Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost

 Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's

The Church's Year

The Introit of the Mass is a fervent prayer; which may be said in every necessity and adversity:

INTROIT Bow down thine ear, O Lord; to me, and hear me: save thy servant, O my God, that hopeth in thee: have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all the day. Give joy to the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, I have lifted up my soul. (Ps. IXXXV.) Glory etc.

COLLECT Let Thy continued pity, O Lord, cleanse and defend Thy Church: and because without Thee it cannot abide in safety, govern it ever by Thy gift. Thro'.

EPISTLE (Gal. V. 25, 26.; vi. I-Io.) Brethren, If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be made desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so you shall fulfil the law of Christ. For if any man think himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every one prove his own work, and so he shall have glory in himself only, and not in another. For every one shall bear his own burden. And let him that is instructed in the word, communicate to him that instructeth him, in all good things. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And in doing good, let us not fail: for in due time we shall reap, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of the faith.

EXPLANATION This epistle is taken, like that of the Sunday before last, from the epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians, in which St. Paul shows them the insufficiency of the Jewish law, and that they can only be saved by a lively faith in Christ, but now he admonishes them to the performance of good works. You now live, he tells them, in the Spirit, that is, the Holy Ghost animates your heart by His grace, enlightens, confirms, and inflames you, admonishes and teaches you, impels your heart to do good; you must, therefore, also regulate your external conduct accordingly, and in particular devote yourself to the practice of humility and charity, as the foundations of a truly spiritual life. Humility must teach and move you to think little of yourself, to avoid vain glory, and not to confide in your own strength. But charity should impel you to be meek and compassionate to all, even sinners, to correct them charitably, and lead them back to the path of virtue; since he who is harsh to the erring, despises and treats them roughly, is often permitted by God to fall into the same, nay, even into greater sins.

Particularly you must show your charity one for another, that one bears the burdens of the other: that you bear the faults and imperfections of others just as patiently as you wish others to bear with your own imperfections; thus you will fulfil the law of Christ, which commands us to love our neighbor; you will prevent many sins which are occasioned by considering yourself perfect, raising yourself above others, criticizing their failings, and causing disturbance. True glory consists in knowing ourselves, our faults and evil inclinations, and in eradicating them. Be grateful to those who instruct you in the word of God, and give to them willingly of your earthly possessions. What you sow, you shall reap; if you only follow the dictates of the flesh, do not mortify yourself, do not correct your failings, and indulge your sinful appetites, you will one day reap death, destruction and damnation, whereas, on the contrary, if you follow the dictates of the Holy Ghost, you will reap of the Spirit of life.

Let us obey this doctrine, for it is of interest to us, and impress deeply on our heart that without mortification of body and soul we cannot be saved.

ASPIRATION. O. St. Paul! beg of God the grace for me, that I may always walk in humility, and the love of my neighbor, particularly in bearing with his imperfections and failings, and thus fulfil the law of Christ in this as in all things.

GOSPEL (Luke VII. 11-16.) At that time, Jesus went into a city called Naim: and there went with him his disciples, and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold a dead man was carried out, the only, son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a great, multitude of the city was with her. Whom when the Lord had seen, being moved with mercy towards her, said to her: Weep not. And he came near, and touched the bier. And they that carried it stood still. And he said: Young man, I say to thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up,. and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all; and they glorified God, saying: A great prophet is risen up amongst us, and God hath visited his people.

Why did Christ show compassion to this widow?

To convince us that God takes sorrowful and destitute widows under His protection; and is to them a consoler and helper; and to teach us to do the same. Woe, therefore, to those who oppress them and cause them to weep. The tears and cries of widows will ascend to God, who will terribly punish the injuries inflicted upon them. (Exod xxii. 22. 23.)

