Verbicide: the use of words to effect change by means of covert subversion of intent.
updated: September 22, 2001
Verbicide: the use of words to effect change by means of covert subversion of intent.
updated: September 22, 2001
abbreviations used:
Black's = Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition (1979)
Webster's 1828 = Webster's 1828 Dictionary is the authority on definitions, circa the founding period of our nation. Webster, in his preface, offered his work to the American people with the following words:
" It satisfies my mind that I have done all that my health, my talents and my pecuniary means would enable me to accomplish. I present it to my fellow citizens, not with frigid indifference, but with my ardent wishes for their improvement and their happiness and for the continued increase of the wealth, the learning, the moral and religious elevation of character, and the glory of my country."
Noah Webster, New Haven, 1828
Now, Verbicide, the disease that threatens to destroy our Freedom and Liberty:
Marriage license -- Let's look at Black's and see what a marriage license really is -- and then, ponder why we have chosen to commit our life to our loved one, and the state.
For the past few decades, it has become more common to hear an automobile referred to as a Motor Vehicle. Did you ever wonder why?
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Your grandparents, most likely, were married by a " Certificate of Marriage," which may have been recorded with the County Recorder, and most surely was entered in the family Bible. Sometime early this century, most states, under the pretext of protecting people from marrying someone with syphilis, began mandating blood test and subsequent marriage licenses. The definition currently included in Black's will help us to understand how the state became a party to all marriages performed under the granted privilege of a license. Remember, the Bible allows marriage as a right from God.
[all definitions from Black's, w/ page number]
license. The permission of competent authority to do an act which, without such permission, would be illegal, a trespass or a tort. . . Leave to do thing which licensor could prevent... Permission to do something which without the license would not be allowable...
A permit, granted by an appropriate governmental body, generally for a consideration. to a person,.. to pursue some occupation or to carry on some business subject to regulation under the police power. [p. 829]Marriage license. A license or permission granted by the public authority to persons who intend to intermarry, usually addressed to the minister or magistrate who is to perform the ceremony, or, in general terms, to any one authorized to solemnize marriages. By statute in most jurisdictions, it is made an essential prerequisite to the lawful solemnization of the marriage. [p. 877]
intermarriage. See Miscegenation. [p. 731]
Miscegenation. Mixture of races marriage between persons of different races, as between a white person and a Negro. [p. 901]
When dealing with definitions, the federal definition is senior to any state or local definition. Funding for highways, Interstate Highways, U. S. Highways and " postal roads" may have crimes committed on them. After all, isn't " speeding" a " crime" ?
Let's look at what you have committed the crime of " speeding" in, using the federal " authority" for criminal definitions. The entire Section 31 is included, with the pertinent parts underlined:
U.S.C. TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 31. Definitions
When used in this chapter the term - " Aircraft engine" , " air navigation facility" , " appliance" , " civil aircraft" , " foreign air commerce" , " interstate air commerce" , " landing area" , " overseas air commerce" , " propeller" , " spare part" and " special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States" shall have the meaning ascribed to those terms in sections 40102(a) and 46501 of title 49.
" Motor vehicle" means every description of carriage or other contrivance propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used for commercial purposes on the highways in the transportation of passengers, passengers and property, or property or cargo
" Destructive substance" means any explosive substance, flammable material, infernal machine, or other chemical, mechanical, or radioactive device or matter of a combustible, contaminative, corrosive, or explosive nature
" Used for commercial purposes" means the carriage of persons or property for any fare, fee, rate, charge or other consideration, or directly or indirectly in connection with any business, or other undertaking intended for profit
" In flight" means any time from the moment all the external doors of an aircraft are closed following embarkation until the moment when any such door is opened for disembarkation. In the case of a forced landing the flight shall be deemed to continue until competent authorities take over the responsibility for the aircraft and the persons and property on board and
" In service" means any time from the beginning of preflight preparation of the aircraft by ground personnel or by the crew for a specific flight until twenty-four hours after any landing the period of service shall, in any event, extend for the entire period during which the aircraft is in flight.
Now, let's go to Black's to see what gives you permission to drive, and how your car becomes a vehicle:
Certificate of title. See Insurance (Title insurance) [page 206]
It seems rather strange to have to look under " insurance" for " certificate of title" , but, let's try it:
Insurance **** {page 721]
[paragraphs into the pages on insurance, we find:]
Title insurance. Insurance against loss or damage resulting from defects or failure of title to a particular parcel of reality, or from enforcement of liens existing against it at the time of insurance. This form of insurance is taken out by the purchaser of the property or one loaning money on mortgage, and is furnished by companies specially organized for the purpose, and which keep complete sets of abstracts or duplicates of the records, employ expert title-examiners, and prepare conveyances and transfers of all sorts. A " certificate of title" furnished by such a company is merely the formally expressed professional opinion of the company's examiner that the title is complete and perfect (or otherwise, as stated), and the company is only liable for want of care, skill, or diligence on the part of its examiner whereas an " insurance of title" warrants the validity of the title in any and all events. It is not always easy to distinguish between such insurance and a " guaranty of title" given by such a company, except that in the former case the maximum limit of liability is fixed by the policy, while in the latter case the undertaking is to make good any and all loss resulting from defect or failure of the title.
[so much for " certificate of title." This is the only definition in Black's Law Dictionary.]
Now, when you buy a car, among the many papers you will sign for the loan for its purchase, you will be asked to sign a " power of attorney" . Nowadays, it is usually attached to the application for a " certificate of title" on paperwork provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Who holds the " title" to your car until such time as the " commercial" note is paid off? Who holds the title to the commercial " motor vehicle" after the commercial note is paid off? Has the " motor vehicle" , as a result of the satisfaction of the commercial note, been reverted to non-commercial property? Was the motor vehicle a non-commercial property prior to being converted to a motor vehicle?
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