Glitzy Christians and Sunshine Patriots

By Anna Von Reitz

I was talking with a friend recently and he came up with a new description that startled me, but I knew right away what he was talking about: "glitzy Christians". 

We both have met many multi-millionaires and even billionaires in the course of our lifetimes and have rubbed shoulders and noses with these men and women over the course of decades, but somehow had never discussed our mutual experiences with the wealthy Christian community.  

Of course, I nodded.  I knew exactly what he was saying, when he said "glitzy Christians". 

Christians who spend money on a new private jet every year, and who go 

hang-gliding in Nepal.  Christians who wouldn't dream of missing the winter season in Geneva.  Christians who wear million-dollar diamonds on the golf course.  Christians who have season tickets that the Vienna Opera, that they might use once a year. 

The very best of them have "a" cause or maybe two, that they are passionate about.  Saving the wild horses of the western states.  Providing homes for outcast teenagers in LA.  Promoting adult literacy.  Saving wild parrots in Borneo.

I wondered what Jesus would say.  I wondered if it is even possible to be "Christian" and "glitzy" at the same time.    

Of course, it's not my call.  Of course, I am not privy to the history of their souls or the lessons they are trying to learn.  But if you think about it, Jesus was the Great Leveler, the One who brought it all down to brass tacks: tax collectors and prostitutes, Roman soldiers, Samaritans, lepers, sinners and outcasts of every kind came to him.  The rich and famous stayed away.

Too controversial.  Too common.   

He is the one who said, "If you would be perfect, go and give all that you have away to the poor."  

It is part of His Testament that we cannot serve both God and Mammon.  

So maybe being rich is not such a good thing.  

Perhaps it is an obstacle to our souls' freedom and growth, that leaves us empty and disconnected at the end of the day, as so many of my very wealthy acquaintances seem to be. 

So many of them seem to be like little kids whistling in the dark, delighted that they "made it" and are so rich and powerful, and yet.... 

Empty. Alone. Depressed.  Running hither and thither, restlessly searching for meaning.  

They show up on my doorstep when they get in trouble with the government, and they presume because they are wealthy that they can buy first in line treatment.  But they can't.  

They make their case about how important they are and how important their issues are, but I seldom agree.  Usually, they are just like everyone else with a beef, a fight with a regulatory agency, or the IRS or a Zoning Commission someplace. 

It's not that I am not sympathetic when "the government" is in the wrong, as it often is.  It's more a matter of seeing them and their problems without the fake glory of their money, and knowing that 90% of the time, their problems are just like everyone else's problems.  They only think that they are special because they are rich.  

Recently, a billionaire acquaintance was arrested for money laundering and other charges.  I thought back to when he approached me for a legal opinion about his latest get-richer-scheme.  I wasn't encouraging.  He left me with the tab for lunch.  Now, he's in jail.  

I am wondering if he cashiered enough money with his family to pay for his defense team.  No doubt the government has locked down his own resources and left his parents to pay his bail -- and all this, just before Christmas.

I'm sorry he didn't take my advice. I'm sorry he was so wrong-headed about basic things, like being grateful when someone takes time out of their day and gives you a legal opinion for free.  Like not sticking "the little people" with the bill. Like using your wealth for something more and better than just accruing more and more and more.... 

Like caring --- really caring --- about the world we live in.  

There's so much that he could have done, both in terms of making money and giving back.  Oh, he wanted his freedom, but he wasn't interested in helping others achieve theirs.  Contributing to the overall push to restore our lawful government wasn't on his radar.  Just tweaking things so that he could be free was enough, in his opinion.  

Unfortunately, that seems to be par for the course with the rich and famous. That's why their money actually does so little worthy work and contributes so little to the benefit of humanity.  

Why invest in State Assemblies that will restore the lawful government of this country, when you could invest in mini-golf courses, instead? 

So I paid the lunch tab for him and his buddies and I smiled and I walked away, knowing that I was richer than all of them.  

And then today I got a note from a woman who is reduced to living on SSI, and it's Christmastime, and she sent me a donation of $25 for our work here, and she apologized because she couldn't afford to send more.  I sat at my desk and wept. 

That same billionaire could have given me $25 million, and it wouldn't have hurt him half as much, as what she shared from what little she had. 

I wrote back to her and told her that we recently hit rock bottom with all the expenses we've had here, all across the board.  We got down to 26 cents in our account, but we didn't go in the red.  And her $25 was the first contribution after that low point.  

Think about that.  

There haven't been any big donors helping us pursue the American National Credit owed to Americans.  There haven't been any "investors" backing our bid to recoup the gold FDR stole from our Great-Grandparents and Grandparents. 

No "glitzy Christians" have cared enough about the country to weigh in on America's side of the issues.  No Big Timers have paid our way to the Philippines or the Hague or Rome.  

They seem quite content that everything go to wrack and ruin, so long as their investments run high.  America?  Their neighbors?  The communities they live in?  Who cares?  

A woman who is so crippled up, she's on SSI.  

A teen in Baltimore who makes a living mowing lawns in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter.  

A cowboy out in Montana who sends $20 every pay day.  

A man in New York who sends a small percentage of every sale he makes.... $1.01, $2.89, $1.78...... 

A retired steam and boiler technician, a waitress at Don's Diner, a Korean War Vet, a farmer in the Midwest facing eviction, a dock worker who is on Workman's Comp, and so the list goes on.  Our contributors.  

