The Straw Man Position - Why Justify?

When I discuss the law with people I find they are frequently horrified not only with my apparent lack of fear of police officers, but lack of fear regarding the system in general. They tell me my ideas are dangerous, they are not conductive to a working society, and often attempt to attack me verbally due to their own lack of understanding of my perspective.

The first thing I say now when I speak of these things is to run a disclaimer past their ears, in that I am certainly not advocating people hold these attitudes themselves unless they fully believe in what they are saying and have done the research themselves, I do not give legal advice, I simply comment on my own commercial conduct, nothing herein constitutes as such, just a record of my perspective provided for informational purposes.

Given that, specifically the part of law I look at is the commercial side of law. As many other people have, I have chosen a position of operating within commerce known as the “Strawman position”. This in itself is a lawful position in which we operate as two separate entities.

The first entity is me as a human being, it represents me physically and my inalienable rights within common law, through the human being, represented by my common name Rich, and the family name I identify as my own, Craig (it is quite unusual that I have adopted my mothers clan as my operating family name rather than my fathers, however I can choose to change my family name at any time, which is one of the reasons there is such divergence between my family and surname).

As a human being in law I have unlimited value, and the right to do as I please, providing I do not cause harm and loss, breach the peace or commit fraud in contracts. For my human being to get into trouble I would have to have another human being laying a claim against me.

The second is my commercial entity or “person”, which is represented by my NAME SURNAME in all caps, the name on my birth certificate specified as first name/surname, placed in a box on a contract, or given a title like “MR”. This is a product of a law maxim called Capitis Diminutio Maxima; “As Black's Law Dictionary explains, the full capitalization of the letters of one's natural name, results in a diminishing or complete loss of legal or citizenship status, wherein one actually becomes a slave or an item of inventory.”

Although my human being has inalienable rights and privileges that cannot be usurped in anyway, they can be given up by me. The easiest way to do this is to think I am my PERSON. The PERSON, in stark contrast to the human, does not have lawful rights that are irrevocable; the PERSON only has obligations, benefits and privileges that are granted by the contractual entities to which the PERSON does business, not limited to and including the government of the civil jurisdiction within which it operates (in my case the United Kingdom Corporation and it’s various subsidiaries). The contracts from which this governing body grant benefits, privileges and obligations onto my PERSON are called ACTS.

An ACT starts out as a BILL, which is a commercial tool through which the fictional PERSON can be enacted upon, when a government passes an ACT it becomes a set of obligations, privileges and benefits through which a PERSON can be operated upon.

Through this ACT, the way in which the ACT directly interacts with the PERSON as a contractual entity is through a STATUTORY instrument, this is a contract between the government and the consenting governed.

I have chosen to operate as a human being, occasionally stepping into my PERSON as a 3rd party agent to conduct commerce. The reason for this is very simple. Knowing the law to this degree has given me a choice. The choice in itself is as follows.

1: Learning how to operate in Law as an entity (human) which has inalienable rights which cannot be taken away, forcefully removed, destroyed, eroded or otherwise compromised.

2: Operating as a legally fictitious entity (PERSON) which has no rights, only benefits, obligations and privileges given to it by it’s superiors in a contractual, commercial hierarchy called government.

As these are my commercial affairs one would think the choice would be fairly logical for me to make and obviously I have chosen the rather difficult path of number one, for it is my belief that I am not a piece of stock with no rights that must beg for privileges.

A lot of people don’t actually like the fact that I choose to operate my commercial affairs in this way, and I have been outright told I am “wrong”, “delusional” and my favourite, “full of horseshit and lies”. I have lost friends, nearly lost a housemate and nearly been disciplined in my job (before they found out it was unlawful to do so) simply for stating my interpretation of the law when asked.

This is the part of it I and many other people who use similar means of presenting themselves seem to find difficult. People seem to find it almost offensive that I am confident enough to operate within law to the degree where I present myself commercially.

They ask me how I can justify some of my commercial actions with my debtors (the ones who assume I am the debtor such as loan companies), and I will quite happily inform them of how our fiat based fractional reserve banking system works, and they will then tell me they don’t like being preached at.

