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Monday, February 24, 2025

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PKTF Reboot: Bridging Jurisdictions for a Harmonious Future

By Joseph Hayse
Staff Editor
pktfnews.org

Editor's note: Portions of this article was originally published on June 7, 2023, and again during 2024. It will be showcased in the upcoming newsletter of The Quarterly Newsletter of Self-Governance and Peacebuilding, set to release on the first day of Spring 2025. This edition will feature many more interesting articles related to self-governance and community collaboration.

In a bold move to reinvigorate its mission, The Peacekeeping Task Force (PKTF) has embarked on its second iteration of service, focusing on supporting local and state government service providers responsible for self-governance. This reboot comes after a period of internal restructuring, following the removal of its initial leadership for cause.

Established by the Federation, PKTF serves as a crucial advocate for the peaceful assembling of each State Assembly Militia, playing a vital role in the American State Assemblies' self-governing framework. The organization's primary objective is to construct collaborative bridges between de jure peacekeeping roles of elected officers from local and State sections and the de facto services that have assumed these responsibilities over time.

Perhaps no other initiative of the Federation has caused more controversy, and mainly, this is because the Peacekeeping Task Force is a new initiative, one that our government in former times never entertained. There is no historical precedent for the PKTF, and the name itself gives pause. A "Task Force" in military terms gives rise to thoughts of Special Operations, specific and targeted operations, requiring coordination across different branches of services, and often coordinating action by troops from multiple nations.

The Concept of Peacekeeping

What could "Peacekeeping" and "Task Force" - taken together - mean? These words and others related to the Peacekeeping Task Force are taken from Article 4208 of the Federation Archives. The article goes on to express that people encounter the joined concepts in situations requiring the occupation of a country by foreign militaries, but in this case, no foreign military is involved.

Peacekeeping means what it implies - the function of keeping communities at peace, safe from outlaws, marauders, gangs, and even guerrilla forces and organized crime cartels, maintaining order, providing assistance, and preparing for natural and manmade disasters.

Leadership

The Executive Director of PKTF, a former Continental Marshal, recently stepped down from his position as the Postal Area 4 Chief Continental Marshal and Adjunct to the Senior Chief Continental Marshal to lead the organization after years of honorable, voluntary service.

"Our mission is to ensure that the principles of self-governance are upheld while fostering cooperation between various jurisdictional entities," the Executive Director stated. "By stepping down from my previous roles, I can fully dedicate myself to PKTF's crucial work without any perceived conflicts."

Advocacy

PKTF, chartered by the Federation as a service provider, advocates for the safe development of each State Border Defense function across all local and State peacekeeping roles, both elected and appointed. This unique position allows PKTF to bridge the gap between different governance entities, facilitating communication and collaboration.

The organization faces several challenges in its renewed mission, including reestablishing trust with stakeholders, realigning its objectives with founding principles, and developing strategies for effective cross-jurisdictional collaboration. Despite these hurdles, PKTF remains committed to its goal of fostering peaceful assembly and effective self-governance.

The key focus for PKTF is the realm of honoring through lawful recognition of purposeful political status-correction, a somewhat complex process involving the reconciliation of required roles and responsibilities across various governance entities.

The Cooperation

As a practical matter, this means working together as neighbors, first and foremost - getting to know each other, assessing our own resources, and getting a handle on what we need to do to be able to help each other in an emergency in which there is no outside government or contracted armed force coming to "help" our own sovereign communities.

The Peacekeeping Task Force is doing a number of things simultaneously:

  1. Meeting and greeting and assessing preparedness for State and County peacemakers (i.e. Reeves/Sheriffs)
  2. Connecting State Assembly Militias to resources offered by other sovereign and Federation organizations
  3. Helping State Assemblies organize response teams and coordinate life-saving action across multiple jurisdictions

It's a big job that requires awareness of the laws and limitations of each jurisdiction and what it means to establish and run a "well-regulated" militia.

Together we can lawfully and peacefully plan for the security and protection of every community in America, come what may. There is no need for clandestine or dangerous "unregulated" activities that have led to "militias" having a bad name. Responsible sovereign men and women think and behave rationally and responsibly as lawful adults.


...more to read on the main article this Spring.

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