*ps* $491,409.0 trillion US (@ 8%) This is impossible.

When you say "own", do you ask in the normal, ordinary meaning of the term, or in legal terms?

Sometimes I really dislike bothering people with history, mainly because of how often it is evident that too many people would just rather not be trifled with something they've been conditioned to think of as merely that never-ending series of nostalgic events constituting the ever growing big amorphous blob of "accidents" .... "coincidences" ... and (one of my favorites ) "natural cycles" that presently makes up the record of humans' walk upon this earth. Be this as it may, the below is a fairly concise summary of pertinent legal terms relevant to the past 200 years. Some of the more significant legal events are in bold.

In the spirit of those who prefer a drive-thru, smash N grab approach to considering history, here is my own, off-the-cuff summary that speaks to the notion that they own the entire secular world down to each and every commercial fixture. A) they create an amount of money, literally, out of thin air, by creating a bookmaking entry which is nothing more complicated than a literal stroke of a pen or computer entry consisting namely of a given quantity of numbers applied to the left of a decimal point and prefixed by a dollar sign, or in pounds, or marks, or shekels or francs or yen, or pesos, or rupees, or rands, et. al., and through the marvels of such wizardry POOF! a banking account now magically contains the said amount of newly created money to be spent. B) this newly created money, which, to remind, was created out of thin air from literally nothing but ink or electronics, is then loaned to a government, like a USG Inc., in turn causing a flurry of corresponding paperwork and bookkeeping accounting activity - bonds / securities / treasuries / notes being credited and debited to make this all so. C) The government is of course willingly obligated to pay back this loan, created from nothing, at interest, but must pay in gold or other hard & tangible items accepted for similar value of substance - property, land, dwellings, counties, cities, docks, ports, flesh, and the like. D) simultaneously the government 1) spends this new money into circulation, sometimes making big tado out of haling said act as stimulus, but by any name is truly known as further debasing the genuine meaning of currency by way of inflation while 2) passing the interest obligation - better known as ever-accumulating debt which is the very basis this form of currency "money" is based on, off to it's complicit citizens by way of what is incessantly advertised and enforced as "paying your fare share of taxation because you are a good, honest, patriotic citizen" E) If you, I, or any other normal person attempt A thru D, we may very well (and should!) be carted off to the big house for having committed forgery, fraud and extortion among other high crimes, and pretty much the entire world of sane, regular people should not argue or question this punishment, but when they do it, it's passed off as though legal banking practice and pretty much the entire world of regular people should but won't question this. F) As such, where is there any mystery in this to give you room to question that they effectively own the entire secular commercial world and everything in it - animate an inanimate, down to every conceivable commercial fixture, from the cradle human resources are born in, to the urn OR box & plot they are buried in, and the whole big smash sandbox better known as the world of illusions pulled over our eyes at birth that we all get to play in between the two extremes?

PS - "pay off the national debt" ... ? LOL. At some point, roughly mid point or thereabouts, in the process of attempting this feat, which will be akin to tempting fate, there must come the point that there is no - zero - nada - goose-egg - zilch, paper (and coin & plastic & checkbook account & other artifices of said Fed Reserve System money down to the very nickels and pennies) money in circulation. Our paper-based money (and aforementioned variants) is based on debt. To pay off the national debt means taking all of the paper money out of circulation.... not that there is anything necessarily wrong with that, but a few of the natives may become a bit restless in the process ;) The reason why this will become painfully obvious somewhere mid-stream is that if you count up all the "money"said to be out there "in circulation" that people believe they have, even all of it that is not circulating that much (under the mattress ;) , add up every checkbook bank account balance, every plastic card balance, every piggy bank, every McDonald's revolving-credit account, every Walmart & Sam's club life-time-member credit account, across the entire nation once known as the land of the free, the total sum will not come anywhere near 9, 339, 474, 303, 842 . 00 (and counting) dollars.

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excerpted from www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/3_claims.htm, which has since gone defunct but may still be available via Wayback.

Claim 3: Your life's labor and everything you've created, have become the legal, commercial collateral of the bankrupt U.S. Inc.
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Our government was created to serve us, We the People.? It has grown into a greedy, arrogant monster claiming ultimate ownership of virtually everything, including us.
The Truth about Money, by John R. Prukop ?

