4792: A Life Review from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
People
returning from Near Death Experiences often report going through a
"life review process" in which they endure experiencing their recently
expired life from both sides of painful interactions, seeing not only
what they did, but how their actions impacted others --- in both good
and bad ways --- that they never knew about at the time.
Through
a glass and darkly, I put myself through a similar review to the extent
that I can make such an effort with only one point of view and I think
about the Biblical warnings against being hard hearted, haughty,
uncaring, selfish, ungrateful, and hypocritical.
As
I have gotten older, my errors have changed their kind and character. I
am no longer impatient or contemptuous of my fellowman, as youth can
be; nor am I selfish in my pursuits, having had as many good things and
experiences as anyone could reasonably wish for, I can acquit myself of
those sorts of mistakes.
It
isn't in my character, in youth or old age, to be a hypocrite; I
somehow never had that propensity. Likewise, ingratitude is foreign to
my nature, which is always grateful for every ray of sunshine and every
drop of rain, whether I say so or not.
Silence on that score should never be taken for lack of gratitude, as thousands of notes and emails can attest.
No,
I try my best and I fail, but my heart is in the right place and can be
acquitted for the frailty of the flesh and the limits of time granted
to me for my personal life. I must at some point throw up my hands and
keep focused on the work, so I do, even though I would rather be writing
thank you notes and cards and letters.
As
I get older my sins tend to be of this kind, where time and
circumstance rather than hardness of heart is in my way, and omission or
failure to perform in other ways, also seems to be the order of the
day. There is simply too much coming at me, and so I struggle to keep
focused on my work, my actual work, and pray that I am not going two
steps forward and three steps back, for all my failures to meet other
needs.
I
also note that rather than any of Satan's usual temptations I've
arrived at the point in my life where it's my virtues that are targeted
for exploitation.
The situation in Michigan is a case study for that.
Paul
Peterson, the former Coordinator, came to us from the CIA, which is not
a good recommendation overall, as the Agency is well-known for
employing brilliant con men whose life-work runs counter to any
aspirations of mine.
Still,
even those returning home from the Agencies deserve their rights and
property as Americans; it is not my part to know or judge the soul when
it is ready and willing to turn the corner and go in a new direction.
Many of our senior volunteers have come from sordid backgrounds. So I
accepted Paul as a Coordinator, knowing his past, but believing in his
future.
This
is where our virtues are sometimes used against us and sometimes come
to naught, wasted on stony ground. A purely intellectual evaluation
would have instantly disqualified Paul from acting as a Coordinator, but
a more seasoned wisdom makes its errors in the other direction, more in
favor of the heart.
So I welcomed him and trusted him to make good on his potential as a Coordinator and hoped he'd be able to change his spots.
Still,
the habits and methods and assumptions of a lifetime are hard to
overcome, and pressed with the challenges of a wholly new situation, a
whole new context from which to view "the government" -- well, better
men have failed that test.
You
can blame me, if you wish, because I knew that and welcomed Paul home
anyway. I knew the danger and waived it, in order to give him a
chance.
The
leopard remained a leopard; no huge surprises there. We all have our
challenges. It matters less whether we win or lose on any specific
occasion and more that we keep trying to change those things about
ourselves that are holding us back.
Rather,
the Big Surprise is in the manner in which he revealed this failure to
me and everyone else -- which is in the clear misunderstanding and
perhaps deliberate misinterpretation of something I have endlessly
explained:
Our right and responsibility to enforce the Constitutions on our Federal Employees.
It
is the responsibility of the Federation of States and our member States
as the Principals signing the American side of the Constitutions -- as
contracts -- to enforce the provisions of those contracts.
We
ordered up the eighteen services and we pay for those services; our
Federal Employees provide the services. If they don't provide the
services and observe the limits of our agreements, it's our role as
Employers to enforce the Constitutions.
We
do not stand under those contracts ourselves; the Constitutions define
the roles and set the limits for our various Federal Employees -- people
like Paul, not for the General Public.
This
is perhaps why it is so difficult for former Federal Employees to grasp
the fact that the Federation is not "Federal" and is not operating
under the Constitutions and isn't foreign with respect to the States of
the Union.
