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The Turn of We the People: Freedom Seekers

10/13/2026

Faith in themselves

12/13

Germination steps Johnny.
Freedom does that.
The Underground Railroad was in Indiana.
A big part.
My area was active.
Valparaiso.
There was a big raid in Michigan when I was young.
The Kentucky Raid of 1847.
I was 16 that year.
The raid in Vandalia made national news Gus.
Vandalia is less than 100 miles from Valpo.
The raid was spoken of in Congress.
The Freedom Seekers won that day.
The Kentucky slavers didn't have the right paperwork.
So ruled a local judge.
Re-enslavement was what the Kentuckians wanted.
Expected their property rights Johnny.
In 1847, with shotguns and pitchforks, the people of Vandalia said no to tyranny.
And in 1864, with faith in themselves, Betsey and James said yes to freedom.
Indeed.

Representation usurpation

What would have happened if they had been caught Johnny?
Caught running?
What if, after leaving the mansion on January 8th, Betsey and James get caught seeking?
Hard to know Yank.
Separated for sure.
Common.
They were free according to Lincoln and federal law.
Just not free according to Jeff.
The war went on for 16 months Johnny.
Betsey and James knew the risk.
Knew the reward.
Also knew Richmond.
Betsey and James had connections.
People learn how to communicate Gus.
There's always an underground.
Always.
You knew the risks Reb.
So did you.
Not like you did.
True.
You knew of the representation usurpation.

Passageways and We the People

I, Johnny Reb, knew of the thirty Thousand.
I, Gus Kotka, didn't.
Neither did the people of Vandalia.
Nor Valpo.
We the People are 21st century freedom seekers.
Seeking freedom from the bondage of usurpation.
Slavery is usurpation.
Is usurpation slavery?
It ain't freedom Gus.
Usurpation is enslavement to an unlawful law.
Tyranny.
Just like slavery.
We the People need each other Yank.
More than ever Reb.
This passageway means that to me.
The thirty Thousand is our passageway.
A utility.
Built for time.
Like the truth.
A first order reality Johnny.
Makes a first order Republic.

*Next Up: 20 October and 13/13 The Turn of We the People.

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The Turn of We the People: Women

9/29/2026

Expectations

10/13

Women Reb.
Yes.
Our day ain't like today.
Expectations in both Gus.
Varina was expected to have babies.
It took several years.
Jeff worrying of course.
Mary Chesnut felt the pressure too.
You said she was anti-slavery and anti-Black.
Mary never had children.
Oh-oh.
Her father-in-law wrote his will against her for it.
Punished.
Wrote that if no male heirs were produced, his property would revert to a male descendant.
Mercy.
None given to Mary.
Men did that to women.
Women were mostly a rightless class.
Much like the enslaved.
Correct.

Underrepresented

Women today Johnny.
Right.
That's not much of an answer.
Right.
Maybe women today should speak for themselves.
Perhaps in a new house for We the People.
Represented according to numbers.
In a coalition of the constitutionally willing.
What is their number Reb?
Women are more than 50 percent Yank.
And how much representation in the usurpation do women have Johnny?
About 20 percent.
Whoa.
Women are the largest underrepresented group in America.
So they stand to gain with the thirty Thousand.
The most.
Exciting Reb.

Women are the key to America's greatness

Women are the key Gus.
The key to America’s greatness.
The turn of We the People is the turning of the key.
The key is representation.
The lock is Article 1.
Section 2.
Clause 3.
Of the US Constitution Reb.
Turn the great key America.
Open the door.
Become We the People.
Become who we are.
World leaders of republican representation.
Unlike any other in the world.
Unique even.
It is what makes us great Johnny.
It is America's foundation Gus.
It is America.
First order.

*Next Up: 6 October part 11/13 The Turn of We the People: Privy.

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The Turn of We the People: Think of (All) the Children

9/22/2026

700,000

9/13

Never seen a light like this Reb.
Special.
It has a tube attached.
Charlie said it was a gas.
Davis smoked.
Children running around too Yank.
Kind of a small Knights of the Round Table.
Jeff was a late nighter.
Quiet time.
Plan your destruction time Gus.
And yours Johnny.
War touches all.
How many of us died?
Something like 700,000.
In 48 months Johnny.
Nearly 15,000 a month.
All those sons.
Fathers.
Brothers.
Someone's child Gus.
Everyone had a momma.

