Part 3:
The Leftist ADL loves the "redemption" criminals, because it supports their arguments that white Christian Americans are unfit to keep and carry guns and unfit to govern the united States:
"Scam artists and right-wing extremists are hawking a pseudo-legal strategy that promises both financial gain and the opportunity to take revenge against what is seen as a sham government. Called "redemption," the technique has earned its promoters untold profits, buried courts and other agencies under tons of worthless paper, and led to scores of arrests and convictions throughout the United States. ... What redemption promoters sell — through hundreds of pricey books, tapes, CD-ROMs, Web sites and interminably dull seminars saturated with quasi-legalistic mumbo-jumbo — is a cockamamie version of U.S. history in which the federal government has enslaved its citizens by using them as collateral against foreign debt. ... Redemption is a charade. It is time-consuming, nonsensical, and virtually impossible to understand. That it doesn't work goes without saying — many people now in prison are mute testimony to the scam's many perils. And it costs a small fortune to master. For while redemptionists say they'll make you rich, they almost always want to be paid first, in dollars printed by the government they hate. "
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intel...cle.jsp?aid=74
Here is a typical "Redemption" sales-pitch made by the PAYtriot criminals that appeals to stupid and gullible and often desperate people (promising something for nothing) if only they will disavow all their actual legal rights and "Join" a "redemption" cult:
"Learn Commercial Redemption.....Pay all your debts for Dollar.....for more details ....Join Stephen Gottfried".
Sometimes, even the PAYtriot criminals who invent and promote these lawless and useless schemes get what is coming to them:
Redemption Scheme Leader Arrested in Minnesota
http://www.adl.org/learn/news/Roger_Elvick_arrested.asp
White supremacist and anti-government extremist Roger Elvick was arrested in Minnesota on September 3, 2003, after being indicted in Ohio on multiple charges related to a bogus check scheme called "redemption."
Redemption, created by Elvick in the late 1990s, is an elaborate scheme promulgated by anti-government extremist groups around the country. Promoters of the scheme hold seminars at which they claim that the United States went bankrupt in 1933 when it went off the gold standard, and to pay the country's debt to "international bankers," the U.S. collateralized American citizens themselves, registering their birth certificates as securities. ...
Redemption spread across the country after 1999, becoming one of the most popular anti-government extremist tactics. Redemption practitioners have been convicted on a variety of charges in Oregon, Idaho, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and other states.
Elvick is charged with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity. The indictment claims that Elvick and others (many of whom have since been convicted on a variety of charges) engaged in a criminal enterprise involving Redemption groups holding seminars to teach people Redemption and how to use bogus sight drafts.
Elvick is also charged with two counts of extortion, five counts of intimidation, two counts of conspiracy to commit intimidation, five counts of retaliation, four counts of complicity in the commission of forgery, and one count of conspiracy to commit engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity.
Elvick and three others were arrested and convicted in 1990 on a 19-count indictment. According to federal prosecutors, "Elvick started the operation and communicated his ideas, which were picked up by the others." Elvick was subsequently convicted in another trial on charges of filing false IRS 1099 forms in order to harass public officials.
As a result of these convictions, Elvick spent most of the 1990s in jail. According to Redemptionists, he used his time in prison to hone his theories, and indeed, the Redemption scheme, also involving ... a variation on Elvick's original scheme.
http://www.adl.org/learn/news/Roger_Elvick_arrested.asp
"Twelve Western Michigan residents were convicted today in federal court on 67 counts of fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion. The anti-government extremists, members of the "sovereign citizen" movement, had attempted to use bogus Internal Revenue Service filings to trigger IRS inquiries against 18 judges. ... "We applaud the convictions in this important case," said Jennifer Doeren, Assistant Director of the Anti-Defamation League's Detroit office. "ADL has long been concerned about efforts by anti-government extremists to harass and intimidate law enforcement officers and public officials in Michigan and elsewhere."... The defendants were practitioners of an anti-government scheme known as "redemption" or "accept for value," which has become increasingly popular among anti-government extremists since 1999. Adherents of the "redemption" tactic make uniform commercial code filings that they claim allows them ... to pay off their debts and liabilities. Creditors, public officials, or law enforcement officers who disagree are subjected to harassing IRS Form 8300 filings, among other attempts at intimidation. Redemptionists have been convicted on a variety of charges in Ohio, Oregon, Idaho, and several other states."
http://www.adl.org/learn/news/gov_plotter.asp
Redemption cult members are basically all worshiping "Money", and put the pursuit of Easy Money ahead of God and ahead of learning, advocating and defending their actual legal rights of themselves and the rights of their fellow citizens. Most Redemptionists are entirely uninterested in Demanding the Government to Respect their actual Rights secured by the US Constitution, leaving rulers free to withhold, violate, deny and disavow those rights. See
www.billstclair.com/ferran
Thus, Peddlers of "Redemption" are subverting the People's Resistance to Tyranny, one victim at a time.
And see also: Old Wine, New Bottles: Paper Terrorism, Paper Scams and Paper “Redemption”
http://www.militia-watchdog.org/redemption.asp
Here are some published cases which have correctly rejected this lunacy:
http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/UCC.htm
Oliver Wendell Holmes explained that the study of "Law" is a way to try to predict what a Judge (and the Sheriff taking his orders) is going to do in particular circumstances:
"But, as I shall try to show, a legal duty so called is nothing but a prediction that if a man does or omits certain things he will be made to suffer in this or that way by judgment of the court; and so of a legal right. ... The duty to keep a contract at common law means a prediction that you must pay damages if you do not keep it — and nothing else. If you commit a tort, you are liable to pay a compensatory sum."
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm
And:
"When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them out of court. The reason why it is a profession, why people will pay lawyers to argue for them or to advise them, is that in societies like ours the command of the public force is intrusted to the judges in certain cases, and the whole power of the state will be put forth, if necessary, to carry out their judgments and decrees. People want to know under what circumstances and how far they will run the risk of coming against what is so much stronger than themselves, and hence it becomes a business to find out when this danger is to be feared. The object of our study, then, is prediction, the prediction of the incidence of the public force through the instrumentality of the courts."
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/owh/path_law.htm
See also: Law, a Revolutionary Idea for Peace at
http://billstclair.com/ferran
What Mr. Steel refers to as "Fantasy Law" are the various childish ideas that are basically made-up by dishonest or delusional people and which have absolutely zero "predictive value" because they are NOT "The Law" that Judges (Lawyers) study and that will be en-forced by the "whole power of the state." Most often, the "Fantasy Law" ideas of con-men SHOULD NOT BE "THE LAW" because the en-forcement of such nonsensical ideas such would lead to chaos, weakness, and invasion. Mankind has had thousands of years of experience to help it to decide what SHOULD BE "THE LAW" OF THE LAND.
If a person expects to predict what a Judge, or a Sheriff, is going to do by simply declaring self-suficiency (e.g., "I rely upon LOGIC. Think for yourself.") that person is going to have ZERO effectiveness in Court. People have to study what Judges declare that the Law is, because that is theoretically the best way to predict what will happen. This has been true since the role of Judges to explain and declare the Law was defined in the Bible's Old Testament.