Christ had still other reasons for compassion, for He saw in this deceased youth the death of sinners, and in the afflicted mother the pain which the Church experiences at the spiritual loss of so many of her children. Should this not also awaken our sympathy since it wad the principal cause which moved our Saviour to compassion. I£ we are faithful children of our mother, the Church, it is impossible for us not to share her sorrow, and we would surely not be her children, if we could contemplate without sorrow the multitude who daily die the death of sin, and thus separated from the living body of Christ, hasten to eternal destruction. O let us with the Church unceasingly, ask Jesus, that He raise sinners from their spiritual death, enlighten those in error so that all recognize the truth, find, and walk the path Which leads to life !

Why did Christ say to the widow: Weep not?

He wished to moderate her excessive sorrow, and to teach us that we should not mourn for the loss of our relatives, like the heathens who have no hope of resurrection to eternal life. (Thess. iv. I a.) Resignation to the will of God, with prayer and good works, will be of more use to the dead than many tears.

What else do we learn from this gospel?

That no one, however young and healthy, will escape death, wherefore we should always be prepared to die.

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING DEATH

IF there were locked up in prison several hundred persons, on whom sentence of death had irrevocably been pronounced, yet who knew not the day or hour of their execution; if one after the other, and often he who least expected it, were taken out to be executed; would not each one's heart tremble, whenever the prison door opened? Now the irrevocable sentence of death is pronounced on us all; we are all locked up in our bodies, as in a prison; (Ps. cxiv. 8.) one after the other is called hence, yet we do not regard it. We live as though we could live forever; we think only of the body, but for the soul nothing is done, except that we load it with sins and vices.

Is this rational? The body will be food for worms, but the soul (without knowing when) will travel into the house of eternity, to which place she must bring treasures of good works, in order to live happy for ever. Who would, therefore, be so foolish as to care only for the body during life, and neglect the salvation of the soul?

O man, says St. Francis of Sales, (Phil. part. i. chap. 13.) represent to yourself in lively colors, that at your death the world will cease to exist with respect to you. In that last hour the pleasures, the vanities, the riches, the honors, the friendships, and all that was dear to you, will disappear before your eyes as so many shadows. O fool that I am! you will then say, for what trifles and fooleries have I lost all! On the contrary, piety, good works, penance, etc., will appear pleasant to you, and you will exclaim: O, why did I not travel on this blessed road? Then the sins which you now consider as mere trifles, will seem to you like mountains, and all that you thought you had accomplished as, great things, with regard to piety, will seem to you very little.

What terrible fear will then seize your soul, when she must travel alone into the bottomless abyss of eternity which, as St. Bernard says, devours all possible, imaginable ages, and of which St. Gregory says, that we can easier say what it is not than what it is. What terrors will befall her, when she must appear before the tribunal of that God whom she never really loved and honored in her life-time and before whom she must now give the strictest account, and hear an irrevocable and just sentence!

Should not these thoughts make an impression upon you? How can you escape this terrible future? By living now, as you would wish to have lived at the hour of death. Die daily with St. Paul by crucifying the flesh and its lusts and by voluntarily withdrawing your heart from the world, its pomps and vanities, before death will do this by violence.

RESOLUTION O world! because I cannot know the hour, in which I must leave you, I will not be attached to you. O you dear friends and relatives, you, too, I will in future love only with a holy inclination, directed to God, which will not cease with death, but remain forever. O Lord! help me, that I may die totally to myself and the world, and live only for Thee, and partake of eternal happiness.

INSTRUCTION ON THE CEREMONIES USED AT FUNERALS
Behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother, and a great multitude of the city was with her. (Luke vii. 12.)

OF these people who accompanied the funeral of the youth, we should learn to pay the last honors to the dead, and follow their bodies to the grave. This is a meritorious work, one pleasing to God, if it be not performed from vanity and self-interest, but for love of God and the deceased, with the charitable intention of assisting him by prayers. Therefore those do very wrong, who from worldly motives either omit this good work entirely, or during the funeral procession indulge in idle talk and deny the deceased even a short prayer.

