March 8, 2007 journal, Ben Graydon in comprehensive analysis of the dilemma of nation well researched and documented to the extent that I can add nothing to improve message. "A year or so ago, I put a new name on the column that I write for our local paper - "The Red Pill." It was a reference to the allegorical movie, The Matrix, which depicts a world where things are not as they seem. "We live in a matrix - the world that has been pulled over our eyes." It has been an adventure and a challenge for me to discover that truth for myself and to tell others about it - thus my offering of The Red Pill. But often we get so bogged down in the awful reality that what appears to be a legitimate arena of struggle is not really focused on freeing us but, rather, on enslaving us, that we miss the bigger point: there is freedom to be had - and the good guys are winning! ... just not through the default structures within that arena. For example ... In the arena of law, we discover that the legal system that we deal with mostly is not the legal system authorized by and described in the Constitution of the United States of America but, rather, a series of private courts of equity run by private bar associations. The law to which we find ourselves captive is not Constitutional law but contract law overseen by administrative courts under admiralty/maritime jurisdiction, and we place ourselves under those jurisdictions voluntarily by contract. That is shocking and hard to believe for most people, including most attorneys, who know only what they have been taught in bar-run law schools. But if learning that startling truth leads one to fight back within the system, in most cases one will lose, because bringing one's arguments into a private court system concedes jurisdiction (their authority over us, like it or not) and, further, the system is designed not to be defeated by outsiders. (That is why in order to "practice" law, one must have a "license," but no such license exists; it is only a membership card in the bar association - a private organization.) But one can still be victorious in law if one knows the hierarchy of the law and its rules and if one is willing to step outside of the pseudo legal system that is actually enslaving him. And people who really know the law and are well-disposed to use it are winning every day. In the arena of education, we are shown falling literacy rates, high drop-out rates, low test scores, school bus and building problems, etc. - all items supposedly requiring more money, smaller class sizes, more teachers, longer school days, more after school programs, etc. But none of these things have anything to do with education. When we study the history of education in America and listen to its experts tell us their plans for us, we cannot deny the truth: that the institutional education system (whether government-run or, by government permission, church-run) is intentionally designed to dumb us down in order to keep us captive to the system and to make human resources of us. If the existing government education system is about control, not education - and it is - we err greatly when we let that system define "education" for us in any way. Running for the school board, fighting for more local control or to "put parents in charge," etc. - even, in most cases, sending our children to a private school under some other institutional structure - misses the point and only validates and extends the life of that bogus structure. But if parents understand that the education of their own children is their parental responsibility alone and they take charge of that education on their own, their children will be well educated...and the prospects for the survival of intelligent human life on this planet get brighter. It is a fearful thing to the government-run that hundreds of thousands of parents across the nation are doing just that - educating their own children in their homes to carry their own values into succeeding generations - and it is the single greatest hope for the future of mankind. In healthcare and medicine, we find that the focus of the "medical" system is on keeping us captive to that system, not on healing and keeping us well. We do not need cheaper drugs and better prescription drug insurance plans. We do not need more allopathic hospitals and doctors (the leading cause of death in the USA). The human body does not get sick due to lack of chemical drugs, yet chemical drugs are the primary solution offered by the existing system...because of one thing - money. Cancer still exists for only one reason: because cancer "treatment" is a multi-billion dollar industry. Vaccination programs, which stop no disease but cause untold handicaps and sickness, exist for only one reason: they put huge amounts of money into the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry. And now state legislatures are voting into existence vulgar "laws" to require the vaccination of sweet, innocent little girls with even more toxins to protect them from supposedly potential disease results of living the state-ordained lifestyle! Obscene! (Off with their heads!) This medical cartel does not define health, except perhaps in juxtaposition to its opposite. Patch us up when we have a bad accident, yes, that they can do very well, but about how to heal or make us healthy they do not have a clue. So if we live as if that system does not exist, and if we eat properly and find and use God's natural healing solutions, we can enjoy great health outside of the so-called "health-care" system...and many are. Hundreds of thousands of people everywhere are living healthy lives without doctors and hospitals and man-made drugs, and when the government has to pass a law to require the administration of a dangerous drug - while certainly cause to fight back - it is further proof that the forces of truth are winning. In the arena of money and banking, we find, again, a system that is built upon nothing but its own perpetuation and control. Paper money that is backed by nothing is not money at all, and banks that lend "credit" (do so outside of the law, and) lend nothing at all and create no real, substantial debt. We deal there not in actual money commodities with real value but paper instruments of debt and credit - trading one debt obligation for another. All of it is fraudulent; there is no actual debt. When one gives over a mortgage on his house with the intent of borrowing money to buy it, he borrows nothing that costs the bank money but only "credit" created by his own signature on a promise to pay. The banks are laughing all the way to ... yeah, the bank! It is possible to stand and fight this fraud, and occasionally one may even win a small victory (in, remember, a private court of equity bought and paid for by the money masters who created it), but if we ignore the banks and find other ways to obtain goods and services by trading things with actual value - by barter and private contract - banker control of our lives will become a thing of the past. Everywhere