Not a truly rich man among them. 

If anyone has cause in years to come, to go back and look at how we survived the winter of 2019-2020, and how our effort grew despite everything against it. and they pour over our books and accounts as much as they like, they won't be able to say that there was any political party behind us, or any rich financier.  

All they will find will be "un-glitzy" people who don't go to St. Moritz to ski, and patriots who cared.  

The day will come when the rich and famous will beat a path to our door, just as they now trample the road into Washington, DC, seeking favors and pay offs and buy offs and all the rest of it.  Count on me to turn a deaf ear--- not to any injustice, but to any pretension of importance on their parts.  

It's clear to me who the really important people are, the ones who make the wheels turn, who wash the cars and the dishes, who feed the hungry, who do all the work and bear all the burdens.  The race is not to the swift.  The glory does not belong to the rich and famous.  

It belongs to us, down here in the trenches, slogging along day to day and year to year, to our workmates and families, to our friends.  The glory always belongs

to those who think and who care --- and it always comes down to us, because it is our will that finds its way to expression.  It's our dream that we, together, build.

We won't be alone or empty or wondering what life was all about when our time comes.  We won't regret missing the ski season at St. Moritz.  Or the unused season tickets at the Vienna Opera. 

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Third Sunday in Advent

Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's Year

On this Sunday again, the Church calls on us to rejoice in the Advent of the Redeemer, and at the Introit sings:

INTROIT Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men: for the Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in every thing by prayer let your requests be made known to God (Phil. 4). Lord, thou hast blessed thy land; thou bast turned away the captivity of Jacob (Ps. 84). 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 Incline Thine ear, O Lord, we beseech Thee, unto our prayers: and enlighten the darkness of our mind by the grace of thy visitation. 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 (Phil. 4:4-7). Brethren, rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh. Be nothing solicitous; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What is meant by "rejoicing in the Lord"?

By "rejoicing in the Lord" is meant rejoicing in the grace of the true faith we have received, in the hope of obtaining eternal happiness; rejoicing in the protection of the most High under which we stand; and in the persecution for justice's sake in which Christ Himself exhorts us to rejoice, and in which the Apostle Paul gloried (II Cor. 7:4).

What else does St. Paul teach in this epistle?

He exhorts us to give all a good example by a modest and edifying life, to which we should be directed by the remembrance of God's presence and His coming to judgment (Chrysostom. 33, in Joann.); he warns us against solicitude about temporal affairs, advising us to cast our care on God, who will never abandon us in our needs, if we entreat Him with confidence and humility.

In what does "the Peace of God" consist?

It consists in a good conscience (Ambrose), in which St. Paul gloried and rejoiced beyond measure (II Cor. 1:12). This peace of the soul sustained all the martyrs, and consoled many others who suffered for justice's sake. Thus St. Tibertius said to the tyrant: "We count all pain as naught, for our conscience is at peace." There cannot be imagined a greater joy than that which proceeds from the peace of a good conscience. It must be experienced to be understood.

ASPIRATION The peace of God, that surpasseth all understanding, preserve our hearts in Christ Jesus. Amen.

COMFORT AND RELIEF IN SORROW

“Is any one troubled, let him pray" (Jas. 5:13).

There is no greater or more powerful comfort in sorrow than in humble and confiding prayer, to complain to God of our wants and cares, as did the sorrowful Anna, mother of the prophet Samuel, (I Kings 10) and the chaste Susanna when she was falsely accused of adultery and sentenced to death (Dan. 13:35). So the pious King Ezechias complained in prayer of the severe oppression with which he was threatened by Senacherib (IV Kings 19:14). So also King Josaphat made his trouble known to God only, saying: But as we know not what to do, we can only turn our eyes on Thee (11 Para. 20:12). They all received aid and comfort from God. Are you sad and in trouble? Lift up your soul with David and say: To Thee I have lifted up my eyes, who dwellest in heaven. Behold as the eyes of servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress: so are our eyes unto the Lord our God, until He shall have mercy on us (Ps. 122:1-3). Give joy to the soul of Thy servant, for to Thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul (Ps. 85:4).

GOSPEL (Jn. 1:19-28). At that time the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to John, to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and did not deny; and he confessed: I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the prophet? And he answered, No. They said therefore unto him, Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? what sayst thou of thyself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Isaias. And they that were sent were of the Pharisees. And they asked him, and said to him: Why then dost thou baptize, if thou be not Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet? John answered them, saying: I baptize with water: but there hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not: the same is he that shall come after me, who is preferred before me, the latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose. These things were done in Bethania beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Why did the Jews send messengers to St. John to ask him who he was?

Partly because of their curiosity, when they saw St. John leading such a pure, angelic and penitential life; partly, as St. Chrysostom says, out of envy, because St. John preached with such spiritual force, baptized and exhorted the people to penance, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem came to him in great numbers; partly, and principally, they were impelled by the providence of God to demand publicly of St. John, if he were the Messiah, and thus be directed to Christ that they might be compelled to acknowledge Him as the Messiah, or have no excuse for rejecting Him.

Why did the Jews ask St. John, if he were not Elias or the prophet?

