Fifth Sunday In Lent - Passion Sunday (Judica)

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

This Sunday, called Judica from the first word of the Introit, is also called Passion Sunday, because from this day the Church occupies herself exclusively with the contemplation of the passion and death of Christ. The pictures of Christ crucified are covered today in memory of his having hidden Himself from the Jews until His entrance into Jerusalem, no longer showing Himself in public. (John XI. 54.) In the Mass the Glory be to the Father, etc. is omitted, because in the person of Christ the Holy Trinity was dishonored. The psalm Judica is not said today, because on this day the high priests held council about our Lord, for which reason the Church in the name of the suffering Saviour uses these words at the Introit:

INTROIT Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man, for Thou art my God and my strength. Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles. (Ps. XLII. 1. 3.)

COLLECT We beseech Thee, Almighty God, graciously to look upon Thy family; that by Thy bounty it may be governed in body, and by Thy protection be guarded in mind. 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 (Heb. IX. 11-15.) Brethren, Christ being come, a high-priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the Holy Ghost, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? And therefore he is the Mediator of the new testament; that by means of his death, for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament; they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

EXPLANATION St. Paul here teaches, that Christ as the true high-priest of the New Testament, through His precious blood on the altar of the cross, has indeed rendered perfect satisfaction for sins, but that the sinner must also do his own part, by cooperating with Christ to make himself less unworthy of participating in His passion and merits, and to appropriate to himself its fruits. This is done when he diligently and devoutly assists at the unbloody Sacrifice of the Mass, by which the fruits of the death on the cross are attributed to us; when, according to the will of the Church, he purifies his conscience by true contrition and confession; and when he seeks by trust in Christ's merits to render some satisfaction for his sins through voluntary penance and faithful following of Christ.

ASPIRATION  Grant us, O meek Jesus, Thy grace, that through perfect sorrow for our sins and the exercise of good works we may become participators in the merits of Thy bitter passion.

GOSPEL (John VIII. 46-59.) At that time, Jesus said to the multitudes of the Jews: Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me? He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God. The Jews therefore answered, and said to him: Do not we say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? Jesus answered: I have not a devil; but I honor my Father, and you have dishonored me. But I seek not my own glory; there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Amen, amen, I say to you, if any-man keep my word, he shall not see death for ever. The Jews therefore said: Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If any man keep my word, he shall not taste death for ever. Art thou greater than our Father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead. Whom dost thou make thyself? Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom you say that he is your God. And you have not known him; but I know him. And if I shall say that I know him not, I shall be like to you, a liar. But I do know him, and do keep his word. Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad. The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am. They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.

Why did Christ ask the Jews, which of them should convince Him of sin?

To show us that he who would teach and punish others, should strive to be irreproachable himself; and to prove that He, being free from sin, was more than mere man, and therefore, the Messiah, the Son of God, as He repeatedly told the Jews, especially in this day's gospel, and substantiated by His great and numerous miracles.

Why did He say: He that is of God, heareth the words of God?

To prove that the Jews on account of their stubbornness and unbelief were not the children of God, but of the devil. "Therefore," St. Gregory says, "let every one when he hears the word of God, ask himself, of whom he is. Eternal truth demands that we be desirous of the heavenly fatherland, that we tame the desires of the flesh, be indifferent to the praises of the world, covet not our neighbor's goods, and give alms according to our means. Therefore examine yourself, and if you find in your heart this voice of God, then you will know that you are of God."

CONSOLATION UNDER CALUMNY

When Christ told the Jews the truth, He received insults and calumny; they called Him a Samaritan, that is, an unbeliever, a heretic, one possessed of a devil. This was a terrible slander, and it must have pained Him exceedingly, but at the same time it is a great consolation to those who are innocently calumniated, when they consider that Christ Himself received nothing better. St. Augustine consoles such by saying: "O friend, what is there that can happen to you that your Saviour did not suffer before you? Is it slander? He heard it, when He was called a glutton, a drunkard, a heretic, and a rebel, a companion of sinners, one possessed of a devil; He even heard, when casting out devils, that He did so by Beelzebub, prince of devils." (Matt. IX. 34.) He therefore comforts His apostles, saying, If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub, how much more them of his household? (Matt, X. 25.) Are the pains bitter? There is no pain so bitter that He has not endured it; for what is. more painful, and at the same time more ignominious, than the death of the cross? For think, says St. Paul, diligently upon him who endured such opposition from sinners against himself: that you be not wearied (by all contempt and calumny), fainting in your minds. (Heb. XII. 3.)

How and why did Christ defend Himself against those who slandered Hate?

