By Anna Von Reitz
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
International Public Notice: Our American Post Office
International Public Notice: How They Did It, Part 2
By Anna Von Reitz
As you probably heard, I have been attacked on a personal basis and my guaranteed "exempt from levy status" and my "tax peruse status" as a living woman has been dishonored by a Municipal Corporation hired by a British Crown Commercial Corporation to establish an enclosure racketeering scheme against the interests of the people of Alaska. This has forced me to research issues and history and what I have found is mind-boggling in its implications first for Alaska and ultimately for all Fifty States and everyone populating them. I have no doubt that similar means have been used to defraud a majority of the national governments on this planet.
In 1956 Standard Oil of California applied for its first Business License from the Territorial Government of Alaska at that time. I have the actual document, which directs the company to file its gross receipts with the "Tax Commissioner" in Juneau, Alaska, and remit the balance of the "license tax" due. As you are aware, a license is permission to do something that would otherwise be illegal, and this reveals that the Territory of Alaska considered conducting business "within the Territory" to be a crime. It also reveals that they called license fees "taxes".
| Exhibit A |
"People" has a very specific meaning in our jurisprudence. The "People" are Lawful Persons who serve as State Citizens, uniquely bound to represent their State of the Union in international affairs, but there was no actual State Assembly for them to serve at that time. If this Statehood Referendum was presented to any "People" they were not identified as such and the assumption that the "People" voted in this Election can't be validated.
Next, I examined a pamphlet issued by an organization sponsored by Standard Oil employees and members of the Bar Association called, "What is the STATE of your FUTURE?" – Election Day Fact and Fantasy, PREPARED BY OPERATION STATEHOOD, Box 47, Anchorage, Alaska.
https://annavonreitz.com/exhibitc.pdf
As you will recognize, the use of all capital letters indicates that 'OPERATION STATEHOOD" was a Municipal Government Corporation effort. There was a primary election taking place at the same time for State Offices, but if the referendum failed, those offices would be null and void. The three propositions for this referendum were:
1. "Shall Alaska be admitted into the Union as a State?"
This is astonishing, as none of the States of the Union nor any of the Union States, were in Session to enroll Alaska into our Union in 1956, so what "Union" are they referring to? Observe the process established by the Northwest Ordinance. The new State is enrolled by the already-existing States of the Union, but the States of the Union weren't in Session – so how could Alaska be admitted "immediately" into "the" Union? It couldn't be. Something is being called "the Union" that isn't our Union of States.
2. "The boundaries of the State of Alaska shall be as prescribed in the Act of Congress approved July 7, 1958, and all claims of this State to any areas of land or sea outside the boundaries so prescribed are hereby irrevocably relinquished to the United States."
Please note, this is not talking about "Alaska", it's talking about "the State of Alaska" which is not a State of the Union and not a Union State but is instead an inchoate British Crown corporation run by bureaucrats and British Crown agents working under a constitution --- that is, a government services contract.
By setting physical boundaries for the State of Alaska, Inc. and describing this in terms of land and sea, the perpetrators were "presuming upon" and giving away vast property interests belonging to the living people of this State, to the State of Alaska, Inc.--- their own franchise operating in Alaska.
Did the Congress of "the" United States of America, Incorporated, have any such ability to extinguish the people's ownership and grant our land and water assets to a British Crown Public Trust for the benefit of British Subjects living in Alaska?
No, they had no power to grant the people's land or water rights away to the State of Alaska, Inc., without our consent, and our consent cannot be inferred from an Election we didn't participate in and were not eligible to vote in.
Is it credible that the people of Alaska, acting under conditions of full disclosure, would ever voluntarily agree to give away their land and sea ownership interests to a foreign British Crown Corporation merely doing business as "the State of Alaska" – Incorporated?
Could an average man on the street be expected to read this passage and discern the difference between "Alaska" and "State of Alaska"? Could they be expected to discern that "the claims of this State" --- meaning the State of State, might be quite different from the claims of a State of the Union? Could they discern that a False Claim of ownership interest in their land and water was being promoted in favor of the State of Alaska, Inc., based on a reading of this section?
3. "All provisions of the Act of Congress approved July 7, 1958, reserving rights or power to the United States, as well as those prescribing the terms or conditions of the grants of lands or other property therein made to the State of Alaska, are consented to fully by said State and its people." (Emphasis added.)
Who gave this other "United States" any role in granting any lands to "the State of Alaska" ---not Alaska, the State of Alaska?
And who are the "said State and its people"? The State of Alaska, Inc. is populated by persons, not people, and so is the STATE OF ALASKA, INC. populated by persons, not people.
Since the Dictionary Acts in the 1850's this country has been properly styled as "The United States" so they are not talking about the Union States Confederation.
