International Public Notice: This Country Is Not a Democracy

Anna von Reitz

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Anna's conclusion from her study of American government is that individual rights must remain its foundation. She explains why she favours a republican form of government and questions majority decisions that override those rights. Drawing a distinction between that model and the corporate and territorial arrangements discussed in her research, she asks readers to look closely at what political terms mean in practice. A linked presentation by Dan Smoot provides further context for the position she sets out.

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Anna places individual rights at the centre of her understanding of republican government.
She questions majority rule when it overrides those rights.
She encourages readers to examine the structures behind familiar political language.

Prepared by TASA from the research, conclusions and reflections Anna presents in her article. Her original wording follows below.

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By Anna Von Reitz

Our country is not a democracy.

Though this fact has been enshrined in our custom and tradition, our literature and our public history, for two hundred and fifty years, it is self-evident that many people are not completely hearing and understanding this simple fact, because they have been bombarded with contrary information for decades.

For decades, we have heard the voices of our British Territorial Federal Subcontractors raised high, spouting about their "democracy" and their need to "protect" their democracy, and their intent to spread "democracy" throughout the world.

Their corporation "Presidents" running the United States of America, Inc. and the United States, Inc., have ceaselessly bullied and threatened other nations over their adoption of other political philosophies, theocracies, and economic systems -- while our actual Forefathers were equally adamant against all forms of democracy.

Democracy, they warned us, is just another word for Mob Rule, and Mob Rule is distinct in its lack of protection for individuals and states alike.

Mob Rule means that Public Opinion, however formed or misinformed, becomes the rule rather than any moral standard or rational system of law.

Popularity becomes the Dictator in such a dystopian system, and the Public Policy of corporations run by government employees -- paid bureaucrats -- substitutes itself for moral, legal, or lawful standards adopted by the populace at large.

Of course, our Forefathers and we, ourselves, abhor democracy as a great evil and misunderstanding among men and nations.

In a democracy, 51% of the neighbors can decide to eat Aunt Sylvia for breakfast, and there is nothing to say that this is wrong, that this cannot be allowed, and that punishment will attend any such decision, "democratic" or not.

Protection of the individual's rights in opposition to any rights presumed to be vested in society or in government as a whole, is the foundational principle underlying "the republican form of government"

selected by our ancestors -- the government we are still owed, and which we support, and which we condone -- and which is, most assuredly, not a democracy.

The American Government of our nation-states (Union States), our States of the Union, and our Confederation of member States of States, all rest or rested --in the case of the dormant Confederation -- upon the firm foundation of individual rights overstanding public opinion.

Our American Federal Republic (1787-1861) also rested upon this firm and resolute guarantee of individual rights, and did not function under any form of democracy.

Listen to Dan Smoots explain it back in 1966 and understand it once and for all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZOtEbwwfOM

This country is not a democracy, was never a democracy, and if God is kind to us and history is fair to us, it will never be counted as a democracy.

The only democracy that has ever existed here is a foreign democracy promoted by the British Crown Corporation as a form of government for British Territorial Corporation franchises and the personnel servicing those franchises.

Let this singular fact sink into your brains like the single unalterable truth in a lawsuit that will not allow any misunderstanding or injustice:

this country is not a democracy.

Issued by:

Anna Maria Riezinger - Fiduciary

The United States of America

In care of: Box 520994

Big Lake, Alaska 99652

October 18th 2026

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