Sunday, April 21, 2024
4763-4765: Touche, Matthew Tucciarone from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
Real
Whistleblowers don't tend to be whiners in my experience, nor do they
have vacillating moral convictions. That rather discredits Matthew
Tucciarone as a Whistleblower in my mind.
More like an Off-tune Whistler, which is a different kind of bird altogether.
He
claims to have run hither-thither to any and all "patriot" groups and
has apparently even mistaken me for a guru. He claims to know me from
way back, but I don't know him, which is another concern.
He
claims that we, myself, David Straight, and half a dozen people I don't
know, are all frauds and in it for the money. Only two characters
named Jack and Margy are good and true.
That's
rather interesting, as I have never charged anyone a dime for my work.
It has all been made available free gratis. I don't even get a penny
from the books available on Amazon -- they are published at cost.
I
can't speak for anyone else, but I outright deny that. And any time
Tucciarone thinks that donations to the cause outstrip the needs, I will
share my "to do" list.
So
who are Jack and Margy? I don't know them. They don't know me. Their
website-type materials show that they are using commercial law
techniques to get people individual relief from the pirates, and if
that's what you are focused on, fine.
One by one, get some relief.
But
notice, I said, "some" relief, because the solutions that Jack and
Margy are offering are like salve on an itch. Fine enough, if you are
content to spend your life in a battle with toenail fungus, but
not serious about preserving your life as a whole.
In
order to exercise commercial solutions, you have to be operating in
commerce, and part of the reason you are in trouble in the first place,
is that there is a presumption (largely unjustified) that you are
operating in federally regulated maritime commerce.
Please focus --- if not for that presumption, you probably wouldn't have an itch to begin with.
So,
using Jack and Margy's methods, you can go in and have a maritime
battle royale and you can use commercial means and arguments to win
cases, but all that really guarantees is that you will continue to have
commercial court fights.
It
also cements the fact that you ARE operating in commerce, and does not
settle the issue of what kind of commerce you are engaging in.
It doesn't set you free.
It
is just one more way of getting out of a legal jam, when there
shouldn't even be a legal jam. The end result is that you get out of one
part of the maze, but stay trapped within the maze itself.
Is
that what you want and need? Just a one-time fix and everything is
fine-fine? Great. Go see Jack and Margy. God bless you, God bless
them.
But I'm in it to win.
A
lot of Americans are being unjustly accused of "statutory infractions"
and dragged into foreign courts and fined and jailed and harassed ---
it's revenue for the pirates, and this kind of activity fleecing people
for corporate profits is just going to increase.
So feel free to resist in any venue whatsoever.
But I am not offering any "silver bullet" for speeding tickets or magic tricks to solve divorce settlements.
That's
not what The American States Assembly is about, and I am sorry if
Matthew Tucciarone assumed otherwise. Let's make it explicit for him
and everyone else.
My
efforts and the efforts of all those with me, are aimed at long term
solutions for everyone -- broad spectrum and systemic solutions brought
about by the restoration of the American Government to its proper form
and function.
We
are not concentrating on individual court cases; instead, we are
concentrating on setting up our own common law court system, so that we
all come under the form of law we are owed, and get permanent relief
from 80 million possible statutory infractions.
It's our right to do it, and we are exercising that right.
Think
of it--- all of us permanently freed from the scourge these courts
represent, because they will be replaced with American Common Law
Courts, instead.
No more Hired Jurists sitting like God on a bench (bank) making arbitrary decisions based on their "discretion".
No more motive to pass more and more and more oppressive statutory laws.
No more struggle and expense to enforce all these foreign "laws".
No more millions of Americans being harmed everyday.
No more pillaging and plundering of constructive public trusts.
No more fights with the toenail fungus, because the fungus itself will be gone.
What a concept!
That's what we are working on.
That
isn't to say that the Admiralty and Maritime courts will disappear, but
they will be, as they are meant to be, courts of strictly limited
jurisdiction.
If
you don't understand the actual goal of an individual or organization,
it's unfair to criticize them because you, personally, had other goals
in mind or because you held your own incorrect assumptions about what
they were doing.
Like
Matthew Tucciarone, who is, apparently, one of those people looking for
a quick fix for his own problem and not thinking beyond that to fixing
the whole problem.
Unfortunately,
there are a lot of guys out there with their head halfway into a
cranial insertion, because they suddenly fetched up with a speeding
ticket, a DUI, a divorce, a child custody problem, an insurance claim,
etc., etc., etc. and they expect me, personally, or the Assembly
process, to fix it for them.
They
don't want to analyze the problem. They don't want to know the history
of the problem. They don't really want to fix the problem once and for
all.
They
want out of their particular dilemma and they want it now, because
their personal titty is in the wringer. And as soon as they have
relief, they are content to forget about their ugly experience with the
"law", go back to their couch, and shut it out of their minds, leaving
the actual problem fully functional and intact and ruining more lives
every day of the week.
Not
so the rest of us. We've had enough. We've analyzed the problem. We
know the history. And we are bent on ending the problem -- root, stem,
and leaf, once and for all, for everyone.