I have been told by people who ask me to explain myself, and my justification, that they felt I was preaching at them. My answer regarding that is if you ask a question, I will answer in good faith, if my answer does not fit into your rigid moral code, simply disregard it. You’re an adult, you have free will, were my views so wrong then surely it wouldn’t be an issue for you to simply assume them as such and get on with your lives, I certainly do not wish you to follow me like I’m some form of messiah of commerce. I’m just a human.

It is not my responsibility to justify my commercial operations to people who do not operate with me commercially. Answering a question regarding my commercial operations is entirely optional. As a human being I choose to not operate as my PERSON unless I am conducting a commercial act. I believe that is my responsibility and my right, and it is every other human beings right to decide how to operate themselves within commerce as well.

As a result of this choice I am making, it is my understanding that statutes and acts do not apply to me when I am not acting within commerce. A lot of people start feeling irritated at this point, because taxation and licenses are a good example of things that don’t apply to a Human unless they ask for them and consent to them. They then usually start talking about my obligation to society, which is not something to which I identify. My reasons for not wishing to participate in this society are numerous, however the fact that we are in a democracy and I do not wish to have another human re-present me is enough justification as far as I’m concerned.

I take responsibility for my own actions. That’s not to say I hate society, or I wish to disregard it’s people (“go live under a rock and don’t contact us” is a common comment), and it certainly doesn’t mean I do not wish to contribute to it’s people in a positive manner, it simply means that I do not feel I need re-presentation from a nanny government and choose to administrate my own affairs without constantly begging them to regulate me.

As the majority of people who are talking to me about this are not talking to me via their government representatives I am under the impression that they are not being represented by society at that moment but are infact humans who occasionally participate within that society. I do not ask them to reveal to me how they wish to operate with other people within society, if I did I certainly wouldn’t ask them to change how they operated commercially based on my moral code because that would be vastly overstepping my boundaries.

So my statement I make to people wishing to shoot the messenger regarding the way I choose to operate myself and my PERSON in commerce is this: It’s my business, if you disagree with how I work on an operational level, in that you don’t believe what I am doing is lawful then your elected representatives and the people they employ will surely find a way to hold me accountable for my lack of knowledge and misapplication.

If your disagreement is on the moral level, then my only advice is don’t ask, and don’t preach if you don’t like the answer, it is my business, and I owe you not one iota of explanation or justification as to how I conduct my commercial affairs.

If your problems still aren’t covered, then ask if the problem is really with me.

Peace, Love, Empatthy

Rich

Notice of Understanding

Making your Property Common Law Jurisdiction for 14 days.

Sorry no blog post in a while. We’ve recently had a friend come and stay with us, he’s a nice guy however is currently running from a recall to prison on a statutory charge which quite frankly is a trumped up statutory charge.

Here’s how a recall to prison actually works. Our man served his time, however if for instance he’s boating along on his boat or boat like apparatus, happily minding his own business and taking in the sweet smell of freedom on the Norfolk broads, and then a community support officer decides to board his boat, attack him, force him onto land and then charges him with “threatening behaviour”.

While our friend is awaiting a court date for this statutory charge under (what I think is) the public order act, the police then have the ability to knock on his door all hours of the day and night, and haul him on the nearest bus and force him back to prison without a trial…EVEN IF ON HIS COURT DATE HE IS FOUND INNOCENT/CASE DISMISSED.

Screw that, that isn’t fair, I don’t care if he’s in there for GBH, tax evasion or anything. That just plain old is not fair. So into his automocar he hopped on a voyage from the broads to Nottingham, and on Thursday I was greeted by him, his dog and his friend all stood around milling around my house.

I had a feeling he’d do that, so I decided to plan in advance and created a temporary NoUICoR (Notice of Understanding and Intent to Claim of Right) and stuck it on the thresholds of our rented flat. Here’s what it said; Let's see plod get around this!

