Notice Pleading Notes

I’ve been trying to make sense of our legal system for 26 years. So, I was much surprised when I recently learned that “notice pleading” is America’s “dominant form of pleading”. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I’d never even heard the term “notice pleading,” and now I find out that it’s the “dominant [...]

Free Market vs. Slave Market

Suppose someone started the “SS Titanic Investment Corporation”. Suppose you could get in now at the ground floor (or perhaps I should say at the “ocean floor”) by investing $10,000 for a 1% interest in the S.S. Titanic. True, that ship is currently “wet docked” at the bottom of the North Atlantic. But—technologically speaking—it may [...]

Legal Tender Treason

Article 3 Section 3 Clause 1 of The Constitution of the United States declares in part,
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

Surprisingly, to understand the meaning of “treason” we must first understand the meaning of the [...]

Indictment of Former Illinois Governor Blagojevich

It would be hard to chose the five most illuminating documents I’ve read in the past decade.  But if I had to make that choice, the Indictment of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagovich would be one of the “Chosen Five”.  That indictment has given me more insight and understanding than almost any other document I’ve [...]

2008 USA v Benson permanent injunction

In A.D. 1985, Bill Benson and Red Beckman co-authored “The Law that Never Was”–a 2-volume book that presented extensive and convincing evidence that the 16th Amendment (which presumably created constitutional authority for the income tax) was never lawfully ratified.  More recently, Bill Benson used that book as part of a package which helped people to [...]

Ohio Foreclosure Stopped by “Real Party in Interest” Objection

Here’s an A.D. 2008 Ohio case that offers an almost spectacular degree of insight into Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(a), the concept of standing, and why many of the mortgages in this country can’t be legally foreclosed. As usual, my comments are [bold, bracketed blue]. “You can follow the links to a pristine copy [...]

FRCP 17(a), Ratification of Commencement & Real Party In Interest

This last week, an email briefly banged around the internet concerning “ratification of commencement,” “real party in interest” and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCPs) # 17. That email alleged that the “ratification of commencement” was “vitally important info,” “the missing link to our processes,” and caused the email’s author to be “stunned by the [...]

Multiplier Effect II (Corporate Colonization)

In Part I, I introduced my notions concerning the “multiplied effect” of injecting “new” or “foreign” currency into a local economy. Economists claim that when a Chicago tourist spends $1,000 at Dallas, the local Dallas economy receives a “multiplied economic effect” of 3 to 7 times whatever was spent. In other words, if the Chicago [...]

Multiplier Effect I (introduction)

In February, 1999, Dr.s Heffernan, Gronski, and Hendrickson (professors in the Department of Rural Sociology at the University of Missouri) presented a paper entitled “Concentration of Agricultural Markets” to the National Farmers Union. That paper outlined fundamental changes in the social structure of rural American communities imposed by corporate agriculture. One of the report’s most [...]