The Many Substitution Scams -- Final and Official Version

 By Anna Von Reitz

An earlier draft of this transmission was sent yesterday by mistake.  This is the Final and Official text being forwarded today, April 24th 2023. 

Information provided to H.E. Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court in regard to our Claims, March 5th 2005, January 19th 2023, in seq:

The same Perpetrators who put Abraham Lincoln up for election as "a" President instead of The President owed to this country have also practiced a wide range of other substitution schemes of the same kind, applied to other things. 

In addition to having the Presidents of foreign Municipal Corporations substituted for the Presidents of our unincorporated sovereign government organizations, we have had a glittering array of false Confederations and false Federations, too.  

Just because something is called a Confederation or a Federation does not mean that it is "The" Confederation  or "The" Federation that we all think of. The same way the Perpetrators substituted "a" President for The President, they have substituted "a" Confederation for The Confederation and "a" Federation for The Federation and "a" Union for The Union. 

Our national level government which represents the joined soil jurisdictions of all our states acting together is The Union of our nation states.  

But notice, that during the Civil War, the same words, "the Union" were applied to the alliance of northern States of States (former members of The Confederation formed in 1781) and the British Territorial Municipal Subcontractors doing business as the United States of America, Inc. 

The only thing that gives us a clue that The Union isn't the same thing as the Union is the capitalization of the definite article, "The" --- and if people know nothing about English Grammar and Proper Names, they will pass right over that important difference and assume that The Union of our nation states fought in The  American Civil War. 

Both The Union and the Federation decried the violence and wanted to do what other countries did to end slavery --- buy the slaves at public expense, and set them free.  Abraham Lincoln insinuated himself into position as "a" President, and the British-run Municipal Corporation Subcontractor that he actually represented got its way by deceit. 

Individual men and women from the States participated in the so-called Civil War, but knowingly or unknowingly, they did so as mercenaries enlisted by States of States which, then and now,  are all business organizations functioning as contractors/service vendors of the actual States.  

What these States of States and their British Territorial Allies did--- the promotion of war for profit despite later efforts to dignify it as a fight to end slavery --- was not allowed nor condoned by any service contract we had with them. 

We note the results: the privately owned slaves were redefined as slaves owned by the public. The original slave owners were robbed and defrauded and the new slave owners acting as False Trustees of the public property profited themselves via the scam.  

The actual organic States remained neutral, their soldiers and civilian population uncommitted to either side. The entire conflict remained a Mercenary Conflict between rival business interests from beginning to end.  

This is how things get confused --- a combination of ignorance, duplicity, and false assumptions.  

People who don't know the difference between States and States of States are easily misled, a little undisclosed duplicity and a misnomer or two, like calling the Civil War Mercenary Conflict "the War Between the States" has the public making wrong assumptions both about the nature of the conflict and who the combatants were.  

Just as there are many constitutions all over the world, and not just our Federal Constitutions, there are many foreign Federations and Confederations, too, but so long as people remain unaware of this, it's easy to confuse them and pull the same old trick, substituting "a" Federation or "a" Confederation for The Federation of States or The Confederation of States of States referenced in our history. 

For example --- a Scottish Municipal Corporation booted up in 1868 ---this was a foreign commercial corporation merely calling itself "The United States of America".  It omitted the word "Incorporated" from its literature and so hid the fact of its nature as a commercial corporation.  Using this deceit by omission, it substituted itself for our Federation of States.  It also declared itself to be a Federation of States, with two very important and undisclosed differences. 

(1) The Scottish Interloper was a British Territorial Municipal Corporation in no way related to, much less the same as, our unincorporated American Federation of States.  They impersonated our unincorporated Federation of States, infringed on our venerable trademarks,  and hid their status as a foreign incorporated entity in order to gain unauthorized access to our credit---- in exactly the same way as a modern day credit card hacker impersonates their victims and pretends to be the owner of the account. 

(2) The Scottish Interloper also misrepresented the nature of the "member States" in their Federation.   Our Federation's members are all organic States with physical substance.  Their Federation's members were all incorporated franchises operated as Territorial States of States.  So not only were the members of their Federation not States, but they were incorporated franchises of the parent Municipal Corporation, having no independence of their own.  They used another semantic deceit to hide this from the public: "States of States" are also called "Confederate States" so they simply omitted the word "Confederate" and pretended that their "States" were the same as our States. 

Their deceit and the substitution of their foreign corporation impersonating our unincorporated Federation of States was premeditated, as reflected in the 1864 Act of Parliament known as the Naval Agency and Distributions Act. Their adoption of incorporated status allowed them to go bankrupt in 1907 at public expense, however, the wrong "public" was charged for it.  The American Public was charged for it, instead of the Scottish Government responsible. 

