International Public Notice: Core Truths and the Origin of "Sovereign Citizen" Ideas

 By Anna Von Reitz

Let's begin with some core principles based on observable truth: 

1. Governments do not own people.  People own governments.  

People created governments, and according to the most ancient principles of law on this planet, creators are responsible for what they create.  

2. As governments, however organized or styled, have no valid ownership interest in people (see above) they have no interest in the physical assets belonging to or created by people, either.  

Governments do not actually own anything.  

They don't own people.  They don't own land.  They don't own the money they mint.  They don't own labor.  They don't own Given Names.  They don't own performances.  They don't own the houses people build.  They don't own the animals people care for.  

At most, governments can serve as Trustees of what is known as the Public Trust -- and make themselves useful by maintaining the public buildings they use, managing unallocated public lands and protecting whatever assets are held in common for the benefit of the Public Interest. 

3. Governments are servants, not sovereigns.  

It would be a strange thing indeed for people to create something and then raise it up to rule over them and steal them blind.  That is not what happened.  

People created governments to provide services, and in the case of the Americans, those services are enumerated, spelled out, and made part of explicit contracts known as constitutions. 

Any other function of government is not authorized by the creators of government. 

4. A "citizen" is a servant of the government by definition; a "national" is one of those served by the government.  

Our society as it currently exists is transactional in nature.  If there is a servant, there has to be a master.  If there is a customer, there has to be a vendor.  It is impossible for an entire country to be populated by citizen service vendors with nobody but themselves to serve.   

In America and much of the British influenced world enclave, this simple truth has been deliberately obscured and confused by the concept of "Sovereign Citizens". 

5. The concept of "sovereign citizens" is an oxymoron, an attempt to combine mutually exclusive terms.  

It is literally impossible to be a "citizen" and a "sovereign" at the same time, yet, this status is broadly implied by actions and "resolutions" taken by the British Territorial U.S. Congress in 1940: 

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1940-05-07/pdf/FR-1940-05-07.pdf

As you can see, this theoretical status was styled as "sovereign citizen" and it appeared in the Federal Register, not the Congressional Record. 

This resolution reflecting corporate public policy refers to Americans serving in the Armed Services and adopting "U.S. Citizenship" -- thereby being sovereigns of and within their nation-states, but stepping down to the capacity of Federal Citizens during their deployment. 

6. This confusion about who and what is being referenced by the words "sovereign citizen" has been a thorn in the flesh of living people for long enough.  

We are sovereign and free people within the context of our nation-states, that is, as Californians, Vermonters, New Yorkers, Texans, and so on.  These are the "free, sovereign, and independent states" referenced by the then-British Monarch and fully admitted to exist in the Treaty of Paris 1783 --- before that same treaty rushed on to describe the organization of the new British Territorial Government. 

We become foreign persons, Federal Citizens, obligated to foreign laws --- in this example, the Universal Code of Military Justice, etc., when we serve the federal government instead of being served by the federal government. 

These are two separate, jurisdictionally unique political statuses, one American (sovereign) and one that is a British Subject (Citizen).  

This is the result of Naval Treaties signed as part of the peace process ending the War of Independence and has no basis on land, but as part of our land jurisdiction -- that part delegated to the Federal Republic's administration -- was left vacant by the so-called Civil War, the Brits came in and "assumed" various things, in a self-interested fashion, in Breach of Trust,  without notifying the American Public.  

The American nation-states also have a citizenry known as State Citizens, who have a unique obligation to serve their nation-state. These State Citizens are the Principals who adopted the federal Constitutions and who conduct international business for the nation-states. 

State Citizenship is not the same as "Federal Citizenship". 

State Citizenship is a voluntary honor and responsibility knowingly accepted after people attain the age of majority.  

Federal "United States" citizenships imposed by the British Territorial United States and the Holy Roman Empire are obligatory and are a form of servitude to these foreign governments imposed at birth as a condition of employment and/or dependency. 

So it was never any American claiming to be a "sovereign citizen" or inventing such a status for themselves. 

