So What To Do for Our Country?
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
Things are rough today. Many people feel disturbed by the recent pandemic. I count three groups, each with a different reason for distress:
First, the majority of Americans. They apparently believe the official line about Covid, so it's natural that they are worried about their health. Second, persons like myself, who always knew it was a fraud. We are sad that the majority is so gullible. Third, a group of vaccinated Americans who now have reason to regret that they took the jab. They've read that it has caused myocarditis in young people, plus other injuries and thousands of deaths.
Pandemic problems, however, are not the half of it. Much else occurred while the pandemic was going on. For example, there were the lockdowns -- many small businesses have closed their doors permanently. And now we hear that locking them down was part of a bold plan by "the elite" to restructure America's economy. The World Economic Forum, the WEF, boasts of it. The World Health Organization calling for an emergency lockdown must have been party to this!
Congress supplied a bailout to big companies and "stimulus checks" to citizens, to ride out the storm -- but in retrospect it looks like they were "riding out the time in which we may get caught." It's no wonder that ordinary folks are reeling from discovery of all this chicanery. I'll bet most just block it from consciousness. It's that bad.
"Let's Fix It All Up"
I'm quite the Mrs Fix-it myself. Show me a problem and I'll show you a solution. Typically, I have run to the filing cabinet that has "the law" in it, and pulled out some wonderful principle and/or procedure. Generally, I can see punishment for the baddies, restitution for the victims, etc.
Maybe I should put that in the past tense: I WAS able to see a workable principle or procedure. Alas, that was before I experienced the full force of judicial corruption. This is not the place for me to describe cases I have worked on, but they were smackingly unsuccessful. It is now my expectation that further efforts undertaken by me or others will hit a brick wall.
This means that I'll have to go back to the filing cabinet and try to find something other than law! Or maybe I can find methods for working around the corrupt courts. My recent book, "Keep the Republic, Kill the Takeover," has a whole section called "Stay Legal -- We've Got Workarounds." I'll outline it here.
Let me preface this by saying I am not sanguine about the prospects. At present we do not have a quorum. There aren't enough patriots to pull it off. Even if we do have more than I estimate, we can be outdone by the monsters who are in charge, and by the media that purports to tell the nation what is going on. (Joke, joke.) Imagine a bunch of ten Davids against ten Goliaths. Who will win?
Oh, and I forgot to say that the Davids are fainting from hunger, as the Goliaths have used outrageous tools to cut the food supply. Examples: floods geo-engineered to ruin crops, inflated gasoline prices to thwart truck drivers, arson committed at many food-processing plants, and the buy-up of agricultural land by Bill Gates. (Excuse me, how is it that he is walking aound like a free man?)
The Cockeyed Optimist's Workarounds
Fact is, our forebears were not stupid. They understood that a just society is all of a piece. They knew there would always be thieves and cheats. They knew presidents and judges would be bribable and blackmailable, and they built in many safeguards. They could multi-task -- they could hold one part of the law in one hand and know what to do with the other hand, to make it accord with reality.
Over the centuries, jurists came up with profound legal principles known as maxims. Below I will I display some maxims, which I declare to be more fun than a barrel of monkeys (barring any case of monkeypox, of course). A typical one is Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus -- "False in one thing, false in all."
But now for the workarounds. The first workaround that comes to my mind is citizen's arrest. It is perfectly legal in all 50 states, if you do it correctly. Citizen's arrest came to us via common law, not by statute, but a state can repeal it by statute if they wish. I'm sure they won't repeal it, as it is of use to security guards who have no authority for arresting someone.
You are required to warn the person "Mr Smith I'm arresting you for killing Joe Schmoe." It has to be a felony (not a mere misdemeanor) and you have to know that Smith did it or is doing it. I suppose you should read him his Miranda's. If he harms you, he is liable. Once he is in your custody, you must call the police to collect him. He can sue you if you did not meet the requirements mentioned here.
A second workaround is the law of self-defense. You are allowed to use force, even lethal force if necessary to stop someone from harming you or harming a third party. A third workaround is the law of outlawry. Again, this comes from common law, so check that your state hasn't repealed it. The point here is that a person becomes an outlaw when the law can't reach him. It is then your duty to kill him. Friends who harbor him or give him food are thereby committing a crime.
