“THE MATRIX” in a Nutshell
On this site, we equate “The Matrix” with CIVIL legal membership in the state in some form. Below is the process to recruit you into The Matrix:
- Government delivers two types of protection:
1.1. Civil, which is voluntary. This is most of what government delivers.
1.2. Criminal which is not. This consists of courts and jails. - Governments pay their bills through three mechanisms: sales tax, property tax, and income tax.
2.1. Income tax pays mainly for civil protection, which is voluntary and avoidable. Our position is that it ought to be paid for with fees for services you sign up for like any other business.
2.2. In practice, governments bundle every type of protection together and pay for it all mostly with income tax, which is highly problematic. This destroys choice, competition, autonomy, government accountability, and efficiency by bundling everything together like that and making it all mandatory and giving you no way to avoid the things you don’t want. The following case talks about this scheme:
Union Refrigerator Transit v. Kentucky, 199 U.S. 194 (1905)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14163786757633929654 - Civil legal membership can be voluntary or mandatory:
3.1. It is voluntary for birth or naturalization. This includes political citizens under 8 U.S.C. §1401 and the Fourteenth Amendment. who are ELIGIBLE candidates by virtue of BIRTH and naturalization at 8 U.S.C. §1421.
3.2. It is involuntary for aliens by virtue of physical presence within the country under the presence test at 26 U.S.C. §7701(b)(1)(A). - Beyond birth or naturalization, political citizens can avoid membership by never performing the actions necessary to join.
4.1. Domicile or a privilege election must be added to that POLITICAL eligibility to create the CIVIL subclass of citizen**+D.
4.2. Governments make this avoidance process difficult by making the criteria for consent invisible. See:
Invisible Consent, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/how-you-volunteer/invisible-consent/
4.3. If governments were HONEST, they would unbundle all civil services and force you to sign up for the ones you want and pay on for those at the beginning of the year. This would ensure that the people have choice by controlling government purse strings. Politicians don’t like that level of accountability so they engineered the system to avoid it by abusing their “monopoly powers” over civil protection and making the process of consent during signing up invisible. - If a political citizen by birth or naturalization never elects the CIVIL subclass by consent or assent:
5.1. They receive their CIVIL protection from the common law and the constitution instead of civil statutes so they aren’t lawless or anarchist. Corrupt government workers sometimes try to harass them for leaving the PMA and label them with undeserved stereotypes such as anarchist. See:
Policy Document: Rebutted False Arguments About Sovereignty, Form #08.018
https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/RebFalseArgSovereignty.pdf
5.2. They remain merely a candidate but not a CIVIL member of “the State” as a Private Membership Association. See:
Self, Family, Church, Local Self Governance, and Private Membership Associations (PMAs), SEDM
https://sedm.org/self-family-church-and-local-self-governance/
5.3.. Mere physical presence alone does not constitute consent to receive civil protection and they remain a nonresident everywhere in the WORLD under the presence test at 26 U.S.C. §7701(b)(1). - Income taxes are merely “club dues” for CIVIL members of the subclass who sponsor mainly CIVIL protection. That’s the conclusion of this article:
Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Family Guardian
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/Remedies/DomicileBasisForTaxation.htm - This is most clearly seen in:
7.1. Union Refrigerator Transit v. Kentucky, 199 U.S. 194 (1905)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14163786757633929654
7.2. Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U.S. 714 (1878)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13333263776496540273 - The result of the administrative state and judge “collapsing categories” and equivocating POLITICAL and CIVIL citizenship or using implied consent as the “statutory trigger” is to:
8.1 PRESUME everyone is a CIVIL member so that there are no exclusively private parties OUTSIDE the group who are beyond regulation or taxation.
8.2. Turn all civil legal process into the crime of simulated legal process for those who don’t want to become CIVIL members. “Simulating legal process” is the INVOLUNTARY enforcement of CIVIL membership obligations upon non-members. See:
ORS 162.355
https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_162.355 - You could therefore say that the act by judges and the administrative state to collapse CIVIL Citizen**+D and POLITICIAL citizen* categories into one and equivocate them is to:
8.1 Make make these entities “recruiters” and “marketers” for PRESUMED civil membership.
8.2.Abuse administrative and court apparatus as a form of marketing to produce revenue for the state as “membership dues” called income tax. This funds their own retirement and enhances their power, influence, and jurisdiction. - The previous often occurs unknowingly by the gatekeepers in the administrative state and the courts. They often have no idea what is going on mainly because of legal ignorance and apathy. Cognitive dissonance occurs when pride and a mistaken belief collide with reality about that belief. It just so happens they’re on the payroll. That special interest subconsciously serves to exacerbate their cognitive dissonance and its Dunning-Kruger effect. The reasons for this are explained in the following insightful AI dialog:
Microsoft Copilot: How do you suggest improving our terminology relating to “civil status” in order to reduce the possibility of frivolous accusations?, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/microsoft-copilot-how-do-you-suggest-improving-our-terminology-relating-to-civil-status-in-order-to-reduce-the-possibility-of-frivolous-accusations/ - Legally ignorant victims of this process (sometimes called “sovereign citizens”) try to escape the obligations of CIVIL citizen**+D membership by saying “I’m not a U.S. citizen”, which isn’t true because:
11.1. They are a POLITICAL citizen by virtue of birth or naturalization.
11.2. They don’t understand the difference between POLITICAL citizens* and CIVIL citizens**+D or how the two become connected, which is through a voluntary election of some kind.
11.3. The real problem is that they aren’t aware that the evidence of election is IMPLIED rather than EXPRESS .
11.4. Thus “The retards guard the exit”!
More on the above at:
How You are Illegally Deceived or Compelled to Transition from Being a POLITICAL Citizen to a CIVIL Citizen: By Confusing the Two Contexts, Family Guardian
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/Citizenship/HowCitObfuscated.htm
All the above are a product of the First Amendment right of freedom from compelled association and the Public Rights Doctrine.
See:
The Real Matrix, SEDM
https://sedm.org/media/the-real-matrix/