Tuesday, May 31, 2022
3709: So, Now.... from Lincoln CountyWatch
By Anna Von Reitz
"It's
a veteran's fraternal organization," my Mother told me, "like the VFW,
but especially for veterans of the Civil War and their families."
I
already knew all about the Veterans of Foreign Wars because my Mother
was a member and regularly made the rounds to the Gold Star Mothers and
war widows in our community. It wasn't hard to imagine the members of
the GAR doing the same kinds of things, quietly making sure that the
children of the dead got school shoes and nobody went hungry.
So
I read the pamphlets as best I could, and I salted away the knowledge,
but something seemed odd to me even then. Why call a veteran's
organization The Grand Army of the Republic?
And what Republic?
Picture
a little girl in a ponytail scratching behind her ear and making an odd
quizzical face. Those questions would remain unanswered for many
years, but everything comes full circle.
They
called it The Grand Army of the Republic because besides being a
fraternal organization, it was an Army of veterans, eventually including
members from both the North and the South. The war never really ended.
And the Republic was our American Federal Republic, which ceased functioning during the Civil War.
By
the time I was in college, I met a few boys in college ROTC who were
members of the GAR. It didn't sound like the VFW to me. No spam and
sweet relish sandwiches. They played war games on chess boards and had
an altogether different more somber cast to their thinking.
I didn't get too close to them.
Then
there was an elderly man on a train from Algonquin, Illinois. I don't
know why but it was a hot day and the train was delayed on its usual run
into Chicago. I asked him if he knew anything about the GAR? His face
immediately softened and then hardened.
"Who's asking?" he replied.
"Just
me," I said. "I never understood why they called it an "army" when the
war was over--- and I never knew what Republic they were talking about,
either."
"The Federal Republic," he said with great intensity, "don't they teach you that in school?"
As
a recent graduate of Black River Falls Senior High, I could confirm
that they didn't say a word about any Federal Republic. He shot me a
look of consternation I never forgot.
"The
Federal Republic," he explained, "is what we lost during the Civil War.
It ran the Federal Government. It was our Foreign Service. It handled
international diplomacy, ran the US Mint...."
"But we still have a Federal Government that does those things," I said.
"It's not our government," he snapped. "That's not our Federal Republic."
He was white-haired and frail-looking and by then quite red in the face, between the heat and the obvious upset he felt, so I sat silent and let him lapse into his thoughts.
"When I was your age," he finally said, "they taught us about the Federal Republic."
He
was, I guessed, around eighty at the time, so "my age" translated as
somewhere around the 1920's. The train gave a lurch and began inching
forward. The beleaguered Steward came by assuring us that we'd be
leaving Glendale Station momentarily.
"And
as for the GAR, they called it an Army, because that's what it was, and
maybe still is," he said, and he fell silent again.
That
was my first glimpse of something that at the time seemed unimaginable:
a standing army of veterans committed to, obviously, restoring and
defending the Federal Republic --- whatever that might be.
So,
not at any great rate, I tugged on that string and read old American
History books that described the Federal Republic in detail, as part of
the Federal Government.
Then,
years later, I ran across old, odd, Naturalization and Immigration
codes that described a lengthy and purposeful process by which an
American might choose to become a United States Citizen. To do so, you
had to be of age and of good character and standing in your community,
and you had to declare and publish your intention, and you had to wait
over a year and do numerous other things including taking a Public Oath
to at last become a United States Citizen.
I
was every kind of confused until I figured out that this was the
process by which the vanished Federal Republic acquired new employees.
They wanted only the best and brightest and most committed to serve.
That's why all the hoops and hurdles to become a United States
Citizen.... as opposed to a British Territorial U.S. Citizen.
Suffice
it to say that I eventually tracked down the full meaning and scope of
the lost American Federal Republic and I met members of the modern day
GAR.
Yes,
Virginia, it's still an Army. They call themselves the White Hats now
and the effort includes veterans from many other times and places, not
just the Civil War veterans, and not just this country, either. Now,
you can finally understand why there's all this talk about restoring The
Federal Republic.
But
they've forgotten where the American Federal Republic came from, how
and by whom it was organized, and some people have even forgotten that
it was uniquely American, with no British Territorial citizenry
involved.
