England’s Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution have been subsumed by insane laws and jurisprudence subterfuge which will plunge the West into a Kafkaesque, clusterfuck — turning Westerners back into the imprisoned, serfs we were in the Middle (“Dark”) Ages.

Cities Are Reviving Debtor’s Prison Because they Are Broke


In Rem – Criminal Activity of Government

Society will turn against itself, wherein vested interests, greed, and economic desperation (especially as interest rates rise, imploding the 700+ year Western debt bubble) will cause the political system to imprison and steal from the minority, until possibly said minority grows into the impoverished majority forming a Dark Age. This is no joke! You’re asleep…

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

5000 Year Low for Interest Rates

Visualizing The 700-Year Fall Of Interest Rates – Zerohedge


Hitting Zero: 700 Years of Declining Global Real Interest Rates – Zerohedge

Interest Rates will Double:

QUESTION: […] on Zero Hedge […] a Harvard […] visiting scholar at the Bank of England who claims:

“We trace the […] dominant risk-free asset […], starting with sovereign rates in the Italian city states in the 14th and 15th […] to long-term rates in Spain, followed by […] Holland, since 1703 the UK, subsequently Germany, and finally the US.”

[…] when your models are 5,000 years, the two ridiculous statements are a [4.78%] 700-year average as if this really means something […] when rates have been below that for nearly 10 years, and […] “the dominant risk-free asset over time.” You have demonstrated that moving averages are not valid in forecasting and that government routinely defaults.

You forecast at the conference that [private sector (c.f. footnote ^[1]) interest] rates would rise very rapidly as we move into the Monetary Crisis Cycle.

[…]

ANSWER: It is very nice to trace 700 years […] the average of 4.78% by switching to the dominant economy as the financial capital of the world moved. However, starting […] in the 14th century skips the crazy part […] the Great Financial Crisis of 1092 in Byzantium […] a watermark event that set in motion the decline thereafter. This study […] is interesting, but regionally biased.

The fall of Byzantium resulting in the financial capital of the world moving to India – not Spain. That is why Columbus set sail trying to get to India, which was the financial capital of the world after Byzantium.

We hit a 5,000 year low. The Reversals we provided at the conference show we are looking at a near doubling in rates when we cross that [reversals threshold]

Source for the History of Interest Rates

Some of Armstrong’s blogs that cite the same 5000 year low interest rate chart:

• The Looming Debt Crisis Nobody Seems to Look At
• The Coming Phase Transition & the Dow
• 3000 B.C. – 500 A.D. The Ancient Economy
• How Can the Majority Be Wrong if they ALL Expect Interest Rates to Rise?
• Interest Rates

Inane Kafkaesque, Clusterfuck of the Collapse of Rule-of-law

Australia Wants Two-Year Prison Sentences for Paying More Than $10,000 in Cash

UK Strips 86-Year-Old of Pension because She Saved £50 a Month

If your financial transaction “involved” in anyway in the unbounded, multifurcated lineage of a criminal financial transaction regardless if you didn’t know about a crime, all yourtaintedproperty can be seized by the government without a trial nor proof.

For example, you received some fiat money (or cryptocurrency, gold, gift, property, etc) from some entity (even a business) that received from some other entity that received from another and so on…then all property “involved” with your transaction be confiscated if your transaction is in the lineage of any crime, including lineage of “involved” property. Not just the derivative funds, but also any property “involved” in facilitating criminal (including derivative) financial transaction(s) — e.g. the house you issued your transaction from, the vehicle you drove, etc.. Most cash bills can thus be confiscated and even have traces of illicit drug residue.

The police “stole” his house over $40

Australia Police Now Confiscate Loose Coins in Cars

More inane examples

An excerpt from my recent blog Bitcoin Fractal Projects an Infinite Price:

Applicable laws (and insane, unconstitutional absence of rule-of-law):

• Money Laundering Control Act – Wikipedia

  [§]1956 prohibits individuals from engaging in a financial transaction with proceeds […] generated from […] “specified unlawful activities” (SUAs) […] the law requires that an individual specifically intend in making the transaction to conceal the source, ownership or control of the funds. There is no minimum threshold of money, nor […] the requirement [of] succeed[ing] in actually disguising the money […] “financial transaction” has been broadly defined […] Merely passing money [directly] from one person to another, so long as it is done with the intent to disguise the source, ownership, location or control of the money, has been deemed a financial transaction […§]1957 prohibits spending in excess of $10,000 derived from an SUA, regardless of […intent] to disguise it […] carries a lesser penalty […] and unlike the [§1956] money laundering statute, requires that the money pass through a financial institution.