Why is a cross carried before the corpse?

By this is indicated that the deceased during life professed Christ, died believing in Him, and hoping for resurrection through Him.

Why are lighted candles carried before the bier?

To represent the desire of the Church that the deceased through the grace of God may be received into eternal light. This custom is very ancient; wax-candles and torches, together with prayer and great solemnity were made use of at the burial of St. Cyprian who was beheaded for Christ's sake, in the year 258 after Christ. (Ruinart.)

Why are the coffin and the grave sprinkled with holy water?

In order, as St. Thomas of Aquin (Lib. iii. art. 21.) remarks, to implore God, on account of the prayers which the Church says when she blesses the water, that the souls of the faithful may be cleansed from all stains, and may receive consolation and refreshment in the tortures which they may still have to suffer.

Why are the body and the grave incensed?

By this the Church indicates that the deceased by his Christian vocation was a good odor of Christ, (ii Cor. ii. 14, 15.) and admonishes the faithful that their prayers should ascend like incense to heaven for the deceased.

Why are Psalms and other sacred canticles sung?

This is done to remind us of the teaching of St. Paul, (i Thess iv. 12.) not to be excessively sorrowful for the loss of the deceased, like the heathens who have no hope of eternal life. We also signify, thereby, that we congratulate the dead for the peace which they now enjoy. (Apoc. xiv. 13.) This custom, as St. Jerome shows, (Ep. 53.) is derived from the apostles, who interred St. Stephen, singing Psalms and hymns of praise.

Why are the bells rung?

To invite the faithful to the funeral and to pray for the dead who, during lifetime, was called very often by the same bells, prayed with and for us during religious worship, and who is not separated from us by death.

Why art the bodies of the faithful buried with the head towards the East, and those of the priests towards the West?

The faithful are buried towards the East, whence the sun rises, to indicate, that they are waiting for Christ who is called the Orient from on High, (Luke i. 78.) and whose voice they will hear at the end of the world, when He calls them to the resurrection; the priests towards the West, as a sign that on the day of judgment they will be placed opposite to the souls confided to them, to give an account of their charge and to bear judgment for or against them.

Why is a cross or monument erected aver the grave?

To show that the deceased was a follower of Christ, the Crucified, to admonish the passers-by to pray for him, and to remind us of the solemn moment of death.

Why is the body laid in consecrated ground?

This is done through reverence for the bodies of the dead which are, by baptism, temples of the Holy Ghost; to show that, even in death, they still belong to the communion of that holy Church, in which they were embodied during life by baptism, and to which they clung in faith even until death; to inspire the surviving with a holy fear lest they profane graves.

Why is the solemn funeral service of the Church denied to heretics?

Because they would not belong to the Church during life, and despised the holy customs and prayers of the Church for the dead. How should the blessing and prayer of the Church be useful in death to one who despised them during life.

Why does not the Church permit criminals and suicides to be buried on consecrated ground?

In order to express her horror for the crimes perpetrated by them, and to deter the faithful from committing similar actions.

1851: Freemasonry, Postal Union, and the Undermining of National Sovereignty

 By Anna Von Reitz

Please note that sea treaties, bank treaties, and postal union treaties do not equal and are not sufficient in lieu of land jurisdiction treaties.  

And see for yourselves the sleight of hand that the Freemasons and others employed in the annexation of Hawaii: 

https://www.bitchute.com/video/jBXE0B2obPdk/

What happened in Hawaii was to serve as a template for similar chicanery worldwide. 

This little video posted above is a very important  snippet giving you insight into the workings used to collapse National Governments into the status of Territorial Governments, via the use of deceit and collusion benefitting municipal and commercial interests. 

In 1851, the Successors to the Holy Roman Empire Constitutional Contract, that is, The Constitution of the United States, proposed that they be allowed to use their long-habituated Latin grammar conventions for the conduct of their business operations, instead of English--- even though English is our Official Language. 

