n 1917 Woodrow Wilson's Congress enacted the Trading With the Enemy Act to regulate—not forbid—trade with belligerent nations. The language of this piece of legislation defined precisely who was, and who was not, an enemy of the United States. Specifically excluded from that classification were the citizens of the United States. That was an oversight that would be corrected three days after Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the mantle of the presidency on March 6, 1933.

During the first 100 days of FDR's administration, Congress passed a litany of legislative programs ostensibly designed to stimulate the economy and send America back to work. Most of this legislation was expediently enacted with about as much congressional forethought as the Emergency Banking Relief Act. A great deal of it, like the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Congressional Gold Repeal Joint Resolution, violated the Constitution of the United States, and portions of those acts would be declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1935.

The first of three laws designed to wrestle control of the united States away from the States and the people was engineered on May 9, 1933. This 'law', enacted without a single Congressman or Senator reading it—and after only 40 minutes of debate in both houses of Congress, by both parties—was the Emergency Banking Relief Act.

There were at least two reasons Roosevelt didn't want Congress looking too closely at the language of the Emergency Banking Relief Act. First, it restructured the banking system of the united States and placed even more monetary control in the hands of the central bankers. Second, it gave Roosevelt war powers control over the 'United States of America' in peacetime. But most important, it changed the language of the Trading with the Enemy Act, effectively classifying the 'citizens' of the 'United States' as the enemies of their own central government !   And, it did one other thing. It granted Roosevelt (or whomever would follow him into the White House) the right to re-define the ownership of private property in the United States !

Such re-definition was necessary since the war powers authority Roosevelt was being accorded to deal with the current national emergency of 1932-33 granted him the right to seize the property of those who failed to comply with the 'laws' which were being enacted. The right to seize the property of American citizens without due process would be one of the paramount weapons the government would continue to use long after the "emergency" expired. It would be a much-used weapon by the Internal Revenue Service, which has not hesitated to seize any asset or property of any American citizen without due process since 1934.   In the last few years, that right has also been assumed by State and federal police agencies who now seize the assets of drug dealers and those charged with violations of the RICO act at the time of arrest, not conviction. Gone forever is the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

Municipalities do the same when they seize the vehicles driven by johns arrested for seeking the illicit pleasures of prostitutes in hundreds of sting operations launched each year by countless brigades of city and county police agencies throughout the country. All such laws, regardless of their deterrent qualities, and regardless if they are upheld by the courts, violate the Constitution of the United States because they deny the accused the right to due process before seizure takes place—an inalienable right they possess under the Constitution of the United States.

It is a troubling sign of our times that 'courts of law' in America, regardless of the compelling interest of society to eradicate the proliferation of illegal drugs that are taking such a devastating toll on human life and dignity, while breeding all other forms of crime from petty larceny to murder, would wantonly violate the Constitution of the United States under the guise of providing a safer and more secure America since rights willingly surrendered by the people are never regained.

The re-definition of private property rights is found in Senate Document 43 that examined, and attempted to justify, the ramifications of the powers delegated to the President under the War Powers Act albeit after-the-fact. On page 9 of that document, the Senate brazenly declared: "The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called 'ownership' is only by virtue of the Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user..." That particular facet of Document 43, further clarified by Senate Report 93-549, has become 'codified' by precedent.

[ Note - This is a blatant attack on the Constitution of course, which states that NO  government, Federal or State, can OWN  property; our Founders made that very  clear that all property was to be OWNED by the PEOPLE !  They further stated that by the PEOPLE OWNING THE LAND, it made for a strong, stable nation.  The ONLY property that the 'government' was to OWN or have jurisdiction over  in the way of making laws - was the 10 miles square of the Federal City (Washington DC) that was donated by the state of Virginia.  For this Federal monster to just 'declare' all lands to be in the "ownership" of the Government and only by "virtue" deemed to people and seized back on whim, is totally illegal and UN-Constitutional !  That is NOT a Free Republic - that is a DICTATORSHIP ! 

Laws have a legal Constitutional process that they MUST go though in order to BE a REAL law - First it has to be shown that it is approved by the people and that THEY WANT IT, and that it is for the BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE, NOT GOVERNMENT !  Then it has to be drawn up as a bill and discussed in the legislature.  Then it has to be voted on.  THEN it goes to the Senate to go through that process all over again.  The President, even with all his self-endowed "powers" cannot MAKE A LAW !  Neither can the Senate just create a law !  That is NOT Constitutional or legal ! Even all those Presidential Executive Orders are UN-Constitutional - for those are just a President writing up his own law !   DICTATORS DO THIS !  It cannot be done, even though this so-called 'Federal Government' has been doing it via all the Elitist Presidents we have had since Lincoln !  Lincoln began it all !  Does THIS show you how far we are from the REAL GOVERNMENT OUR FOUNDERS ESTABLISHED !?  Are your eyes OPEN yet ?  When the untied States of our Founders was turned into the "Untied States of America" = a Corporation, and a Foreign entity Corporation at that, America as a Free Republic, ceased to exist !  1860 was called the year America and the Founders Constitution DIED !  That is TRUE !  WE have been in the hands of Elitists and their Elitist controlled system ever since !  When they call this the "Government of Lincoln"  = THEY MEAN IT LITERALLY !  Lincoln was an Elitist dictator and he established the foundation for the One World Government (OWG) !  THAT was what the Civil War was really over !  It had nothing to do with Slavery !  Slavery was an Elitist ploy of cover up and manipulation.  And I hate to say it, but facts are facts - the Federal US Flag "Old Glory" and other nicknames it has been 'warmly' given over the years to make the public feel all cuddly over it so they embrace it, IS THE REAL FLAG OF SLAVERY  !  NOT the CONFEDERATE FLAG which has been  LABELED BY THE FEDERAL CORPORATE UNION AS SUCH, - - for the  CONFEDERACY and THEIR FLAG WERE THE TRUE FLAG  OF TRUE FREEDOM -  and the Civil War was a war FOR FREEDOM and TO PROTECT  our Founder's Constitution that Lincoln had shredded to death in his establishing of his dictatorial OWG base he created !!  THE US flag stands for what the Federal Corporate monster stands for = complete dictatorship and control over everyone !