The Jews falsely believed that the Redeemer was to come into this world but once, then with great glory, and that Elias or one of the old prophets would come before Him, to prepare His way, as Malachias (4:5) had prophesied of St. John; so when St. John said of himself that he was not the Messiah, they asked him, if he were not then Elias or one of the prophets. But Elias, who was taken alive from this world in a fiery chariot, will not reappear until just before the second coming of Christ.

Why did St. John say, he was not Elias or the Prophet?

Because he was not Elias, and, in reality, not a prophet in the Jewish sense of the word, but more than a prophet, because he announced that Christ had come, and pointed Him out.

Why does St. John call himself "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"?

Because in his humility, he desired to acknowledge that he was only an instrument through which the Redeemer announced to the abandoned and hopeless Jews the consolation of the Messiah, exhorting them to bear worthy fruits of penance.

How do we bear worthy fruits of penance?

We bear fruits of penance, when after our conversion, we serve God and justice with the same zeal with which we previously served the devil and iniquity; when we love God as fervently as we once loved the flesh-that is, the desires of the flesh-and the pleasures of the world; when we give our members to justice as we once gave them to malice and impurity (Rom. 6:19), when the mouth that formerly uttered improprieties, when the ears that listened to detraction or evil speech, when the eyes that looked curiously upon improper objects, now rejoice in the utterance of words pleasing to God, to hear and to see things dear to Him; when the appetite that was given to the luxury of eating and drinking, now abstains; when the hands give back what they have stolen; in a word, when we put off the old man, who was corrupted, and put on the new man, who is created in justice and holiness of truth (Eph. 4:22-24).

What was the baptism administered by St. John, and what were its effects?

The baptism administered by John was only a baptism of penance for forgiveness of sins (Lk. 3:3). The ignorant Jews not considering the greatness of their transgressions, St. John came exhorting them to acknowledge their sins, and do penance for them; that being converted, and truly contrite, they might seek their Redeemer, and thus obtain remission of their offences. We must then conclude, that St. John's baptism was only a ceremony or initiation, by which the Jews enrolled themselves as his disciples to do penance, as a preparation for the remission of sin by means of the second baptism, viz., of Jesus Christ.

What else can be learned from this gospel?

We learn from it to be always sincere, especially at the tribunal of penance, and to practice the necessary virtue of humility, by which, in reply to the questions of the Jews, St. John confessed the truth openly and without reserve, as shown by the words: The latchet of whose shoe I am not worthy to loose, as the lowest of Christ's servants, giving us an example of humility and sincerity, which should induce us always to speak the truth, and not only not to seek honor, but to give to God all the honor shown us by man. Have you not far more reason than John, who was such a great saint, to esteem yourself but little, and to humble yourself before God and man? "My son," says Tobias (4:14), "never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning."

ASPIRATION O Lord, banish from my heart all envy, jealousy and pride. Grant me instead, to know myself and Thee, that by the knowledge of my nothingness, misery and vices, I may always remain unworthy in my own eyes, and that by the contemplation of Thy infinite perfections, I may seek to prize Thee above all, to love and to glorify Thee, and practice charity towards my neighbor. Amen.

EMBER WEDNESDAY IN ADVENT

EPISTLE (Is. 7:10-15). And the Lord spoke again to Achaz, saying: Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God, either unto the depth of hell or unto the height above. And Achaz said: I will not ask, and I will not tempt the Lord. And he said: Hear ye, therefore, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to be grievous to men, that you are grievous to my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel. He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.'

EXPLANATION In this Epistle is contained the important prophecy of the Savior's birth from a virgin. War was declared by the kings of Israel and Syria against Achaz, king of Juda, who at their approach was overpowered with fear, and thought of seeking aid from the Assyrians instead of looking to Almighty God for help; and for this lack of confidence in God, the prophet Isaiah was sent to announce to him the destruction of both kings, and his own preservation. The prophet, wishing Achaz to prove his assertion, requested the king to demand a sign from God; but he being given to idolatry, did not wish to ask a sign from heaven, for he had more faith in the assistance of the demons and of the Assyrians. He offended God by his refusal and the prophet rebuked him, saying: The Lord himself will give you (that is, your posterity) a sign, for the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and he shall be called Emmanuel, that is-God with us. By these words Isaias desired to impress upon the king, that as surely as he should be preserved from his enemies, so surely this Emmanuel, the Son of the Virgin, would appear to redeem the world from Satan's power. Let us learn from this lesson always to trust in God, who can deliver us from all danger, and let us also be grateful to Him, who seven hundred and forty-three years before the time, permitted, for our consolation, the announcement of the coming of His Son, our Savior.

The gospel (Lk. 1:26-28) of this day will be found in the second part of this book on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.

ASPIRATION O Emmanuel, powerful, holy God! Our Savior and our Redeemer! be with us always in life and death: for, if Thou art with us who can be against us?

COLLECT Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, that the approaching celebration of our redemption may bring us the necessary graces for the present life, and bestow upon us the rewards of eternal happiness. Through our Lord.

EMBER FRIDAY IN ADVENT

EPISTLE (Is. 11:1-5). And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness, and he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

EXPLANATION In this epistle the Lord announced to the Jews, through the prophet, the consoling promise that when they were sufficiently punished, and had come to the consciousness of their own misery, the Savior would come and bring all things to order. The rod spoken of by the prophet, is the Blessed Virgin who would proceed from the root of Jesse, that is, from the stem of David, and give birth to the flower, viz., to the Savior upon whom the Holy Ghost, with His sevenfold gifts, would descend, that is, dwell in Him. As a reader of the heart He would judge man, not according to his outward appearance, but according to his intentions. He would not flatter the sinner, but with severe words punish his sinful life, and because just and faithful, He would reward every man without respect to person. Let us be always mindful in all our omissions and commissions, that our Lord sees into our hearts, and judges not only according to our works, but principally according to our intentions, and let us strive ever to have pure motives in all our actions.

