1.)
Laws are based on fictitious authority - Quotes with sources
How
does “government” supposedly gets the “right to
rule”? It doesn’t. There is no logical way to explain
how an agency composed of a group of people which excludes anyone
else can create a right to rule anyone else outside of the group
itself. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 26)
No
attempt or pretence, unless possibly the pretence of a "Divine
Right" embodied so much of shameless absurdity, falsehood,
and villainy of every kind, as the attempt or pretence of establishing
a government by consent, and getting the actual consent of only
so many as may be necessary to keep the rest in subjection by force.
Such a government is a mere conspiracy of the strong against the
weak. Their consent is presumed! As well might the highwayman pretend
to justify himself by presuming that the traveler consents to part
with his money. As well might the assassin justify himself by simply
presuming that his victim consents to part with his life.
(Lysander Spooner – No Treason, Chp. XI)
It's
a basic legal principle that for a contract to be valid, it needs
to be knowingly, intentionally, and explicitly signed by every single
person involved. On these grounds every political system in the
world is a fraud. (Frederick
Mann - The Nature of Government)
All
human legislation is simply and always an assumption of authority
and dominion, where no right of authority or dominion exists. It
is, therefore, simply and always an intrusion, an absurdity, an
usurpation, and a crime. (Lysander
Spooner – Natural Law)
It
is insane to believe that those in power over people rightfully
belong there. It is insane to assume that law has the right to command
the obedience of people. The culture of royalty, the culture of
patriotism and the culture of law are all insanity. .. While it
teaches that it is never acceptable for you to defend yourself,
culture teaches that when the law implements kidnapping and murder
to enforce its authority, it is always acceptable. One hundred million
people died at the hands of the Communists because so few were willing
to ignore the law, and instead do what was right. (Jeremy
Locke - The End of All Evil, pgs 41-43)
On
what ground can those who pretend to administer the state claim
the right to seize men's property, to restrain them in their natural
liberty of action, industry and trade, and to kill all those who
deny their authority? (Frederick
Mann - The Nature of Government)
How
is the authority of the state maintained? In whatever guise, or
however far removed from the rudest savage tribe to the most modern
democratic state, this autocratic power rests of violence and force
alone. (Clarence
Darrow - Resist Not Evil)
Evil
people do exist and they are extremely dangerous. They are called
authority. You were born to this world so that you might have the
free agency of life. Anyone who tells you that you must yield your
mind, your body or your possessions to authority is evil. The simplest
authorities are common thieves. They use extortion or stealth to
confiscate things that you value. The tool of their authority is
violence. (Jeremy
Locke - The End of All Evil, pgs 11-12)
If
certain persons monopolize the right of making the laws all must
obey, and so dispose of the lives and properties of other people
- all this is not done because the people wish it and because it
is what is natural and right, but because the government and ruling
classes wish this to be so for their own benefit, and insist on
its being so even by physical violence. (Tolstoy
– The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chp 7)
After
all the lesser penalties (the demands, the fines, the seizure, the
jail sentence) are exhausted, if you continnue to resist, the government
will use a gun. The gun is the essence of the law. When someone
is asking for a government program, he is saying in effect, "Tell
the police to use their guns to get me what I want." (Harry
Browne - Why Government Doesn't Work, pgs 28-29)
There
is no law in this country - other than power, which currently rests
with the Pirates of the Potomac, who pose as our lawful government
while using overpowering force to quell those who resist their destructive
policies. The Constitutional Revolutionist of today is actually
fighting for a transfer of power from those who can make no legitimate
claim to power, to those who inherently hold it as a natural right
- the lawful citizens of this country. (Louis
Beam - Revolutionary Majorities)
Today’s
Congress and White House have no more legitimacy that King George
III and the British Parliament had in the 18th century. They should
be held in the same contempt our founders held for King George and
his Parliament. (Walter
Williams – Republic Party Courage)
Learned
jurists deceive themselves and others, by asserting that government
is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress
another set of men, but the representation of the citizens in their
collective capacity. They have so long been persuading other people
of this that at last they have persuaded themselves of it; and thus
they often seriously suppose that government can be bound by considerations
of justice. But history shows that from Caesar to Napoleon, and
from Napoleon to Bismarck, government is in its essence always a
force acting in violation of justice, and that it cannot be otherwise.
