THE FREEMAN ON THE LAND MOVEMENT: GRASS ROOTS LIBERTARIANISM IN ACTION - Professor John Kersey
Principles of the Freeman on the Land movement
There is some debate within the movement on exactly how its principles are established and operate, and to a certain extent they are constantly evolving both on the basis of re- search into the law and in the light of the practical applica- tion of these maxims. However, there seems to be general agreement on the following:
1. The common law of England and Wales is universally applicable to those people (natural persons) within that juris- diction. A natural person is endowed with a number of inal- ienable, God-given rights. That natural person is referred to as a Freeman on the Land.
2. By contrast, civil or statute law, the majority of which is considerably more recent in origin, is not universally appli- cable but instead, because of its commercial basis (in the law of the sea), rests upon a contract between two parties, the first party being the state, and the second party being the legal fiction representing a given individual.
3. The instrument that is held to represent a given indi- vidual entering into such a contract with the state is a birth certificate.
4. The validity of such a contract is questionable be- cause the contract as represented by a birth certificate is en- tered into between a minor (who cannot validly contract) andthe state, and because consent is therefore assumed rather than established.
There is some debate within the movement on exactly how its principles are established and operate, and to a certain extent they are constantly evolving both on the basis of re- search into the law and in the light of the practical applica- tion of these maxims. However, there seems to be general agreement on the following:
1. The common law of England and Wales is universally applicable to those people (natural persons) within that juris- diction. A natural person is endowed with a number of inal- ienable, God-given rights. That natural person is referred to as a Freeman on the Land.
2. By contrast, civil or statute law, the majority of which is considerably more recent in origin, is not universally appli- cable but instead, because of its commercial basis (in the law of the sea), rests upon a contract between two parties, the first party being the state, and the second party being the legal fiction representing a given individual.
3. The instrument that is held to represent a given indi- vidual entering into such a contract with the state is a birth certificate.
4. The validity of such a contract is questionable be- cause the contract as represented by a birth certificate is en- tered into between a minor (who cannot validly contract) andthe state, and because consent is therefore assumed rather than established.
5. It follows that if the contract is deemed void, it may
be possible to separate the natural person (common law)
from the legal fiction (civil law). As a result, whereas the
birth certificate (as a piece of paper) is evidence of the legal
fiction contracting with the state, that birth certificate is not
the same as the natural person represented by the living indi-
vidual.
Freemen make a distinction between the name of their legal fiction (John Smith) and their natural name (which may take many forms, but is usually expressed as “John: as commonly called of the family Smith”, “John: Smith” or similar.) They refer to the legal fiction as a “straw man”9 and maintain that it is possible for the natural person to control the straw man as a legal fiction for the purposes of contracting with third parties, without at any point entering into liability on behalf of the natural person.
In addition, it is proposed by some that it is possible to ob- tain documentary evidence of this separation between natural person and legal fiction by completing and serving a series of sworn affidavits upon the Queen.
Freemen make a distinction between the name of their legal fiction (John Smith) and their natural name (which may take many forms, but is usually expressed as “John: as commonly called of the family Smith”, “John: Smith” or similar.) They refer to the legal fiction as a “straw man”9 and maintain that it is possible for the natural person to control the straw man as a legal fiction for the purposes of contracting with third parties, without at any point entering into liability on behalf of the natural person.
In addition, it is proposed by some that it is possible to ob- tain documentary evidence of this separation between natural person and legal fiction by completing and serving a series of sworn affidavits upon the Queen.
FREEMAN EXPLAINS COMMON LAW
The Freeman Movement - Robert Menard - Bursting Bubbles of Government Deception
Recently Canadian Freeman Robert Menard was invited to do an interview for CBC's The National about the freeman movement here in Canada. Press For Truth documented the interview then did a follow up interview of our own to get some more insight into what the "freeman movement" is all about. Source
What Is President Obama So Afraid Of?
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Quietly, and with little fanfare, President Obama signed a “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Executive Order on Friday. As the name suggests, the order intends to shore up the country’s national defense resources in advance of a national emergency.
To be fair, this is not the first time that such an order has been written. Presidents Bush (II), Clinton, Reagan, and even Eisenhower provided directives in the same spirit as President Obama’s order– providing some level of government commandeering in times of national emergency.
In the past, these orders have related to things like production capacity for defense contractors, or giving FEMA authority to resolve disputes between other departments in federally designated emergency areas.
President Obama’s order, however, takes things much, much further.
(1) The order vastly expands the role of Homeland Security… as if these knuckleheads didn’t already have too much influence in people’s lives. Apparently highways, shopping malls, airports, bus stations, Wal-Marts, hotels, train stations, etc. aren’t enough for DHS. Now the Secretary of DHS will:
a) “advise the President on issues of national defense resource preparedness”.
This one is really clear. Under normal circumstances, matters related to defense would fall under the Secretary of Defense… or perhaps the National Security Advisor. Giving such responsibility to DHS suggests that the government is expecting an emergency from within.
"Get to the back of the bus" Unbanked & Unworthy - Max Keiser and Mark Melin
The great 'unbanked' masses dumping gold believing in a 'recovering economy' and an end to money printing while banks and insiders buy gold and mortgage backed securities in preparation for more quantitative easing by the Fed. In the second half of the show Max talks to Mark Melin of Uncorrelated Investments about MF Global, JP Morgan and the future of the futures market. They also discuss the Charles Manson's of the futures industry and the branch office of the too big too fail banks formerly known as the SEC. Source
Turkish Government "Goes For Gold"; Seeks To "Transfer" Private Gold Holdings Into Bank System
Gold may not be 'money' to the Chairman, but it sure is to Turkey. The WSJ reports that "The Turkish government, facing a bloated current-account deficit that threatens to derail the country's rapid expansion, is trying to persuade Turks to transfer their vast personal holdings of gold into the country's banking system." The reason: "The push to tap into the individual gold reserves—the traditional form of savings here—is part of Ankara's efforts to reduce a finance gap that is currently about 10% of gross domestic product." In other words, "sequester" the population's hard assets (politely of course), and convert these to paper to fund the country's creditors, both foreign and domestic. Mostly foreign. In other words, Southeast Europe is slowing becoming the staging ground for the 21st century equivalent of Executive Order 6102, where first Greek, and now Turkish gold, is about to be pulled from point A to point B, where point B is some top secret vault deep under London.
Marc Faber - 454 Tons Of Gold
Catching The "Silver Crusher" Algorithm In The Act
There was a time when catching the silver "whack-a-mole" algo, or process, or intervention, or manipulation, or whatever one wants to call it, in action was a myth: an urban legend, perpetuated by silver conspiracy theorists. Until today that is. Courtesy of Nanex we now have direct evidence of just what the reflexive market (in which derivative products such as ETFs influence underlying assets) goes to town by taking silver to the woodshed at a whopping 75,000 times per second! From the broken market sleuths at Nanex: "On March 20, 2012 at 13:22:33, the quote rate in the ETF symbol SLV sustained a rate exceeding 75,000/sec (75/ms) for 25 milliseconds. Nasdaq quotes lagged other exchanges by about 50 milliseconds. Nasdaq quotes even lagged their own trades - a condition we have jokingly referred to as fantaseconds." Translation:
so desperate was the desire to crush silver at precisely 13:22;33, that the Nasdaq order flow directive ended up moving faster than light. Frankly, we don't know about you, but when someone is willing to bend the laws of relativity, just to get a cheaper price in silver, to perpetuate a failing monetary system or for any other reason, we quietly step aside...