BLMar24

The Column
By Chuck Van Riper
Cusip Conspiracy
Well, I really went down the rabbit hole on this venture.
As of late, I’ve been seeing advertisements
and articles online about using personhood or “strawman”
theories to clear out all your debts or take a vacation or
buy a warehouse full of twinkies or whatever you want.
How do you access this amount of cash? Apparently, the
federal government has a secret account that is set up for
everybody when you are born. This falls under the auspices
of “Sovereign Citizen” movement. The theory goes
something like this:
In 1933, FDR took the U.S. off the gold standard because
of inflationary pressures caused by the great depression.
The theory is that the U.S. was basically broke, so
we became a corporation instead of a Democratic Republic.
The corporation of the U.S., then started using birth
certificates as kind of warehouse receipts sold on the international
bond markets, making each child part of the
“chattle” of the corporation. This is also known as the
“Strawman” theory as each real person had two identities;
your actual flesh and blood identity, and your bond
or “strawman identity.” Now, why was this assumed to
be true? Because a birth certificate contains 1. Your name
in all capital letters (this will be important later), and 2. A
cusip number. Oh, no! There’s a cusip number on my certificate
of birth! Ok, what’s a cusip number. Basically, a
cusip (cusip stands for Committee on Uniform Securities
Identification Procedures) number is a 9 alphanumeric
unique number assigned to stocks, bonds, and financial
papers and other securities in the U.S. and Canada. It
makes it easier to keep track of. So, the theory goes, since
there is a cusip number on a birth certificate, it must be a
financial instrument, in this case a bond. Being a bond, it
therefore must have a financial value.
This is my first disagreement with this theory as cusip
numbers are not typically used on birth certificates. You
can, however, file a UCC-1 form with the Treasury Department
and get a cusip number, but it’s a long process.
So the conspiracy continues. All manner of financial
transactions, taxes, paying bills, etc., comes under the
prevue of the “corporation”, which is why your name is
always in all capital letters on tax statements, bank docu-
18 - Brevard Live March 2024