View source for Not so Secure Socialism

[[File:Baalf.jpg|right]]
== Not so Secure Socialism ==


The United States Supreme Court in 1937 validated Social Security as an exercise of the Constitutional taxing power of Congress for the benefit of the general fund of the United States Treasury. The Supreme Court also said that “Congress could, in its future discretion, spend that money for whatever Congress then judged to be the general welfare of the country” having “no constitutional power to earmark or segregate certain kinds of tax proceeds for certain purposes, whether the purposes be farm-price supports, foreign aid or social security payments.”<Ref>1The Social Security Tax, by Clarence E. Manion. U.S. vs. Butler, 297 U.S. 1; Steward Machine Company vs. Davis, 301 U.S, 548; Helvering vs.Davis, 301 U.S. 619.<Br>
Helvering v. Davis (1937), Court had ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program, saying, “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.”</Ref>

: “Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection.”<Ref>Coke, Litt.65.</Ref>

At the time of the introduction of the Social Security Act to Congress and the American people “The President wanted everybody covered for every contingency in life---’cradle to the grave,’ he called it... the social insurance<Ref>On page 936 through page 946 of the Ways and Means hearings the originator stated that the “sold as if it were insurance” was a mistake and should not have been published as such. It was not until 1953 when the originator admitted that it is not insurance as published in 1936. To be like insurance is not being insurance.</Ref> system… But the Government of the United States is not an insurance company and so it could be done.”<Ref>Forward by Frances Perkins Sec. of Labor 1933-45, The Development of the Social Security Act, by Edwin E. Witte, ppVII</Ref>

While the system of Federal Social Security was “sold as if it were insurance”<Ref>Edwin E. Witte before the Ways and Means hearings,1953, page 936 through page 946.</Ref> it was not. There is a great deception, a strong delusion, that social security taxes are payments of insurance premiums to obtain specified benefits at a specified time. There is no such right.

According to the [http://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html '''Social Security Tax Act'''] the government has been under no contractual obligation to make any return payment from the very beginning and has carried the provision that, “The right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of this act is hereby reserved to the Congress.”<Ref>Social Security Act of 1935 Title XI- General Provision, Section 1104</Ref> Therefore “Congress could continue to collect the so-called social security pay roll taxes even though Congress discontinued all social security benefit payments.”<Ref>The Social Security Tax, by Clarence E. Manion.</Ref>

This may seem a little scary for some who are or may be dependent upon such payments but that is exactly what you should expect as the national and world economies continues their descent into a domain of devastating decline, debt and disaster. To believe that you have a right to get back specified benefits because you paid into Social Security is a foolhardy fallacy, if not a delusion of false hope.

According to Dr. Clarence E. Manion, the Supreme Court held that Congress can “tax payments and earnings of employers and employees in the same way that it can tax a bottle of whiskey or a ticket to the ball game.”<Ref>Dr. Manion, formerly Dean of the Law School at Notre Dame, now practices law in South Bend, Indiana</Ref>

A man and his naturally endowed right to his labor was not originally the same as a bottle of whiskey nor a ball of twine. The idea of people laboring for a portion of each day without pay for the government is as old as the pyramids. It is known by many names such as statutory labor, [[Corvee]],<Ref>Slavery and Serfdom, “Other forms of servitude related to slavery, and sometimes indistinguishable from it, are serfdom, debt bondage, indentured service, peonage, and corvee (statute labor).” Compton’s Encyclopedia.</Ref> or tribute<Ref>Tribute is, “A sum of money paid by an inferior sovereign or state to a superior potentate, to secure the friendship or protection of the latter.” Brande. Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd Ed. p. 1757. Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.”</Ref> and is nothing more than a form of subjection and servitude Used by rulers to gain power from [[Cain]] to [[Nimrod]] and Pharaohs to [[Constantine]].
[[File:eve2.jpg|left|[[Corvee]]]]
Corvee’ is a French word which can mean “Gratuitous labor exacted from villages or communities, especially for repairing roads, constructing bridges, etc.”<Ref>Black’s Law Dictionary 3rd p445.</Ref> In Latin it would be ''covata'' from ''corrogare'' meaning “to gather by request”. Webster says it is an “obligation on the inhabitants of a district to perform services” or “forced labor exacted by government”.

