By now, everyone has heard "the tape", what was actually said at a Continental Marshals meeting, and much to my regret, everyone involved has taken the bait and let all their most petty, base, and egotistical impulses run free.
When something like this happens, and people don't have any common sense, the sphere of the drama they create expands until someone pops the blister.
Yes, I retired Paul Pappas because of the tape and what it revealed about his leadership and the stagnation and negativity of the Continental Marshals program overall. The whole meeting was devoted to gossip and nay-saying, name-calling, and making inappropriate suppositions.
Paul, we have arrived at a crux. It is the end of a long and painful process. Please send to the rest of the Marshals so everyone gets the information and is on the same page.
I just listened to an hour and a half of the most disappointing dialogue -- the contents of a meeting of the Continental Marshals Service.
Nasty, paranoid, babyish bullshit from grown men who are still deeply indoctrinated in the de facto system and the de facto way of thinking.
Whining. Blaming. Distorting facts.
The Continental Marshals Service has had a Mission Statement since May 15th 2015. If you don't have any long or short term goals to accomplish your mission after eleven years, shame on you. Shows a truly amazing lack of initiative and self-accountability on your parts.
Shannon Bookey trained the Continental Marshals to do vetting and they then trained the Assembly Vetting Committees. Self-evidently, the Federation that trained you to do vetting and which vetted each and every one of you, is competent to vet the PKTF members, too.
Insulting Boyd Adams and calling him a "reject"? Boyd Adams has more actual law enforcement experience than any of you. Criticizing him because he refused to pay taxes he doesn't owe and put himself and his house at risk to prove the point and force the issue? Where is any similar courage that any of you have displayed?
You don't understand that me being evicted from my house was exactly the same stand for the same reasons. We did the actual work and suffered the actual cost of opposing the machine. Because real leaders take stands -- wisely -- on principle.
As of today, my house and land is being returned to me. I don't know the condition of Boyd's case, but he stands to have his assets returned, too. Why? Because we went through the pain and blazed the way for millions of other Americans.
And there you sit, all smug and safe, poo-poohing Boyd and I for having guts enough to do the actual work and taking the actual risk? Shame on you again.
Regarding your "commissions" -- they aren't "commissions". They are Letters of Appointment. Commissions are what you get as naval officers and I trust that the point is taken that we are on dry land.
When things first got started, I invested $8000 out of my own pocket and another matching amount in donation money, a total of $16,000 in matching flak jackets and embroidered shoulder patches and basic gear for the Marshals to use as uniforms and carry gear. That, by the way, is how most of this got funded, half out of my pocket, half out of donations.
Paul has been around long enough to remember the shoulder patches-- he didn't like them. I also ordered stars -- one of which formed the design basis to the star that Paul recently received. All that and more was shipped to Texas, where it promptly disappeared into a black hole and never got distributed by Eric Dingus -- another reason he is no longer with us.
So the idea that the Marshals were left unsupported is off-base. You were supported right from the start by me and by Jim and by your fellow Americans who saw the value of having such a service in place. And then other things happened and other needs came. And all you guys can do is still sit around and complain and wait for the hand of God to make your moves for you.
I guess the idea that you could sit down together and choose a flak jacket in a color you all like, and ask for the funding to buy them, and maybe design a shoulder patch for yourselves, is just too much to expect. Hell, you might even give some consideration to what kind of service sidearms you want and what kind of rifles and what kinds of ammo and calibers and what goes into the kit bag in a Continental Marshal's car and come to that, what make, model, and kind of car do you want? Have you even begun to consider developing a communication system? Or even multiple ways to communicate during a disaster?
Have you each scoped out the states within your Region and figured out the topography and highway systems and railroads and airfields analyzed where the logical operation hubs need to be? Have you visited each State Assembly and asked for a few minutes on the agenda to introduce yourself and explain your job and jurisdiction?
Oh, silly me! I thought that was the kind of thing that you would all be seriously engaged in and thinking about, and more importantly, doing.
