“Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.”
[1 Peter 2:17, Bible, NKJV]
Jeremiah’s Letter to the [Christian] Captives [in Babylon, the place of confusion, which is what modern secular America has become]
4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive [Identity Theft, Form #14.020], whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: 5 Build houses and dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit. 6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be [LEGALLY] carried away captive [using government identity theft, Form #05.046], and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace. 8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the Lord.
10 For thus says the Lord: After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
[Jer. 29:4-14, Bible, NKJV]
While this website does focus extensively upon government corruption, we also go out of our way to protect, encourage, and even subsidize LAWFUL exercises of governmental power. The purpose of this page is to identify those efforts in detail.
Efforts by SEDM to protect lawful exercises of governmental power include:
- We advocate separation of church and state, which is a frequent point of advocacy of liberals. God says our BODIES are a temple (1 Cor. 3:17), which means Christians must legally and CIVILLY separate themselves from a pagan secular state.
1.1 For a description of the origin of that separation, see:
Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Form #05.002.
1.2 For a description of the RIGHT to separate, see:
Your Exclusive Right to Declare or Establish Your Civil Status, Form #13.008 - By focusing on legal education and law enforcement, we:
2.1 Save the government considerable funds enforcing laws because they are less likely to be broken by a legally informed populace who know their rights and respect the rights of others.
2.2 Reduce needless congestion in the courts if ignorant freedom fighters arguing stupid issues.
2.3 Make justice affordable to all by teaching people how to litigate without licensed attorneys who have a conflict of allegiance and interest in most cases. - By focusing on civics, we are saving the public schools the expense of having to teach it, which they obviously have no interest whatsoever in doing, even though this used to be a common subject in public school. See: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch admits it is important to teach civics, and by implication law, to the American people to preserve our freedoms, SEDM Exhibit #02.013
- Membership in our ministry requires complete, PERSONAL, and exclusive responsibility of all members for their choices and actions. The following article on this site concludes this approach makes the courts UNNECESSARY if fully implemented:
The Key to True Justice - We discourage people from becoming what the courts call a “public charge”, meaning a government dependent. Thus, we prevent any and all government entitlements that might cause the fiscal suicide of this country and the debts and deficits that they create. You can’t use our materials in connection with any government benefit, handout, or privilege. This is also confirmed by the warning at the bottom of our website opening page beginning with:
“People of all races, genders, political beliefs, sexual orientations, and nearly all religions are welcome here. All are treated equally under REAL “law”. The only way to remain truly free and equal under the civil law is to avoid seeking government civil services, benefits, property, special or civil status, exemptions, privileges, or special treatment. All such pursuits of government services or property require individual and lawful consent to a franchise and the surrender of inalienable constitutional rights AND EQUALITY in the process, and should therefore be AVOIDED. The rights and equality given up are the “cost” of procuring the “benefit” or property from the government, in fact. Nothing in life is truly “free”. Anyone who claims that such “benefits” or property should be free and cost them nothing is a thief who wants to use the government as a means to STEAL on his or her behalf. All just rights spring from responsibilities/obligations under the laws of a higher power. If that higher power is God, you can be truly and objectively free. If it is government, you are guaranteed to be a slave because they can lawfully set the cost of their property as high as they want as a Merchant under the U.C.C. If you want it really bad from people with a monopoly, then you will get it REALLY bad. Bend over. There are NO constitutional limits on the price government can charge for their monopoly services or property. Those who want no responsibilities can have no real/PRIVATE rights, but only privileges dispensed to wards of the state which are disguised to LOOK like unalienable rights. Obligations and rights are two sides of the same coin, just like self-ownership and personal responsibility. For the biblical version of this paragraph, read 1 Sam. 8:10-22. For the reason God answered Samuel by telling him to allow the people to have a king, read Deut. 28:43-51, which is God’s curse upon those who allow a king above them. Click Here for a detailed description of the legal, moral, and spiritual consequences of violating this paragraph.”
[SEDM Opening Page; http://sedm.org] - By advocating common law and natural law, we prevent our country from becoming a “welfare magnet” to the rest of the world. This solves the problem of illegal immigration, because most people who are attracted to illegal immigration want free handouts. See:
SEDM Disclaimer, Section 4.31: “Natural law” - We prevent the many crimes resulting from participation in extraterritorial franchises offered by the national government. By extraterritorial franchises, we mean franchises offered by the national government within the exclusive jurisdiction of the constitutional States.
