THE LAW OF THE LAND AND OF THE SKY There is the law of the sky and the law of the land. The law of the sky is what is right and wrong and is guided solely by our own conscience and our sense of oneness and family with other people, 'As he is, so am I'. In our usage right and wrong and moral and immoral are taken to mean the same thing. The law of the sky is NOT the written word of God, for even the written word of God is below the law of the sky. As each being is taken to be an instantiation of God in carnation anyhow, the law of the sky and the unwritten word of God could be considered the same thing. As sovereign beings, our conscience is the ultimate arbiter of all things. Never give your conscience over to the conscience of another to determine what is right and wrong for you. All beings are governed by the law of the sky, and its justice is swift and absolute as the law of the sky works in the now and can never be wrong. This justice however is powered by conscience and regret. In the absence of either, i.e. insanity, there is no justice. In our yearning to protect ourselves from the insane who would break the law of the sky to our detriment while in the realm of the land, we create professional organizations called government to deal with them in a professional and standard manner. In order to guide and control the government we create the law of the land. The law of the land is a human codification of the law of the sky, as best we see it. It delineates the measures the government may take and the penalties the government may impose on those who break the law of the land, and thereby, we presume, the law of the sky. The law of the sky constrains the sovereign citizen. The law of the land constrains the government, that is it constrains the civil servants who have sworn to uphold the law of the land while on duty as the government. If a sovereign citizen steals, lies and commits murder, he is guilty before the law of the sky. The sovereign citizen has not sworn to uphold the law of the land and thus is not beholden to it. If a government official fails to go after him and impose authorized sanctions, he is guilty before the law of the land, for he has sworn to uphold it, and we trust that we will. We voted him into office for just that purpose after all. The law of the sky is a law for the sovereign citizen. The law of the land is a law for the government created by the sovereign citizen. Sovereign citizens have a moral duty to do what is right first and what is legal second. Civil servants have a moral duty to do what is legal first and what is right second. If a civil servant feels that the law of the land is wrong, he may break the law of the land ONLY after turning in his badge as a civil servant and going off duty on the matter. No matter how wrong or unjust a law may be, we do not hire our cops to determine if a law should be enforced or not. That is not their job, they are not competent to do so, and they can not be trusted to do so, as any single human being can turn criminal or become subject to corruption, temptation and seduction at any time. Thus where there is use of force, we have rule by law rather than rule by whim, caprice, greed or fancy. However once any transgression comes to court, the law itself can be put on trial and struck down by the jury, as the law of the land is never above the law of the sky. The idea that there will NEVER be a conflict between conscience and the law of the land is, on the face of it, absurd. There are two main reasons for this. The first is that the law of the land is a human encoding of our understanding of the law of the sky. Thus it is at best always behind our understanding of the law of the sky and law makers may not have recognized or gotten around to encoding things in the law of the land that are in fact wrong. Laws can also be written poorly resulting in confusion and prone to wrong interpretation by others, thus making something illegal which in fact is not wrong. The main reason though for corruption in the law of the land is because when lawmakers outlaw criminals, criminals become lawmakers. Then government, which should be of the people, by the people, for the people, becomes government of the people by the government, for the government. Laws written by criminals inure to the benefit of criminals. The law of the land suffers many overwhelming pressures in the direction of criminality, those of big money, big religion, and big science to name a few. Those are the influences from the outside. With criminal influences entrenched with in the law also, the problem becomes doubly compounded. A criminal from the outside meets criminal from the inside and a deal is made to the detriment of the people. Thus the law of the land becomes corrupted with laws designed to benefit criminals in power, rather than the people as a whole. When someone claims that something is right to do just because it is legal, when in fact it is wrong, that is called 'hiding behind the law'. When someone claims that something is wrong or immoral just because it is illegal, that is. also 'hiding behind the law'. The law of the land does not DEFINE right and wrong, but merely decribes our understanding of it, and sets sanction limits on what the government can do about it. In the dictionary, there are two definitions for the word 'criminal'. The first means someone who has done something illegal. This is the criminally corrupted definition of it. The second means someone who has done something immoral or wrong, (morally bankrupt). For our purposes criminality is the intent to violate a fair chosen transaction between two people either by deceit or force. We grant the government rights to use force to protect us from the treasonous intent and use of force by the criminal against our well being. Illegality and immorality (right and wrong) are two completely different subjects. Immorality hopefully determines illegality, but illegality must never determine immorality. Governments that are no longer by the people, for the people, just delight in making people think that the law of the land DETERMINES right and wrong for the people. You can always tell a criminal government by this one test. What determines right and wrong? The law of the sky or the law of the land? The law of the land determinmes right and wrong FOR THE GOVERNMENT. The law of the sky determines right and wrong for everyone else. When and if there is a conflict between conscience and the law of the land, one has a moral duty to follow one's conscience and not the law of the land, or else one is in violation of the law of the sky! And let me tell you, the punishments of Earth can not hold a candle to the punishments of the Sky, your conscience under the pall of regret. When a being dies and gets to the Pearly Gates, Gabriel will not be asking you if you did what was legal. He will ask you if you did what was right. If you answer, "But I could not do what was right because the law forbade it", or "I had to do what was wrong because the law insisted on it", it will not reflect well on you, it will be as if you said nothing. For you will not be forgiven in any measure for your transgressions for the law of the land is no excuse for transgressions against the law of the sky. When the court judge asks you 'How do you justify breaking the law?', the correct answer is "I am a sovereign citizen, and I have never sworn to uphold the law, as civil servants and foreign nationals seeking citizen ship have, and thus I have and need no justification for breaking the law. When the law and my conscience come into conflict, I have a moral MANDATE to do what is right first, and what is legal second, regardless of consequences on the Earthly plane. I do not give my conscience over to the conscience of other beings to determine what is right and wrong for me." When the court judge asks you "Do you believe you are above the law?", the correct answer is "Only the law of the sky is above the law of the land. If I chose to follow my conscience rather than the law of the land, I must accept full responsibility for any consequences that might befall me in the realm of the land for doing so. As sovereign citizen it is my job to do what is right at all times. As judge it is your job to enforce the law of the land right or wrong. As the jury it is YOUR job to determine if the law IS right or wrong and then adjudicate my guilt before the law of the land accordingly." Where the jury is not allowed to determine if a law is right or wrong, you have a criminal government operating in that area, that is trying to push the law of the land as the law of the sky. Termination with prejudice may be called for. Homer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Homer Wilson Smith The Paths of Lovers Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 KC2ITF Cross Internet Access, Ithaca NY homer@lightlink.com In the Line of Duty http://www.lightlink.com Mon Dec 8 17:44:56 EST 2008