The Federal Republic operating as "the United States" shut down in 1861; it's good name and assets were seized upon under conditions of deceit and non-disclosure by the British Territorial Government Subcontractors on February 2nd, 1871, but the purchase of Alaska occurred in March of 1867, using money from the Federal Republic's Treasury. Our money that was entrusted to our American Federal Subcontractors, not the British Crown.
Here we have the usurped Federal Republic under new British Territorial management, "granting" land that it bought with our money, to "the State of Alaska", which is, as we've pointed out prior --- is not "Alaska". Neither the Federal Republic nor the British Territorial United States had any standing to grant land. That power was reserved to the States of the Union and never delegated.
The entity being referenced as "the State of Alaska" was a British Crown Commercial Franchise Corporation of the U.S.A., Incorporated, in 1958.
How many average Alaskans voting in the "Statehood Referendum" could route their way through all that without an explanation, and realize that a British Crown Corporation headquartered in the District of Columbia was proposing to give away land that the people of this country bought and paid for to their own deceitfully named foreign franchise corporation, dba, "the State of Alaska" – Incorporated?
Average Alaskans were being asked to approve this, with nothing approaching "full disclosure". They were being misrepresented as State Citizens – that is, the People of this State, when it would take another 61 years before the people of this State woke up, expatriated from Federal Citizenship presumptions, and formed the first actual State Assembly.
It would be another year after that, for Alaska to finally become enrolled as a State of the Union, on October 1st, 2020, by Roll Call Vote of the State Assemblies that existed prior to the Civil War.
What is appearing here is a self-interested swindle and crime of state, wherein a British Crown Commercial Franchise Corporation merely calling itself "the State of Alaska" has passed itself off as "Alaska".
After having purchased Alaska, the physical State, with our money, they helped themselves to the land and minerals and everything else, based on a purposefully deceitful and undisclosed contract.
They dumped the people's assets into a foreign "national trust" that benefits British Subjects and from there into a Municipal Land Trust that benefits Municipal "citizens of the United States" and have used these assets as collateral to borrow against for their own mutual benefit.
Do we need more evidence of commercial crime and unclean hands?
Let's see the section of the pamphlet entitled, "Who May Vote?"
"All citizens of the United States, nineteen years of age and over, who are actual and Bonafide residents of Alaska, and who have been such residents continuously during the entire year immediately preceding the election and who have been residents continuously for thirty days next preceding the election in the precinct and District in which they vote, and who are able to read and write the English language and who are not barred from voting by any other provision of the law, shall be qualified to vote." (Emphasis added.)
This is astonishing. The "voters" in this Statehood Referendum are all identified as Fourteenth Amendment citizens, otherwise known as "citizens of the United States" --- Federal Municipal employees and their dependents, who are "residents" living in this country and in Alaska under the provisions of the Residence Act.
This conclusion is underscored by the fact that all other Electors at the time had to be 21 years of age and also proven by their use of the word "precinct" indicating a Municipal political subdivision and "District" which references the military and judicial districts these same federal subcontractors created for themselves and deployed throughout this country without any authorization from the actual States of the Union.
The only ones allowed to vote on Alaska's purported Statehood Referendum were Federal Civil Service workers and their dependents, working in Alaska for a foreign Municipal Corporation, which was itself working for the British Crown.
Far from being the "People" of this State, they were all adopting a foreign citizenship status and had to do so before they could qualify to vote in this Election.
Not a single actual Alaskan standing as one of the people of this State voted on the Statehood Referendum, nor The Constitution of the State of Alaska.
As for being able to "read and write the English language" it would still not allow any average member of the public to decode what was going on here. No average American was ever fully informed about the different kinds of Federal citizenship, the importance of the word, "resident", and "residency" with respect to Federal workers, and all these other foreign terms and words: precinct, District, State of Alaska, etc.
To an attorney this may have all been self-evident, but it was not at all evident to Jane Doe on the street or Charlie the Eskimo or a Clerk working for the DEPARTMENT OF LABOR who voted on these issues – not in 1958 and not at any time since then.
Looking at the next section, "What does Self-Government mean?"
"We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land, in order to secure and transmit to succeeding generations our heritage of political, civil, and religious liberty within the Union of States, do ordain and establish this constitution for the State of Alaska." -- Preamble, Constitution of the State of Alaska.
Such high-sounding words, yet, as we've seen, not even one of the people of Alaska voted on any of this. The only voters eligible were Federal Civil Service workers on assignment here, adopting the foreign citizenship status of "citizen of the United States"
In approving The Constitution of the State of Alaska, these "citizens of the United States" were voting in conflict of interest on a service contract for their own benefit and the benefit of other Federal Citizens working for the British Crown franchise doing business as the State of Alaska ---- Incorporated.
