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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Two Women

 By Anna Von Reitz

Let's just call them Ruth and Sandy -- not their real names, because while this all happened in real life, it's not really about them. It could be about any two women in any State of the Union Assembly. 

Ruth had a podcast that she authored and staffed and paid for all by herself.  It was her podcast and she could use it to pursue any topics she wanted to pursue.  This is just the way podcasts work.  

Sandy was an Assembly officer, duly elected. 

These two women fell out over the podcast.  Ruth wanted to discuss business and land issues, especially farming issues, Sandy wanted it to be focused on Assembly issues and under Assembly control. 

One day, Ruth just stopped asking Sandy to attend the podcast.  She did this abruptly, without any warning or explanation. It was clumsy of her and hurt Sandy's feelings.  Ruth sailed on, all caught up in the new topics she was pursuing on her podcast; but, in the background, Sandy was simmering and angry. 

What started out as a "slight" gradually turned into a feud between these two women and for months it raged back and forth, both lambasting the other every chance they got, each gossiping about the other, each one back-biting the other, until --- to hear them talk --- these two women who started out as friends had morphed into two renditions of the Devil incarnate.  

Neither one had a good word to say about the other.  More incidents occurred as a result.  Ruth's every mistake was turned into a national catastrophe.  Sandy's undermining of Ruth and continual back-biting was responded to by even more back-biting and gossiping in return.

Once it got started, it took on a life of its own. 

The Coordinator, a nice gentle man --- let's call him "Ken" -- was stuck in the middle of this, getting constantly battered with it all, and though I called on him to put a stop to it, he was helpless before the onslaught of uncontrolled estrogen.  It just went on and on and on. 

And as it did, the State Assembly was torn apart and consolidated into factions --- pro-Ruth and pro-Sandy.  I just shook my head.  Lies and deliberate manipulations and deliberate misinterpretations were slung freely by both sides. It felt like I was back in the Corporate Boardroom again.  

Then, a great storm came, a storm so terrible that it killed thousands of people and caused billions of dollars of damage, and in the midst of this I tried to get these two women to lay down their hatchets and make peace for the common good ---- and they would not.  

They just kept right on tearing away at each other in the face of this huge impending disaster --- insults, suspicions, wild accusations, gossiping, back-biting, undermining, manipulating ---- and in utter frustration after months of this Bad Behavior, I gave up and I said, "you fucking bastards haven't learned anything."  Unquote. 

I was clearly talking to the two women at the bottom of the dogpile. Not to Ken.  Not to the other members of the Assembly.  I was speaking directly and only to them about their own Bad Behavior. This was a private communication to them, not meant to be shared with anyone else. 

They had re-created the Monster we are all trying to get away from. 

They had created "sides" and were warring against each other even with a giant natural disaster bearing down on them and their State of the Union.  It was all just catfight, catfight, catfight and devil take the hindmost. Even at that dire moment.  

Neither one would give an inch or a moment of peace, even with people dying all around them. 

Unfortunately, Ruth didn't get the drift.  She thought my comment (a private comment) was addressed to Sandy and the Coordinator, not to herself and Sandy.  So she eagerly ran with it and shared my private outburst, thinking that it was a condemnation of her enemies, when in fact it was a joint condemnation leveled against her and Sandy.  

My comment didn't involve the Coordinator at all.  He was clearly a long-suffering and innocent bystander.

As for me, I hate lies and gossip and back-biting of all kinds, and to find these two women still "slinging" at each other in the middle of a national disaster was all I could take. 

There are always plenty of things to fight about, if you are all about war and choosing sides and "coming out on top" -- but that isn't what our Assemblies are about.  These two women fell back into their winner-take-all corporate indoctrination and they didn't care who they hurt or how they were tearing their Assembly apart.  

All they wanted was to "win" no matter what it took. They both lost. The Assembly lost.  Neither one of them seemed to notice, but everyone concerned lost because of them and their Bad Behavior.  