It was our British employees trying to describe how an American could be sovereign within their State of the Union and yet agree to function as a British Subject -- a U.S. Citizen -- while serving in the Armed Forces, or as a Roman Municipal "citizen of the United States" while serving in the Federal Civil Service. 

The page in the Federal Register (above) and the underlying U.S. Congressional Resolution is the source of the entire idea and the construct known as "sovereign citizenship".  Not American patriots. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

October 29th 2026

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International Public Notice: The Principle of Transformation

 By Anna Von Reitz

You have a cup of water, and you put a pinch of salt in it.  Now you have saltwater.  This is the principle of transformation.  Your cup of water is no longer water; it has become something else --saltwater.  In this process, water has been transformed.  

Notice that in this process, one substance becomes another.  Notice that this change is complete and irreversible --- that is, irreversible without undergoing a change of state.  

Pause a moment and look at what I am revealing to you today.  In the same way, you all want to transform society.  You want something that is more fair, more feeling, more aligned with the higher principles of life -- but you don't want to pay attention to the process of transformation.  

That is like adding a rock to your cup of water and expecting saltwater as your end result.  The process matters, and so does the nature of what you are adding or subtracting. 

Ignorant people say, well, just add more money.  That will fix everything.  

Will that fix your broken heart?  Will it give you health?  Peace?  Will it guarantee justice?  Give you back your dead loved ones? 

No, a certain amount of money will provide economic freedom; beyond that, it will simply flood the market with a false commodity and focus even more attention on money, instead of what gave money a borrowed meaning in the first place. 

As I have said before, money is like fertilizer. Enough, and the plant thrives; too much, and the plant dies. 

When you are seeking to transform something, in this case, the entire world financial and economic system, transformation doesn't happen in a piecemeal fashion. It's pure water or saltwater, not something in between. 

But transformation can be applied to two systems at once.  You can create saltwater and sugar water, and both will stand on their own.

This week, thus far, I have shot down multiple ideas that have been promoted.  First, the old and evil idea that the ends justify the means.  

This is obviously false. You can't build a new world on fraud and coercion and theft and lies and expect a good result.  This is like knowingly using sand instead of bedrock for your foundation. 

You are simply polluting what exists with more of what brought you to this need for change.

Did the "Roaring Twenties" prevent the Great Depression? 

You can't substitute the D'Avila Trust with the Santiago Trust and call it good; you can't distribute profits owed to one trust under the name of another and think it is okay; you can't choose a new trustee to administer assets that never belonged to you, can't turn a blind eye to the requirements of the trust indentures, can't pretend that the actual heirs, and in some cases, actual trustees or executors don't exist.   

As you never owned any of these assets in the first place, you can't  direct their dispersal without stealing them, either by deceit or by force --- in which case, you just add a rock to your water.  Nothing changes, it just rearranges.  

There's plenty of disruption but it's the same old furniture being moved around the same room, and there is no real transformation.

This is the "answer" being offered by British Bunko Artist Charlie Ward and the proven dishonest character known as Adriaan Rudolph Fondse ----who used a counterfeit of my signature on a document, and even though he was told I didn't sign it, didn't correct his "mistake".   

The second less ancient but just as evil idea that went down the tubes this week is the idea of a meritocracy.  

Meritocracy doesn't work because we don't have a perfect judge available and without a perfect judge, and perfect values, all that can result is more injustice.  

Again, we stir the cup, add a rock, and rearrange things, but nothing really changes.  The world is not transformed.  

Different people are accused of different things and are judged by others who can never know the entire circumstance and what everyone else knew and what everyone else felt and what everyone else believed to be true, much less what motivated each person.   

That's why we are told not to judge, or if we do, to realize the same yardstick will be applied to us.  

Is it time to wake up?  And stop measuring each other by yardsticks. 

We say we want transformation.  Okay.  We can have transformation, but realize that in a transformation, something has to be fundamentally changed, something has to "die" in order for the new thing to be born.  

The pure water is no longer pure water, once you add the salt. Or the sugar. 

