By Anna Von Reitz
I
should admit that I like goats. They are plucky, enterprising,
stubborn, tough, gritty little critters with minds of their
own....somewhat like other critters we know.
As
a result, I have a natural sympathy with goats and with goatherds.
Herding goats is more difficult than herding sheep, howbeit, for
different reasons.
It's
difficult to herd sheep because sheep are truly mindless and innocent.
They will find a low hill and stand on it in the midst of floodwater
and keep standing there instead of seeking higher ground in the midst of
rising water until they drown. Their rationale, similar to that of
American taxpayers seems to be, "Well, my feet are still on the ground
so I must be okay, even if my nostrils are under water."
Goats,
on the other hand, have no trouble facing facts and seeking higher
ground. Faced with a flood they will not only seek higher ground, they
will head for the nearest mountain and keep climbing. The problem for
the goatherd is that they will all do so at the same time and they will
all go by a different route because they react individually, not as a
herd.
So
all his goats are headed--generally--- in the right direction, but they
are scattering in a hundred different pathways as they mull their way
up the mountain. (The similarity to the Patriot Movement is
unmistakable.) All the goatherd can do is chase up the mountain himself
and hope for the best once the storm has passed.
This
is the situation that American government officials are in right now.
The sheep are entrenched and the goats are bounding willy-nilly up the
mountain via any pathway that seems navigable, including Bit Coin.
To
avoid provoking the prejudices and assumptions that people have about
The Gold Standard, I wish to discuss The Goat Standard, instead.
Like gold, goats have intrinsic actual value, so goats can serve as true, lawful money.
Like
gold, goats accrue "interest" in the form of more goats being produced,
in the form of goat milk and cheese and soap, in the form of goat hair,
and finally, in the form of meat and bone meal fertilizer and
goatskin. Goats have a lot of valuable "derivatives".
One
might make the argument that on the temporal plane, goats are more
valuable than gold, though less convenient to transport and less
durable.
Goats
even have a value and exchange rate firmly established in the Bible.
The sacrifice of one female goat expiates one sin. This is similar to
the exchange rate established by the 1934 Emergency Banking Act in which
one silver dollar is made equivalent to one paper dollar.
In
current terms, you'd have to pony up around $200 at a minimum (the low
end cost of a viable female goat of reasonable quality) to expiate one
sin. Obviously, then as now, it doesn't take too many sins per week to
land yourself in the poor house.
Please note that at this point in their history, the Israelites had
become "self-governing" which also means "self-taxing". They were
responsible for following the Law of Moses, imposing the fines and
tithes upon themselves voluntarily, and reporting to the Temple with
their goats, sheep, and bullocks.
Please
note also that in addition to the Basic Ten Commandments, there were
over 600 lesser statutes that also had to be followed and that all
infractions required sacrifices to atone for.
Having
all these lesser statutes guaranteed a constant and ample income for
the priests and the Levites, the judges and law-enforcers, in addition
to the ten-percent tithe designed to pay for the upkeep and repair and
expansion of the Temple.
As
a result, the Israelite leaders had a self-perpetuating government that
not only received the benefit of all these sacrifices, but which was
thereby enabled to police and enforce continuing sacrifices on a
mandatory basis. What started as voluntary adherence to a moral code
quickly became oppressive and mandatory, complete with paid snitches and
tax collectors.
By
the time Jesus arrived on the scene, the people were not only weighed
down by the heavy yoke of the Temple officials, they were being crushed
by the demands of Caesar, too.
This
situation exactly parallels our own situation now, with the Territorial
United States Government playing the part of the Temple Government and
the Municipal United States Government playing the part of the Roman
Government. We not only have The Ten Commandments still in full force
and effect but we have over 80,000,000 statutes to obey and atone for.
Fortunately
for us, there isn't a large enough work force on Earth to enforce
80,000,000 statutes, and most of them just remain on the books as a
means to punish any possible human behavior of any kind whatsoever.
We
have brought all of this upon ourselves and we have paid to bring all
of this upon ourselves. We have forged our own chains and paid our own jailers.
We have done this in the name of God, and then we have turned a blind
eye and let priests and politicians sneak in the side door and
substitute themselves for God.
Back
then, they said, hey, we are the "representatives" of God, so, just pay
us for your sins and all will be well with you. The charge will be one
female goat per sin.
Now
they say, hey, we are your own dear "representatives", so just pay us
for your sins and all will be well with you. The charge for our service
in your behalf will be $200 minimum per sin.
How
is this any different than a guy named Guido showing up on your
doorstep and saying, "Hey, I represent Mr. Marcioni. Just pay up $200 a
week and all will be well with you."
It
isn't. The only difference is that you are now accused of doing this
to yourself. You are presumed to be the ultimate masochist, criminal,
and guilty party promoting this system of things.
If you
didn't pay corrupt politicians to create 80,000,000 statutes and didn't
pay the police and military to provide enforcement, none of this would
be happening, right?
Racketeering
and murder and false arrest are the services that you are paying these
federal agents to provide to you. You are --- according to them ---
your own Godfather.
Like
The Goat Standard, The Gold Standard held rock steady for generations
until Franklin Delano Roosevelt took gold out of circulation and
confiscated privately held American gold in the biggest
heist-under-color-of-law scheme ever.
This
created a big spike in gold prices. In other words, the vermin not
only gained by stealing the gold held by individual Americans, they
gained by running the price of gold up. The next big spike came in the
1980's when it became legal for people to hold and invest in gold
again---and again, the vermin gained steam and got rewarded for being
vermin.
Now
the reptiles who confiscated, stole, claimed, commandeered and hold by
far all the largest gold stashes on the planet desperately want you to
come and play in their casino and use their gold casino chips to play
their games. In fact, they NEED you to believe in all these lies and to
"give value" to their gold, because if you don't, their gold is just
another commodity subject to market forces.
We can use gold to make cheap, super-efficient photo voltaic cells.
We can use it to make durable insulated shingles. Gold will still have
some value, relative to the value of a goat, just not so much as the
crooks are literally banking on.
Stop
and think about the whole concept of "giving value" to something. This
is an act of volition on your part. If you value justice and mercy,
these things have value. If you value black jelly beans, they have
value. And if you value gold and silver--- where did their value come
from? From you and whatever use you choose to make of these things.
What
we face in this Spiritual War is nothing more or less than coming to
grips with our own stupidity, our gullibility, our greed, our fear, our
willingness to value baubles above moral principles, our willingness to
pay servants who dis-serve us,
our laziness, our lack of self-examination, our unwillingness to take
responsibility for our actions, our inactions, our values, and the
condition of our world.
As
we stand here looking at the start of another year, rumors of an "RV"
continue to abound and good people everywhere are hunkered down waiting,
waiting, waiting....staking all their hopes and dreams on a "reset" of
global currency values. They think that this will make their lives
better, give them more buying power, and "even things out" so that, for
example, the brutal poverty in Africa can be alleviated. They are
waiting for the same vermin who created the problem to solve it.
We
don't need to wait for any reset. We can reset things ourselves any
time we want to. Just sit down for five minutes and think about what
you truly value, create a symbol for that, and trade it. We already
have "Earth Dollars" based on land. Why not "Peace Dollars" based
on the value of peace? Or "Justice Dollars" based on the value of
justice in a world gone mad?
It makes as much sense as sacrificing a goat to pay for a sin.
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