ASPIRATION O Fragrant Flower of the Virgin, Jesus our Savior, come and draw us to Thee, that we may walk in the perfume of Thy ointments, and obtain a merciful judgment from Thee.

COLLECT Show forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy power, and come, that we who confidently trust in Thy love, may be the sooner delivered from all adversities. Through our Lord.

EMBER SATURDAY IN ADVENT

EPISTLE (II Thess 2:1-8). Brethren, we beseech you, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of our gathering together unto him: that you be not easily moved from your mind, nor be frighted, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by epistle, as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth, and is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God. Remember you not, that when I was yet with you I told you these things? And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth, do hold, until he be taken out of the way, and then that wicked one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.

EXPLANATION At the time when St. Paul wrote this epistle, the false report was circulated that the Last Day was at hand, and Christ was coming to judge all men. The Apostle warns the faithful against trusting this, telling them they should not permit themselves to be misled; for first, the greater part of mankind would fall away from God, and Antichrist, the son of perdition appear, but not until the gospel was everywhere preached. The great falling off would be gradual, caused by the heresies which would arise from time to time, and would be completed by Antichrist, whom our Lord, at last, on the Day of Judgment would kill with the breath of his mouth. Let us learn from this epistle not to be curious concerning the Last Day, and the Advent of Christ, but to prepare, rather for the coming of Jesus into our hearts, that He may be merciful to us in death, and at judgment.

ASPIRATION The gospel of this day will be found in the instruction on the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

COLLECT O God, who seest us afflicted on account of our own wickedness; mercifully grant, that by Thy coming we may be comforted. Through our Lord.

New Book - A Visit at Grandma's House by Anna Von Reitz

By Anna Von Reitz

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New Mini-Book in PDF - A Visit at Grandma's House

I just finished a new mini-book just in time for holiday sharing.  People can print it off at home.  It's only 22 pages single-sided, 11 double-sided, large print. 

It presents all the most basic and urgent need-to-know information about the overall history and situation in the form of an imaginary visit to Grandma's House and a sit down conversation with me talking to a young person -- a grandson or granddaughter, and explaining it like I do with my own mid-teen to adult grandchildren. 

This might be just the ticket for various audiences and needs --- like if you need to explain things to your own children or grandchildren. 

The information is still dense to pack into 22 pages, but it covers the basics and it is somehow easier to swallow in this format. 

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We Need Your Help with something very important.

Most of us agree that Silver and Gold can be a great way to protect our ability to survive when we are looking at a currency crisis. Anna has written about this recently also.

That is why, when we started the pre-launch of Mint Builder two years ago, you helped me become the top personal sponsor in the company in just over 2 months with over 430 people opting in to get a free membership, and some of you started a subscription for at least one collector coin each month. Other distributors have bigger downlines and paychecks because they have bigger networks, but I still hold the record for bringing more people in the company as their personal sponsor. The vast majority of those people joined because of the offer of a free membership, but didn't buy the coins. But many of you did.

My promise to you was and is that I would immediately donate what was left over from our advertising budget up to 25% of the take from Mint Builder.

That action on your part, coupled with donations from others who didn't join Mint Builder has allowed me to send Anna well over $8300.00 in the last 5 years to help with her expenses and those of the Living Law Firm. Remember that I have never charged Anna one penny for all the work I do to publish her articles, and manage this blog. We have survived on Mint Builder commissions, donations, and selling products on the two websites, and I have built a mailing list for Anna's articles of over 6000 people.

Unfortunately Mint Builder had a binary pay plan, which most people found difficult to make work for them, and many of you didn't stay with it. Matt Barkes, the CEO of Mint Builder listened to his distributor network and has initiated the all new Mint Builder 2.0 to fix the problem, with much better pricing and a new and very much simpler pay plan called a uni-level. The new plan allows for a 10% commission on everyone you personally sponsor on everything they buy each month, and a 50% matching bonus on all the commissions paid each month, on your levels 2 through 5, regardless of width. There are no longer any qualifiers or hoops you need to jump through to get a paycheck.
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That brings me to what I need your help with.

As a way to help people take advantage of that new uni-level system, Matt has initiated a new endless bonus for distributors that could effectively nearly double our commissions for the future.
He has offered to increase the 10% on the front line to 15%, and instead of a 50% matching bonus through level 5 he will increase it to a 100% matching bonus.  These percentages would be locked in for as long as we are active in the company.

What do distributors like me need to do to qualify?  Just introduce 25 people who start a subscription for at least one collector coin monthly, or help someone who is already a member in our downline to renew a subscription for one of the new bundles. That might be you. We only need to do this one time.

The time to qualify is from now to the end of January, so we have 51 days left to get this done.

I have made up my mind to focus on this task and get this done ASAP, and you can help us. We have already signed up 7 new people in the last few days, so we need 18 more to join, or renew their subscriptions.  The prices are better than they were in the member shop before the new reboot 2.0, with wholesale pricing as low as 50 cents over spot. We have some of the best prices in the industry, especially on silver, and all the pricing is live. The prices follow the spot price and update every few minutes.

