Beware of Legal Mythology!
( From the Official "How to Win in
Court" Course )
 Many
today are angry at our justice system.
Many have good cause to be angry!
Some, however, are too angry!
Their anger will hurt you!
They are blinded by their anger!
You'll recognize them by the anger. They are
not your friend! Their "legal theories" fail. They are
blinded by rage. Believe them at your peril.
#1
An angry fellow called to scream obscenities because I
refused to agree with him that our birth certificates are
some kind of "contract". The fundamental truth about
contracts is that they cannot bind anyone who doesn't
understand the agreement. Besides, we certainly didn't sign
the thing! We can't be bound by a contract we don't
understand and didn't sign. Yet, this man screamed at me for
refusing to help him fight his dragons!
#2
Another angry person called insisting she had "copyrighted"
her name so the courts couldn't use her name on official
papers. To think one can prevent others from using one's
name by "copyrighting" it is utter nonsense. Anger twists
the mind in strange ways!
#3
Some are convinced our courts are "admiralty courts" and
cannot rule in common law or statute, all because there is a
yellow fringe on the courtroom flag. This lie has been
promoted for years by angry people that don't know (or don't
want to make any effort to know) the truth.
#4
Many have made a "religion" out of believing
such lies. Some claim to be "patriots", yet do all they can
to evade the Rule of Law and refuse to do anything toward
learning the principles of due process so many gave their
lives to protect in past and present wars!
#5
Thousands share emails and hover around the radio to hear
commentators tell them how horrible things are and how much
worse they soon will be, yet only a handful talk about how
to make things better by exercising your "law power" in
court!
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February 2012
'Sovereign citizen' movement now on FBI's radar
The Homeland Security
Department has ranked the movement as a major threat. Its
members reject the law, and some kill police.
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau, Los Angeles Times
02-23-12 --
With the FBI pounding on his door, and his wife and two
children barely awake, Shawn Rice allegedly strapped on a
bulletproof vest, grabbed a semiautomatic pistol and stepped
out his back door on Dec. 22.
. . . But dozens of
FBI agents and local police had surrounded the ranch house
in Seligman, Ariz., about 80 miles west of Flagstaff, and
the only nearby cover was knee-high sagebrush. Rice ducked
back inside, and warned the FBI to keep away.
. . . After a tense
10-hour standoff, Rice, 49, was arrested. He now sits in a
Las Vegas jail awaiting trial on federal money-laundering
charges.
. . . But it wasn't
Rice's alleged offense alone that prompted the FBI's
interest.
. . . According to
court papers, Rice was involved in the "sovereign citizen"
movement, a group that has attracted little national media
attention but which the FBI classifies as an "extremist
antigovernment group." So-called sovereign citizens argue
that they are not subject to local, state or federal laws,
and some refuse to recognize the authority of courts or
police.
Additional Advice for Pro Se Litigants
Rebellion Alone
is not Patriotism
October 2008
FLORIDA
State sues to stop liens by 'sovereign' couple
By Rene Stutzman, Sentinel
Staff Writer
Too many people are being hoodwinked into
filing these ill conceived lawsuits.
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10-14-08
--
Donna and Joel Brinkle used to own 5 acres in Geneva. That's
where they raised their family. Joel worked as a manager at
Florida Power & Light Co. Donna is a former deputy court
clerk.
. . .
Then,
in the 1990s, they stopped paying taxes and declared
themselves independent of all government authority. They
have been battling government ever since. .
. .
Joel,
76, went to jail. The IRS went after their money, and
Seminole County sold their home because of unpaid taxes.
. . .
Now,
they face a new battle: Florida's attorney general is suing
them, accusing them of fraud and harassment for filing a
lien naming four Seminole County officials: Sheriff Don
Eslinger; State Attorney Norm Wolfinger; Clerk of Courts
Maryanne Morse; and Clayton Simmons, chief judge of the 18th
judicial circuit.
. . .
The
couple recorded the lien in April, claiming ownership of
every piece of property held by those officials.
. . .
The
suit asks a judge to throw out the claim and to ban the
Brinkles from filing any more liens against public
officials, unless it is done by an attorney or with a court
order. It also asks a judge to bar the state and the county
from accepting any more liens from the couple unless they
are done by an attorney or with a court order.
. . .
Dozens of liens in 6 years.
. . . ll told, the Brinkles have filed more than two dozen
liens in the past six years, according to government
records. . . . They name many people, including former
President Clinton, a Sanford lawyer who sued the Brinkles in
a land dispute, a Longwood company that towed their vehicle
and a deputy court clerk who insisted that the Brinkles pay
the standard fee to record a document. . . . They file those
liens, Donna Brinkle said, to fight back against people who
have done them wrong. . . . "They try to persecute my
husband and myself to keep us from living a normal and
peaceable life when we do absolutely nothing to harm another
soul," she said. . . . Liens allow creditors a way to
collect money they're owed.
Please don't do any
"Kooky Law" stuff!
