The memories of Thomas Jefferson.
(Not that I want them.*)

Father: My son thinks he's a chicken.
Psychiatrist: How long has this been going on?
Father: All his life.
Psychiatrist: Why didn't you come to me sooner?
Father: We needed the eggs.

Set aside the question of whether or not I was Thomas Jefferson.* The truly important question is do I deliver the eggs?

Next are all the eggs you could ever want.

What is the very simple yet elegant and painless solution to the recent Supreme Court decision which allows the confiscation of private homes by municipalities like in New London in order to give it to a private enterprise?

During the time of the Continental Congress about 220 years ago there were quite a few similar situations. Often they were mayors of towns who thought that they deserved to live in the best home in town so they would just confiscate it and live in it. We learned to use a lot of methods to deal with these tyrants. Then finally came the Constitution and the 5th Amendment which eliminated the need for all those methods forever or so we thought.

Since the 5th amendment no longer works the way it is supposed to then those same methods can be used again.

The simplest method to prevent municipalities from confiscating private property is to use the state or the Federal Government to prevent it as I describe here but that leads to this one here. Or the person can sell their property to the U.S. Army and then buy it back. Full details are here. Here is another simple solution. This is another method which I personally liked a lot. What the uncontrolled confiscation of property will lead to if you don't stop it.

There are many other methods that we used as well. In time I will probably remember a dozen or more of them. Here are a few caveats (sneaky things) in the Constitution that you never knew about. (Very important for the war on terrorism.)

CONTENTS
THEN- Personal memories from 200 years ago
THE LAWS- Memories of the laws then compared to the laws now.
NOW- Comments about the present day using the skills I had 200 years ago.

THEN

It was always about liberty and not about freedom as most American's now claim. Liberty is a state of existence. Freedom concerns actions and is anarchy in the truest sense of the word, no matter how good the intent. The individual freedoms such as freedom of speech were a right that harmed no one since you could always walk away from a person who was practicing that right. Why did we used the word freedom instead of Liberty? That is one of the many secrets and details of the United States Constitution that I explain.

Why did Thomas Jefferson say the five years he spent in Paris were the most valuable and happiest years of his life? (It was the French women.)

What actually started the American Revolution and the real reason George Washington actually did stand up in the boat when he crossed the Delaware and our use of an early chemical warfare agent.

A lighter view of the Declaration of Independence and the Great Seal in two pages that are refreshingly informative and evocatively sensual.

Fort Monticello. The house that could withstand the most powerful cannons of the era.

What about the Louisiana Purchase which seems to contradict Jefferson's policy against expansion?

The lives of the blacks I knew. Included is Sally Hemmings info.

What of my conflicting and perplexing views on slavery and education which is only found in one single document? (It was an English forgery for propaganda purposes.)

A widow, her alligators and the widower in the White House (a good short story). Her arms smuggling husband who was our top smuggler during the war.

What on earth was Dolley Madison doing when she acted as the hostess of the White House for President Thomas Jefferson, a widower?

How come the forefathers did not ever seem to enjoy a love life?

About the horrible first 'White House' that nobody liked. Even Dolley didn't like it.

Short entries- At odds with the general consensus. For the concentration impaired. An accumulation of general information which has been forgotten in the last two centuries. Included is info about the many gay government officials in early America.

By knowing the basis of laws you will be able to determine the Constitutionality of virtually any law yourself. (I stopped in the middle of this paper when I remembered that I wrote this all out when I was Thomas Jefferson. That information should be in my 27,000 papers at the Library of Congress. ) This was probably when I was starting my Vice Presidential service and in the fall or winter when I had nothing to do except to wait around for the English to assassinate President Adams.

A 1776 view of the legislation of morality.

How you can practice law and without a license but only in Federal Courts and why.

Slander, How the law has changed without actually changing.

A light hearted case study involving the legal status of alligators and crocodiles.

The Law against Treason and how it became ineffective.

Why lawyers were called alligators (and not sharks like we are referred to now).

Understanding Russia. It is not too late.

Turn your sound on to hear the 'best ever outing' of a gay politician.

A non amendment way to the presidency for Arnold. Two great photographs of the esteemed governor of the State of California.

Am I out of my mind or totally logical and highly intelligent? The next example answers that question once and for all.

How about me using Courtney Loves legal problems to show case my talents as a lawyer? She was falsely arrested which means the police committed a felony. The DA committed at least one felony in court. One of the arresting policemen perjured himself in court which is a felony. The police released her from jail too soon which was criminal and caused her daughter to be taken from her for 18 months, etc.

And now just for fun the Statue of Liberty exposed. Inspired by "Girls Next Door"

One person who had a very strong recall of their past lives was George Patton.

Please note: Remembering this past life had one problem that recalling my other lives did not. I often skipped words and changed their order when I wrote the sentences on this web site. However, my biggest fear is that I might accidentally recall laws that were pre Revolutionary War and hence hang myself by my own petards because they won't necessarily be constitutional. Please excuse me if I accidentally do this. Now I am editing this 'life' and correcting these mistakes as well as taking out duplicates of the information which is another thing I did.

*Ok, maybe I was not TJ in a previous life. I can't say for a whether or not I was in fact him. I can only say that I have his memories going back to his childhood. I also have his skills, his knowledge of the law and everything else that made him who he was.

So what does it really matter if I was him or not? I can still do what he did. Isn't that what is really important? What more could you really ask for?

By the way, how do you like your eggs cooked?

© 2005-10 John Pinil