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Sunday, March 31, 2024

Orientation Help for Assemblies

 By Anna Von Reitz

The struggle to correct decades of false indoctrination and improper assumptions based on that indoctrination is probably the single biggest struggle our Assemblies face and it is something that impacts each and every one of us to some degree. 

Developing a good Orientation package for new members is important and getting to know them individually, so as to be better able to engage their talents and interests, is highly advised.  

Just as we urge store owners and professionals who offer cross-jurisdictional services (doctors, nurses, chiropractors, dentists, hair salons, etc.) to post Disclaimers so that their services are offered on their own terms, we advise the Assemblies to include an informative Disclaimer whenever possible. 

The purpose of this Disclaimer is to visibly and frequently remind new members (especially) and visitors that this is a different government.  

Suggested verbiage: 

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Disclaimer: We are engaged in the practice of self-government.    

Everyone here is volunteering their precious time and skill. Each one is an American with rights and prerogatives equal to your own. 

They are doing this work out of mutual necessity, to restore the lawful American Government. 

Demands for service, temper tantrums, and misplaced anger are inappropriate. 

This country does not belong to its government.  This country belongs to the people who live here. And you are one (1) of them.  

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International Public Notice: The Importance of Non-Authority

 By Anna Von Reitz

We have provided Notice that the American Civil War was not a war, but was instead a Mercenary Conflict.  It was never declared by any Congressional body at all.  

In the years since then, all other "wars" that our misdirected countrymen have been involved in, have also been Mercenary Conflicts, and none were ever properly declared by a Congressional body having authority to declare war, because our American Congress hasn't been in Session.  

Our foreign Federal Subcontractors were never given authority to declare war.  

This changes everything.  All presumptions and suppositions based on the existence of war are blown away.   

There are no War Powers, no Emergency Powers, either, and no recourse to The Law of War, no Trading With the Enemy Act, no Law of Conquest, no excuse for extraterritorial Occupation of this country, or any other country, by these undeclared Mercenary Forces.  

There is no excuse for commandeering our resources and assets and cashiering them in State Trusts illegally controlled by foreign corporations; no excuse for the Office of Foreign Asset Control to take any action related to us or our assets; no reason for the British Monarch or the Pope, either one, to assume any title interest in our land or labor or our time on Earth. No basis for these foreign powers to demand any performance from us as citizens. 

No power backing media gag-orders and demands for censorship.  

There is and never was any valid reason to presume that we were absent or missing, presumed lost at sea, or otherwise stateless, or in need of any salvage operations promoted by the perpetrators of these gross breaches of trust, fraud, and violation of the good faith service contracts owed to us.  

Everything these Monsters have done from the 1850's onward has been a travesty of lies and fraud, presumption and delusion, cloaked in secrecy as crimes always must be, and washed down under color of law. 

The corporations providing "essential government services" per Article IV of the Federal Constitutions stand accused of conspiracy to evade their contractual obligations, dereliction of duty, and deliberate fraud for purposes of unjust enrichment.

They specifically stand accused of failure to actually provide remedy and reasonable access to remedy for their actions legislatively legalizing crimes, such as the adoption of the Federal Reserve Act, failure to disclose citizenship contracts and other "social contracts" foisted off on the American people; licensing occupations of common right, and a great deal more. 

We wish for the military contractors to seal the Southern Border no matter what the US corporate policies may be, and for the would-be immigrants to be returned safely home to their points of origin. The expense for this should be charged to the Vatican City State, City of Rome, and UN CORPORATION.  

George W. Bush never had any power or authority to engage in any Treaty affecting our national borders. 

The Principals responsible for this "open borders" nonsense have every right to reorganize their own business structures to create a regional government for themselves, so long as they honor their contracts with us and hold us harmless and unharmed.  

Otherwise, this is going to become an ugly matter of contention and the expenses for it are going to be back-charged to them with damages and care costs and transportation costs added.  

Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

March 31st 2024
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Tail-Chasing Remedy

 By Anna Von Reitz

Our Public is their Private, their Private is our Public. 

This is what we are talking about when we say that we use the Public Law for our private purposes, while they use their Private (Corporation) Law for public purposes.  

It's one of the more arcane concepts of the law that is difficult to master, for, like magic and witchcraft, it depends on perspective -- what your attention is drawn to, how you can be deceived, and how energy is applied. 

The Public Law of this country is American Common Law, Law Merchant, and The Ten Commandments; the Private Law(s) of this country include British Admiralty, Noahide Law, Maritime Commerce, UCMJ, Roman Civil Law, Municipal Law, and Ecclesiastical Law. 

Which kind and venue of law (public or private) you are owed depends on: (1) your political status (which determines your "person"); (2) the jurisdiction involved (the subject of your matter) which all then gives or fails to give the court "subject matter and in personam jurisdiction".

The Great Fraud has resulted in a situation in which you can be "mistaken" for a Human Person dba a British Territorial U.S. Citizen, or worse, as a United States citizen of the Municipal United States , so it is essential to establish who you are and what your political status is.  

This in turn establishes whether, for example, you are living in Michigan, residing in the State of Michigan, or residing in the Municipal STATE OF MICHIGAN.  

The most recent corporate scam is to claim the existence of a replacement for the STATE OF MICHIGAN calling itself simply MICHIGAN, and to also claim the existence of the "American Government, Inc." to replace the "United States Government, Inc."  

