Common Law, COMMON LAW, English Common Law, American Common Law....

By Anna Von Reitz

Just the title should clue you in that, like everything else, there's common law, and then, there is COMMON LAW..... 

The Masters of Deceit have been at work. 

Common Law has its origins in the Stone Age.  It's the tradition, often verbal, that a group or tribe has established as its standard of justice over time.  Please note that such a standard applied to a Zulu Warrior standing before a gathering of his tribal elders is just as much the "common law" for him as British Common Law is for a Brit. 

In Regard to "Burning Question" Below:

Since the Constitution was based in Common Law, if you abolished the Common Law wouldn't that extinguish the Federal Government too?

by Anna Von Reitz

The problem is the US Government, not the Federal Government. Two different animals entirely. Any attack against the Common Law or any part of the Law of the Land is an attack against the Republic. Hasn't anyone been listening to date? US Government is the problem. US Government = Law of the Sea = Sea Jurisdiction. Federal Government = Law of the Land (Constitution) = Land Jurisdiction.

Is that how they finished the corporate setup and dissolved government?

Nobody "dissolved" our government. The various units of government either stupidly or with malice aforethought incorporated. Any time you incorporate anything it goes from the jurisdiction of the land to the foreign international jurisdiction of the sea. It removes from the Law of the Land and the guarantees of the Constitution to the Law of the Sea and the Dog-Eat-Dog of maritime and admirality law.

Not sure they could do that lawfully since the foundation of our laws came from Common Law.

The problem can be swiftly addressed in one of three ways:

(1) Bring enough pressure to bear to force the existing incorporated "Counties" and "States" to dissolve their corporations and function naturally as unincorporated business entities again; (2) Do an end-run around the existing incorporated "Counties" and "States" by organizing the landowners in each county and then each state as unincorporated body politics and electing parallel offices designated to operate in the land jurisdiction, as in "Sheriff on the Land" or "Judge on the Land" so that there can be no more confusion or obfuscation.

The offices of the land jurisdiction are all Public Offices that have been "vacant". The offices of the sea jurisdiction are all "similarly named" private corporate offices that have been used to mimmick the public offices---- allowing those in these private corporate offices to improperly wield the powers of public office without the responsibility of public office and also allowing them to abuse what merely appears to be a public office for their private gain.

The third option is to start over with a huge public discussion, a full disclosure of the political status options, and potentially an end to all separation of the land and sea jurisdictions owed to this country.

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See this article and over 100 others on Anna's website here:www.annavonreitz.com

Questions for Judge Anna - Was common law shut down years ago in America?

Here is the email thread with the question.

Just curious. 

I very much appreciated this article. This comment appeared under the article by Judge Anna Von Reitz but it was never addressed.

penny4yerthoughtsJanuary 6, 2016 at 5:10 AM

awesome but wasnt common law effectively taken out around 33/38 erie pennsylvania case etc also with the trading with the enemy/emergency banking acts and are we not under military rule and governments

I am not an attorney but think it is vitally important to explain because the whole of the Judge's article revolves around this point regarding Common Law which it seems was taken out years ago. This would be very basic for a judge to know and would ultimately make her argument null and void. 

All of the flags with gold rim, now show we are under Maritime law but this too was not noted nor was the comment answered. 

Could you please elucidate as to how this fact -- which contradicts what Judge Anna Von Reitz is writing -- could have gone unnoticed?

I appreciate your attention to this as it is not making sense.

Regards,

Leslie

penny4yerthoughtsJanuary 6, 2016 at 5:10 AM

awesome but wasnt common law effectively taken out around 33/38 erie pennsylvania case etc also with the trading with the enemy/emergency banking acts and are we not under military rule and governments

And here is Judge Anna's Answer:

ALERT: The most important articles I have ever published!

Here is a list of the most important articles I have ever published on my blog. 

These were written by Anna von Reitz, a Judge in Big Lake Alaska.

The PDF file first in the list is the most important for the background so you can understand who we are and how we can fix our country.

There is NO other solution that makes as much sense and will get that done without violence.

INTRODUCTION: Notice To Congress  http://www.annavonreitz.com//noticetocongress.pdf