Once the State of Alaska, Inc., was hired, purportedly by the "people" of Alaska, it was under obligation to hire the Municipal citizens of the United States expediting all this fraud, to help them "administer" this State and the actual people to whom it rightfully belongs.
These two foreign corporations, one commercial (the State of Alaska, Inc.) and one municipal (the STATE OF ALASKA, INC.), had been directly colluding in this manner since 1937, under The Declaration of Interdependence of the Governments in The United States.
That cozy arrangement was never authorized by the people of this country, either.
Once again, please notice that this is The Constitution of the State of Alaska and not The Constitution of Alaska.
What is the difference between "Alaska" and "the State of Alaska"?
A "state of state" is a commercial term and refers to the State business organization, meaning the bureaucrats, agents, officials, departments, agencies, and authorities engaged in commerce on behalf of the actual State and People.
The Constitution of the State of Alaska is thus a governmental services contract between the Municipal citizens of the United States and a British Crown State-of-State franchise corporation doing business as "the State of Alaska", Incorporated.
Just as no actual Alaskan, meaning the "the people" of this State, voted in the Alaska Statehood Referendum, no actual Alaskan approved The Constitution of the State of Alaska.
The individuals who voted in the Statehood Referendum and who authorized The Constitution of the State of Alaska were not given any full disclosure about any of this.
There was no explanation of the verbiage in the election pamphlet, in the balloting materials themselves, nor in the Minutes of the Constitutional Convention.
Those participating in the Election were "assumed to be" citizens of the United States; there is no evidence that any checks of residency or confirmation of foreign Municipal citizenship status were conducted at the polls.
The actual people of this State lived and breathed and were completely capable of expressing their natural expatriation from any Federal citizenship in 1959 and they were competent to bring their own State Assembly into Session, but their public employees didn't tell them what was being alleged or assumed about them or against their interests.
Instead, our federal employees and their state-of-state counterparts acted in gross breach of trust and self-interest and concocted all this for their own benefit without any full disclosure to the people they are supposed to serve "in good faith".
When we look at The State of Alaska Constitution itself, we find the same duplicitous and non-disclosed language being employed. Look at Article 1, Section 1, Declaration of Rights:
"Subsection 1, Inherent Rights
This Constitution is dedicated to the principles that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the enjoyment of the rewards of their own industry; that all persons are equal and entitled to equal rights, opportunities, and protection under the law; and that all persons have corresponding obligations to the people and the State."
Who are all these "persons" referenced above, who have "obligations" to "the people" and "the State"?
The "persons" are none other than those adopting a condition of personhood in the form of federal citizenship – the "citizens of the United States" who approved all this and the U.S. Citizens who also benefited from it.
And here is the collusion: Article X, Section 2: "All local government powers shall be vested in boroughs and cities. The State may delegate taxing powers to organized boroughs and cities only."
This is where the State of Alaska, Incorporated, in receipt of The Constitution of the State of Alaska service contract, created the Municipal Corporation contract via the same Constitution.
We have the British Crown franchise doing business as "the State of Alaska" (Incorporated) washing the back of the Municipal "STATE OF ALASKA" (INCORPORATED), and all the "citizens of the United States" who voted for this.
We have two groups of federal employees gaining material and coercive powers over their employers, the actual owners, the living people of this State of the Union, who never voted on any of this and never authorized any of it.
May we have a Minute Order to shut this corporate con game down, together with its phony court system which has been harming and fleecing the people of this State under color of law for decades?
Can we dissolve "the State of Alaska, Inc." for this collusion in self-service and bad faith in commerce? And "the STATE OF ALASKA, INC." also?
They have a contract between themselves, obviously, but as none of the people approved of it, it should have no deleterious impact on the people or our property assets. Their presumptions against our land and water holdings have no standing, so in theory, none of these actions should have any impact on this State or our living people --- notice that we said, "in theory".
In theory, the people should not be misaddressed as "citizens of the United States" nor as U.S. Citizens or United States Citizens, especially when we explicitly decline any foreign citizenship in writing on the public record, as I have done. We should be treated as one of the "people" that all these "persons" are "obligated" to serve, but, instead, a very venal racketeering scheme has been set up and weaponized against the living people.
What they have done here, beside creating a "Mutual Admiration Society" and undisclosed contract for both species of foreign government workers, is that The Constitution of the State of Alaska is being used as the basis for organized racketeering.
This racketeering is being done in the name of the people who are the chief victims of it.