Justice can have no binding force on a ruler or rulers who keep
men, deluded and drilled in readiness for acts of violence. (Leo
Tolstoy – The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chp 6)
The
quality of justice in the United States is strained through the
sieve of power and prejudice of judges. Free speech in the courtroom
does not exist, because the judge decides what can and cannot be
said. (Howard
Zinn - Declarations of Independence, pg 108)
I
learned as a young person that the law was a tool of coercion -
that there was no rule of law. I found that it is a powerful myth
which has fuelled a great wealth for those who run and rule the
economy - both legal and illegal. The rule of law is the basis of
liquidity. That is why so much time and money goes into sustaining
the myth. (Catherine
Austin Fitts - The Myth of the Rule Of Law, pg 3)
The
dictionary of law fails us. Murder in a uniform is heroic, in a
costume it is a crime. A modern army travels 9,000 miles to commit
genocide against a small nation of great vision and then accuses
its people of aggression. (Abbie
Hoffman - Steal This Book, pg xxii)
As
records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved
that witches once existed. The evidence (including confession) upon
which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was
without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions
based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing
court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft
and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches,
human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value. (Ambroise
Bierce - Devil's Dictionary, pg 154)
Hoover's
National Law Enforcement Commission issued a report which throughly
destroyed the notion that prohibition had reduced crime: in fact,
it proved that prohibition had created more widespread evils than
ever. (Gerard
Colby - Du Pont Dynasty, pg 299)
The
periods with the highest murder for the past 100 years coincide
with the periods of alcohol and drugs prohibition laws, respectively.
(American
Law and Economics Review)
The
deterrent influence of law on the lazy man is too absurd to merit
consideration. If society were only relieved of the waste and expense
of keeping a lazy (ruling) class, and the equally great expense
of the paraphernalia of protection this lazy class requires, the
social tables would contain an abundance for all, including even
the occasional lazy individual. (Emma
Goldman: Anarchism: What it Really Stands For)
This
wonderful invention, "morality," allows people -- normal,
ordinary people -- to do things so cruel and violent that they could
never bring themselves to do them for selfish reasons. What the
sociopath and sadist do for fun, the "moralist" does on
behalf of "duty" or "justice." "Morality,"
today, allows Moslems to stone women to death, as it once fueled
the Christian witch-hunts. "Morality" has excused every
war, and glorified some of them. "Morality" constantly
plots to subvert the Constitutional guarantee of free speech. "Morality"
inspires gay-bashing and the bombing of women's clinics. Why, without
"morality" we might all suddenly go stark staring sane.
(Robert Anton
Wilson - Thoughts)
Authoritarians
will insist that we need laws to prevent chaos. They will usually
admit that they don’t really need laws for themselves, or
even other so-called moral people. It’s for those anti-social
elements in society who might otherwise pray on the rest of us.
If that is their rationale, the law is both ineffective and unnecessary:
only those who are not the object of the law will obey it; those
who are the main targets of the law will ignore it anyway. People
actually do pretty much what we want to do. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pgs 33-34)
One
of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils
in this world are to be cured by legislation. – (Thomas
B. Reed, 1886 speech)
Case
law is nonsense. It's the result of court games from individual
cases that may not have any relationship to the needs of Americans.
Case law consists of judges' opinions; hence it is judge-made law.
In's uinconstitutional law, because only the legislature is allowed
to make laws. Unconstitutional law is not valid law and does not
really exist. However, case law is backed by guns. (Gene
Louis - Survival of the Slickest, pg 87)
4.)
