When a City becomes incorporated it becomes a corporation. The purpose of a municipal corporation is to control and manage the assets of the corporation. A corporation has rules and regulations that are called codes and ordinances. These regulations are not laws that apply natural born individuals, they only apply to people that are subject to the jurisdiction of the municipal corporation.
Your City is a corporation and you are a corporate asset. Originally communities were organized to protect the lives, liberty and property of the inhabitants, but when cities became incorporated their new purpose was to control the lives, liberty and property of the people living in the community.
In order to force compliance, the City governments hire enforcers that are known as police officers. Their job is not to protect the rights of the people, but to control the people and raise revenue for the corporation.
Individuals living within the city limits fall under jurisdiction of the local corporation and responsible to comply with all of the codes and ordinances that are adopted by the City and/or the County where they live.
Individuals become subjects of the corporation when they enter into what is known as adhesion contracts. Birth Certificates, Driver's Licenses, Voter Registration Cards, and Social Security Cards are all adhesion contracts that subject individuals to the jurisdiction of the municipal corporations.
Those elected to the City Councils pretend to represent the people, but take their marching orders from the City Manager who is the CEO of the local corporation. The City Council is like the Board of Directors re actually members of the Board of Directors of your local corporation. Like the Lords of the Manor in the days of old, these modern day aristocrats consistently violate the rights of the people in the name of taking care of them. Whatever happened to individual liberty and personal responsibility?
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Good info here Keith. This gets at the subject I asked about, whether each citizen is a
corporation. Here you say we're all a corporate asset, and I have no problem with that,
but I just think that's not the same as saying we're all corporations. Legalism and
semantics and all, and in the final analysis it's a moot point, but to avoid confusing
twisted minds like me, I wish you would simply say we're all corporate assets. That
gets my dander up just as effectively, and doesn't end up making me wonder if
you're just not another part of the broken system. Sorry to put it to you like that,
but words have meanings and I don't read between lines. Comments invited, and
maybe I'll stumble onto them when I finally master using this website, but I trust
you'll eventually read this. Thanks for what you do. Eric Knutson