Will You Commit Perjury This Year?
Posted: January 15th, 2008, 6:04 pm
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Tuesday, January 15th 2008 — Christopher Hansen
I have been getting a lot of Email with people telling me the definition of a dollar or where to look for the REAL definition. The name Edwin Vieira has been sent to me many times. In fact even Assemblyman Beers refers to Ed’s magnificent work on the dollar in his recent letter to me. But the fact of the matter is this. Congress has the power to regulate the value of coin. The Constitution says so. There was no U.S. dollar in 1787 AD when the Constitution was written. The dollar referred to in the Constitution is the Spanish milled dollar. Congress established the “value” of a dollar and defined it when they wrote and passed the first coin act after the Constitution was written.
People today take measurements for granted. Everyone knows what a foot is and also an inch. But did you know that Congress has the power to change those definitions? Congress can change the definition of EVERY measurement you know. They have to power to set the standards. So when I am told where to look for the REAL definition of the dollar and I am directed to a 1856 AD legal dictionary or Ed’s book or a Supreme Court ruling I always laugh. There is ONLY ONE PLACE to look for the definition of what a dollar is and what its established value is: THE LAW! If you cannot find it in the law then there is no legal and lawful definition of the word or term “dollar.
Assemblyman Beers was 100% correct when he wrote the definition of the dollar: “appears to be undecided.”
Matt Griffin of the office of the Secretary of State is also correct when he wrote:
“The Secretary of State’s Office has no authority to assign a legal value to United States currency. As such, and for the purposes of campaign finance in the State of Nevada, a dollar is a dollar as that term is defined by the United States Government. In the situation we discussed over the phone, a silver dollar minted in any year by the United States Government has the value of a dollar. I hope this information is of help.”
Mary Mason was correct when she wrote: “the definition of a dollar is actually quite fluid.”
Can you imagine if the definition of an “hour” was quite fluid? Or how about a “mile”?
“But officer I was going 43 in a 45 zone.” “Nope,” says the Cop, “You were doing 187 in a 45 zone because the definitions of mile and hour are fluid and they changed this week without notification. But then you knew they were fluid and you should have known better. You are going to jail buddy.”
And yet that is exactly what happens when the IRS demands you sign a 1040 form saying how many “dollars” in income you had. Remember the definition of “dollar” is “fluid” and it currently “appears to be undecided.”
According to the United States Supreme Court in Sabri v. U.S. 541 U.S. 600, 606, (2004) “Money is fungible…”
For those of you that were like me and had never heard of that word, it means:
fun·gi·ble: being something (as money or a commodity) one part or quantity of which can be substituted for another of equal value in paying a debt or settling an account Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Therefore Federal reserve notes are not money because they are not equal to the gold or silver dollars being minted by law by the Federal Government. The are not “fungible.”
Of course we have a letter from the Department of the Treasury that clearly states: “Federal Reserve notes are not dollars.” So why do you tell the IRS you have $62,458.00 in income when you got your wages (income?) in Federal reserve notes?
If the form said list all your income in cows and you had 250 Cows would you sign the 1040 under penalties of perjury saying you had 60,000 chickens when you only had 250 cows? If a cow weighs 1200 pounds and a chicken 5 pounds then 250 cows are equal to 60,000 chickens. So why would you put down chickens? Especially when the form demanded cows? Why would you call a chicken a cow? Because somebody wrote “COW” on the chicken? So why do you put down Federal reserve notes when “Federal Reserve notes are not dollars”?
A silver dollar minted in 2006 can be exchanged for about 18 Federal reserve notes right now so we know that a Federal reserve note is not fungible with a 2006 Silver dollar. Now I honestly do not know what “taxable income” is because “income ” is not clearly and unequivocally defined either. But let’s say you write down $90,000 on your the government’s 1040 form because you had 90,000 Federal reserve notes in “income.” 90,000 divided by 18 is 5000. So did you have 5000 DOLLARS in income or 90,000 DOLLARS in income? If you only had 5000 DOLLARS in income would you be required to file a 1040 at all?