Only by denying with the greatest modesty the things with which they reproached Him, saying that He had not a devil, that He was not a Samaritan, because He honored His Father not in their manner, but in His own. In repelling this calumny while He left the rest unanswered, Christ removed all doubt in regard to His divine mission, thus vindicating the honor of God, and securing the salvation of man. Christ thus teaches us by His own conduct to defend ourselves only against those detractions and insults which endanger the honor of God and the salvation of man, and then to defend ourselves with all modesty; by no means however to do it, if they injure only our own good name, for we should leave the restoration of that to God, as exemplified by Christ, who knows better than we how to preserve and restore it.

[See the Instruction on the Epistle of the third Sunday after Epiphany.]

How had Abraham seen Christ's day?

In spirit, that is, by. divine revelation he foresaw the coming of Christ and rejoiced; also, he heard, by revelation from God, with the other just in Limbo, that Christ's coming had taken place, and derived the greatest comfort from it.

Why did Christ conceal Himself from the Jews, instead of taking vengeance?

Because the time of His death had not come; because He would show His meekness and patience and teach us that we should avoid our enemies rather than resist them or take vengeance on them; Christ wished to instruct us to avoid passionate and quarrelsome people, for it is an honor for a man, to separate from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches. (Prov. XX. 3.)

PETITION  When Thine enemies calumniated Thee, most meek Jesus, Thou didst answer them with tender words, and when they were about to stone Thee, Thou didst depart from them, whilst we can scarcely bear a hard word, and far from yielding to our neighbor, defend and avenge ourselves most passionately. Ah! pardon us our impatience, and grant us the grace to bear patiently the wrongs done us, and when necessary, answer with gentleness for Thy glory and the salvation of our neighbor.

Faces of the Cross

By Anna Von Reitz

All over the world, the cross is recognized as "the" symbol of Christianity, yet, as we all have cause to know now, Jesus was executed on a Roman torture stake, not a cross at all.  

Throughout the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Greece, the Romans used torture stakes, simple posts set in the ground, without cross arms. They didn't waste good wood on criminals---especially not out in the backwater and arid territories like Judea. 

So we may be sure that Jesus had his arms stretched out above his head on a single post without a crossbar---- a torture stake, not a cross at all. 

Astonishingly, the symbol of Christianity is a lie.  

Among all the other odd truths I have had to share with you, there's one to think about.   Why have we been taught to venerate a lie?  Was it just a mistake made by later generations, and if so, why hasn't it been corrected? 

The actual symbol of "a" cross pre-dates Jesus by many, many centuries.  It goes back to what is called "the World Cross" --- an equal-armed cross still used by the Knights of Malta, which symbolizes the intersection of the world of spirit and the world of flesh.  

Symbolically, we all live at the intersection, in a moment called "now" --- which is a time without a time, in a space without a space, where Alpha and Omega meet and everything that was meets everything that is and everything that will be.  

The Cross is the sign of God in us, but not an accurate sign of what Jesus suffered. 

As a Lutheran I grew up with a "plain cross" --- a simple, unequal armed cross that is empty.  There is no trace of the body of Jesus hanging upon it.   Not even the nails are left.  Just a plain empty cross.  

As a child, I liked that, because it proclaimed to me --- he is risen.  He is not here.  He is not hanging on this horrible, gruesome contraption like a piece of meat.  I still like that.  That is, to me, the true take-home message. 

The Catholic Crucifix by comparison is a totally different thing that intersects reality at a different moment.  Here we find Jesus still suffering, or still dead, depending on how you look at it and how the artist portrays it.   

One day I was at a local Catholic Church for some meeting or other for Foster Parents Plan and Habitat for Humanity and some of the other charities including Catholic Social Services.  The leaders of these groups had all had a big meeting and it was late in the afternoon as we broke up.  

Everyone else hurried homeward.  I wandered through the Nave of the church, past the baptismal font, and paused, looking up at the giant life-sized crucifix and the figure of Jesus attached to it.  His face was slack, no longer in agony, but dead.  Yes, definitely dead.  

The priest of the parish walked up almost silently behind me, his feet making no sound on the deeply carpeted aisle.  I was startled when he spoke. 

"What do you see?" he inquired.  

"Jesus, dead on the cross, waiting for Joseph to come take him down."

"What do you think it means?" he asked. 

"I think it is a reminder of what our sins have cost and what we owe." 

"What else?"  

"I think the Devil is laughing.  I think it is a reminder that, in some sense, he won. At least, temporarily. " 

"There," the priest admitted, "you have it all."  

