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The Symbolism Hidden Within “The Wizard of Oz” written by L. Frank Baum, is not a mere child’s story.

What is “Oz” a symbol for? Ounces.

What is measured in ounces? Gold.

What is the yellow brick road? Bricks or ingot bars of gold.

The character known as the Straw Man represents that fictitious, ALL CAPS, legal fiction – a PERSON, the Federal U.S. Government created with the same spelling as your birth name.

Remember what the Straw Man wanted from the Wizard of Oz? A Brain!

No juristic person – legal fiction – paper corporation has a brain because he/she has no breath of life. What did he get in place of a brain?

A certificate: a Birth Certificate for a new legal creation.

He was proud of his new legal status, plus all the other legalisms he was granted. Now he becomes the epitome of the brainless sack of straw who was given a certificate in place of a grain of common sense.

Now, what about the Tin Man? Does Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) recall anything to mind? The poor TIN Man just stood there mindlessly doing his work until his body literally froze up and stopped functioning.

He worked himself to death because he had no heart nor soul.

He’s the heartless and emotionless creature robotically carrying out his daily task as though he were already dead.

He’s the ox pulling the plow and the mule toiling under the yoke.

These days, his task masters just oil him nightly with beer and place him in front of a hypnotic television until his very existence no longer has any meaning or value.

His masters keep him cold on the outside and heartless on the inside in order to control any emotion or feeling that might arise.

The Cowardly Lion was always too frightened to stand up for himself. Of course, he was a bully and a big mouth when it came to picking on those smaller than he.

(Have you ever noticed how bullies are really the biggest cowards? They act as though they have great courage, but, in reality, have none at all. They roar, but with no teeth of authority to back them up.)

When push came to shove, the Cowardly Lion always buckled under and whimpered when anyone of any size or stature challenged him.

He wanted courage from the Grand Wizard, so he was awarded a medal of “official” recognition. Now, although remaining a coward, his official status allowed him to be a bully, but with officially recognized authority. (He’s not unlike the Attorneys who hide behind the Middle Courts of the Temple Bar.) et al ad infinitum.

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