Not too long ago, salt was used as money; but then, someone realized that we have an inexhaustible amount of salt available, both as rock salt and as sea salt and the use of salt became untenable. 

So then, we hit on the idea of "making money" -- in the same way that Omar the Idol-Maker made money in Ancient Mesopotamia.  Money is just another commodity that someone produces, so we all got together and said, only land jurisdiction governments can issue money.  We all defined "money" as gold and silver coins.  

We used gold for international transactions and silver for domestic transactions and all was right with the world -- for a time. 

That worked until the English king lost his head and his land jurisdiction and the Brits went on a rampage to replace money with "legal tender" --- commercial paper issued by banks instead. 

So here we are with this mess. And nobody knows what to do. All the Good Ole Boys are scuttling around the back rooms like crabs and trying to come up with something, without losing their pants and their eyebrows.  

The population has grown and the demands of commerce have grown so much that using gold and silver as the basis of money no longer works.  The use of legal tender has been so grossly mismanaged and its production has been so profligate that it is admittedly of "symbolic value" only.  

Now, the world needs transformation, and we have offered a means to achieve that with fairness, justice, abundance, and plenty for everyone --- without theft, without coercion, without cheating, lying, or denigrating anyone.  

The governments and corporations have run up a huge debt.  That debt is owed to the living people, who have run up an unimaginably large credit above and beyond the so-called "National Debt". 

All that needs to be done is some bookkeeping and a switch from living on debt notes to living on prepaid credit.  

While the debt was always a swindle based on jurisdictional mischief and misrepresentation, the prepaid credit is very real, because it was paid in actual goods and services by actual living people and accumulated over the course of six generations. 

Repaying the living people via issuance of prepaid credit costs nobody anything, because it has already been paid.  We simply issue the prepaid credit notes and use it to pay off and collect any debt notes while phasing them out of use. 

As for the gold and silver that sits languishing in bullion vaults all over the world, doing nothing, it belongs to a relatively few people who don't need or want to keep these stored up commodities which now represent values that could never be spent in many lifetimes.

Actual money can only be issued by actual land jurisdiction governments.  So, we accept gold kept in the names of the respective governments and we accept donations of gold and silver from the heirs of these mammoth metals trust repositories, and we create coinage and certificates based on the coinage for use in the world economy.  

This is not rocket science, either.  

Both measures, taken together, add up to true abundance and more than sufficient resources to provide for all the needs of all the people and animals and plants on this planet, enough for cradle to grave health and dental care, enough for wonderful, high-quality food and water, enough for lifelong education, state-of-the-art technologies, complete restoration of the biosphere, and an era when we don't have to fight anyone over any resources, market, commodity or labor pool whatsoever.  

Power resides where it always belonged -- in the hands of the living people in charge of their own individual and unique accounts.  

But wait.... England lost its land jurisdiction.... How can it issue money?  

England never needed a king to issue money.  It needed a viable, agreed-upon land jurisdiction government, which, it turns out, England always had in the form of its clans and villages, its unincorporated towns and in the people themselves. 

All they have to do is peaceably assemble like everyone else, and provide themselves with a viable discussion forum that can make decisions regarding the enumerated services the people want to receive from each level of government. 

The outline above provides for true transformation. 

Honoring the credit owed to six generations of living people provides the "salt" and the generosity of the bullion trusts and the recoupment of gold and silver assets deployed to renew a stable world economy based on present-day equitable asset exchange provides the "sugar" necessary to sustain abundant life.  

This answer corrects the problem created by mismanaged and deliberately alienated debt-credit systems run by commercial corporations and commercial banks by issuing the prepaid credit, provides more than adequate resources to complete transactions in both public and private sectors, allows us to deconstruct the evil system of personage used to enslave people, and does away with any need for taxation. 

This is the only solution that does it all, without theft, without force, without acrimony, without lies, without building a new world on sand, without taking sides, without injustice --- and most of all, by ending the repugnant practices of peonage and enslavement and taxation in any jurisdiction of law. 

Issued by: 

Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

October 29th 2026 

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