Because just having all of you make the effort and having you explain the difference between the "Federal" Government and the "Federation" would do a lot to calm fears of the ignorant among us, and explain who you are and your status as an ASN in your own State, and what kinds of crimes the Marshals are here to address -- would go a long way toward building understanding and support for the Marshals and the Federation and what we are trying to accomplish.
And as for the Federal Courts in each Postal Area they come into Session when there are cases. You haven't been generating any investigations, so no need to have courts sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
The rest of us are putting pedal to metal not standing around making excuses for why not. We are doing it, despite obstacles, despite lack of funding, despite gossip and nay-saying, yes, despite hell and high water. And despite being targeted and widowed and evicted from my house, goddammit, I am still here, still working and still praying and still making headway. Pardon me, if I expect you to do the same.
And I don't expect to hear any snide jokes about "Anna's next husband", either. The irony is, that even if I were done mourning Jim, which I am not, and may not ever be -- and even if I met Mr. Wonderful and had him boxed up under a Christmas tree, I couldn't marry anyone new and still act as Fiduciary, because under certain laws, in certain important jurisdictions, my new husband would inherit my estate and I would no longer be in control of my own assets, much less anyone else's. So. You'd better pray I continue to be self-sacrificing in the romance department, because I am one of exactly three people on Earth who can sort this crap out.
I have to be the most "transparent" and most reluctant leader in modern history, because I tell you flat out who I am and what I go through and I don't mince words about it.
Telling you the blow-by-blow with the ETs doesn't get me any credibility, but I tell you anyway. I've admitted all sorts of "damaging" things -- deep personal nearly lifelong friendship with a retired MI6 Agent, seven years of free gratis work doing Due Process work for Pope Benedict XVI to lay the groundwork for restoring our government, my position as a Senior Field Commander and Officer member of the Galactic Council--- all sorts of stuff that in some circles earns me horns and a tail. But guess what? I am telling you the truth. There's no "damaging secrets" with me, because I just let it all hang out.
I told the FBI to stare up my skirt until they see Jesus and I meant it. And I will say the same thing to you. Giving you myself to investigate might at least get you off your asses and investigating something.
Maybe you can figure a way to compensate me for roughly 87,000 hours of highly skilled work and pay back several million dollars worth of other "contributions" Jim and I made to the Cause since 1997, and while you are at it, wake up enough to realize that when I ask for $150,000 I might get $25,000 and have to find some way, somehow, to make it all work via Divine Providence.
Do you know how I got our delegation to the UN in New York? In a rattle trap 2005 Ford Expedition driving across the entire country mostly in snowstorms. The radiator gave out. The timing belt fried. They had to lay over four days in places you never heard of waiting for parts. Count that another victory and acts of heroism, because none of these folks were young. They went anyway.
The donations were too lean to send them like other delegates, First Class, in an airplane. Instead of an eight hour flight each way, they slogged across on four wheels and it took twenty-one days round trip. "We", the Americans, arrived looking pretty exhausted and haggard, but we arrived within the stipulated time limits just the same.
Same thing for our European Mission. Seat of the pants, even for delegates living in Europe, because of the sheer cost of travel and accommodations in places like Geneva. Everyone sacrificed. Everyone suffered. We did it anyway.
And no, there was no court action with my personal name on it. Our role was to testify and do diplomatic outreach and bring back records from the court, which I fully explained, if you had bothered to listen. You also got it wrong about the theft of my passport and cash. They snatched the whole purse, which was never found, either.
If you are going to do investigations, you'd better learn how to listen.
Selective hearing is a fatal flaw in investigators, so if you have trouble listening to what people actually say versus what you assume they will say, this is not the best use of your talents.
I listened to a full half hour of sniping and prideful nonsense and suspicious speculation about the PKTF and the "threat" of being "taken over" by PKTF. What is there to take over? What, exactly, have you done, besides holding regular gossip and gab sessions?
Maybe in your heart of hearts you know that PKTF has been proactive and boot-strapped itself and built websites and communications networks and made great strides with its outreach and organization efforts, publications, and fundraising. Those hard-working "rejects" are making you guys look like nuthin'burgers, and you know it.
They actually have meetings where they work on mission goals.
Imagine that? What an idea! Wow!