I thought --- not quite.  

There is the Rest of the Story, the plain and empty cross. 

Or, as it turns out, the empty torture stake, standing like any other innocent post in the world, his blood being washed away by the wind and the rain, bleached by the sun.  

There is the veil between life and death being torn asunder, just like the edges of the Red Sea being pulled apart. 

I left the pensive priest standing there, still looking up at the scene of death and defeat.  I had someone to meet.  I went home and lit a candle, poured myself a glass of red wine, and ate my crust of bread and soup for dinner that night. 

And he was there with me, the Lord of the Heavens, being remembered as he asked for us to remember him, whenever we drink wine, whenever we break bread.  

Because I know Jesus, I can tell you that he didn't mean to make Communion into a franchise operation.  He meant it to be exactly what he said --- a remembrance of him, an in-dwelling of his spirit and his teaching in us, in the same way that we drink in wine and eat our bread.  

"For man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."  

He wants to be with us.  Not just when we are being holy, but when we are celebrating, when we are sad, in all the circumstances and places of our lives.  He wants to sit down at the table with us, and be remembered. 

Imagine what would happen in the world if we all just did what he asked us to do, and remembered him every time we drank wine, every time bread passed our lips?  

I don't take the cross as my emblem, much less the crucifix.  For me, its what he asked for, the glass of wine, the loaf of bread.  Its the silent remembrance when nobody is looking.  Communion is my heart reaching out and sharing my life with him, day by day.  

There are so many people who feel such emptiness within, who search and don't even know they are searching.  It never occurs to them that we are in God, and God is in us, inextricably combined, part of the same family in spirit, never alone, never apart, not separated from All That Is.  

There are so many who feel alienated from the Church and from any spiritual practice at all.  They are well and truly lost.  Unable to trust in anything beyond themselves and bearing witness to nothing more than death and taxes. They rant about all the evils of the world or stare sullenly and silently at the eventuality of their own death, grim and vacuous and so superior to the rest of us because they believe in "the uselessness of it all".  

One wonders why they bother to live, or if they do?  

And me, I plod forward, and keep my way, not deterred by all the failings of men and their institutions; the Sanhedrin failed, and so may the Church, and all the Governments, but the Goodness of the True God does not fail us, come what may. 

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Passing The Hat

By Anna Von Reitz

Strange as it is, as we are actually the richest government in the world next to the Holy See, we are still pressing our claim to our own country and kicking bank butt.

We need the help of our countrymen to keep The Living Law Firm and the rest of this whole effort moving forward. 

We have travel expenses and material expenses and expenses from setting up two new websites, www.americanstatesassembly.com and www.signinamerica.com in just this past month.  

We need to add to these websites and pay illustrators to produce graphs and charts that will make the circumstance easier for Americans to understand at a glance.  

On top of that, spring is coming early to Alaska and repair work that we set aside "until spring" from the 7.0 Earthquake last fall is coming due. 

So we are doing what Americans do when there is no other option.  We are "passing the hat" and asking those who can contribute, to do so.  Don't agonize. Just send what you reasonably can and as you feel drawn to. 

Our PayPal is: avannavon@gmail.com.   The Snail Mail address is:  Anna Maria Riezinger, c/o Box 520994, Big Lake, Alaska 99652.  

Thank you, all of you, who have made the difference so far possible. 

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March 6, 1933

By Anna Von Reitz

On March 6, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was addressing the Conference of Governors. These "Governors" were not our American Governors. They were elected corporate Franchise Managers of British Territorial organizations operating on our shores as "States of States" like "the State of Vermont".

These British Territorial citizenship organizations had secretively replaced our own American States of States in 1868, using a Similar Names Deceit to do so.

They crept in like Cuckoo Birds and replaced our American State of State doing business as, for example, "The State of Vermont" ---with their British Territorial version doing business as "the State of Vermont" ----and the innocent trusting American People were not told that truth about this at any time.

So, it's 1933, and the same monsters that pulled this fraud on the Americans in 1868 are getting ready to pull another.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is bringing big news to the Franchise Managers calling themselves "Governors". In his own words, "The United States of America [Incorporated] is bankrupt!"

And what do these fake foreign Governors do?

They "pledge" the "good faith and credit" of their "states and the citizenry thereof" --- by which they could only mean their own British Territorial States of States [which are Confederate "States"] and their own British Territorial "United States Citizens".

We've already seen in my Article --- "For All the Jural Assemblies 46 -- No Pledges Ever" --- that pledging is a feudal act of serfs and tenants promising to support their sovereign. It's a peculiarly British thing.

