Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:08.280] The United States Supreme Court, in an 8-to-1 decision, just ruled that Congress can provide [00:08.280 --> 00:13.000] lesser benefits to people living in Puerto Rico than people living in the states of the [00:13.000 --> 00:14.720] Union. [00:14.720 --> 00:19.400] Plaintiff's counsel, Hermann Farré, argued before the court that his client was being [00:19.400 --> 00:26.440] excluded from certain federal benefits based on his race. [00:26.440 --> 00:32.560] Did the United States Supreme Court just rule that Congress can exclude certain people from [00:32.560 --> 00:40.800] certain kinds of benefits based on their race? [00:40.800 --> 00:52.240] The Dr. Reality Podcast with Dave Champion. [00:52.240 --> 00:56.680] So is the Supreme Court's decision really about race? [00:56.680 --> 00:58.560] No. [00:58.560 --> 00:59.560] Not even a little bit. [00:59.560 --> 01:02.920] We're going to start with the least relevant factors, moving up to the most relevant factors [01:02.920 --> 01:05.160] concerning the Supreme Court's decision. [01:05.160 --> 01:07.080] So we're going to start with this. [01:07.080 --> 01:13.200] People will say, well, don't the people of Puerto Rico pay federal taxes? [01:13.200 --> 01:14.800] The answer is no, they don't. [01:14.800 --> 01:16.480] They're actually exempt from federal taxation. [01:16.480 --> 01:17.960] Let me give you an example. [01:17.960 --> 01:21.480] The United States income tax is operative in Puerto Rico. [01:21.480 --> 01:28.560] However, as applied to Puerto Rico, it uses something called the mirror system. [01:28.560 --> 01:36.120] What that means is the entirety of the massive entirety of federal income tax laws apply [01:36.120 --> 01:37.520] to Puerto Rico. [01:37.520 --> 01:41.860] However, under the mirror system, this is what happens. [01:41.860 --> 01:48.680] Every relevant place in the statutes that says United States, as in the US Treasury, [01:49.680 --> 01:54.560] that is pulled out and you insert the words Puerto Rico. [01:54.560 --> 02:00.500] So while there is an income tax operative in Puerto Rico, 100% of the income tax collected [02:00.500 --> 02:07.600] from US tax law operating in Puerto Rico goes into the Puerto Rican Treasury. [02:07.600 --> 02:10.320] It doesn't go to the US Treasury. [02:10.320 --> 02:16.480] Now let's take a look at the factors that really drove the Supreme Court's decision. [02:17.480 --> 02:20.160] I don't think people realize this. [02:20.160 --> 02:25.080] The possessions and the territories, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, America, Samoa, [02:25.080 --> 02:30.520] etc., they are owned by the United States. [02:30.520 --> 02:34.760] They belong to the United States. [02:34.760 --> 02:36.480] So you don't think I'm making this up. [02:36.480 --> 02:38.920] Let me actually read this to you. [02:38.920 --> 02:45.680] In the United States Code, Title 48, which is entitled Territories and Insular Possessions, [02:45.680 --> 02:48.360] Chapter 4 is entitled Puerto Rico. [02:48.360 --> 02:53.960] And the first section, 731, reads as follows. [02:53.960 --> 02:58.920] The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the island of Puerto Rico and the adjacent [02:58.920 --> 03:05.200] islands belonging to the United States. [03:05.200 --> 03:09.600] That language is not an oopsie, it's not an accident, it's not an oversight. [03:09.600 --> 03:11.560] It's a legal reality. [03:11.560 --> 03:15.480] The possessions and territories, in this particular case we're talking about Puerto Rico, they [03:16.480 --> 03:20.320] belong to the United States government. [03:20.320 --> 03:24.360] They are the property of the United States government. [03:24.360 --> 03:31.120] By contrast, do the states of the Union belong to the United States government? [03:31.120 --> 03:32.640] No, just the opposite. [03:32.640 --> 03:37.280] The states actually created the federal government. [03:37.280 --> 03:42.200] The citizens of the states of the Union are what is referred to in the preamble of the [03:42.200 --> 03:46.960] Constitution as we the people, a phrase you're all familiar with. [03:46.960 --> 03:53.160] The citizens of the possessions and territories are not we the people as expressed in the [03:53.160 --> 03:58.040] preamble of the Constitution, which is why possessions and territories, which includes [03:58.040 --> 04:04.440] Washington, D.C., by the way, do not have voting representation in Congress. [04:04.440 --> 04:10.240] Another way to put it is they're not a party to the contract known as the U.S. Constitution. [04:10.280 --> 04:13.880] I'm going to say it another way, which will probably rub a lot of people the wrong way, [04:13.880 --> 04:17.040] but it is nevertheless factually accurate. [04:17.040 --> 04:22.240] People of the 50 states of the Union are the sovereign citizens. [04:22.240 --> 04:27.020] They are citizens of their states of the Union, and according to the United States Supreme [04:27.020 --> 04:32.560] Court, that then gives them the certain prerogatives and privileges under the United States Constitution [04:32.560 --> 04:34.280] on a national level. [04:34.280 --> 04:36.120] But they're citizens. [04:36.120 --> 04:40.960] The people in the possessions and the territories are actually, although they're referred to [04:40.960 --> 04:47.520] as citizens, we're going to get into this in a minute, they are actually subjects, just [04:47.520 --> 04:52.960] like in the days of old, people were subjects of the Crown. [04:52.960 --> 04:54.960] No different legally speaking. [04:54.960 --> 04:59.560] Citizens of the possessions and territories are subjects of the United States government, [04:59.560 --> 05:01.640] where people in the 50 states are citizens. [05:01.640 --> 05:05.020] I know here in the 21st century that sounds harsh. [05:05.020 --> 05:07.380] It is nevertheless legal reality. [05:07.380 --> 05:14.360] The Constitution explicitly provides certain authority over the possessions and territories. [05:14.360 --> 05:22.920] In Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2, it states, quote, the Congress shall have power to dispose [05:22.920 --> 05:30.900] of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property [05:30.900 --> 05:37.340] belonging to, or we heard that before a moment ago, the United States. [05:37.340 --> 05:40.660] And here's how this plays out in a legal sense. [05:40.660 --> 05:44.660] According to the United States Supreme Court, when governing for the possessions and territories, [05:44.660 --> 05:53.580] Congress may do anything, anything, all needful rules and regulations. [05:53.580 --> 05:58.060] The Supreme Court has said Congress can do anything it wants with the possessions and [05:58.060 --> 06:05.300] territories, provided that it doesn't try to do anything for which Congress is specifically [06:05.300 --> 06:10.860] prohibited in the Constitution, which is just a couple of things. [06:10.860 --> 06:16.340] So in a very real sense, Congress rules the possessions and territories the same way the [06:16.340 --> 06:20.300] kings of old used to rule their countries. [06:20.300 --> 06:27.360] But Dave, you say, aren't citizens of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, aren't they citizens [06:27.600 --> 06:28.600] of the United States? [06:28.600 --> 06:32.200] Well, yes, yes, they are. [06:32.200 --> 06:40.000] But you probably think there's just one class of citizen in the United States, because that's [06:40.000 --> 06:44.240] typically how we're raised in the government school system to believe all citizenship is [06:44.240 --> 06:45.240] the same. [06:45.240 --> 06:50.880] There's just one that is not remotely constitutionally accurate. [06:50.880 --> 06:56.600] From the founding of the nation through the end of the Civil War and the adoption of the [06:56.640 --> 07:01.640] 14th Amendment, there was indeed one class of citizen. [07:01.640 --> 07:05.680] That was a citizen of the states of the union, as I mentioned earlier in passing, according [07:05.680 --> 07:10.240] to the Supreme Court, being a citizen of a state of the union, vested you with certain [07:10.240 --> 07:12.680] federal privileges and prerogatives. [07:12.680 --> 07:17.440] That was all derived from your citizenship in the state of a union. [07:17.440 --> 07:20.280] All right, so I'm going to try and do this really quick. [07:20.280 --> 07:24.000] And by the way, I'm going to put some links that are educational about this subject down [07:24.000 --> 07:25.600] in the notes if you want to