Law in fact is a means to injustice - Quotes with sources
Through
all historic times, wherever any people have learned to increase
their means of subsistence, a number of them have organized themselves
as robbers, to plunder and enslave all others. These tyrants, living
solely on plunder and on the labor of their slaves, extended their
conquests until, in order to hold what they have already got, it
became necessary for them to cooperate with each other in holding
their slaves in subjection. This they can do only by establishing
what they call a government, and making what they call laws. All
the great governments of the world have been of this character.
They have been mere bands of robbers, who have associated for purposes
of plunder, conquest, and the enslavement of their fellow men. And
their laws have been only agreements to act together in plundering
and enslaving others. Thus substantially all the legislation of
the world has had its origin in the desires of one class of persons
to plunder and enslave others, and hold them as property. (Lysander
Spooner – Natural Law)
It
is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy
in varying degrees among the rest of the people their personal independence
by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder.
This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and
in proportion to the power that he holds. (Frederic
Bastiat - The Law, pg 6)
A
law is a lie that creates slavery. Law are artificial ideas created
by evil men to restrict the thinking and understanding of people.
Laws mask themselves in authority so that they can impersonate principles.
This is the purpose of law. (Jeremy
Locke - The End of All Evil, pgs 7-8)
Sometimes
the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries
are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would
otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus
of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the
plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as
a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder. When plunder is
abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes,
and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help... legal
plunder continues to be the main business of the legislature. (Frederic
Bastiat - The Law, pgs 15, 18)
The
law has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has
been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating
the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying
rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed
the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish,
without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others.
It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder.
And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish
lawful defense. (Frederic
Bastiat - The Law, pg 4)
More
than sixty-five years ago, Yale Law School professor Fred Rodell
made a simple but profound statement: "The legal trade, in
short, is nothing but a high-class racket." These harsh words
represent a truth commonly known by many law students. Most of us
don't know that modern-day justice is only a fantasy to many people.
Most of us don't know that, by design, justice is not the goal of
our courts. The general public is unaware that anyone can become
an innocent victim of legal abuse within a system that has almost
totally forgotten the reason for its existence. (Gene
Louis - Survival of the Slickest, pg 9)
In
place of justice, the justice system has given us an unjust game,
an unofficial religion, a perverted process, an illusion, a stage
production, and a product sold by a business monopoly. (Gene
Louis - Survival of the Slickest, pg 86)
In
ancient times, the maldistribution of wealth was accomplished by
simple force. In modern times, exploitation is disguised - it is
accomplished by law, which has the look of neutrality and fairness.
Replacing the arbitrary rule of men with the impartial rule of law
has not brought any fundamental change. What was done before, exploiting
the poor, sending the young to war, and putting troublesome people
in dungeons is still done, except that this no longer seems to be
the arbitrary action of the feudal lord or the king; it now has
the authority of neutral, impersonal law. A code of law is more
easily deified than a flesh and blood ruler. The law reinforces
the inequality with the authority of law. It allocates poverty (through
taxes) in such a way as to leave the victim bewildered. (Howard
Zinn - People's History of the United States, pgs 235, 92)
The
state - a judicial monopoly - must be recognized as the source of
de-civilization: states do not create order; they destroy it. Families
and households must be recognized as the source of civilization.
(Hans-Hermann Hoppe -
The Rise And Fall Of The City)
“Law”
is a threat backed by force. The ultimate punishment, should you
disagree with the state and resist its attempt to arrest you, is
to escalate the response up to and including killing you, if necessary.
Therefore, each “law”, to be honest, might as well state,
“If you commit act A, we are prepared to kill you.”