We know that the only peaceable and just solution is to restore our own courts to full function.
So that's what we are doing.
That's also what we are advertising about what we are doing.
So, Matthew Tucciarone and all those like him have no excuse for expecting instant solutions for their individual problems.
We aren't in the Quick Fix business. That's for people like Jack and Margy.
That
said, let me observe -- what we aim for with the Assembly process, is a
far greater and permanent solution, bettering the lives of millions of
people all across the board. It's a solution that actually does fix the
problem -- it just fixes the problem, permanently, for everyone.
Matthew
Tucciarone and all the guys like him just have to expand their hearts
and their minds and then they won't be "disappointed" because they were
looking for a quick fix and butted up against the greater challenge of a
permanent fix, instead.
So,
I am disappointed, when I take my car into the shop for a front end
alignment and find out that I need a new transmission instead. Who
wouldn't say, "Ouch!" to that?
But
I don't blame the mechanic. I don't accuse him of being crooked and
money grubbing because my first gear won't shift into second. I deal
with the actual problem, the funky transmission.
It's
the same way with the current court system. It's broken. It needs to be
fixed. It's going to be expensive. It's going to take a lot of effort.
But at the end of the day, we'll be able to go where we want to go and
do what we want to do again.
People
like Matthew need to focus outward on the far bigger picture and get
beyond themselves and their needs and their petty suspicions and their
pet peeves. And get their oar in the water to help instead of being a
detriment.
At
the American States Assembly, we are restoring our traditional and
customary government, including the court system we are owed. That is
what we are doing in the broad open air for everyone to see, and there
should be no misunderstanding about that.
And no slimy unjust accusations, either.
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The Tree and Its Branches: Chapter Two
By Anna Von Reitz
The
Belchers have, as a whole and throughout the last several centuries,
been blessed with a very large family of skilled workmen who were also
skilled farmers and by day or night, also possessed additional skills --
they, in their "spare time" after high school, acquired training as
lawyers, engineers, linguists, theologians, surveyors, architects,
biologists, chemists, and other professions.
This
family tradition of having both a skilled trade and a profession served
them well. In hard times, they could always find work, no matter
what. As tradesmen they kept in touch with the work life of honest
laborers, and as professionals, they could walk among the elite.
This
tradition has followed down the years so that my husband is a highly
skilled fisherman and sea captain (as his trade) and fine artist of
national reputation, having been a Signature Member of the Oil Painters
of America, the oil painters equivalent of the National Watercolor
Society.
Whether
homely or rarified, the Belcher men slip seamlessly into their
environment, humble with the humble, and comfortable with the great men
of society, having trained both their hands and brains.
In
this process, they also train their hearts, and develop the habit of
picking up skills whenever the opportunity presents itself.
My
husband, for example, can sew. He can build things, be it cabins or
cabinets. He can make and smoke sausages, brew whiskey, rebuild motors,
grow a garden, macrame a net, tie any kind of knot, operate a ham radio
station, run a road grader.... and so the list goes on and on, of
skills he "just picked up" along the way.
His
ancestor at the time of the Revolution, William Belcher, was a similar
character, being a "jack of all trades and master of some". He fit
easily into the company of officers and statesmen surrounding General
Washington, but had the practical skills needed in the field, too.
It's
a rare combination then or now, because people tend to specialize and
live their lives either as workman or professionals; the Belchers
contrive to do both and thereby gain a wider range of usefulness and a
deeper insight into life.
In
such a way, a man becomes a master of himself and rises easily to
become a popular leader among other men, simply because his own life
broadens his view and hones his edge until other men can respect him and
trust him on more than one level.
His
loyalty to and love of family recommends him. His knowledgeable care of
land and animals also speaks well of him. His many skills are a
benefit to all those around him. His deep understanding of life viewed
from different perspectives is comforting and healing. His professional
and intellectual abilities inspire admiration.
With
such a tradition of hard work, adaptability, enterprise, and
self-responsibility behind them, the Belchers were particularly
well-suited to life in the New World, and quick to adapt to its peculiar
challenges. They were also well-adapted to cope and survive the
challenges presented by the Civil War Conflict.
In
the Southern States and the then-Western States of Tennessee and
Kentucky, the Southern Belchers regrouped and recouped. Some of them
drifted away from their British and Anglican roots and became affirmed
Southern Baptists, while the more traditional members of the family
established the first Anglican Congregations and, awash with many new
cultural influences, firmed up their commitment to their British and
Church of England roots.
The
Northern Branch which continued to live in the Northeastern United
States and down the Coast to Virginia, then drifting Westward with the
rest of the country, was overall more given to intellectual and academic
pursuits.
The Northern
Belchers embraced a variety of religions, some remaining steadfast
members of the Church of England, but others becoming
Transcendentalists, Buddhists, Hindus, and especially in Maryland and
Virginia, Catholics. They took on a sense of identity that was not
dependent on their British heritage, and if anything, harkened further
back to their Norman French ancestors and culture.