I have been injured by this, so let me testify as to what they do:
First, they contact the victim by mail using a phishing scam. They address a new version of your name or something close to your name and tell you that a "federal tax lien" has been filed against that "person". They never give a return address, just an 800 number. If you call this number, someone with a foreign accent will start asking you for all sorts of data—social security number, place of birth, etc. – which no thinking person would ever give over the phone to unknown entities. They won't give you any information about who they are or which department they supposedly work for, so the conversation ends. And there is no means to make a written reply, no return address anywhere on this unsolicited correspondence. (Exhibit D) .Please note that in the Exhibit, "Gallery of the Lakes as Nominee" is being named as the Debtor -- a private art gallery that closed in 2002, way beyond any statute of limitation to collect taxes of any kind, purportedly owes more than a million dollars, which is patently absurd.
https://annavonreitz.com/exhibitd.pdf
Second, they use your non-response, that is, refusal to give them personal information, as a basis to enforce their phony tax lien on the assumption that whatever and whoever they "named" is a Fourteenth Amendment citizen of the United States is obligated to accept all debts of the United States.
Third, they process this unsubstantiated claim that you or something or someone that may be related to you, owes taxes, into a "Clerk's Deed" --- a form of deed never heard of before this, except in probate cases. Who died? The Local Government franchise doing business as the MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH, INC. which was forced into bankruptcy along with its parent corporation, the UNITED STATES, INC. So they are engaged in probate fraud on top of everything else, pretending that Chapter 7 Bankruptcy of a Municipal corporation is equivalent to the physical death of a man and rationalizing this to probate the estate of a dead thing that has never lived.
Question: Who owes any tax debts related to the services of the local government created under The Constitution of the State of Alaska? Answer: The federal citizens who authorized all this and who created this service contract for themselves for their own benefit.
Who is being entrapped under false pretenses and faulty Notice processes and forced to pay under armed trespass and assault? The people of Alaska, who never authorized nor voted for The Constitution of the State of Alaska in the first place, nor did they grant any position for the STATE OF ALASKA, INC. to function as a local government. The local government of the people is vested in our unincorporated Counties, not Municipal Boroughs and cities.
With respect to all this legalistic sophistry and fraud, the living people require immediate and permanent relief.
Armed thugs representing the "local government" formed under Article X, Section 2, of The Constitution of the State of Alaska, that is, the STATE OF ALASKA, INC. trespassed onto my extracted property on September 15th and evicted me from my house under these False Pretenses of debt and obligation, which I, one of the people of Alaska, don't owe.
They are operating King's Bench courts in this country – and misaddressing Alaskans as if they were British Subjects; they are operating foreign Roman Magistrate Courts and misaddressing Alaskans as if they were all stateless Negros left adrift and ripe for salvage as a result of an illegal Mercenary Conflict that ended over a 160 years ago ---- and they have established unlawful "judicial districts" across the whole country to deploy this foreign court system, which is also created by The Constitution of the State of Alaska.
May we have a Minute Order overturning this venal and undisclosed contract, The Constitution of the State of Alaska, and wipe away all past, present, and future charges brought under it against the living people of this State of the Union (Alaska was finally enrolled as an actual State of the Union as of October 1st 2020 and this was made retroactive to January 3rd 1959)?
Our actual State of the Union Assembly is in Session and has been for five years.
I have formally expatriated from all forms of federal citizenship and this has been on the public record for decades. I went so far as to force them to change my legal name from ANNA MARIA RIEZINGER to Anna Maria Riezinger and served notice to the Third Judicial District Court.
I have a Final Court Order from the Vatican chancery court, which is the supreme court of the Municipal Government Corporations worldwide, clearly stating that the "franchises" named after me are exempt from levy and tax peruse and that I am the landlord, not "the State of Alaska, Inc." -- that was issued December 1st, 2012. (Exhibits E and F)
https://annavonreitz.com/exhibite.pdf
https://annavonreitz.com/exhibitf.pdf
This is correct, both because the actual States of the Union never participated in the American Civil War and because the living people are not subject to taxes owed by persons.
In the same way, my land holding has been separately and physically surveyed and extracted from all public easements including the vacated public road easement that the MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH, INC., designated as "2390 SOUTH PARK ROAD".
I designated my adjoining property "4711 Birch Wood Road" and recorded it all with the State of Alaska Land Recording Office so they have had Notice and so did their Third Judicial District Court and the STATE OF ALASKA, which they accepted without objection and which cured on their records many years ago.
There is no excuse for me, Anna Maria Riezinger, being "mistaken" for a Municipal franchise dba Anna S Riezinger or Riezinger, Anna S or ANNA S RIEZINGER, and no excuse for mistaking my property, 4711 Birch Wood Road, which I extracted from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough --as "2390 SOUTH PARK ROAD".
This is all a coercive, criminal racketeering "system" from the ground up, designed to unlawfully convert and seize upon actual assets belonging to the people of this State for the benefit of foreign persons merely "residing" here.
The same or similar conditions exist in every other State of the Union and every other country that has been impacted by this commercial corporation scam implemented in collusion with municipal corporation partners.
