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The Wizard of OZ Or what really happened to America

Just as you can read between the gory lines in the newspaper on any day and discover clues issued by the Powers That Be-if you look hard enough-as to what is actually going on, such notice can also be found in lighter fare, like the movies.

Such a movie was The Wizard of Oz, an allegory for the new state of affairs in America in the 1930s following the stock market crash and factual bankruptcy of the US Government immediately there after. The setting was Kansas: Heartland America, and geographical center of the USA. In comes the twister, the tornado, i. e. whirling confusion-the stock market crash, theft of America's gold, US bankruptcy, the Great Depression-and whisks Dorothy and Toto up into a new, artificial dimension somewhere above the solid ground of Kansas. When they finally land in Oz, Dorothy comments to her little companion: "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

That's right. After the bankruptcy, Kansas was no longer just plain old "Kansas" it was now "KS," artificial corporate venue of the bankrupt United States, newly established "federal territory," part of the "Federal Zone," and Dorothy and Toto were "in this state". The living natural mans name is never spelled in all CAPITAL LETTERS but in upper case and lower case i.e. John Doe. The artificial mans name is spelled in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS i.e. JOHN DOE.

Look on your drivers license and see who it is issued to! You got it right, your Strawman, the all Capital Letter i.e. CORPORATE NAME created by Birth Certificate. In the 1930s, the all-capital letters-written straw man, newly created artificial aspect of the former American sovereigns, had no brain, and Americans were too confused and distracted by all the commotion to figure out that they even had ~ a straw man. The Scarecrow identified his straw-man persona for Dorothy: "Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking. Of course, I'm not bright about doing things." And in his classic song, "If I Only Had a Brain," the Scarecrow/Straw Man succinctly augured: "I'd unravel every riddle, For every 'individdle,' (individual) In trouble or in pain." Translation: Once one discovers that his straw man exists, all political and legal mysteries, complexities, and confusions are resolved-and once one takes legal title to his Straw man i.e. Redemption, he can protect himself from legal trouble or legal damage.

The Tin Man, or "T-I-N", “Taxpayer Identification Number” man, was a hollow man of metal, a "vessel," or "vehicle", newly created commercial code words for the straw man. Just like the Scarecrow, Straw Man had no brain; this Tin Man vessel had no heart. Both were "artificial persons". One of the definitions of "tin" in Webster's is "counterfeit." The Tin Man also represented the mechanical and heartless aspect of commerce and commercial law.-

2 - Just like they say in the Mafia: "Nothing personal-it's just business". And in another profession similar to the Mafia, the business of lawyering, they have the attitude that it’s nothing personal, “bidness is bidness”. The heartless Tin Man also carried an ax, traditional symbol for God, i.e. modern commercial law, in most earlier, dominant civilizations, including fascist states. In the words of the Tin Man, expressing relief after Dorothy had oiled his arm: "I've held that axe up for ages." The word "ace" is etymologically related to the word "ax," and in a deck of cards the only one above the King is the Ace, i.e. God. One of the "Axis" Powers of World War II, Italy, was a fascist state.

The symbol for fascism is the "fasces," a bundle of rods with an ax bound up in the middle and its blade projecting. The fasces may be found on the reverse of the American Mercury-head Dime (in Roman deity ‘Mercury’ was the God of Commerce). It can also be found on the wall behind, and on each side of, the speaker's podium in the US Senate (each gilded fasces is approximately six feet in height), and at the base of the seal of the US Senate are two crossed fasces. The Lion, or "king of beasts" is symbolic of some members of our society. You, your family and friends are regarded as nothing more than animals, "cattle," to be bred and birthed, herded and harvested, and sold and slaughtered according to the whims of those who run the global plantation.

A denigration of and in itself, representing the once fearless American people, who has lost its courage. Yes, there are a lot of ‘hot talkers' out there, just listen to your local radio talk shows. The American men(?) love to talk, but none have the courage or balls to “DO” a damn thing! The American people are scared shitless of the corporate Federal and local revenue collectors i.e. cops and judges in their so-called courtrooms of justice. After your first round with the UCC constituted IRS "defending" your T-I-N man dummy-corporation vessel/vehicle, individual-employee, public corporation, all-capital-letters written juristic name, artificial-person straw man, you probably lost some of your courage too. You didn't know it, but the IRS has been dealing with you strictly under the laws of Commerce and they are just like the Tin Man, heartless. One more note on the Cowardly lion.