It's all equally bogus, either way, and a vain attempt to keep on confusing Commercial and Municipal Corporations with the actual government of this country.  

These pikers go bankrupt on the public dole, think up a new name and incorporate a "new" Successor organization, and propose to keep skating.  

We disallow any such outcome. 

All this semantic deceit designed to entrap the unwary American Public is largely indefensible constructive fraud on the face of it, but we must become aware of it, before we can call it out for what it is, and focus public attention on what the politicians and members of the Bar Associations are doing. 

The Public Law of this country is as strong as it ever was, including the Federal Constitutions which establish the Supreme Law of our international land jurisdiction with regard to our Federal Employees.  

However, we are obliged to provide ourselves with our own courts and to properly identify ourselves and our political status before we can access the Public Law and the Public Courts we are owed -- and before we can reliably enforce the Constitutions. 

Over the years many patriot organizations have arisen and many have fallen. Even today the effort remains confused with all sorts of homegrown splinter groups that distract from the core issues and needlessly endanger everyone involved.

We all need to focus our attention on the basics and not get distracted. 

Who are we?  Americans.

What is our political status? Self-governing.

How do we do that?  Our State and County Assemblies. 

What's our law?  Public Law. 

Who runs our courts?  We do. 

We need to declare and record and publish who we are, because we have all been mischaracterized by the Birth Registration process. 

Once we are "recognizable" as Americans, we can get the rest of the job done.  We can self-govern. We can run our State Assemblies.  We can restore our Courts.  We can enforce our law.  

And stop chasing our tails.  

Patriots everywhere need to stop the confusion by a reasoned act of will, and focus on the nuts and bolts which I have summarized above. 

Like us, our Government, our actual unincorporated American Government, has been more than half-asleep for decades.  It can be restored, but doing so requires conscious awareness of what's required and where the action takes place--- and why. 

As I write, we have literally hundreds of patriot organizations all tugging away at one issue or another.  Vast amounts of energy and money are being expended on court cases that yield little if any relief, because the courts themselves are: (1) foreign and (2) corrupt by design, having been created for purposes of population control and asset-stripping.  

Millions of Americans continue to be abused and coerced in their own purportedly free country --- and 95% of this circumstance is our own failure to properly assess the problem and deal with it.  

The horror of realizing that your traditional government has been undermined by foreign commercial interests and for-profit corporations has to be faced and overcome.  

We must each overcome decades of false indoctrination, and bravely confront our situation as it is and where it stands, because failure to understand the problem leads to wasted time and energy and still no actual solution.  

We, Americans, and probably two billion other people in the former Commonwealth, Western Europe, Japan, and the Middle East, have been subjected to an illegal quasi-military occupation using unlawfully converted Military Forces as Mercenaries.

These Raj-like organizations which are supposed to provide us with "essential government services" have breached their public trust, and operated under color of law for decades, becoming more abusive, more reckless, and more criminal as time has gone on. 

Americans have created RuSA, National Liberty Alliance, We, the People, the Union States Alliance, the Grand Jury Movement, T.E.A. Party and dozens upon dozens more organizations all trying to address various aspects of this overall dilemma --- all without grappling with the basic facts and necessities. 

1. We, Americans, have all been mischaracterized and misidentified by the Birth Registration process as British Territorial U.S. Citizens beginning in the 1920's with the Sheppard-Towner Act and following Registration Acts.

2. We, Americans, have been further mischaracterized by the issuance of a second Municipal United States BIRTH CERTIFICATE which misidentifies us as a United States citizen within the meaning of 42 USC 9102 (18) (c). 
 
3. Illegally and immorally saddled with these foreign citizenship obligations -- which have been created using undisclosed and unconscionable private "social" contracts -- Americans have been entrapped and subjugated by their own public employees, who have been misdirected by foreign interests. 

It is necessary to object to this and to declare and record our birthright political status; otherwise, our silence is thought to indicate our agreement and adoption of these foreign and denigrated political statuses and foreign citizenship obligations.  

It's also necessary to notice the jurisdiction in which these foreign birth registrations place us: at sea. 

We have been press-ganged. 

In order to arrive back home again, and to self-govern, we have to move back to the land and soil we are heir to, starting from the sea jurisdiction.  

This is also creating some confusion, because our Forefathers started on the land and soil, developing the counties and their states (known as the Union States) first, and their international States (known as States of the Union) second.  

Thanks to starting out "lost at sea" we have the additional burden of progressing in the opposite direction: from the sea, to the land, to the soil. 

As we arrive back home in our own country and stand on our own international land jurisdiction State of the Union, we simultaneously repopulate our Counties and the Union States are restored as well.  

This is what we are doing and why we are doing it this way and in this order.  There is a logic to all things and we must follow it to arrive at our desired result: the restoration of the actual American Government.  

Now, if all the "patriot organizations" in this country would give up their narrow and mostly wrong focus on trying to achieve justice from a patently unjust private court system, or trying to garner political favor from the administrators of foreign for-profit corporations masquerading as our government --- and actually face up to the facts and the job that has to be done, it could all be done much faster. 

Our State Assemblies are now all in the General Assembly phase; some have been able to assemble their State Courts-- the most potent means we have to lawfully and legally and peacefully obtain justice and enforce the Public Law on a permanent basis. 