If The Constitution of the State of Alaska recognized as a private, deceitful and not fully disclosed contract, it will automatically shut down the STATE OF ALASKA operation and the phony court system operating as the Judiciary Courts of Alaska, Incorporated, because all these franchises are created under the State of Alaska, Inc., .
We now have proof of personal injury to a living woman who is not operating one of their franchise corporations and not under any obligation of federal citizenship. Their bad faith, self-service, non-disclosure, deceit, and armed trespass is self-evident on the face of it. That they are wrongfully prosecuting the living people they are supposed to serve for debts and taxes that those same people don't owe should also be self-evident.
Their practice of calling license fees "taxes" as demonstrated by 1956 Business License issued by the Territorial Government to Standard Oil of California explains how a British Crown Commercial Corporation doing business as the State of Alaska, Inc. --- which has no ability to tax --- could grant taxation powers (Article X, Section 2 of The Constitution of the State of Alaska) to a foreign Municipal Corporation.
They had Municipal employees of the defunct MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH go around and arbitrarily make up street names and numbers and attach these to vacant sections of public road easements adjoining private property parcels – and then, used these "copyrighted designations" to latch onto the adjoining private land holdings.
They established a copyrighted intellectual property interest for the State of Alaska, Inc. by doing this, claimed the vacated public road easements, and have charged the people of Alaska a license fee for the use of "their" address as "taxes". Just like they charged Standard Oil of California for "taxes" that were license fees.
Calling license fees (whether for business licenses or for the use of copyrighted intellectual property) "taxes" is fraudulent and unnecessary misrepresentation and does not fall within any customary power of "taxation". Clearly, the State of Alaska, Incorporated, a commercial corporation like Barnes and Noble, Inc., has no actual power to tax in the conventional sense, and could not therefore grant any powers of taxation to the Municipal Corporation dba the STATE OF ALASKA, INC. So they just decided to call licensing fees "taxes" and continue the subterfuge that began under the Territory of Alaska, Inc.
I, however, had seen through all this sneaky nonsense and purposefully extracted my physically surveyed land from the suppositions of the State of Alaska and STATE OF ALASKA, and set it apart from their merely intellectual property interest in the adjoining road easement. I renamed my separately surveyed parcel and gave it an address under the universal post office treaty I am heir to as one of the people – not persons--- of Alaska, many years ago: 4711 Birch Wood Road.
Our Court of Record has already acted upon this, but what is needed is a review by a superior commercial court --- and we hope, a complete overturning of The Constitution of the State of Alaska for fraudulent failure to disclose the parties to and nature of this service contract. We also feel that The Constitution of the State of Alaska should be overturned for fraudulent misrepresentation of this contract as a contract between their various organizations and the People/people of Alaska, who never approved it and never voted for it.
We maintain that their misrepresentation of intellectual property license fees is essentially the same as their misrepresentation of Business License fees as "taxes" and their phishing scheme posing as Due Process and Notice of "Federal Tax Liens" and their illegal latching upon private landholdings that are not actually attached to any of the vacated road easements that have been named and numbered and copyrighted, are all acts of deliberate, self-interested, and knowing fraud leading to illegal armed trespass, illegal confiscation, unjust enrichment, and illegal takings that are prohibited by the respective Federal Constitutions.
We maintain that all the public road easements that were named and numbered and copyrighted by the MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH, INC., are in fact surveyed and have known boundaries and there is no excuse to use these named and numbered easements as an excuse to latch onto any adjoining private property that naturally exists apart from any public interest.
For all these activities and the harm that they have caused, the State of Alaska, Incorporated and the STATE OF ALASKA, INCORPORATED, and all their various franchises, such as the Judiciary Courts of Alaska, Inc., and the Alaska Bar Association, Inc., and the Office of the Governor, Inc. and all the mirrored STATE OF ALASKA, INC. organizations and offices, should be shut down, and returned to the actual people and the actual State of the Union.
We note that the "people" of this State of the Union includes all the native people who live within the borders of Alaska, who automatically enjoy dual nationality as Alaskans and as members of their native nations.
We maintain that all living people have standing to assert their identity as free, sovereign, and independent people who populate their free, sovereign, and independent states --- which are all geographically and physically defined.
We also maintain that nobody who is voluntarily and knowingly accepting the burdens of Federal Dual Citizenship and the personhood that goes with those citizenship obligations, has any standing to purloin our physical assets for the benefit of foreign public trusts, grant away our unalienable rights and property interests, or otherwise coerce, impersonate, harm, or mischaracterize the people of Alaska --- the very people that they are obligated to serve in good faith.
