Category: Law, Constitution, and Jurisprudence

  • To some degree, like basic reading, math, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology,

    To some degree, like basic reading, math, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, economics and at least constitutional and contract law, natural law (ethics) should be covered sufficiently that everyone is at least aware that there is a science and logic of ethics morality et al.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-09 00:54:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633632440387248128

    Reply addressees: @extra_thousand @h_pufnstuf @NoahRevoy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633629489006792704

  • VOCABULARY LESSON: LICENSE > LICIT > ILLICIT licence (n.) late 14c., “formal aut

    VOCABULARY LESSON: LICENSE > LICIT > ILLICIT

    licence (n.)
    late 14c., “formal authorization, official permission, permit, privilege,” from Old French licence “freedom, liberty, power, possibility; permission,”

    licit (adj.)
    “lawful, allowable,” late 15c., from Latin licitus “lawful, permitted, allowed,” past participle of licere “be allowed, be lawful” (see licence (n.)). Related: Licitly; licitness. In early 19c. England it was condemned unjustly as an Americanism.

    illicit (adj.)
    c. 1500, from Old French illicite “unlawful, forbidden” (14c.), from Latin illicitus “not allowed, unlawful, illegal,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + licitus “lawful,” past participle of licere “to be allowed” (see licence (n.)). Related: Illicitly.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 22:18:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633593102320427013

  • VOCABULARY LESSON: LICENSE > LICIT > ILLICIT licence (n.) late 14c., “formal aut

    VOCABULARY LESSON: LICENSE > LICIT > ILLICIT

    licence (n.)
    late 14c., “formal authorization, official permission, permit, privilege,” from Old French licence “freedom, liberty, power, possibility; permission,”

    licit (adj.)
    “lawful, allowable,” late 15c., from Latin licitus “lawful, permitted, allowed,” past participle of licere “be allowed, be lawful” (see licence (n.)). Related: Licitly; licitness. In early 19c. England it was condemned unjustly as an Americanism.

    illicit (adj.)
    c. 1500, from Old French illicite “unlawful, forbidden” (14c.), from Latin illicitus “not allowed, unlawful, illegal,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + licitus “lawful,” past participle of licere “to be allowed” (see licence (n.)). Related: Illicitly.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 22:18:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633593102496571397

  • TRUTH It’s relatively difficult to regulate simply because it’s somewhat hard to

    TRUTH
    It’s relatively difficult to regulate simply because it’s somewhat hard to write a law that doesn’t produce as many bads as goods. What’s spam and not?
    Current IPV4 protocols are weak
    Current email protocols are weak
    Current IP-Telecom protocols are weak
    Current Anonymizing techniques are sophisticated enough to avoid controls.
    Charging for incoming might do it if it was high enough.
    But we can’t figure out who to charge because labeling or tagging is voluntary.
    The solution is non-anonymous, government (or private sector) account to route through and client software that requires routing through that service. Even then spoofing it’s possible.

    Reply addressees: @whatifalthist


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 21:50:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633585927250497540

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633578262227189760

  • TRUTH It’s relatively difficult to regulate simply because it’s somewhat hard to

    TRUTH
    It’s relatively difficult to regulate simply because it’s somewhat hard to write a law that doesn’t produce as many bads as goods. What’s spam and not?
    Current IPV4 protocols are weak
    Current email protocols are weak
    Current IP-Telecom protocols are weak
    Current Anonymizing techniques are sophisticated enough to avoid controls.
    Charging for incoming might do it if it was high enough.
    But we can’t figure out who to charge because labeling or tagging is voluntary.
    The solution is non-anonymous, government (or private sector) account to route through and client software that requires routing through that service. Even then spoofing it’s possible.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 21:50:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633585927363735552

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633578262227189760

  • “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT

    “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT LIMITS ON PERJURY: TESTIFIABILITY?
    (reforms) (Part 1)
    Trust in government, in our bureaucracies, in our institutions, and in our international institutions is lower than in our industries.

    We saw politicians, public intellectuals, ‘scientists’ and media saturate us with information that was produced by scientists but was in no way science proper: The Intellectual Marketplace equivalent of Court Testimony.

    We saw our government demonstrate just how much a credentialed (undemonstrated) pseudo-elite (incompetent) is desperate to escape the limits placed on service bureaucracies, to seek attention, influence, career climbing, and money – or as in the most obvious case, to escape from collusion by evading regulation to engage in illegal research.