So come, all you who are burdened down and moaning under the weight of taxation and inflation and other foreign impositions.  Join and support your State Assembly.  

Go to: www.TheAmericanStatesAssembly.org today and find the "missing pieces" that end the confusion and tail-chasing.  

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Friday, March 29, 2024

International Public Notice: The Courts Have Been Weaponized Since 1865

 By Anna Von Reitz

In May of 1865, the Territorial Rump Congress created by Lincoln in 1861 -- meaning the delegates of the Northern States and Union Army Officers appointed by Lincoln to fill the remaining empty seats -- set up ten (10) new Military Districts in the eleven Southern States. 

In each of these new Military Districts they created a District Court, run by an appointed General of at least Brigadier rank.  It was his job to hire Jurists (from the North) to set up and run these new (Military) District Courts.  The action doing this is plain upon the Congressional records for May of 1865 -- the busy month after Lee's surrender.  

These quasi-military Courts became known as "Carpetbagger Courts" because the Hired Jurists were imported from the Northern States and many arrived carrying cloth luggage made out of material more commonly used to make cheap floor rugs. 

The purpose of these quasi-military courts was to: (1) subject the former "rebels" to military law and order; (2) extract "war reparations" from the Southerners and the Southern States by means of illegal confiscation carried out with a veneer of Due Process. 

These courts had nothing whatsoever to do with justice.  

They were created for the purposes of political suppression and physical control of the population, and to punish the "rebels" by taking whatever little of value that they had left -- mainly their land, which was seized, added to the new State Trust, and given over to the control of the British Monarch who "held title" on behalf of the U.S. Citizens who populated the U.S. Army.  

You might assume, as many Americans did, that these Carpetbagger Courts would naturally sunset as the aftermath of the conflict got sorted out, but instead, a new system of (Military) "Judicial" Districts was put in place, and it was gradually extended to 
cover the entire country. 

Arbitrary Courts are great money-makers, so the cretins responsible were much encouraged to extend and increase the scope of these privately owned and operated courts.  Even today, these courts yield a 96% conviction rate.  

Various excuses were offered for this extension of the District Courts in diverse places, but it comes down to the fact that these District Courts began operating extraterritorially in tandem with a very quiet and very illegal occupation of this country by its own military forces.  

Except that those military forces had been unlawfully converted to function as commercial mercenary forces by Lincoln, and command of these forces had been "assumed" by the British Monarch in the "apparent absence" of our own civilian government.  

The objectives of these extraterritorial quasi-military Carpetbagger Courts never changed.  They were "weaponized" from the start, and they are weaponized to this day, with the same objectives in place: control the population, extract assets.  

Perhaps worse than the "United States District Courts" are the State-of-State equivalents. 

People, including some politicians, vaguely realize that "District Courts" shouldn't be operating in our States of the Union; this maintains a certain amount of attention being focused on the operations of these courts, which curbs the worst of their abuses.  

Usually. 

The same is not true of the equally foreign State-of-State Courts which operate as franchise corporations belonging to the same masters as the District Courts; perhaps this is because people had State-of-State Courts of their own prior to the Civil War and so, they accepted the State-of-State Courts after the War as being the same.  

Unfortunately, that is not true. 

The State-of-State Courts operating prior to the Civil War were run by the American State-of-State Organizations that were members of the original Confederation of States authorized in 1781. 

The State-of-State Courts operating after the Civil War were run by British Territorial State-of-State Organizations that were never members of the original Confederation and which were not American in their origin or administration. 

The only clue that this profound change had been made was the change from using "the" instead of "The" -- for example, The State of Ohio (American) to the State of Ohio (British Territorial).  

The purpose and the form of law of the State-of-State Courts was gradually shifted away from the Common Law and into the use of Maritime (Contract) Law, as more and more Americans were falsely registered as U.S. Citizens and were subjected to this foreign law as a result.  

Maritime contracts are not lawful and not, generally speaking, legal, on land.  They don't even adhere to the principles of Law Merchant.  

Modern Maritime contracting, a throwback to the Roman Civil Law,  allows the use of unilateral contracts assumed to exist by acquiescence, and "inferred" contracts, otherwise known as adhesion contracts, by which people are made subject to non-disclosed obligations and foreign forms of law, by a process of assumption. 

No meeting of the minds is required, no disclosure of the true parties to the contract is required, no honesty or honor of any kind is required in Maritime Contracts, with the result that this is the favorite form of law used by these weaponized courts.  Quite apart from any naïve idea of justice that we may have, these courts openly operate on the Roman Maxim, "Let him who will be deceived, be deceived." 

This is, self-evidently, not the kind of law we are supposed to have in this country, and no form of law that naturally applies to our people, but thanks to the unconscionable citizenship contract imposed upon us as babies, the Vermin responsible for administering this venal system enjoy the fruits of their deception. 

Until the vast weight of international public opinion turns against them and the evils of their leadership and their operations and their hypocrisy becomes known, we are at the mercy of our own ignorance. 

Obviously, our unlawfully converted now-Mercenary Forces are a problem for us as long as they are allowed to operate in this illegal and immoral fashion; but, they are also a problem for the rest of the world.  

The continued illegal occupation of this country and the weaponized foreign court system has allowed the British Territorial Raj to rule in the shadows and never face an election. This situation has also perpetuated no end of corruption and embezzlement and political oppression. 

