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Originally Posted by Satori
I found it to be well-crafted in the sense that the concepts were presented coherently, and comprehensive enough to get a few of the major points that needed getting to. Your explanation, by the way, accounts for why "person" is always some kind of corporate entity. Heck, they could've made it an agent of a corporate entity, as the UNITED STATES is one itself... Oh. Back to your argument about leaving trails of breadcrumbs in the statutes to demonstrate their lawless presumptions. It's less about what the statutes say, and more about them being Exhibit A in a case for treason. It's all extortion under color of authority, and the statutory words of art are, I think, just a means of keeping them all in lockstep with each other. It's a co-ordinated effort, and I think the statutory drift we're seeing is no more and no less than the drumbeat to which they march. On a practical level for the citizenry, it doesn't really matter what justifications and excuses they use in the course of their extortion under color of law and authority, since they're invalid anyway. It only matters to them. If you're familiar with the arguments for and against the 13th Amendment barring titles of nobility having been lawfully ratified, you're probably aware that one excuse is made by their side, and when we disprove it they get into finer and finer points until they're just hairsplitting. It didn't make sense to me at the time why, but as a means of keeping the party line for their side together, it makes sense to always have some cover story, however weak. Better than no alibi at all, or so they seem to think. I wonder if that's where we can get 'em; they opt for plausible denial as a modus operandi even when the arguments left to them are so weak that they're implausible.
Chief Justice Marshall's exposition in Cohens v Virginia, 6 Wheat 264, 5 L Ed 257, (1821), wrote what might be construed as evidence of this policy of using statutes and case law as a means of publishing the latest party line (possibly why they're not much concerned with a stare decesis, despite all the visible fawning over case precedant); he wrote that a court "must take jurisdiction if it should. The judiciary cannot, as the legislature may, avoid a measure because it approaches the confines of the constitution. We cannot pass it by, because it is doubtful. With whatever doubts, with whatever difficulties, a case may be attended, we must decide it, if it be brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid; but we cannot avoid them." (Emphasis mine.) Consider what happens in their courts; attorneys research case precedant and bring it to a magistrate. Litigants argue based on case cite. They base their cases on the words of another magistrate. If the current magistrate or attorneys are unaware of a case cite (unusual) they have it presented to them or look it up. The attorneys and the lawyers keep up with this output in the course of their daily work. It synchronizes them, and their words of art and the weak excuses get more diluted and arbitrary, until they've visibly outmoded the law altogether (and society completes the crumbling of which it's in the process).
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