Having
a Road Map to go forward in a practical manner with a job like
constructing the parts of a State Assembly is the equivalent of having a
blueprint --- it still matters how you do the work, the order in which
you do it, and the "materials" you use. Please note that a house built
of plastic, is still plastic, and the ends don't justify the means.
"Yes,
Paul, I can and I did. (Remove him from being a Coordinator and
dissolve the Assembly -- again.) I have had to do it before in
Michigan, in California, and Missouri, when they got wildly off track.
We, in America, don’t kill freedom in the name of protecting it.
You may have had the best intentions, you may have faced some extraordinary circumstance, but the means to an end DO matter.
Remember, “I may not agree with what you say, Sir, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it”?
No
actual good can come from denying people their basic rights as
enumerated in The Bill of Rights, no greater goal is promoted by
constant surveillance and making assumptions about their intentions —
haven’t you ever read about the right to privacy, Paul?
Or “Innocent until proven guilty”?
You’ve
been making allegations and accusations and throwing people out of
their own Assembly for sins like having coffee with a neighbor.
Look
at what you have said about Amy Hunt, even after I told you no, she is
innocent of any such malarkey. I named her because she still has the
right attitude toward her fellowman.
You,
Paul, have been trained as an attack dog and that is not what we are
doing here. It’s not that I don’t like you. It’s not that I don’t
appreciate your service. Or your many technical and organizational
talents.
But
we are not at war. Any “enemies” are pretty much limited to FBI Agents
and Snitches and we don’t worry about them too much. We just keep our
skirts clean and don’t promote violence or let anyone promote violence
to us. Let them look all they want. Let them listen to every phone
call and read every email
They might learn something. They might even switch lanes. It has been known to happen.
We
do have a FEW out of school CIA and ONI operatives embedded around the
country, but they are not politicking — they are just listening and
scavenging information about topics of interest. So let them.
We don’t mind giving them a free education.
Our
focus, as a result, isn’t on identifying infiltrators or, more to the
point, imagining them behind every bush. Look at the long list of
people including me that you have labeled “infiltrators”.
A little voice should be saying, no, Paul, this isn’t the Cold War and we are not Enemy Combatants.
Do
you seriously believe that any of us work for any foreign agency or
government or have any interest in undermining work that we ourselves
have set in motion?
No.
We are Americans who are muddling along learning our traditional values
and history and form of law — and restoring our government in the
process.
Numerous
assumptions you have made simply are not correct. We don’t operate on
or offer contracts. That’s the Other Guys. That’s how THEY operate.
Coordinators are civilian volunteers — not commanders.
Coming home should be joyous and welcoming and comforting, but you have created an atmosphere of fear and suspicion, instead.
That’s
just more of the same old gulag-style “occupied territory” crap that we
don’t want or need, and that we are moving beyond now.
Mom and Pop are occupying their own territory again, and that’s a good thing long overdue.
From the beginning I have described as what we are doing as a rescue mission for all Americans. All.
Picture
them all, flailing in the water, about to drown— and we hove into view
in our old three-masted sailing ship with a skeleton crew just in time.
It
may seem ridiculous to some in an age of cell phones and surveillance
satellites, but what is true in Law remains true. Rights really ARE
unalienable. And when you are out in the middle of the ocean any boat
that floats is boat enough to praise God for.
We,
Paul, are manning that old Ship of State. And it’s the Federation
exercising the American Admiralty that is making it possible, so stop
kicking the Federation and stop pretending that we aren’t doing our
job.
If we weren’t, the whole assembly process wouldn’t be here. Absolutely none of this would be going on.
Part
of our (unwanted and extra, by the way) duty is to guide the States
through the process of assembling and because it hasn’t been done in a
while, that is proving difficult. Add in the effects of a lifetime
spent under the heels of foreign governments it’s damn near impossible
for people to “just know” who they are and how things are supposed to
work.
Imagine
my dismay when after making this Herculean effort to go out on the High
Seas to rescue these precious people, to find you still barring their
way? Denying and controlling access to their most basic rights? Their
right to participate in their own government — in a self-governing
nation. Their right to free speech and expression. Their right to free
association (they can talk to and associate with anyone they like.).