Boyd Adams, realizing that I am beyond overwhelmed with work, was actually inspired to put hours in on a template for the Continental Marshals Appointment Letters, so you can finally have your stars and your paperwork. I got more help in a week from a "reject" than I've gotten from you in ten years.
And again, shame on you, for sitting on your butts and twirling your pencils like so many High School girls waiting for someone to ask them to the Prom. This is about self-governance, not self-pity.
Listening to you plot how you were going to get the states stood up and then you wouldn't have to work for the Federation made me stare at a blank wall for a solid hour and wonder what is inside your heads? Peanut shells? Absent a 3/4ths vote of all the people in all the Assemblies and a complete restructuring of the entire government model, the Federation is still going to be here, and it's still going to be the Boss of the Continental Marshals Service.
And here again, I must take my time to correct another glaring bigger-than-a-barn-door misunderstanding. You are not working for a free-standing corporation or agency. You are not working as "Pinkertons". And if that is not apparent to you, you need to review the difference between public and private service. It's not just jurisdictional. It's the nature of the organization itself.
Listening to you discuss how I "don't know nothing" and how you "might have to arrest Anna" over this "bank stuff" -- implying that I "stole money" etc., etc., just made me want to retch. The stench of betrayal and the slow-walking and fear and misbegotten pride and the whole tone of the meeting was so sickening. I fully understand now why these meetings aren't available for public view and aren't posted anywhere.
Given the mentality of the meeting itself, and the overall display of inability to think, I am not sure if -- as a group -- you can grasp what went on with the bank effort, but I will try to break it into baby steps and make it clear for you.
In 2015, I came up with the idea of a bilateral banking system, meaning a network of banks that could offer account management services for asset-backing currencies and fiat prepaid credit currencies under one roof.
The centerpiece would be The Global Family Bank. We'd start out with an International Trade Bank and use it to manage and recoup precious metals and issue American asset-backed currencies, gold AFDs and silver United States Dollars.
Then we'd boot up two commercial banks, The Global Family Commercial Bank and The Global Family Bank of Commerce. One would be a commercial bank operating under the land jurisdiction and one would be a "bank of commerce" operating in the sea jurisdiction. The commercial banks would handle all the credit-based transactions and currencies.
These three separate banks would be under one roof together with a Prosperity Center, which would handle housing purchases and car purchases and college tuition and major health care costs -- the big ticket items we used to get loans for, but which will now be guided grants.
We -- at the Federation level -- were just about to spool up the commercial banks and get the commercial bank accounts added to the Master Account already established for each one of us. That would begin the distribution of the prepaid credit and gradual reduction of the "National Debt" --- solving both the debt crisis and the liquidity crisis at once.
Perfectly good plan, we had the treaties including bank treaties in place, and were making good progress despite a lot of push back from entrenched banking and corporate interests. And then, Hunter got in trouble. Not me. Not our bank. Hunter.
He got into trouble because of our Vault Program. Bear in mind that the Federal Courts have already admitted that the Federal Reserve Note has only "symbolic value" and that you can steal a busload of them without being accused of theft as a result. The court citations are available in articles you can search for on
www.annavonreitz.comusing the search engine. So, in offering to exchange Federal Reserve Notes for AFD, we were actually offering to exchange something of value for something having no value.
I was accused of doing something shady, because who gives something of value in exchange for something of no value? But our publicly chartered Global Family Bank was a different kind of bank, and it was designed to serve the living people of this country -- who are owed remedy and redress for the loss of buying power caused by inflation of the fiat currency ever since 1913. The U.S. Congress published the exact starting exchange rate in the 1934 Emergency Banking Act when they began collecting our silver United States Dollars, so we used that as the reference point and calculated that devaluation. It wasn't something for nothing. Its purpose was a return of value and buying power owed to the American people, according to the exchange rate established by the U.S. Congress.
They couldn't complain about that.
So the Vault program, fully billed and described as a currency exchange mini-Hedge Fund for a rainy day was launched-- not something calculated to make anyone super rich like the Zim Bond fiasco, not intended to replace standard savings accounts, but instead calculated to preserve buying power in the face of inflation.
