BILL OF ATTAINDER PROJECT 
PERSONIFICATION OF YOUR PROPERTY
 
by Tom Saunders



A few months ago Alfred Adask, of the Citizens For Legal Reform of Dallas, asked me to write something directed at the use of the personification of property for the purpose of administrating asset forfeiture.  Most Americans are not aware of the fact that confiscation of property has been stepped up to include over 300 laws which enable the government to deny the right to private property, due process, and the right to other civil liberties which are supposed to be protected by the Constitution.  The use of personification in our courts is an act that would get most people excommunicated from most Christian belief systems if its use was generally understood.

The World Book Dictionary defines personification in a number of different ways, and is certainly a word which can be expected to mean different things.  World Book defines personification:
 

The law regards personification in the light of the last definition, but to a more treacherous degree.  Our justice system confiscates property on the premise that objects can commit crimes.  In other words the Court has implemented the idea that objects have free will.  This enables the court to take your car, house, boat, bike, or any other object you own on the basis that it can commit crimes.  This has enabled the Court to practice "animism", and force a belief system on the American public which a good many would reject, if they realized the religious connotations of the act.

This is a case where the government through the courts is forcing  a religious belief on the public.  This may be a serious violation  the government should have to answer for..  Their  role is to adopt no specific religion.  This may extend to forcing a specific religious belief.  Before the end of this outrageous practice the problem will have to be addressed.

The idea that objects can have free will and the power to animate is deeply rooted in occult beliefs.  One aspect of using an evil curse is to enable an object to perform acts of evil.  The idea that objects can have powers is not excluded in Christian beliefs but the idea the courts have implemented is generally rejected by our modern understanding of the world,  and modern Christianity.

When the government implements asset forfeiture, it is done to the degree found in the middle ages during the Inquisition -- you're guilty, that's it.  Americans have a Congress which has little regard for the idea that Americans should retain their right to private property.

Henry Hyde, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill, HR 1965 (1916), which he hoped would have reformed asset forfeiture and made it more fair.  I received a letter from Chairman Hyde explaining his bill would have protected innocent property owners and shifted the burden of proof to the government.  This bill has been gutted and turned around to the point where property could be taken on the slightest of evidence, and it could be kept to help prosecutorial discovery.  The burden of proof is left entirely on defendants.  It allows the confiscation of property for violations of regulatory standards by the IRS, and it allows confiscation of property without a warrant by other federal agencies.  The disregard for private property by our Congress has even extended to the confiscation of property from any American
who establishes foreign citizenship.

It has always been the position of the Bill Of Attainder Project that the confiscation of property is a bill of attainder .  Certainly the confiscation of property has always been one of the aspects of administering a bill of attainder, and it should not be allowed in American justice.  Further, it is our position that the use of personification of property by the courts subjugates citizens to a belief system that should be abolished in our courts.

Subjects are not citizens.  Without the right of private property,  Americans are subjects, and lose their status as citizens.  We urge all political activists to take a stand against asset forfeiture to restore the citizenship to which we are entitled.   We urge all to help end the tryanny used in our courts to justify plundering by the law, especially the use of personification of property.  Please confront your legislators with these facts about your civil liberties.   If you attend a church, you should seek to find out what their stance is on the use of personification in our judicial system.

For further information: tom@isc-durant.com
 
"A bill of attainder is a law or legal device used to outlaw people, suspend their civil rights, confiscate property, punish or put people to death without a trial."   -- (Bill Of Attainder Project)