TEMPORARY NOTICE OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING X XXXX WHARF AND ALL PROPERTIES AND OCCUPANTS

This Notice Of Understanding And Intent to claim of right is active from ZERO HUNDRED HOURS on the morning of Friday the 07th day of the month of August in the year of our lord 2009 (07/08/09) Until ZERO HUNDRED HOURS on the morning of Friday the 21st day of the month of August in the year of our lord 2009 (21/08/09)

Whereas it is our understanding

We, Rich:Craig & Anthony:Xxxx, Sui juris, flesh and blood men and blessed living Soul serving God alone, do hereby state the following is a Statement of Truth

Whereas it is our understanding that the United Kingdom is a common law jurisdiction, and,

Whereas it is our understanding that equality before the law is paramount and mandatory, and,

Whereas it is our understanding that a statute is defined as legislated rule of a society which has been given the force of law, and,

Whereas it is our understanding that a society is defined as a number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine, and act for a common goal, and ,

Whereas it our my understanding that the only form of government recognised as lawful in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is a representative one,
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that representation requires mutual consent,
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that in the absence of mutual consent neither representation nor governance can exist,
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that all Acts are statutes restricted in scope and applicability by the Constitution and/or Bill of Rights,
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that said scope and applicability is limited to members and employees of government,
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that land cannot be owned by a human being but only by a person
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that property is owned by a human being
and,

Whereas it is our understanding in our possession is property we lawfully own or hold
and,

Whereas it is our understanding that the act of registering the birth of a baby creates a legal entity called a “person” that exists in association with that baby and that the manner in which offspring are registered transfers superior guardianship rights over that offspring to the government and,

Whereas it is our understanding that this creation of a person and transfer of authority is not fully disclosed to the parents and if it was, all good parents would refuse to register their offspring and,

Whereas it is our understanding that aforementioned property contained past the threshold of the door upon which this notice is placed is property lawfully held by human beings and not people and,

Whereas it is our understanding that it is lawful to abandon ones person at any time and dissociate with it without reason to act within the laws and statutes of the society,

We therefore place the following conditions upon anyone entering this property:

This property is the property of The Lawful free, flesh and blood human beings known as Anthony:Xxxx and Rich:Craig

Upon crossing the threshold of this property with permission from the aforementioned property holders you are entering a common law jurisdiction and claim full liability and responsibility for any actions conducted within the four corners of this property,

You claim full liability and at no point represent or act on behalf of a person,

You agree that legal defence of “In Loco Parentis” does not apply as you are a sovereign human being and enter this property at your own free will,

You agree that you have no existing contracts to the best of your knowledge or court based liens upon your person by any third party corporate entity and identifying as a person claims limited liability and is there full null, void and invalid at all times,

You agree that this property contains only flesh and blood men and blessed living Soul serving God alone and acting upon the person or as a person is an unlawful activity,

The property holders Rich:Craig & Anthony:Xxxx accept no liability for actions conducted within the four corners within this property or by the “Person” of anyone within it’s walls,

Entrance to this property by those acting upon the human beings will require a warrant as defined within The Magna Carta 1215 Section [39] which states “[39] No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights and possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.”,





Any persons wishing to conduct business with a person they believe to be contained within the four corners beyond this threshold are compelled to be aware that no persons exist within the four corners beyond this threshold,

Any requests to speak to persons will be a violation of this notice and will be subject to the fee schedule below,

Furthermore, We claim the right to use a declaratory judgement, or statutory declaration or warrant, to secure payment of the aforementioned
FEE SCHEDULE OR BILL FOR ORDER ISSUED against any transgressors who by their actions or omissions harm us or our interests, directly or by proxy in any way.

Furthermore, we claim the right to convene a proper court de jure in order to address any potentially criminal actions of any police officers, government officials, principals or agents or justice system participants who, having been served notice of this claim fail to dispute or discuss or make lawful counterclaim and then interfere by act or omission with the lawful exercise of properly claimed and established rights and freedoms.

Furthermore, we claim the law of agent and principal applies and that service upon one is service upon both,

Furthermore, we claim the right to deal with any counterclaims or disputes publicly and in an open forum using discussion and negotiation and to capture on video tape said discussion and negotiation for whatever lawful purpose as we see fit. Affected parties wishing to dispute the claims made herein, or make their own counterclaims must respond appropriately upon service of notice of this action. Responses must be under Oath or attestation, upon full commercial liability and penalty of perjury, and delivered by recorded delivery during the active period.

Failure to register a dispute against the claims made herein will result in an automatic default judgement and permanent and irrevocable estoppel by acquiescence barring the bringing of charges under any statute, act or regulation against ourselves, Freemen-on-the-Land Rich:Craig and Anthony:Xxxx, for exercising these lawful and properly established rights, freedoms and duties.

