Judge Finally puts out the Freeman on the Land, Maximus Incognito BS, etc etc

http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html Judge Finally puts out the Freeman on the Land, Maximus Incognito BS, etc etc Inbox chas x 17:58 (3 hours ago) to bcc: me Just for You Mr John Gregory TudeHope, "[75] These claims are, of course, pseudolegal nonsense. A judge who encounters and reviews OPCA concepts will find their errors are obvious and manifest, once one strips away the layers of peculiar language, irrelevant references, and deciphers the often bizarre documentation which accompanies an OPCA scheme. When reduced to their conceptual core, most OPCA concepts are contemptibly stupid. Mr. Meads, for example, has presented the Court with documents that appear to be a contract between himself, and himself. One Mr. Meads promises to pay for any liability of the other Mr. Meads. One owns all property, the other all debts. What is the difference between these entities? One spells his name with upper case letters. The other adds spurious and meaningless punctuation to his name. Mr. Meads (with punctuation) is the Mr. Meads who appeared in court. He says the Mr. Meads (all capitals) is the one who should pay child and spousal support. [76] So where is that Mr. Meads (all capitals)? At one point in the June 8 hearing Mr. Meads said that Mr. Meads (all capitals) was a “corporate entity” attached to his birth certificate. Later, he told me that the other Mr. Meads was a “person” - and that I had created him! Again, total nonsense." http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abqb/doc/2012/2012abqb571/2012abqb571.html Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta Citation: Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571 Date: 20120918 Docket: 4803 155609 Registry: Edmonton Between: Crystal Lynne Meads Appellant - and - Dennis Larry Meads Respondent Editorial Notice: On behalf of the Government of Alberta personal data identifiers have been removed from this unofficial electronic version of the judgment. _______________________________________________________ Reasons for Decision of the Associate Chief Justice J.D. Rooke _______________________________________________________ Table of Contents I.......... Introduction to Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument [OPCA] Litigants.... 1 II........ The Present Litigation....................................................................................................... 2 A. Prior Activity.......................................................................................................... 3 B. The June 8, 2012 Hearing..................................................................................... 4 C. Subsequent Developments.................................................................................... 8 D. The Purposes of These Reasons......................................................................... 12 1. Ms. Meads................................................................................................. 12 2. Mr. Meads................................................................................................. 12 3. A Broad Set of OPCA Concepts and Materials....................................... 13 4. Mr. Meads Faces No Unexpected Sanction.............................................. 13 III....... Overview of these Reasons.............................................................................................. 14 IV....... The OPCA Phenomenon................................................................................................ 15 A. Characteristics of OPCA Group Members....................................................... 17 B. The OPCA Guru................................................................................................. 18 1. Russell Porisky and the Paradigm Education Group................................ 18 2. Other Canadian Gurus............................................................................... 21 a. David Kevin Lindsay..................................................................... 21 b. John Ruiz Dempsey....................................................................... 25 c. Robert Arthur Menard................................................................... 28 d. Eldon Gerald Warman.................................................................. 29 e. David J. Lavigne............................................................................ 30 f. Edward Jay Robin Belanger.......................................................... 32 g. Other Gurus................................................................................... 33 h. Mr. Meads Guru............................................................................ 34 3. How Gurus Operate.................................................................................. 35 C. OPCA Litigants................................................................................................... 36 D. OPCA Movements............................................................................................... 38 1. Detaxers..................................................................................................... 39 2. Freemen-on-the-Land................................................................................ 39 3. Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens....................................................... 40 4. The Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International [CERI]........... 41 5. Moorish Law............................................................................................. 42 6. Conclusion - OPCA Movements............................................................... 44 V........ Indicia of OPCA Litigants, Litigation, and Strategies.................................................. 44 A. Documentary Material........................................................................................ 45 1. Name Motifs.............................................................................................. 45 2. Document Formalities and Markings........................................................ 47 3. Specific Phrases and Language................................................................. 48 4. Legislation and Legal Documents............................................................. 50 5. Atypical Mailing Addresses...................................................................... 51 6. Conclusion and Summary of Documentary Indicia.................................. 52 B. In Court Conduct................................................................................................ 