By acting in accord with the actual Public Law and Public Interest of the living people, including but not limited to the Supreme Law of the Land embodied as both The Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the United States, I am fulfilling a Public Duty to report crime and doing my best to keep the peace and bring an end to illegal, unlawful, and immoral racketeering that has taken place in Alaska and throughout this country for far too long.
As an Officer of the unincorporated Federation of the States of the Union doing business as The United States of America since 1776 and as the duly elected Chief Justice of The Alaska Supreme Court, which is a lawful Court of Record, I do self-certify by my signature and seal that the information forwarded here is true, correct, and not misleading, not malicious, and is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so far as I am able to document and discern it.
The just relief we seek may seem extreme and likely to cause disruption if pursued in a hostile or wholesale manner, but we do not advocate any violent means of redress; instead, we seek the lawful conversion of all these foreign public trusts and foreign corporations, which can be accomplished by nationalizing them. In this way, the living people will finally have back the control of their own physical assets, their own government, and their own future with a minimum of disruption.
The Exhibits are attached. A signature page is also provided.
https://annavonreitz.com/signaturepage13.pdf
So said, so signed, so sealed, so enforced by:
Anna Maria Riezinger - Fiduciary
The United States of America
Chief Justice of The Alaska Supreme Court
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
Monday, October 13, 2025
The Hyperbubble: Is the Next Crash Already Unfolding?
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By Paul Stramer
In 2024 we started using the new mint in Indiana to stamp and ship our silver rounds, after over 18 years with the previous mint in Utah.
The new and much larger minting company has multiple facilities around the country including in Indiana, California and Nevada.
I now have a good working relationship with the new company and am making even more announcements about the improved way we are doing this business. Here are some of the things that are changing for the better for you, our customers.
1. The old 500 ounce minimum order is gone. The new minimum order is now 60 ounces.
2. They will be very competitive in their price structure, and right now we are offering a price plan based on the volume of metal in each order. See below.
3. The shipping will be faster, and the wait time will be less than it was. Each order will be shipped with full insurance. I made my first 3 orders and all those orders arrived here for local customers and our stock. The total time from order to arrival was just 12 days for those orders. Since then we have had several large orders go out and be delivered within 2 weeks.
These will be shipped from Indiana or Nevada depending on where the order is going, by UPS Ground, fully insured.We will still be accepting wire transfers, or cashiers checks like always.
We can only lock an order after we have received the funds. Here is the formula we use to figure your price.
Go to this link on Kitco.com and look up the ask price of silver. https://www.kitco.com/price/precious-metals
It's in the first table on that page.
For a 60 oz. to 99 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.95
For a 100 oz. to 199 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.75.
For a 200 oz. to 299 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.50.
For a 300 oz. to 999 oz. order, take the ask price and add $3.25.
All orders over 1000 ounces will be $3.00 over spot ask price.
Take that number times the number of ounces (60 or over) and then add $25.00 for each 60 to 100 ounce box for shipping, or for large orders add $40 per 500 ounce box for shipping.
Once we have your funds we will run this same formula to finalize the price with shipping.
Be sure to call us when you are ready to order so we can answer your questions.
When you call I will get your email address and send you the bank info for wire transfers or the mailing info for your payment. You can then reply with your shipping address for UPS.
If you have any questions here is my contact info.
Office phone 406 889 3183 8 AM to 2 PM and 4PM to 6 PM weekdays.
Cell 406 253 4257 when I am not in the office. Try the Office line first.
pstramer@gmail.com or pstramer@eurekadsl.net
Thanks for your support over the years. We are now open and taking orders.
Paul Stramer S.A.G.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Rev. Fr. Leonard Goffine's
The Church's YearAt the Introit of the Mass the Church prays for the peace which God has promised by His prophets:
INTROIT Give peace, O Lord, to them that patiently wait for thee, that thy prophets may be found faithful: hear the prayers of thy servant, and of thy people Israel. (Ecclus. XXXVI. 18.) I rejoiced at the things that were said to me: we shall go into the house of the Lord. (Ps. CXXI. 1.) Glory etc.
COLLECT O Lord, inasmuch as without Thee we are not able to please Thee, let Thy merciful pity rule and direct our hearts, we beseech Thee. Thro'.
EPISTLE (I Cor. I. 4-8.) Brethren, I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus, that in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and in all knowledge: as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ who also will confirm you into the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
EXPLANATION St. Paul shows in this epistle that he possesses true love for his neighbor, because he rejoices and thanks God that he enriched the Corinthians with different graces and gifts, thus confirming the testimony of Christ in them, so that they could without fear expect His arrival for judgment. - Do thou also rejoice, with St. Paul, for the graces given to thy neighbor, for this is a mark of true charity.