Service is received upon knocking upon this Door or entering the four corners beyond this threshold.

All contracts regarding lease or tenancy within this building are not affected by this Notice and all of the lease holder’s statutory rights remain unaffected for the duration of this period providing the usual methods of contact are met,

Without prejudice, malice or ill will.

Any and all agreements, contracts, claims made outside these four corners upon a person claimed to be within these four corners, are accordingly null and void as they are not applicable to human beings and only human beings and their property exist within the four corners of this property.

This Is a Common Law Jurisdiction; there are no Persons, children, slaves, employees, or agents beyond this threshold,

Access can only be gained to the property beyond this threshold by written invitation, signed by one of the undersigned parties only,

Failure to acknowledge this notice and abide by it is dishonour,

A warrant for a statutory offence is not recognised as a valid lawful reason to accept the entry of a uniformed peace officer without a lawfully obtained warrant for entry, statutes apply to people and anyone crossing this threshold states under full liability they are a human being by equitable remedy and lawful estoppel.

FEE SCHEDULE:

FIVE THOUSAND (£5000) POUNDS GBP or a portion thereof for unsolicited visits by those who claim limited liability,

ONE THOUSAND (£1000) POUNDS GBP or a portion thereof for an attempt to conduct business or contracts upon a person within the four corners beyond this threshold,

ONE THOUSAND (£1000) POUNDS GBP or a portion thereof for attempted defacement, concealment or removal of this notice or the paper upon which it is printed once mounted upon this threshold,

FIVE MILLION (£5,000,000) POUNDS GBP or a portion thereof for an attempt to act upon a human being within the four corners beyond this threshold,

FIVE MILLION (£5,000,000) POUNDS GBP or a portion thereof for identifying any humans within the four corners beyond this threshold as a person either upon or after fact,

FIFTY THOUSAND (£50,000) POUNDS GBP PER DAY if any personal property is being taken away from an occupant within the four corners beyond this threshold without express written and notarized consent,

FIFTY THOUSAND (£50,000) POUNDS GBP PER DAY AND 5 YEARS IN PRISON for attempt to gain access to the four corners beyond this threshold with or without force, if not in possession of a written invitation,

Place of Claim of Right:
Xxx [X] Xxxx Wharf, Nottingham, England
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Dated: 06th. August 2009





________________________________ _______________________________

By Rich:Craig By Anthony:Xxxx
Authorised 3rd party agent of Authorised 3rd party agent of
Lawful Property Holder Lawful Property Holder

Congratulations To Darren Pollard, Freeman

Would just like to send my fondest wishes to Darren Pollard, who is today a FREEMAN, after being released without charge by a limited company who unlawfully detained him.

Full details at http://www.raymondstclair.com/ and http://www.tpuc.org/content/Silencing-a-Free-Man .

As always his work is a brilliant example of what true freedom is.

So here we are, and this is what it looks like.

Ever since I was young, I never quite understood why the world worked the way it did. Certain things didn't make sense that don't make sense to me even now.

Like first of all, why did my parents say “think of the starving children in Africa!” before they threw my half eaten dinner away? They aren't going to ship my half eaten food to Africa, they wouldn't have shipped it had they known I wasn't going to eat it before they cooked it, in honesty had they not bothered to get the food and cook it for me neither would the store we bought it from.

Why do the charities that collect for the starving children collect money more often than food? Even if a child in one of these countries we've sucked all the life out of actually received what we'd given they would have to come here to spend it, and coins didn't seem that edible.

If my parents were so bothered about the starving children in Africa why didn't all the parents just cook what was needed for their children rather than heaping mountain fulls of food onto the plate and send the leftovers to one of those countries. One ship for every community here to feed our leftovers to every community over there.

I surmised in the end that this was because it would cost money to do it.

As I grew I found new layers to this question, like why the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) felt the need to fly impeccably dressed middle aged men to these areas, follow them around with a camera crew and have them commentate on the action so we could all tut and talk about how terrible it was. Wouldn't the Ethiopian people be a lot happier if instead of the BBC spending the thousands of pounds on gathering and transmitting such footage to overfed children in the UK they sent some food and ice cream (it looked hot there)?