We wish that we could say that the Roman-style Municipal Court System promoted in tandem by the Municipal US DISTRICT COURTS and their STATE franchises was any better, but if possible, it's worse, because its subjects are slaves and pre-judged to be criminals as well. 

These Municipal COURTS are better viewed as administrative processing units--- a vast mill-like hive of interconnected unelected tribunals that share the same objectives as their Territorial Raj brethren: control the population and rape it for plunder. 

The hypocrisy of the men and the institutions responsible for this situation, their endless prattling about "freedom" and "the rule of law" and "democracy" and a great many other subjects they know nothing about, is best left to be witnessed in silent observation of what the Brits and the Roman Curia have actually done here and throughout the world. 

These men and institutions are not the friends of mankind; they are pirates, consumed by their own greed and lust for power -- and the end result of their activities, the creation of a miserable and soul-less social caste system, is the same or worse than the most abject forms of either fascism or communism. 

Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

March 29th 2024

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Thursday, March 28, 2024

"Your" Social Security Card is a Bond Issued in "YOUR" Name

 By Anna Von Reitz

Most likely, you have never been a Federal Employee in your life, or, maybe you served a Tour of Duty long ago, or worked as a Postal Clerk for a couple years. 

No sane person looking at you could consider you a lifetime government employee, if they looked at your actual employment history.  

And yet, you have been identified as a lifetime Federal Dual Citizen and federal government employee, and you and your employers have all been taxed --- heavily --- as if you were either a public assistance recipient, a political asylum seeker, or a full time federal employee.  

On top of the 7.5% of your earnings snatched as a direct FICA Tax, your employer is hounded to pay an equal amount --- purportedly for your medical care and support in your old age. 

In addition to this very hefty tax amounting to 15% of your lifetime earnings, the Social Security Administration issues bonds against your Estate -- or rather, the Estate of a missing British Merchant Mariner named after you -- every ten years.  

You own the Survivorship Interest in this phony British Territorial Estate and have paid its bills all your life without knowing this.  

Remember when we told you to get out your magnifying glass and look at what appears to be a signature line on every check you have ever written? 

It turns out that it isn't a line.  It's a row of microprint endlessly repeating "Authorized Representative".  

What would you be a "Representative" of, and who or what would be authorizing you to act as a Representative?  

And why would the bank and the check printing company go to such lengths to hide this from you, so that you literally sign the checks without knowing that you are being identified as and acting as an "Authorized Representative" without any disclosure?

Okay, take your trusty magnifying glass and look at the Social Security Card issued in your name.  It's printed on bond paper with a unique watermark, just like a "dollar" bill.  

This "Social Security Card" is issued to a trademark NAME in American Sign Language: FIRST MIDDLE LAST. 

The date of issue is printed on the bottom right corner of the face of the bond, and a line of microprint (again) runs all around the legally enclosed text, revealing the bond issuer and the fact that they are seizing upon the assets cashiered under that trademark NAME to issue the bond. 

Note that they instruct you to endorse the bond by signing it.  

On the back of the bond you will see a number in red ink.  Red ink identifies the assets as being land assets that are being cashiered.  There is a single letter at the start of the bond number itself.  That single letter, "G" for example, identifies which Federal Reserve Bank issued the bond.  Then the bond account number itself follows.  

After these bonds mature every ten (10) years, the receipts are not returned to you, they are returned to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which holds these receipts for two years, after which they are claimed as "abandoned funds" and dumped into the General Fund for the Territorial Congress to spend on war-mongering or whatever else pleases them. 

So between the taxes and the bonds, the cretins in Congress are making out like bandits, raising and spending billions of dollars in "Social Security" funds every year, but poor-mouthing and telling you that they just don't know what they are going to do, they are running out of funding for Social Security..... they will have to cut benefits or increase taxes or both.... because they have been squandering "YOUR" pension funds on war-mongering and foreign immigrants who never paid a dime into Social Security. 

We have another answer.  

We identify them as foreign criminals engaged in a complex fraud scheme on our shores, a personage scheme that impersonates Americans as Foreign Citizens and then plays all sorts of games to defraud those Americans.  

We tell the Federal Reserve Bank that the Social Security Administration and the Territorial Congress have failed their Usufructuary Duty to hold the American victims of all this bunko harmless from all harm and all charges resulting from their creation of an identically named U.S. Citizen franchise and the Municipal United States Government and its Municipal Congressional Body are likewise failing their Usufructuary Duty owed to us for their resulting non-consensual use of our Given Name to create a United States citizen operating under a Dog-Latin TRADEMARK that appears to be associated with us --- so,  we are seizing the SSA Bonds to pay for all the charges these fraud artists are trying to "mistakenly" address to us. 

Then we can take care of all our own pension allocations and medical expenses ourselves, and according to our own accounts, and they won't be able to access and spend our earnings and the interest we should be receiving along with all the bond trade receipts.  

Doesn't that sound like a fine and equitable solution to the "disappearing" Social Security funds which are being spent providing "benefits" --- that is, payola in exchange for Democratic Party votes -- to illegal immigrants who never paid a dime into Social Security?   