All our efforts to help disaster victims were truncated and hampered and less-than-it-could-have-been, because these two women just couldn't give up fighting with each other and gossiping about each other.  And that's a tragedy. 

So, it's time to step back and evaluate. 

I shouldn't have lost my temper.  Lesson One. 
They shouldn't have been cat-fighting.  Lesson Two. 
And no, this had nothing to do with the Coordinator.  Lesson Three. 

The Coordinator is not a CEO.  Coordinators don't have the authority of a CEO and they can't "fire" members of an Assembly who are bent on Bad Behavior.  

It's up to the rest of us to ride that herd and let our erring members know:

We are not here, individually or collectively, to "win" anything. This is not a game, not some kind of social contest, there are no "in crowds" and no "out crowds".  What we are called to do in our Assemblies is to come together -- all of us -- and work together for the good of our country and our fellow man.  

Anything that detracts from that is a loss.  Anything that divides an Assembly into "sides" is a loss.  Gossiping is a loss.  Back-biting is a loss. Undermining others is a loss.  Being hard-hearted and prideful is a loss.  Cat-fighting and slandering others is a loss. Refusing to work together is a loss.  

Now, at a time when that Assembly most needs to stand tall and stand together, it is divided and hurting. Some people want to blame me--- but I am here to tell you: I lost my temper, but I wasn't even close to being the cause of this problem.  

This problem lies with just two women --- and all the people who put up with their shenanigans instead of turning them off.  

Just as it takes two to tango, Gossip doesn't have feet of its own. 

Everyone in the Assembly has been faced with a choice --- to listen to hateful gossip, or not.  To take sides -- or not.  To rebuke these women for their Bad Behavior or not. 

So it isn't "just" a problem of the manure spreaders, it's a problem that involves all of those who stand by passively and wag their heads and put up with it.  

Most of us went to High School and survived Seventh Grade Gym Class.  Most of us put in our "tours of duty" in the military or in the corporate world.  We can recognize this war-mongering, winner-takes-all behavior for what it is, and we can say no to it. 

We can refuse to get sucked into it.  We can rebuke others and remind them what we are here for.  

Gossip and back-biting undermines everyone and everything we stand for.  The perpetrators of this kind of behavior always try to turn it into a matter of "Us, Good Guys" against "Them, Bad Guys", but in reality there are no Good Guys in such a scenario.  

Like the de facto political parties, no matter which side you choose, it's wrong.  And we all lose. 

Realizing that, it's up to everyone in every Assembly to put the kibosh on gossip and Bad Talking.  

It's not my role or responsibility to tell Assembly members (or officers) that they are being "fucking bastards" who "haven't learned anything" about peaceably working together.  It's yours. 

You don't have to swear about it, but you do have to get the message across to those who are indulging in this kind of thing. 

It's your Assembly, your State, that is going to suffer, if you do not.  

You all set your community standards, so set them high. Don't just tolerate gossip and back-biting and cat-fighting in your midst.  Realize how much this Bad Behavior costs all of us---including each one of you.  

Put a stop to it and a stop to those promoting it before it has a chance to divide your Assembly into the proverbial pro-Ruth and pro-Sandy factions.  Remind them that they have a higher calling and a job to do and bashing each other isn't it. 

Do this early on and enforce it as a group.  Don't take any sides at all. just shut it down.  Tell the erring members outright -- we're not here to gossip, and if you don't have anything better to do.....come right over here.  Here's a job for you to do. 

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International Public Notice: A Simple But Pernicious Misunderstanding

 By Anna Von Reitz

The Constitutions are Labor and Performance contracts --- what are commonly called, "Service Contracts".  

They are drawn up between the People, State Citizens entrusted with representing their State of the Union in international business affairs, and three (3) Subcontractors: the original Confederation of States doing business as the States of America, the British Territorial Government, and the Holy Roman Empire. 

