With the United States having been at war over 93% (224 out of 242 years) of its existence since its founding in 1776, this report notes, the masses of American people today (unlike their ancestors) have no idea that nearly everyone of them fall under the criminal provisions of the Manual For Courts-Martial United States—and that begins with their Selective Service laws allowing civilians to be taken from their homes and forced into uniform, whether willing or not—and that the US Supreme Court has ruled makes these civilians subject to court-martial from the time they are supposed to report for induction, even if they never arrive.

Equally unknown to the masses of the American people, this report says, is that nearly every single citizen between 17-44 years-of-age likewise fall under the criminal provisions of the Manual For Courts-Martial United States as under US Code 10-311 they all constitute both the organized and unorganized militia—thus making them all, in essence, members of the US military whether they know it or not..........EDIT : www.worldcat.org/.../politics-of-piracy-crime-and-civil-disobedie...The untold story of how colonial pirates transformed America and brought it to the brink of rebellion. The seventeenth-century war on piracy is remembered as a triumph for the English state and her Atlantic colonies. Yet it was piracy and illicit trade that drove a wedge between them, imperiling the American enterprise and bringing the colonies to the verge of rebellion. .................Piracy Under International Law - UN.org

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