In view of what was already happening in Hawaii and elsewhere, this change in how names of government entities were styled must be viewed with considerable skepticism. 

The change in language conventions created as many confusions as it solved; most importantly, a fundamental change between the official English name of this country: The United States, and the official Municipal name of this country: the United States, was encouraged, seeming to justify an assumption that two (2) countries exist.    

Indeed, it has been precisely that confusion that has been employed to promote the foreign Municipal Corporation and its internal government "as if" it was the civilian government of this country.   

Up until 1851 the words "the United States" could apply to the original states of the Union formed in 1776, its Municipal Subcontractors formed in 1790, the American Federal Republic Subcontractor formed in 1787, or the country itself.  

After 1851, the name of the country appeared in proper English as The United States, while all the Subcontractors and the original Union continued to be referred to, variously, according to context, as "the United States". 

This set the stage for impersonating the Union as the Subcontractors, and for the Subcontractors to impersonate each other.  

The same exact words: "the United States" --could refer to the original 1776 coalition, the 1787 American Republic Subcontractor, or the 1790 Holy Roman Empire Subcontractor and also its successors. 

All this then led to a change in Postal Addresses and ultimately to the creation of no less than seven (7) Postmaster Offices within the Postal Union. 

Please note that the Post Office (Post Master) is separate from the Postal Union (Postmaster)  and the Postal Service is part of the Postal Union. 

Please note that the Postal Union is organized as a Guild in the ancient European Guild System.

Please note that the Freemasons are organized as Guild in the ancient European Guild System. 

Please Note that the Bar Associations are organized as a Guild in the ancient European Guild System. 

Also note that the American Labor Unions act as guilds in the same way as the Guild System in Europe. 

The various "Unions" are all complicit in The Great Fraud in one way or another, and they all started out advocating the rights and needs of the individuals and workers as opposed to the power of the various oppressive Monarchs and their Bureaucrats and the Roman Catholic Church and its hierarchy. 

When you imagine the Freemasons as a sort of spiritual Labor Union, its role and association with all the various other Unions makes sense, and so does the affiliation of such patriot luminaries as Geo. Washington and Benjamin Franklin with the Freemasons.  

Unfortunately, what started out as an endeavor to free mankind one individual at a time from the oppression of Monarchs, Church hierarchies, religious superstitions, ignorance, enslavement, involuntary peonage, immorality, poverty, and other evils --- also more-or-less devolved into a criminal operation, too. 

The unions have stood as middlemen in a "war" between labor and management and management has stood as a middleman with respect to the actual corporate owners, too.  

Think of it as a continuum: 

Worker -- Labor Union -- Management -- Owners

With "Labor Union" and "Management" both acting as Middlemen for the actual Parties of Interest, and both being able to sell out their respective subscribers, it is inevitable that Bad Faith would occur over time.  

This is exactly the sort of "double play" we see in the annexation of Hawaii under the influence of the Secret Societies --- the King and Queen both being Freemasons, and their former kingdom being unlawfully converted by another Secret Society membership, the Bar Associations

In this case, think of the continuum being: 

Hawaiians -- Freemason King -- Bar Association -- British Crown. 

The Freemasons operating the Postal Union and the Bar Association colluded to rip off the interests of the actual owners, the Hawaiian people, for their own benefit and the benefit of the British Crown Corp. 

There was a lot more skullduggery involved, but it was all skullduggery, and most importantly, it was all undertaken without the knowledge or consent of the actual owners, by people with an only custodial interest in the property.  

Can a Custodian sell the property of the Heirs?  Can a king billing himself as a Christian King also operate as a Freemason without disclosure?  Can a Commonwealth dependent on the largesse of the Pope and the King present itself as a sovereign and independent Kingdom or State? 