We still struggle with this kind of fraud. There is a corporation housed in India that is using our name to front yet another impersonation scheme as we write this, and there is still nothing in international parlance to prevent this kind of infringement and national-level identity theft.  Perhaps the Indian Government would like it if we sent Agents to Japan, set up a Municipal Corporation "in their name" and impersonated their Government? Then borrowed their credit under False Pretenses? 

We wish for a global and permanent ban on this kind of activity and enforcement by the global community against the Perpetrators, both organizational Perpetrators and individuals. 

We wish for universal understanding of the fact that sovereign governments can never be incorporated.  Sovereign governments can charter corporations and those corporations can "incorporate" franchises. This process does not work in reverse. So also, it is impossible for sovereign governments to go bankrupt.  

The Scottish Interlopers even set up an extra "Constitution" for themselves, the so-called Corporate Constitution published in 1868 to expedite the rest of their fraud. 

They published a copy of what they called The Constitution of the United States of America with three tiny alterations, and redefined this document to serve in a completely different jurisdiction of the law.  As everyone knows, our Constitutions are the Law of the Land, but these consummate schemers contrived to make it the Law of the Sea with no Public Notice or Disclosure. 

The "Articles" were now taken to be Articles of Incorporation and the "Amendments" were redefined as By-Law Amendments that didn't need any ratification by the actual States. 

The members of the Territorial Congress were also redefined and were no longer operating as Fiduciary Deputies owing good faith service to the people of this country; they were now operating as proxies and "representatives" elected by the shareholders of their corporation, the Scottish entity doing business as The United States of America, Incorporated. 

We are sometimes asked -- why Scotland?  Who would ever suspect Scotland of being involved in something so unimaginable ---- a national-level identity theft scheme? 

The answer is actually written upon the entire history of Scotland as a Maritime Government and member of the Admiralty.  The preponderance of the most famous Bar Attorneys have always come from Scotland, and it is entirely predictable that this unlawful conversion and impersonation scheme would arise in Scotland and be promoted by the Government of Westminster and the British (Imperial, as in Roman) Crown Corporation headquartered in the Inner City of London. 

These institutions and their Municipal Corporations have been the hot-bed of every kind of bank fraud and criminal misuse of military power imaginable ever since their Templar Forefathers set up their forward bases as independent international city-state enclaves in the 1100s; embedded like cancerous tumors in the surrounding body politic, these enclaves operate under foreign law and perverse assumptions beneficial to themselves alone, and require separate treaties among nations --- which they don't hesitate to break, as in this case.   

The banks, members of this perverse and hidden "City Government",  knew and did nothing to protect their American depositor's identities, assets or credit, thereby becoming knowing and willing accomplices to these crimes --- and still liable for them. 

The fraud and the impersonation and the substitution schemes are wide and deep, with foreign incorporated entities pretending to be unincorporated American organizations, substituting their "Presidents" for our President, our State of State organizations for their Territorial and Municipal State of State organizations, their Federations of Confederate "States" for our Federation of organic States, their Confederations of foreign State of State franchises for our Confederation of States of States, and they even managed to an extent, to obscure the nature of the Federal Republic, as a separate business entity operated by the States of America.

As recently as last year, Donald Trump, the President of the British Territorial Municipal Corporation Subcontractor, was offering to occupy our assumed-to-be vacant Federal Republic for us.  We declined the offer and observed that as our Government is in Session, the Federal Republic is occupied by our Federation of States, which is fully competent to exercise all the powers that were delegated to our American Federal Subcontractor doing business as the States of America.  

This pattern of British-instigated deceit and usurpation runs throughout all of these events impacting our country and all the other victims of what we shall call the "Territorial Occupation Scheme" by which Undeclared British Agents have acted in Breach of Trust and Commercial Service Contracts to establish illegal military occupation of friendly nations.  They simply came in the guise of friends and public servants providing services as known and trusted vendors, and then clandestinely substituted their corporation's administration of the nation's military for the natural administration of the military by the national government.  

Think of this as a giant unlawful conversion scheme by the Municipal Corporations against the national governments of friendly nations throughout the world, allowing those responsible to establish illegal coercive and practical control over the military forces of entire countries.  This is how a British-run Municipal Corporation, SERCO, became the Paymaster for the United States Military.  This is how the Great White Fleet established a foreign military administration over Australia's Armed Forces without firing a shot.  These takeovers are hidden in plain sight with no disclosure given to the public and no lawful authority for any of it.  