So I am asking you to help us by getting on a subscription for one coin per month for a while until we get qualified at least.   The best way to do that is to send an email to support@mintbuilder.com and give them your name and information so they can look up your account and initiate a subscription for your choice of product.

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Make sure they find you in the system before they place the order so we get the credit. My Id is 296110. I should be listed as your sponsor.

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God Bless you all at this wonderful season of Christ's Birth.

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IRS Fraud 101 - Tacit Admission

By Anna Von Reitz

I recently mentioned that HR - 1 [House Resolution 1] of 2017 is a tacit admission of wrong-doing with respect to the so-called Sixteenth Amendment, in that it attempts to redefine the taxing authority under which the "Income Tax" is collected and to place it under the general taxation provisions of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1.

Why is that important?  

They are admitting that they've been collecting this tax under false premises for decades. 

They are admitting that they had no subject matter jurisdiction over money accrued from our labor as men and women--- our earnings and salaries that they taxed as "personal" --- meaning "corporate" income.

As Thomas Freed has said, regardless of any power to create a tax, there must also be the ability to write law to enforce it.  "The fact that the 16th Amendment never gives Congress the authority to write law with respect to the enforcement of this alleged direct taxing power....is just ignored...."

Notice that Congress has the power to tax us, but only under the limits and constraints of the Constitutions.  And next.... 

Notice that Congress can tax Federal Citizens, both Territorial and Municipal, any way it wishes to tax them. Constitutional constraints don't apply to Federal Employees and their direct dependents. 

So... 

This is another case of the foreign court system operating under Roman Law and "Let him who will be deceived, be deceived."  

All my American Readers now know that this law was created for and applied to whom?   United States Citizens and "citizens of the United States" ---- Federal Employees and their Dependents, in other words.  

Federal workers are not in receipt of any Constitutional guarantees, so they were fair game and not protected by Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3, nor by Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4. 

Federal citizens of both kinds, military and Federal Civil Service, are defined

by the Constitutions and are not parties to these agreements, so they can be abused at will. 

Simply by redefining all of us as "Volunteers" working for the Federal Government for free, as "Withholding Agents", they could strip us of our constitutional protections, too.  And they did. 

So what does this change in the source of claimed authority from the Sixteenth Amendment to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 do?  

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 contains no ability and no claim to the ability to impose an un-apportioned direct tax on us and our earnings and salaries. 

They can continue to do whatever they like to the Federal Employees and their Dependents, just as they always could before, but for those of us who declare our proper political status as Americans, the actual constitutional protections clamp down again.  

If Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 is the only basis for the income tax, then it must also take the form of an impost, duty, or excise tax and the source of that impost, duty, or excise tax must be explicitly stated in the written law and that source must be taxable. 

And we already know that 15 USC 17 specifically excludes any "excise taxation of labor", and we also know that as originally enacted in 1913 and still maintained as Subtitle A, Chapters 1-6, the intended "foreign persons" were all the Federal Employees, so that there is no possible application to the earnings and salaries of Joe Average Americans working in these United States. 

Take home message --- direct un-apportioned taxation of the earnings and salaries of average Americans as Federal "income" has always been illegal. 

They simply contrived to get around this fact by: (1) alleging that we "volunteered" to act as Federal Employees (Withholding Agents) and (2) misidentifying us as British Territorial Citizens and/or Municipal citizens of the United States at birth.

This "unlawful conversion" of our political status stripped us of our Constitutional protections and guarantees and having converted us into "Federal Citizens" then made us subject to whatever taxes they imposed on their own employees. 

So, they've admitted -- tacitly--that the Sixteenth Amendment was bogus as a taxation authority, and that also means that all the tax enforcement actions taken against average Americans by IRS Agents acting "under the 16th Amendment" from 1913 to 2018, were also bogus. 

And now we get down to the reason that the Sixteenth Amendment was always a bogus taxation authority with respect to Joe Average American.  

The "Constitution" that was amended by the "Sixteenth Amendment" was actually the Articles of Incorporation for a Scottish Commercial Corporation, merely calling itself "The United States of America" --- Incorporated.  And that corporation went bankrupt and liquidated in 1906. 

So we have been treated to the spectacle of a hundred years-plus of vicious taxation based on the By-Laws of a defunct Scottish Commercial Corporation that was infringing on our Good Name for purposes of deliberate deceit and identity theft.  And is trying to do so again.  

But that's another story. 

For now, declare your proper political status, record it, give notification of it, and if you are not a Federal Employee or direct dependent of a Federal Employee, revoke your election to pay Federal Income Taxes.  

Thomas Freed has done a great deal of work on these issues though I have not been able to spend adequate time to evaluate it; it seems likely that he does not understand the reasons that the 16th Amendment had to be abandoned and may not understand that Federal Citizens were always subject to being taxed in ways beyond the constitutional provisions. 

Most Americans remain stubbornly unaware of the existence of the two second class citizenship statuses of our Federal Employees and the impacts on them and, if we are not vigilant, on us.  

Be that as it may, Freed does understand the implication of this tacit admission. Those who want to investigate more can find more at: 

www.IRSzoom.com & www.Tax-Freedom.com

www.TaxBible.com & www.AmericanTaxBible.com

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Frustration on the Home Front - Mine

By Anna Von Reitz

I realize that there are those of you who want action, action, action.  