Their right to equal treatment. Their right to privacy.
You’ve
been trampling over people who have rights equal to your own, and using
misrepresented claims of positional authority to do it.
Teri
should have taught you that Coordinators are all ASNs. They are all
volunteers from their States. They work with both the Federation and
the local Assembly members to build the organizational structures of the
traditional and customary American State Assembly.
And
that’s it. Coordinators are not meant to be autocrats or bureaucrats,
either one. They are meant to function as neighbors, and as friends to
all parties involved in this process. There are no “sides”.
Like building a barn, it’s a job to be done.
It’s
a thoroughly civilian effort open to people of all kinds from all
races, creeds, political persuasions and religions, who stand as
traditional Americans claiming their birthright and reversionary trust
interest.
And
they don’t have to agree about everything and move in lock-step to
agree about the one thing that counts. They are Americans who take their
nationality from their State of the Union and stand together to
exercise their rights and their freedoms for the common good.
They are The Michigan Assembly.
Treasure
them and cherish that, but also realize that you were way off course
and treating people badly and denying them their most basic rights in
the name of The Michigan Assembly—- and there are few things I can think
of more wrong-headed than that."
--
Aaron, when I was a little girl, I was confused about what a "church"
was. I saw the building and I heard people refer to it as a church, so,
of course, I figured I knew what a church was. It was only later that
my Mother explained that no, the actual "church" was the people, not the
building.
It's the people that ARE The Michigan Assembly -- not the business structure.
I
also want you to know that contrary to what is being alleged by Paul,
that I am just acting off-the-cuff, irrationally, or without evidence of
what I say, or that I am being influenced by liars and cheats and
propagandists -- I want you to know that we have video and audio
confirmation that Paul said and did these things -- infringing on the
rights of other Michiganders -- so it's not up for debate.
Indeed,
if you ever stopped and listened to the lengthy preamble to every
meeting, the one that drones on and on about what you can and cannot say
and how long you can speak and what behaviors are tolerated and even
dictates the "emotionless" manner in which you can speak --- and thought
about it --- you would realize that the most basic rights of the people
were being unreasonably and brutally abridged --in the name of what? A
Roadmap?
Where
does it say, in any Roadmap I purportedly approved, that it's okay to
deprive people of their freedom of speech and association? To dictate
their freedom of expression and limit their communications to
"emotionless" delivery? And who is to decide what is properly
emotionless or not? What gives that person the right to make such
judgments? Does any "Roadmap" --- any piece of paper, ever, confer such
authority?
No.
That's not the American Way.
Neither
is surveillance of others, the building of dossiers detailing who they
speak to, who they have coffee with, or other violations of privacy and
freedom of association. Pardon me, Aaron, but Americans, including
Michiganders, can talk to whoever they wish, whenever, about any topic.
It's not up to Paul Peterson. Or you. Or me.
And
it is not up to Paul Peterson to arbitrarily "remove" people from their
own State Assembly. I have made it perfectly clear on many, many
occasions that State Assemblies are public government institutions, not private clubs. Every Michigander has the right to participate in their State Government.
The
only exception is temporary time-outs because of disruptive "drunk and
disorderly" behavior or behavior that willfully impedes the conduct of
business (seeking to displace the Agenda without urgent cause, for
example) and even in these cases, time-outs are meant to be progressive
-- meaning that you identify the particular behavior and how that is
causing disruption and you discuss it with the person and you give them a
time-out for a few days. If they do it again, you go through the same
process and put them in a longer time-out.
Such
discipline as we have reflects the equal right of the other members to
not waste their time -- for example, listening to drunken rants and
having their intended business left unaddressed. Time outs are not
meant to be weaponized and used to deprive people of their right to
participate and be heard, or to suppress politically unpopular concerns.
All of that and more was going on in Michigan.
We,
our American Government, doesn't use contracts to force anything on
anyone. That's the Other Guys. Our most basic freedom, the freedom not
to serve the government, is the keystone upon which all other freedoms
depend.