know more. [07:25.600 --> 07:29.280] But I'm going to give you the quick and dirty on it right now. [07:29.280 --> 07:34.320] At the end of the Civil War, the federal government had a conundrum, and that was the freed black [07:34.320 --> 07:40.400] slaves had no citizenship because the state constitutions where they were born didn't [07:40.400 --> 07:43.000] allow for them to be considered citizens. [07:43.000 --> 07:45.720] There was no such thing as revisionist history. [07:45.720 --> 07:48.600] Congress couldn't just wave its magic wand and say that, yeah, if you were born 30 years [07:48.600 --> 07:50.680] ago in Georgia, yeah, you're a citizen. [07:50.680 --> 07:51.920] That doesn't fly legally. [07:51.920 --> 07:53.480] So there had to be a solution. [07:53.480 --> 07:56.800] You've got all these people who are now free, right? [07:56.800 --> 07:58.200] They've been emancipated. [07:58.200 --> 08:00.960] However, they're not citizens. [08:00.960 --> 08:05.000] And under Vattel's Law of Nations, which was being used then and is still used to this [08:05.000 --> 08:06.880] very day, there's only two classes. [08:06.880 --> 08:08.240] You're a citizen or an alien. [08:08.240 --> 08:12.600] So here's the way this broke down under law. [08:12.600 --> 08:16.120] The freed black slaves, because they weren't citizens, under Vattel's Law of Nations, they [08:16.120 --> 08:18.160] were considered aliens. [08:18.160 --> 08:21.400] I know that sounds very bizarre, but it's exactly the truth. [08:21.400 --> 08:26.440] This is exactly how the legislators saw this at the end of the Civil War. [08:26.440 --> 08:30.280] They had all these people who were citizens in the North and the white people in the South [08:30.280 --> 08:33.720] who had been born their constitutions, granted them citizenship. [08:33.720 --> 08:37.720] But then you had these emancipated people who were not citizens and therefore, under [08:37.720 --> 08:40.440] Vattel's Law of Nations, they were aliens. [08:40.440 --> 08:43.120] Wow, quite a conundrum, yes? [08:43.120 --> 08:47.800] Because aliens typically have an entirely different set of rights, in many cases no [08:47.800 --> 08:52.040] rights at all or minimalistic rights in comparison to citizens. [08:52.040 --> 08:58.000] So what Congress did was they went out to the states and they, I'm not going to get [08:58.000 --> 09:01.800] into the controversy over the adoption of the 14th Amendment, but let us simply say [09:01.800 --> 09:05.920] that we ended up with something we now know as the 14th Amendment. [09:05.920 --> 09:15.060] The 14th Amendment created a second class of citizenship that is known as a citizen [09:15.060 --> 09:17.000] of the United States. [09:17.480 --> 09:22.080] And in the 14th Amendment, the meaning of citizen of the United States is we are now [09:22.080 --> 09:27.800] taking these free, these emancipated blacks that were born in the southern states that [09:27.800 --> 09:32.600] do not have citizenship, that are under Vattel's Law of Nations, considered to be aliens, and [09:32.600 --> 09:38.200] all of the white people, I mean, this isn't a racist statement, this is a legal statement. [09:38.200 --> 09:41.160] All the white people throughout the whole country, through their representatives in [09:41.160 --> 09:48.320] Congress now, by adopting and ratifying the 14th Amendment, all these white people are [09:48.320 --> 09:57.080] going to give these black aliens a form of citizenship under the 14th Amendment. [09:57.080 --> 10:00.400] Now this sounds terrible, I know, I mean, it should have never been handled that way. [10:00.400 --> 10:04.960] Nevertheless, it is the legal and constitutional landscape, that's exactly how it was handled. [10:04.960 --> 10:10.720] So you've got what euphemistically called de jure citizens, that's the original citizens [10:10.720 --> 10:12.400] of the 50 states. [10:12.400 --> 10:18.120] And then you have this second, lesser, I hate to say it, but it's legally true, lesser [10:18.120 --> 10:23.680] class of citizens, referred to in the 14th Amendment as citizens of the United States. [10:23.680 --> 10:26.680] And again, if you have any questions about this, by all means take a look at the links [10:26.680 --> 10:31.400] that I've inserted down in the notes, and I can go into