14.4 - Laws/Justice
"Legal, like the Salem Witch trials. Legal, like the Trail of Tears. Legal, like the Japanese Internment Camps." - Unknown
Narrative: Laws are necessary to protect people. Everyone is treated fairly and equally in the eyes of the law. We need more laws to fix our societal problems.
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a. Laws
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"The only federal crimes per the constitution are counterfeiting, piracy and treason." - Unknown
"Dying countries adopt laws the same way a sick person adopts medicine." - Andrew Tate
"When plunder becomes the way of life for a group of men in society, over the coure of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
"Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool."- Bill Clinton
“When you give power over law to people who see law only as a weapon with which to get enemies, you destroy the rule of law. That’s what the dumbsh*t white liberals have done.” - Paul Craig Roberts
"Law is a bunch of words written on paper by people who are generally considered to be liars and thieves. So let's try to figure out what's right rather than what's legal." - Joe Rogan
"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - you know your nation is doomed." - Ayn Rand
"The 'hate crime' thing is nothing more than a form of 1984-esque thought police, punishing someone for what they think rather than what they actually did." - Unknown
"Any law is only relevant if enforced, even the soviet union had a constitution, that didnt stop them from having gulags. With the 4th branch of government now completely taking control (3 letters, administrative courts, ruling by dictate) its only a matter of time till we are the same. The slippery slope is a sheer cliff to communism, and no one is coming to save us. Its up to every individual for that to happen, most of which are far too distracted or brainwashed to care." - Unknown
b. Lawsuits
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"Our law firm is full service from your company's birth until death. We can help you setup your company, support you through litigation, and wind it down once it is in bankruptcy." - Unknown
"Remember the Attorney's rule. If you have evidence use it. If you don't have hard evidence use circumstantial evidence. If you have no evidence, attack the witness who has."
"There is a term for what they are doing to him: professional defendant. He (and his family) will spend the rest of their lives defending themselves in court." - Unknown
"If you want to trade places with the person who won the lawsuit that’s how you know the judgment is out of whack." - Peter Schiff
c. Justice
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"The law makes it illegal for both a rich and a poor man to steal bread. However, it is sophistry. A rich man does not need to steal bread, hence that law does not really apply to him. Laws in this sense are there to preserve the status quo and, ergo, protect the wealthy." - Unknown
"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust… One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" - MLK
"The only difference between you and me is you destroyed your life to embrace the law. And I destroyed the law to embrace life." - Rico, Judge Dredd
"Everyone dies. It's the final and only lasting Justice. Evil exists; it is intelligence in the service of entropy. When the side of a mountain slides to kill a village, this is not evil, for evil requires intent. Should a sentient being cause that landslide, there is evil; and requires Justice as a consequence, so that civilization can exist. There is no greater good than Justice; and only if law serves Justice is it a good law. It is said correctly that law exists not for the Just but for the unjust, for the Just carry the law in their hearts, and do not need to call it from afar. I bow to no one and give service only for cause." ―Boba Fett, in the guise of Jaster Mereel (Not the woke Star Wars)
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void." - Marbury vs. Madison 5 U.S. 137 1803
“The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment, and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law, and no courts are bound to enforce it.” - 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256
d. Biblical Law
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"If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments" - ― G.K. Chesterton
10 commandments come from stealing. Taking from God, yourself, and others.
2 commandments come from love. Loving God, yourself, and others.