• Money Laundering: An Overview of 18 U.S.C. § 1956 and Related Federal Criminal Law

  Forfeiture

  […] the confiscation of property to the government as a consequence of the property’s proximity to […] criminal activity.¹²⁷ The government’s claim to the property […is] by default […] ordinarily in rem (against the property itself).¹²⁸ […] confiscation [proceeds] are generally shared among the law enforcement agencies that participate in […] the forfeiture.¹²⁹ […] First, the “proceeds” of any Section 1956 [and 1957] predicate offense (and any property traceable to such proceeds) are subject to confiscation without the necessity of […proven¹³¹] violation of Section 1956 [or 1957].¹³⁰ […] Second, property “involved” in a Section 1956 money laundering offense (or property traceable to such involved property) may be confiscated.¹³² […] “Property eligible for forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. §982(a)(1) includes that money or property which was actually laundered ... , along with any commissions or fees paid to the launderer and any property used to facilitate the laundering offense.”¹³³

  Civil Asset Forfeiture is insane, read all of these below ↓ * In Rem – Criminal Activity of Government * Deodand – Civil Asset Forfeiture Violate Every Principle of Human Rights & Civilization * Supreme Court Did Not Rule on Civil Asset Forfeiture * Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014 * Oklahoma – The State You Must ALWAYS Avoid Driving Through * Gold – the Desirable Object – Can it Survive as the Alternative to Electronic Money? * Why a Judge Ruled the Police Have NO DUTY to Protect Citizens

Here’s some more:

• Family sues TSA after 79-year-old man's $82,000 life savings were SEIZED at an airport - but he wasn't charged with a crime

• Yes, You are a Criminal

I'll quote some of the shocking details from the above linked blogs.

In Rem – Criminal Activity of Government

[…] based upon ancient tradition known as Deodand, which was a thing forfeited […] to God. In reality, Deodand was the law concerning an object or instrument […] forfeit[ed] because it has caused a person’s death – such as a runaway horse and wagon.

[…]

English common law the king merely replaced God with himself. Deodand traces back to the 11th century […] applied by the king [of England] to confiscate assets until Parliament finally abolished it in 1846.

[…]

civil asset forfeiture has been so abused […] it amounts to outright theft. People cannot afford costly lawyers and the government exploits the poor all the time to just confiscate cash, cars, and houses. The police are using it just as the troops in Rome turned against the people to pay for their salaries. The police […] transformed into the enemies of the people for whatever they can confiscate they just get to keep.

Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014

Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized […] $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate […] averaged +19.4% annually. In 2010 alone, the value of assets seized grew by +52.8% from 2009 […] by 2014, that number had ballooned to roughly $4.5 billion […] making this 35% of the entire number of assets collected from 1989 to 2010 in a single year. According to the FBI, the total amount of goods stolen by criminals in 2014 burglary offenses suffered an estimated $3.9 billion in property losses. This means that the police are now taking more assets than the criminals.

[…]

A class action lawsuit was filed against Washington DC where police were robbing people for as little as having $100 in their pocket […] police [turned] into legal criminals or “gangs” as Bloomberg News calls them.

Deodand – Civil Asset Forfeiture Violate Every Principle of Human Rights & Civilization

Today, civil asset forfeiture is an outright crime against the people […] not even a tax – just an illegal taking of innocent people’s money. Its origin is in ancient law that the King of England adopted as a means to pretend he was God and entitled to confiscate everyone’s money […]

The United States Supreme Court in J. W. Goldsmith Jr., Grant Co. v. The United States, 254 U.S. 505 (1922), noted the origins of government forfeiture power in the historical practice of Deodand […] cit[ing] Sir William Blackstone (1723–1780), in his “Commentaries of the Laws of England”, which noted that this practice extended back […] Ancient Greece. A Deodand is a thing forfeited […] because it has caused a person’s death.