It's time, folks.  Time to grind these mother-effers into the dirt, legally and lawfully, under international law, with full recognition of the crimes they have individually and collectively committed against each and every one of us.  Time to outlaw "political parties" -- aka, political lobbying groups that have no business selecting candidates for any office related to our government in any way.  Time to kick these unworthy excuses for Public Employees right in the wallet.  

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International Public Notice: Thoughts to Keep Uppermost

 By Anna Von Reitz

The American military isn't the American military.  It's the U.S. military.  

What Americans (and the rest of the world) thought of as "our" military was unlawfully converted into a Mercenary Force during the Administration of Abraham Lincoln and it has been kept busy fighting in Mercenary Conflicts ever since. 

There has never been an actual war since the War of 1812.  No Congress competent to declare war ever declared the Civil War nor any "War" since.  

The Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Iraq, and countless other "wars" and skirmishes have all been Mercenary Conflicts fought by corporations and corporation "Presidents".  

As a result, the Law of War does not apply, no War Powers Act applies, no Trading With the Enemy Act applies.  All that goes out the window. 

And through the haze, you can begin to see reality. 

The so-called "military" has been caught charging the expenses of its mercenary campaigns against the credit of the American people, and delivering the profits from this activity to foreign interests in exchange for a cut of the action.    

To summarize in simple terms: we got the blame and the bill; the Brits and the Popes got the profits. 

The U.S. and US and USA and UNITED STATES and now, the "AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, INC." have also been caught illegally converting the political status of Americans to that of British Territorial U.S. Citizens in order to denigrate our political standing and illegally confiscate our assets ----and also to evade their own obligations owed to us under the Constitutions that create their entire giddy-up.  

So, anyone who is expecting "our" military to act as our saviors is sadly mistaken; "our" military has been the Number One Problem for us and the rest of the world since 1863 and it still is. 

"Our" military still willingly obeys a "Congress" sitting as a corporate Board of Directors of a specious foreign commercial corporation operating "as" the "American Government, Inc." 

They obey even though they know that this is a foreign corporation merely in the business of providing "essential government services" -- and that it isn't our actual government at all. 

They somehow can't quite get that part about domestic enemies --  "all enemies both foreign and domestic".  

With respect to the U.S. Military, the members of "Congress" and the "President" impersonating the "American Government" as a foreign corporation, are their "domestic" problem, and these are run amok corporations acting as enemies of the American People and our country.  

The Generals have cause to know that they are plundering and pillaging the people that they were hired to protect and doing so under color of law. 

They obey the Boards of Directors sitting "as" Congressional bodies, even though they know that they are supposed to be obeying our actual civilian government, instead.  

They obey, and they scheme against the good of this country, which their organizations were literally created and hired to protect.

Their most recent move is to get in bed with Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan.  

This is because in the 2009 bankruptcy of the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, JPMorgan and Chase Banks got control of the Municipal "Federal Reserve" brand names. 

JPMorgan and Chase can now operate "as" the FEDERAL RESERVE and the FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS, because they received these trademarks as part of the spoils from the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM bankruptcy.  

So "our" Generals continue their long-held practice of defrauding and deceiving the American Public.

They've set up a new con game and racket in Ohio based on false claims by some guy who is a descendent of the traitors involved in the Ulysses S. Grant treason --- and it is all considerably more phony than a three-dollar bill, but who is watching?  

Now, you are. Notice to Principals is Notice to Agents; Notice to Agents is Notice to Principals. 

We object to the actions of these Generals trying to "save" the Federal Reserve System of peonage and the IMF version of enslavement, either one. 

We object to the idea that we are "missing, presumed dead" or that we individually suffered amnesia concerning our actual political status and individual identity; we are perfectly certain that we were born on the land and soil of our American States of the Union and that any "Territorial Statehood" ended and was backdated as of October 1st 2020, when our State Assemblies officially enrolled all Territorial "States" as States of the Union.     

We object to the continued misrepresentation and registration of American babies as U.S. Citizens using undisclosed and unconscionable contracts to denigrate their political status to that of foreign indentured servants. 

We also object to the further political denigration of the victims of this vicious treasonous scheme to that of "United States citizens" as defined by 42 USC 9102 (18) (c) --- mere corporation franchises defined as THINGS.  

We object to the continued use of FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES as a form of legal tender based on the peonage of these ersatz "U.S. Citizens" and the use of UNITED STATES DOLLARS which are based in part on the enslavement of the above-referenced "United States citizens".  

We object to the conspiratorial evasion of the Territorial and Municipal Military's obligations owed to us under both The Constitution of the United States of America and The Constitution of the United States. 

We object to the use of The Law of War and all Pretenses of War and all Congressional Acts pertaining to War since 1814.  

We object to any claim of War Powers, War Emergency, Trading With the Enemy Act --- any and all of that claptrap; and we also object to all their attempts to "redefine" their Employers in any way so as to evade their contractual obligations owed to us. 

We object to their attempts to impersonate us and foist their bills including their taxes off onto us. 

There are only two (2) ways to look at this situation. Either "our" military stands guilty as charged of unlawful conversion, treason, inland piracy, kidnapping, fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy against the Constitutions, or, they and their Municipal counterparts, acted as Public Usufructs when they seized upon and copyrighted our names and created look-alike, sound-alike corporation franchises for their own benefit.  

In the first case, they are all guilty of international capital crimes of inland piracy and other dire offenses.  