The first important thing to know about these three Federal Constitutions is that they are specific service contracts.  The services our States contracted to receive and the "Powers" needed to perform these enumerated services were delegated to the foreign Service Providers. That's why they are called "delegated powers". 

The second thing to know is that while our Federal Employees and Federal Dependants "live under" their respective Constitutions, the American people who created the Constitutions do not.  

The bulk of the American population --- all those who don't work for the Federal Government --- have always lived under The Unanimous Declaration of Independence, instead.  

Third, all federal government employees function as foreign "persons" who "reside" here for an undetermined amount of time under the provisions of The Residence Act. 

Fourth, all functions of the Federal Government service providers occur in international and global jurisdictions.  

We never entrusted them with any duties or delegations of power related to our States and their internal administration.  

[They usurped such State-related powers via a Substitution Scheme following the so-called American Civil War, but that's another story.]

Fifth, all the Federal Government Subcontractors act as "persons", not as "people".  This is because the Federal Government employees all work in international and global jurisdictions which are uniquely inhabited by legal fiction persons.  

Sixth, all Federal Courts similarly function in international and global jurisdictions and are only empowered to address Federal persons. 

We are supposed to be providing our own courts to serve our own people.  Our courts have been "missing" because we, ourselves, left them vacated for many years.

So here it is, again: 

All the Federal Subcontractors operate exclusively in international or global jurisdictions. 

All international jurisdictions, both land and sea, are inhabited exclusively by legal fiction persons.  

All global jurisdictions of the air are inhabited exclusively by incorporated legal fiction persons. 

Therefore, self-evidently, there are no Federal Courts that directly serve the people of this country, and as the Federal Court itself firmly declared in Erie Railroad Co. v Thompkins in 1938, there is no "general common law" available to the Federal Courts.  

So even if they wanted to address the living people, they couldn't. 

Stop looking for what isn't there. 

Stop making demands on your Federal Employees that they can't meet. 

Start learning your responsibilities and fulfilling them, and exercising your rights appropriately.  

Declare your nationality and enter your State Assemblies, run your own courts in your own jurisdiction, and if your Federal Employees get out of hand, hold them accountable and enforce their service contracts. 

It's that simple.  The only thing standing in anyone's way, is ignorance. 

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Re-Posting for Educational Purposes

 By Anna Von Reitz

The following is a repost of a thread in a email forum involving Ron Vrooman, Dr. Cordero, and others; we don't have explicit permission to repost, but it was the express wish of the author that everyone on the thread familiarize themselves with the historical documents and in particular the meaning of the words in those documents circa the time of their creation.  We are including all of you in the thread -- for your own good and the good of posterity. 

One of the things that impairs our understanding of our government is the evolution of the words themselves.  Over time, the original meaning can be obscured so that we no longer properly interpret the intent of the original authors.  We can overcome this by paying attention to the definitions that were in use at the time.  For example, Webster's 1824 informs us that the word "federal" was at that time a synonym for "contract".  

Federal Government equals Contract Government.  Who knew?  

Other words are equally important to understand within the context of the original documents. This reposting allows you all to examine the documents as they were published at the time, and to examine the meaning of the words at the time.  It's well-organized and a rare treat for everyone to have such an examination made so accessible. 

Before plunging in, however, note that the main references concern the British Territorial contract known as The Constitution for the United States of America, though many of the words will be the same for the Roman Municipal version known as The Constitution of the United States. 

Many thanks to the online Dictionary resources that make it possible for us to do this work and for the etymologists worldwide who illuminate the origins and meanings of words and their development over time.  