a lot more detail. [10:31.400 --> 10:36.300] But there's some place you can look right now to verify this. [10:36.300 --> 10:44.000] You can go to Title 42 of the United States Code, Section 1981, which is the foundation [10:44.000 --> 10:47.380] of all civil rights actions under federal law. [10:47.380 --> 10:56.700] If you go there, you will see it designates six, and only six, rights that citizens of [10:56.700 --> 10:59.020] the United States, 14th Amendment, have. [10:59.020 --> 11:03.120] Now of course, through the incorporation doctrine, the Supreme Court has expanded that dramatically [11:03.120 --> 11:04.280] since then. [11:04.280 --> 11:10.200] But that was the very first piece of legislation passed that involved the 14th Amendment, [11:10.200 --> 11:17.960] the second class of citizen, the second as far as in the timeline, and also second, regrettably, [11:17.960 --> 11:22.040] as in the amount of rights that the citizen has. [11:22.040 --> 11:29.800] But again, you go to 1981, and you see there are six rights that Congress vested in the [11:30.680 --> 11:33.240] citizens of the United States, just six. [11:33.240 --> 11:37.280] And more astoundingly than the fact that Congress thought it was okay to just give them six [11:37.280 --> 11:41.920] rights and call it good, as it says, that they are to have those six rights to the same [11:41.920 --> 11:47.360] degree as white citizens. [11:47.360 --> 11:55.480] Still there, today, still valid, still operative federal law, again, Title 42, Section 1981. [11:55.480 --> 11:56.600] Look for yourself. [11:56.600 --> 11:57.600] Do not believe me. [11:58.240 --> 12:04.440] Now I share all of that to make the point that citizens of the possessions and territories [12:04.440 --> 12:10.360] are a form of 14th Amendment citizen. [12:10.360 --> 12:16.560] In other words, for instance, I was born in California, so my, again, the euphemistic [12:16.560 --> 12:22.960] term, du jour citizenship, my original class of citizenship comes from my birth upon the [12:22.960 --> 12:26.520] land in one of the 50 states of the Union. [12:26.520 --> 12:32.440] However, somebody who is born in Puerto Rico, or Guam, or American Samoa, or the American [12:32.440 --> 12:37.560] Virgin Islands, Wake Island, and Johnson Island, or so forth, the possessions and territories, [12:37.560 --> 12:39.920] they don't have du jour citizenship. [12:39.920 --> 12:44.920] Their citizenship is not based on, again, Patel's Law of Nation, your birth upon the [12:44.920 --> 12:46.720] land. [12:46.720 --> 12:56.320] Their citizenship is granted to them by the states of the Union by and through the 14th [12:56.320 --> 12:58.040] Amendment. [12:58.040 --> 13:02.840] And basically what that looked like is, for instance, Congress takes out and says, okay, [13:02.840 --> 13:06.920] so we've got all these people who live in this place called Puerto Rico. [13:06.920 --> 13:09.680] They're not U.S. citizens. [13:09.680 --> 13:11.880] They're not born in the 50 states. [13:11.880 --> 13:14.440] So what does Congress do? [13:14.440 --> 13:21.360] By legislation, Congress pronounces them citizens of the United States. [13:21.360 --> 13:25.520] That's not how, if you were born in one of the 50 states, that's not how you got your [13:25.720 --> 13:26.720] citizenship. [13:26.720 --> 13:27.840] It's not how I got my citizenship. [13:27.840 --> 13:31.520] Their citizenship is granted as a privilege. [13:31.520 --> 13:35.680] It is not based on their birth upon the land in one of the 50 states. [13:35.680 --> 13:40.980] And I know this sounds nutty because it's not taught in school, but it is absolutely [13:40.980 --> 13:47.640] legally and constitutionally valid, sound, right, proper, and correct. [13:47.640 --> 13:55.320] Now you can see the Supreme Court's 8-1 decision that Congress is free to dictate a differentiation [13:55.560 --> 13:58.360] in the benefits paid to people who live in Puerto Rico. [13:58.360 --> 14:01.880] By the way, this case will also extend to other possessions and territories, even though [14:01.880 --> 14:05.640] the plaintiff in this case was specifically a citizen of the United States residing in [14:05.640 --> 14:09.720] Puerto Rico, that citizen of the United States being a 14th Amendment citizen. [14:09.720 --> 14:18.640] So