Can you imagine the reaction from the people if they knew this truth, after lifetimes of all the programming they have had from this Federal Corporation !?   I use to tear up at the sight of the Federal U.S. flag - and then my eyes were opened to the truth and now all I feel is entrapment when I see it !  It makes me cringe at the sight of it, knowing what it REALLY stands for and to know how so many DECEIVED lives were so bravely given FOR that flag, lives that never knew what they were really dying for and representing !  Precious, brave lives innocently offered in (planned) battles for a dictatorship of One World Government (OWG).  Lives and minds that were USED and programmed and manipulated to be robotic slaves for the OWG purposes !  Now that is what I see when I see the Federal US Flag,  and I tear up for an entirely different reason now !

What flag do I fly ?  Why the TRUE FLAG OF FREEDOM - THE CONFEDERATE NATIONAL FLAG OF COURSE  !  The Battle Flag that most people use to see, over 100 thousand black soldiers PROUDLY fought under for the Confederate States of America !  The black people back then KNEW THE TRUTH - they certainly wouldn't have fought and given their lives under a flag of their own slavery now would they !?  The Federal Corporate Union (that calls itself "our government"), turned everyone's minds against this brave Confederate flag - telling them manipulated lies that it stood for slavery and was not 'Politically Correct' and could not be sold in stores anymore, - which it hasn't been for many years now.  EVERYTHING YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD AND TAUGHT ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR YEARS HAS BEEN A TOTAL LIE AND FEDERAL ELITIST DECEPTION !   Hate to burst your Federal fantasy bubble world, but the TRUTH really does hurt ( I know that personally), but it's better to have a slap from a friend, then a kiss from the enemy ! .........  Carrie.]

As the Senate began to examine exactly what powers they had granted the President by amending the Trading With the Enemy Act on March 9, 1933, they concluded that: "Under these powers the president may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private industry; restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens." (Senate Report 93-549.)  [There are also several Presidential Executive Orders with these same terms in them - terms that PROVE what this Elitist Federal Corporate monster had in mind all along !  FULL DICTATORSHIP ! ...Carrie ]

It is important to note that every dictatorship in the modern world has abrogated the rights of private ownership, seized property at will, organized and controlled all production within its society, seized and controlled the transportation infrastructure of the nation, nationalized communications to censor the free expression of opinion and restricted the movement of its citizens. This is usually done with an 'internal passport' which the 'citizens' of every authoritarian country are required to carry with them at all times. Whenever these steps are taken by any government, democracy dies a bittersweet death and totalitarianism is born in the ashes of lost freedom.

The Roosevelt brain trust, in paving the way for Roosevelt to implement his New Deal programs, privately acknowledged that most of the economic and social programs they were constructing even before Roosevelt assumed the White House, would be legally problematic when viewed in the context of the Constitutionality of a United States president's authority in peacetime. In times of war, the Constitution allows for the broadening (but not self-endowment of powers) of presidential powers by the Chief Executive to deal with extraneous, albeit temporary, emergencies that seriously threaten the security and welfare of the nation.

However, in 1933 America was not at war. It was a dilemma the brain trust would quickly solve by modifying the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 to include any national emergency. In doing so, it was also necessary to redefine the enemy since the extraneous authority granted the President under the terms of Public Law 91 was directed only at the enemies, and allies of the enemies, of the United States. A peacetime application of the Trading With the Enemy Act without some form of universal modification that would allow Roosevelt to apply the tenets of that law against the citizens of the United States would be meaningless.

Public Law 1, stemming from H.R. 1491, will long be remembered both as the bill nobody read and the legislation that gave the President of the United States dictatorial power over America. As Americans, many of us criticize those citizens who blindly vote for candidates based solely on their political affiliation without possessing any knowledge of the issues at stake in the election in which they are casting their ballots. Yet, in the Congress of the United States, on March 9, 1933, those we elected to represent us before the federal government of the United States did precisely that very thing themselves. Is it any wonder the electorate of America has a herd mentality?