It sounds okay when that applies to murder. How does it sound when
you consider that it also applies to a parking ticket? People are
killed for resisting arrest. There is no way around it: “the
law” itself represents the initiation of force, and the inevitable
result of escalating resistance to that threat if death. Most people
do not trace the premises of “the law” to it, instead
they operate under the assumption that “the law” is
just, and righteous; that it has “authority.” (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pgs 56-57)
There
are so many criminals in the criminal justice system that there
is no room left for any justice. Our government is secretly being
run by a criminal mob that will do whatever is necessary to stay
in power. (David
Icke - The Secret History of America, pg 35)
A
lawyer serves the system by administering laws drafted to imprison
the population in a mountain of codes, regulations and red tape.
They use the people's money to imprison the people. Most of the
'laws' that the lawyers administer are a fraud. (David
Icke - Infinite Love Is the Only Truth)
Poor
people have access to the courts in the same sense that Christians
had access to the lions." (Judge
Earl Johnson Jr.)
The
professed aim of government is to make recourse to justice costless,
easy and informal, but in fact it is primarily concerned with its
function is to maintain a regime of inustice. Hence, as we see daily,
its disposition to put justice as far as possible out of reach,
and to make the effort after justice as costly and difficult as
it can. The government is by its nature concerned with the administration
of law, which itself manufactures for the service of its own primary
ends. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pg 84)
The
US government depends on Federal judges to keep the illegal tax
programs as a source of income to the U.S. Treasury.While the justices
duty was to protect the citizen in his person and property, they
chose to ignore that duty and to protect only their own person and
property. (Frank
Kowalik - IRS Humbug, pgs 27, 29)
Far
from restraining the lawlessness of those in power, judges have
themselves become one of the lawless powers. (Thomas
Sowell - Lessons Not Learned)
More
federal crimes occur daily on the federal bench in federal court
than anywhere else in the country. (Irwin
Schiff - The Great IRS Hoax)
Judges
have issued case law holding themselves immune from liability for
their corrupt, criminal, unlawful, unconstitutional acts. So the
occasional exposure of these corrupt acts of the legal fraternity
accomplishes nothing. The Supreme Court justices held in Stump v.
Sparkman that a judge could deliberately commit unlawful, unconstitutional
and corrupt acts upon a citizen, destroy personal and property rights,
and be immune from financial liability. (Rodney
Stich - Lawyers and Judges: American Trojan Horses, pgs 29, 16)
Judicial
case law (e.g. Imbler v. Patchman) gives immunity to government
personnel, especially prosecutors, who by using perjury and withholding
exculpatory evidence are major violators of people's civil and constitutional
rights. These violations often cause innocent people to be imprisoned.
(Rodney
Stich - Lawyers and Judges: American Trojan Horses, pg 44)
5.)
Witness Testimony - Quotes with sources
In
real life, as applied by Department of Justice prosecutors, men
and women have been sent to prison with long prison sentences -
even life in prison - who were guilty of no crime, and who are in
prison because of the fertile imagination of career-obsessed lawyers
in the US Department of Justice. ... Thousands of people - given
life sentences - compliments of Congress and the Department of Justice's
put-anyone-in-prison culture, will die in prison. This includes
many people who never committed the crimes fabricated against them
by the Department of Justice lawyers. They don't realize that they
are considered prey by federal agencies. (Rodney
Stich - Terrorism Against America, pgs 55, 83)
On
a daily basis Judge Andrew P. Napolitano sat in his courtroom as
police officers committed perjury, produced fake evidence and entrapped
suspects into committing crimes that they would never have even
thought of were it not for the police. He saw prosecutors bribe
witnesses, lie to suspects to trick them into confessing and use
material witness warrants as licenses to kidnap suspects and hold
them indefinitely. (Judge
Andrew P. Napolitano - Constitutional Chaos)
The
judicial branch is the millionaire boys’ retirement club.