In the second case, the only way they get away with claiming to be Public Usufructs, is if they hold their American employers completely harmless and unharmed as a result of their action creating all these incorporated franchises named after us.  

That includes paying all debts, including taxes, mortgages, utility bills, medical bills, etc., that these foreign franchise corporations owe, without even trying to foist these expenses off onto us.   

We object to all and any property seizures or impoundments of American assets under the pretense of war and associated color of law activities pursued by the U.S. military and their Municipal counterparts and their quasi-military District Courts improperly operating within the boundaries of our States of the Union.  

We object to their use of our Good Names to promote securities fraud and strong-arm racketeering of our assets to serve as collateral for them to borrow against. 

We did not authorize them to do anything but defend this country, the one thing that they seem unwilling or unable to do; therefore, all bills and expenses that have been charged to us for their foreign adventures must be back-charged to their corporations and to the Principals who have promoted and created this situation and the banks that have knowingly allowed these illegal securitization schemes and false claims in commerce to occur. 

Issued by: 
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652

March 28th 2024

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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Palm Sunday

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

Why is this day called Palm Sunday?

In memory of our Savior's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches before Him, for which reason the Church, on this day, blesses palms, and carries them in procession.

Why are palms blessed?

That those who carry them with devotion, or keep them in their houses, may receive protection of soul and body, as prayed for in the blessing; that those who carry the palms may, by means of the prayers of the Church, adorn their souls with good works and thus, in spirit, meet the Saviour; that, through Christ whose members we are, we may conquer the kingdom of death and darkness, and be made worthy to share in His glorious resurrection and triumphant entrance into heaven. St. Augustine writes of the palms: “They are the emblem of praise, and sign of victory, because the Lord by death conquered death, and with the sign of victory, the cross, overcame the devil, the prince of death." Therefore, preceded by the cross, we go in procession around the church singing hymns of praise; when we come to the church door, we find it locked; the priest knocks at it with the cross. Heaven was closed to us by the sin of Adam, and it is opened to us by reconciliation through Jesus on the cross.

To move us to compassion for the suffering Redeemer, the Church, in the person of Christ, cries in lamenting tones at the Introit:

INTROIT O Lord, remove not Thy help to a distance from me, look towards my defense: save me from the lion's mouth, and my lowness from the horns of the unicorns. O God, my God! look on me, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. O Lord! Remove not, &c. (Ps. XXI.)

COLLECT Almighty and everlasting God! who didst vouchsafe to send Thy Son, our Saviour, to take upon Him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, to give mankind an example of humility; mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of His patience, and be made partakers of His Resurrection. Through the same &c.

EPISTLE (Philip. II. 5-11.) Brethren, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery himself to be equal to God; but debased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made to the likeness of men, and in shape found as a man. He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore, God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name, which is above every name: that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth; and that every tongue should confess, that the Lord, Jesus Christ, is in the glory of God, the Father.

INSTRUCTION In this epistle, the apostle urges us in a special manner to humility by which we are made like to Christ, our Lord, who putting off the majesty of His divinity, became man, and humbled Himself in obedience to the ignominious death of the cross. "Would that all might hear," exclaims St. Gregory, "that God resists the proud, and gives His grace to the humble! Would that all might hear: Thou dust and ashes, why dost thou exalt thyself? Would that all might hear the words of the Lord: Learn of me, because I am humble of heart. The only-begotten Son of God assumed the form of our weakness, suffered mockery, insult and torments for the purpose that the humble God might teach man not to be proud."

ASPIRATION  Ah, that my sentiments were as Throe, O my Lord, Jesus! who so humbled Thyself and was obedient to the most ignominious death of the cross. Grant me, I beseech Thee, O my Redeemer, the grace diligently to follow Thee in humility.

Instead of the gospel of the Passion, that is, the history of the sufferings of our Lord according to St. Matthew, (Chaps. XXVI. XXVII.) is read in this day's Mass, and neither incense, nor lights are used, nor is the Dominus vobiscum said, thus signifying that Jesus, the Light of the world, was taken away by death, and that the faith and devotion of the apostles was shaken, and became almost extinct. When reading the History of the Passion at the words: and bowing his head, he gave up the ghost, the priest with all the congregation kneel and meditate for a short time on the great mystery of the death of Jesus, by which our redemption was effected.

At the blessing of the palms, the priest reads the following

GOSPEL (Matt. XXI. 1-9.) At that time, when Jesus drew nigh to Jerusalem, and was come to Bethphage, unto Mount Olivet; then he sent two disciples, saying to them: Go ye into the village that is over against you, and immediately ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them to me; and if any man shall say any thing to you, say ye that the Lord bath need of them, and forthwith he will let them go. Now all this was done, that the word might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet, saying: Tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of her that is used to the yoke. And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them. And they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon them, and made him sit thereon. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; and others cut down boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way; and the multitudes that went before and that followed, cried, saying: Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Why did Jesus enter Jerusalem so solemnly and yet so humbly?

To show that He was the promised Messiah and King of the Jews, as foretold by the Prophet Zacharias, (IX 9.) and that He had come to conquer the world, the flesh and the devil, for which He used the weapons of meekness, humility, and poverty and therefore came seated not on a proud steed but like a poor person on the weak colt of an ass, entering Jerusalem in all humility, thus teaching us that meekness and indifference to earthly goods are our best weapons to gain victory over our enemies. Jesus entered Jerusalem so humbly to perfect the type of the Paschal lamb, for on this day the lambs which were to be sacrificed in the temple on the following Friday, were solemnly led into the city. Thus Jesus like a meek lamb, entered the city of Jerusalem to be sacrificed for us.