GOSPEL (Matt. IX. 1-8.) At that time, Jesus entering into a boat, passed over the water, and came into his own city. And behold, they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son; thy sins are forgiven thee. And behold, some of the Scribes said within themselves: He blasphemeth. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? whether it is easier to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins (then said he to the man sick of the palsy): Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house. And he arose, and went into his house. And the multitude seeing it feared, and glorified God who had given such power to men.
EXPLANATIONS
I. Those who brought this sick man to Christ, give us a touching example of how we should take care of the sick and help them according to our ability. Christ was so well pleased with their faith and charity, that He cured the man sick of the palsy, and forgave him his sins. Hence we learn how we might assist many who are diseased in their soul, if we would lead them to God by confiding prayer, by urgent admonitions, or by good example.
II. Christ did not heal the man sick of the palsy until He had forgiven him his sins, by this He wished to teach us, that sins are often the cause of sicknesses and other evils, by which we are visited, and which God would remove from us if we were truly repentant. This doctrine Jesus confirmed, when He said to the man, who had been sick for thirty-eight years: Sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee. (John V. 14.) Would that this were considered by those who so often impetuously demand of God to be freed from their evils, but do not intend to free themselves from their sins, which are the cause of these evils, by a sincere repentance.
III. "He blasphemeth." Thus thought the Jews, in their perverted hearts, of Christ, because they believed that He in remitting the sins of the sick man, usurped the rights of God and thus did Him a great injury; for it is blasphemy to think, say, or do any thing insulting to God or His saints. But these Jews did not consider that they by their rash judgment calumniated God, since they blasphemed Christ who by healing the sick man, and by numerous other works had clearly proved His God-head. If Christ so severely reprimanded the Jews, who would not recognize Him as God, for a blasphemous thought against Him, what will He do with those Christians who, though they wish to be adorers of God and His Son, nevertheless, utter blasphemies, curses, and profanations of the holy Sacraments?
IV. When Jesus saw their thoughts, He said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? This may be taken to heart by those who think that thoughts are free from scrutiny, and who never think to confess their evil and shameful thoughts. God; the most Holy and most just, will, nevertheless, not leave a voluntary unchaste, proud, angry, revengeful, envious thought unpunished, any more than an idle word. (Matt, XII. 36.) The best remedy against evil thoughts would be the recollection that God who searches the heart sees them, and will punish them.
PRAYER How great, O Jesus! is Thy love and mercy towards poor sinners, since Thou not only forgavest the sins of the man sick of palsy, but calling him son, didst console and heal him! This Thy love encourages me to beg of Thee the grace, that we may rise from our bed of sins by true penance, amend our life, and through the ways of Thy commandments enter the house of eternal happiness.
INSTRUCTION ON INDULGENCES
Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. (Matt. IX. 2.)
The same that Christ says to the man sick of the palsy, the priest says to every contrite sinner in the confessional, and thus remits the crime or the guilt of his sins, and the eternal punishment, by virtue of the authority given him by God. But since sins not only bring with them guilt and eternal punishment, but also temporal1 and indeed spiritual or supernatural punishment, such as, painful conditions of the soul, as well in this world as in purgatory, and natural ones, as: poverty, disease, all sorts of adversities and accidents, we should endeavor to liberate ourselves from them by means of indulgences.
What is an indulgence?
It is a total or partial remission of the temporal punishment which man would have to suffer either in this or the next life, after the sins have been remitted.
How do we know that after the remission of the sins there still remains temporal punishment?
From holy Scripture; for our first parents after the forgiveness of their sin, were still afflicted with temporal punishment. (Gen. III.) God likewise forgave the sins of the children of Israel, who murmured so often against Him in the desert, but not their punishment, for He excluded them from the Promised Land, and caused them to die in the desert. (Num. XIV.) Moses and Aaron experienced the same, on account of a slight want of confidence in God. (Num. XX. 12., Deut. XXXII. 51. 52.) David, indeed, received pardon from God through the Prophet Nathan for adultery and murder, (II Kings XII.) still he had to endure heavy temporal punishment. Finally, faith teaches us, that we are tortured in purgatory for our sins, until we have paid the last farthing. (Matt. V. 26.)
Did the Church always agree with this doctrine of Scripture?
Yes; for she always taught, that by the Sacrament of Penance the guilt and eternal punishment, due to sin, are indeed forgiven for the sake of the infinite merits of Jesus, but that temporal punishment still remains, for which the sinner must do penance. Even in the earliest ages she imposed great penances upon sinners for their sins which were already forgiven. For instance, murder or adultery was punished by a penance of twenty years; perjury, eleven; fornication, denial of faith or fortune-telling, by seven years of severe penance with fasting, etc. During this time it was not allowed to travel, except on foot, to be present at the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or to receive the holy Eucharist. If the penitents showed a great zeal for penance and sincere amendment, or if distinguished members of the Church, particularly martyrs, interceded for them, the bishops granted them an indulgence, that is, they remitted the remaining punishment either totally or partially. In our days, on account of the weakness of the faithful, the Church is lenient. Besides the ecclesiastical, the spiritual punishments which would have to be suffered either here or in purgatory for the taking away of sins, are shortened and mitigated by indulgences through he treasure of the communion of saints.
