When They Come to Your Door. This item is unavailable.When They Come to Your Door

When law enforcement arrives at a private dwelling without a warrant, without probable cause, and without an open criminal action, most people do the same thing. They comply. They answer questions. They sign whatever is placed in front of them. They walk through every stage of the process — the interrogation room, the bail bond office, the arraignment — believing they are in a justice system when they are actually inside a commercial processing machine that opened a financial instrument in their name before the officers left their vehicles.

This book examines what is actually happening when government power makes contact with private life. The Fourth Amendment requires a warrant before any officer crosses the threshold of a private dwelling. The Sixth Amendment requires disclosure of the nature and cause of every accusation before the accused is required to respond to anything. The Fifth Amendment prohibits compelling any person to be a witness against themselves. None of these protections have been repealed. What has happened is that an entire institutional apparatus has been constructed on top of them — funded by commercial security instruments bearing CUSIP numbers, backed by bid performance and payment bonds, and sustained by the private person's ignorance of the accounting running underneath every encounter.

This book maps that accounting in full. It examines the warrant requirement through Payton versus New York and four decades of Fourth Amendment precedent. It examines the commercial bonding system that opens a securities instrument in the private person's name using their social security number before first contact is made. It examines the eleven questions law enforcement cannot answer — the warrant question, the probable cause question, the Sixth Amendment nature of the accusation question, the CUSIP question, the minimum contacts contract question — and what every refusal to answer establishes on the recording that builds the federal civil rights case.

It examines the bail bond as a commercial security instrument, the ATF Form 4473 as the document that converts a natural Second Amendment right into a regulatable privilege, the Ashwander doctrine and how accepting government benefits waives constitutional protections most people never knew they held, the private IRS auditor program, the 42 USC 1983 civil rights complaint and its damages calculation, and the complete sequence from first contact through interrogation through civil complaint through US Tax Court through Court of Federal Claims.

The private person who complies funds every stage of the process from a Treasury account their social security number accesses without their knowledge. The private person who knows the framework walks into the interrogation room and dismantles the proceeding on a recording. This book is the framework.