To take a man’s labor without consent<Ref>“What is mine cannot be taken away without consent.”

Quod meum est sine me auferri non potest. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 251.</Ref> falls within a broad definition of slavery.<Ref>“All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery!” Jonathon Swift.</Ref>

Neither the President nor the congress had the power to compel a free people to begin to labor without pay. They could not force the entire population into becoming tax collectors and serfs, or taskmasters and statute laborers without some form of consent.<Ref>“For imposing taxes on us without our Consent:” from The Declaration of Independence.</Ref>

Like all these systems that begin as a “request” they end up a “forced obligation” with some form of consent. The Romans had a [[Corvee]] system in their protected provinces and eventually throughout the empire to maintain public works. The Jews often opposed this because it was like the system of bondage in Egypt which God told the people never to return to in the Biblical instructions for writing a constitution.<Ref>Deuteronomy 17:14-20</Ref>

Some of the citizens of Judea had appealed to the Roman Commander in chief, Pompey for their protection. Not all Jews practiced the same religion. The Pharisees brought in their own system of social welfare under the guise of religious obligations. There had been some exclusion of Jews from individual tribute because of the Roman respect of religious freedom recognized in their law.

Pure republics have always cared for the social welfare of its inhabitants through freewill offerings, but when the people neglect their responsibility in a free society they often decline into states of [[Socialism|socialism]] that begin with promises of benevolent benefaction and end in decadence, decay, and despotism. Managing social welfare by exercising authority over the people has often been a part of governments from Babylon to Rome and they all failed or betrayed their public members. No matter what promises are made by a government at its beginning the deals are often altered before their demise.

All governments expand their power or influence over the people in schemes with offers of gifts, gratuities, and benefits,<Ref>“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” Plutarch, 2000 years ago.</Ref> which gives government an increase in authority and compels a corresponding decrease in the individual’s right to choose. What they will contribute, to whom and for what purpose becomes the province of the government, and the “Will of the People” is imposed upon the people by the benefactors chosen for the people.


Herod the Great had a grand scheme of a vast membership in a social welfare scheme called [[Corban]].<Ref>Mark 7:13 “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”</Ref> You joined with a ceremony of ritual baptism after filing an application for membership with the administering “scribe”.<Ref>Scribe is from the Greek grammateus meaning “a clerk, scribe, esp.a public servant, secretary, recorder, whose office and influence differed in different states”</Ref> Payment of prescribed fees was required and annual accounting of what you paid or did not pay was made available to the proper authorities.

With annual contributions collected and recorded by the scribes this system of individual sacrifice to support the needy of society became popular with many people who were jealous and envious of the rich or just covetous of their neighbor’s goods. With guaranteed entitlements and forced contributions the apathy and avarice of the people flourished.

Members were given a white stone as a form of national ID<Ref>“The missionaries… with their... white stones, would come back with the same wallets full of money, in foreign currency. Once put into Jewish currency by the money-changers [porters of the temple], it would be stored in vaults ...[[Herod]]’s scheme of initiation into a new form of Judaism was immensely successful....” Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Barbara Thiering, Harper Collins: 1992</Ref> and Herod was able to expand his hope of a kingdom of God on earth by this religious system of social security ([[Corban]]) which provided for a statutory enforcement and collection from membership in the form of a tax.
[[File:aqueduct.jpg|right]]
Pilate "... used the sacred treasure of the temple, called ''[[Corban|corban]]'' (qorban), to pay for bringing water into Jerusalem by an aqueduct. A crowd came together and clamored against him..."<Ref>20The Aqueduct- Josephus, War 2.175-177, Antiq 18.60-62.</Ref> Because those funds were for their individual social welfare and the people complained.