These
gradual changes further solidified the drifting apart of the two
branches of the family; what started with a philosophical debate about
God's Law (the freewill of mankind -- slavery issue) versus Man's Law
(the rightful exercise of contracts -- secession issue) ultimately led
to the two branches being separated by physical space, and increasingly,
separated by culture and religion.
The
conservative largely Anglophilic Southern Branch of the family has
grown in numbers and popularity in the Appalachian and Southeastern
United States, Tennessee, and Kentucky, where the name is both common
and beloved.
The
Northeastern Church of England remnant continues to live in the very
place where the family first arrived in this country: Boston and
surrounding Counties, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, but
the numbers of Boston Brahmins and Rhode Island Sea Captains has
dwindled and today, only a very few of the original Massachusetts Belchers remain.
In
between, what we might call the southern part of the Northern Branch
has been decimated in numbers, too, though there are towns still named
after the Belchers in West Virginia and traces of them throughout the
Mid-Atlantic region, they've largely moved on with their customary
wanderlust leading them westward, even, as in our case, to Alaska.
After
416 years in this country, and 542 years in England before that, the
Norman French Belle Cher Clan has undergone massive changes. The
hereditary leadership has changed, too, with each successive encounter
with new cultures adding their value to the grand American adventure and
new meaning to the name.
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A Tree and It's Branches: Chapter One
By Anna Von Reitz
By
sharing information about James, my husband, and his family, I hope to
satisfy an understandable curiosity about early America and how our
current situation came to be. Instead of starting at the beginning in
1608, when the first American Belcher helped build the first permanent
dock in Boston Harbor, I am starting in the middle in order to cast more
light and sooner on our present situation.
Be
patient then, as we shall endeavor to work the middle out to both ends,
and provide a satisfying portrait overall. To begin....
Benjamin
Belcher had fifty (50) children, one for every State of the Union. He
did this honestly, with three young wives. The children were all born in
wedlock and all loved and brought up according to good standards at the
time; the girls were educated through at least Eighth Grade with some
completing High School and at least two completing College. The boys
were each taught a trade and expected to pursue at least one branch of
Higher Learning.
This
meant that Belcher men could always earn a skilled living for their
families, as accomplished tradesmen, if all else failed. But they were
also college men, able to debate and keep accounts, enter into
philosophical and religious discussions, and more often than not, rise
to prominence in one of the professions.
Being
able to physically, mentally, and spiritually support a family was seen
as a primary goal in one's personal life, and it's a good thing,
because Benjamin was called upon to be a Father and a Good Father to
fifty men and women who would face all the same challenges we all face,
at a time that was especially traumatic for the Belcher Family as a
whole.
Benjamin,
who was named ultimately after Ben Franklin, and his large flock of
children, lived in what became West Virginia in 1863 in the middle of
the Civil War. This lovely wild corner of Virginia favored the North,
while the rest of the State favored the South.
This
oddly mirrored the situation within Benjamin himself. He sided with
the South on the issue of Secession and with the North on the issue of
slavery. As always among the Belchers, discerning "the heart of the
issue" was paramount, and justice an overriding concern.
In
the end, the moral issue of slavery presented a greater concern than
the more legalistic issue of secession, and the Belchers overall came
down on the side of the North, but it was a very hard choice for the
Patriarchs of the family and they never lost sympathy and understanding
for their Southern neighbors and individual family members who sided
with the South. After the War, they worked hard to mend fences and ease
the pain, but a permanent split had been engendered.
From
then on, there would be the Northern Belchers and the Southern
Belchers, and though peace would reign and love would overcome, the
Family Tree was split in two branches along the lines compelled by the
Civil War Conflict. The Southern Belchers spread along the vast expanse
leading west through the Cumberland Gap and down into the Southern
States of Georgia and Florida and from their perspective at the time,
the Western States of Tennessee and Kentucky.
Most
of Benjamin Belcher's children either stayed in West Virginia or headed
west. A couple of them made it all the way to California, but the
largest contingent of new pilgrims settled in Tennessee and Kentucky,
where the beauty of the land and the pastureland for horses and cattle,
seemed like "a new Garden of Eden".
Over
many decades the Northern and Southern branches have largely lost track
of each other, each one following a difficult path of their own: the
Southern Branch bearing the brunt of the British Territorial predation
following the Civil War Conflict, and the Northern Branch suffering a
different, but nonetheless potent brand of the same evil.
While
the Southern Belchers were taxed to death and impoverished and suffered
every kind of social and economic hardship, the Northern Belchers were
set upon by barely disguised Union Troops in civilian clothing,
ambushed, attacked, slandered, burned out, and in some cases, forced to
flee -- not because of the Civil War, but because of their part in the
Original Government, which the Union Army Generals and their British
Territorial partners sought to displace behind a smokescreen of
confusion following the armed hostilities.
Having
been separated by physical distance and the Great Conflict, the two
branches of the family formed during and immediately after the Lincoln
Administration would not be in close proximity again for over a century
and a half.
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