1776 - Declaration of Independence
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to (1) dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to (2) assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should (3) declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
[Please note that in the very beginning and for several years thereafter many names were used for the former United Colonies, including "the United States" and "the United States of America" and "the united States of America", which were used as "doing business as" names of the original Union States joined together in mutual pursuits.  Over time, the words "United States" and "United States of America" and "States of America" would come to have different meanings and be associated with multiple entities. It is interesting to note that "States of America" was the first "doing business as" name that the States used; later, in 1781, they applied it to their Confederation of States. In 1861 when the Confederation failed and The Constitution for the united States of America went dormant, this original Confederation had been doing business as the States of America for eighty years, and both the Federation of States and the Union States had been in operation for 85 years.]
Samuel Johnson's 1773 Dictionary

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

1787 – Constitution of the United States
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 8.
. . . To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Samuel Johnson's 1773 Dictionary
Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, upon publication, had a comma after the "WE".
 
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The Virginia - edu.lva.virginia.gov – The link shows "Not Found".

That which is shown in the NATIONAL ARCHIVES CATALOG has a specific "pica" and no comma after "We".   From https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution
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Twenty-Seventh and Last Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year
REMARK The Mass of this Sunday is always the last, even if there are more than twenty-four Sundays after Pentecost; in that case  the Sundays remaining after Epiphany, which are noticed in the calendar,   are inserted between the twenty-third  and the Mass of the twenty-fourth Sunday.

 INTROIT Adore God, all ye His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced. The Lord hath reigned; let the earth rejoice; let the many islands be glad. (Ps. XCVI. 1.) Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

COLLECT Quicken, we beseech Thee, 0 Lord, the wills of Thy faithful: that they, more earnestly seeking after the fruit of divine grace, may more abundantly receive the healing gifts of Thy mercy. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee, in the Unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end, Amen.

EPISTLE (Col. I. 9—14.) Brethren, We cease not to pray for you, and to beg that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of God, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding: that you may walk worthy of God, in all things pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God: strengthened with all might according to the; power of his glory, in all patience and long-suffering with joy, giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light; who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the remission of sins.

EXPLANATION In this epistle St. Paul teaches us to pray for our neighbor, and to thank God especially for the light of the true, only saving faith. Let us endeavor to imitate St. Paul in his love and zeal for the salvation of souls, then we shall also one day partake of his glorious reward in heaven.

Nineth Sunday After PentecostGOSPEL (Matt. XXIV. 15—35.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: When you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth, let him understand: then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: and he that is on the house-top, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: and he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat. And woe to them that are with child, and that give suck, in those days. But pray that your flight be not in the winter, or on the Sabbath. For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be: and unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the   sake of the elect, those days shall be shortened. Then, if any  man  shall  say  to you: Lo, here is Christ, or there: do not believe him: for there shall arise false Christs  and  false  prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.   Behold, I have told it to you before hand: if therefore they shall say to you:  Behold, he is in the desert, go ye not out; Behold, he is  in the  closets, believe it not.    For as lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth even into the west, so shall also the coming- of the Son of man be.    Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the  eagles   also  be gathered  together.   And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven,   and  the powers of the heavens shall be moved: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes   of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with much power  and  majesty:   and he shall  send his an­gels with a trumpet and a great voice, and they shall gather together  his   elect  from   the four winds, from the farthest   parts   of   the   heavens   to   the   utmost bounds of them.   And from the fig-tree learn a parable: when the branch thereof is now tender, and the leaves come forth, you know that summer is nigh.    So   you also, when   you shall see all these things, know ye that it is nigh, even at the doors.  Amen I say to you, that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done. Heaven and  earth   shall  pass, but my words shall not pass.

EXPLANATION When you shall see the abomination of desolation. The abomination of desolation of which Daniel (IX. 27.) and Christ here speak, is the desecration of the temple and the city of Jerusalem by the rebellious Jews by perpetrating the most abominable vices, injustices and robberies, &c., but principally by the pagan Romans by putting up their idols. This destruction which was accomplished in the most fearful manner about forty years after the death of Christ, was foretold by Him according to the testimony of St. Luke. (XXI. 20.) At the same time He speaks of the end of the world and of His coming to judgment, of which the desolation of Jerusalem was a figure.

