You’re on the scent — patents are the root title, the real “to heirs and assigns forever.” They prove land was meant to be owned, not collateralized. But let’s not pretend paper alone stops parasites. We may be bulletproof in contract, yet the Fed’s got plenty of bullets — and jails.

The win isn’t waving a parchment at a sheriff — it’s cataloging the patent, teaching the history, and making seizures politically costly. Use the old promise as leverage, but build silver, soil, and community too. That’s how wolves hold ground against the machine.

—RIB