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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Lumor 23 May 2023 \ on: My First Year On Stacker News bitcoin
Wouldn't have guessed you'd be a retired lawyer.
As a lawyer, what do you make of the people who go into the birth certificate thing, natural law, "free men on the land"?
http://youarelaw.com for example.
@Darthcoin linked to some similar videos at least once.
Happy one year anniversary!
I made my living as a criminal defense lawyer. My personal attempt to protect individuals from the wrath of the state was rooted in the US Constitution. I did get involved in big L Libertarian Party politics for a while in the late 1980s through early 2000s. As a result, I was aware of the Natural Law Party and Dr. Hegelen. I saw them as compatriots. I'm not sure if that group is related to what you are referring to. In any event, I have not been involved in politics for years. I honestly lost faith in the electoral process. I have become more focused on carving out freedom for myself and my family on a more personal level.
I believe bitcoin can do more for freedom than any organized political party.
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Defending people against the state was very noble of you!
As a programmer of computers, I once claimed lawyers were programmers of the law, bending that world through sheer will. I'm happy to never have entered a courtroom though so my analogy may be quite bad. :)
Never heard of the Natural Law Party and Dr. Hagelin. Their website is like a time capsule: https://natural-law.org/introduction/hagelin.html
They seem to have referred to Natural Law from a slightly different angle. More quantum physics, unification.
What I've encountered more recently was more about getting to the base layer underneath man-made law. Natural law being "on-chain" while legislation being "L2/lightning" to force an even worse analogy.
Promoters say one should often try to answer questions from cops/lawyers with another question to avoid getting trapped. That "persons" are fictional entities similar to corporations, whom you should be careful to assume the identity of. There's this whole thing with upper-case names not being your real name as a man/woman. Some refer to Black's Law Dictionary as having subtly but very significantly different definitions of words, allowing their wielders to trick you into losing at their game without you even realizing. - Have they found the cheat-codes of the legal system or not? :)
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Interesting. I had a feeling we might have been speaking about two different ideas with similar names. In fact, I seem to recall differences between followers of natural law as a term and members of the political party. I will look more closely at your link.
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There seems to be some variations on this similar theme. Statistics don't look overly favourable in the phalanx calling themselves Freemen according to:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land#Freeman_successes
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