There is actually more than enough to do, if you concentrate on learning all that you need to know and mastering the ins and outs of setting up your own State Assembly, your own Courts, and your own State Militia and Offices.  But instead of doing that, certain people just have to rush around, looking for other things to do and more rabbit holes to tunnel around in. 

No, we don't need any Treaty of Peace.  We were never involved in any unresolved war.  We are members of the Federation of States.  Not the Confederation of States of States. 

Think, people.  The actual States are sovereign entities.  They cannot go bankrupt.  They don't need insurance -- they have indemnity.  

Our actual government hasn't been at war since 1814.

American State Nationals and American State Citizens are owed The Law of Peace, AR 27 -161- 1.  Period.  And there is no excuse for anyone in government not knowing that and honoring that.  

The entities that need to enter into peace accords are the States of America Confederation members, and these cannot be formed and "reconstructed" until our actual States assemble and charter them. 

So get the horse in front of the cart and realize that there is a profound difference between States that are members of the Federation doing business as The United States of America and the States of States that are members of the long-dormant Confederation doing business as the States of America.  

We have to assemble the States of the Federation, and then the States of the Federation reconstruct (re-charter) the State of States of the Confederation. 

Wisconsin reclaims the property assets vested in The State of Wisconsin and re-charters it, for example. 

Next order of irritation....

No, there is no advantage to any Joe Average American in joining any tribal trust and doing so automatically voids all the work that you have done to extract yourselves from the maze. 

Our States are Nations.  

Our States require one singular political status --- one nationhood.   

You can't be part of the Algonquin Nation and serving as part of the Wisconsin Assembly for the same reason that you can't belong to the Texas Assembly 

and the Wisconsin Assembly at the same time, and for the same reason that you can't be a US Citizen and a State Citizen at the same time. 

One means one.  Singular means singular.  No other allegiances or political statuses are allowed while adopting American State Citizenship and running a State Assembly.  

Actual Native Americans have always been free of taxation and are Constitutionally guaranteed that.  It has nothing to do with belonging to a trust and everything to do with meeting the Federal definition of "native".  Last I heard, that requires at least one-eighth native DNA. 

Tribes can adopt white people as friends and family within their own community but this makes no difference to Washington, DC.  White people can belong to tribes if they wish, but they get no tax or other benefits and won't be recognized as Natives by the Federal Government. 

White people claiming tax exemption or other "Federal benefits" as Tribal Members are regularly prosecuted for tax evasion and fraud--- and they should be.  What is given to one should not be claimed by another. 

So if you are Native, there are some advantages to being Native, but there are also downsides, too.  Native Tribes are under a condition of Dependent Sovereignty.  As a result, all Native Tribal Members are (with a few exceptions) considered United States Citizens and citizens of the United States. 

This precludes them from accepting Tribal status and benefits and State Citizenship at the same time. 

We have noted and formally declared that our States of the Union accept people of all races, kinds, colors, and ethnicity without prejudice, meaning that so far as our States are concerned Natives are as welcome as anyone else to embrace the protections and benefits of State Citizenship.  

But also like everyone else, once you step over the fence, you are no longer eligible to receive emoluments from any foreign government and participate in a State Government at the same time. 

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United States Corp Registration

By Anna Von Reitz

Teri, Paul— 

Please pull the attachment for your records, and Paul, please post it on my website for all to see. 

There will be more commentary about this. 

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America Never Sold, Just Foreign Corporations Abusing Our Names

By Anna Von Reitz

For several days I have been getting this photo lobbed at me, as if it was any huge surprise, and as usual, the people sending it to me have jumped to the mistaken idea that "America" was sold to these Billionaires: 

NOPE. 

The only things sold were foreign corporations "doing business as" the United States (Inc.) and the United States of America, (Inc.) ----- British Territorial and Municipal corporations in the business of providing "essential governmental services" --- not our country.  That is the key fact you have to know and stick to and realize that while corporations can be bought and sold and go bankrupt, etc., this actual country and the people who live here are not eligible nor in need of any "bankruptcy protection".  We are, in fact, immune from bankruptcy of any kind.  Period.  

So when you see things like this --- step back, remember your history.  What was happening in the 1920's?  The Internal Revenue Service was brought ashore as a Delaware Corporation in 1925, the stock exchanges were be bought up and up and up in preparation for the Big Bust in 1929, just two years after this report.  We are in the midst of the Roaring Twenties and these are five of the Robber Baron Families benefiting from all the graft and identity theft and "false titles" being issued by "the" United States of America, Incorporated.  

If you own a house and you have a Lawn Service and a Housekeeping Service and they both act crazy and abuse your credit without you knowing or approving and then they go bankrupt ---- what happens?  

Well, the bankruptcy and the credit theft is their problem and the problem of the banks issuing the credit ---- not yours.  And as for the rest, it doesn't matter if they stay in business or go out of business after the bankruptcy, because it has nothing to do with you as their Employer.  

You can cluck, you can duck, you can offer help, you can ignore the whole situation and deny them as much as access to a single penny of all the credit that is owed to you.  Why?  Because they are all incorporated entities, separate from you in nature and in fact, and the most that you really have to do is look around for other organizations that can mow your lawn and swab your kitchen floors.