you can see that the Supreme Court's decision was about ownership, was about the fact that [14:18.640 --> 14:25.000] Puerto Rico belongs to, it is the property of the United States. [14:25.000 --> 14:30.000] And as such, Congress can look out at anything going on in those islands and say, we don't [14:30.000 --> 14:35.200] have to make it equitable to what the disjured citizens in the 50 states of the union are [14:35.200 --> 14:36.200] receiving. [14:36.200 --> 14:37.720] And there's a jurisdictional issue here. [14:37.720 --> 14:42.880] There was a Supreme Court decision that talked about the different role that Congress plays [14:42.880 --> 14:47.700] when legislating for the states of the union and legislating for the possessions and territories. [14:47.700 --> 14:52.160] So not only is it ownership and belonging to, but also the ownership and belonging to [14:52.160 --> 15:01.720] issue then alters the manner in which Congress is permitted to legislate for the two different [15:01.720 --> 15:03.720] legal jurisdictions. [15:03.720 --> 15:06.120] Wow. [15:06.120 --> 15:11.320] That's a lot of information for a decision that I think most people aren't aware of. [15:11.320 --> 15:13.200] If they're aware of, don't care about. [15:13.200 --> 15:20.600] But yet you see the significance, how much information the American public does not know [15:20.640 --> 15:26.320] about the Constitution, about how Congress functions, about the possessions and territories, [15:26.320 --> 15:31.280] about disjured citizenship and this other different form of citizenship known as 14th [15:31.280 --> 15:35.480] Amendment citizenship, euphemistically called citizen of the United States and so forth. [15:35.480 --> 15:39.880] These are things that the vast majority of Americans should have been taught. [15:39.880 --> 15:45.560] But of course, the government schools, they have no reason to teach the American citizens [15:45.560 --> 15:47.200] how government actually functions. [15:47.200 --> 15:51.800] They give them the little superficial lesson and then push them out into the world without [15:51.800 --> 15:54.400] actually knowing what's going on. [15:54.400 --> 16:02.960] In closing, if you value, digging deeper, if you value finding out what's really going [16:02.960 --> 16:07.720] on rather than the superficial nonsense, I want to encourage you to go to DrReality.News. [16:07.720 --> 16:10.640] Pick yourself up a copy of Income Tax Shattering the Myths or Body Science. [16:10.640 --> 16:15.360] I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining them, but the quick and dirty is this. [16:15.360 --> 16:20.200] Income Tax Shattering the Myths looks at the history of the income tax from 1895 all [16:20.200 --> 16:22.080] the way through our current era. [16:22.080 --> 16:26.680] It looks at treasury decisions, treasury orders, statutes, regulations, decisions of the Congressional [16:26.680 --> 16:28.640] Research Service, internal documentation. [16:28.640 --> 16:33.080] The IRS never thought it would get, that anybody outside the agency would get its hands on [16:33.080 --> 16:34.840] and I did and on and on and on. [16:34.840 --> 16:35.840] It's all their stuff. [16:35.840 --> 16:37.400] It's not me saying anything, by the way. [16:37.400 --> 16:45.080] It's them saying it and it proves conclusively and consistently from 1913 forward, absolutely [16:45.080 --> 16:47.040] consistent, no question. [16:47.040 --> 16:50.040] All the way through to the current time, Congress never imposed the income tax on the average [16:50.040 --> 16:51.040] American. [16:51.040 --> 16:53.840] As a matter of fact, let me share just one brief fact with you. [16:53.840 --> 16:59.000] There are, I believe, nine treasury orders that designate who's to use a 1040. [16:59.000 --> 17:03.120] If you look at those nine treasury orders, the people who are to use a Form 1040 are [17:03.120 --> 17:07.800] non-resident aliens with U.S. source income or their agency representative, period, end [17:07.800 --> 17:09.480] of statement, full stop. [17:09.480 --> 17:14.680] So how many treasury orders say that an American citizen living and working in one of the 50 [17:15.280 --> 17:18.280] states, that theme again, living and working in one of the 50 states earning their own [17:18.280 --> 