This was done to protect Americans, most of whom have little or no precious metals holdings, don't know how to buy or hold precious metals, but for their own security, need to hold some precious metals currency in a bank built to stand when the ubiquitous maritime commercial banks are forced into bankruptcy.
The exchange plan was very simple. People deposited Federal Reserve Notes in conventional commercial banks, and we then credited them with an equal number of gold-backed American Federation Dollars in their Vault account. Once the AFD were credited in the Global Family Vault Account, the exchange was complete and the Federal Reserve Notes simply collected in the conventional bank accounts at Citibank or Wells Fargo or wherever they were deposited.
Hunter set up and maintained these "portal accounts" in the commercial banks and he was strictly instructed as Bank Director, to just let the Federal Reserve Notes pool up in case someone had an emergency need to exchange AFDs back into FRNs.
This circumstance did arise on numerous occasions and Hunter cut checks, manually, and deducted an equal number of AFDs from the Vault Account each time. Otherwise, there was, so far as we knew, no bookkeeping involved. The number of FRNs in the Portal Accounts were always equal to the number of AFDs in the Global Family Bank Vault Accounts.
But, despite his understanding of the situation and his own substantial funding resources, Hunter could not resist the temptation presented by those already exchanged Federal Reserve Notes. He just had to pilfer them, and he didn't give the IRS their cut, which is what got him into trouble.
The IRS and FBI then pressured him to unlawfully convert our publicly chartered American International Trade Bank doing business as The Global Family Bank into a licensed British Territorial commercial bank operating under the same name.
Hunter was only a Bank Director. He had no authority or ownership interest in The Global Family Bank allowing him to make this conversion, but thus far, he has gotten away with it, pending action by the actual banking authorities on that side of the fence.
When we caught wind of what was going on, we fired Hunter, tore up the American bank charter, and closed out our records and accounts and data as of July 1st. We did this, not because we did anything wrong, but to avoid any confusion with what Hunter was doing or any liability associated with him and the commercial bank now using our name and storefront.
We never launched a commercial bank, which further prevents any confusion.
Since then we have reconstructed the accounts and other important elements, developed the software for new interfaces, taken action to prevent anymore privateer action or commandeering of American banks, and plan to reopen our Trade Bank sometime in September.
This has been inconvenient to say the least and it slowed us down a little, but on the flip side of that, the system is now entirely Open Source and we no longer have to worry about being dependent on Bill Gates or other creatures of his ilk. We have new programmers and a sleek new integrated system that is more user friendly.
Many thanks to the volunteers, new and continuing, who have made this possible.
The take home point is that our bank did absolutely nothing wrong, and the depositors are perfectly safe. The only downside is that we can't, at the moment, exchange AFDs for FRNs for Vault Depositors --- and that is entirely Hunter's fault.
Hunter told me that he was independently wealthy and his set-up in Hawaii certainly seemed to prove that. He offered to support an initial land acquisition for an Alternative Health healing center campus in Texas, and when that fell through he donated the returned portion of the Earnest Money in support of the Federation. He made smaller donations, as any aligned business owner might. And he once purchased my Brother-in-Law's interest in a piece of land I inherited in Wisconsin, so that my name would be the only name as owner of record --- but that was done for my Office as Fiduciary, so that I could prove an intact land ownership interest from before the Civil War. It wasn't a personal favor.
He told me he was using his own money in these instances and I have no reason to disbelieve it. Donations to the government are tax free by definition.
As for giving you all an accounting of the Federation's finances, I have made it perfectly clear from Day One that this is a bootstrap operation and the restoration is being financed by free will donations. Thus far, by the Grace of God, it has been enough to keep going, but there is no "budget", no process of Congressional appropriations, no excess, and since a vast majority of state assemblies are looking for money from the Federation and not contributing to the Federation, it would seem that the Federation is competent to function as it is, until the dust settles and the State Assemblies start paying our bills and a lawful Congress is in Session.
When we have actual funding it will be a different story. For now, we are pitching our pennies into the offering plate and doing what we can with it.
And just in case anyone forgot, I never wanted this job and I don't believe in money.
