the general truculency of her attitude, to threaten
mischief to the inoffensive community; and especially to warn all citizens
careful of their safety against intruding on the premises which she overshadows
with her wings. Nevertheless, vixenly as she looks, many people are seeking at
this very moment to shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagle;
imagining, I presume, that her bosom has all the softness and snugness of an
eiderdown pillow. But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods,
and, sooner or later -- oftener soon than late -- is apt to fling off her
nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound
from her barbed arrows."

Before 1940, no U.S. flag, civil or military, flew within the forty-eight
states except in federal settings and installations. Only state flags did.
Since the 1935 institution of Social Security and the Buck Act of 1940, 4
U.S.C.S. 104-113, by clever legal maneuvers the feds have entirely circumvented
the U.S. Constitution, and have overlaid federal territorial jurisdiction on
the sovereign States, bringing them under the admiralty/military jurisdiction
of Law Merchant, the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), the law of Creditors and
Debtors.

Since then the U.S. military flag appears beside, or in place of, the state
flags in nearly all locations within the states. All of the state courts and
even the municipal ones now openly display it. In the last half century they
have more openly declared the military/admiralty law jurisdiction with the
addition of the gold fringe to the flag, the military flag of the
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

Such has been the path that has brought us under the Law of the Military
Flag. This should have raised serious questions from many citizens long ago,
but we've been educated to listen and believe what we are told, not to ask
questions, or think for ourselves and search for the truth.

The Flag of Peace
US Civil Flags in 1919 at the end of World War I

US Civil Flag at the Eagle, Alaska custom-house,
on the Yukon River at the Canadian border, circa 1997
Photograph by Walter Kenaston

Treason in Government!! Admiralty on Land!!

The Flags of the Several united States

Dimensions of the US Civil Peace Flag
To Fabricate One Yourself
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others to differ from me in opinion"
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