Every state judge in New Jersey was guaranteed $5 million after
serving one year of tenure. If you look at the court systems, the
layers, it’s a revenue-generating business. The court systems
of this country are generating more money than the 10 largest Fortune
500 companies. They are taking more and more money, any way, shape
or form. (Walter
Burien – The Biggest Game In Town)
The
corruption of a grand jury in Denver was so bad that the Justice
Department tried to cover up the misconduct of the IRS and a US
Attorney by muzzling a federal judge and preventing him from publishing
the facts in his opinion. The Supreme Court, except for Justice
Marshall could find no fault with this. (Charles
Adams - For Good and Evil)
How
have the embezzled Du Page County Bar Association funds been used?
To secretly finance Judges in Du Page and nearby counties in their
election campaigns, to be put on the bench. Pursuant to our demand,
we issued subpoenas for records from the Chief Judge in Du Page,
Michael R. Galasso, as well as from Christine Ory, then President
of the Du Page County Bar Association. When we confronted them in
Court, two of the tainted judges hearing the case did not deny that
they were secretly benefitted in getting on the bench from the embezzled
Bar funds. Nevertheless, they refused to remove themselves and ordered
the subpoenas quashed. (Sherman
H. Skolnick – The Government – Criminal Connection)
Dexter
Jacobson was preparing to file several lawsuits against key law
firms implicated in the Chapter 11 corruption in the San Francisco
area. The Daily Journal had publicized Jacobson's impending filing
along with his appointment to present evidence to the FBI on August
20 and 21, 1990. His evidence was expected to implicate Chapter
11 judges, trustees, powerful law firms, powerful corporations (including
Bank of America) and powerful officials at the Justice Department.
Two days prior his meeting with the FBI, Jacobson's body was found
in nearby Sausalito. He had a bullet hole in his head. (Rodney
Stich - Lawyers and Judges: American Trojan Horses, pgs 285-286)
71
percent of our Congressmen are lawyers. "The higher echelon
of hoodlums frequently hire members of the state legislature to
represent them" said Curtis T. Thatcher, managing director
of the Kansan City Crime Commission. (Murray
Teigh Bloom - The trouble with lawyers, pgs 336, 339)
The
Bankruptcy Club in Chicago is just typical of what exists in Bankruptcy
Courts in major cities of the U.S. it consists of a tight-knit group
of usually about thirty Judges, Lawyers, Court Clerks, Bankruptcy
Court assignees and auctioneers, Bankruptcy Trustees, and others.
In Chicago, we found out the banks used to funnel the bribery loot
offshore. One bank used has been La Salle National Bank, a reputed
longtime bribery center for payments to state and federal judges.
Through ABN-AMRO U.S., and La Salle, the bribery money for the Chicago
Bankruptcy Club is funneled to the Grand Caymans. It is kept there
in "escrow". The funds go forward to the accounts of the
officials to be bribed after, not before, they make corrupt rulings
favoring members of the Club. (Sherman
Skolnick – The Bankruptcy Bordello, Pt 1)
In
New York an elderly attorney has a hobby - he keeps tabs on what
happens to the judges bagmen. A bagman is the intermediary who actually
collects the bribe for the official. (Murray
Teigh Bloom - The trouble with lawyers, pg 185)
"You
buy a judge by weight, like iron in a junkyard. A justice of peace
or a magistrate can be had for a five dollar bill. In municipal
court he will cost you ten. In the circuit or superior courts he
wants fifteen. The state apellate court or the state supreme court
is on par with the federal courts. By the time a judge reaches such
courts, he is middle-aged, thick around the middle, fat between
the ears. He's heavy. You can't buy a federal judge for less than
a twenty dollar bill." (Jake Greasy Thumb Guzik, the man in
charge of Capone's pay-offs) in (Olindo
Romeo Chiocca - Mobsters and Thugs, pg 38) (Prose Series 50)
I
obtained evidence relating to criminal acts by government officials
and judges in bankruptcy courts, in CIA drug trafficking, and other
criminal offenses against the United States and the American people.
In every single instance, federal judges blocked me from producing
my evidence. Even worse, they eventually retaliated against me for
seeking to comply with the law. (Rodney
Stich - Subverting America, pg 59)
The
Justice Department covers up for the crimes of government officials.