Equal in light

Jeff sits here by the fire.
Varina asleep next door.
Their children sleeping in the other room.
Jeff sits here by the light.
While holding the keys of war Gus.
Hard to understand Jeff ignoring the Constitution.
Jeff was against the self-made man.
Lincoln.
Against the idea that a child is its own light.
Couldn't see Betsey and James as equal in light.
Thought Betsey and James inferior Yank.
Damn it Reb.
Jeff?
The whole damn slavery thing.
Slavery economics Gus.
Are economics of oppression.
Usurpers don't think of all the children.
This room tires.
Next.

Absence presence

The 700,000 are missing.
Absence has a presence.
Remember Kenny Reb?
Kennedy Grogan.
Buried in Berryville.
Killed on his 20th birthday.
Assaulting a house of Jesus.
Turned into a fort.
Amen Johnny.
What chance did Kenny have Gus?
Caught up in a world.
Set on fire by Jeff and his ilk.
A treasonous ilk.
One is to think of the children.
When one thinks of the thirty Thousand.
We the People includes all American children.
We can't leave them this anti-American usurpation.
We the People need to be adults about representation.
Think of the American legacy Reb.
And what we are leaving the children.

*Next Up: 29 September part 10/13 The Turn of We the People: Women.

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The Turn of We the People: Not Yet Named

8/25/2026

Riley Kingen and John Brown

5/13

Was I the only casualty on 11 August?
Book says Rebs killed Augustus Kotka.
We saw that.
And two others wounded during a night of skirmishing.
Names?
Riley Kingen and John Brown.
John Brown?
Imagine that.
Quite the name after 1859.
You Yanks had a Jefferson C. Davis.
From Indiana.
Infamous too.
Shot and killed a fellow officer Johnny.
Did.
Because of an insult.
A lot like our Jeff.
Unless you deferred.
Jeff was always quick to fight.
Go figure.

A Higher Power

It was an issue.
For all of us Johnny.
During our times people spoke of a higher power.
Got caned in the Senate for it.
And murdered in Kansas for it.
That's why it was bleeding.
We didn't turn our problems over to the constitutional higher power.
The thirty Thousand.
Our not yet named Gus.
And already is.
The not yet named is the answer.
To every political question.
Taxes.
War.
Debt.
Justice.
Homelessness.
Immigration.
Not In the name of the Usurped States of America.

Windows

Rather Reb.
Rather in the name of We the People.
Represented as the founders taught.
Which would then be the United States of America.
Teach.
United and not Usurped States.
Like looking out an old window.
And seeing things new.
Name the thirty Thousand Johnny.
Say it.
And begin to solve problems.
Like who are We?
And what are We gonna do?
Doesn't matter who wins an election if it is a usurpation election.
One usurper replacing a usurper.
Is still a usurper.
We the People, represented as the Constitution dictates, that is our is.
First order Yank.
Our not yet named.

*Next Up: 1 September part 6/13 The Turn of We the People: Forward.

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The Turn of We the People: As He Died To Make Men Holy

8/11/2026

Theater of War

3/13

… Gus?
Admiring Johnny.
What would you be admiring?
Design of course.
Talking about the room?
Our entrance was jarring.
Yet that room ain't.
Beckons.
The vectoring Yank.
The goddesses don't miss an angle.
Like soldiers and line of sight.
Positioning.
We call a specific region a theater of war.
Western and Eastern.
And places like Atlanta.
One can admire Johnny.
And one knows not to look too long.
Nice.
It is 11 August.
Yeah.
Let's step.
Ah do.

To be clear

As He Died To Make Men Holy.
Let's Kill Rebels To Make Men Free.
Gus?
What?
That's not the line.
Trying to be clear Reb.
You died to make men free.
Yes.
You died to end slavery.
Yes.
What's your point?
I don't think I wanted to die.
Okay.
I would have been just fine killing you.
I imagine so.
We had to kill each other.
War.
Still shameful.