53 1. Demands.................................................................................................... 53 2. Documentation.......................................................................................... 54 3. Names and Identification.......................................................................... 54 4. Court Authority or Jurisdiction................................................................. 55 5. Other In-Court Motifs............................................................................... 56 6. Summary of In-Court Indicia.................................................................... 57 C. Conclusion - OPCA Indicia................................................................................ 58 1. Procedural Responses to Suspected OPCA Documents........................... 58 2. Courtroom Procedure Responses to Suspected OPCA Litigants............. 59 VI....... OPCA Concepts and Arguments................................................................................... 60 A. The Litigant is Not Subject to Court Authority................................................ 60 1. Restricted Court Jurisdiction..................................................................... 61 a. Admiralty or Military Courts......................................................... 61 b. Notaries are the Real Judges......................................................... 62 c. Religion or Religious Belief Trumps the Courts............................. 63 2. Defective Court Authority........................................................................ 65 a. Oaths............................................................................................. 65 b. The Court Proves It Has Jurisdiction and Acts Fairly................... 66 c. Court Formalities.......................................................................... 66 d. The State is Defective..................................................................... 67 e. Conclusion - Defective Court Authority......................................... 67 3. Immune to Court Jurisdiction - Magic Hats.............................................. 68 a. I Belong to an Exempt Group........................................................ 69 b. I Declare Myself Immune............................................................... 71 c. I Have Been Incorrectly Identified................................................. 72 d. I Am Subject to a Different Law..................................................... 73 e. Conscientious Objector.................................................................. 75 f. Tax-Related Magic Hats................................................................ 76 g. Miscellaneous................................................................................ 78 4. The Inherent Authority of Provincial Superior Courts.............................. 79 a. Superior Courts of Inherent Jurisdiction........................................ 79 b. Procedural Jurisdiction................................................................. 80 c. Subject Jurisdiction........................................................................ 82 d. Inherent Jurisdiction vs. OPCA Strategies and Concepts.............. 84 B. Obligation Requires Agreement......................................................................... 85 1. Defeating Legislation................................................................................ 86 2. Everything is a Contract............................................................................ 86 3. Consent is Required.................................................................................. 89 4. Conclusion - Obligation Requires Agreement........................................... 91 5. Court Misconduct by Everything is a Contract and Consent is Required Litigants 91 C. Double/Split Persons............................................................................................ 92 1. Unshackling the Strawman........................................................................ 94 2. Dividing Oneself........................................................................................ 94 3. In-Court Behaviour of the Divided Person................................................ 96 4. Conclusion - Double/Split Person Schemes............................................... 98 D. Unilateral Agreements......................................................................................... 99 1. The Legal Effect of a Foisted Agreement............................................... 101 2. Common Uses of Unilateral Agreements................................................ 105 a. To Create or Assert an Obligation............................................... 105 b. To Discharge an Obligation or Dismiss a Lawsuit...................... 108 c. Foisted Duties, Agency, or Fiduciary Status................................ 110 d. Copyright and Trade-mark.......................................................... 110 3. Fee Schedules.......................................................................................... 112 a. Disproportionate and Unlawful Penalties................................... 114 b. The Targets and Intended Effect of Fee Schedules...................... 115 4. Effect of Unilateral Agreements............................................................. 116 E. Money for Nothing Schemes............................................................................. 117 1. Accept for Value / A4V.......................................................................... 117 2. Bill Consumer Purchases......................................................................... 120 3. Miscellaneous Money for Nothing Schemes........................................... 121 F. Legal Effect and Character of OPCA Arguments......................................... 121 1. OPCA Strategies that Deny Court Authority......................................... 121 a. An OPCA Argument that Denies Court Authority Cannot Succeed Due to the Courts Inherent Authority........................................................................ 121 b. An OPCA Argument that Denies Court Authority is Intrinsically Frivolous and Vexatious..................................................................................................... 122 c. An OPCA Argument that Denies Court Authority May Be Contempt of Court Authority..................................................................................................... 123 i. Denial of Tax Obligation Evades Tax............................. 123 ii. Denial of Firearms Restrictions Proves Intent for Illegal Possession 124 iii. Denial of Court Authority May Prove the Intent to Engage in Contempt of Court......................................................................................... 