that people are returning to a barter system or using real silver and gold for money, the white hats are winning another battle. In the arena of the institutional church, as we look deeply and honestly into the scriptures and history, we find that organized religion is anything but the church of the New Testament, let alone a pathway to God. If one remains conditioned to believe that this pseudo church is where we must belong and if one tries to reform it from within, one will suffer great pain and have little success: the "church fathers," under their self-assumed, extra-Biblical and strictly man-made "authority," will stomp the reformer down as a heretic. The institutional church is not the New Testament church but is, rather, the most dangerous and effective mechanism ever created to lead souls to put their trust in something other than our Creator - the very definition of idolatry. (Not to mention how the institutional church, granted "privileged" status by government, has been used to effectively rein in resistance to unlawful government.) If we realize, therefore, that the institutional church is not what it seems to be, that it cannot define or direct our personal relationship with our Creator, and that we are the church, we can live within the real church as God intended and not be distracted by false idols. Many, many people across America are rediscovering the joy of the New Testament church as they shun the variety show they always knew as Sunday morning church services and, instead, get into each others lives on a daily basis and act as the true church, caring for the sick and needy around them and carrying the message of the true gospel of Christ into their communities by their lives rather than recited words and canned prayers. In the arena of politics and government, if we believe that the existing two-party system and apparently-Constitutional structures and apparatuses of government are the legitimate mechanisms of self-protection and of bringing about change in the world, we will be frustrated to discover that, in fact, those are actually tools that have been carefully crafted to control us. But we cannot allow government to define government. Furthermore, we will never get less of something by dishing up more of it, yet millions of people have been conditioned to believe that the thing that makes America free is our freedom-protecting government and that, therefore, we need more of it! Ridiculous! Government is not the protector of freedom; it is the antithesis of it. On the other hand, if we know who we are and if we govern ourselves without government, we can know true freedom from those who would enslave us via political means. While this is probably the idea that is most slowly catching on, many people are starting to ask hard questions, from the 9/11 truth movement and those who are questioning the extra-Constitutional war in Iraq to those who are asking, rightfully, what law requires them to pay an income tax. Once a critical plurality of people discovers that the Constitution is effectively a dead instrument today, it could well form the nucleus necessary for returning to the nation of our founding. The problem for most is that we regard the prevailing structural entities in all of these arenas as legitimately involved in the fight for our betterment in that arena. We get upset when we find that those structures and their goals are actually about self-perpetuation and not about our good, but when we respond, it is most often to fight back within the existing structure, thus conceding their default definitions of each problem area and its solutions. We do not stop to realize that the very act of fighting within the structure serves to legitimize the structure when, in fact, the structure is the source of the problem in that arena and not the solution to the problem. Dedicated people all across the land go into education because they want to help children, into law because they want to defend the innocent, into medicine because they want to heal the sick, into church work because they want to lead the lost to God, and into government and politics because they want to make the world a better place, but the default choice for most of them is not what it seems. Yes, we can find freedom and fulfillment in every one of those arenas, but the first step in each must be to forsake the existing system as being anything other than an adversary in the true fight for deliverance and freedom in that arena. If we allow ourselves to define the problems that we discover in each arena in terms of the default structural entities there - the A.B.A. legal system, the A.M.A. medical system, the P.T.A. / N.E.A. education system, the Red State / Blue State political system, the institutional church system, etc. - then as we learn the truth about the history and true status of each of those arenas, we may feel rightfully defeated, for there is little hope to be found in those systems, whether in getting real solutions in each area where they deal or in reforming the entities that control each arena. But when we seek truth and find solutions in each arena outside of the controlling entities - when we find and define health outside of the "healthcare" system, when we find and define legal solutions outside of the martial rule courts and bar associations, when we find and define church outside of the man-made institutional church, when we find and define education and values-laden societal perpetuation outside of the institutional education system, when we find and define financial freedom outside of the banking systems - we see clearly that we are WINNING in each arena, and that the prospects for the future are very good. Got that? - We are winning; we are not losing! The losers are the entities that had previously captivated us and kept us captive in each of these arenas by our ignorance and by getting us to play by their rules alone, but they lose more every time one of us learns the truth about them and leaves them behind. So do not waste time and energy joining organizations and supporting efforts that aim at reforming these bogus systems. Join the fight for truth! Know who you are, and define the real problems and effective solutions for yourself! Participate only with groups and networks of individuals who know and perpetuate the truth, not those that react and jump at knee-jerk solutions within the existing structures - the ones that actually are the source of the problem. And if you do not know where to begin, please contact me. I promise you that I can set you on the pathway to truth and freedom. Copyright (c)2007, Ben Graydon Readers are encouraged to respond by posting on our online discussion forum (see below). If you are not a subscriber, please accept this complimentary sample issue. If you would like to get regular weekly articles written by Ben Graydon, plus access to the (coming) Members Only archive of articles at www.BenGraydon.com , an annual donation of $25 is requested. 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