Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 11/06/2005 - 17:07.
The "Circle 7 Koran" of the Noble Drew Ali is online.
There certainly were birth certificates and drivers' licenses during the period that Noble Drew preached (1915-29).
The 14th Amendment doesn't do all the sinister things that have been attributed to it. Its intent when it was ratified in 1866 was to ensure full citizenship rights for the freed slaves. It has been interpreted by the courts to also grant certain rights (e.g. First Amendment) to corporations as "legal persons," which is highly problematic, and there is now a movement to reverse this doctrine (see Reclaim Democracy, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy). However, all this prattle about how the 14th amendment fundamentally changed the nature of citizenship is pretty far off the mark. Here's the text, read it yourself:
Article XIV.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,(See Note 15) and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. (Online at www.house.gov)
I caution my Moorish friends once again: the "sovereign citizen" concept has its roots among people who really reject the 14th Amendment for entirely racist reasons. The doctrine that the 14th Amendment created "two classes" of citizens ("sovereign" or "organic" and "14th amendment" or "admiralty law") is derived from the simple unwillingness to accept non-whites as full citizens. They mix this notion up with the "two-seed" theory of the Christian Identity movement, holding that non-whites are the offspring of Satan. So there is a certain irony that this doctrine has been taken up by the Moorish movement...
See also this very interesting letter from a Montana Lutheran minister challenging the racist theories of the Montana Freemen, from High Country News, April 28, 1997
The inconvenient facts and unanswered questions surrounding the attacks are legion, but the endemic sloppiness of the self-styled "researchers" is delegitimizing the entire project of critiquing the "official version." The ostentatiously named "Truth movement" is not clearing the air, but muddying the water.
WW4 Report pamphlets
WAR AT THE CROSSROADS
An Historical Guide Through the Balkan Labyrinth
The Balkan region is intensely multicultural - a point of crossroads and clash for some of the world's major religions, cultural spheres, and economic systems. While there have been vicious wars in Balkan history, these have taken place in the context of manipulation by imperial powers and the self-serving local leaders who cater to them.
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Some clarifications
The "Circle 7 Koran" of the Noble Drew Ali is online.
There certainly were birth certificates and drivers' licenses during the period that Noble Drew preached (1915-29).
The 14th Amendment doesn't do all the sinister things that have been attributed to it. Its intent when it was ratified in 1866 was to ensure full citizenship rights for the freed slaves. It has been interpreted by the courts to also grant certain rights (e.g. First Amendment) to corporations as "legal persons," which is highly problematic, and there is now a movement to reverse this doctrine (see Reclaim Democracy, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy). However, all this prattle about how the 14th amendment fundamentally changed the nature of citizenship is pretty far off the mark. Here's the text, read it yourself:
I caution my Moorish friends once again: the "sovereign citizen" concept has its roots among people who really reject the 14th Amendment for entirely racist reasons. The doctrine that the 14th Amendment created "two classes" of citizens ("sovereign" or "organic" and "14th amendment" or "admiralty law") is derived from the simple unwillingness to accept non-whites as full citizens. They mix this notion up with the "two-seed" theory of the Christian Identity movement, holding that non-whites are the offspring of Satan. So there is a certain irony that this doctrine has been taken up by the Moorish movement...
See Militia Fever by Janet Biehl
See also this very interesting letter from a Montana Lutheran minister challenging the racist theories of the Montana Freemen, from High Country News, April 28, 1997