By Anna Von Reitz
As of last year, July 29th 2025, a UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ruled in Abigail Carmichael Jordan v Marco Rubio in his official capacity as Secretary of State, Case 1:24-cv-01844-TNM, that quote:
"The Constitution does not contemplate that judges be spiritual arbiters. If someone sincerely believes that she risks her salvation by taking some action, the government may not condition a benefit on her doing so. To find otherwise would be to arrogate an abhorrent authority. The court will not oblige Jordan to follow an agency's assessment of her personal convictions...."
This case is interesting for two reasons. First, it upholds freedom of religion. Second, it admits seeing a passport as a "benefit".
In the sum total, it basically says phooey to the idea that one must produce either a Birth Certificate or a letter saying that no such certificate exists to get a passport. Agency promulgations have to give way to fundamental rights, in this case, the right to one's own religious beliefs.
The whole idea that normal people need passports to travel arises from unnatural legal presumptions that interpret living people as corporation franchisees literally passing through ports as neutral shipping vessels in transit.
This is why "passengers" are made to "declare" whatever goods they may be bringing home with them that they purchased overseas: they are being treated as ships engaged in commerce, having to declare cargo and pay any taxes or tariffs that may apply.
All this is taking place under another phoney Legal Presumption of being "at war" on top of it.
Next time you are at an airport or railway station that crosses interstate borders, imagine yourself as a neutral ship at a port during wartime. Just parked there at the dock....
The only actual war is the eternal one between truth and common sense versus lies and self-interested bunko, but that "war" is, unfortunately, red hot.
Here you are, the HMS Bogeyman, a hyperspace invention of the imagination, carrying "papers" and declaring your destination and your purpose in traveling and having someone, a foreigner, who doesn't know you and who you don't know, attesting to your good character in order to expedite this ridiculous exercise and charge you around $500 for the privilege.
That word, "privilege" goes with "benefit" and we are beginning to sniff the tea and crumpets.
Anna Maria Riezinger, a Great-Grandmother from Big Lake, Alaska, was denied a passport because a variation of Anna Maria Riezinger, Incorporated, dba Anna M Riezinger - Von Reitz, a British Crown franchise corporation that is only presumed to exist, and which the actual Anna doesn't own and doesn't manage and doesn't benefit from --- allegedly owes Federal Income Taxes.
And Anna from Big Lake asks, "How would I even know if a British Crown franchise corporation named after me or having a name similar to mine, owes Federal Income Taxes?"
There's a question for the ages. That truly would seem to be someone else's responsibility both to know and to pay for.
Anna can't pass for a neutral ship in a war zone anymore. Her squat 100,000 ton supertanker self doesn't even pretend to be involved in any commercial enterprise, and she doesn't have a dozen bottles of contraband French champagne stuffed under her dress (but she wishes she did about now).
HMS Anna Maria Riezinger, Incorporated, is dry docked, and the exemptions, remedies, and maintenance she is owed have been withheld, because someone somewhere is ignorant enough to think that she is HMS Anna M Riezinger-Von Reitz, Incorporated, another different unknown foreign ship in the night, known as a "derivative".
As in "Derivatives Market".
Nobody tells you that a "Taxpayer" is a Warrant Officer in the British Merchant Marines Service, and that all these ships and derivatives of ships (as if they were having babies) -- are going straight to Hell in a Handbasket because someone else thinks that the American named Anna Maria Riezinger is a Taxpayer.
At one time, long, long ago, the actual Anna was confused enough to believe that she was a Taxpayer, too, but she checked her six, realized that she wasn't British and couldn't possibly be a Warrant Officer in the British Merchant Marine Service --- and sent a polite letter to the Department of State instead of the State Department and said, "There's been a mistake...."
Oh, boy, howdy, has there been a "mistake". Millions of them.
This is why when Anna, the actual American, is accused of making "frivolous" replies to Junior Woodchuck IRS Agents or DOJ Hitmen like Daniel Applegate -- she gets the joke and asks, "Which ship am I on?"
I didn't know that I was supposedly a British Subject, either.
And, of all things, I didn't think of a passport as a benefit, but here's a UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE, in the case cited above, clearly referring to a passport as a benefit.
A small booklet that costs in the neighborhood of $500, non-refundable, doesn't normally qualify as a benefit. It qualifies as a rip-off.
Here's the schtick, unwittingly verified by the JUDGE: Roman Municipal employees have civil rights instead of natural and unalienable rights. Civil rights are privileges that can be granted or taken away with the stroke of a pen. Just ask Donald Trump.
So the woman whose religious scruples led to this long and miserable and incredibly wasteful and stupid court case, which shouldn't have happened in the first place, was --- at least in the view of the COURT --- seeking a benefit from the Roman Municipal Corporation, possibly as an asylum seeker, assumed to be a "citizen of the United States".
What we are picking up here is a commonality. What Brits consume and don't pay for they consider to be theirs by right, but everyone else has mere benefits conferred as gifts to the poor -- which the poor pay for, through the nose.
Having sorted it all out, do you really need a passport to travel? No.
You don't. You aren't a ship. You were born with the natural and unalienable right to travel and you can write your own passport issued by your own government. No Birth Certificate or Social Security Number required.
Granna
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