''[E]very State possesses exclusive jurisdiction and sovereignty over persons and property within its territory.'' - Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U.S. 714, 733 -35 (1878)

Proof A

America's Constitutional Dictatorship - First published in July, 1996 by the North Bridge News
"Since March the 9th, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and... control the lives of all American citizens...."

Proof B

Martial Law, by Gary Hunt - For years, we have heard that the United States was in bankruptcy, that we are under Martial Law. For years, we could only suppose this to be true. Dr. Gene Schroder, has done extensive research into the matter.? The results of his research prove that these claims are absolutely true.? Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been operating under a declared National Emergency as a result of that bankruptcy.

Proof C:

Emergency Powers Fraud, by William T. Holmes: FDR issued Proclamation 2040: under the authority of the amended Trading with the Enemy Act, "[I]n view of such continuing national emergency... all terms and provisions of said Proclamation of March 6, 1933... are... in full force and effect until further proclamation by the President." 48 Stat. 1691. The New Deal was not to be temporary. People and their property became as chattels for unlimited obligations of the United States.

Proof D:

P R E S U M P T I O N "It's the Name of the Game" Excellent article on how your All-Capital-Letter name is used to bind your living body and soul to the corporate bankruptcy.? Anytime you see "your name" in all capital letters, IT IS NOT YOUR NAME!! It is the name of a separate entity, a legal fiction, the Straw Man representing you in commercial transactions and for which you are presumed to be the SURETY. Source? - Aware Group Site

Proof E:

The Reconstruction Acts, Articles of War Against the American People, and Usurpation of States Rights
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." James Madison, August 4, 1822.

Proof F:

Federal Reserve System's Funny Money Explained Today's paper currency has "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE" inscribed on the note. But the note doesn't tell you who, or what is backing the bill. Find out.

Proof G:

HJR-192 superseded Public Law (what passes as law today is only "color of law"), replacing it with public policy. This eliminated our ability to PAY our debts, allowing only for their DISCHARGE. When we use any commercial paper (checks, drafts, warrants, federal reserve notes, etc.), and accept it as money, we simply pass the unpaid debt attached to the paper on to others, by way of our purchases and transactions. This unpaid debt, under public policy, now carries a public liability for its collection. In other words, all debt is now public.

The United States government, in order to provide necessary goods and services, created a commercial bond (promissory note), by pledging the property, labor, life and body of its citizens, as payment for the debt (bankruptcy). This commercial bond made chattel (property) out of every man, woman and child in the United States. We became nothing more than "human resources" and collateral for the debt. This was without our knowledge and/or our consent. How? It was done through the filing (registration) of our birth certificates!

The United States government - actually the elected and appointed administrators of government - took (and still do, to this day) certified copies of all our birth certificates and placed them in the United States Department of Commerce ... as registered securities. See: Commerce Games Exposed and How to Play

Proof H:

The Truth about Money - The issuance of paper as a "legal tender" and circulating medium of exchange did not occur until 1862 during the Civil War. The Congress authorized the emission of non-interest bearing Treasury notes and declared the bills of credit to be legal tender for all debts, public and private, with the exception of taxes on imports. The notes were deemed necessary to "float the debt of the United States" for the war effort. In short, the paper "green backs" were "printed" under pretext of "war powers."

Proof I:

You Think You Own Your Own Home, Car, Etc. - Think Again
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

Proof J:

THE REAL LAW OF THE LAND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA When the Southern states walked out of Congress on March 27, 1861, the quorum to conduct business under the Constitution was lost. The only votes that Congress could lawfully take, under Parliamentary Law, were those to set the time to reconvene, take a vote to get a quorum, and vote to adjourn and set a date, time, and place to reconvene at a later time, but instead, Congress abandoned the House and Senate without setting a date to reconvene. Under the parliamentary law of Congress, when this happened, Congress became sine die (pronounced see-na dee-a; literally "without day") and thus when Congress adjourned sine die, it ceased to exist as a lawful deliberative body.


Proof K:

The Real Story of the Money-Control Over America, By Sheldon Emry
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - Thomas Jefferson