Oddbean

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

Keep Your Status Your Status is as Sovereign once you become of age; a living breathing Man or Woman. Self-governing and having Supreme Authority. As we are all Sovereign, and have equal status, we need to accept titles within a group or structure, and give authority to those with higher titles to tell us what to do. The Legal System will try and lower your status so you lose your rights, and are coerced into accepting contracts you need not agree to. Hierarchy This is done by creating a Hierarchy and placing you at the bottom. The Greek word Arch means rule. Hierarchy: A combination of the Greek word Hier, meaning “Sacred” and the word Arch meaning “Ruler”; Hierarchy, with the earliest sense means “system of order of angels and heavenly beings.” From 17th century Hierarchy means a system of “Rulers”, with varying rank and status. Monarchy: Monos is a Greek word meaning “alone” and Uni is from Latin meaning “one”. Mono is derived from these words, and hence Monarchy means “One Ruler”. Anarchy: Two words from the Greek language, An meaning “without”, and the Archos meaning “Chief” or “Ruler”; combination of these words means “Without Ruler”.

Taxpayer Although this term may seem simple, i.e. “a person who pays taxes” we need to understand that only a person can pay taxes, but not a living breathing man or woman. Therefore if you accept this title, you have agreed to become a person, and therefore you have become taxable. Citizen To understand the meaning of Citizen, we must first address the word State. Note: the word State is referring to your state of mind. Your state of mind has to be controlled to accept the legal fiction of government. A State is a legal corporation, set within a nation or territory, from which a political community controlled by a government reside. In basic terminology it is a business. A citizen is a person who owes allegiance to the State, and is entitled to “rights”, privileges and “protection”. Meaning that a citizen is an employee of the business called “The State”, and as an employee you have traded your freedom and rights, for privileges. Your status is now at the lowest level.

And the real key to this was making the laws subjective. It wasn’t that they outlawed everything. The laws looked very reasonable to most people like today but they were complex and subjective enough that you could ensure everyone could be considered a criminal if you needed them to be one. This enabled lawfare, which is alive and well today

This occurs with plainly worded laws too unfortunately. You can have the top judges in the US sitting on the federal Supreme Court, who you would hope are equipped with some of the best legal skills and knowledge (lol), and they come to opposite interpretations on matters like firearm rights/the 2nd Amendment. The fight becomes about types of clauses, the intent of the drafters, history, and how technology has changed. Code and math (cryptography) is the law that works, IMO. Remove the human intepretation and enforceability from the equation and there is less corruption.

There¡'s ONLY one law: The Natural Law. And is very simple: - do not do harm to somebody else - do not kill somebody else - do not steal from somebody else All the rest are only statutes and regulations that do not apply to living men and women. Only to dead entities (aka corporations). In the end all resume to this: https://m.primal.net/HsDc.jpg

There's nothing natural about these laws. If you want to see laws of nature, go watch an animal for like 5 minutes. https://image.nostr.build/54959e6acd2bae9544f54a70f7994d7d82d23f674ca65bc551f6e624c8dfddc0.jpg