What happened that day in 1933 is more terrifying than the stock market crash and the ensuing Depression combined !!  Clearly those we elected, and continue to elect, no longer represent the constituents who placed them in office and have not for several years. Most career politicians have been 'institutionalized' and clearly represent only the interests of big government and the special interest groups that contribute massive amounts to keep them in office so they can manipulate the reins of government from behind the scenes in the 'name of' the general public they are sworn to serve ! 

The special session of Congress that met on March 9, 1933 did so because the President of the United States called them to address a 'national emergency' (remember we were NOT at war !)  of such 'extraordinary proportions'  that it required extraordinary legislation to cope with the 'crisis'. If that fact, in and of itself, was not a red flag (pardon the pun), the failure to read the legislation being considered for rushed passage (another red flag), or the preamble of the legislation itself should have been.

"Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby declares that a serious emergency exists and that it is imperatively necessary speedily to put into effect remedies of uniform national application.

TITLE I. Section 1. The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March 4, 1933, pursuant to the authority conferred by subsection (b) of section 5 of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are hereby approved and confirmed."

A very large red flag was being waved.  (Talk about a big rip off of the American people of their freedoms and rights and Constitution !  He spoke of a "crisis" that did NOT exist, and created dictatorial powers for the Federal Corp "Government" President !  The only 'crisis' is that the Federal monster saw that THEY needed special "laws" to give THEM extreme controlling dictatorial powers in time of peace !  To THEM THAT was an 'emergency' !  Another fact that is not well known - this Corporate Federal monster set it up so that America is perpetually at a 'state of war' so that guaranteed the President dictatorial powers at ALL times ! ...CT)

The Emergency Banking Relief Bill began with an admission that the new President and his Treasury Secretary had already broken the law; and were now seeking not only retroactive exoneration for those deeds, but absolution from future infractions of the Constitution as well. [Bush has just done this also, forcing the Congress to give him a special law so he would never be held accountable for all his many crimes while in office !]  Clearly, Roosevelt and Attorney General Homer Cummings did not want Congress scrutinizing the bill too closely because some of the very subtle textual changes they made in their revisions of the Act of October 6, 1917 might not stand up under the light of day.

Many Congressmen believed the only revisions were those found in Section 5(b) (italicized). "During time of war or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President, the President may, through any agency he may designate, or otherwise, investigate, regulate, or prohibit, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, by means of license or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credits between or payments by banking institutions as defined by the President, and export, hoarding, melting, or earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency, by any person within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof..."

In fact, the Act of October 6, 1917 expressly forbade the President from interfering in banking transactions executed wholly within the United States. Furthermore, Public Law 91, Chapter 106, declares itself to be "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes" - none of which dealt with citizens of the United States, clearly defined by Section 2(c): "(c) Such other individuals, or body or class of individuals, as may be natives, citizens, or subjects of any nation with which the United States is at war, other than citizens of the United States..." Again, we see the same exclusion. As defined under the Act of October 6, 1917, American citizens were exempted from the classification of an "enemy." However, in the Roosevelt version, the only people under scrutiny for punitive action are American citizens or those who haplessly fall within the jurisdiction of the United States government. Roosevelt sought, and was granted by Congress, power to engage in an economic war against the people of the United States ! 

(It is so ironic that on Roosevelt's memorial, the engraving on the stone wall of it  says  words against the One World Order, Government corruption and dictatorship - the very things he himself endorsed and secretly did his part to create !!  Shows how utterly DECEPTIVE all Government officials have been for the past 147 years !  AND it is very interesting how NONE of the pictures of that memorial mentions this write !  They give all his own quotes he was known for, but NOT THIS ONE !)

It may well be that the only use Roosevelt intended to make of the expanded war powers authority was to protect his Administration from any potential problems that could have arisen from assuming perogatives he did not legally possess when he closed the banks over which he had no Constitutional authority. More likely than not, either he or his brain trust—or both—realized that his far-reaching socialist agenda to nationalize the industrial base of America would usurp not only the separation of powers between the executive, judicial and legislative branches of the federal government, but would create insurmountable sovereignty issues between the federal government and the States as well. Realizing that, possessing supra-wartime powers would weigh heavily in disputes with either the States or with Congress.

On September 14, 1976 Congress passed H.R. 3884, the National Emergencies Act (50 USC 1601), Public Law 94-412, to terminate the broad powers previously granted to the President. Exempted from the law were any and all actions taken before the bill became law; or, any fines, assessments or penalties due the government from those actions.

However, what Congress erased with one hand, it rewrote with the other. The only thing permanently taken from the President was autonomy. Section 201.(a) granted virtually the same powers to the Congress, which must now authorize the President to declare states of national emergencies that he could formerly do without their consent.

This slight of hand was important to Congress because it allows Congress, through a concurrent resolution, to terminate any state of emergency declared by the President. (NOW IF THEY WOULD ONLY USE IT !)  Retained, almost in its entirety, was the infamous Section 5(b) which classified the citizens of the United States as enemies of their government. The Trading With the Enemy Act has now been duly 'codified', and is now a permanent part of the U.S. Federal Code. And the American people have permanently been classified as enemies of their federal government !

Jon Christian Ryter
www.jonchristianryter.com