It had nothing to do with us then and it has nothing to do with us now, except that people all over the world assumed that it did. In this way, the schemers set up a false legal presumption and helped themselves to our assets as collateral backing their debts.

This is called "hypothecation of debt" and it is a venal, foreign, patently immoral and unlawful practice.

Being unaware of the First Fraud, Americans were totally unaware of and unprepared for the Second Fraud from our British and Holy Roman Empire Employees.

As a result of what the filthy Brits did in 1868 acting in Gross Breach of Trust, and what they did in 1933, also acting in Gross Breach of Trust, generations of Americans were falsely "presumed" to be United States Citizens---and taxed and abused by the Queen accordingly.

As a further result, their "Persons" and the assets attached to their "Persons" were unlawfully converted from being recognized as Lawful Persons standing on the land and soil of this country to being "presumed to be" Legal Persons operating under the auspices of the British Monarch.

Nobody told us a thing. They all slapped each other on the back and thought that their treason, their breach of trust, their nasty criminal venture, would never be discovered.

The Americans were fast asleep, lulled by deceits and misrepresentations and endless repetitions of the Big Lie that they were free and living in the land of the free, while in fact, their identities were being stolen and their assets were being purloined by foreign interests and they were being robbed blind by their own employees.

So what do you say, Queen Elizabeth II?

You can start with a public apology and admission of guilt. We have the proof of what went on and who benefited from it, down to a gnat's eyelash. All of it. All the pay-offs, all the banks involved.

What do you say, Pope Francis?

You can start with a public apology, too. In some respects, your employees and affiliates were even worse.

These shameful con games and crimes were initiated and carried out by your employees and actual franchises on our shores, all under color of law, all in Gross Breach of Trust and also, breach of commercial contract.

This has been our thanks for supporting Britain in two World Wars, and our thanks for rebuilding Europe. This has been our thanks for giving the Roman Catholic Church tax-free status on our shores.

You both knew what was going on, because you were profiting by it.

We do not intend to keep on talking for another twenty years.

All that correspondence is safely recorded and stowed away and all of it has been scanned into computer records and the thumb drives have been sent out worldwide, ready for distribution.

The full and ugly details of this malfeasance, maliciousness, and criminality will be known all over the world if you don't make haste to make lasting peace with your brothers and bring relief and redress to the people of this country.

Begin by cleaning out the Congress.

Begin by paying your debts.

Begin by making correction and reforming the "US District" and "State of State" courts.

Begin by putting an end to the media circus and propaganda.

We are dealing with the facts, and so must you: Fictio cedit veritati; fictio juris non est, ubi veritas.

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Why Are You Here, Reading This?

By Anna Von Reitz

Many of you are here, because you are in trouble.  Or you are afraid that you will be in trouble in the future.  You see the coercive power of what we call "the government" and you feel the chill when someone says, "FBI" or "IRS".  You can't even drive home from the grocery store without feeling oppressed and afraid of your own employees. 

You are here because you know something is wrong, just like the title of my book: "You Know Something Is Wrong When..... An American Affidavit of Probable Cause".  

You know or have cause to know that whatever you build, whatever you create, can be stolen from you by soul-less corporations and mindless bureaucrats. Even your children can be taken away by these same thugs in nice suits. And that is why you are here---- to learn how things got this bad and what you can do to protect yourself. 

But if you stop there, if you are content with just that much, then you are okay, but "the" problem remains, and it gets worse year by year.  Nothing has really changed. 

How about your children?  None of us last forever.  So you have to teach them.  They have to learn what you learn, so they can protect themselves, too.  Lord knows, the government isn't going to protect them.  The government thinks its job is to protect itself at our expense. 

The government has to learn otherwise. 

We are just a tiny part of the world's population.  It's nice that we are making progress and claiming back our lawful estate, but billions of people are still clueless, still enslaved---- and as long as they are, is anyone safe?  Really?  For how long? 

You see now why you are being empowered and called to lead? 

To make the world safe and sane again, to turn what is upside down right side up.  That's why you are here.  That's why you are all leaders.  

Now, it might not have occurred to you when you started that you were called to do anything more than save yourself from a traffic ticket, and maybe you might not have come, if someone told you --- hey, you! You are going to save this country, and right after that, you are going to save the world! 

But as amazing as that is, that's why you are here. 

That's what you are being called to do: save this beautiful country. Save your countrymen.  And then, reach out and save the world. 

You can do this.  How do I know you can do this?  Because you are here. 

What you learn, you are going to share.  What we do together, you are going to do alone and with other people, until everyone knows what you know.  