Do you remember how he needed or believed he wanted courage? Do you remember how he got that courage? Yes, the great Wizard of OZ pinned a medal on his chest. Yes a BADGE of courage. With that badge the Little Coward was now a big, big man, OH EXCUSE ME, I MENT TO SAY, LION NOT MAN!!!!! I would not want to imply that because a fictitious Wizard (man of authority?) placed a badge on this coward’s chest that now he was a big brave man. Why a statement like that just might hurt the feelings of some of the badge totin brave men we know as “Law Enforcement”. - 2 -- 3 - To really make the movie more realistic, the Man of Authority (Wizard) should have put a GUN on his hip. Now there I go again, I sure don’t want to make it sound like I’m picking one the big brave men protecting our freedoms out there. Cause I know how fast they are there when you need them to help you. Yeah, they are sure some real brave men!

To find the Wizard you had to "follow the yellow brick road," i.e. follow the trail of America's stolen gold and you will find the thief who stole it. In the beginning of the movie the Wizard was represented by the traveling mystic, "Professor Marvel," whom Dorothy encountered when she ran away with Toto. His macabre shingle touted that he was "Acclaimed By The Crowned Heads of Europe, Past, Present, and Future.” Boy, that Professor Marvel must have been a regular wizard to be acclaimed by the future crowned heads of Europe before they were even crowned! Before the bankers stole America, they had long since dis-empowered the Christian monarchies of Europe and looted their kingdoms. Maybe this '"Professor Marvel" fellow knew something about the future that other folks didn't.

With a human skull peering down from its painted perch above the door inside his wagon, the good professor lectured Dorothy of the priests of Isis and Osiris and the days of the pharaohs of Egypt. When Dorothy Gale and her new friends emerged from the forest they were elated to see the Emerald City before them, only a short jaunt away. The Wicked Witch of the West, desperate for the ruby slippers that Dorothy was wearing, would have to make her move before our heroes were inside the walls. A significant point here is that in the original book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, (39 years earlier), the slippers were not ruby, or red, but silver. At the time the book was written America still had all its gold and silver, and the value of one ounce of gold was set at 15 ounces of silver, silver being the more plentiful of the two metals. Just as the silver slippers carried Dorothy, America's stockpile of silver and gold, backing the currency carried the country to a position of preeminence throughout the world at that time.

But, as mentioned, when the movie came out in 1939 the slippers were not silver, but red. Between 1916 and 1933, most of America's gold was rounded up by the ‘privately owned’ Federal Reserve Banks and shipped off to the Fed owners in England and Germany. The reason for this was that Federal Reserve Notes could be redeemed in gold and the use of Federal Reserve Notes carried an interest penalty that could only be paid in gold. We traded gold for (worthless) paper with green ink on it, and our previous currency, United States Notes, carried no such interest requirement-but such was the bargain that came with the Federal Reserve Notes. [The reason JFK was murdered was because he was re-issuing United States Notes. Go to any coin store and see or buy a 1963 U.S. (not Federal Reserve) Note]. -

3 -- 4 - When bankruptcy was declared in 1933, Americans were required to turn in all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates by May 1st-May Day (the birthday of Communism in Bavaria in 1776, the birthday of the IRS, and celebrated worldwide as the "International Workers Holiday" a holy day to the Wizard and his tribe). Talking to people who were alive at that time, you may find out that the general sentiment toward such thievery bordered on a second revolution. Maybe it was just too much of a clue, or too much salt in the wound for Dorothy to be skipping down the "Yellow Brick Road" in a pair of "silver slippers" so, for whatever reason, a color less likely to annoy or provoke was selected. With regard to the choice of "ruby," or red-colored, slippers: Red's primary significance, at least on documents and the like, is that it is the color of blood, as in flesh-and-blood, and symbolizes a living, breathing man or woman, i. e. non-corporate non-artificial. Could it also have been chosen for the related tie to the International Banking, Federal Reserve founder, Rothchild, [aka Red Shield] family? It does signify "private," as opposed to "public."