Let those words be etched upon your brains. Let them settle. Let them sink in. Let them inform your thoughts and your suppositions.
When I hear Paul telling our Continental Marshals to operate on the QT and work things around and saying that he "doesn't have a boss" and all this other rot, it sounds more like a gang of crooks and power-mongers than any honorable crime prevention service. And again, shame on you.
I trusted that you were busy and making progress toward meaningful development goals. Imagine my disappointment to find you all sitting around gabbing and gossiping and doing no meaningful work at all, when there is so much that needs to be done.
Need funds? But you never ask for any. You never organize and develop a webpage like everyone else on Earth. You don't have a donate button for donations. You don't work on publications. You don't do outreach to the Assemblies, much less the Public. You don't study the actual crimes and laws you are supposed to investigate and enforce. You've had years to do so, and yet, now that we are activating everything you still aren't prepared.
About the only real work you do, that I know of, is the Federation Vetting. And Shannon Bookey taught you how to do that.
Yet, you obviously picture yourselves as some kind of elite group, so very, very much more valuable and skilled and worthy than the PKTF --- which has checked off all their boxes and continued to make progress on their mission goals under the exact same conditions as you face.
After listening to that meeting tape, I asked Paul to hang up his spurs and tender his resignation. The only thing that might make me reconsider is if you all give him a resounding vote of confidence and want him to continue.
So. Time for Paul to do some soul-searching about his behavior and thought processes and ego, time for all of you to review your attitude and lack of proactive attention to the actual job you are supposed to be doing, and time for your meetings to morph into productive, professional work meetings, instead of gossip and gab sessions."
Anna Maria
*Please note that my initial information source was wrong; Boyd's fight was over double-dipping utility bills, not a house mortgage, or as in my case, property taxes. The point is that he refused to pay and took on city hall over -- he fought while other people did nothing.
In talking with Paul about this after receiving this private communication to the Marshals, he did not address the name-calling, paranoid gossiping, lack of progress toward mission goals, or any apology for making prejudicial comments against the Federation and against me, personally, in violation of my Due Process guarantees.
Instead, Paul's immediate and only focus was on pressing me and asking who sent the tape? Who was the leaker?
In other words, Paul's focus continued to be on "loyalty" issues instead of the actual work of the Marshals and the quality of their performance, nor did he address the glaring and most important fact that under his leadership, those entrusted to protect our Constitutional guarantees were being taught to ignore and trample them instead.
Due process is not negotiable. If the Continental Marshals don't honor that, we are all up a creek and still dealing with "guilty until proven innocent" instead of "innocent until proven guilty."
I don't really care about the garbage Paul was spreading about me and the Federation -- that goes with the job. But I do care that he and other Marshals made prejudicial comments to the effect that I am "running a Ponzi Scheme" with exactly zero actual information. That's a serious violation of Due Process coming from those we have entrusted to enforce it.
Paul did not receive support to continue as Chief Marshal from the other Marshals.
But the drama isn't over quite yet. Paul and his wife have promoted still more of the behavior that led to letting him go. So far, in less than 24 hours, they have identified "the leaker" who cared enough about the Marshals to make the tape and bring it forward. Instead of addressing the issues revealed by the taped contents, Paul and his wife have begun a smear campaign trying to paint the informer as a child molester.
They have also begun an attack on me and made slightly veiled accusations to the effect that the Federation is keeping Assemblies from being fully seated and that this is some kind of plot to prevent the people from running their government.
I will repeat that the Assemblies are already seated in the General Assembly and don't have to be "fully seated" to conduct their business. I will tell all the Assemblies except Ohio to get busy and finish their job, and the Federation will be happy to finish ours.
From our standpoint, all the time, effort, and money spent on helping to organize and protect and advise and educate Assemblies is a huge extra job above and beyond our normal duties.
This idea that some people are trying to promote that the Federation is interested in prolonging this birth agony is absurd.
In the end, the Truth always comes out, just like roses out of a manure pile. I am sorry that we have to suffer through a Trifecta of these unfortunate experiences, but look hard at the lessons learned.