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Keep These Facts Firmly in Mind

By Anna Von Reitz

The actual government of this country is vested entirely in the living
people.  That is why it is called a government "of the people, for the
people, by the people".

It follows that no incorporated entity can ever be the government of this
country.

Corporations of various kinds can serve the living people. Only.

When a living man, one of the people, acts in a Public Capacity -- for
example, serves as a Juror, he is acting in a "corporate" capacity --- the
Office of a Juror, but still not acting in an "incorporated" capacity.

This is the same difference you see between unincorporated small
businesses, like Mel's Autobody, and incorporated businesses like GE, Inc.,
or Intel, Inc.

A unincorporated small business is "corporate" but unincorporated.  It does
not owe its existence to any charter granted by any government.

In the same way, when a living man acts in a Public Capacity, as a State
Citizen, a Juror, a Sheriff, a Coroner, a Justice of the Peace, and so on,
he acts in a corporate but still unincorporated capacity as one of the
People.

While acting in a Public Capacity of Office, each American acts as either
(1) a Lawful Person (land jurisdiction) or a (2)  Legal Person (sea
jurisdiction).  The land jurisdiction protects you while you are standing
on the land and soil, and the Queen or King of Britain is supposed to be
protecting you on the "High Seas and Navigable Inland Waterways" but they
haven't been doing that.

"We, the People" who created the Constitutions were all acting as Lawful
Persons.  The Founders were acting as State Citizens and State Delegates to
Congress---that is, they were acting in a "corporate" but "unincorporated"
capacity.  If they had been acting as Legal Persons-- that is, incorporated
entities, of any kind, the phrase would read, "We, the Persons".

It is only when we adopt the same political status and shoulder the same
responsibility that we have the same standing as, "We, the People" in the
current day, and are able to enforce, negotiate, and enter the jurisdiction
of the Constitutions and their guarantees.

So-- take that fact to heart.  Underline it.

Now, here's the next fact, even though you were born in the proper
political status, your name and identity were kidnapped and transported ---
"trafficked" into the realm of corporations and incorporated entities, the
strange "Land of Oz" world, where both Legal Persons and INCORPORATED
PERSONS exist.

According to the fraud artists, you were identified as a "Legal Person"
and, furthermore, as a Public Person -- but not an American, when you were
just a few days old.  The evidence of this is the Birth Certificate the
rats were obliged to give you.
It shows that you were the victim of "Unconscionable Contracting Processes"
when you were only a few days old, long before you could become conscious
of what this meant.

As a result, you are being "presumed to be" a British Territorial Citizen,
like someone born in Puerto Rico, a member of the Commonwealth, who is, for
whatever reasons, living as a "resident" --- a temporary sojourner in
America, called a "United States Citizen".

Obviously, this is a false presumption and you never knowingly, willing, or
voluntarily adopted such a foreign political status.  You were born in an
actual State, like Kansas, and you were far too young to choose to live in
any imaginary State of State like the Territorial State of Kansas (or the
Land of Oz).

Nonetheless, the Wicked Witches cast a spell on you, trafficked you into
their realm and redefined you as a Legal Person, a Public Person, and a
British Territorial Citizen obligated to follow Federal Code, but not
having any Constitutional Guarantees.

They did this because they acted in Breach of Trust concerning you and did
not fully inform you of the circumstance, nor did they assist you to recoup
your natural, lawful and owed political status.  Why?  Because by
"redefining" you and trafficking you into their foreign jurisdiction, they
could latch onto your Good Name and Estate and buy and sell your Person and
everything you own.

So, the first thing these Evil Cretins did was to sell you and your labor
to the Pope and his Flying Monkeys.

You were then "additionally" presumed to be a Dual Citizen of both the
British Territorial United States AND a MUNICIPAL "citizen of the United
States".

This also took place under cover of darkness, before you were old enough to
object, and resulted in several incorporated entities operating under you
name being established "in your name".

These are incorporated THINGS are like any incorporated entity you are
familiar with --- and may be defined as different kinds of trusts, C-Corps,
S-Corps, 501 (c) 3 Corps, Cooperatives, Public Transmitting Utilities,
Foundations, LLCs, LLP's and whatever other phony business structure
designations the Roman Curia can define and sell as patented and
trademarked and copyrighted products.

JOHN DOE is a Public Charitable Trust.
JOHN R. DOE is a Public Transmitting Utility.
JOHN ROY DOE is a constructive Cestui Que Vie Trust.
And so on.

All these entities are created by the Municipal United States Government,
and according to the Vatican Chancery Court, they are all supposed to be
"gifts" to you ---- rather like the Trojan Horse, because on the other side
of Dual Citizenship created by your Stolen Identity, the Queen gets all the
benefit of these "gifts" and you get to pay for them. And the Queen works
for the Pope.....

The excuse for this is that they have been pretending to be involved in a
perpetual "civil war" with the Queen's Territorial (Northern) Government
against the Pope's Municipal (Southern) Government in a continuance of the
illegal Mercenary Conflict known as The American Civil War.

It ended more than 150 years ago, but they kept right on pretending,
because it profited them and let them pillage and plunder you.  That is,
they acted in Gross Breach of Trust and Commercial Service Contract.

All that is silly enough, if the consequences for Americans were not so
dire, but on top of that, the fraud is two-faced and double-sided, in other
ways.

