Well..

Well, it's been some time since I fed this blog with some random thoughts and reflections. Since there aren't likely to be many avid Faulkstalks blog readers, that 's no great loss to mankind. Nobody has petitioned me for new updates, so the obscurity continues. Nevertheless, things have been happening since I last wrote.

For a start, I've gained two more grandsons, which brings the tally up to 4. They are lovely little dots, born within 6 weeks of each other. They are giving their mothers plenty to think about.

I've come to a fuller understanding of the mess of our society and institutions - mainly thanks to the video lectures of Canadian comic Rob Menard and John Harris of www.tpuc.org. John is a Freeman of the Land - a self-employed plumber who through researches of his own has come to a realisation that the society we live in - and the legal system that maintains it - are based on some long-perpetuated lies. For example, statute law and statutory instruments can only have the power of law behind them when they have the consent of the governed because they are contractual by nature. This means that a man arrested for driving without road tax or insurance has not been engaged in a criminal offence, and if he refuses to submit his name and address and refuses to acknowledge that he understands (ie stands under) the charge, he can get away with this alleged offense. Of course, it's not as easy as that - the police are well-trained and savvy when it comes to dealing with offenders - but that is the general idea. The central thesis is that the United Kingdom is a corporation - not a political entity. And corporations exist to make money. In the same way, the courts of justice and the police are also corporations which have the same purpose, i.e. to make money from the public through fines and PCNs. There are various surprises in store when we look on Dunn & Bradstreet's website - including some of our political masters, who are listed traders in the name of whichever party they belong to. It doesn't take too long to realise that if this is indeed the case, our political life is a well-co-ordinated piece of theatre; the real interest behind the veneer of politics is commerce.

John Harris' solution is to opt out of society by formally declaring through an affidavit served on the queen that he withdraws his allegiance to Her Maj on the premise that she is surrounded by traitors who have betrayed the nation into the hands of foreign hands (through admission into the EU). Others simply declare in their affidavits that they are real, flesh-and-blood human beings - not the legal fictions created through the birth certificate upon registration. It is these legal fictions (known as 'persons') to whom statute law applies, and providing the offence is not a breach of common law (i.e. causing death, injury, damage or loss), a well-thought-out argument can win.

But to opt out smacks of dishonesty; to renounce one's citizenship (the reality of which is also aguable) on the one hand and yet to expect (for example) medical treatment through the NHS are hardly intellectually and morally consistent. The only way to derive benefits from the host society while maintaining integrity would be to pay for services as a private individual.

So, while I accept that our politicians are vassals to the corporate state, and the proliferation of draconian laws is designed to screw more money and exert more power over long-suffering and law-abiding people, I also see that for the time being at least, we have to put up with it. Eventually people are going to get fed up with being spied on, controlled and manipulated by a nasty state.

But what is society for? According to Black's Law Dictionary, in so many words its purpose is to maintain the position of the socially dominant group. And that doesn't include me. And if you're reading this, you can bet it doesn't include you either. Stay tuned.