It is all completely unlawful substitution and unlawful conversion of assets and empowerments of national governments by foreign Municipal Corporation Subcontractors acting as Employees that are in Gross Breach of Trust and acting in violation of their actual Service Contracts -- the land jurisdiction Constitutions that allow these Municipal Corporations access to our shores, and in our case, even define the basis for the existence and structure of these same entities. 

The one thing that all these substitution scams have in common is that they strive to substitute European imposters operating outside their natural jurisdiction for our American government organizations and they deliberately seek to confuse their organizations and offices and even their elections with ours.  

Billions of dollars are now poured into and wasted on private Municipal Corporation elections that have been deceitfully substituted in the public eye for our public elections; this inordinate emphasis on electing undisclosed proxy-holders and foreign corporation officers is a reflection of the wealth and power these jokers obtain as our purported "representatives". 

We wish for the world to realize these people do not represent us in the capacities that they have merely assumed in the same sense that a character might assume a role in a play.  They have no authority vested in them to assume our Public Offices or pretend to assume our Public Offices, and as we have seen, they do not operate under the required Oaths of Office --- so they well and truly are pretending to be American Government officials when they are not actually operating in any such capacity.  

The only actual offices these Pretenders have, are as British Territorial or City-based Municipal Corporation "officers" having no more actual power or authority than the similar officers running General Motors Company, Inc. / GMC or International Business Machines, Inc. / IBM, and so on. These characters, as in characters in a book, have been operating under color of law and illegally and unlawfully abusing the powers of government for their own unjust commercial advantage and unjust enrichment.  

We wish for people everywhere to realize the conditions of deceit and manipulation and violence that the American People have lived under at the hands of these criminal Municipal Corporation "Service Providers" for over 150 years.  

All the hatred and invective misaddressed to "the Americans" needs to be focused on these foreign Municipal Corporations that have hijacked  administrative functions of our government and purloined authorities never vested in them.  They, not we, have engaged in the endless promotion of wars for profit and the practice of attacking and bullying and coercing other countries and other nations. They, not we, have acted as False Friends and Predators.  They, not we, have promoted False Flag events and False Claims, such as the "weapons of mass destruction" claims made against Iraq by then-President George W. Bush.  

These foreign Municipal Corporations, hired as Service Vendors,  have abused our Good Names and assets for their own unjust enrichment, and have unleashed a Culture of Crime on our shores and have imposed a form of Corporate Feudalism on dozens of countries that have been similarly defrauded and misrepresented.  Via their non-consensual administrative meddling and false claims of debt, they have insinuated themselves into positions of power never granted to them and all the worst of it stems from Britain and British Banks and British Insurers and Underwriters. 

America has been used as a giant sock puppet by these unscrupulous and criminal elements, which have by turns terrified us and terrified the rest of the world.  These are the actual Terrorists we are all fighting --- men in very nice tweed suits and their hirelings, undermining entire national governments for the glory of England and Rome.  We do not consider acts of pernicious deceit and premeditated commercial crime against loyal allies, employers, and friendly nations to be a glory of any kind. 

We also do not consider this a political issue of any kind.  Everything that we are describing herein and throughout our presentation  lands squarely in the category of commercial crime, breach of contract, Breach of Trust, fraud of various kinds, and inland piracy.  

We have identified the head of the snake insofar as actual implementation goes, and it comes down to the operators of the United States of America Corporation, the City-operated Municipal Corporation Subcontractor doing business as the DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, also called "the DOD" or "PENTAGON", SERCO, and their specific groups of franchise operations doing business as the FBI, DOJ, CIA, DHS, FEMA, BATF and so on.  These Subcontractors have gone completely rogue and have liberally used their franchises as "Agencies" to attack their own Employers as well as billions of innocent civilians worldwide who have been impacted by the so-called Covid-19 Pandemic, a genocidal theft of property interest in our DNA, truthfully called a "live exercise" by former U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.  

Once again, we see the "dead baby scam" in operation with more deceitful misrepresentation of people, both alive and dead, as property assets subject to the ownership of these villains.  The Perpetrators don't care if people live or die, so long as they somehow -- officially or unofficially -- inject their patented mRNA into our natural genome, thereby securing a rationale for their claims to have both a public trust interest and a private trust interest in our assets and estates when we die, and a patent-holder interest while we live.  

The entire Covid-19 Hoax was designed to inject these patented scraps of mRNA into as many people as possible, regardless of the consequences to the victims, so that the Perpetrators could continue to control the estates of the victims and assert an undisclosed patent claim on them as long as they lived.  

