Wednesday, September 30, 2020
2735: Clearing the Air for Coordinators and Leaders from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
This
is my 13th Start Up. By that I mean that I have spent much of my life
working on "start up" operations --- creating or, in this case,
restoring --- organizations that have either: (1) never existed before
or (2) have existed, but have stalemated or been partially
deconstructed, and need to be restored to full function and maybe even
to undertake new functions.
Remember
my analogy about the huge old farm machine stored out in the shed out
on the Back Forty? A combine harvester from 1958, that needs its diesel
engine brought back to life? Or a steam turbine electrical generator
that has sat in the generator shack above a dam spillway for forty
years, unused?
That's
the kind of proposition we have here. We are restoring and in many
senses--- restarting, a system of government that has lain dormant for
decades, even in some parts that has been forgotten for generations.
Not dead. Simply by-passed. Not used. Moth-balled.
We
have never seen the American Government in operation the way it is
meant to be in operation in our lifetimes. Our parents glimpsed parts
of it. Our grandparents knew more about it, but we have to go back to
the era of our great-grandparents before the taste and feel of "how this
engine is supposed to run" would become clear to everyone involved.
As
a result, it's like a start-up operation of any other kind and I
emphasize this for everyone, because start-ups are profoundly different
than the well-oiled machines that most people experience as inductees to
the corporate world.
People
like me are like midwives dealing with the birthing process of
businesses and governments, while the "managers" who come after us are
dealing with organizations in various recognizable stages of maturity.
At each stage, the cast of characters, the skills, and the abilities of
those involved change.
Building
or rebuilding from a start-up perspective is a whole different
proposition worlds away from running an established and well-oiled
machine.
Building
any organization is an organic process, because organizations and the
functions of organizations are alive in much the same sense that we are
alive as unique people. Like people, organizations can be moral and
solid, or they can be crafty and dishonest.
This
is what we mean when we talk about "establishing a corporate culture"
--- what are the values of the organization? What gets rewarded, and
what gets punished? What kind of leadership do we choose? What
matters? What are the goals?
The first and foremost goal of any actual government is to protect the people and their private assets.
Our government is no different.
Our
secondary goal is to protect, promote, and develop the public resources
of our country--- our infrastructure and institutions --- our ports,
roads, bridges, rail system, schools, universities, and public lands.
And
that, my friends, is really all that a good government needs to do.
Two things. Keep those two things firmly in mind and make them your
goal, and our people and our country will prosper. Forget them or
displace them in favor of profit-making, and our enterprise will fail.
It's as simple --- and as challenging --- as that.
We've
seen what happens when "governmental services providers" take over.
These private, for-profit government subcontractors have different
goals. Sure, they may provide worthy and necessary services, but they
are in it for different reasons. They are here to make a profit for
their shareholders.
We are here to serve everyone's best interests, including our own.
That is a profound change of focus and relationship. They are employees. We are owner-operators.
Starting
from these "givens" let me address one of many situations that generate
ongoing concerns: computerization of functions.
Back
when our "Big Old Machine" was parked out in that storage shed, we
didn't have computers. Like them or not in theory, computers and
computerization of functions has become part of our lives and
functioning as a modern government requires us to adapt and make use of
the new technologies. So that is part of what we are doing.
As
the responsible party, I looked at what needed to be done and at the
resources available, and I made the following decisions about the
situation as it existed when the effort began.
1. Brett would develop the Land Recording System;
2.
Dave and Sherry and family would develop the Assembly Hub and assist in
the customization of the individual websites and all the portals,
links, and accesses needed;
3. Teri would continue to build, oversee, and manage the outreach and educational websites.
In
numerous conversations with people all over this country, nobody has
disagreed with what I did. Nobody has said, no, no, you were wrong to
let Brett develop and manage the LRS. Nobody has objected to anything
Dave and Sherry have done. And nobody has criticized Teri's work on the
American States Assembly and Sign In America and Peacekeeping Task
Force websites.
Nobody. Not a single word of complaint. Not a single dissenting voice.
Everyone
to all external signs, is well-content to have our people and resources
thus distributed and employed, and, also, according to all reports,
reasonable good progress is being made on all the various
computer-related projects and tasks --- with one exception.
For
whatever reasons, we have not been able to timely deploy and provide
the State Credential ID cards. This, in itself, is a comparatively
simple task, akin to producing a Driver's License at a DMV office. As
all our Assembly Members have done their political status declarations,
that necessary step is done, and all that remains is to scan and upload
specifics to a secure special purpose database and print out a card.
My
computer skills don't extend to programming, but even I could manage to
produce a viable secure database and print out cards, quite independent
of anything else that is going on.
As
the situation on the West Coast has continued to deteriorate and as our
members there are in an increasingly exposed position, the prompt
issuance of State Credential IDs has become an issue.