Posted by: Torm Howse
indianacrc@earthlink.net
Torm Howse is the National
Board Director,
United Civil Rights Councils of America
Please don't get involved in
any "kooky law" stuff... i.e., the use of UCC concepts
within family law, (valid elsewhere, like regular contract
law, trade law, and etc., but not in the family law aspect
of custody itself), the gold fringe on flag thing, the
Strawman thing, the courts and judges are "corporations"
thing, any given bar association is a British spinoff thing,
etc., etc., etc.
I recently saw this very good
summary on the basic reasons *why* to shy away from this
stuff, not the least of which is reasonably expecting to be
instantly branded a nutcase by any (99.9%) of the general
public.
Credit goes to Larry Becraft,
who is largely responsible for *debunking* all of these
kooky law stuff items:
“Destroyed Arguments” (legal collections
explaining the nonsense of these various "kooky law"
scams... i.e., the law itself, explaining why these crazy
and wild goose chases are worthless, even though they "sound
good"...)
Here's the quick overall nice
summary of WHY I won't get involved with kooky law stuff, in
a nutshell.
In case you don't know who Greg Hession is, go to
http://www.massoutrage.com
* Warning - This is a kook alert.*
By Gregory A. Hession
J.D. --
hession@crocker.com
I received an email from a
Constitutional Law outfit run by a husband and wife named
Jack and Margy Flynn, out of New Mexico, called Citizens of
the American Constitution. They are planning to come to Massachusetts and do seminars, starting in
Holyoke. Its web site is Citizens of the American Constitution.
I have reviewed the web site,
and it is full of Kooky-Law terms like "Admiralty
Law", "Sui Juris", "Perjury of Oaths",
references to using the Uniform Commercial Code in
civil matters that are not business related, and making
objections about whether one's name is in upper or lower
case in the heading on the pleadings, etc.
These things are very
dangerous for a number of reasons:
First,
they mislead the innocent and earnest person who has been
hammered by the system to believe that there is a "silver
bullet" method of winning, when it is not true.
Second,
using these terms and tactics in court, that are recommended
on their web site, results in instantly being branded a
"kook" by the court. Often, the case never recovers after
that.
Third, it's flat wrong, and
dishonest. The Uniform Commercial Code does not apply to
family cases, or speeding tickets, and our state courts are
NOT using admiralty law (which is strictly federal
procedure, dealing with vessels and injuries at sea).
Fourth,
those good folks using these techniques often lose big, and
often get fined for being frivolous. And I mean BIG. This
happened to a client of mine, who now has a $1.2 million
dollar judgment against him, only because he did honestly
and innocently followed the advice of a kooky-law guru. I
came in after it was all done, and couldn't undo the damage.
The judgment stuck.
These people recommend making
statements like the following to the judge prior to trial,
if he doesn't "prove" his jurisdiction: "I would again
inform him [the judge] that, by his own actions and
responses, he committed _insurrection, sedition and treason_
against the American People, is a traitor to this Nation and
its People, and must be removed from the bench for his
treason. I will immediately file criminal and civil charges
against him, personally, and in his professional capacity,
and take action against him in an Article III federal court,
which I will demand, by Motion." Telling a judge that he is
committing insurrection, sedition and treason is a good way
to get thrown in jail, never mind lose your case, when the
case may have actually won on its merits. That is just
nonsense.
Genuine patriot lawyers like
Larry Becraft have debunked this stuff for years, and yet
people continue to believe the scam artists who push this
junk. See
The Dixieland Law Journal, and scroll down to the
links on Patriot Scams. The only one these guys missed was
complaining about yellow fringes on the flag.
A certain percentage of these
cases do win using these techniques because the court just
doesn't want the hassle, such as when you ask for jury
trials for speeding tickets. Hey, sometimes they just humor
the person and let them go. Usually, however, the earnest
patriot goes in, thinking he is armed with the truth, and
gets his head handed to him.
Chase these guys out of town
as fast as possible. They will do untold harm to everyone in
this movement.
So, please, good people -- no
"kooky law" stuff !!:
1. Regardless of whether there is *any valid* base to *any*
of it, at all, it just doesn't matter.
2. America is dumb still, and hasn't yet re-awakened to its
own roots of freedom and independence.
3. 98-99% of Americans, old
and young alike, will instantly brand you a "kook", and for
good reason.
4. NONE of that stuff is even NECESSARY, in the first place,
since everything a person would want, for justice and
accountability, is ALREADY in the law... even in the
"modern" law... so, just get your justice using the
available tools under the law as it is now, because there
are plenty of ways to do it.
5. The "law" has not been the problem. Generally, the
problem is that you are just one person, and they (the
system) are not. What they can get away with, you cannot,
because you are just person. Lesson: You need to become more
than one person. Join with others. Work together. Just like
that system does... Only, instead of dishonesty and
corruption used by them to achieve fraud against you, use
the power and truth of real law and facts -- backed up by
bigger numbers of you -- to achieve accountability and
judgment upon such lawbreakers.
Team up with others, and then use the law - the real law...
Then you win.
Additional Advice for Pro Se Litigants
Rebellion Alone
is not Patriotism
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