Why did the people meet Christ with palm branches?

This happened by the inspiration of God, to indicate that Christ, the conqueror of death, hell and the devil, would reconcile man with God, and open the heavenly Jerusalem to him, for the palm is the emblem of victory and peace. By this we learn also the inconsistency and mutability of the world; for the very people who on this day met Christ with palm branches exclaiming: "Hosanna to the Son of David," a few days later shouted: "Crucify him! Crucify him!" - Learn from this to despise the praise of the world, and be careful not to imitate the inconsistency of this people by crucifying Him again by sin (Heb. VI. 6.) after having received Him with joy in holy Communion.

How should we take part in the procession on this day?

With the pious intention of meeting Christ in spirit, with the devout people of Jerusalem, adoring Him, saying: "Hosanna to the Son of David, Hosanna to Him who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna to the Highest!" and with the heart-felt prayer to Jesus for His grace, that with Him we may conquer the world, the flesh and the devil, and thus merit to be received into the heavenly Jerusalem.

PETITION  O Jesus, Tree of Life! ever fresh and fruitful, grant that we may by love be like palms ever green, and by the practice of, good works blossom and bring forth fruit.

 

THE PASSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, CHAP. XXVI., XXVII.

At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: You know that after two days shall be the Pasch, and the Son of Man shall be delivered up to be crucified. Then were gathered together the chief priests and the ancients of the people into the palace of the high-priest, who was called Caiphas. And they consulted together, that, by subtilty, they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death. But they said: Not on the festival day, lest there should be a tumult among the people. And when Jesus was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he was at table. And the disciples seeing it, had indignation, saying: To what purpose is this waste? For this might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why do you trouble this woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always. For she, in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial. Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done, shall be told for a memory of her.

Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, and said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed for him thirty pieces of silver. And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.

And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the Pasch? But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: The master saith: my time is near at hand, I will keep the Pasch at thy house with my disciples. And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them, and they prepared the Pasch. Now when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples. And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen, I say to you, that one of you is about to betray me. And they being very much troubled, began everyone to say: Is it I, Lord? But he answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son of Man indeed goeth as it is written of him; but woe to that man, by whom the Son of Man shall be betrayed: it were better for that man, if he had not been born. And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He said to him: Thou hast said it. And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed and broke, and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye and eat: This is my body. And taking the chalice he gave thanks: and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this. For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many for the remission of sins. And I say to you, I will not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until that day, when I shall drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father. And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to Mount Olivet.

Then Jesus saith to them: All you shall be scandalized in me this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed. But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. And Peter answering, said to him: Though all shall be scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized. Jesus said to him: Amen, I say to thee, that in this night, before the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. Peter saith to him: Though I should die with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner said all the disciples. Then Jesus came with them to a country place which is called Gethsemani, and he said to his disciples: Sit you here, till I go yonder, and pray. And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad.

Then he saith to them: My soul is sorrowful even unto death; stay you here, and watch with me. And going a little further he fell upon his face, praying, and saying: O my Father! if it is possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh to his disciples, and findeth them asleep; and he saith to Peter: What! could you not watch one hour with me? Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Again he went the second time, and prayed, saying: O my Father! if this chalice cannot pass away except I drink it, thy will be done. And he cometh again, and findeth them asleep; for their eyes were heavy. And leaving them, he went away again, and he prayed the third time, saying the same words. Then he cometh to his disciples, and with to them: Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us go; behold, he is at hand that will betray me.

As he yet spoke, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people. And he that betrayed him, gave them a sign, saying: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he: hold him fast. And forthwith coming to Jesus, he said: Hail, rabbi! And he kissed him. And Jesus said to him: Friend! whereto art thou come? Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus, and held him. And behold one of them that were with Jesus, stretching forth his hand, drew out his sword; and striking the servant of the high-priest, cut off his ear. Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place for all that take the sword shall perish by the sword. Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of Angels? How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that so it must be done? In that same hour Jesus said to the multitude: You are come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and you laid not hands on me. Now all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all leaving him, fled away.

But they holding Jesus, led him to Caiphas, the high-priest, where the scribes and the ancients were assembled. But Peter followed him afar off to the high-priest's palace. And going in, he sat with the servants, to see the end. Now the chief priests and whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death: and they found not, though many false witnesses had come in. And last of all, there came two false witnesses. And they said: This man said: I am able to destroy the temple of God, and in three days to rebuild it. And the high-priest rising up, said to him: Answerest thou nothing to the things which these witness against thee? But Jesus held his peace. And the high-priest said to him: I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of Man, sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high-priest rent his garments, saying: He hath blasphemed, what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy. What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Then they spit in his face, and buffetted him, and others struck his face with the palms of their hands, saying: Prophesy unto us, O Christ! who is he that struck thee? But Peter sat without in the palace, and there came to him a servant maid, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean. But he denied before them all, saying: I know not what thou sayest. And as he went out of the gate, another maid saw him, and she saith to them that were there: This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with an oath: I do not know the man. And after a little while, they that stood by came and said to Peter: Surely thou also art one of them: for even thy speech doth discover thee. Then he began to curse and to swear that he knew not the man.