In
other countries, people are bound to serve their government at birth.
There is no choice in that matter, and so, they are never free. One of
the halcyon differences between this country and others, is that we
individually make the choice of when and if and to what extent we will
serve our own government.
So
telling Michiganders that they have to sign a contract before they can
be members of their State Assembly is at best a vast misrepresentation
and imposition. Michiganders are free to serve their government -- or
not -- on their own terms.
A
simple agreement to abide by clearly stated standards of behavior isn't
a contract of obligation to commercial penalties or performances. It's
what used to be called "a gentleman's agreement" --- a freewill, good
faith, handshake agreement to maintain the peace and respect the equal
rights of others, for example. That's the kind of "Membership Agreement"
the American Government anticipates, not a lengthy, crippling, contract
designed to circumscribe the very freedoms that the members of The
Michigan Assembly are owed.
All
of that --and more-- was inappropriate and arbitrary "interpretation"
of the Roadmap, and quite apart from the Roadmap itself.
As
for Amy Hunt, she has the right attitude toward people, that
indefinable quality of the Right Stuff for the job at hand. She is
reasonable, thoughtful, fair-minded, and strives to do the right thing
in a consistent fashion. I have observed her on several occasions --
difficult situations -- and she has always been a servant of the people
and a peacemaker, which is badly needed.
She
did not undermine Paul's administration. She did not put herself
forward as his replacement. She was startled when I named her "out of
the blue". It was not discussed prior to the action being undertaken. I
need and Michigan needs someone of such prudent and even-temper and
good intent, to be that kindly and welcoming source of comfort and
common sense that one associates with coming home.
Many
of our people are wounded, some beyond repair. Nobody needs to endure
more trauma at the hands of those who are supposed to be rescuing
them.
As
for the Federation "meddling" in the affairs of a sovereign state, that
is not what we are doing. It is our (unasked for and unhappy extra)
duty to guide the State Assemblies through the assembling process on top
of doing our own work at a difficult time in history. So we are doing
it, and everyone concerned can thank God that we are.
It's
because we are on duty that good people who acted in good faith in
Missouri are being helped to get their paperwork done and bank accounts
established. People in California aren't giving their hearts and money
to another British substitute government. People in Utah are safe and
not being set up as "dangerous insurrectionists". And people in
Michigan aren't suffering severance from their most basic rights and
freedoms, in the name of sovereignty, but not in its service.
Take
a look and you will see that the Federation of States has been behind
each and every development and action in your favor. The Federation
summoned the States into Session. The Federation has steadfastly guided
and guarded your progress toward full restoration of self-governance.
Seen
against this background, it should be apparent that all this
self-interested posturing about interfering in state sovereignty by
those engaged in activities that seek to endanger and undermine that
same sovereignty inherent in each and every one of you, is just another
attempt to blame others for their own missteps and accuse others of what
they have, self-evidently, done themselves.
The
philosopher and writer, Hannah Arendt, famously observed that "we
become what we hate". We focus on what we hate. We learn from what we
hate. We adopt the practices, subconsciously, of what we hate. And
then, we become what we hate, and visit all the same violence and
criminality that we have suffered ourselves, on others.
That
is not a pattern of behavior that the Federation of States will fall
heir to, and it is not something that any State Assembly should be
subject to, either.
We have remembered the past and are not destined to relive it.
Very sincerely yours,
Anna Maria
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GOSPEL (John
XVI. 5‑14.) At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: I go to him that
sent me: and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou? But because I
have spoken these things to you, sorrow hath filled your heart. But I
tell you the truth: it is expedient to you that I go; for if I go not,
the Paraclete will not come to you: but if I go, I will send him to you.
And when he is come, he will convince the world of sin, and of justice,
and of judgment. Of sin, because they believed not in me: and of
justice, because I go to the Father, and you shall see me no longer: and
of judgment, because the prince of this world is already judged. I have
yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when
he, the, Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth; for he
shall not speak of himself; but what things soever he shall hear, he
shall speak, and the things that are to come he shall show you. He shall
glorify me, because he shall receive of mine, and shall show it to you.
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