So were you going 43 in a 45 zone or 187 in a 45 zone?
James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” in the Federalist Papers which described how the new Constitution would work wrote:
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
So when I am told that Edwin Vieria or Black Law or Bouvier’s 1856 legal dictionary has the answer I ask: Would you look to the Wright Brothers to define what a flying machine is today? Of course not because the meaning has changed.
There is no question of what a dollar WAS in 1787 AD. It was the Spanish Milled Dollar or piece of eight. But Congress then defined it specifically as a weight of silver. They also placed us on the Silver standard. Both of these were authorized and demanded by the Constitution. Then Congress switched us to the Gold standard. That meant a silver dollar was ONLY a dollar in relationship to the gold standard. Then we were taken off the gold standard by traitors, which means we have NO STANDARD. If you have no standard then you cannot define what a dollar is. It is like the speed limit scenario above. If the speed limit is 45 but you do not have a standard like the mile then what does the speed limit mean? Is it 45 MILES per hour or 45 Kilometers and hour? BIG difference. But then what is an hour? What if that measurement was like what we have today for the dollar, “fluid”? That would mean that an hour could be 45 minutes but then what is a minute? What is a cup? What is a gallon? What is a yard? These all have standards but there CURRENTLY is no standard established by Congress as to what a dollar is. There ONCE was a standard. And that standard was changed to the gold standard which means Vieira is wrong if he says what a dollar “IS”. He can only say what a dollar “WAS”. He can even say what it should be. But not what it IS.
Congress, and only Congress, has the absolute authority to make a dollar whatever they want to make it as long as there is a set standard. Should it be silver or gold? I believe it should be but I have transfered, as a Citizen, that authority to Congress through the States. One thing is clear. State can only make gold and silver coin payment in tender of debt and that means that we MUST have gold and/or silver coins. BUT WE DO. Since 1986 we have had them. Only a few people use them but they are in circulation and are legal tender.
Congress made the new silver dollar coin a one ounce coin of .999 pure silver. They could have made it one tenth of an ounce of pure silver and still called it a dollar. The new one ounce silver “dollar” coin could also have been made the standard by Congress, but they have not. I wish the Congress and the courts and the Executive branch would follow the obvious original intent of the Constitution. The meaning of the word dollar in the Constitution is the Spanish milled dollar as there was no such thing as the US dollar when the Constitution was written. But the Constitution is clear that Congress has the power to regulate the value of money and that means that if they so choose the could make a dollar one thousandth of an ounce of pure silver.
But all of this is just debate because until Congress sets the standard and tells us in the law what a dollar is then Assemblyman Beers is 100% correct. The definition of the term dollar “appears to be undecided.”
The United States Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart 127 S.Ct. 1610, *1628 (2007) explained the problem we face quite clearly when they ruled:
“As generally stated, the void-for-vagueness doctrine requires that a penal statute define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
So do you know what a dollar is?
Do you sign forms under oath or penalties of perjury when you do not know what a dollar is?
Are you committing perjury? Now there is a law that is VERY CLEAR in Nevada.
NRS 199.120 Definition; penalties. A person, having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation in a judicial proceeding or in any other matter where, by law, an oath or affirmation is required and no other penalty is prescribed, who:
1. Willfully makes an unqualified statement of that which he does not know to be true…is guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury, as the case may be, which is a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
So do you KNOW you have income in “dollars”? If not then you commit perjury every time you sign a document saying you have X number of “dollars”?
And if the government tells you you MUST sign it or you will go to jail? Have they committed a crime? Let’s see what the law says:
NRS 199.150 Attempt to suborn perjury. Every person who, without giving, offering or promising a bribe, shall incite or attempt to procure another to commit perjury, or to offer any false evidence, or to withhold true testimony, though no perjury be committed or false evidence offered or true testimony withheld, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
So now the only real question left to ask yourself is: Will I commit perjury this year by signing a 1040 form.
Have a nice day.