If you never thought of yourself as a leader, start thinking of yourself as a leader now. 

Because you are one, a leader, and the change we all need starts here and now, with you.  It starts at your dinner table, your church, and your health club. It starts with your spouse, your children, your best friend, and the guys at work. 

They may not want to hear the bad news, but they will want to hear the good news.  And the good news is that the Americans are back, standing on the land and soil, and not accepting any suppositions otherwise.  

That's good news.  It means that the surreptitious theft of our own identities and the theft of our country and our resources is at an end. 

How do I know that this vicious con game is at an end?  Because you are here, and once you know the truth, you can't "un-know" it.  

You are now in possession of your heritage and you are beginning to learn who you are and how powerful you are.  

You've been told that you are stupid.  

You've been told that you are a "US Citizen". 

You've been told that you are in hopeless debt. 

You've been told that you have to obey your own employees. 

You've been told that you are a tenant on your own land. 

You've been told that you have to take I.O.U.s in exchange for your labor. 

You've been told that you have to take I.O.U.s in exchange for your goods. 

You've been told that your allegiance is pledged to a borrowed flag. 

You've been told that you have to give up over half your earnings to taxes. 

You've been told that the perpetrators of all this are bankrupt. 

You've been told that that THING in DC is "your" government.  

And none of these things are true.  

Day by day from now on, you are going to rise up and restore the American Government you are owed.  And so will I do the same.  And so will those we teach and inspire to know what freedom is and how our government and the rest of the world is supposed to operate. 

Being misinformed, being purposefully misrepresented and defrauded, is not a matter of stupidity or politics.  It's a matter of premeditated crime.  

The reason you will push yourself outside your Comfort Zone and begin talking to people about these things ---- even those people who don't want to hear --- is because you want this to be a good, safe, and decent country again, for your own sake, for the sake of our children, and for the good of the whole world. 

That's why you, even the least of you, are going to be leaders.  

That's why you are here, reading this. 

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A little dust-up at Rumor Mill News

By Anna Von Reitz

Editors note:  We were contacted by one of the people at Rumor Mill News and offered the opportunity to respond to the following:  https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=120675
Here is Anna's response.
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The FBI, or more likely, the military, may very well be controlling the Michigan General Jural Assembly activities as a Controlled Opposition Operation --- trying to get us to form a "State of State" for their use and then gloss it over and pretend that its a "State" without explaining to anyone that it is only euphemistically a "State" as in "Confederate State". 

All the States of the Confederation were States of States ----- commercial corporations created to conduct commercial business for the States of the Federation.   "Federation and Con -Federation" equals "Unincorporated States of the Union and Incorporated States of States belonging to the States of the Union".   All the Territorial and Municipal States of States are Confederate "States" in the same sense. 

In my contacts with the Michigan General Jural Assembly (MGJA)  I was told at one point that the principle organizer, a man named Robert, had affiliation with General Douglas MacArthur's Staff.  MacArthur, of course, presided over the disaster in which the Japanese gained access to our gold stored in the Philippines. Robert made the right noises and shared some worthwhile insights, so I believed that MGJA was on the right track.  

Only later did I find out that they were including "US Citizens" as members and at that point, I addressed the problem. Just as I had tried to warn the Colorado Nine, I explained that "US Citizens" can't form an assembly for an actual geographically defined State, and if they do, they will be trespassing into our lawful jurisdiction and nothing they do will have any validity.  They will just get in trouble.  

The Federal Corporations both Territorial and Municipal allow for Dual Citizenship, but our States of the Union never have.  It is literally impossible for a US Citizen owing a citizenship obligation to the Federal Corporations to assemble one of our States.  At most, they can organize a Territorial or Municipal Confederate "State" ---- a State of State to operate as a commercial instrumentality of an actual State. 

I assume from Robert's associations that their intent was to create a new Territorial State of State to replace the existing structure ---- and therein lies the rub from the perspective of the existing incorporated Service Providers.  They have their own employees and "citizens" ---- either United States Citizens (Territorials) or Citizens of the United States (Municipals) creating new, competing franchises, new States of States that undermine the position of the existing States of States. 

That's how these groups get into so much trouble and are accused of being in "insurrection" and so forth.  It would be like working as an employee for Pepsi and at the same time, organizing production of Coca-Cola, or being a manager at Hormel while promoting Smithfield hams.  

There's an intrinsic conflict of interest that in political terms is interpreted as "insurrection" or even treason.  