Your new Social Security Card has a red serial number on the reverse, likely signifying the private-side account attached to your public- side Social Security Account Number, prior to Redemption. For postal employees, red-sticker Registered Mail means "personal accountability" (private)-all other mail carries "limited liability" (public). It is likely that the ruby slippers symbolized the American people with blood in their veins-as opposed to "citizen of the United States" straw men with the counterfeit "corporate blood" of blue/black ink on a birth certificate. No matter their color in the movie, the Wicked Witch of the West wanted those slippers at any cost and had to move fast before Dorothy and crew could make it to Emerald City. Her tactic was to cover the countryside with poppy flowers, or "poppies," the source of heroin, opium, and morphine, symbolically drugging them into unconsciousness, and then just waltz in and snatch the slippers.

In other words, the best way to subjugate the American people and boost the goods was to dull their senses by getting them hooked on drugs (Note: LSD was created the same year, 1939, by Dr. Albert Hoffman). The poppies/drugs worked on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto, our flesh-and-blood friends, but had no effect on the Scarecrow or the Tin Man, the artificial entities. The two of them cried out for help and Glenda, the Good Witch of the North, answered their prayers with a blanket of snow, aka cocaine, a stimulant null-ifying the narcotic effect of the poppies/opium on Dorothy, the Lion and Toto. At this writing, aside from marijuana, the two most available drugs on the streets of America are heroin and cocaine in their various forms. As they all scampered toward Emerald City, the city of green (Federal Reserve Notes, the new fiat "money," or "money by decree"), we heard the Munchkins singing on the glory of the Wizard's creation: "You're out of the woods, you’re out of the dark, you’re out of the night, Step into the sun, step into the light, Keep straight ahead for, the most glorious place on the face of the Earth or the stars!" -

4 -- 5 - The foregoing jingle abounds with Illuminist-Luciferian symbols and metaphors re: darkness and light. The Wicked Witch of the West made her home in a round, medieval watchtower, ancient symbol of the Knights Templar of Freemasonry, who are given to practice witchcraft and also credited as the originators of modern banking, circa 1099 A.D. The Wicked Witch of the West was also dressed in black, the color symbolizing the planet Saturn, sacred icon of the Knights Templar, and the color of choice of judges and priests for their robes. Who was the Wicked Witch of the West? Remember, in the first part of the film her counterpart was "Almira Gulch," who, according to Aunt Em, (or was it spelled Aunt M, for MONEY) "owned half the county." Miss Gulch alleged that Dorothy's dog, Toto, had bitten her. She came to the farm with an “Order from the Sheriff” demanding that they surrender Toto to her custody. Aunt Em was not immediately cooperative, and answered Miss Gulch's allegations that Toto had bitten her: “He's really gentle”. With gentle people, that is. Could "gentle" really mean "Gentile"?

When Miss Gulch defied them to withhold Toto and "go against the law," dear old Aunt Em was relegated to "pushing the Party line" for Big Brother. She dutifully succumbed to the pressure and counseled Dorothy reluctantly. [Does this sound like most American people?] "We can't go against the law, Dorothy. I'm afraid poor Toto will have to go." When Dorothy refused to surrender Toto, Miss Gulch lashed out: "If you don't hand over that dog I'll bring a damned suit that'll take your whole farm!" Today, 70% of all attorneys in the world reside in the West-America, to be exact and 95% of all lawsuits in the world are filed under US jurisdiction. The Wicked Witch of the West and Miss Gulch, my dear friends, represent judges and attorneys; i.e. the American legal system (including the attorney-run US Congress). They are the executioners and primary henchman for transferring all wealth in America from the people over to the banks and the government.

The Wicked Witch of the West wanted the silver slippers-the precious metals-and her counterpart, Miss Gulch wanted to take Toto. language," i.e. Latin? "Everything!" What does the word "toto" mean in "attorney Dorothy and the gang fell for the Wizard's illusion in the beginning, but soon wised up and discovered the Wizard for what he was: a confidence man. When asked about helping the Scarecrow/Straw Man, among other babblings about "getting a brain" and "universities" the Wizard also cited "the land of E Pluribus Unum,"' which is Latin for “one out of many,” i.e., converting the many into one = New World Order, or Novus Ordo Seclorum, a Latin phrase placed on the American One Dollar Bill shortly after the bankruptcy. -