125 iv. Other Government Authorities........................................ 127 2. Other OPCA Strategies........................................................................... 127 3. Responses to OPCA Strategies............................................................... 128 a. Strike Actions, Motions, and Defences......................................... 128 b. Punitive Damages........................................................................ 128 c. Elevated Costs............................................................................. 129 d. Order Security for Costs.............................................................. 131 e. Fines............................................................................................ 132 f. One Judge Remaining on a File.................................................. 132 4. Responses to OPCA Litigants and Gurus............................................... 133 a. Vexatious Litigant Status.............................................................. 133 b. Deny Status as a Representative.................................................. 133 5. Conclusion - Responses to OPCA Litigation and Litigants.................... 134 VII..... Review............................................................................................................................ 135 A. Judiciary............................................................................................................. 136 B. Lawyers.............................................................................................................. 138 1. A Lawyers Duties.................................................................................... 138 a. Notarization of OPCA Materials................................................. 138 b. Triage: Identification of Legal Issues........................................... 139 2. Education................................................................................................ 139 a. Judges and Courts....................................................................... 139 b. The OPCA Litigant...................................................................... 140 3. Conclusion - Lawyers and OPCA Litigation.......................................... 141 C. Target Litigants................................................................................................. 141 D. OPCA Litigants................................................................................................. 141 E. OPCA Gurus..................................................................................................... 143 VIII.... Application of These Reasons to the Meads v. Meads Litigation............................... 144 A. Ms. Meads.......................................................................................................... 144 1. Case Management................................................................................... 144 2. Disclosure by Mr. Meads......................................................................... 144 B. Mr. Meads.......................................................................................................... 145 1. Pre-Hearing Activities............................................................................. 145 a. The February 15, 2011 Document.............................................. 146 b. The March 3, 2011 Document..................................................... 147 c. The April 27, 2012 Documents.................................................... 148 2. The June 8, 2012 Hearing........................................................................ 151 3. The June 19 and June 21, 2012 Documents............................................ 153 4. Conclusion............................................................................................... 154 Appendix A - Meads Fee Schedule.......................................................................................... 157 Appendix B - Meads Copyright and Trademark Notice....................................................... 176 Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. ... The laws are of no power to protect them, without a sword in the hands of a man, or men, to cause those laws to be put in execution. ... And law was brought into the world for nothing else but to limit the natural liberty of particular men in such manner as they might not hurt, but assist one another, and join together against a common enemy. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Forgotten Books, 2008), at pp. 87, 147, 184 I. Introduction to Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument [“OPCA”] Litigants [1] This Court has developed a new awareness and understanding of a category of vexatious litigant. As we shall see, while there is often a lack of homogeneity, and some individuals or groups have no name or special identity, they (by their own admission or by descriptions given by others) often fall into the following descriptions: Detaxers; Freemen or Freemen-on-the-Land; Sovereign Men or Sovereign Citizens; Church of the Ecumenical Redemption International (CERI); Moorish Law; and other labels - there is no closed list. In the absence of a better moniker, I have collectively labelled them as Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument litigants [“OPCA litigants”], to functionally define them collectively for what they literally are. These persons employ a collection of techniques and arguments promoted and sold by ‘gurus’ (as hereafter defined) to disrupt court operations and to attempt to frustrate the legal rights of governments, corporations, and individuals. [2] Over a decade of reported cases have proven that the individual concepts advanced by OPCA litigants are invalid. What remains is to categorize these schemes and concepts, identify global defects to simplify future response to variations of identified and invalid OPCA themes, and develop court procedures and sanctions for persons who adopt and advance these vexatious litigation strategies. [3] One participant in this matter, the Respondent Dennis Larry Meads, appears to be a sophisticated and educated person, but is also an OPCA litigant. One of the purposes of these Reasons is, through this litigant, to uncover, expose, collate, and publish the tactics employed by the OPCA community, as a part of a process to eradicate the growing abuse that these litigants direct towards the justice and legal system we otherwise enjoy in Alberta and across Canada. I will respond on a point-by-point basis to the broad spectrum of OPCA schemes, concepts, and arguments advanced in this action by Mr. Meads.