This is an FYI to any Infowars / Alex Jones listeners.  Alex is now actively promoting CIA disinformation targeted at patriots in order to confuse them about the law:

https://www.infowars.com/posts/common-law-expert-talks-with-david-icke-about-how-businesses-can-reopen-under-common-law-overcome-the-states-fascism/

The disinformation, explained

In the above link, David Icke is promoting an old disinformation meme that has been around for over a decade and was seen in the mid 2000's being promoted by other disinformation operatives including his old colleague Jordan Maxwell, with whom David associated at the Truth Seeker Company in San Diego.

The core idea of the disinformation theme is that for every living breathing human being, the government has also created a corresponding corporation called a "straw man" in each person's name (using all capital letters) without telling anyone.  It says that government only has jurisdiction over the corporation, but not over the real person, allegedly because living human beings are only subject to the "common law."  By unknowling accepting the "straw man," people supposedly "contract" with the government, thus giving the government jurisdiction over them.  The underlying false idea that these people are promoting is that there are actually, secretly, two separate systems of  government -- the "common law" for natural people and the "statutory" law for corporations, and the government only has jurisdiction over corporations.

The theme goes on to promote the idea that, once you become aware of and fully understand this state of affairs, you can "get out of the system" by "revoking your contract with the government" by taking various nonsensical actions (e.g., filing certain nonsensical paperwork with state agencies that administer the Uniform Commercial Code).

The reality

Govermnents have jurisdiction over both real people and corporations under long-established principles of law. They neither require nor request your individual consent. In the countries that trace their systems of law to Britain (e.g., USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India),  common and statutory law are NOT two independent systems of law, as these disinformation operatives hope to convince you, but rather they are both part of the SAME systems. Legislators make statutory law and judges make judge-made law, the latter being properly referred to as "common law." The United States Constitution clearly contemplates both. Any first-year law student can attest to that. We may not LIKE what the government is doing (in fact, in might be downright tyrannical), that does not mean that the government must lack jurisdiction based on some bizarre legal theory. It just means they're illegitimate based on common sense and man's natural, God-given rights.

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That [...] the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have [...] actually had a separation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned."

- George Washington, in letter to George Washington Snyder, October 24, 1798, Mount Vernon (The Writings of George Washington, vol. 20, p. 518).

Virginia's "State Capitol Police" seem to be of a different opinion, however:

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Here's some related commentary from a bearded Latino:

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The astute observer will take note that this particular bearded Latino does not appear to be a "white nationalist" terrorist, yet for some reason he is standing up for the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. I would never have thought such a thing possible, based on what I've seen in the CIA-controlled American mass media. I thought only racist southern white people would take such a preposterous position. Now, I just wonder how long it will take for the American people to start worrying about the many other infringments upon their constitutionally-protected rights ... like the TSA goons at our airports, even for domestic flights, but I digress ...

Here's a black guy who also doesn't appear to be a white nationalist:

Women, too ...

Sheriffs in Colorado have also chimed in on this topic ...

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This New Mexico Sheriff, too:

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(Updated 2017-09-19 to fix broken link.)

It's always nice to see a spike in website traffic due to a link from another person's blog or website.   Early this afternoon (today is 2015-02-22) I noticed a dozen and a half hits from a foreign website.  I checked and found that D'Armand Charrell, a Spanish-language blogger from Venezuela, had posted a translation of my lead article ("You Won't See This on Fox News") on his website.  After reviewing Charrell's "translation," I was disturbed to find that he had completely changed the meaning of a key paragraph in my article. 

The original paragraph on my site reads as follows (key sentence highlighted yellow):

Someone decided that the technology should be mass implanted into large numbers of civilians under conditions of absolute secrecy.  A program of classified military ("black") operations was put into operation to accomplish this goal no later than the 1970s or 1980s. In order to prevent the public from becoming aware of this, or victims from understanding what was ha;ppening to them, numerous disinformation operations were implemented.  State-controlled channels of ostensibly "private" mass communication (e.g., newspapers, television, paperback books) began promoting stories about "alien abduction."  The medical/psychiatric industry (also by this time effectively an arm of the state) purposefully defined the symptoms likely to be reported by neurotechnology subjects as official diagnostic criteria for psychotic disorders (e.g., schizophrenia) (see Weaponized Psychiatry).

However, Charrell's "translation" added an entire clause to the above sentence, with the effect that the modified sentence connotes the exact opposite meaning to the one I had intended:

"Que en realidad ocurrieron" means "which in reality occurred."  The addition of this clause is clearly an intentional distortion and misrepresentation of my words.   The whole point of my website is to call attention to the fact that MKULTRA operations are more widespread than ever, using all kinds of disinformation to confuse victims, particularly including stories about "alien abduction."   I understand that there are many naive but innocent people who buy into this stuff.  And I probably wouldn't be terribly upset if someone made a good faith translation of my work and published on their own site, even if they then proceeded to argue a point or disagree with me publicly. 

What makes this action by Charrell so egregious, however, is that he chose to incorporate his point of view -- the disinformation spin -- by directly incorporating it into a translation of my own words, without any permission from me or notice to the reader.   The effect is that the reader comes away thinking that I wrote the exact opposite of what I actually did.

That is just plain fraud.

I ran Charrell's "translation" through a couple of online translation systems to put his version of my words back into English, so that I could try and see if there were any other material misrepresentations of my work.   However, these systems do such a poor job of translation that it's difficult for me to tell what's what.  When time permits, I'll find a trusted source that speaks Spanish and have them check it for me.

Here is a screen shot of Charrell's Twitter page, which may reveal a bit about the author:

Disclaimer:  Because I support the fact that John Finch is maintaining a list of names of victims of contemporary human rights abuses, I give him the benefit of the doubt and have published some of his material here on my site. However,  I do not endorse the explanations he promotes, many of which I believe are likely disinformation.

January 24, 2015