1. My Dear Archbishop George  http://www.annavonreitz.com//annavonreitz.pdf

2. The Nut is Cracked  http://www.annavonreitz.com/nutiscracked.pdf

3. For a Deeper Understanding  http://www.annavonreitz.com/deeperunderstanding.pdf

4. Open Letter to Karen Hudes  http://www.annavonreitz.com/lettertokarenhudes.pdf

5. Final Judgment and Civil Orders  http://www.annavonreitz.com/finaljudgmentandcivilorders.pdf

6. Final Judgment with Addendums  http://www.annavonreitz.com/finaljudgmentwithaddendums.pdf

7. Civil Orders 6 10 2014  http://www.annavonreitz.com/civilorders6102014.pdf

8. Civil Orders 7 4 2014  http://www.annavonreitz.com/civilorders742014.pdf

9. Notice of Default  http://www.annavonreitz.com/noticeofdefault.pdf

10. Regarding "Political Action"  http://www.annavonreitz.com/politicalaction.pdf

11. The Cheapest, Most Efficient Prison of all, Your Mind  http://www.annavonreitz.com/mindprison.pdf

12. I am Your Anchorbaby  http://www.annavonreitz.com/anchorbaby.pdf

13. Defined: The Source of the Fraud! From the Beginning!  http://www.annavonreitz.com/defined.pdf

14. To the adults in the room  http://www.annavonreitz.com/adultsintheroom.pdf

15. An in depth explanation of the games that have been played on the American sovereigns  http://www.annavonreitz.com/sovereignsplayed.pdf

16. Open letter to Jack Lew Secretary of the Treasury  http://www.annavonreitz.com/lettertojacklew.pdf

17. Starting at first base  http://www.annavonreitz.com/firstbase.pdf

18. Second base What "They" have done "For" You  http://www.annavonreitz.com/secondbase.pdf

19. Third base The Guilty Parties  http://www.annavonreitz.com/thirdbase.pdf

20. General Civil Orders  http://www.annavonreitz.com/generalcivilorders.pdf

21. (W)rit of Assistance and Affidavit of Truth  http://www.annavonreitz.com/writofassistance.pdf

22. Signed - Sealed - Proof of Delivery  http://www.annavonreitz.com/signedsealeddelivered.pdf

23. Confirmation of Delivery by USPS  http://www.annavonreitz.com/confirmation.pdf

24. Final Judgment and Civil Orders with Final Addendums updated 10-14-14  http://www.annavonreitz.com/finaljudgmentandcivilorders101414.pdf

25. Live People seal documents with an autograph; Corporations use signatures  http://www.annavonreitz.com/autographs.pdf

26. The Real Criminals  http://www.annavonreitz.com/therealcriminals.pdf

27. US Corporation Fraud: Why the Courts are at Fault  http://www.annavonreitz.com/courtsatfault.pdf

28. US Corporation Fraud: What Can Be Done  http://www.annavonreitz.com/whatcanbedone.pdf

29. What is the Constitution?  http://www.annavonreitz.com/constitution.pdf

30. Your Offer to Contract is Rejected  http://www.annavonreitz.com/youroffertocontract.pdf

http://www.annavonreitz.com/index.html

Paul Stramer

Only "Extremists" Believe They Have a Right to be Left Alone

This article by William Norman Grigg deserves to be reprinted in it's entirety all across this land.

By William Norman Grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/william-norman-grigg/think-you-have-the-right-to-be-left-alone%E2%80%A8/

Ernie Wayne terTelgte is a poor man from a tiny village in Montana who believes that nature gives him a license to live. Barack Obama is a wealthy and privileged man residing at the seat of power who believes his position gives him a license to kill. Naturally, the Tolerance Commissars are pretending that the former is a menace to society, because of the contempt he displays for the system that facilitates the crimes committed by the latter.

Last August, terTelgte was fishing at Three Forks Pond with his eleven-year-old son when they were accosted by Adam Pankratz, who is employed as a warden by the Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Service.

When Pankratz saw terTelgte reeling in a fish, the warden asked if he had a fishing license. TerTelgte replied that he didn’t need one. Pretending to concede the point, the warden persisted in demanding that terTelgte provide identification. When both teTelgte and his son quite sensibly refused the demand, Pankratz called for assistance, and Three Forks Police Officer Colter Metcalf quickly arrived.

Officer Metcalf made a brief and unsuccessful attempt to learn terTelgte’s identity.

Pankratz later said that he and Metcalf were concerned by the fact that terTelgte’s “body language” was “tense,” that his language was “curt,” and that he kept telling them to “walk away” and “just leave me alone.” This is a description of someone whose behavior was defensive. But Pankratz and Metcalf, as representatives of the coercive caste, insisted on escalating the encounter by arresting him for “obstruction.”

“We didn’t want it to go this far, especially with the son … but we couldn’t identify him,” Pankratz complained, assuming that a tax-funded aggressor is entitled to sympathy because of his occupation.

Since terTelgte had no legal duty to present identification (Montana code authorizes “stop and frisk”-style harassment of citizens, but doesn’t specify that citizens have a duty to identify themselves), the arrest was unlawful. As is the case elsewhere, Montana state statutes authorize police to abduct citizens without legal justification if this is done “under the peace officer’s official authority.”

Plucking a fish from a “publicly owned” pond without a license is considered an offense, despite the fact that entailed no violation of property rights. (If it did, who is the victim, and what injury did he sustain?) Violently abducting a human being who has done no harm to anyone, on the other hand, is regarded as a “lawful” act, assuming that the kidnapper is accoutered in the officially prescribed costume.