The answers are no, no, and no --- but in order to come to these conclusions, one must perceive the fraud and deceit "mistaking" a Kingdom or a Free State as a Commonwealth, before it can be decried and overturned.  

This is similar to the present situation in England where the former Queen pulled a Bait and Switch, promising to act as a Christian Monarch and then immediately abdicating in favor of an Imperial Crown. 

In this case, the Freemason King abdicated in favor of an undisclosed British Territorial State of State. 

Hawaii has never operated in the capacity that everyone assumed. It has been formally enrolled as an American State of the Union for almost three years, but has never actually functioned with the true powers of a sovereign State of the Union.  

The British Territorial Officers who are honor bound to return the land and assets of Hawaii to the Hawaiian people under the provisions of the Northwest Ordinance are still dragging their feet.

Many of the people of Hawaii, like Americans in general, are confused and frustrated and fed up with the criminal misadministration they have suffered at the hands of the "American Raj" --- meaning the British Territorial military government that has been occupying our States in breach of trust since 1861.  

The most recent and terrible tragedy on Maui has only underscored the cruelty, criminal dereliction of duty, and breach of trust, that these municipal corporation entities, like DOD and FEMA,  have practiced under color of law against the members of our General Public.  

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SERCO and DOD at the Bottom of the Dog Pile

 By Anna Von Reitz

I am reposting this information from Sasha Latypova and Karen Kingston, because under all the detailed and provable information, a very simple truth hides. 

We have been deeply injured by Municipal and Commercial Corporations acting as government service providers and these organizations have been allowed to run amok by those responsible for their existence, administration, and discipline. 

The entire Covid disaster to our economy and our health and our world was engineered primarily by Municipal Government officials, specifically by SERCO, aka, Senior Executive Service, and DOD, aka, Department of Defense.  

And these major players need to be liquidated for their ongoing role in promoting genocide, fraud under color of law, and promoting war for profit, otherwise known as war profiteering. They are among those corporations that have been named and identified for the Vatican Chancery Court for liquidation under Ecclesiastical Law.  

Additional long term offenders include Bayer-Monsanto, Eli Lilly, and I.G. Farben, Inc. These giant drug and pharmaceutical corporations have been instrumental in genocide ever since the First World War and for the health and safety of the planet need to be liquidated.  

Please take the time to read the following thoughtful and very well-documented research Memo regarding the nuts and bolts legislation and administrative support that resulted in the implementation of a "health program" that has killed millions.  Then review the Cutter incident regarding Polio Vaccine and the cancer connection to Simian SV-40 (Monkey) based vaccine components. 

We do hold the Principals and the Agents accountable for these trespasses upon our Public Law and the economic and social damage these corporations have inflicted on our country and the world. 

Reposted from Baileywick News:

Memorandum Issued in December 2022 from Satya Latypova and Karen Kingston: 

 MEMORANDUM

IN RE: Evidence of Covid-19 Regulatory Failures, Criminal Wrongdoing and Attempts to Avoid Liability by Senior Executive Service Officials in Multiple Federal Agencies

Americans were misled about all Covid-19 “countermeasures,” including those products marketed as “vaccines.”  Covid policy was managed by the National Security Council (NSC) acting on war footing and countermeasures were contracted for by the Department of Defense (DoD) and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) without any effective regulatory oversight at any stage along the process. 

The activities passing as “regulatory processes” appear to have been fraudulent attempts to create color of law and avoid liability for what were clearly criminal acts.  These multiple overlapping and mutually reinforcing violations of federal law have imposed serious harms on the American people, including severe injury and death.

Fact pattern background:

• Under Stafford Act authority, President Trump declared a Public Health Emergency (PHE) on March 13, 2020 (Stafford Act, P.L. 93-288 as amended). 