Old Testament - 10 Commandments (Decalogue) per Exodus 20 KJV:
- Relationship with God:
1) You shall have no other Gods before me -> Don't steal God's glory
2) You shall not make for yourselves an idol -> Don't steal God's attention
3) You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God -> Don't steal God's name
4) Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy -> Don't steal God's time
- Relationships with People:
5) Honor your father and your mother -> Don't steal from your caregivers
6) You shall not murder -> Don't steal life
7) You shall not commit adultery -> Don't steal mate/spouse
8) You shall not steal -> Don't steal stuff from people
9) You shall not give false testimony -> Don't steal the truth
10) You shall not covet -> Don't allow yourself the urge to steal
"Satan can’t create so he had to steal." - Unknown
”Those who will not live by the law shall die by the law.” - Moses in the 10 Commandments Movie
New Testament - Two Greatest Commandments per Matthew 22:37-40 KJV:
- Relationship with God:
1) Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. -> Give love to God
- Relationships with People:
2) Love thy neighbor as thyself -> Give love to yourself and your neighbors
"If the bible calls it a sin, your opinion doesn't matter!" - Unknown
"If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains." - Isaiah 48:17-19 KJV
e. Maritime Law
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Maritime Law - A separate legal system from the law of the land. Our financial system is based on this. Admiralty law is based on when all trade was done by ship (universal law). Just look at the terminology we use today:
"Breach of Contract - a hole in the boat
Banks - banks of a river contain the currents
Bankrupt - rupture of the banks of the river
Currency - current is what flows in the sea
Flow - the flow of money
Frozen Assets - water/assets that can't move
Legal Tender - tender is a small vessel
Liquidity - water yet again... we need more liquidity
Loanshark - one that charges very high interest rates for dodgy loans
Sale - sailboat
Staying Afloat - trying to remain solvent under onerous circumstances
Swimming in Debt - borrowing more than you can afford
Underwater - debt exceeds assets" - Parallel Mike
"You are incorporated, and you become collateral and an asset for the country you're born in. Birth Certificate - from Berth when a ship arrives at the dock and shows cargo onboard. Enacted 1926. Before that all births and deaths were recorded in a bible by church under unum sanctum.
Unum Sanctum - Issues by Pope Bonifacio VII 'requiring the complete submission of all people to the authorities and dictats of the pope.' He had a triple crown made. King has one crown to show authority over the land. Bonifacio had a triple crown made to show ownership of land, property on the land, and all souls. We own it all because God empowers us to own it all.
All land in UK owned by the crown. The crown owns 89% of the land in Canada. Cede and Co. own 100% of stocks and bonds Does it boggle the mind that much that they may have put you up for collateral too? You're going to have to give the state something for them to provide you with something (like a bug sandwich)." - Parallel Mike
"Since the early 1960's state governments themselves specially created juristic corporate persons signified by all caps have issued issued birth certificates to persons with legal fiction all cap names so if you look at your titles, your birth certificate, if you look at any contract the last name is in all capitals just like they register corporations. Something to think about. This is not a lawful record of your physical birth, but rather the birth of the juristic all caps name. It may appear to be your true name, but since no proper name is ever written in all caps either lawfully or gramtically it does not identify who you are. The birth certificate is the government's self-created document of title through its new property. That is, the deed to the juristic name artificial person whose all caps name mirrors your true name. The birth certificate brings the new all caps name into colorable admiralty maritime law the same way a ship and ship of state is berthed. It's not difficult to see that a state created birth certificate with an all caps name is a document evidencing debt the moment it is issued." - Unknown
"1. Nobody owns stock. What you own is an entitlement to stock held for you by your broker. But your broker doesn't own the stock either. What your broker owns is an entitlement to stock held for it by Cede & Co., which is a nominee of the Depository Trust Company, which is a company that is in the business of owning everyone's stock for them. This system sounds convoluted but actually makes it easy to keep track of things: If I sell stock to you, I don't have to courier over a paper share certificate, or call up the company and have it change its shareholder register. Our brokers just change some electronic entries at their DIC accounts and everything is cool.
2. If you own stock in a company that gets acquired for cash, you can ask a court to second-guess the merger price and give you the fair value of vour stock in cash. A court will "appraise" your stock and order the surviving company in the merger to pay you what it's worth (plus interest), which may be more or less than the deal price. But to get the appraisal, under Delaware law, you need to follow some procedures. In particular, you have to demand appraisal in writing from the company before the sharcholder vote, you have to vote against the merger (or abstain), and you have to own the stock continuously from the time you demand appraisal until the merger closes.
3. Every time Fact 1 and Fact 2 interact, the result is invariably nonsense." - Matt Levine, Bloomberg
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