This criminal assault against billions of innocent civilians, treating billions of people like cattle, tagging them like animals even in their graves so that their estates can be unlawfully, illegally and immorally seized upon --- this entire spectacle of genocide at the point of a needle held by an undisclosed Uniformed Officer, reeks of the cowardice, mental illness and corruption of those people and institutions responsible.

We wish for the end of all public protection afforded to these criminal  Municipal Corporations and their officers, franchises, and agents -- including bankruptcy protection and the benefits of the corporate veil.

We wish for the revocation of all licenses issued to these Municipal Corporations, their Officers, and their Agents  under color of law, including but not limited to  Letters of Marque, Privateer Licenses issued as Bar Cards, Bar Numbers, and Bar Account Codes, Pocket Commissions issued to IRS, FBI, CIA, BATF and other Undeclared Foreign Agents, and all so-called "licenses to kill" issued to any and all police or military or mercenary forces that have been in this country, unknowingly working for franchises of these offending Municipal Corporations.

We wish for the end of all Pretenses of War among the Municipal Corporation Employees that have been allowed to stay here under the provisions of The Residence Act, and an end to any presumption that these Municipal Corporations serve us in any custodial or fiduciary capacity not explicitly and specifically granted to them as an organic law, treaty obligation, or delegated power specifically entrusted to them. 

We wish for the forfeiture of the colluding banks that have acted as expediters and accomplices to these crimes against their Primary Depositors and Preferential Creditors, and the return of all public assets to the care of the lawful national governments and the return of all private assets to the people to whom these assets naturally belong. 

We wish for everyone to know that our property assets, including but not limited to the DNA of our people, and all other assets in all jurisdictions that naturally belong to our people and our lawful government are not abandoned and our claim to our assets is not compromised by all the false undisclosed registrations and other self-interested fraud schemes that have attempted to steal our identity and unlawfully convert our political status and standing. 

The confusion that has resulted from all these substitution schemes is daunting, as are the name changes and same names applied to different things during different years.  We do not underestimate the difficulties that all these issues cause for people who are trying to make sense of the convoluted and deliberately obfuscated facts.  

What it comes down to is this: our States never participated in the so-called American Civil War, which was an undeclared, illegal Mercenary Conflict from the start.  

There is no Declaration of War from our Congress related to The American Civil War. 

There is no Muster Roll from any State, only States of States.  

There is no Peace Treaty ending this Mercenary Conflict, only a contractual obligation established by three Public Declarations made by Territorial President Andrew Johnson guaranteeing Peace on the Land.

We are the inheritors of these Peace Declarations and contractual guarantees, grandfathered-in since 1866. The Territorial military owes us The Law of Peace and has owed us that continuously and regardless of any other circumstance or controversy.  

It is our position that regardless of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's reopening of hostilities between the two Municipal Corporation Subcontractors in 1933, both those Parties resolved their differences by collusion when they signed The Declaration of Interdependence of the Governments in The United States in 1937.   

Our population is owed exemption from any suspicion or maltreatment or harassment or presumption of debt and also owed all constitutional guarantees and services we are heir to since 1866; and the Employees and Agents of the Municipal Corporation Subcontractors are contractually bound together as a cooperative entity since 1937.

Our position is that both the offending Municipal Corporation Subcontractors are ultimately owned by the same Principals regardless of who operates them, so our claims are directly addressed to the Principals responsible and we bypass any illusion otherwise.  

We wish for the end of all efforts to construct a modern form of Corporate Feudalism as a world government and the arrest of anyone affiliated with any Municipal Corporation still promoting this so-called agenda against the interests of our lawful national governments. 

We have seen corporate feudalism and have no need to see it again. 

It has not escaped our notice that Rome operated under a form of corporate feudalism that garnered both power and corruption until the entire artifice imploded under the outrage of the Visigoths. Lack of conscience, lack of moral principle, and lack of respect for law, the institutionalized evils of gambling, slavery, trading upon assets that belong to others, bribes, rigged commodity markets, trade under coercion, public trust schemes, identity theft, false trusteeships, currency, bond and bankruptcy fraud, counterfeiting and racketeering are nothing new.  

We do not need to be exposed to any of these things ever again. 

We wish for the complete dismemberment of the named Municipal Corporations and franchises as the implementers of this whole vast crime spree and also for the dismemberment of the WEF and UN which have provided large sums of money, credit, and other kinds of support to this crime spree by Municipal Corporations seeking to administratively and covertly undermine the lawful national governments. 

We wish for the banks that have enabled and promoted these schemes as accomplices and planners to be placed under the appropriate regulatory control of our Public Law and prosecuted accordingly. 