If this is carried over into the kinds of activities that some of these groups have engaged in like forming "Committees of Safety" and acting like they are at war with their own employees, stockpiling weapons and "making contingency plans" and all that sort of thing, then it is not just talking or not liking your employer, it's taking shape as some kind of physical conflict among "US Citizens" ---a Civil War---  that serves nobody's best interests, including ours --- the actual States and People's. 

The British Territorial Corporation is under contract to protect this country and its people, so from that standpoint also, such activities on the part of "US Citizens" is not acceptable. 

So the British Territorials are obligated to crack down on such activities both in terms of "insurrection" against them and also "international terrorism" against us, the American States and People. 

The horrible irony is, of course, that most of these people are just innocent Americans, were never actually "US Citizens" of either stripe, and they are just trying to restore their lawful government without knowing how their lawful government is constructed nor how it is supposed to work nor how their own political status has been converted, so that before they can even begin to work on their lawful government's problems, they have to correct their own political status records. 

In order to restore our lawful unincorporated government, we have to act as unincorporated Lawful Persons --- as American State Nationals and American State Citizens standing on the land and soil of this country.  But thanks to FDR, we have all been "presumed" to be operating as Legal Persons and as "US Citizens" since 1933.  

It takes action on our parts to sever those legal presumptions and to correct the false registrations that have been concocted in support of those legal presumptions.  

What is so tough about this is that Americans have been indoctrinated to think of themselves as "US Citizens" and taught to accept that as their identity, when the vast majority of us have either (1) never actually been US Citizens, never had a federal job or been dependent on the federal government; or (2) were in the military for a couple years and honorably discharged and been under no obligation of US Citizenship since then--- but were never told and failed to recognize the fact that Americans are not "naturally" US Citizens.  

We are naturally American State Nationals.  American State Nationals and American State Citizens are owed all the Treaties and the guarantees of the Constitutions.  Our States are Parties to the Constitutions ---- "US Citizens" of both stripes, Territorial and Municipal --- are "presumed to be" just employees, foreigners, Brits or others, charged with providing the services our States agreed to receive. 

American State Nationals and State Citizens are the Landlords, the Owner-Operators, and US Citizens are Hired Help.  

That's why we can enforce the Constitutions and we can form up and assemble our actual States, but US Citizens cannot.  This is why we can access the guarantees and protections of the Constitutions and they cannot.  

And that is why it is absolutely necessary for people who are only "presumed to be" US Citizens--- all of us who are not actually military or Federal Civilian employees or dependents----  to do the paperwork and officially "return" from any presumed "US Citizenship" BEFORE assembling.  

State Nationals and State Citizens are guaranteed the right to peaceably assemble, but US Citizens of either kind have no such rights or guarantees, because they are operating in a different jurisdiction and capacity.  

I just posted an Article that explains the difference between living people, Lawful Persons (known collectively as People)  Legal Persons, and incorporated LEGAL PERSONS. 

As terribly as I have been misrepresented, misquoted, and deliberately slandered and libeled, I earnestly desire that innocent people wake up and avoid harm.  It's like the Prophet Amos said --- "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.".  Let the knowledge come.  Let it be spread, explained, understood, followed, so that none of the victims of this "System" come to more harm.  

The admonition to be "Wise as serpents and gentle as doves" was made for this time in history.  We must learn the knowledge of the "serpents" and use it against them, while remaining as gentle and peaceable as doves.  

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For All The Jural Assemblies 46 -- No Pledges Ever

By Anna Von Reitz

We all grew up being exposed to "The Pledge of Allegiance" as schoolchildren.  We were indoctrinated from an early age to mindlessly recite something without knowing what it really meant.  

Start with the fact that a "Pledge" is a Feudal Oath given by a Serf or Tenant to a sovereign, promising "allegiance" another word from the feudal relationship vocabulary, subjecting yourself to the sovereign and promising to support and protect the sovereign.  

And what was standing in the "sovereign" position in "The Pledge of Allegiance"? 

The flag of something calling itself "the United States of America" --- they just didn't bother to tell anyone which United States of America.  

Most Americans have been kept from ever knowing that there are many different variations of both "United States" and "United States of America" and yes, it does matter which one you are talking about.  

There is the unincorporated version of The United States which refers to the sovereign soil jurisdiction State Republics and their "Union" formed in 1776, and there is the unincorporated version of The United States of America, our Holding Company formed September 9, 1776, which refers to the sovereign International Land Jurisdiction of the unincorporated States of the Union.  

These are the two entities that Americans naturally think of when someone says, "United States" or "United States of America", but in addition to these unincorporated entities that hold the land and soil jurisdictions of our country, there are other incorporated entities that are supposed to work for our States and People.  