Has the Church the power to remit temporal punishments, or to grant indulgences?
The Council of Trent expressly states, that the Church has power to grant indulgences, (Sess. 25.) and this statement it supports by the words of Christ. For as Christ protests: Amen, I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; so He also promised, that whatever the Church looses upon earth, is ratified and loosed in heaven. Whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven. (Matt. XVIII. 18.) Even an apostle granted an indulgence. In the person and by the power of Christ, that his spirit might be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, (II Cor. II. 10.; I Cor. V. 4. 5.) St. Paul forgave the incestuous Corinthian, upon whom he had imposed a heavy punishment.
What is meant by saying, indulgences are granted out of the treasury of the saints or of the Church?
By this is meant that God, by the Church, remits the temporal punishment due to sin for the sake of the merits of Christ and the saints, and supplies, as it were, by these merits what is still wanting in our satisfaction.
What kinds of indulgences are there?
Two; plenary and partial indulgences. A plenary indulgence, if rightly gained, remits all ecclesiastical and temporal punishment, which we would otherwise have to expiate by penance. A partial indulgence, however, remits only so many days or years of the temporal punishment, as, according to the penitential code of the primitive ages of the Church; the sinner would have been obliged to spend in severe penance. Hence the name forty day's indulgence, etc.
What is a Jubilee?2
It is a plenary indulgence, which the pope grants to the faithful of the entire world, whereby all the temporal punishments of sin, even in cases reserved to the pope or the bishops, are remitted, and forgiven in the name of God, if the sinner confesses contritely and receives the holy Eucharist and has a firm purpose of doing penance.
What is required to gain an indulgence?
First, that we should be in the state of grace, and have already obtained, by true repentance, forgiveness of those sins, the temporal punishment of which is to be remitted by the indulgence; and secondly, that we should exactly perform the good works prescribed for the gaining of the indulgence.
Do indulgences free us from performing works of penance?
By no means: for there are few in the proper state to receive a plenary indulgence in its fulness, since not only purity of soul is necessary but also the inclination to sin must be rooted out, it therefore cannot be the intention of the Church to free us from all works of penance by granting us indulgences. She cannot act contrary to the word of Jesus: Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish. Luke XIII. 3.) She rather wishes to assist our weakness, to supply our inability to do the required penance, and to contribute what is wanting in our penance, by applying the satisfaction of Christ and the saints to us by indulgences. If we, therefore, do not wish to do penance for our own sins, we shall have no part in the merits of others by indulgences.
Can indulgences be gained for the souls of the faithful departed?
Yes, by way of suffrage, so far as we comply with the required conditions, and thus beg of God, for the merits of His Son and the saints, to release the souls in purgatory. Whether God receive this petition or not, remains with Him, He will act only according to the condition of the deceased. We must, therefore, not depend upon the indulgences and good works which may be performed for us after death, but rather endeavor, during our life-time, to secure our salvation by leading a pious life; by our own good works and by the gaining of indulgences.
What follows from the doctrine of the Church concerning indulgences?
That an indulgence is no grant or license to commit sin, as the enemies of the Church falsely assert; that an indulgence grants no forgiveness of sins past or future, much less is permission given to commit sin; that no Catholic can believe that by gaming indulgences he is released from penance, or other good works, free from the fight with his evil inclinations, passions and habits, from compensating for injuries, repairing scandals, from retrieving neglected good, and glorifying God by works and sufferings; but that indulgences give nothing else than partial or total remission of temporal punishment; that they remind us of our weakness and lukewarmness which is great when compared with the zeal and fervor of the early Christians; that they impel us to satisfy the justice of God according to our ability. Finally, they remind us to thank God continually that He gave the Church a means in the inexhaustible treasure of the merits of Christ and His saints, to help our weakness and to supply what is wanting in our penance.
1. See Instruction on Satisfaction on the fourth Sunday in Advent.
2. The word jubilee signifies deliverance, remittance. With the Jews every fiftieth year was so called, and all the prisoners and slaves were to be set free in this year, according to the command of God, the inheritances which had been sold, restored to their masters, the debts cancelled, and the earth left untilled. This was a year of grace and rest for the Jews. This Jubilee of the Jews is a figure of the Catholic jubilee, in which the captives of sin and Satan are liberated, the debt of sin remitted, and the inheritance of heaven, which the sinner had sold to Satan, is restored to him.