This starving African children thing seemed all backwards. As much as it seemed like we were acknowledging the problem by sending inedible coins and Award Winning Correspondents like Mike Thompson and Peter Biles to gawp at all the starving children, we didn't DO anything.

My real curiosity was that while these news reporters were wandering around these places they would wear impeccable suits, sometimes have an umbrella up, occasionally drink from a bottle of water. The real questions that would play on my mind would be, where did the reporters stay? What did they eat? Was there a big air conditioned van or production truck hidden off camera filled with Sunny D and Wotsits? Was there a hotel a couple of miles down the road with vending machines full to the brim of coca cola and a group of french speaking migrants stood around with towels on their arms offering Peter Biles and his colleagues some freshly squeezed orange juice? And how the hell could he stand there filming the death of a naked, starving child and writing his next voice over when if it was his child, or even a boy walking the street outside of his swanky Mayfair apartment, he would probably take the child into his home, feed and wash it, and turn it over to the care system. All this for the benefit of a 5 minute filler segment between "choco rations" going up and the next party sponsored spin peace about housing prices or some magic talking dog who saved a girls life.

Yes, there was something wrong with the world I grew up in, and hopefully one day someone will read this and say we WERE backwards, because 23 years into my life and this statement is almost regarded as ludicrous.

So how does this system work? Why do we continue working within this system if it would seem the very way it is structured means that a geographical boarder can define what rights and value a human life has? Was I to feel lucky or spiritually privileged because I didn't live in one of these hell holes?

After all if we imagine my consciousness was just floating around the ether before my mother pops out a sprog and bam, the consciousness lands in this human vessel and where it is just happens to be one of the most opulent, decadent countries in the world, statistically that seems like the equivilent of winning the lottery.

I could continue down this path all day, this initial post could turn into a several thousand word essay alone. I do not want that, so I wont go down that path.

My main thought is that we live in a country and world where each essential human being is rhetorically stated to be equal in both rights and privileges. This simply is not true.

The crux of the matter is that had my “Soul” or “Consciousness” or whatever this unexplainable part of “Beingness” we are all aware of lying beyond all those layers of unthinking tissue; instead of choosing this body chose the body of the child dying in front of millions of British people having their dinner, I would NOT have been equal to them, because if I was equal I would be eating my dinner and not starving.

What makes me? What is Self, is self this position within this logos implemented societal structure that has the home and the debt and the food in the fridge, bank account and TV and washing up to do?

Or is self the bit of me that incredulously looked on in shock as Bono and his jet setting cohorts released “Feed the World” a second time when the first time seemingly fed a vastly smaller amount than was quoted on the cd? (Although bono's ego is definately planet sized, the world wasn't fed by the first cd.)

I have found a path in front of me, a path that says to me it is time to further explore this issue for the purpose of better knowing myself. Is this structure necessary?

Is it time for us as a race to allow the Nanny state to continue to distract us with televisions promises of a better life, archetypal freedom and vacuum packed composite individuality as she slowly locks all the doors and tapes up every piece of independence we had so we can't “hurt” ourselves. Or is it time for me to put away my toys and distractions, stand up and say “I am a grown up now nanny, and you are essentially here to serve me so your rules no longer apply nor are they necessary because I accept all responsibility for my actions. Stop messing around trying to run my life as I know I have the ability to do and get what I want, and start working with everyone else on my behalf to get them to do the same. And if you don't do it, I shall send you home and do it myself.”

What I am finding is a multi layered onion, each layer stark in colour but essentially made up of the same ingredients. A fractal like entity that traces back through the routes of civilization as a constant embodiment of the constant war between self and structure, Ascent and Descent, Consciousness and Language, Space and Time, Wakefulness and Sleeplessness.

As I strip each layer of the onion, I shall continue this blog as well as the book I am penning about this experience. I have a small amount of debts to clear which are plays within the game I made when I was not fully aware of the implications of what exactly I am, and that what I am participating is indeed a game with ultimately little satisfactory reward.So once these debts are clear in November of this year I will start living as if money and property have no value to me, as they will not.

I currently know myself as Rich:Craig. And this is my truth.

Additional: I'm aware this is a gross oversimplification of the crises facing Ethiopia and that charities don't physically send money directly to the starving kids, so don't bother telling me.