The American Story

 The American Story - A historical presentation given by Bobby Graves

I recently watched this 2 1/2 hour presentation at the insistence of Rick Worden. Rick sees everything through the lens of the American States Assemblies, and he’s a real Johnny one-note about it.

To summarize Graves, we are really under admiralty law, which was developed by pirates on the high seas. They trick us using word games which go back to the Roman Empire.

Americans were made sovereign by Revolutionary War Lieutenant Colonel James Clinton Belcher, whose ancestors were made sovereign by William the Conqueror.

Our sovereignty was signed away after the Civil War (unrelated to the issue of slavery) and the country was incorporated. Our birth certificates have word games which deny us our sovereignty.

We can be free again if only we fix our birth certificates and bring back the state assemblies instead of the current state legislatures.

My reaction is that if we look to James Clinton Belcher for approval, we give legitimacy to word games which were fallacious from the very beginning. Graves acknowledges that it is through the threat of violence that the admiralty exerts its power. If military might can enforce the word games, military might can ignore the word games. More importantly, our human rights come from God, not from word games devised by man.

That being said, there might be a few scenarios where the American States Assemblies might be worth pursuing. If we can get the admiralty to stand down without bloodshed. If this is a lever of power that needs to be in place to get things done. If for some reason the current state legislatures and other offices can’t implement the policies people want, even if we “throw the bums out”.

Like I’ve said before, the American States Assemblies project is fine for retired people who have a lot of time on their hands. But unlike Rick, I don’t think everyone should drop whatever they’re doing for this. We’re making a lot of progress on many different fronts. Let’s keep this project in the back of our minds, and revisit it if we need to when the time is right.

One more thought. Rick said that he needed more witnesses before he could become an American State National. Perhaps when we make more progress on these different fronts as part of the Great Awakening, the political climate will make it much easier to recruit witnesses.