And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus which he had said: Before the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice. And going forth, he wept bitterly.

And when the morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people held a council against Jesus, to put him to death. And they brought him bound, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the ancients, saying: I have sinned, in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? look thou to it.

And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed: and went and hanged himself with a halter. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood. And having consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying-place for strangers. Wherefore that field was called Haceldama, that is the field of blood, even to this day.

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying: And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they prized of the children of Israel. And they gave them unto the potter's field, as the Lord appointed to me.

And Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying: Art thou the king of the Jews? Jesus saith to him: Thou sayest it. And when he was accused by the chief priests and ancients, he answered nothing. Then Pilate saith to him: Dost thou not hear how great testimonies they allege against thee?

And he answered him not to any word: so that the governor wondered exceedingly.

Now upon the solemn day the governor was accustomed to release to the people one prisoner, whom they would. And he had then a notorious prisoner, that was called Barabbas. They, therefore, being gathered together, Pilate said: Whom will you that I release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ? For he knew that through envy they had delivered him up. And as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man. For I have suffered many things this day in a dream on account of him. But the chief priests and ancients persuaded the people, that they should ask Barabbas, and make Jesus away. And the governor answering, said to them: Which will you have of the two to be released unto you? But they said: Barabbas. Pilate saith to them: What shall I do then with Jesus that is called Christ? They all say: Let him be crucified. The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made; having taken water, washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man: look you to it. And all the people answering, said: His blood be upon us, and upon our children. Then he released to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to them to be crucified.

Then the soldiers of the governor, taking Jesus into the hall, gathered together unto him the whole band. And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak about him. And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, king of the Jews!

And spitting upon him, they took the reed, and struck his head. And after they had mocked him, they took off the cloak from him, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to crucify him.

And going out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon; him they forced to take up his cross. And they came to the place that is called Golgotha, which is, the place of Calvary. And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he had tasted, he would not drink. And after they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots; that the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: They divided my garments among them; and upon my vesture they cast lots. And they sat down, and watched him. And they put over his head his cause written: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Then were there crucified with him two thieves; the one on the right hand, and the other on the left. And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying: Vah, thou who destroyest the temple of God, and in three days buildest it up again, save thy own self: if thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. In like manner also, the chief priests with the scribes and ancients, mocking, said: He saved others; himself he cannot save: if he be the king of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if he will save him: for he said: I am the Son of God.

And the self-same thing the thieves also, that were crucified with him, reproached him with. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth, until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eli, Eli, lamma sabacthani? that is: My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood there and heard, said: This man calleth for Elias. And immediately one of them, running; took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar; and put it on a reed and gave him to drink. And the others said: Stay, let us see whether Elias will come to deliver him. And Jesus again crying with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top even to the bottom, and the earth quaked, and the rocks were rent; and the graves were opened: and many bodies of the saints that had slept arose: and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, came into the holy city, and appeared to many. Now the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake and the things that were done, were greatly afraid, saying: Indeed this was the Son of God. And there were there many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him; among whom was Mary Magdalen, and Mary, the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. And when it was evening, there came a certain rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded that the body should be delivered. And Joseph taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth. And laid it in his own new monument, which he had hewed out in a rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the monument, and went his way. And there was Mary Magdalen, and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulchre.

And the next day, which followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, saying: Sir, we have remembered that seducer said, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rise again. “Command, therefore, the sepulchre to be guarded until the third day; lest his disciples come and steal him away, and say to the people: He is risen from the dead. So the last error shall be worse than the first. Pilate said to them: You have a guard, go guard it as you know. And they departing, made the sepulchre sure, with guards, sealing the stone.

INSTRUCTION ON HOLY WEEK

Why is this week called Holy Week?

This week is called Holy Week because during it we celebrate the most holy mysteries of our religion, and in all her offices and ceremonies the Church refers in quiet mournfulness to the passion and death of our Redeemer.

What remarkable things did Christ do during the first four days of this week?

After He had entered the temple at Jerusalem on Palm Sunday amidst the greatest rejoicings of the people, and was saluted by the children with that cry of joy: "Hosanna to the Son of David," He drove the buyers and sellers out of the temple, and when He had spent the entire day in preaching and healing the sick, He went in the evening to Bethania, where He remained over night in Lazarus' house, because in Jerusalem no one wished to receive Him for fear of His enemies. The three following days He spent in Jerusalem, teaching in the temple, and passing the night in prayer on Mount Olivet. In His sermons during these days He strove especially to convince the Jewish priests, the Doctors of the Law and the Pharisees, that He was really the Messiah, and that they would commit a terrible sin by putting Him to death; that they would bring themselves and the whole Jewish nation to destruction. This ruin of the people He illustrated most plainly causing the fig tree to wither under His curse, and by foretelling the destruction of the city and the temple of Jerusalem. He disputed with them, and confounded them, and brought them publicly to shame by parables, so that out of anger and hatred they with one mind determined to kill Him. The impious Judas aided the most in the execution of their design; through avarice he sold Him for thirty pieces of silver (about eighteen dollars in our money) to the chief priests, and the next day, Thursday, became His betrayer and delivered Him over into their hands.