Paul
has tried to make an argument that his State, Michigan, is sovereign
and that he is sovereign, and departed from there into a Never-Never
Land of unlimited personal and statutory power that doesn't exist.
Everyone
else standing on the land and soil of Michigan is just as "sovereign"
as he is, a fact that he apparently forgot when he started dictating
what training they could receive and what offices they could aspire
to.
And
it is true that Michigan is a sovereign State, one of fifty such
sovereign States, operating as a member State of the Federation of
States. As a member of the Federation, Michigan inherits obligations as
well as rights and benefits and protections. It doesn't get to wave its
flag and proclaim despotism, for example.
If
The Michigan Assembly is an American State Assembly, it has to meet
certain requirements and stay true to certain principles and values
espoused by the actual American Government --- freedom of speech and
association, freedom of religion, and the right to privacy among them.
Paul
doesn't get to trample on the equal and guaranteed rights of anyone
else and neither does The Michigan Assembly. Whatever power you lack as
an individual also carries over to a group of such individuals.
Every
iota of the Bill of Rights and more is vouchsafed to the people of
Michigan, and any Coordinator and the organization as a whole has to
realize and provide for this.
Otherwise, they are acting as District Assemblies while pretending to be American State Assemblies.
Our obligation to enforce the Federal Constitutions applies to the Federal Subcontractors.
It should be obvious that one does not enter a service contract with oneself.
The Federation is the Employer. The Federal Government Subcontractors defined by the Constitutions are the Employees.
The
whole reason the Subcontractors are described as "Federal" in the first
place is that they are supposed to work for us, the Federation of
States, and employ powers delegated to them by the Federation.
To
the extent that the Federal Subcontractors fail their duty to perform,
the Federation and its member States are, or should be, the first line
of defense for the people of this country, and the only ones who are
Parties to the contracts in dispute. So, also, we are the only ones who
can enforce against the Federal Subcontractors.
They can hardly be expected to enforce against themselves.
It
has been men like Paul, Federal Employees and Agents, who have kept
the Federation and its member States out of action, moth-balled, so that
the same Federal Subcontractors and Agents could run wild and evade
their obligations under the Constitutions.
Paul
deprived the people of Michigan of their natural and unalienable
rights; he terrorized them with arbitrary rules and surveillance and
political payback if they didn't comply and agree with his every
directive.
This is not opinion. This is well-established and investigated fact.
In doing this, he assumed the role of a Federal Agent lording it over the Sheep, not the role of an American
preserving his heritage of freedom for himself and everyone else.
And
he then tried to pretend that this is what our Federation of States is
about, that we are lording it over our member States, that we can't be
trusted -- when it is apparent who couldn't be trusted.
We didn't tell him to trample on the basic rights of the people in Michigan; he did that on his own initiative.
We
didn't abrogate free speech and association. We didn't instruct him to
surveil members or bully anyone. He did that on his own.
We
didn't advocate creating a "Road Map" and using it as a means to get
rid of people. We didn't tell anyone that they could "never" be a
member of their own State Government.
None of that came from the Federation, nor is it any representation of the American Tradition.
Paul
apparently thinks that Americans are so stupid they can't keep the
difference between "Federation" and "Federal" straight, and that they
will blame the Federation for the things that the Federal Government
Subcontractors have done--- including what he has done in Michigan.
He
then also illegally and unlawfully surveilled the members and would-be
members of The Michigan Assembly, seeking proof that they were
"infiltrators" -- in order to blackball people and keep them from
participating in their own State Government.
He
was and is using all the same old tactics -- blame the victims,
misrepresent yourself as the victim, make sure the victim gets blamed
for your own bad actions, maintain power at any cost, twist the meaning
of words, confuse identities, etc.
But
we've seen it all before, including the attempt to build and substitute
a British Territorial District Assembly for its American counterpart.
Enough
said, folks. Let's move on. Our Federation is part of the American
Government, not the U.S. Government. We are not to be confused with the
Federal Subcontractors.
Anyone
who tramples your rights into the dirt while proclaiming himself to be
sovereign and whoever proposes to save freedom by destroying it, is
obviously playing for the Other Team.
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