Buried in Georgia

You did right Gus.
I don't mean the particulars of that day in 1864.
What do you mean?
I spent 23 months at war with you.
Lots of battles.
Lots of skirmishes.
Lots of walking.
All the way to Georgia to be buried.
To kill me Yank.
It was me or somebody else had to kill you.
I hear ya.
I was shooting at you all the time.
Right.
I killed you just like you killed me Johnny.
Just you didn't have to die.
I had to kill.
Damn it.
Damn it.

*Next Up: 18 August part 4/13 The Turn of We the People: Up Words.

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The Return of We the People: Madness

6/29/2026

Contemnation

11/13

Aloha!
Madness Yank.
Let it out Reb.
Jeff and the rebellion and George.
You and I give George a negative for being a slaver.
Jeff hailed it.
We hail 1776 Independence George.
Jeff too.
We hail thirty Thousand George.
Jeff showed contemnation.
Which turned into treason.
Correct Gus.
That makes George a plus one for us and Jeff.
Just a different plus one.
Part of the madness Reb?
Well, I mean old-fashioned smoke coming-out-my-ears madness Yank.
Not insane madness?

Hubbard v. Lowe (1915)

Mad like George the Mason would be.
Just count We the People.
And divide by thirty Thousand.
Or less Johnny.
Or less Gus, as the Constitution says shall not exceed.
How simple.
Make a machine do it Yank.
Very 21st century.
The thirty Thousand has the same meaning in all parts of the United States.
Sacred Johnny.
It cannot give way to the spirit of contemnation in the Supreme Court any more than it can yield to the sin of usurpation and treason in the Legislative and Executive.
We the People.
And the rule of law.
A law made outside the law is never a law at all.
According to America's founders and the Supreme Court.
Can you name a legal precedent Johnny?
Hubbard v. Lowe (1915).

See Something, Say Something

This room is bigger than most cabins we grew up in.
It's one of many on the tour.
Reb, the thirty Thousand falls under the timeless rule of See Something, Say Something.
The thirty Thousand precedes the Bill of Rights.
So it made things like the Second Amendment.
Celebrate.
See that door stain.
Do.
Betsey and James would have been See Something, Say Something on that.
Efficient like a soldier.
The door too.
Say more Gus.
The way we become who we think we should be passing from one room to another.
We hail ourselves.
Betsey and James would be thinking something.
Then pause before opening this door.
Who am I?
Inside, free thoughts Yank.
Outside, Jeff's servant slave thoughts.
Madness.

*Next up: 30 June (part 12/13) The Return of We the People: Sadness.

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The Return of We the People: thirty Thousand

6/15/2026

Deja vu

9/13

Deja vu Reb.
Over and over Yank.
We skipped by George earlier.
Jeff and the rebels didn't.
George the slaver.
The South liked that and George of Independence.
Not so much George and the thirty Thousand.
Nor the three fifths.
That surprises Reb.
Shows our (the South) Anti-republic side.
Contemnation.
Exactly.
Why?
The thirty Thousand helps the locals.
Jeff didn't want to help the locals?
Jeff wanted slavery to expand Yank.
Control the seats.
More representation means more types of people.
People like us.
We the People Gus.

Three fifths

When did the thirty Thousand enter the constitutional debate?
When discussing the right to suffrage.
How early Reb?
It was the second week, 11 June 1787.
And the three fifths clause?
Same day.
What did the founders vote to do?
To move to an equitable ratio of representation.
Instead of equal representation?
Yes.
No more one vote per state Reb.
The three fifths clause was part of who counted.
Who counted?
White and Black people.
What did it say exactly Johnny?

Ever higher

‘That the right to suffrage in the first branch be according to the whole number of white and three fifths of the other inhabitants.’
No untaxed Indians yet?
Nor the language of free and all other Persons Gus.
The three fifths is what set Elbridge off.
The three fifths had been used to tax slaveholders for their property.
Meaning a two fifths tax reduction for said property, a Black person?
Correct Yank.
When?
Four years earlier, in 1783.
Familiar to the founders.
And not a single founder would've accepted the stunting logic of 435.
Shall we proceed Johnny?
Let's.
Goddess yes?
Plural.
Ever higher …

*Next up: 22 June (part 10/13) The Return of We the People: Comedy and Tragedy.

