Message from the
KING OF ELY-CHATELAINE
and
REGENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The shelters we started opened my eyes to the political reality in the United States. When the Free Territory of Ely-Chatelaine was started, it was an alliance of families; but as we were forced to realize the role played by the U.S. republic in creating the homeless crisis, it became increasingly obvious that the Free Territory would have to evolve into a more general social movement for the restoration of the integrity of the government of the United States.

Almost immediately after launching our first homeless shelter in Dana Point, California, the city's zoning department began a campaign to shut it down. The biggest landowners in Dana Point are the Chandler family, the owners of the Los Angeles Times; and that newspaper dutifully portrayed our entire effort to help the homeless as a kind of criminal conspiracy, largely due to the fact that we did not have a C.U.P. (a zoning permit). When we approached the city council to obtain a waiver of the $1900.00 deposit against the fee (of an indeterminate amount), we received a single vote in our favor, out of a council of five city councilpersons. The police began surveilling us, and pulling cars over that were leaving our parking lot, and visits from various state and county agencies -- sent by the officials of the planning department -- made it clear that our charity, the Mildred Rose Memorial Foundation, Inc. was not welcome in Dana Point. When our second appeal for a waiver came up we received an additional vote, bringing us within a single vote of our goal; but this only intensified the activities of the planning department to get us out of town. They threatened our landlord, they slandered me, and the homeless clients were fed a constant string of rumors that scared the wits out of them (the homeless just want to be left alone, and all the turmoil was really more than they could take). Finally they brought an administrative action against me, for being a public nuisance because we did not have a C.U.P. You see, to the people running Dana Point, not only were the homeless a nuisance, but so were the people trying to offer them the services they needed to make them essentially harmless.

The city finally succeeded in shutting down the homeless shelter; but during the ordeal, I came to recognize the process by which consent is engineered under the republic of the Founding Fathers. The bottom line is that the people only know as much as they are told, by experts, by the media, or by teachers in school; some individuals do become inspired, and go out in search of interesting and obscure knowledge, but the great majority are satisfied by the explanations they receive for social conditions from the daily news. Now, if the public is not informed that the reason America has homeless people is because the government is at war with the American people, the public are not going to be aware of that fact. Then when "pollsters" ask Americans how they perceive the homeless issue, and what they think should be done about it, they, of course, can only echo back to the pollster what they have read in that morning's newspaper. The issue doesn't have to be homelessness, it can just as easily be the corruption of the political parties, or the office of the president, but regardless, the public opinion will generally reflect back those opinions that were fed to it.

What few Americans appreciate is the skewed way in which the Founding Fathers are presented to the public. We are brainwashed with the litany that the Federal republic is the "best system of government in the world," largely because shoddy scholars lionize the memory of the Founding Fathers, and we are left with the impotent feeling that all of the disasters being caused by the political system are not the product of a corrupt and flawed system, but rather because the individuals in public service are somehow of a different caliber than the Revolutionary generation. The fact that the republic constituted a new and experimental system of government that was the captive of the propertied classes, who used it to create a police state, is played down, or flat out ignored. And the fact that this new system was entirely totalitarian, creating a slave-state regime that would act as an obstacle to the laboring classes for 200 years, is never given a second thought. It was the ultimate realization that the republic was built on a bed of lies that laid the groundwork for the royalist restoration, and it was the chieftaincy of the Kingship of Ely-Chatelaine that became the kernel of a grand new effort to establish what can best be described as "The Friendly Society."

On 11 April, 1993, acting in my capacity as King of Ely-Chatelaine, I founded the American Nation, by the Cry of Stillwater Bay (which was carried out as an oral decree, pursuant to the Ordinance of the Throne, and recorded in the King's Book of Issue). The American Nation is a traditional nation, which means that its founding is not based on legal documents, and its members, American Nationals, do not have to meet any criteria to be admitted to membership; it exists solely through the tradition that it exists, and it is ultimately no more than the community of the American people, as they choose to view it. At its heart, it is an effort to restore the integrity of the ancient constitution, the pre-1776 constitution of Anglo-America -- the constitution of the kingdom -- which, according to ancient law, recognizes the inalienable quality of the human and civil rights of the American people, legal rights that are not given by any institution to the people, but which instead they are born with, which they are endowed with on a hereditary basis. This is an important point, because the pretense of the Federal republic is that the civil rights of Americans derive of the Bill of Rights, instead of ancient customs and practices, so that these all-important rights are actually changed into privileges.

The following May the Nationalist Manifesto was issued, laying the groundwork for a transition from the republic to the restored kingdom, and in January, 1994, the informal and social Kingship (chieftaincy) of the Americans was set aside, in favor of the style of Regent, therefore initiating the Regency of the United States of America. Some people have reservations about the principles enunciated in the Manifesto, but I wish to assure everyone that the intention is not to subvert democratic processes, but to implement them; and of course, the first step in that process is to recognize that the President, the Congress and the bureaucracy do not constitute a democratic process.

The Thought is the publication of the Philosophers Guild, and it has also become the successor of the Territorial Herald, as the legal newspaper of the Free Territory of Ely-Chatelaine. The Free Territory, under the Warrant of Universal Regnal Right, is the seed from which the American Nation and the Regency grew, and eventually noble titles of American nationals recognized through the Realm will be mediatized under the American Crown. As the legal newspaper, the Thought will publish all the legal notices of the Royal Government; but due to financial restrictions, it will not be provided free of charge to Territorial citizens. It will be necessary for Territorial citizens to subscribe, which His Highness, the Archduke Ronald of Lakota-Monomanie, of the House of Tobin, Viceroy of Orange, publisher of the The Thought, can give you further information about. The Free Territory is now also on the Internet, and it can be located at- http://marceric.web2010.com/ftec-roman/index.html

The American Regency has also sponsored a website, which is called the World Free Internet, and selected articles from the Thought will published and available there, free of charge to those with access to the Internet. To go to the WFI website:

http://www.worldfreeinternet.net/

Thank you for your time and attention and loyalty, and if any of you need to reach me, the Royal Post is still open at: RP, POBox 7075, Laguna Niguel, CA 92607 (USA).

In the Service of the Nation,
Marc Eric Ely-Chaitlin
Augustus Rex