We wish for the land and soil assets of all those countries that have been impacted by these horrific crimes and conditions to be secured and returned to the lawful national governments and to the individual people they naturally belong to.  

As much as possible, we wish for the victims of these crimes to immediately inherit the assets, credit, land, and profits of these criminal persons and organizations, and for the accountable national governments to resume control without any reference to any continuance of any kind of war whatsoever. 

We especially wish for the dismemberment and retraining of the city-operated Municipal Corporation functioning as the CIA.  This organization has been used as a pivotal part of the entire crime scheme and needs to be taken apart department by department, 

All members of the CIA  and FBI organizations must be retrained and repurposed and taken out of positions of trust, as they have been engaged in criminal pursuits for so long that an endemic culture of crime has been solidified within their ranks. The practice of lying to themselves, to their employers, and to the public has become institutionalized.  Such an organization is of no use, because it has lost all moral compass and no longer knows the difference between truth and lies. The result of this condition is insanity.  

These forms of corruption have been seen before in the history of our world, and we have no need to see them take their predictable course of destruction again.  

 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

                 The United States of America

                 In care of: Box 520994

                 Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 23rd 2023 

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Co-Option of Public Functions

 By Anna Von Reitz

Information provided to H.E. Cardinal Mamberti and the Vatican Chancery Court in regard to our Claims, March 5th 2005, January 19th 2023, in seq:

This part of The Great Fraud began in the years immediately following the so-called American Civil War, and was one of the self-serving actions undertaken by the Robber Barons who were building the railroads at that time. 

Many groups of outlaws haunted the American West, including but not limited to roaming bands of former Union and Confederate soldiers and gangs of professional gunslingers and cattle rustlers and, of course, train robbers.  

The Railroad Barons used their influence over the Territorial Congress to secure new laws allowing them to hire private subcontractors, specifically, Pinkerton Detective Agency subcontractors, to ride the privately owned railroads at public expense.  

The Pinkerton agents worked as private security personnel under the direction of the Railroad Barons, but their services were paid for out of the public purse. This first "public-private partnership" served as an example for many other and considerably worse abuses and transgressions against the natural barrier between the public functions of government and private corporate self-interest. 

The Railroad Corporations, all operating as District of Columbia Municipal Corporation franchises, immediately benefited from shifting the cost of security personnel onto the backs of the General Public, yet maintained control over those security personnel and were able to direct them however the corporation's management chose.  From T.E. Harriman's standpoint, it was the best of both worlds: private security forces at public expense.

We note that the Territorial Congress had no authority to create public-private partnerships to benefit their cronies and franchise operators, yet this practice has proliferated and continued non-consensually for over a hundred years, with no disclosure to the General Public and the State Citizen Principals.

Over time, the Municipal Corporations housed in the District of Columbia have used various means of deceit and operations under color of law to unlawfully convert our County and State Peacekeeping forces into private Law Enforcement Services under the same scheme.  These are private security services employed by Municipal corporation franchises pretending to be or to "represent" our County Governments and State Governments. 

As such, all the so-called "State Police" and "State Troopers" and "County Sheriffs" operating as Law Enforcement Officers are in the same status as any other private security personnel hired by corporations to guard warehouses or collect rents.  

These so-called  "Public Law Enforcement Officers" thus have no public office, no public authority, no public bond, no public oath, no knowledge of public law and no actual public duty; their only connection to the public is their paycheck and equipment allowance, which we pay for.  Otherwise, they take their orders from corporation managers who take their orders from a foreign state-of-state legislature acting as the Board of Directors for a Municipal Corporation franchise, e.g., the State of Arkansas.  

This is not a conjecture.  The circumstance has been affirmed by numerous court rulings in which we, the General Public, have been informed that the police on our payrolls have no obligation to protect us, nor to prevent crime, nor to protect public buildings. 

Apparently, the purpose of all these Law Enforcement Officers is to act as private security personnel paid for at public expense--- and often, they are used as thugs carrying out unlawful revenue collections and confiscations of property in violation of the Public and International Law and Articles IV and VI of every Federal Constitution. 

We wish for all these Municipal Corporation franchises, together with all their assets, to be lawfully converted into public ownership and placed under the direction of the unincorporated State Government preserved by our State Assemblies.  

We wish for all Law Enforcement Officers to be re-trained as Public Peacekeeping Officers, directed by and accountable to their actual Employers. 