Pray that your flight be not in the winter or on the Sabbath. Because, as St. Jerome says, the severe cold which reigns in the deserts and mountains would pre­vent the people from going thither to seek security, and because it was forbidden by the law for the Jews to travel on the Sabbath.

There shall rise false Christs and false prophets. According to the testimony of the Jewish historian Josephus, who was an eyewitness of the destruction of Jerusalem, Eleazar, John, Simon, &c., were such false prophets who under the pretense of helping the Jews, brought them into still greater misfortunes; before the end of the world it will be Antichrist with his followers, whom St. Paul calls the man of sin and the son of perdition, (II Thess. II. 3.) on account of his diabolical malice and cruelty. He will rise up, sit in the temple, proclaim himself God, and kill all who will not recognize him as such. His splendor, his promises and his false miracles will be such that even the holy and just will be in danger of being seduced, but for their sake God will shorten these days of persecution.

Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together. That is, where the wicked are, who have aimed at spiritual corruption, there punishment will overtake and destroy them.

This generation shall not pass till all these things be done. By these words Christ defines the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, and says that many of His hearers would live to see it, which also happened. But when the end of the world will come, He says, not even the angels in heaven know. (Matt. XXIV. 36.) Let us endeavor to be always ready by leading a holy life, for the coming of the divine Judge, and meditate often on the words of our di­vine Lord: Heaven and earth shall pass, but my words shall not pass.

(See the account of the Destruction of Jerusalem on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost.)

PRAYER Remove from us, O Lord, all that is calculated to rob us of Thy love. Break the bonds with which we are tied to the world, that we may not be lost with it. Give us the wings of eagles that we may soar above all worldly things by the contemplation of Thy sufferings, life and death, that we may hasten towards Thee now, and gather about Thee, that we may not become a prey to the rapacious enemy on the day of judgment. Amen.

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING PERJURY
Amen, I say to you.(Matt. XXIV. 34.)

The Son of God here, and elsewhere in the gospel, con­firms His word by an oath, as it were, for swearing is nothing else than to call upon God, His divine veracity, His justice, or upon His creatures in the name of God, as witness of the truth of our words. — Is swearing, then, lawful, and when? — It is lawful when justice or necessity or an important advantage requires it, and the cause is true and equitable. (Jer. IV. 2.) Those sin grievously, there­fore, who swear to that which is false and unjust, because they call upon God as witness of falsehood and injustice, by which His eternal truthfulness and justice is desecrated; those sin who swear in a truthful cause without necessity and sufficient reason, because it is disrespectful to call upon God as witness for every trivial thing. In like manner, those sin grievously and constantly who are so accustomed to swearing as to break out into oaths, without knowing or considering whether the thing is true or false, whether they will keep their promise or not, or even if they will be able to keep it; such expose themselves to the danger of swearing falsely. "There is no one," says St. Chrysostom, "who swears often, who does not sometimes swear falsely, just as he who speaks much, sometimes says unbecoming and false things." Therefore Christ tells those who seek perfection, not to swear at all, (Matt. V. 34.) that they might not fall into the habit of swearing and from that into perjury. He who has the habit of swearing should, therefore, take the greatest pains to eradicate it; to accomplish which it will be very useful to reflect that if we have to render an account for every idle word we speak, (Matt. XII. 36.) how much more strictly will we be judged for unnecessary false oaths! God's curse accompanies him who commits perjury, in all his ways, as proved by daily experience. He who commits perjury in court, robs himself of the merits of Christ's death and will be consumed in the fire of hell, which is represented by the crucifix and burning tapers, in presence of which the oath (in some places) is taken. If you have had the misfortune to be guilty of perjury, at once be truly sorry, weep for this terrible sin which you have committed, frankly confess it, repair the injury you may have caused by it, and chastise yourself for it by rigorous penance.

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