These include two other "kinds" of United States and United States of America that operate in the Municipal jurisdiction of the the Holy Roman Empire and the International Jurisdiction of the Sea, respectively.  

These incorporated versions are "doing business names" of foreign corporations that are on our shores, purportedly to provide specified governmental services under the provisions of their respective Constitutions. 

Their "United States" which is actually "the United States, Inc." is run by the members of the Territorial Congress acting as the government of the Washington, DC Municipality, which is an independent international city state like Vatican City and the Inner City of London known as Westminster and more recently, New York City and the United Nations have made bold to become ---without our permission, separate international governments standing on the land and soil of New York.  

Time for the People of New York to wake up and put these Freebooters in their place, but that's another story.  

Right now, just take in the fact that "United States" in this context means the Municipal Government being run by the members of Congress as a "plenary oligarchy" that is only supposed to operate and exist within the ten miles square of the District of Columbia.  [Article I, Section 8, Clause 17]  

Also take note that when this version of incorporated foreign "United States" is being referenced, the definite article associated with it is not capitalized and not part of the name.  That is, our actual government's Proper Name is "The United States", while their strictly limited foreign Municipal government providing services "in our names" is "the" United States.  

The same sort of confusion occurs with "the" United States of America, which refers to the British Territorial service providers under contract to our States.  In the same way, the Proper Name of our unincorporated version is "The United States of America" and "The" is both capitalized and part of the name.  Their foreign incorporated version --- again --- is "the" United States of America. 

So when we look at their "Pledge of Allegiance" what do we see?  Which "United States of America" is being referenced?  Ours or the British version? 

We already know that a "Pledge" is a Feudal Oath and we know our Founders weren't into Feudalism, so we should not be surprised to observe that the Queen's subjects are pledging themselves to "the" United States of America via their Pledge of Allegiance to the Queen and the British Territorial corporation doing business as "the" United States of America. 

Read it and weep:  

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America" ---- this is the war flag of the British Territorial Commercial Corporation doing business "in our name" --- the United States of America, Inc. 

"and to the Republic for which it stands" -----   we got a passing mention and a presumed Dual Citizenship obligation thrown in.  

"one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" ---- and the problem with this is?   (1) It isn't clear which "God" we are subjecting ourselves to; (2) they are just subcontractors and we owe them no more loyalty than they show us; (3) we, Americans, enjoy freedom, not "liberty" which is what British sailors get when they arrive in ports of call.  

As you can see, pledging is a British thing.  It has nothing to do with us, our American Government, or any natural obligation we have as Americans. 

Americans don't do pledges because we are sovereigns in our own right, and pledging to a foreign sovereign obligates us to serve them instead of serving our own sovereignty. 

So we never, ever, under any circumstance make "pledges" to anyone or anything, including the flag being flown "for" us by a British Territorial Corporation.  

Think of the insanity of what is being employed against us?  A living man subjects himself to an inanimate symbol like a flag?  Can you think of a worse form of idolatry?  

This innocent-sounding "pledge" disrespects all three major western religions. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all forbid the worship of idols. 

Yet, here we have had generations of clueless American schoolchildren -- and adults, too--- pledging their lives and substance to an inanimate object, an idol,  being used under contract by a British Territorial Commercial Corporation as a war flag.  

Needless to say, this venal and undisclosed practice of "pledging" has to stop and it has to be known and repudiated by any and every thinking man and woman in this country.  

No sentient Christian, Jew, or Muslim can ever take such a pledge, nor should they.  

If you do knowingly ever take a "pledge" of any kind, be aware that whatever you are "pledging" is encumbered and that whatever you are "pledging to" becomes the ruler over you.  

Do you want to be ruled over by a war flag being borrowed from our actual government by a British Territorial Commercial Company operating out of Puerto Rico under Spanish Law and calling itself "the United States of America"?  

Didn't think so, but had to ask, because that is what happens when you recite "The Pledge of Allegiance".  

Much of what we have been told in Public Schools across America and also taught to accept and to do, is wrong, or a half truth, or a sin by omission leading us to make wrong assumptions to our detriment.  

This is just one particularly evil example of betrayal of our trust. 

As American State Jural Assembly members we never take pledges.  We operate in our capacity as Lawful Persons and the only sovereign State we serve is our own.  

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It Is Simple, Mr. Trump

By Anna Von Reitz

Return our National Credit to us, which is your National Debt. 

That will cancel that portion of the Debt, set you free of it, and let us all get on with our lives. 

Because we never received the equitable payment we were owed it became a debt for the US and a credit for the actual States and People. 