Few understood that what should have been for their welfare had brought them into bondage though they had been warned in the sacred text.<Ref>22“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:” Romans 11:9. Ex20:17, 23:32, 34:12...; Pr1:10, 23:1...; Ro13:9, Mr7:22, Mt5:34, Ja5:12, 2 Peter 2:3</Ref> Paul and others repeated that warning for the First century Church.<Ref>Episkeptomai “ to look upon or after ... have care for, provide for:”</Ref>


Why do I say this social security system was religious? Because:

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit<Ref>Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence [biazo=to use force, to apply force, violence], and the violent [biastes] take it by force [harpazo = to seize, carry off by force].” Luke 16:16 “ The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man [all] presseth [biazo] into it.”</Ref> the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27

John the Baptist offered a similar plan of social welfare but without the use of force used to collect the contributions of his people.<Ref>24Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence [biazo=to use force, to apply force, violence], and the violent [biastes] take it by force [harpazo = to seize, carry off by force].” Luke 16:16 “ The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man [all] presseth [biazo] into it.”</Ref> His plan was based on free will offerings like ancient Israel<Ref>Ex. 35:29, 36:3, Lev. 7:16, 22:18-23, 23:38, Nu. 15:3, 29:39, Deut. 12:6, 12:17, 16:10, 23:23, 2 Chron. 31:14, 35:8, Ezra, 1:4, 3:5, 7:13-16, 8:28, Psalms 54:6, 68:9, 110:3, 119:108, Ezek. 46:12, Hosea 14:4, Amos 4:5.</Ref> when it was still a Republic.<Ref>Luke 3:11 “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.”</Ref> Christ objected to the plan offered by Herod and the Pharisees<Ref>The [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]], http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php</Ref> not only because it weakened the character of the people, and therefore society as a whole, but it also violated the precepts of God found in the Ten Commandments.

Jesus preached a system of social welfare that operated under the [[Perfect law of liberty|perfect law of liberty]]<Ref>James 1:25 “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”</Ref> by faith, hope and charity.<Ref>1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”</Ref> Christians stood fast in the liberty of Christ <Ref>Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”  </Ref> and cared for each others through their own system of social welfare managed by the Church. <Ref>“And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.”The Church government in 150 AD are described in Justin’s First Apology:</Ref> The Church in those days actually understood the Gospel of the Kingdom appointed by Christ and would never send their people to the men of government that called themselves benefactors but exercised authority one over the other in opposition to His specific instructions.<Ref>Luke 22:25 “And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But it shall not be so among you:” Matthew 20:25, Mark 10:42.</Ref>


The early Church called people to repentance of that system and a new baptism of John. This was not just some meaningless ritual. They would no longer covet their neighbor’s goods through the agency of Herod’s socialist government nor Rome’s free bread and extensive welfare state. They learned to care for one another in a network of love and service.<Ref>Living Network Index page, http://www.hisholychurch.org/network/index.php</Ref>


Rome and Jerusalem would soon falter and fail under the weight of their own corruption. Christians hearing the fullness of the Gospel of the Kingdom preached by John and Christ formed a new society that would survive and prosper in true faith during that decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

Social security schemes in every country today are the antitheses of the [[Corban]] of Christ which ''make the word of God to none effect'' like the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and identical to the unrighteous [[Mammon]] mentioned by [[Christ]] which will ''fail''.<Ref>Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.</Ref> When it fails what will you do if you have not been seeking the [[Kingdom of God]] and His righteousness nor attending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}}.

'''Join the Living [[Network]]'''

It is time for the Church to call for that repentance again but first it may have to do some repenting of its own.

{{Template:Socialist}} 

Related articles and audio files:

'''The Corban of the Pharisees'''<Br>
It made the word of God to none effect.<Br>
Is our [[Corban]] making the word of God to none effect today?<Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php

'''The Nicolaitan who God hates?'''<Br>
Because they covet their neighbor's goods<Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/nicolaity.php

'''Chapter 4'''. of the book [[COg|The Covenants of the gods]]<Br>
Employ vs Enslave<Br>
http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog4eve.php

'''Pure Religion'''
:    What is it and who does it?
:    http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/religion.php

Radio Broadcasts on not so secure [[Socialism]]
:    http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/5thbatch/13-02-16notsecure1-2.mp3
:    http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/5thbatch/13-02-16notsecure3-4.mp3
:    http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/5thbatch/13-02-16notsecure5-6.mp3


{{Template:Nav-Welfare}}







== Footnotes == <references /> {{Template:Gregory-info‎}}