The crimes of Ronald Reagan and George Bush in the October Surprise
and Contra gun and drug smuggling were covered up and not prosecuted.
In 1989 US Attorney General Edwin Meese was asked, while testifying
in a criminal trial, "It is not true that your focus was not
the focus of an Attorney General wearing the Attorney General's
hat but basically to gather information to protect the President
and deal with the [Iran-Contra] political problem brewing in Congress?"
Meese replied, "Yes." There are a reported 3,000 plus
criminal offenses on the books which can be used as a tool by the
Justice Department to silence any criticism or exposure of high-level
corruption in government. "Organized crime in the US Justice
Department" was the heading in the Forum section of the Sacramento
bee on October 27, 1991, accurately reflecting the decades of criminality
in the most misnamed agency of the federal government. (Rodney
Stich - Terrorism Against America, pgs 45-46)
The
politically appointed Attorney general routinely has used the Justice
Department to cover up corrupt and criminal acts involving high-level
government personnel or corrupt covert activities of the CIA and
other covert agencies - including CIA drug trafficking. (Rodney
Stich - Terrorism Against America, pg 47)
What
is a Department of Justice "Control Mechanism"? It suppresses
information. It's a mechanism which harasses and intimidates those
who know too much, which destroys documents. The Public Integrity
Section is a unit within a much larger liability control mechanism
within the Department of Justice. It also acts to coordinate the
management and suppression of information and the management of
political liability with other federal agencies. Lee Radek has been
a chief of the Public Integrity Section for a long time. His confederates
within the DoJ were Dave Margolis and Mark Richards. These three
men, operating under George Terwilliger, essentially managed the
Iran-Contra coverup for the Department of Justice. Below the three,
there was a control mechanism that filtered down to the local US
Attorney's offices. The control man in the Miami US Attorney's office
during Iran-Contra was William Richard Scruggs who reported directly
to Margolis. There is actually an official title, Cover-Up Operations
Field Manager. You will see in the "pink cable" traffic
- restricted cable traffic between the US Attorneys offices and
the Department in Washington. Scruggs was one of the 1100 Reagan-Bush
holdovers brought into the Clinton administration specifically for
that reason. The control conspiracies and ensuing coverups remain
from administration to administration. Scruggs rose to the rank
of National Security Advisor for Janet Reno, while at the same time
still being under indictment for kidnapping in Costa Rica. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pgs 346, 349-350)
The
judicial system remains a disguised means for the state to force
its will upon those in disfavor. We should not support a judicial
system which fails to support us and is only for the powerful to
keep us under their control. It has been abolishing our natural
rights for some time and should itself be abolished. It no longer
serves the interests of the people. We are the damned bosses and
have no duty to serve "the system." (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg 142)
Should
we worry that disobedience to law will lead to anarchy? The answer
is best given by historical experience. Did the mass demonstrations
of the black movement in the South in the early 60's lead to anarchy?
True, they disrupted the order of racial segregation. But the result
was a healthy reconstruction of the social order towards greater
justice (Howard
Zinn - Declarations of Independence, pg 91)
When
the rights of the many suffer, the power and jobs of those responsible
should be abolished by the many. There is no Constitutional mandate
to have a civil judicial system. The Constitution merely states
the limitations of such a system, and since these have all been
destroyed by the present system anyway, let's end it, and avoid
future headache, expenses and injustice. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg2 231-232)
If
we had no “laws”, would you be some staggering clueless
fool with no guess about right and wrong? Without the politician-gods
telling you what behavior is proper, would you have no idea what
you should do? Sane people would have no such problem. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 92)
If
you begin to treat other ideas as heresy and then treat the people
who adhere to those ideas or dare to speak them as heretics, your
dogma is no longer a science, it's a religion. (Paul
Metzger - I Have Met God and He Lives in Brooklyn)
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