Tuesday, January 15th 2008 — Christopher Hansen
I have been getting a lot of Email with people telling me the definition of a dollar or where to look for the REAL definition. The name Edwin Vieira has been sent to me many times. In fact even Assemblyman Beers refers to Ed’s magnificent work on the dollar in his recent letter to me. But the fact of the matter is this. Congress has the power to regulate the value of coin. The Constitution says so. There was no U.S. dollar in 1787 AD when the Constitution was written. The dollar referred to in the Constitution is the Spanish milled dollar. Congress established the “value” of a dollar and defined it when they wrote and passed the first coin act after the Constitution was written.
People today take measurements for granted. Everyone knows what a foot is and also an inch. But did you know that Congress has the power to change those definitions? Congress can change the definition of EVERY measurement you know. They have to power to set the standards. So when I am told where to look for the REAL definition of the dollar and I am directed to a 1856 AD legal dictionary or Ed’s book or a Supreme Court ruling I always laugh. There is ONLY ONE PLACE to look for the definition of what a dollar is and what its established value is: THE LAW! If you cannot find it in the law then there is no legal and lawful definition of the word or term “dollar.
Assemblyman Beers was 100% correct when he wrote the definition of the dollar: “appears to be undecided.”
Matt Griffin of the office of the Secretary of State is also correct when he wrote:
“The Secretary of State’s Office has no authority to assign a legal value to United States currency. As such, and for the purposes of campaign finance in the State of Nevada, a dollar is a dollar as that term is defined by the United States Government. In the situation we discussed over the phone, a silver dollar minted in any year by the United States Government has the value of a dollar. I hope this information is of help.”
Mary Mason was correct when she wrote: “the definition of a dollar is actually quite fluid.”
Can you imagine if the definition of an “hour” was quite fluid? Or how about a “mile”?
“But officer I was going 43 in a 45 zone.” “Nope,” says the Cop, “You were doing 187 in a 45 zone because the definitions of mile and hour are fluid and they changed this week without notification. But then you knew they were fluid and you should have known better. You are going to jail buddy.”
And yet that is exactly what happens when the IRS demands you sign a 1040 form saying how many “dollars” in income you had. Remember the definition of “dollar” is “fluid” and it currently “appears to be undecided.”
According to the United States Supreme Court in Sabri v. U.S. 541 U.S. 600, 606, (2004) “Money is fungible…”
For those of you that were like me and had never heard of that word, it means:
fun·gi·ble: being something (as money or a commodity) one part or quantity of which can be substituted for another of equal value in paying a debt or settling an account Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Therefore Federal reserve notes are not money because they are not equal to the gold or silver dollars being minted by law by the Federal Government. The are not “fungible.”
Of course we have a letter from the Department of the Treasury that clearly states: “Federal Reserve notes are not dollars.” So why do you tell the IRS you have $62,458.00 in income when you got your wages (income?) in Federal reserve notes?
If the form said list all your income in cows and you had 250 Cows would you sign the 1040 under penalties of perjury saying you had 60,000 chickens when you only had 250 cows? If a cow weighs 1200 pounds and a chicken 5 pounds then 250 cows are equal to 60,000 chickens. So why would you put down chickens? Especially when the form demanded cows? Why would you call a chicken a cow? Because somebody wrote “COW” on the chicken? So why do you put down Federal reserve notes when “Federal Reserve notes are not dollars”?
A silver dollar minted in 2006 can be exchanged for about 18 Federal reserve notes right now so we know that a Federal reserve note is not fungible with a 2006 Silver dollar. Now I honestly do not know what “taxable income” is because “income ” is not clearly and unequivocally defined either. But let’s say you write down $90,000 on your the government’s 1040 form because you had 90,000 Federal reserve notes in “income.” 90,000 divided by 18 is 5000. So did you have 5000 DOLLARS in income or 90,000 DOLLARS in income? If you only had 5000 DOLLARS in income would you be required to file a 1040 at all?
So were you going 43 in a 45 zone or 187 in a 45 zone?