The Pope controls the Queen who acts as his Overseer for the Commonwealths,
and the British Territorial Government is operating as a Commonwealth.  So
when the British Territorial United States fights with the Municipal United
States, you've got the Pope telling the Queen to fight with him and with
those who are working for him.

It's actually all just a mercenary conflict with the Pope against the Pope
(indirectly through the Queen), which is ridiculous.

More recently, the Pope, has attempted to use the United Nations as his
"storefront" and bring UN Troops in to fight with the Territorial United
States.  Either way, he hoped to get a hot war going and kill off millions
of his Priority Creditors --- but as you can now see, since the Pope owns
majority stockholder interest in the UN Corp, he is merely proposing to
fight with himself again.

Now he is attempting to spread the war his predecessors and minions created
in the Middle East, by selling off his purported interests in the two
Governmental Services Corporations --- "the" United States. Inc. and "the"
"United States of America, Inc." to his Arab and Jewish Creditors, so that
maybe they can drum up an excuse to bring their quarrels here.

Just look what they have done in Europe. Wholesale "seeded" war throughout
Europe using humanitarian aid as their excuse --- but not their object.

Take a tiny Norwegian hamlet of 6,000 souls, import 300 Shiite Muslims and
300 Sunni Muslims, and what do you get? War in Norway, Norwegians unable to
ride their bikes to work because the "crazies are using bicycle blades and
saws to kill each other in our streets now, and often enough, killing us,
too".

The Pope and the Boyz aren't creating peace on Earth this holiday season.
Far from it. They are creating new wars, endless wars, endless conflicts,
because that is how they make their money and excuse themselves for the
evil they choose to create.

But is it the fault of the Muslims, really? What do you expect? They have
been at each other's throats for centuries. Both sides have have evicted
from their homes. Their families have been killed and abused and robbed and
given no peace or rest for generations.

What I want to know is --- who are and where are the senseless evil
bureaucrats who didn't separate these populations and encapsulate them,
instead of blowing them like mold spores all over the entire Earth?

We are plainly, loudly, and unequivocally telling Francis to go stuff his
head up the nearest elephant butt, because no matter what they say or
do: these entities that he controls are our employees.

They have no permission to front any kind of a "war" or commercial
mercenary operation on our soil, and neither do any would-be "Successors to
Contract", either.


Hence the word has gone out to the Pope, the Brits, the Saudis, the
Israelis, everyone who needs to know.  We are the actual employers of these
"governmental services providers" and we have had enough of their Breach of
Trust and Dis-service.
There is the Fact that needs your attention.  We are the actual Employers
of these Monsters.

If the cretins responsible for this situation don't back down, it won't
matter if Nancy Pelosi impeaches Donald Trump as the "President" of "the"
United States, Inc., a bankrupt corporation liquidated for criminal
activity. It won't matter who was stupid enough to buy such vacuous claims
and non-existent property interests.

All that will matter is that throughout the world: (1) the Pope and the
Roman Catholic Church will be exposed as a crime syndicate that has
dishonored our Trust and our service contract with them without cause; (2)
the Queen and her Predecessors have done the same; and (3) no Successors
have a contract of any kind, except the quid pro quo we established for
President Trump on a month by month basis.

We own the actual unincorporated United States and these Several States and
the States of America, and we also own our unincorporated Federation of
States doing business as The United States of America --- we are the
actual, factual government of this country. All the rest, is just foreign
subcontractors making a huge mess.

We are not at all confused nor are we amused.  Our records and our
paperwork and our liens are all in effect and in order.

Buying and selling and trading upon what they don't in fact have any valid
claim to own, may be the style and habit of these hucksters, but at the end
of the day, it's all still ours and we can hire whomever we wish to hire to
do a better job of providing us with services, because in actual fact ---
as an entire country, we are richer than Midas. And we are owed our
re-venue.

We are also owed peace, because the actual government of this country has
been at peace since 1814 and if the erstwhile "Trustees" force us into any
other pattern or status, this is Published Notice to the Principals and
their Agents,  that in our world, those who start wars pay for them 100%
and also do so 100% of the time, to the full, plus interest.

The actual government of this country did not participate in the baseless
and fraudulent "Civil War" promoted by our Employees.

We aren't paying for any "Mouse That Roared" scenario.  Our Employees are
going to stand down and shut up or be shut out.

Keep these facts firmly in mind going forward.  There is and can be no
"civil war" here so long as we overtly forbid it --- which we do, and so
long as we, the actual Employers, refuse to fund it and/or refuse to fund
those people including the members of "the" Municipal Congress who are
attempting to pull off this gross criminal escapade.

There needs to be a Detente established with Rome and with the Vatican and
the Queen and all their Bankers, such that they clearly understand that we
know who we are and also know who they are; we have assembled our States
accordingly, and we are "home" with 40 States reporting and more on the
way.

We are conducting our own business, thank you very much.

As the actual and factual Americans, those having the political status,
standing, and jurisdiction to speak as "We, the People", we are telling
Pope Francis and the Federal Civil Service and the Federal Agencies to go
back in their box, mind their business, do their jobs, stop fomenting fraud
and causing trouble, or they will all be out of work.

Any would-be Successors are similarly instructed and under the same demands
and particulars.

Judging by the impact of numerous other "federal government shut downs"
they aren't doing anything much anyway----and what they are doing, they are
doing wrong.

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