• Under a PHE, medical “countermeasures” are not regulated or safeguarded as normal pharmaceutical products (21 USC 360bbb-3(k).[1]

• According to Operation Warp Speed / Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) reports, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) directed, oversaw and managed the development, manufacture and distribution of nearly all Covid countermeasures,[2] largely utilizing DoD’s previously established network of military contractors and consortia.[3] 

• DoD, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contracted for Covid countermeasures, including “vaccines,” as “prototype demonstrations” of “large-scale manufacturing.”[4]

• These agencies avoided nearly all relevant legal and transparency requirements by using Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contracts.[5]

• Although the DoD/BARDA contracts refer to “safety and efficacy requirements” and mention cGMP compliance, these items are explicitly carved out as not being paid for or ordered by the U.S. Government.

• The contracts for countermeasures include a liability shield for manufacturers and contractors along the supply and distribution chains, under the PREP Act. 

• As prototypes under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) during a PHE, Covid countermeasures need not comply with laws governing clinical trials, manufacturing quality, safety or labeling (21 USC 360bbb-3(k)).  The result: we have a chaotic mess of everything from sham injections that may be mostly just saline all the way to extremely dangerous/deadly shots, all of which are being distributed under the same product brands and labels.[6]

• The underlying FDA authorizations and approvals under EUA statutory authority and Investigational New Drug regulatory frameworks all violated drug safety laws governing clinical trials, product labeling, product serialization, importation, product distribution, product quality control testing, dispensing and other parts of the national drug supply oversight system.[7]

The implications of the above can not be overstated.  Senior Executive Service officials within the U.S. Government authorized and funded the deployment of noncompliant biological materials on Americans and others without clarifying their “prototype” and “large scale demonstration” legal status, making the materials not subject to normal regulatory oversight, all while knowingly and willfully maintaining a fraudulent pseudo-“regulatory” presentation to the public. 

These materials have harmed and killed and continue to harm and kill Americans and other people around the world.

The Covid countermeasures deployment program has been partially coordinated through the Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise and via several other public, private, hybrid and quasi-governmental entities, including but not limited to: the FDA’s Medical Countermeasures Initiative (MCMi); BARDA; and the Medical Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear [CBRN] Defense Consortium (MCDC).[8]

Six primary enabling statutes include[9]:

• Title 21 – Federal Food and Drugs Act, at §360bbb et seq, “Expanded access to unapproved therapies and diagnostics,” as established in 1997;

• Title 42 – Public Health Service Act, at §247d et seq, “Public health emergencies,” as established in 1983;

• Title 42 – Public Health Service Act, at §300hh et seq, “National All-Hazards Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies,” as established in 2002;

• Title 42 – Public Health Service Act, at §300aa-1 et seq, “Vaccines,” as established in 1986;

• Title 10 – Armed Forces Act, at §4021 et seq, “Research projects: transactions other than contracts and grants,” as established for DoD use for “prototype” contracting in 2015;

• Title 50, Chapter 32, §1511 et seq, “Chemical and Biological Warfare,” as established in 1969.

Enclosed are detailed summaries and background supporting documentation of the clinical trial, manufacturing and contracting violations, as well as the legal histories of statutes, regulations and executive orders that have attempted to grant “color of law” to this misconduct, which is likely responsible for millions of injuries and deaths.

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These references and source documents are found in the linked data file at the beginning of the article.

[1] 21 USC 360bbb-3(k): use of EUA-covered medical countermeasure (MCM) products, once designated as such by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (March 10, 2020, retroactive to February 4, 2020) “shall not be considered to constitute a clinical investigation.” 

[2] See “VRBPAC-10.22.20-Meeting-Presentation-COVID19-Vaccine-Development-Portfolio.pdf” in Attachment for EXHIBIT 2.

[3] See EXHIBIT 2, p. 7-11.

[4] See a sample of DOD/BARDA contracts for countermeasures in Attachment to EXHIBIT 2. 

[5] See “2020.06.29 KEI Brief on OTA KEI-Briefing-OTA-29june2020” in Attachment to EXHIBIT 2.