The English common law of Deodands traces back to the 11th century and was applied, on and off, until […] abolished […] 1846. Deodand […] has been transformed into the government’s right to seize your property even if you have done NOTHING wrong for it is the object that commits the offense, not you. Politicians have assumed the role of God […] no longer […] that says you had a horse that […] took off running and killed someone. The horse was then forfeited to […] pay […] funeral costs of the victim […now] transformed into civil asset forfeiture [not to directly to the victim but forfeited to the government].

The U.S. Supreme Court relying on Deodand to justify the confiscation of property to enrich the coffers of government is no different than being robbed on the street at gunpoint […] judges […] do not defend the Constitution […] right to property is the foundation of civilization […] we […] formed governments to provide a rule of law to ensure our cooperation with each other. Now we have governments claiming someone sold drugs from your home and seize your […] house [for] committ[ing] the crime […] even if you […were unaware of a crime…] the rule of law has been turned into a profit mechanism for government.

[…] we have no independent judges who will stand up for our basic human rights. There was a revolution, in case these judges forgot, which meant that just because some practice existed in common law does not mean it survived […]:

“We the People of the United States […] establish Justice […] and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of …”

I do not see how ANY reasonable interpretation of the Constitution can justify Civil Asset Forfeiture[’s] direct conflict with the very stated purpose of the [U.S.] Constitution.

Can Anything Survive as an Alternative to the “666” Enslavement Electronic Currency?:

Our greatest problem is government’s hunt for money. Now 29% of [U.S.] households are […] hoard[ing] dollars […] government can […] simply cancel[…] the currency. [Unlike Europe] USA has never […] other than the transition from the Continental dollar to the US dollar. But every other currency […was] cancel[led…] precious metals historically […] universally acceptable […] world[wide…] problem metals face is stringent tracking of who buys and sells […] Storing in a bank is now […] money laundering […and] the problem of transportation […] risk highway-robbery by the police under ruthless civil asset forfeiture

[…]

what kind of a future do we face? […] government […will] simply declare they own x-% of your wealth and if you do not voluntarily hand it over you are a CRIMINAL who they can justify killing […] every person already commits 3 felonies a day and do not know it.

[…] historian Charles Hibbert […] in his classic […] Roots of Evil […] government used the law to be cruel […and] confiscate wealth […before] the American Revolution, there were about 240 felonies […requiring] the death penalty. Why death? The king […could] confiscate your property and throw your family […i]n the street. The accused would be tortured to try to force him to confess […and thrown] in prison indefinitely just to win without a trial as the US government has now authorized thanks to one of the most ruthless Senators of all time, Lindsey Graham.

A misdemeanor […required] indentured servitude. The king sold you as a slave […] quoting from court record […for the] many he shipped to America:

“[…] the sentence […] is that you shall no longer be burdened with the support of your wife and family. You shall be immediately removed from a very bad climate and a country overburdened with people to one of the finest regions of the earth where demand for human labour is every hour increasing and where it is highly probable you may ultimately regain your character and improve your future.” (Roots of Evil, p145)

Just like Civil Asset Forfeiture, they pretend you have done something to justify them […] profiting […] Is it any wonder the US Federal courts have a conviction rate over 98% when even Adolf Hitler’s rate was 90%? It is always about money and only a FOOL thinks there is any […] justice […] it is always JUST-US […] and the [complicit] mainstream press allow this

[…]

[…] Historically government could not hunt down money with such [electronic] efficiency […] Can society stop this […]? […] there is no such period in history that holds the answer […] You could have packed up your gold and just left town. That is not possible today […] If we go all the way [to Mad Max], the only thing that has value is food. Scary thought […] This is the PUBLIC v PRIVATE eternal battle […] always driven by […] politics. Can we ever break this repetitive cycle […] for human kind?

Oklahoma – The State You Must ALWAYS Avoid Driving Through:

As there is a drive to eliminate cash, police are engaging in illegal search and seizures of debit cards. More and more businesses are refusing to accept cash, which was noted even at a ball game at Tropicana Field in Florida […] will no longer accept cash to pay for those peanuts and Cracker Jacks

[…]

The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety (aka extortionists) […] have portable card readers mounted on vehicles […to] confiscate or freeze s