Academic piece by Amy Cohen and Ilana Gershon that in part discusses parallels between President Donald Trump's approach to agreements and contracts, and pseudolaw contract theory:
lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/defaul...
It's neat. Worth a look.
2024 French law enforcement briefing on "Sovereign Citizens". Concludes:
The threat posed by "sovereign citizens" in France remains minor compared to that of the jihadist movement, which remains the most significant terrorist risk on national soil.
Full document: hal.science/hal-05491714...
The CBC has released a six-part 3.5 hour podcast series on HRM Didulo's activities in Richmound, Saskatchewan.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Frankly, I didn't find much useful. If you're familiar with HRM Didulo's sage you will largely encounter a tail of village politics.
Earlier "intercepting" pseudolaw users has better outcomes. For example, reject their documents for filing. The Alberta Court of King's Bench has just such a procedure, see Appendix D of this court judgment: canlii.ca/t/k7qsl
Ends something like 95% of pseudolaw activities. Pretty effective.
Front-line court staff and other government officials have useful observations on managing pseudolaw types.
David Heilpern, a now former Magistrate, explains how pseudolaw users create delay and disruption for court processes, even as they always fail:
theconversation.com/how-should-a...
Why thank you!
Yep. But not a reptile.
'Cause reptiles are icky.
The New Zealand Police have published (proactively) their standard instructions for managing and responding to "Sovereign Citizens".
www.police.govt.nz/sites/defaul...
The information response instructions at pages 15-21 are very interesting, and I'd say nicely composed and explained.
Dan Neidle's Tax Policy Group has published an excellent review of "Empower the People", a UK-based tax fraud scheme that uses US 1099-OID forms to (sometimes) trigger fraudulent Internal Revenue Service refunds.
Highest recommendation. A must read.
taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/25/s...
For me writing and music are linked. Inextricably.
I've spent decades drafting and editing enveloped in pounding, aggressive, enraged, hopeless music. Music to accompany a joyous artillery barrage.
That might leak through into what I write. Maybe.
And I miss dancing until my feet bleed.
One faction of the phenomenon. If you're interested in the coup incident, there's a great article here:
www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...
Google Translate does a fine job so the article is comprehensible to us unilingual types.
As usual, the story get complicated.
What these ideas do is "activate" them. Empower them.
Usually that means litigation or other dispute processes, since pseudolaw is a "war of paper".
But when someone loses in the war of paper, and persists to engage vigilante steps? That's the red line, in my opinion.
In my opinion very different. Which is one of the neatest things about studying the topic.
It appears the pseudolaw memetic pathogen is highly adaptable. Or, framed another way, it has a very broad host range.
When I talk to threat assessors, what I stress is these ideas don't change people.
The Lowy Institute @lowyinstitute.bsky.social (a thinktank) has released a “policy brief” “The global sovereign citizen movement”.
Unfortunately the product isn’t sitting particularly well with me.
I've posted an extended commentary on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde...
If you're interested.
How do you in a judgment say "dude said really nasty stuff" without quoting it?
"I note that I have cited the least offensive of the statements and threats made by [litigant] in those emails."
Very slick solution. Tip of the hat to Justice Little!
Judgment here: canlii.ca/t/kj3hv
I also giggle when I see that the "expert" has posed their own publication(s) front cover first in the line of sight.
And yes, I sometimes rush up to the TV to scrutinize titles.
So, what does that make me, having a wall of pseudolaw texts behind me? Well, a very cranky collector, that's for sure.
I have an odd obsession. When a talking head appears on TV in their home office, I scrutinize the wall of books that is usually behind them.
Call me judgmental, but I can't really take an "expert" seriously when I find their library organization is by book colour.
Or size.
I think it's a Barbie reference - weaponizing blond muscular plastic men.
And to call Icke influential in that weirdo space? Yup, Romana is just playing to the audience. But not us. We're not her audience.
Especially us yugoloths.
They eat children. Or adrenochrome extracted from children. Whatever.
HRM Didulo didn't make this up. The source is UK football commentator David Icke, who was instrumental in popularizing the X-Files-like world of improvisationalist millennialism, a kind of super-conspiracy approach to the world.
More seriously, while it's tempting to conclude this announcement demonstrates HRM is nuts, it's very much playing to her target community. "Reptilians" are supposedly shape-shifting aliens who disguise themselves as humans & occupy key entertainment, political, & structural positions.
Alert!
Fellow malevolent entities and Reptilians! (Since I self-identify as a yugoloth, I'm confident I qualify as the former.)
HRM Didulo has ordered our extermination!
I've been keeping an eye out for orbital bombardment laser strikes - nothing so far.
Watch The Skies!
Sovereign Citizen "Judge" Anna Von Reitz's residence sold at public auction by judicial order after Anna doesn't pay her income tax.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Ooppsieee...
Been playing with LLMs testing their ability to detect & respond to pseudolaw concepts.
Gemini pointed to this US government resource for a rebuttal to Strawman Theory secret bank accounts.
Nice, concise, accurate. Good stuff.
Maybe we are making progress?
www.treasurydirect.gov/laws-and-reg...
Dave Dave Dave Dave!
Well, in theory Kevin wasn't making the decisions. He had a secret counsel of judge dudes.
(But really it was just Kevin.)
Never understood how Annett managed to attract mainstream media reporting, but he did.
But there's fun in the footnotes.
Footnote 4 provides online video view volumes. Poland and Canada have similar populations, but Poland has 10-100 fold views.
Footnote 37 questions whether Russian disinformation is involved. There were rumours of that in the US, year ago.
It's not impossible.
A tasty pseudolaw academic publication from Poland that focuses on pseudolaw itself. The results are a bit unremarkable.
Prof. Pastuszko identifies usual core pseudolaw concepts: governments are corporations, the duel of laws, and - of course - Strawman Theory.
journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/...
New academic publication on ideology of Australian “Sovereign Citizens”. Labels the phenomenon as (government) Illegitimacy, Individualism, and Immunity.
I’m not going to make a detailed analysis. There’s “local experts” who are better positioned on Australia.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Pseudolaw scholarship is expanding at an amazing pace. Here is the first article (that I know of) documenting the Polish variations. Patryk Król uses parallels in language, concepts & objectives to identify Polish pseudolaw groups. That's the Strawman.
www.abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wyd...
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