[6] See EXHIBIT 1 and Attachments.

[7] See EXHIBIT 1 and attachments.

[8] 42 USC 300hh-10a. PHEMCE membership shall include: (1) The Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; (2) The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; (3) The Director of the National Institutes of Health; (4) The Commissioner of Food and Drugs; (5) The Secretary of Defense; (6) The Secretary of Homeland Security; (7) The Secretary of Agriculture; (8) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs; (9) The Director of National Intelligence; (10) Representatives of any other Federal agency, which may include the Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the Director of the Strategic National Stockpile, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the Director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, as the [HHS] Secretary determines appropriate.

[9] For legal history see EXHIBIT 3.

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People Who Constantly Complain

 By Anna Von Reitz

We all know them: the Complainers. 

No matter what it is, no matter how innocuous the activity, there is always someone complaining.  

The hot dogs were overcooked.  The hot dogs were undercooked-- watch out for food poisoning!  You know what goes into a hot dog? And on and on and on.  

They can turn a simple picnic into a nightmare.

Imagine what they can do when they are really motivated and unleashed?  

And go pro? 

They learn how to turn their complaining into an art, which they use to blame others and distract attention from themselves.  

Like the little kid who says, "My dog ate my homework!"--- their object is not merely to complain about the circumstance, presenting themselves (and usually their listeners) as victims, but to blame someone or something else. 

These people are habituated to complain, and complain and complain.  If they don't hit pay dirt with one subject, they will go on and try to find another. 

And through it all, they evince no shred of self-responsibility. 

It never seems to occur to them that they have two hands and two feet. 

Complainers start complaining because they: (1) feel powerless, and (2) give themselves no responsibility and nothing to do as a result. 

They just sit on the sidelines of life like unofficial volunteer referees, and never actually play the game they are griping about.  They are too afraid.  If they tried to do anything, they could be blamed for it.  

Out of their crippledness, they cripple others.  And in their bitterness, they blame others.  This happens even though the source of their problem -- an overbearing parent, sibling, teacher or other caregiver, is long gone.  

Someone in their personal past made them feel useless and helpless, and prevented them from taking action in their own right, so all they could do was sit on the sidelines and critique whatever other people were doing. 

Decades later, having never progressed beyond this immature condition, they are still on the sidelines of life, calling attention to any faux pas made by others and feeling their way toward "political correctness". 

To them, political correctness represents safety. If they are politically correct, they can't be criticized.  Even better, having defined what is politically correct according to their own opinions, they have a basis of controlling others and making everyone lock-step and provide them with security, attention, and approval.  

Which is what they really crave.  

Pathetic and immature and irresponsible as this behavior is, and as common as it is, you would think that the rest of us would recognize it and develop countermeasures to deal with it, but what happens instead, is that our Parent Reflex kicks in, and we react like Mama and Papa Robin, faced with a squawking Baby Bird. 

We chase around and try to fulfill their needs in a vain attempt to satisfy them.  We listen patiently.  We try to deliver what they say they need, but they are never content.  Nothing is ever good enough, pure enough, right enough or obvious enough for them. 

The Will to Complain can go way beyond common sense. 

For our part as "parents", we want them to be quiet.  We want them to be satisfied. We want the complaining to stop.  We want them to grow up.  We want them to engage life for themselves and get off the sidelines. We want them to solve problems, not regurgitate them. 

That's what we want, but the Complainers are crippled. Even if they wanted to, they don't know how to take responsibility.  Long ago, someone cut their wings off. And now, all they can do is draw attention to themselves and their problems and squawk, squawk, squawk.  

Let's note that there are two basic kinds of Complainers -- (1) those who secretly feel helpless and incompetent to solve problems or do anything for themselves, and (2) those who have a reactionary ego and stand around griping and "waiting for God to die" so that they can be in charge and feel enabled to act. 

The Complainers never realize that both these beliefs are false. 