We have already visited the "Prisons for Profit" schemes in which these Municipal Corporation franchises operating as, for example, "the State of New York", build a new prison facility with public funds, staff it with Law Enforcement Officers also paid for with public funds, then, go out and arrests members of our General Public, mischaracterizes and impersonates them, then brings them to private self-interested  corporation tribunals, incarcerates them, and then charges the public purse another amount between $6000 and $20,000 a day for keeping them locked up.  

We wish for all persons who have their origin in one of the nation states of The United States, who are not Federal Employees, who have been convicted of non-violent crimes, code infractions, and other regulatory offenses, to be released. 

We wish for these prisons-for-profit, child protection agencies, and other organizations involved in arresting, detaining, impounding, or otherwise obstructing the movements of our persons and our trade in violation of Article IV and VI of all three Federal Constitutions, especially those organizations that are operating as public-private partnerships, to be audited and evaluated for benefit to the General Public of this country. 

Those organizations and public private partnerships found to be lacking substantial benefit to the General Public, those criminally negligent or criminally self-interested, need to be dissolved and their assets returned to the lawful government as part of the reparations owed to the living people of this country. 

We wish for the direct administration of all the Municipal Corporation franchises, including but not limited to all police and law enforcement functions, to be returned to the living people populating each nation state of the Union. 

Issued by: Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary

                  The United States of America

                  In care of: Box 520994

                  Big Lake, Alaska 99652

April 23rd 2023

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It’s Inevitable: American Patriots Need Guns Because a War Is Coming

 

by Brandon Smith 

 April 22, 2023 in Crime and Guns, News and Opinions

Should the actions of a handful of criminals be used as an excuse to take away the rights of millions of innocent people? Any reasonable person would say no, but when it comes to gun related violence the standards of logic tend to go out the window. There are many government officials that view each major shooting as a gift – They believe that tragedies are political capital, a tool for leveraging away our freedoms.

In many cases of mass murder in the US the first inclination of the corporate media and the political left has been to rush to conclusions. They immediately blame conservative political motivations for the attacks, while also blaming our 2^nd Amendment rights in general. If the shooter turns out to be anti-conservative or doesn’t fit the racial mold, they simply stop reporting the story. The agenda is obvious – To paint conservative men as a dangerous monolith plaguing the rest of society.

Why do they pursue this particular narrative, though?

Perhaps because, statistically speaking, conservative (and libertarian) men are the predominant group keeping authoritarians at bay. The government attacks us because they are afraid of us, and they are afraid of us for a reason.  It’s not about what we are doing, it’s about what we could do if they cross the line into accelerated tyranny, and this is on the verge of happening.

We came within a razor’s edge of war during the covid mandates. If Biden had got what he wanted with his vaccine passport executive order, the country would have erupted into conflict. Many Americans have no clue how close we were. Understand that no country, including the US, is immune to rebellion, and such events tend to escalate quickly.

Leftists often envision their own rebellion as a sort of modern French Revolution in which mobs march the streets and rule the day as heads roll in the town square. They believe their “righteousness” is a shield from harm. But this kind of mob intimidation only works within societies that still respect the rule of law. Leftist insurgencies use a nation’s freedoms and laws against them by saying “You can’t touch us because your principles prevent you…”

US patriots have no such delusions. We know that when it comes to corrupt governments, principles and the rule of law go out the window very quickly if their power is legitimately threatened. Leftists can exploit mob actions, invade government buildings and burn cities to the ground because the government ALLOWS them to. When we do the same thing? Well…how many years now have we heard the word “insurrection” over a single protest on January 6^th 2021?

The strategies of the leftists cannot be our strategies because government protections apply to them and not to us. This double standard is leaving constitutional Americans with few options, and the hypocrisy is getting worse by the day. As I write this, Joe Biden is calling for an “assault weapons” ban over a shooting perpetrated by a transgender lunatic acting on her political motivations.  We used to call that terrorism. Instead, the White House is throwing their full support behind trans activist movements and blaming firearms for the deaths instead of the shooter’s twisted beliefs.

Numerous mass murder events have been perpetrated by people indoctrinated into the leftist fold. I would usually be the first to look at the psychological triggers for a shooter, rather than pure political motivation. But, more and more, it appears that the political left is creating the very monsters we now see targeting specific groups. And in each scenario, the media argues that these tragedies were STILL caused by conservative policies. For example:

1) On November 21^st 2021, Darrell Brooks jumped into his SUV and deliberately drove it through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 60 other people, including children and the elderly. He is cited on numerous social media posts supporting BLM related arguments and anti-white arguments. Some BLM activists took to social media to defend Brooks’ actions, and suggested that his act of mass murder was the “beginning of a revolution.”