James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution” in the Federalist Papers which described how the new Constitution would work wrote:
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
So when I am told that Edwin Vieria or Black Law or Bouvier’s 1856 legal dictionary has the answer I ask: Would you look to the Wright Brothers to define what a flying machine is today? Of course not because the meaning has changed.
There is no question of what a dollar WAS in 1787 AD. It was the Spanish Milled Dollar or piece of eight. But Congress then defined it specifically as a weight of silver. They also placed us on the Silver standard. Both of these were authorized and demanded by the Constitution. Then Congress switched us to the Gold standard. That meant a silver dollar was ONLY a dollar in relationship to the gold standard. Then we were taken off the gold standard by traitors, which means we have NO STANDARD. If you have no standard then you cannot define what a dollar is. It is like the speed limit scenario above. If the speed limit is 45 but you do not have a standard like the mile then what does the speed limit mean? Is it 45 MILES per hour or 45 Kilometers and hour? BIG difference. But then what is an hour? What if that measurement was like what we have today for the dollar, “fluid”? That would mean that an hour could be 45 minutes but then what is a minute? What is a cup? What is a gallon? What is a yard? These all have standards but there CURRENTLY is no standard established by Congress as to what a dollar is. There ONCE was a standard. And that standard was changed to the gold standard which means Vieira is wrong if he says what a dollar “IS”. He can only say what a dollar “WAS”. He can even say what it should be. But not what it IS.
Congress, and only Congress, has the absolute authority to make a dollar whatever they want to make it as long as there is a set standard. Should it be silver or gold? I believe it should be but I have transfered, as a Citizen, that authority to Congress through the States. One thing is clear. State can only make gold and silver coin payment in tender of debt and that means that we MUST have gold and/or silver coins. BUT WE DO. Since 1986 we have had them. Only a few people use them but they are in circulation and are legal tender.
Congress made the new silver dollar coin a one ounce coin of .999 pure silver. They could have made it one tenth of an ounce of pure silver and still called it a dollar. The new one ounce silver “dollar” coin could also have been made the standard by Congress, but they have not. I wish the Congress and the courts and the Executive branch would follow the obvious original intent of the Constitution. The meaning of the word dollar in the Constitution is the Spanish milled dollar as there was no such thing as the US dollar when the Constitution was written. But the Constitution is clear that Congress has the power to regulate the value of money and that means that if they so choose the could make a dollar one thousandth of an ounce of pure silver.
But all of this is just debate because until Congress sets the standard and tells us in the law what a dollar is then Assemblyman Beers is 100% correct. The definition of the term dollar “appears to be undecided.”
The United States Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart 127 S.Ct. 1610, *1628 (2007) explained the problem we face quite clearly when they ruled:
“As generally stated, the void-for-vagueness doctrine requires that a penal statute define the criminal offense with sufficient definiteness that ordinary people can understand what conduct is prohibited and in a manner that does not encourage arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”
So do you know what a dollar is?
Do you sign forms under oath or penalties of perjury when you do not know what a dollar is?
Are you committing perjury? Now there is a law that is VERY CLEAR in Nevada.
NRS 199.120 Definition; penalties. A person, having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation in a judicial proceeding or in any other matter where, by law, an oath or affirmation is required and no other penalty is prescribed, who:
1. Willfully makes an unqualified statement of that which he does not know to be true…is guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury, as the case may be, which is a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
So do you KNOW you have income in “dollars”? If not then you commit perjury every time you sign a document saying you have X number of “dollars”?
And if the government tells you you MUST sign it or you will go to jail? Have they committed a crime? Let’s see what the law says:
NRS 199.150 Attempt to suborn perjury. Every person who, without giving, offering or promising a bribe, shall incite or attempt to procure another to commit perjury, or to offer any false evidence, or to withhold true testimony, though no perjury be committed or false evidence offered or true testimony withheld, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
So now the only real question left to ask yourself is: Will I commit perjury this year by signing a 1040 form.
Have a nice day.