Many
of our people no longer use Driver Licenses as a form of identification
because they now realize that they are not "drivers" in the sense of
the statutory law, and that having a DL clouds their political status as
Americans --- yet, due to the False Presumptions of military occupation
of this country, everyone is required to have and produce a UPU
guideline ID at all times for their own safety.
What to do?
With
no prejudice or ill-will toward anyone or anything, Teri, who lives in
the Seattle area where a lot of the current unrest is focused, took on
the additional job of producing State Credential ID's for those in
need. This is not rocket science, and it does not have to be tied in
--- at least not immediately --- to any other aspect of the ongoing
computer developments.
It
can be handled as a separate function for now and the job can get done.
It can get done at numerous locations, too. Every State should soon
have its own printers and be able to feed their information to a central
file database. As thousands upon thousands of Americans wake up, this
will be necessary anyway.
To
me, that phrase, "The job can get done." is all-important, because---
remember--- the first function of government is to protect our people
and their private property. To the extent that anything impedes,
delays, obstructs or stands in the way of us getting that job done, it
has to be overcome.
The
delay in getting State Credentials issued to our people endangers them.
Pure and simple. It doesn't matter why and it doesn't imply blame.
There are no sides to this issue. It simply has to get done.
If
it takes another six months for the credential functions to be
mainlined through the Assembly Hub, so be it. If it takes a year to
train large numbers of clerical support volunteers to input data, so be
it. None of that matters. What matters is protecting our people now.
As
the Chief Cook, Bottle-washer, and Grandma of this operation, I can
tell you that when a baby is hungry, it needs to be fed. There is no
arguing about whose cow is tapped to give the milk. And there is no
reasonable cause for any big controversy about this situation. All
those who have resources and ideas and abilities to help solve the
problem are invited to come forward. Everyone else is invited to shut
up and sit down.
Why?
Because our first goal as a government is to protect our people and
their private property. Our second goal is to protect public property
that also ultimately belongs to our people. And there isn't a third
goal.
Now, I want everyone firmly focused on the two goals of Good Government.
I
want everyone committed to accepting differences in roles and
responsibilities, and yet, also committed to what our Forefathers called
"the Greater Good". That means contributing our own unique abilities
and resources as they exist in the present moment.
There
is a reason that I tell our contributors --- "If you can't send money
and prayers, send us your prayers." Everyone can contribute. Everyone
has something to contribute. And as Dave and Sherry remind us, "All
things work together for good."
So
let the Good Will begin at home, in our own extended Family. Let's
understand that when our Forefathers committed "their lives, their
fortunes, and their sacred honor" -- they were making a commitment to
each other, too.
There
is no room for taking sides. However divided our opinions may be, at
the end of the day, we have to stand together and help each other
accomplish the goals --- (1) protect our people and their property; (2)
protect and develop our public resources.
We have to develop the insight to not agree, and still defend to the death the rights of others to their own opinions.
I
made the decision to place Brett in charge of the LRS. He is still in
charge of it. I made the decision to put Dave and Sherry and their
co-workers in charge of the Assembly Hub and all that entails. They are
still in charge of that. I asked Teri to develop the American States
Assembly websites and other educational and outreach websites. She is
still in charge of all that.
These
are simple facts, not hard for anyone to understand. They don't allow
for any interpretation or presumption of competition or taking of
sides. There are no sides in this operation. There are just different
people and groups working on their own part of the whole.
Dave
and Sherry are in charge of connecting the credential functions through
the State Assembly Hub --- whenever that part of it is ready to be
done, but as a separate function, production of the state credentials is
a side issue. It could, as Dave and Sherry have themselves pointed
out, eventually be contracted out to a company or companies that
specialize in producing credential cards.
And
frankly, neither I nor anyone I have spoken with, cares who produces
the State Credential ID cards. Or how many offices we have that are,
eventually, producing State Credential ID cards.
What
I care about is --- is the information complete and correct? Is the
database secure? Can local law enforcement and peacekeeping forces
easily access the information they need? And if the answer to those
three questions is "yes", then let's move forward with the means that we
have at hand and get the job done.
Because
our people are in need and our people are endangered for lack of viable
modern credentials, and our very first goal and reason for being is
what?
To protect our people and their property.
Anything
that stands in the way of accomplishing our mission has to be overcome,
side-stepped, leaped over, dug under or bull-dozed. Those that
recognize problems and show the initiative to overcome them, need our
applause and support.
None of us need any brou-hah-hah or speculation or back-biting. This isn't the board room at Exxon, Inc. This is a family.
So
I am addressing each and every one of you today to stop and
nip-in-the-bud all and any tendency that you may have toward criticizing
our volunteers --- any of them.
They
are all here doing their best to help move our Big Old Machine into
position to protect our people and their property, and to preserve the
interest of our people in the public lands and infrastructure of this
country.
That's our job when we take up self-governance, those are the goals, and there isn't anything else to it.
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