At first, the media denied any race related motives or political motives for the attack. When Brooks’ comments were made public, they went silent. Suddenly, no one in the media was talking about the Waukesha Massacre anymore, and those that did talk about it argued that it was actually the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse (a young man who acted in self defense against an attacking mob) that justified the actions of Brooks.

2) On November 19^th 2022, Anderson Aldrich entered a gay club in Colorado Springs called ‘Club Q’ and opened fire, killing 5 and injuring dozens of others. The immediate response by the media and the political left was to accuse conservatives of encouraging the crime and encouraging “hatred against the LGBT community.” Yet, when details finally emerged it became clear that the shooter identified as “non-binary” and had been a regular visitor to the club.

Once again, the media went utterly silent and the deaths at Club Q disappeared from the radar. When a mass murder event is not useful for leftists to push their agenda, they no longer care.

3) Then there was the recent mass shooting in Nashville at The Covenant school, a private Christian institution. Audrey Hale, a biological female trans activist, entered the school with a Keltec rifle that fires pistol rounds and killed 6 people, including 3 children. Hale reportedly left behind a “manifesto” which authorities have yet to release (Gee, I wonder why?), but going by her social media activity it is likely that she was politically motivated by Tennessee’s legislation against gender bending surgeries for children as well as bans against sexualized drag shows for minors.

Leftists and the media have aggressively tried to spin Hale’s attack as a gun control issue rather than what it is – Political terrorism.

4) Finally, we have the attack in Louisville, Kentucky at Old National Bank by a man named Connor Sturgeon, an employee of the bank that was about to be laid off who killed five colleagues while livestreaming the incident. Sturgeon has the look that the media likes (tall, young white man) but not the proper politics. Sturgeon’s social media history including his Reddit posts indicate he was a rabid leftist.

Using the pronouns He/Him, Sturgeon posted numerous anti-Trump and anti-NRA memes and rants, as well as pro-covid lockdown comments. There has in fact been a widespread effort by many platforms to scrub his comments from their pages as quickly as possible. In one group chat message, Sturgeon reportedly sent photos that included the statement “They won’t listen to words or protests, let’s see if they hear this…”

Media discussion on the Old National Bank shooting evaporated within a couple days, the fastest I think I have ever seen a story get buried.  I could list may other ideologically inclined attacks by verified leftists, but I think you get the idea.  Are there shooters with anti-leftist views?  A few, but they don’t receive protection from the media and the government like leftist attackers do.

Beyond the issue of directed attacks there is also the issue of overall violence in America. The vast majority of violent crime in the US occurs in Democrat run cities. This is a fact.  Data shows that 27 of the top 30 most violent cities in America are run by Democrat governments, including the cities with the most homicides. Fourteen of those cities also have Soros-backed prosecutors. This trend has been ongoing for years.

The problem is not guns, nor is it conservatives. Conservative towns are some of the safest places in America for the exact reason that there are guns everywhere in the hands of law abiding citizens. What the stats show is a trend that directly relates to a particular ideology – The leftist ideology (and by extension Globalism). Without leftists and leftist policies crime would plummet in the US. The more leftist extremism and globalism spreads the worse things get from generation to generation.

The inevitable outcome is war.

To be sure, there are peaceful means to delay conflict, such as separation or “national divorce.” This is already happening. Millions of Americans tired of leftist policies, taxes, mandates, bureaucracy, crime and cultism have left blue cities and blue states, and many millions more who have the means will leave in the near future.

There will come a point, however, when leftists and establishment elites will try to stop this separation from continuing. If they let people leave they then have to admit their ideology is failing, and that’s not an option for them. They will extort Americans into the society THEY want.  History shows us that when a population is disarmed the worst atrocities unfold.  The Soviet purge of millions of citizens through gun confiscation and then food confiscation is just one example that people should study before joining any anti-gun bandwagon.

One can easily see where this is going. The establishment will try to use force to make us submit to their system and we will not let them. That’s when the shooting starts. If we consider the problem from this perspective it makes perfect sense that these people are rabidly chasing after gun bans today. They know a war is about to happen because they know they are about to start one. And, they know there is a chance they will lose the fight should Americans remain armed. They’re afraid for a reason; they’re afraid of losing.