5 -- 6 - He also proudly revealed/confessed that he was: "Born and bred in the heart of the Western wilderness, an old Kansas man myself!" The bankers did pretty well in Europe, but as the Wizard pointed out, they made a killing in the "Western wilderness," i.e. America, with the theft of American gold, labor, and property from the-quoting John D. Rockefeller “grateful and responsive rural folk" who populated the country at that time. When Dorothy asked Glenda, the Good Witch of the North (Christianity), for help in getting back to Kansas, Glenda replied: "You don't need to be helped. You've always had the power to go back to Kansas." Translation: you've always had the right and power to reclaim your sovereignty, you just forgot or were never taught.

The actual reclaiming of your sovereignty-remedy, a simple UCC-1 Form to the Secretary of State, and Invoice and Bill of Exchange to the Secretary of the Treasury, can be completed from scratch in a few hours. America and Americans have intimate, firsthand knowledge of the heartless mechanics of the laws of commerce, religiously applied by the unregistered foreign agents at the Internal Revenue Services. The IRS, accountancy firm and collection agency for the private Federal Reserve Bank, was constituted under the UCC at its inception in 1954 and has been operating strictly in that realm ever since. You may have wondered what is the meaning behind the words in the title "The Wizard of Oz.” Look them up in a dictionary. Like almost everything else, it's right out there in the open for you to see if you will just look closely enough. One definition of "wizard” is: "a very clever or skillful person." “OZ” is an abbreviation of "onza," o-n-z-a, the Italian word for "ounce," or "ounces," the unit of measurement of gold, silver, and other precious metals.

No matter how large the quantity of gold or silver being discussed, the amount is always expressed in ounces, E.g. rather than “hundreds of tons” of gold, it's so many million “ounces” of gold. As attested by the factual history of this country: the "Wizard of Oz" was the Wizard of Ounces. Everything worked out for Dorothy, i. e. the American people. In the end she "made it home" Meaning: there is remedy in law. It's there, it was just encoded and disguised and camouflaged. Fortunately, the code has been cracked, and there is a way home, just like in the movie. Like Dorothy said, "There's no place like home” and there isn't! There's nothing like sovereignty for a sovereign! We have commercial remedy in the Redemption Process. Will you continue to be conned by the confidence men and worship the Wizard's Light Show, or will you wise up like Dorothy did and “look behind the scenes”? For all intents and purposes, there is no LAW in America, only the LAW of contracts. - 6 -

Metaphor Behind the Movie "I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world." On the surface, the Wizard of Oz is little more than a laughable children's story, with screwy characters and pretty, bright colors. A little girl from Kansas is swept up in a cyclone with her cute little dog Toto and lands in the mysterious Land of Oz. A closer look however, reveals the powerful metaphors and symbols pertaining to the politics of the period that drive the film forward. One of, and probably the most important metaphor behind the movie is that of the plight of the poor migrant farmers of the south and the west, along with the manifestations of the farmers problems and solutions to these problems in the context of the story. L. Frank Baum (author) delves deeply into the embittered feelings of the desperate farmers, and evaluates and criticizes, for better or worst their solutions to those problems.

As Dorothy, a good hearted, run-of-the-mill southern girl, follows the Yellow Brick road, she encounters holes and broken-up sections of it. Being that the Yellow Brick road represents the gold standard, it can be interpreted that Baum, wanted to point out the problems of the gold standard and how it effected the farmers. After all, the farmers had suffered through grueling droughts, and watched as the prices of the foods that they produced plummeted in spite and probably because of over production. Banks (witches), did nothing to ease the farmer's situation; quite the opposite, they were ruthless, foreclosing farm after farm, and selling the newly acquired land to railroads and massive farms who could weather out the recessions and more easily control prices.

Too convey his point, Baum creates the Scarecrow, who represents the farmers. In the story, the Scarecrow doesn't have a brain, but nonetheless solves most of the group's problems. During the worst phases of the drought, farmers, pleading for help from the government and banks, found refuge only in themselves (flitting as it may have been). They reasoned that since the prices of their goods were so low, all they need do to make up the extra income is produce more. Produce more they did. In fact, during the drought America saw one of its largest food-production increases in history. This hasty decision to improve production before stimulating price increases, did nothing but aggravate the situation by further lowering the prices of foods. This is why Baum made the scarecrow without a brain-for-reason. The Scarecrow could count toothpicks on the floor better than the Rainman, but he didn't have enough sense to realize that for every other ingenious invention to stimulate production, he shot himself in the foot lowering demand for his product and thus further lowering prices.

