By Anna Von Reitz
We rarely treat this subject, much less treat it honestly, in America. It would not, at first glance, appear to be of interest to the wider world, either --- and yet, it is of importance to everyone on this planet, because it exposes the opening gambits in a "war in the air".
Let's stop and be clear about the Jurisdiction of the Air. Many people when first encountering the concept are confused. There appears to be nothing in the air to claim as subject matter. It's only upon more deliberate consideration that the truth appears: the air jurisdiction contains thought and emotion and energy, spirit, creativity, and performances, and of course, religious beliefs and doctrines.
The air is the jurisdiction of the Unseen, but very real aspects of life that are ultimately important, and which determine our actions in all the other jurisdictional spheres. Indeed, those men who stopped to consider the relative value and authority and "generative capacity" of the land and the air and the water jurisdictions, quickly concluded that the air jurisdiction was the supreme jurisdiction holding sway over all the rest.
This is why ecclesiastical law stands above and is superior to all other forms of law when it comes to these paramount arguments and material interests known as "intellectual property rights".
With that brief background and an appreciation that the English and American Civil Wars were, though slightly separated events, the opening salvos of a "war in the air", a war of ideas and values and beliefs, titles, and honors, and duties.
That war continues to this day, though it is finally being discerned and forced to a final conclusion.
To understand today's topic, which is the heart of what drove the Southern Confederacy to withdraw -- not from the Union of States, but from the Confederation of States of States --- we refer to a common enough and irritating enough social situation that most of us have encountered.
We do something, actually and factually, do something. There is no argument that we did it. Everyone knows exactly when, where, and all other significant details, except that there is an argument about why we did it.
Your Mother says you slugged Amos Pritkin because he is a bully who tried to steal your lunch, but you say you slugged Amos Pritkin because he shoved your girlfriend, Amy Larken, and that was the final straw.
These are two different motivating factors, one slug, and two explanations for it. The same thing happened with the American Civil War.
The horrific battles and actions throughout are well-documented. Over 600,000 Americans paid the ultimate price and another 600,000 undoubtedly suffered for the rest of their lives from lingering illnesses and injuries and emotional trauma.
Yet --- why? This is where the common experience we all agree upon diverges into two very different assumed causes for it.
The Northern Confederate States said that the Southern Confederate States were defending the institution of legalized slavery -- and they said this for years prior to the outbreak of actual hostilities. Indeed, a small number of Northern Abolitionists, mostly British Americans prompted by the abolishment of slavery in England, had been publishing and promoting this narrative for decades prior to the conflict.
While it's true that the Southern Confederate States enjoyed significant marketplace advantage as a result of plantation slavery, especially in the important cotton and tobacco and sugar markets, that is not, actually, why these proud people went to war.
They weren't defending slavery.
They were defending free will and self-determination, the very doctrine of self-governance that everyone here had already agreed upon as the foundational principle of our government. They claimed the right to secede -- that is, leave -- the "perpetual union" formed under The Articles of Confederation, and no longer have their business affairs dictated by the more populous Northern Members of the Confederation.
At the heart of the issue is a legal matter: it is impossible to contractually create a "perpetual" union. To assume any such god-like power to create such a union is a self-evident folly, in the absence of any natural law supporting and enforcing it.
The concept of "perpetual union" had entered the legal lexicon as a result of the inescapable bond between the soil jurisdiction and the land jurisdiction underlying it. As you can't really separate soil (the top six inches of earth) from the land beneath it, and as scraping off the soil layer simply defines a new soil layer, the factual and practical "union" of these jurisdictional elements were said to be in "perpetual union".
The Articles of Confederation forming the Confederation of States (of States) also aimed to establish a perpetual union, but with no support for this in Nature. Sober jurists in England and America quietly knew that forming a perpetual union of business interests is beyond the capacity of mankind to contract, but for reasons immune to common sense, people went forward with this aim and stated intention and signed onto The Articles of Confederation just the same.
It was only a matter of time and natural issues coming into dispute, before the whole thing fell apart. If it hadn't been a dispute over slavery (the Northern view) or a dispute over self-governance (the Southern view), some other dispute would inevitably have caused the dissolution of the Confederation.
We could have hoped for a more conscious, honest, and amiable parting of ways, or even a mechanism by which parties could agree to disagree, but what we actually have is a continuing argument.
Northern viewers continue to accuse the South of promoting slavery, while Southern viewers call this nonsense, and point to the actual declared reasoning behind the separation they sought --- the issue of self-governance and their inherent right to leave any contract or covenant that was contrary to their sovereignty and self-interest, especially if that agreement was fatally flawed by definition.
A "perpetual union" of business interests is beyond the ability of mankind to guarantee, and so The Articles of Confederation were fundamentally flawed and the Southern States (of States) were within their rights to withdraw from the Confederation.
This is self-evidently, unarguably, and eternally true. The South had the lawful and legal right to break the "impossible" contract and form an alternative Confederation, which is why the government under Jefferson Davis styled itself as the "Confederate States of America".
Jefferson Davis, one of the sharpest lawyers of his generation, was fully aware of these facts and made sure that he commented on them for posterity. Ulysses S Grant, however, fully believed the British-backed narrative about slavery being the cause of the war.
Hector raided the cookie jar. Did he do this because he was hungry for cookies, or did he do this because it was his turn to bring a treat for his class at school?
Ascribing motives to others is at best a dishonorable and insupportable judgment, because only the individual knows his motives for doing something.
In such a situation, you are left wondering -- what's true?
With no clear proof for either side, believe the only party that knows their motives for certain -- in this case, the Southerners who fought and bled. Believe them when they tell you it wasn't about slavery --for them.
And believe the Northerners when they tell you that it was about slavery --- for them.
The motivations of both sides may be different, but the result was the same --- a disguised, illegal commercial mercenary conflict favoring the interests of the British Empire, which called it a "war" and has attempted to obscure the real truth about the "American Civil War" for sixteen decades.
Jefferson Davis, one of the more accomplished law experts of his time, foretold a time when all this would catch up to the Perpetrators, and it finally has. Let us be thankful and make sure that we take the lessons to heart and do what is right and rational now.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
June 5th 2026
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