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Excerpt from: Article #2530 Your Flags by Anna von Reitz June 3, 2020

“For many Americans it is startling news to hear that there is another whole layer of government — their government — that predates all the stuff they are familiar with, a government that works from the bottom up, instead of the top down. It’s an even bigger shock to learn that there is another American Flag that is their flag just as much as Old Glory. The difference is that Old Glory is a war flag, and our other flag is a peace flag. Every country in the world has both a war flag and a peace flag. The second Secretary of the Treasury, a man named Oliver Wolcott, designed our peacetime flag in 1799. It has flown over Federal Courts, Post Offices, Customs Houses, Treasury Buildings, and similar installations for a total of 22 years since then. Most likely, you have never seen the American Peace Flag. This is ironic because our actual government of, for, and by the People of this country has been at peace since 1814 and we should have been flying the peace flag this whole while — regardless of what the Territorial Subcontractors have been up to. Unlike us, our British-aligned Territorial Subcontractors have kept themselves in a constant state of war, war, and more war; unfortunately, they have conducted these wars “in our names” and they have used the Title IV version of our war flag (that we set aside for them to use when exercising our Delegated Powers) to do so. As a result, the Title IV war flag is what you have seen flying on Federal Buildings throughout your lifetime. It wasn’t always this way. In The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne described a different flag — a flag with vertical stripes. You can read this description within the first few pages of the novel, in Chapter 1, The Customs House, and visualize it for yourself. What Hawthorne is describing is your peace flag: vertical stripes, blue stars, a white quadrangle. It looks quite foreign and odd the first time you see it, but as you get used to it and realize what it symbolizes— and accept the fact that it is yours every bit as much as Old Glory— it grows on you.”

Article #2530. Your Flags http://annavonreitz.com/yourflags.pdf