The fourth workaround as enumerated by the cockeyed optimist (that's me) is the Material Witness Act. You can't citizen's-arrest on this one because it's not for arrestees who are felons. What? Yes. Federal law that allows the government to imprison some poor creature -- Fauci, for example -- on the grounds that he has information that can help us with another case. (Many Muslims get imprisoned for this, for kicks; it's unethical to do it for no reason -- abuse of process type thing.) I repeat, the Material Witness Act is a way to lock up a dangerous person on whom you cannot at the moment lay a criminal charge.
A fifth workaround is the citizen-led grand jury. As oft pointed out by Bill Windsor, state prosecutors have wrongly taken over the job of running a grand jury. Some judges do it, too. Wrong-o. In the early days of our country, a panel of 24 grand jurors was on duty to listen to the complaints of other citizens and receive hot tips of criminality. You can run a pretend-grand jury and/or make a fuss to your state to authorize it. Windsor suggests you seek an injunction for this. Without authorization, you won't have the pleasure of issuing subpoenas.
Next on the list of what-you-can-do-cuz-nobody-can stop-you is workaround number six: Form a Truth Committee. Why not? It can be composed of infuriated citizens (unlike grand jurors, who must not start out with an axe to grind). The meeting can be held in your kitchen, or on the street for that matter. You publicize your openness to receive information from, say, whistleblowers. I've tried it a few times and nobody showed up. To be even more ambitious, make it a truth-and-reconciliation committee. Mention, but you can't actually offer, amnesties.
Why not also consider sending a letter to your District Attorney, signed by a dozen or so neighbors, to ask for prosecution of So-and-So. Your DA gets paid for doing that, you know. She should be pleased to get your help. If not pleased, you can (this is workaround seven) file as a candidate for her job. As our nuns used to say "That'll put the fear of God into her."
Finally, for today anyway, an eighth workaround is civil disobedience. Especially on the part of cops! I mean they should disobey illegal orders. This will cost them their job, no doubt. I urge the same on soldiers. It is well established in law that the military shouldn't obey illegal orders. But beware of the punishment expressed in 10 USC 894: "A person who is found guilty of ... mutiny shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct."
In case I forgot to say, the persons I have in mind as your quarry for a citizen's arrest or a declaration of outlawry are the criminal members of our dear government, including especially the robed variety. Boy, do they get around the issue of accountability by having a board of ethics overseers made up of judges who each could win a medal for bad ethics. (It's not funny, though, and your life may be hanging in the balance right now over this problem.)
Maxim USA
The law maxims show how much we have lost -- but we really haven't lost them. Mostly, they were invoked in cases at the Court of Equity -- which seems to have been on vacation for most of our lifetime. But they are valid. Here is a sample of 15 maxims (arbitrarily numbered). I'll throw in the Latin for a few of them:
1. When laws imposed by the state fail, we must act by the law of nature.
2. To a judge who exceeds his office or jurisdiction, no obedience is due. Judici officium suum excedenti non paretur.
3. No one is bound to arm his adversary. [Think about it!]
4. Nothing against reason is lawful. [Tell that to Congress.]
5. Necessity makes that lawful which otherwise is unlawful. [Goody.]
6. Where there is a right, there is a remedy. [Makes sense!]
7. An evil custom is to be abolished. Malus usus est abolendus.
8. He who does not disapprove approves. Qui non improbat approbat.
9. The law always intends what is agreeable to reason. [Well, son of a gun!]
10. A greater inheritance comes to every one of us from right and the laws. [Aw.]
11. Time runs against the slothful and those who neglect their rights. [Hurry.]
12. The law speaks to all in the same way. [Who would have guessed?]
13. He who acts for another, acts by or for himself. [Tum de tum tum.]
14. One absurdity being allowed, an infinity follow.
15. Suppression of the truth is equivalent to false representation. Suppressio veri, expressio falsi. [Beautiful.]
If that doesn't suffice to incentivize you, please email me at MaxwellMaryLLB@gmail.com, and maybe we can get together and rehearse Article 10 of New Hampshire's constitution. It goes something like this:
"Government (is) instituted ... not for the private interest ... of any one man, family, or class! (Therefore, when stuff gets perverted) and public liberty (is) manifestly endangered, the people may ... reform the old, or establish a new government (if they're not too lazy). The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd."