Second Sunday After Easter

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

Because of the joyous Resurrection of Christ, and the graces flowing to us on account of it, the Church sings at the Introit of the Mass:

INTROIT The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord, alleluia; by the word of the Lord the heavens were established, alleluia, alleluia. Rejoice in the Lord, ye just: praise becometh the upright. (Ps. XXII.) 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 O God, who in the humility of Thy Son hast raised up a fallen world; grant to Thy faithful a perpetual joyfulness; that whereas Thou hast rescued them from the perils of eternal death, Thou mayest bring them to the fruition of everlasting joy. 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 (I Pet II. 21‑25.) Dearly beloved, Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Who, when he was reviled, did not revile; when he suffered, he threatened not; but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly; who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed. For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

EXPLANATION St. Peter teaches the Christians patience in misery and afflictions, even in unjust persecution, and for this purpose places before them the example of Christ who, though most innocent, suffered most terribly and most patiently. Are we true sheep of the good Shepherd if at the smallest cross, at every word, we become angry and impatient?

ASPIRATION O Lord Jesus! grant me the grace to follow Thee, my good Shepherd, and not to complain and make threats whenever I am reprimanded, reviled or persecuted for justice sake.

GOSPEL (John X. 11-16.) At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth; and the wolf catcheth and scattereth the sheep: and the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling, and he bath no care for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and mine know me. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for my sheep. And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

How has Christ proved Himself a good Shepherd?

By sacrificing His life even for His enemies, for those who did not yet love Him, (I John IV. 10; Rom. V. 8.) and could not reward Him. He has besides given Himself to us for our food.

How are we to know if we are among the sheep of Christ, that is, His chosen ones?

If we listen willingly to the voice of the Shepherd in sermons and instructions, in spiritual books and conversations; are obedient to it, and especially give ear and follow the rules of the Church through which the Good Shepherd speaks to us, (Luke X. 16.) "for he," says St. Augustine, “who has not the Church for his mother, will not have God for his father;" if we gladly receive the food of the Good Shepherd, that is, His sacred Body and Blood in holy Communion; if we are patient and meek as a lamb, freely forgiving our enemies; if we love all men from our heart, do good to them, and seek to bring them to Jesus.

Who are the other sheep of Christ?

The Gentiles who were not of the fold of Israel, whom Christ sought to bring by His disciples, and now by their successors; into His fold. To these sheep we also belonged by our ancestors. O how grateful we should be to God, that He has brought us into the fold of His Church, and how diligently should we conduct ourselves as good sheep!

When will there be but one fold and one shepherd?

When, by the prayers of the Church and by her missionaries, all nations shall be converted to the only saving Church, constituting then one Church under one head. Let us pray that this may soon come to pass.

PRAYER O Lord Jesus! Thou Good Shepherd who on the cross didst give Thy life for Thy sheep, grant us, we beseech Thee, by Thy death, the grace to be faithful to Thy voice and teachings like obedient lambs that we may one day be numbered among Thy chosen ones in heaven.

INSTRUCTION ON HOPE
I lay down my life for my sheep. (John X. 15.)

What has Christ obtained for us by His death?

The remission of our sins, the grace to lead a life pleasing to God in this world, and eternal happiness in the next, for which we now firmly hope, with secure confidence may now expect, and most assuredly will obtain, if we do not fail on our part.

In what does eternal happiness consist?

In the beatific vision of God, which includes the most perfect love of Him, by which those who are saved become, as it were, one with Him, possessing in this union everything that they can possibly desire.

What are the necessary means of obtaining eternal happiness?

The grace of God, that is, His continual assistance; the practice of the three divine virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity; the keeping of God's commandments; the frequent use of the holy Sacraments, and constant prayer. These means must be diligently employed, for "God who", as St. Augustine says, created us without us, will not save us without us," that is, without our cooperation.

What may especially enable us to hope for eternal happiness?

The infinite mercy and goodness of God, who from all eternity has loved us more than an earthly mother, and. because of this love did not even spare His only-begotten Son, but gave Him up, for our sake, to the most bitter death. Will He then deny us heaven, He who in giving us His Son, has given us more than heaven itself? The fidelity of God: He has so often promised us eternal happiness, and in so many texts of Scripture so clearly explained that He wishes us to be saved, that He must keep His promise, for He is eternal truth and cannot deceive. (Heb. VI. 18.) He says not yes today, and no tomorrow, there is no change in Him, nor shadow of alteration. (James I, 17.) The omnipotence of God, who can do all that He pleases, whom no one can oppose or prevent from doing what He will; if we have confidence in a rich and honest man who assures us he will assist us in need, how much more should we hope in the goodness, fidelity, and omnipotence of God!

When should we make an act of Hope?

As soon as we come to the use of reason and, are sufficiently instructed concerning this virtue and its motives; in time of trouble or of severe temptation against this virtue; when receiving the holy Sacraments; every morning and evening, and especially at the hour of death.

The same thing is to be observed in regard to acts of Faith and Love.