7.1 For a description of the illegal extraterritorial application of franchises, see:
Administrative State: Tactics and Defenses Course, Form #12.041
7.2 For a description of the illegality of offering national franchises within the exclusive jurisdiction of constitutional states, see:
Government instituted Slavery Using Franchises, Form #05.030
7.3 For an example application of this to income taxation, see:
Why It’s a Crime for a state National to File a 1040 Income Tax Return, Form #08.021 - By focusing equally on corruption within the freedom community as well and not focusing exclusively on government corruption, we:
8.1. Implement equal treatment and are without hypocrisy. See Requirement for Equal Protection and Equal Treatment, Form #05.033
8.2. Prevent the courts and the jails from being clogged by ignorant and presumptuous people who make frivolous arguments. This saves the courts and the Department of Justice TONS of money and makes judges life easier. - By targeting a “nontaxpayer” audience ONLY, we help the IRS reach an audience that they completely ignore and even maliciously and illegally target. These people need legal help relating to taxes just as much as statutory “taxpayer” franchisees. To deny them help or ignore them violates the constitutional requirement for equal protection and equal treatment, in fact. See: Your Rights as a “Nontaxpayer”, IRS Publication 1a, Form #08.008.
- By acting as an editor for the most prevalent book publisher in the freedom community (http://makefreedom.com, publisher of the Redemption Manual Series), we have been able to remove flawed patriot arguments from their books and thereby improved the credibility of the freedom community in the eyes of the courts and saved the courts and the Department of Justice significant effort in prosecuting against such flawed arguments. Such flawed arguments include, but are not limited to:
10.1. State nationals are NOT Fourteenth Amendment Citizens. See:
Why the Fourteenth Amendment is NOT a Threat to Your Freedom, Form #08.015
10.2. Your Birth Certificate is a financial security.
10.3. You can use legislatively created and owned government fictions for private gain. These fictions are GOVERNMENT property that can only lawfully be used with the permission of the government in ways they approve of. See:
Proof That There is a “Straw Man”, Form #05.042
10.4 Pay-Triot For Profit scams are a useful and a good thing for freedom lovers to undertake. See:
REBUTTAL: How to Spot a “Pay-Triot For Profit” Con Man
10.5 Anarchism, meaning freedom from ALL law, INCLUDING God’s law, is a GOOD thing. See:
Policy Document: Problems with Atheistic Anarchism, Form #08.020
SLIDES: https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/ProbsWithAtheistAnarchism.pdf
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/n883Ce1lML0 - We discourage participation in what the government calls the “Sovereign Citizen Movement” and anti-governmental activities generally. See:
Policy Document: Rebutted False Arguments About Sovereignty, Form #08.018 - We take the time to educate the Police about corruption within their own ranks and about misunderstandings about the freedom community. This aids police in policing themselves and prevents violent radicalization of police against law abiding freedom loving people like our members. We do this in:
Sovereignty For Police Officers, Form #12.022
SLIDES: https://sedm.org/LibertyU/SovereigntyForPolice.pdf
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/qFDWYLWiE1I - We make a concerted effort to PREVENT violence at traffic stops involving our Members. See:
Police/Terry Stop Handout, Form #09.078 - We promote and protect government accountability to the people they are supposed to serve and discourage all forms of LACK of accountability. This ensures a peaceful and prosperous country for the benefit of all. See:
14.1 Your Irresponsible, Lawless, and Anarchist Best Government, Form #05.054
14.2 Self Government Federation: Articles of Confederation, Form #13.002 - We don’t charge the government for any of the beneficial results of all the above.
Because we have significant sway and credibility in the freedom community, we reach an audience that one-sided government propaganda cannot achieve in accomplishing the above goals. To shut us down therefore causes the government and especially the courts FAR more harm than good in preventing illegal, unlawful, harmful, wasteful, or criminal behavior. Thus, governments would be shooting themselves in the foot to shut us down, slander us, or punish us.
The conclusion is therefore inescapable that government would be doing far more harm than good to their own interests because of the many ways we help them do the LAWFUL part of their job.
For authorities and a sermon that go into greater detail on the subject of this article, see:
- How Scoundrels Corrupted Our Republican Form of Government, Section 4, Family Guardian Fellowship
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/Evidence/HowScCorruptOurRepubGovt.htm#BIBLICAL_EXAMPLE_FIGHT - Thriving in Babylon: Exile, Newbreak.church
https://youtu.be/RM_0U92DNsM
Lastly, this article begs the question of EXACTLY what IS a “good government”? We define “good government” as one that:
- Is structured as described in:
Self Government Federation: Articles of Confederation, Form #13.002
https://sedm.org/Forms/13-SelfFamilyChurchGovnce/SGFArtOfConfed.pdf - Does not do or is not LEGALLY PERMITTED to do ANY of the following because the organic documents such as the Constitution forbid it:
Your Irresponsible, Lawless, and Anarchist Beast Government, Form #05.054
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/YourIrresponsibleLawlessGov.pdf - Implements “natural law” as defined in our disclaimer:
SEDM Disclaimer, Section 4.31: Natural Law
https://sedm.org/disclaimer.htm#4.31._Natural_law