Common Law will fail to protect us against tyranny

Dictators rip up contracts and disregard the law when it suits them

- CHARLIE O'NEILL

LIKE many others who got involved in the wider anti-lockdown movement, I was at first perplexed by what seemed to be the mysterious spread of certain ideas.

These concerned reclaiming our 'true' identity and extricating ourselves from state power by declaration, all of which were presented under the label of 'Common Law'.

It was hard to come to a conclusion on any single aspect of it, let alone evaluate the phenomenon as a whole. But I have since come to my own personal conclusions concerning the validity of many of the specific claims made a summary of which can be found at Economic Resistance (see link below).

The more I investigated the so-called Common Law approach, the more I came to realise that none of its specific claims really matter, even if some of them are actually true.

This is because the foundation on which the entire approach actually rests is not a matter of historical or legal record, but instead a kind of metaphysical belief about how the universe itself functions.

Here is a quick overview of Common Law that demonstrates how all the points hinge upon this key metaphysical doctrine concerning the importance of contracts:

1. The system of supposed law we all abide by is in fact largely a counterfeit designed to gain our consent to be governed.

2. There is a true system of law which the ruling elite have kept concealed from us in order to be able to gain unfair advantage over us.