To his credit, the victim was non-cooperative but non-violent. This wasn’t true of the assailants, of course. After Metcalf threatened to attack terTelgte with pepper spray, Pankratz kicked his legs out from beneath him.

Rather than mounting a violent defense against his captors, terTelgte simply sat motionless on the ground, forcing them to pick him up and carry him to the police car.

During his arraignment before Three Forks Municipal Judge Wanda Drusch, terTelgte refused to defer to her authority or play his expected role as a penitent and submissive suspect.

“I was searching for something to put in my stomach as I am … allowed to do by universal law,” he declared. “I am the living man and I have the right to forage for food when I am hungry.” 

The “trial” last November — if the proceedings merit that description — was attended by 32 police officers from ten agencies, brought together by shared concern that the defendant’s defiance might prove contagious. TerTelgte was denied the right—supposedly protected by the Constitution – to cross-examine witnesses or to introduce evidence on his own behalf.

To the surprise of nobody, terTelgte was quickly found guilty of the supposed offense of obstructing the unwarranted harassment of armed state

functionaries, and refusing to cooperate in his own abduction. Although his jail sentence was suspended, terTelgte later spent 30 days behind bars for “contempt” after he declined to take off his hat in the courtroom during a subsequent appearance on another charge of “resisting arrest.”

TerTelgte is clearly eccentric; he might even be considered obnoxious by some. It is reasonable to conclude that his actions have been unwise, a violation of the principle that each of us has trouble enough and shouldn’t be seeking to borrow more. But he is patently harmless. There is no evidence that he has ever injured or defrauded anybody, which certainly can’t be said of the government functionaries who assaulted and caged him, or the criminal entity that employs them.

It is the zeal to prolong the pretense of the Regime’s legitimacy that led the Southern Poverty Law Center to identify terTelgte as a public enemy, an exponent of what that self-appointed Stasi calls “sovereign citizen ideology.”

Stated in its broadest terms, the “sovereign citizen” concept holds that some people can exempt themselves from the law through the use of esoteric legal concepts expressed in impenetrable language. From that perspective, people who utter or publish the appropriate conjurations can seize the property of others, issue fraudulent financial instruments, and employ lethal violence against those who seek to hold them accountable.

Assuming that this is an accurate description, at least some “sovereign citizens” are attempting to mimic the criminal behavior of those who presume to rule the rest of us. The SPLC and allied “watchdog” groups offer no objections to the routine practice of fraud and exercise of lethal aggressive violence by the most dangerous element of our society. They simply want to preserve that element’s monopoly on the privilege of committing criminal aggression.

This is why the SPLC professes alarm that outrage over the terTelgte case has prompted some Montana residents to create a citizens’ grand jury to investigate allegations of abuse and official misconduct. SPLC flack David Neiwert breathlessly – and perhaps hopefully – writes that this could lead to a rural “showdown” akin to the April 12 confrontation in Bunkerville, Nevada.

William Wolf, who has organized efforts to create the citizens grand jury, has suggested that his group might arrest Rick West, the Justice of the Peace who sent terTelgte to jail for thirty days on a contempt charge. Gallatin County Sheriff Brian Gootkin described this as “unacceptable,” accusing Wolf and his allies of “crossing a line they can’t cross.”

“When there are threats like this, not only does it affect that person, it affects their family,” mewled Gootkin in a television interview. “For someone in the family to live in fear, that’s not the way things work. When you start talking about arresting people and kidnapping people … that’s unacceptable and nothing good comes from that.”

It’s appropriate that Gootkin uses the terms “arrest” and “kidnap” interchangeably, given that the latter is properly applied to what was done to terTelgte. The public record is barren of any recognition by Sheriff Gootkin that terTelgte’s abduction traumatized his eleven-year-old son and made him “live in fear.” Apparently the impact of violence on Mundanes and their children doesn’t concern the Sheriff.

Gootkin also berated members of the proposed citizens’ grand jury for “bypassing” the criminal justice system. The real scandal here is the effective destruction of the grand jury, which was intended to be a citizens’ assembly rather than a government entity.

From the Founding era until the early 20th Century, grand juries were bodies that could carry out independent investigations of official corruption and deliver “presentments” to prosecutors in search of redress. Constitutional scholar Roger Roots observes that the grand jury, “in its primal, plenary sense … was a group of men who stood as a check on government, often in direct opposition to the desires of those in power.”

Writing in the Fordham Law Review, Kevin K. Washburn points out that the grand jury “came to us as an institution that was respected for its profound ability to protect local communities – indeed, possibly rebellious ones – from central government authority. It was, in essence, a local check on Crown authority.” In that capacity, grand juries not only conducted rigorous review of facts, but also “nullification of validly enacted laws,” Washburn continues.

