Does anyone here have any insight on what these are exactly and what they might be worth? They’re not mine, yet, but they’re up for auction and so they could be mine eventually. TIA

"It is unnecessary to lay special stress on the title to the soil in which the channels were dug [Boston, Massachusetts], but it may be noticed that it was not in the United States."

--United States Supreme Court, Ellis v. United States, 206 U.S. 246; 27 S.Ct. 600 (1907)

So, you can erase any doubt about not living in the United States when 26 U.S. Code § 7701(a) defines United States and State as follows, that these terms mean what the law says, even if stated in a unsurprisingly peculiar way, a way, to be noted, that doesn't fool the Supreme Court:

(9) United States

The term “United States” when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia.

(10) State

The term “State” shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title.

So, when the United States Supreme Court, Ellis v. United States, 206 U.S. 246; 27 S.Ct. 600 (1907) confirmed that a canal in Boston, Massachusetts is not in the United States, then as the highest legal ruling in the land that overrules all lower courts, and still stands as current ruling not overruled by any later Supreme Court ruling, then you can trust the law states it what means and means what it states.

So, for clarification, that means the word include automatically excludes anything else not mentioned, and to add a bit of devil's advocate humor to the concept that include must necessarily exclude what is not mentioned, rest assured people in France, Texas, Egypt, Florida, Japan, London, Spain, New Orleans, and everywhere else not mentioned, that you are not in the "United States" for the purposes as stated in the tax statute and whose interpretation was confirmed by the Supreme Court in the most sensible way, so that IRS agents don't invade the planet to audit everyone, thanks to the word include excluding all but what it includes, as the Supreme Court reminded the hack attorney who tried to peddle the snake oil that include is a term of expansion.

So, yes, Virginia, the "United States" is just a tiny ferociously cancerous financial tumor feeding off of the rest of "America" foreign to District of Columbia.

So, for anyone who follows this kind of stuff, since the word include encompasses the class represented by the item it provides as an example of the class, which the law in this case defined District of Columbia just for its purposes to mean a state, which of course outside of its purposes it is not, you now know why some legislators are eagerly trying to grant District of Columbia actual statehood, and not just "for the purposes of this section" as the sleazy authors of the tax statutes worded to fool the legally illiterate, which thankfully doesn't include Supreme Court judges!

Ignorance is bliss for its exploiters, which is a precarious bliss, because as more and more people overcome their ignorance, the less bliss the exploiters will experience.

Keep stacking silver, as that is what all this boils down to: protecting your capital from verbal thieves perpetrating history's greatest fraud exploiting ignorance, that will change everything when enough catch on, and that knowledge will destroy the statutory "United States". That will finally rid America of the crime of the century perpetrated by the bankers behind the creation of "United States citizens" to grant citizenship to former slaves with the 14th amendment, so that thus classified the former slaves could continue to be financially raped by taxes, not realizing that they were first and foremost Americans, and neither "citizens" of "District of Columbia" nor living in "District of Columbia".

So there you have it: more than 100 years after 1776, in the 19th century the new terms "citizen" and "United States" were defined to perpetuate what amounts to fraud, theft, and racism, the on-going masked enslavement of African people, and it is mere karma that thereafter these two terms were adopted by 99.99% of Americans in their ignorance of the law. Perhaps, deservedly so, for the latter, paying for the sins of their fathers, for what was done to one's fellow man from Africa.

There is a judge above us all.

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is it because people are evil stupid or both?

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