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The Return of We the People: Bob and Elbridge

4/20/2026

Jeff and Varina

2 of 13

Jeffy Johnny.
And Varina.
Sounds like Marina.
Correct.
Grapes of wrath.
Say more Gus.
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”
“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”
Grapes of wrath.
The oppressed.
The enslaved.
We the People.
The hymn is about freeing the oppressed, about ending slavery.
Davis thought God was on his side.
Don't we all?
What's on your mind Yank?
Bob and Elbridge.
Go on.
Why them two?

Bob

We met them both along the way.
Bob in Berryville.
Elbridge in DC.
Yet why them two Johnny?
Bob was singing Misty Morning.
We only heard him.
In a cemetery with Johnny Rebs.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Then again in Berryville Gus.
Bob told us about rights in the 1960s.
And you represented Yanks in the 1860s.
Til ‘64.
The Wretched of the Earth, Marley taught us that too.
More like taught you Reb.
You get it: it's about the oppressed.
Grapes again.
We are war signs Gus.
Soldiers.
Bob soldiers too.
For peace.
In our way, so did we.

Elbridge

And Elbridge?
Gerry found us Gus.
We were in DC.
Viewing the original Constitution.
And this colonial dude walks up.
Asking what we know about the smudge.
Kind of a Knowbody.
Kind of.
I thought Elbridge was a prop Johnny, like part of the show.
Tour guide even.
Then he starts in on you: “I can't believe you killed him over something I did.”
That was the beginning.
And now Elbridge supports the thirty Thousand.
‘Merican.
Gerry wants his due Reb.
Gerry wants to be known.
For more than ‘mandering.
What a hoot.
Elbridge.
Step to the left Gus.
Sure.

Next up: 27 April (part 3/13) The Return of We the People: Steps and Doorways

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The Return of We the People: Usurpation Day 2026

4/9/2026

1 of 13

Stop!
Sure.
Is this Richmond Reb?
It is.
And it’s Usurpation Day 2026?
April 9th Yank.
Elbridge would love this.
Marley too.
Bob.
Right.
This gray building doesn't look like the other ones.
Stingray is the color.
Stingray?
Yeah.
It’s gray Johnny.
Charlie said it’s called Stingray, rolled eyes included.
Who's Charlie?

Tour guide.
Of what?
The Stingray building.
When did you tour this Johnny?
Last Usurpation Day.
We spent that in DC.
With Bob and Elbridge.
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Bob sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Unforgettable.
Elbridge told us an eyewitness account of 9 April 1792.
The chief contemner himself.
That's when.
You just went poof without saying so?
After we smoked.
Bob's smoke.
Right … and I poofed.
To recon.
Richmond.
And thus Charlie.
And another chief contemner.
Charlie?

Jefferson Davis.
Jeffy?!
This is where he lived during the war.
Stunned Reb.
Okay.
That the backdoor?
Front, the back is collonaded, to the right.
Odd.
Garden area, privacy.
Makes sense.
Street smells too Gus.
Horse manure.
All kinds.
Clean today.
Let's cross the clean Richmond street Yank.
On Usurpation Day 2026 Reb.
“So the world shall be His footstool,”
“And the soul of Time His slave,”
[In unison] “Our God is marching on.”

*Next up: 20 April and The Return of We the People: Bob and Elbridge.

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Usurpation Day 2024: Nine Truths

4/9/2024

The thirty Thousand and Article the first of the Bill of Rights

Nine truths in honor of the truth that is Usurpation Day, 9 April 1792.

Four about the 435:
1. Constitutional Convention: No.
2. The Federalist Papers: No.
3. Ratified: No.
4. Constitutional: No.

Four about the thirty Thousand:
1. Constitutional Convention: Yes (Article I).
2. The Federalist Papers: Yes (55-58).
3. Ratified: Yes (all 50 states).
4. Constitutional: Yes.

And the ninth truth: Surrender to the Constitution.

Welcome home,
Bryan

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