During the reign of FDR, an executive branch Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure – an unaccountable body with no legislative mandate – imposed regulations intended to destroy the independence of grand juries. As a result, “the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor, who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury,” wrote federal District Judge William J. Campbell, who urged the formal abolition of the institution in the interests of efficiency.

Judge Campbell offered those observations in 1973. Since that time, the US criminal “justice” system has reached almost Soviet levels of prosecutorial efficiency. Under the reign of Josef Stalin, Soviet procurators were ordered to achieve a 100 conviction rate. In the current federal system, notes Lew Rockwell, the defendant “wins once every 212 times.”

Once the grand jury was re-purposed as an arm of the state, prosecutors were free to commit routine due process violations and destroy what remained of the institution of trial by jury. “Waiving the Criminal Justice System,” a study recently published by the University of Texas School of Law, describes how the adversarial process through which the state must prove the guilt of a defendant has been supplanted with a system of administrative law in which prosecutors extract plea bargains in exchange for relatively lenient sentences. This is why federal prosecutors win well more than ninety percent of their cases through plea bargains, rather than jury trials.

This is a lamentable state of affairs, and, to many observers, a familiar story. This study, however, breaks new ground by showing that prosecutors at both the state and federal levels require defendants to waive due process rights that are vital for post-conviction appeals – such as the right to effective assistance of counsel, and the right to obtain exculpatory evidence that can be used to overturn a conviction or at least obtain a new trial.

In the American tradition, the purpose of a trial was to establish the truth of an accusation against a defendant who is presumed to be innocent. The purpose of our post-constitutional criminal system is to ratify the defendant’s guilt, irrespective of the facts or the law. This is not the doing of eccentrics and “extremists” like Ernie terTelgte, but rather of the respectable people who employ the exercise and the threat of violence to force others to submit to their will – and who can rely on the unconditional support of the SPLC and others of their contemptible ilk.

Roughly a week ago, while the SPLC was pretending that terTelgte and his supporters are a threat to the republic, the US Supreme Court put an end to the illusion that something worthy of being called a republic still exists, or that citizens have any reasonable expectation that, if accused of an offense, they have a right to a trial of some kind.

The High Court refused to hear an appeal filed by Chris Hedges and several other activists challenging a provision of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act under which the president can order the indefinite military detention – without trial or legal recourse — of any U.S. citizen he regards as an enemy of the state.

That provision was struck down as unconstitutional by US District Judge Katherine Forrest, who ruled that it could lead to the seizure and imprisonment of people who exercised rights supposedly protected by the First Amendment. As is their habit, the executive branch’s legal minions greeted that ruling with an indifferent shrug and filed an appeal before a more complaisant federal judge, who ruled that no citizen has legal standing to challenge the NDAA. That ruling was left undisturbed by the Supreme Court.

As a result, summarizes progressive commentator Thom Hartman, the military “now has the power to label us terrorists, capture us, lock us up in jail, and hold us there without any regard for our Constitutional rights to due process or a fair trial.” That power very nicely compliments Obama’s routine practice of executing people without the benefit of trial – including at least one teenaged U.S. citizen.

Ernie terTeglte’s view of sovereignty is that he has a right to feed himself and be left alone. Barack Obama’s view of sovereignty is that of Vladimir Lenin – the supposed right of the Dear Leader to exercise “power without limit, resting directly on force, restrained by no laws, absolutely unrestricted by rules.” Not surprisingly, the SPLC and its allies consider the first view unacceptable, and regard the second as mandatory.

It's time to take the power away from corrupt judges and give it back to the people

From the Unified New York Supreme Court Bench to Greene County New York Supreme Court

- Mandamus to Judge.pdf         and         Mandamus to Clerk.pdf 

Final notice to be delivered by sheriff Monday January 6, 2014.

By what authority, rebuttal      No legal authority.pdf. 

BAR members (attorneys, judges and law professors) claim we the People have no authority to restore Common Law, but they cannot show by what authority they make such a claim, We the People answer them.

These articles were found on the National Liberty Alliance website here:

http://www.nationallibertyalliance.org/breaking-news

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We have stated many times that the way our country has been changed into a corporation and is being forced into admiralty and civil jurisdictions rather than the Constitutionally mandated common law, has all been done by fraud, deception, threat, duress, coercion, and intimidation, and is therefore null and void.

The Writ of Mandamus is one of the solutions to this horrible situation of judicial corruption as is being exercised above.  Read the writs to the judge and clerk above and then the answer to their No Legal Authority argument in the pdf.

These steps are totally lawful and are what is commanded by the 7th amendment to the US Constitution.

"In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law."

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL GOVERNMENT RIGHT NOW!

You were not taught this in the government school you attended!

Go to http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/jury.html