In the first case, they believe they are helpless and incompetent to change things, and that isn't true. 

In the second case, they believe that someone or something is holding them back --- some authority figure or circumstance that must be rebelled against and overcome, and that isn't true, either. 

Many of the people entering our Assemblies are Complainers. They have the idea that they are entitled, because they also quietly believe that they are crippled and unable to help themselves. 

They look around for the familiar domineering authority figure, and if nobody offers to play that role, they will find one or even make one up in their own minds.

They are drawn to any nexus of problem-solving, trying to empower themselves, but have no idea how to talk to their child-self and get motivated as an adult.  

So they do what they always do.  They complain and they blame and they cause trouble without doing anything helpful or productive themselves.  

Anna is the problem, standing in the way of their brilliant solutions.  The Federation is hampering their ability to perform.  They have the wrong color of skin or religion and that is what is preventing them from making this a better world. 

These self-limiting beliefs are accrued in childhood and seldom consciously faced. 

So on top of the work to restore and assemble our own lawful government, we get called upon to address the mental health of literally millions of Americans who have been mentally and emotionally crippled by Authority Figures --- including the U.S. Government.

The Complainers regularly try to transfer their anxieties, frustrations, and feelings of inadequacy and all their reactions against these same feelings, to the "new" government authorities.  

I am the problem.  The Federation is the problem. The Coordinator is the problem.  The Recorder is the problem.  But the only actual problem is their own secret self-limiting belief, and the bad relationship they have with "authority" in general. 

That bad relationship is a love-hate relationship, best compared to a relationship with a domineering parent or teacher or drill sergeant who is actually long gone. 

It's essential that Assembly Coordinators and members recognize the Complainers and deal with them appropriately.  And what do I mean by that? 

Point out that while there is always a right and a wrong way to do anything, we have spent the time and effort to determine what the right way and peaceful way is, and that is what we are doing.  

If the Complainers want to fight with long-vanished authority figures in their own lives and argue over every step and cast doubt on every move that anyone else makes -- while notably failing to do anything themselves -- the rest of us have to recognize the problem and devise means of dealing with it. 

Many Assemblies are just throwing their hands up in the air and giving Complainers a "time out" to study more and answer their own questions before rejoining the group.  

Other Assemblies are finding that if they give Complainers tasks to do, they settle down quite happily and focus on what they are doing instead of on what everyone else is doing or not doing to their satisfaction. 

Taking action -- any action that is productive and in their own control -- often relieves the frustration the Complainers feel. 

Folding brochures may not seem like any big whoop to anyone else, but for a Complainer, it can be a baby step toward self-empowerment and expression, which is what they so desperately need. 

Try to understand the Complainers among us, both individually and collectively.  Somewhere in the past, they learned that they could get some gratification and attention by complaining.  So, like a hungry dog begging, that's what they do. 

If we want to change this behavior and set them free, we have to deprive them of that source of gratification (make Complaining out of style in our Assemblies) at the same time that we offer them other ways to gain praise, recognition, and yes, safety. 

Many Complainers are in fact abuse survivors and react in fear when they encounter authority in any form. Even when as adults, when they should know that all organizations--- including State Assemblies--- require discipline, roles, shared vision, and structure to succeed, the Complainers react mindlessly to tear down authority because it scares them.  

That prevents them from developing their own authority and guarantees that they will always remain pawns of better organized forces. It also makes these people a problem instead of an asset for those who are intent on restoring the lawful government. 

So -- make Complaining unfashionable and give the Complainers something productive to do that they can control.  And if you have time, talk with them as a loving parent would, about their love-hate relationship with authority.  Help them see into their own past and what happened to them that is still harming them today. 

Often, when the subject is breached and brought to a conscious level, the Complainer will immediately know who or what Authority Figure reduced them to sitting on the sidelines of life. They can then start putting that relationship and all the harmful habits and beliefs resulting from it, in the past. 

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