Last night I attended a presentation hosted by the Commoner Law Group. The speaker was Rick Martin, founder of the Constitutional Law Group. Ostensively, the topic was about his experience with driving for decades without license or registration, highlighting his dealings with traffic cops and the occasional judge who operate a system that seeks to financially exploit us even as they deny us our freedom of movement.
And he has been quite successful: he mentioned three very pricey SUVs along his journey that had been paid for by three different Texas townships that each put him in jail for one night. He also listed 26 judges, more than a couple prosecutors, and a handful of police officers that he has put in jail. As we've been learning, going after the indemnity bonds was a particularly effective part of his wins.
The talk was fascinating and inspiring in itself. At one point he touched on what's in store for state and local officials for the incredible harm wrought by their unlawful COVID mandates. Though an expert in the Constitution and the Common Law, Rick is not a lawyer. Nonetheless, he has committed himself to fighting the tyrants who are bent on removing all individual liberties. And he puts his money where his mouth is.
At one point the Texan let it slip that he was in a hotel in Michigan, and then proceeded to gave us some idea of what he was up to. Remember Marlena Hackne? She is the Michigan refugee from communist Poland who refused to close her Bistro on the say so of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and her health director Robert Gordon.
Martin actually traveled to Holland, MI to help defend her from AG Dana Nessel, and got thrown into jail for 93 days for his trouble. It seems the judge was under the misguided impression that We the People are not allowed to work within our court system unless we are bar licensed attorneys.
Well, that sort of attitude rubs freedom loving people the wrong way. So he came back for round two. It seems that there are now multi-million dollar suits in place against, at a minimum, Whitmere, Nessel, and a state prosecutor. Based on what I know of the Common Law, I would assume the liability involved would be personal.
He did not give any more details, but it started me to thinking. After the first round of draconian lockdown, unlike the most notorious Dem governors, Whitmer did not inflict a second round upon us Michiganders. As the saying goes, things were quiet; too quiet. Maybe these suits explain her loss of interest in inflicting pain. It's also interesting that she has not mentioned COIVD, nor how she saved us all from certain death even once in her recent campaign events.
I'm posting this as a potential win, but also as an example of the path (along with some resources) that patriots might be able to follow to permanently bring down the daemons who have been haunting us for over two years.
The American Bar Association is a subsidiary of the British Bar. The American system of governance has been under attack since the beginning. The missing 13th Amendment was the result of the War of 1812. This Amendment the founding fathers created banned lawyers from elected office of government. Why? It was for the reason the British and king George weaponized the use of lawyers for railroading American colonists. Looking further back in history even Rome banned lawyers from plying their trade on two different occasions to save the Republic.
As the Roman Republic declined and became progressively democratic, it became increasingly difficult to keep lawyers in check and prevent them from accepting fees under the table. Alas, many young men, with more 'ambition than virtue' flocked to the practice of law.
Successful Roman lawyers were skilled in the art of rhetoric. The Greeks invented rhetoric and made a science of it and it became the science of persuasion. The Romans imported many cultural ideals from the Greeks and the rhetoricians were able to establish schools of rhetoric in Rome. Soon, tradition-minded Romans saw these rhetoric schools as a subversive influence an assault on Roman morals and customs. It was because falsehoods could be convincingly argued where every repugnant tactic of deception, evasion, and misrepresentation was used to vilify the opponent for the purpose of winning the argument. To the Romans, it was if Fraus, the two-faced goddess of deception, was released to destroy Rome itself.
Early in the 2nd century BC, Cato, the Censor, once commented after listening to some of these clever Greeks that it was virtually impossible to know what was true and what was not. Cato’s views were not the first commentaries to be uttered about the rhetoricians. Two centuries before, Plato had referred to them as notorious for "making the worse appear the better cause." In 161 BC, the Roman Senate ordered all of these Greek schools of rhetoric closed and their teachers expelled from Rome.
Alas, that provided only a momentary halt to the problem. The rhetoricians and the lawyers soon surfaced in greater forces than ever. Once again, the valorous Roman censors, who were Rome's official guardians of public morality, ordered all the rhetoric schools closed in 92 BC. However, this latest cure was insufficient for stopping the cancer. All the attempts to save the Roman republic were worthy, but futile acts that ultimately had no effect in stopping Rome’s fall. The lawyers fed upon and exasperated the downward plunge of Roman civilization. Just as they are doing now.