By Anna Von Reitz
Imagine that you are a poor man in a poor country beset by perennial drought. Water is the most precious thing in your world, but you don't have a bucket or even an old animal skin bag to carry it home.
Every day, you have to walk miles to the nearest spring and drink what you can, then walk back home again.
A man comes who has a bucket, and he offers to loan it to you, so you can carry water to your home -- but he insists that he carries the water and retains possession of the bucket at all times -- and that he be paid for this service.
So you agree.
And at first, he carries the water and fills up the cistern at your house, so you don't have to walk to the nearest spring every day. Everything works out fine.
Over time, he gets greedy.
He claims you aren't paying him enough for this service, so he starts doing things like pretending to trip and dump the water on the ground. He says it isn't his fault and you have to pay him anyway.
He starts delivering only a tenth of the water each day and keeping the rest for himself.
When you complain, he threatens you and says he won't "give" you any water at all --- as if it was his water.
Sometimes he delivers a little water, sometimes not.
He finds various excuses for this. Sometimes he says the water is from "questionable sources". He threatens to arbitrarily sanction you and not let you have any water at all.
You finally figure out a way to build your own bucket and carry your own water. You build more buckets for your neighbors. You all work together to bring water back to your village. So you don't need the services of this greedy and dishonest sole-source water carrier anymore.
This is our position with the central banks, which not only monopolized access to the bucket, but the water, too.
Our own Bilateral Banks are competent to handle both physical assets and credit instruments ---silver and gold on one side, commercial paper on the other.
These banks are our "buckets".
Our physical assets including our gold and silver money are the "water".
Our prepaid credit is our overflowing "cistern".
We don't need these dishonest criminals controlling access to our resources anymore. We can deal with our own situation and bring our own water home.
The banks are only important in terms of collecting and transporting "water". The prosperity centers will store and distribute these precious resources.
It was always your water. Now you have your own buckets. And your own cistern, too.
Once upon a time, long ago, banking was a public function. People had control of their own water and buckets and cisterns.
Their own future, too.
This is why a bank system chartered by an actual government of, for, and by the living people matters.
It prevents private commercial monopolies.
It ensures financial justice.
It gives you control of your resources.
It's simple and accountable.
Nobody can hijack it.
There's no funny money.
There's no bail-outs or bail-ins.
No securitization of private assets to pay public debts.
No "private taxes" imposed by banks.
No debtor's prison.
No personage.
No barratry.
No more living in fear of your own employees.
No more politics.
No more war for profit.
All you have to do is haul your own water --- Issue your own money, manage your own prepaid credit, run your own banks and carve your own future.
That's "all".
However, you can already see the consequences of leaving these tasks in the hands of self-interested commercial corporations, and the reason that existing bank services have to expand to provide a freedom-based banking system for living people.
Your banks. Your money. Your credit.
Millions of people worldwide are taking responsibility for their own assets and doing what has to be done. So can you.
This is a Public Service Notice for informational purposes, intended to help people understand the need for public-chartered banks to serve the needs of living people as opposed to private registered banks designed to serve the needs of corporations.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
June 7th 2025
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