ORIGINAL TEXT ASSUME THE FOLLOWING The United States is bankrupt and has been since 1933. The government has no gold or silver as required by the Constitution. The only asset left is the people. So how does the U.S. finance daily operations? Solution; collateralize people for credit. How? By registering them in international commerce, and selling bonds on them. The people become the surety on the bonds, or the "pledge". The asset bonded (surety) is the "energy" or the labor of the people which is payable at some undetermined future date. Thus, the people become the "utility" for the "transmission" of energy. Result, a very sophisticated form of peonage and the Constitution does not apply because the government, on all levels, is thrown into international commerce, the law merchant, now known as the Uniform Commercial Code. [See Public Law 88 -- 244 in which the U.S. subscribed to private international law. See definition of "goods" under the UCC at 2 -- 105 (1) and 9-- 105 (1) in which animals, i.e. -- humans and their unborn offspring, become "goods" sellable in commerce.] When a baby is born in the United States, a birth certificate is registered with the Bureau of Vital Statistics in the state of birth. The keyword here it is "registered"; as in, registered in international commerce. The baby becomes the surety, whose energy is due at some future date. When the Birth Certificate is registered in the U.S. Department a Commerce, the Department of Treasury issues a bond on the Birth Certificate and the bond is sold at some securities exchange and perhaps bought by the Federal Reserve Bank at the Deposit Trust Corp. at 55 Water Street, in New York City, about two blocks down the street from the Fed. It is a high-rise office building and the sign out front reads: "The Tower of Power". When the Birth Certificate is registered, a separate legal entity is created; a mirror image of the real flesh and blood. This separate entity, or alter ego (THE ALL CAPITAL LETTER NAME) is the "straw man" (See Blacks sixth edition dictionary). And it is the “accommodation party” of UCC 3 -415. The name is credit. (see Blacks 6th. “Accommodation party”). Therefore the right (or the use) has been separated from the title (or deed). The “"straw man” holds the title (he belongs to the government's client who bought the bond/title) and the flesh and blood man has only naked possession with the limited “right” to use the thing (like his body or his alleged possessions and land, which now becomes “usury” of another title/property). Maybe that's why our civil rights suits get dismissed outof-court on Civil Rule 12 (B.) (6) Motions. These Motions deal with the "failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted". A claim is another word for "title". So we have "failed to state a title upon which relief can be granted". We do not own the "title" even to our own bodies anymore. When the straw-man violates some rule or statute (for instance a traffic ticket), the flesh and blood man must appear at the arraignment and admit the straw-man's name (credit). The “energy” on the surety is due and payable by the flesh and blood man who is in use [usury] of the straw man. This is why it is so important to "voluntarily give" your name to the magistrate. The defendant is the strawman. The flesh and blood man is the “offender”. An “offender” is on the offensive team until he screws up and goes on the defensive with the defendant and loses. So if this scenario is correct, how does one get back the bond that has been sold on the Birth Certificate? And then how does one get in control of his body and his property?