17:24.760] domestic income are to file any U.S. income tax form? [17:24.760 --> 17:25.760] Zero. [17:25.760 --> 17:26.760] None. [17:26.760 --> 17:27.760] Babukiss. [17:27.760 --> 17:34.640] In well more than 100 years, not one says that an American citizen living and working [17:34.640 --> 17:37.200] in one of the 50 states earning their own domestic income is to file any form. [17:37.200 --> 17:38.200] Not one. [17:38.200 --> 17:39.200] In more than 100 years. [17:39.200 --> 17:40.800] That's not an oversight. [17:40.800 --> 17:43.520] That's reality and it's the kind of reality you'll learn in income tax shattering. [17:44.360 --> 17:47.360] That's along with much, much, much, much more, it'll blow your mind. [17:47.360 --> 17:48.360] Body science. [17:48.360 --> 17:53.560] Same thing with what the government has done concerning programming, brainwashing might [17:53.560 --> 17:54.560] be a better word. [17:54.560 --> 17:58.040] The American people concerning physiology, most especially nutritional physiology, which [17:58.040 --> 18:04.480] has resulted in the U.S. population being the most chronically ill society in all of [18:04.480 --> 18:07.840] human history. [18:07.840 --> 18:09.640] Our technology, right? [18:09.640 --> 18:18.000] Our wisdom, our intelligence, our scientific prowess, and yet the United States population [18:18.000 --> 18:25.440] is the most ill society in all of human history and the reason is they've been brainwashed [18:25.440 --> 18:33.240] with false, politically driven, purchased fraudulent science for 60 years and because [18:33.240 --> 18:36.760] it's been going on for 60 years, just like the income tax, everybody knows you have to [18:37.360 --> 18:38.800] But that's not true. [18:38.800 --> 18:42.320] So the same thing with nutritional physiology in the United States. [18:42.320 --> 18:45.840] Because the lies have been going on for 60 years, the American public's perspective is [18:45.840 --> 18:47.840] well everybody knows saturated fat. [18:47.840 --> 18:49.640] Everybody knows saturated fat is bad for you. [18:49.640 --> 18:50.640] No! [18:50.640 --> 18:53.140] Saturated fat is amazing for you. [18:53.140 --> 18:54.140] Everybody knows. [18:54.140 --> 18:55.140] You should eat a balanced diet. [18:55.140 --> 18:56.960] Not even going to get into that. [18:56.960 --> 19:02.440] Everybody knows you need fruits and vegetables except that is absolutely physiologically [19:02.440 --> 19:03.440] bunk. [19:03.440 --> 19:04.440] It's nonsense. [19:04.640 --> 19:08.360] But you believe it because you've been fed the lies for 60 years. [19:08.360 --> 19:13.960] You can't even imagine that they're false because you and everybody else believes them [19:13.960 --> 19:15.400] to be true. [19:15.400 --> 19:21.960] Body science using human physiology and proven science, including some of the most in-depth, [19:21.960 --> 19:29.320] most expensive and extensive human trials in mankind's history shows that those narratives [19:29.320 --> 19:30.880] are completely false and always have been. [19:30.880 --> 19:34.360] In body science I explain how the false narratives got started. [19:34.360 --> 19:39.240] And I show you how human physiology actually operates. [19:39.240 --> 19:46.400] And it's so, so easy to be incredibly healthy like our ancestors were 100, 200 years ago. [19:46.400 --> 19:50.920] All the chronic diseases that are killing us today, they didn't exist before the 20th [19:50.920 --> 19:51.920] century. [19:51.920 --> 19:57.120] And living here in the 21st century, we can go back to being just as healthy as they were. [19:57.120 --> 19:59.560] The only difference is what you know. [19:59.560 --> 20:03.680] Right now, for the vast majority of the American public, what you know is the lies you've been [20:03.840 --> 20:04.840] fed for 60 years. [20:04.840 --> 20:06.840] Anyway, enough of all that. [20:06.840 --> 20:11.120] But if you go to DrReality.News, grab yourself a copy of Income Tax Shattering the Mist and [20:11.120 --> 20:14.520] or Body Science, two of the most fascinating books you will ever read. [20:14.520 --> 20:16.560] You have my word on that. [20:16.560 --> 20:23.440] You also help me to continue to be here for you with these sort of fact-based presentations. [20:23.440 --> 20:24.080] Thanks for being here.