Reclaim Your Sovereignty by David E. Robinson
My Review
Another classic take on the strawman game. Replete with teethy citations. Read fairly well better than many on this subject. Main takeaways are thesis that we’re not our all caps name, the corp USA is in debt to The Crown (and for an uncited reason in the book this implies the IMF) as per The Treaty of Paris and debt owed from the Revolutionary War. This contention bears plausibility if you go read that treaty.
What I liked was this idea that I’ve always wondered what do you mean we’re in debt? To who? Ourselves? This book proposes a reasonable answer: see above.
Positions Thomas Jefferson as an absolute badass fighting the cabal of central bankers. Doesn’t come across as an “all caps” type book despite that legalese being a trope througout.
My main beef is all these “independent thinker” type of books (and a good many others self-published on Amazon) have such a shoddy sense of aesthetic and design when it comes to font choice, book size, and formatting. You can tell when a book feels cheaply made and it dillutes the message. This book deserves a tight 4X6 binding, matte cover, and an unassuming low margin 10 pt sans seriff font that renders a page layout which doesn’t appear as if the designer was doing color by number.
Despite this, subject matter feels cogent throughout, and gives template-type routes to remedy and recourse for claiming priority interest over the intstrument known as our straw man, which is traded on the open market. Doesn’t give an anecdote on how or if that happened for author. Comes with sober disclaimer to do hefty homework before attempting. Further research indicates this avenue may be unnecessary and superfluous. Jury’s out.
Finally, had some fun parallels in my research and writings on origins of Fed Reserve (confirmed a lot of my own work), and robust historical timeline as to how we got where we are today financially-speaking as a nation. Recco!
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Joseph Voelbel designs learning curriculum and writes about money, systems, and meaning. Author of Pay Attention to Bitcoin (2024), a crash-course primer on sound money, Nineteen Stories (2017), an exploration of the unknown, and This Plant Will Grow (2026), a children's book about a plant that becomes a rainforest.