No, it was the Jooooos.
We, er, they needed to silence certain people to prevent our, er, their take over of the internal postal service.
You can see this from the fringes on the flag, which means it is a court of admiralty, and thus the IRS is void.
It figures.
And the postal service.. that linkage goes back several hundred years.
Good catch about the fringes. I've seen evidence going back
to ancient Egypt regarding that. Just watch History Channel
or even the later episodes of Stargate.