The Wicked Old Witch of the East controlled and oppressed the Munchkins, Dorothy's first contact in the Land of Oz. The witch met with an unfortunate accident when Dorothy's house landed on top of her crushing all except her feet. On them was, the key to Dorothy's success, her only hope at happiness, that witch would bring her home, the answer to all of her problems: the **Silver** slippers! So what's the big fuss about? The Silver Slippers is a clear, blatant, obstinate symbol for Free Silver. The answer to the poor farmer Dorothy's problems. You see, in the years leading to the Free Silver Election, the farmers had been decimated by drought, robbed by the railroads, and kicked in the teeth by the banks. In fact it seemed that anybody who could, did take a shot at the farmers. Eventually, after growing tired of this, the farmers retaliated, in the form of governmental programs, legislation, and the election of persons sympathetic to their plight into important offices.

The Grangers--who were formed to protect against the railroads, and help farmers who were having a rough time, were one of these programs. Others include the ICC--a committee formed to control railroad rates. The ICC though was little more than a pacifier (something to shut the farmers up), and was a failure in all of its endeavors because it hadn't any "teeth," meaning that it couldn't set rates and had no direct control over the railroads. Another, was the formation of the American Socialist Party (Quadlings)--which was a bold attempt to control all thing hostile to the farmers by expanding the power of the government to own railroads, post-offices, etc. And Free Silver (Dorothy's Silver Slippers)--which the farmers believed would stimulate food prices by enabling more people to buy more food. The Free Silver campaign was led by the "Roarer," William Jennings Bryant a Nebraskan portrayed in the novel as the Cowardly Lion (all bark and no bite). Sadly, the farmers would never click their heals together three times, and everything wouldn't be all right. The Grangers would disband almost to extinction, the ICC would be a complete failure all the way up to the point where it was granted the power to set rates (by then to late for most farmers), the American Socialist party would never elect a president into the white house (despite the gallant efforts of Eugene V. Debs), and Free Silver would be shot down at the polls many times along with its most poignant campaigner William Jennings Bryant.

As touched on above, another problem concerning the farmers and Dorothy was the Railroads/Winged Monkeys, and the banks/witches. The banks/witches controlled the railroads/Winged Monkeys. With the aid of the Winged Monkeys, the Wicked Witch of the West controlled the Winkies (Chinese railroad worker) and at one point in the story beat the hay out of the Scarecrow. This is an obvious symbolism pertaining to the viciousness of the railroads/Winged Monkeys towards the helpless farmers/Scarecrow. The Wicked Witch of the East, controls the Munchkins/Italians-Jews-etc. and isn't very important to the story. The Good Witch of the North is an old witch who does nothing. The Wicked witch of the West, along with having a major skin problem, and an equally bad attitude, controls the Winged Monkeys/railroads, the Winkies, and is out to get Dorothy. Finally, the Good Witch of the South, who is definitely Baum's favorite, is a beautiful, kind, witch who advises Dorothy about her slippers, sets the Quadlings free, and rewards the Cowardly Lion, Tinman, and Scarecrow. Dorothy eventually accidentally kills the Wicked old Witch of the West buying throwing a bucket of water on the witch. This act displays the power of the farmer to free themselves from the shackles of the banks if only farmers can manage the advantage of water.

The Wizard of Oz is riddled with many more, less significant metaphors. For instance, in the title: "Wizard of Oz", Oz stands for oz., ounce, referring to the gold standard. So the Wizard of ounce, means the leader of the gold standard, or President William McKinley. The song "oeo eo o," that one that the guards are chanting in the front of the castle, if listened to closely, is really: "all we own we owe," which is a reference to communism. The Quadlings, who only wear red, are a reference to the small communist movement in the south. The Tinman is the representation of industry ("If I only had a heart"), who doesn't stop, and needs oil to survive. Emerald City represents cities in general and the Green Glasses that anyone in Emerald city must wear illustrates Baum's belief that the government allows a person to see only what government wants him to see.

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