The Role of the Continental Marshals
By Anna Von Reitz


The Continental Marshals are the replacement for the defunded Federal Marshals program.

They are appointed Officers working in the international land jurisdiction and their purpose is to apprehend criminals operating within the international jurisdiction on land.

Their Service has a long and honorable tradition which began as an offshoot of the Continental Army and continued into the present day via the defunded Federal Marshals program. In 2015, we re-upped the Service as the Continental Marshals Service.

The interest and jurisdiction of the Continental Marshals Service includes crimes such as counterfeiting carried on across state lines, other forms of securitization and bank fraud, human trafficking, drug smuggling, illicit sale, transport, or manufacture of federally regulated substances across state borders, crimes committed by actual foreign nationals, crimes of state, interstate looting--- serious, actual crime control.

It is not their job to hold hands with Coordinators or Assembly members. It isn't their job to "escort" anyone but criminals. They are not responsible for sorting out personality conflicts or episodes of paranoia or delusions of grandeur on the part of State Assembly Chairs or State Coordinators.

Apart from establishing communications with the State Assembly Militias and the Assembly Marshals at Arms to be available when and if our Assemblies experience problems with actual international crimes, the Continental Marshals have no role related to the Assemblies.

The Peacekeeping Task Force is charged with coordinating joint operations between the various peacekeeping services including the Continental Marshals Service, the State Assembly Militias, the County Sheriffs, and other elements of both peacekeeping and law enforcement operations.

To expedite services, individual State Assemblies accept and expedite giving and receiving assistance from the Continental Marshals, neighboring State Assembly Militias, and County Sheriffs and Deputies.

Although there are Mutual Assistance provisions already in place as a result of the Mutual Powers put in place by our Forefathers, and it is understood that every State is owed the assistance of every other State of the Union, there needs to be a common understanding of what this means in the face of an actual disaster and there needs to be a coordinated response plan and mutual recognition protocols in place.

This is serious business and attempting to relegate the role of the Continental Marshals to the level of babysitting wrong-headed Coordinators who feel threatened by the hurly-burly of normal business meetings is ludicrous.

Everyone has to grow up and learn to -- to paraphrase John Adams -- "cooperatively" stand their ground.

This means that we are all learning to operate in different jurisdictions in a responsible and cooperative manner, so that the work gets done in each sphere, and the best interests of everyone involved is, at all times and circumstances, assured.