A look back at 2024
Looking Back & Looking Forward
A personal note on how we got here. It has been quite a year I must say. This post does read a little like those family Christmas letters I get every year but please indulge me this one time.
An important anniversary
December 16, 2023, marked the one-year anniversary of my introduction to “The Great Taking”. That was the day I ran across an article on ZeroHedge by Matthew Smith titled Intentional Destruction: First COVID, Now Comes "The Great Taking" (the article is now archived on ZeroHedge and available to subscribers). The title caught my eye, and the article did not disappoint.
At first, I thought the piece was just really good fiction, interesting but it simply could not be true. But I clicked the link to David Webb’s website, downloaded the free pdf of his book (I also ordered a physical copy of the book for obvious reasons) and I watched the video documentary. Fascinating, well documented, frightening – but it couldn’t be true. No way.
I spent the two (sleepless) weeks running down every cite in David’s book and it all verified what he is saying. The efforts behind the 1994 UCC Article 8 revision started just after the 1987 stock market crash so much of the primary source material is from 1988 through 1994, before Al Gore’s internet really took off so searching for online documents was a challenge. I was somehow able to locate, read, and digest quite of bit of material from this time frame on the stock market, the regulators, and UCC Article 8. It all checked out.
We had to do something.
Thankfully my wife Bette is Policy Director for the Pro-Family Legislative Network (PFLN), a part of WallBuilders founded by David Barton. And, also thankfully, a colleague of Bette’s at Heartland Institute, Jack McPherrin, also saw the ZeroHedge article and he was digging into The Great Taking himself. We talked about the issue and how it could be addressed at the state level with Audrea Decker, Executive Director at PFLN and she immediately saw this as a property rights and pro-family issue.
We then got on the phone with David Barton and Tim Barton who asked several very good questions, and they agreed this would be a priority. PFLN then put together a coalition letter outlining the issue and sent it out to legislators in their network. PFLN works with state legislators across the country. The work that WallBuilders (and PFLN) does is critical for our nation today and the future for our children and grandchildren. Please visit WallBuilders website and consider a tax-deductible donation to support their work.
The pieces come together
At this point - early January of 2023 - we had no contact with David Webb. But again providence. Matt White, a friend of Jack McPherrin, had David’s contact information and Jack scheduled a ‘get to know you’ video call. And we were off and running. Thank you to Jack and Matt for your time, research, and assistance.
The next three months were a blur. Rep. Auch (SD) and Rep. Hulsey (TN) introduced Bills to amend UCC Article 8 in their states to protect the rights of investors. We met with legislators in both states and testified at Committee hearings. Those efforts in SD and TN were not ultimately successful – but the experience gained, and relationships built put us in a much stronger position heading into 2025.
Thank you
I have several Substack posts coming out in January to help raise awareness of The Great taking and our work across the country, but I did not want 2024 to end before thanking everyone who helped us in 2024. Meeting David Webb and his lovely wife Valerie was wonderful and the relationship we have developed over the past year is simply a blessing.
We were also blessed to speak at G. Edward Griffin’s Red Pill Expo in Rapid City, SD last June. When Mr. Griffin (who is a national treasure!) introduced our panel, he said it is not enough to simply say we as citizens have the authority to affect laws and policy. That is where we have been for past 15 years, pointing out all the things that are wrong. But we do not move the needle until we exercise our power as ‘We the People’ under the Constitution. Without power it is just complaining. It is time we exercise our true power.
We can do this – you can do this. Let’s go.
If you could put together an "activist" packet something like they did on fluoridealert.org which is one of the most organized website I have ever seen or interacted with, it would be greatly appreciated by citizen activists like me. Although I have no skin in the game so to speak, I care about the people of my state ending up homeless, being cheated out of their homes and land and retirement savings by the devil so to speak. I am going to a meeting in January and all I can give them about what I've learned is a few websites but maybe I can convince to have another meeting in which we show some of the videos. I am with you in this fight and will do my best to involve more people. Have you read The History of Central Banking and The Enslavement of Mankind by Stephen Mitford Goodson? I recommend the archived edition; the ADL didn't like the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd edition and they can't be found for sale, only the highly edited 4th edition. https://ia801903.us.archive.org/33/items/stephen-goodson-a-history-of-central-banking-and-the-enslavement-of-mankind.org/A%20History%20of%20Central%20Banking%20and%20the%20Enslavement%20of%20Mankind%20by%20Stephen%20Goodson%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf
Also I do know what's happening and have sites on several issues. The following is another one, and yes, the American public is under attack: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385206510_Excess_Cardiopulmonary_Arrest_and_Mortality_after_COVID-19_Vaccination_in_King_County
King County first large county to reach 70 percent with one vaccine ...
King County Executive Dow Constantine today announced more than 70 percent of all eligible King County residents across all age and racial/ethnic groups have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine based on data tracked by Public Health – Seattle & King County.
And this about Atrazine: You would think with the science in this article, the FDA would not be considering raising the current allowable limits of atrazine in our water by three times the current amount, so the following reports states.
Atrazine Ages Brain Cells
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/atrazine-brain-neurodegenerative-disease/?mc_cid=6fae7e7f71
I believe in what you are doing but you keep claiming to need local involvement, yet you do not have a 'free' choice for signing up nor the lowest price for a monthly subscription which is $5, not $7 or $8. I mean, how christian is that? It makes you look very un Christian and you do not want to look "very Christian." The reason I am participating in your efforts to bring awareness to UCC, Sec. 8 is because I am fully aware that my Christian friends that I call on occasionally to use their washing machine, or to give paid labor plus trade to the gardens they grow, or even have a friend that helps me sometimes; UCC will effect our ability to give neighbor to neighbor. It's abhorrant and the web who watches us tells me i just spelled it wrong when i just brought it up to discover the spelling; part of why Sec 8 and so much else is happening. I would ask you to review a website called fluoridealert.org, one of the best organized websites I've ever seen as a lifelong person who questions authority, not because I'm asking you to join that fight, I'm doing that locally, but because you need to create something similar. I addressed my city council for 3 short minutes on the issue of fluoride and was't done before they cut me off, but I had given them beforehand a packet addressing said issue so they could review and question and explore after what I organized for 3 minutes as the most salient points. Today, they want a meeting with me after giving them my research. What does all this mean? For me, the UCC issue is probably more important. I wish you would not be like the trying to be elected and can't if you don't already have a lot of money. Truly believe in your majority poor; lower your rates, grab what Fred Hampton did and died for; uniting people of multiple colors into a cause for all humanity. I've already copied your post and sent it to Judy Warnick, 13th legislative district in Washington State, But I sent many with websites to Ok and Kansas and the web and your substack. You are right, change needs to come from the people. But who/what "class" of people? Please do not exclude the poor when you could charge $5 for saving the middle class.
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