Via discredited unconscionable contracts and false claims the United States has contrived to deny the American States and People the credit and other assets we are owed. 

The United States, Inc. and the United States of America, Inc, have both lied through their teeth to prevent us from accessing and claiming what we are simply owed as the actual landlords of this country. 

The fraud and the deceits are discovered.  There is no way for Washington or London or Rome to hide it anymore. 

So move our National Credit off the books of the DOD and give it back to The United States of America--- the unincorporated version, because We and our States are Parties to the Constitution and we earned it all. 

Tell the Queen and Pope Francis that we are back home, alive and well, and not pleased by this ongoing stalemate and avoidance of the facts. 

We are also displeased by the scandalous abuse of our banking system, most especially the abuse documented at HSBC by John Cruz and the abuse of Attorney Escrow Accounts and especially the abuse of our identities and personal data by these banks to create phony debt, phony tax claims, and to launder money. 

These abuses must stop and these banks and securities corporations must be brought to bay, even if it means a military take-over and nationalization of the banks and securities industries under the auspices of our lawful restored American Government. 

Please note that our States are competent to enforce the Constitutions and to act independently in trade or commerce with or without appointing new Federal-level States of States. 

That is, the absence of Federal entities exercising delegated powers in no way hinders the delegators of those powers from exercising those same powers in our own behalf. 

It's time we all had a frank and honest conversation about these issues.  May we suggest that Lancaster County in Pennsylvania is neutral ground, centrally located, and lovely this time of year? 

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Why So MUCH Confusion?

By Anna Von Reitz

I have said this simply and repeated it often:

The only kind of "State" a "US Citizen" can form is a Confederate State.  All Confederate States are in fact Commercial Corporations that operate as States of States. 

So when you have "US Citizens" running around forming "State" Assemblies, this actually and factually means that they are forming "State of State" Assemblies--and new commercial corporations. 

And what does such a new "State of State" compete with? ---The established State of State organizations.  

This is why the Federales rightly consider such US Persons to be in "insurrection" against their States of States. 

There is no way to create a new Territorial State of State or Municipal STATE OF STATE without being in competition against the ones that exist already.  

Likewise, US Citizens can't reconstruct the missing Federal States of States.  Why not? 

Because only the actual States can recharter those organizations. That is our job. 

The actual States are the employers of the States of States, so not only are the States of States not threatened by the return of their employers, they have nothing to say about their employer's peaceable process of Assembly, which is guaranteed under the Constitution to the States and the People.  

But in order to be owed these guarantees and to assemble a lawful State we must be operating as Lawful People and adopting no duty or responsibility but that of State Nationals and State Citizens. 

The States and People who are the employers of the States of States are not in competition with them and not even in the same jurisdiction with them, so it is impossible to claim that we, Americans, are in any way operating in insurrection against our own government or acting in competition with or in insurrection against any State of State or franchise belonging to the Territorial or Municipal United States Government 

We occupy our own sphere as they are also obligated to inhabit their own. 

So now, hopefully, you can all clearly see why it is a big No-No and a crime for anyone acting as a US Citizen to form a competing State of State--- they already owe their loyalty to the existing corporations. 

Hopefully it is also clear why American State Citizens engaged in assembling an actual State are working on a whole different level and under constitutional guarantees to assemble the States that in fact employ the States of States. 

We aren't in competition with or even acting in the same jurisdiction as any state of state commercial corporation. 

Those of you who have followed my instructions and done and recorded your paperwork are in this second group of "Assemblies" -----forming a lawful Assembly engaged in manifesting a sovereign unincorporated State of the Union as one of the People of this great country, owed every jot of the constitutional guarantees--including the right to peaceably assemble.

Those who refuse to do the paper work and make the proper Declarations remain US Citizens ---and US Citizens are not protected nor enabled to participate in any assembly process. 

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Montana Governor Steve Bullock Moves Toward Gun Control

Bullock wants to be President, and he thinks he has nothing to lose by now  coming out of the closet on gun control. Just another sleazy politician who hid his real views from the people who elected him and now does whatever is expedient to get himself elected. Can anyone spell BACKFIRE.



Found here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74I8O9hLzpM

Dana Loesch on Montana Governor Steve Bullock's move toward gun control: "It's a typical, slimy, unprincipled, political move. It's so swamp. And the worst part: Democrats will let him get away with it, so long as he kisses all the right anti-gun rings." —Dana Loesch

You are going to crash and burn over this one in Montana Mr. Bullock. You might just as well leave the state right now. You have committed political suicide in Montana.
Paul Stramer