The
Federal Republic was organized and operated by the equally "lost"
Confederation of States initially formed in 1781 under The Articles of
Confederation.
So,
we are faced with a two-step process. First, we have to restore the
Confederation, which is the job of the States, and second, the
Confederation has to restore the American Federal Republic.
Fully
a third of the American Government was destroyed in the Civil War and
has awaited Reconstruction for 157 years, because nobody put the pieces
of information together and told the American People (1) what happened,
and (2) what needs to be done. Instead, even the information about the
Federal Republic was dropped from the schoolbooks published after the
Second World War.
Part
of the problem has been identifying who "We, the People" are. The
States of the Union were not in Session at the end of the Civil War.
After five years of utter havoc, many of those circuit riders
responsible for summoning the States into Session were dead, disabled,
or dislocated. Everyone was confused, and to add to the confusion,
certain members of the victorious Union Army set out to destroy what
remained of the Federation of States.
With
both the American Federation and the Confederation gone, there would be
no American Government operating in international jurisdiction. The
Brits and the Pope and the Lord Mayor could waltz in very quietly and do
whatever they pleased with the vast resources and manpower of this
country.
So
they stole the Great Seals and they attacked, murdered, and caused the
survivors of the Federation and the Federal Republic, both, to flee
westward into the Indian Territories --- and then, they simply lied
about the whole circumstance to the rest of the world.
According
to the Perpetrators, the American Government just vanished into thin
air. It was presumed to be held in abeyance, presumed to be in
interregnum.
As
late as 2015, I had Karen Hudes tell me (with an incredulous look on
her face) that the American Government was "in interregnum". Later that
same year we found the Great Seals at the Federal Reserve Offices in
New York. Still later, they surfaced in the Philippines in the
possession of the Central Bank of the Philippines.
Despite
all this, the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the
Federation of States never forgot the Federation -- and we eventually
fulfilled our mission to call the States of the Union back into Session
in 2015.
Meanwhile,
in their endless and relentless quest to restore the Federal Republic,
the White Hats have arrived on target --- only to have forgotten what
the Federal Republic is. Let us remind them.
The
Federation gave rise to the Confederation and the Confederation gave
rise to the Federal Republic. All three of these organizational
structures belong uniquely to the American Government --- not the
British Territorial Government, not the Papist Municipal Government.
Vestiges
and offices of the Federation have kept alive in the West and far
Northeastern corners of America, and similar vestiges and offices of the
Federal Republic have been kept alive by the GAR, but the Confederation
of States standing between the Federation and the American Federal
Republic has not survived at all.
Only
"the Federation Men" -- the survivors -- remember that the members of
the Confederation were American States-of-States, chartered by each
State of the Union to conduct commercial business for the States. Only
they remember that the Confederation was responsible for the
administration and "good order" of the Federal Republic.
The
modern day Federation of States has cause to know that there are only
two ways to resurrect the actual long-lost American Federal Republic:
(1)
We (meaning the States of the Union) undertake the long-overdue
Reconstruction with a vengeance and resurrect both the Confederation of
American States-of-States and the Federal Republic; or, while we are
doing that, (2) the Federation of States as the source of all the powers
delegated to both the Confederation and the Federal Republic, can run
the Federal Republic directly.
Of
course, we are in sympathy with the GAR and the White Hats. We are
White Hats ourselves, simply at a different level and with a different
mission, which we have pursued -- like them -- for six generations. But
we should all still understand the danger of letting British Territorial
U.S. Citizens claim that they are rebuilding "a" Federal Republic,
because the result will be a British Territorial Federal Republic, not
an American Federal Republic.
The
Brits would be able to play cuckoo-bird again, as they have all these
years with the States-of-States -- substituting their States-of-States
for ours, and proposing to conduct our business "for" us --- again.
We don't propose that that kind of substitution scheme is ever going to happen with the Federal Republic.
We
are competent to resurrect the Federal Republic without any British
Territorial U.S. Citizenry spearheading the action and we additionally
hope to peaceably return the administration of the States-of-States to
American control, too.
Let
this stand as a message to the GAR, the White Hats, their Allies, and
everyone else concerned whose intent is honorable, and whose wish is to
see an honest and restored American Government in place and taking its
seat among the nations of the world.
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