    We saw regulators, bureaucrats, politicians and economists fantasize in creating a utopian economic condition of majority white-collar service workers fulfilling the neoliberal fantasy; to produce state-of-the-union accounts that ignored the spectrum of capital from human, to resource, to built, to formal institutional, to behavioral institutional; to produce GDP numbers that do not reflect either that capital structure, or the ratio between labor competency and productivity necessary to maintain strategic invulnerability; and worse, to leave the country strategically dependent upon the goodwill of existing and potential enemies – enemies who do not want to end the era of authoritarian agrarian empires of conquest that do not require high trust public or public trust in institutions, instead of modern high trust societies and polities, as individual sovereign states, federated for defense, and trading for the common good.

    We saw the corruption of the treasury, the central bank, the banking and financial sector, and SEC – and even the economics profession that enabled the crimes of all of them. And worse, including the CBO, these people put out numbers – especially GDP – that do not capture research and development cost

    We saw the politicization of Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, and now the CIA – where politicization is just another word for corruption. Especially in the disintermediation of our people from the courts, activist courts, secret courts, and unequal prosecution, all in violation of natural, human, common law, constitutional rights, obligations, and inalienations.

    We saw the failure of our “Insurers of Last Resort” – the first purpose of the government – because of the ‘institutional capture’ of FEMA, CDC, WHO, and now IMF. On top of the failure of the UN that is just a hostile force against the developed world. These people are rent-seekers, seeking exit from the competitive economy, and instead, pursue status-seeking and career climbing along with their peers.

    We saw the ‘forcible conversion’ of our education system from one whose primary function is to produce citizens capable of self-determination by self-determined means and capacity to make democratic decisions under economically and empirically limited means and ends. The academy is for all intents and purposes repeating the Christian destruction of the roman world, from within, by the same means: a new cult promising freedom from the four laws of nature: scarcity, behavior, evolution, and logic.

    We have a limited set of defenses against a corrupt government and its special interests.
    – Boycott: is ineffective outside of commercial interests that are outside of state capture.
    – Canceling: Effective for commercial interests that don’t cave to threats of undermining.
    – The Vote: Ineffective for other than special interests, because votes always reflect those interests and never those the people demand.
    – The Court: Ineffective b/c of limitations on rule of law that grants special privileges to state actors.
    – And Uprising: Effective only for the radical left that assists the state in power accumulation.

    (Continued in Part 2)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 16:50:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633510611156967427

  • “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT

    “WHAT WE SAW”: WHAT IF ALL PUBLIC SPEECH IN MATTERS PUBLIC WAS SUBJECT TO STRICT LIMITS ON PERJURY: TESTIFIABILITY?
    (reforms) (Part 1)
    Trust in government, in our bureaucracies, in our institutions, and in our international institutions is lower than in our industries.

    We saw politicians, public intellectuals, ‘scientists’ and media saturate us with information that was produced by scientists but was in no way science proper: The Intellectual Marketplace equivalent of Court Testimony.

    We saw our government demonstrate just how much a credentialed (undemonstrated) pseudo-elite (incompetent) is desperate to escape the limits placed on service bureaucracies, to seek attention, influence, career climbing, and money – or as in the most obvious case, to escape from collusion by evading regulation to engage in illegal research.

    We saw regulators, bureaucrats, politicians and economists fantasize in creating a utopian economic condition of majority white-collar service workers fulfilling the neoliberal fantasy; to produce state-of-the-union accounts that ignored the spectrum of capital from human, to resource, to built, to formal institutional, to behavioral institutional; to produce GDP numbers that do not reflect either that capital structure, or the ratio between labor competency and productivity necessary to maintain strategic invulnerability; and worse, to leave the country strategically dependent upon the goodwill of existing and potential enemies – enemies who do not want to end the era of authoritarian agrarian empires of conquest that do not require high trust public or public trust in institutions, instead of modern high trust societies and polities, as individual sovereign states, federated for defense, and trading for the common good.

    We saw the corruption of the treasury, the central bank, the banking and financial sector, and SEC – and even the economics profession that enabled the crimes of all of them. And worse, including the CBO, these people put out numbers – especially GDP – that do not capture research and development cost

    We saw the politicization of Justice, the FBI, Homeland Security, and now the CIA – where politicization is just another word for corruption. Especially in the disintermediation of our people from the courts, activist courts, secret courts, and unequal prosecution, all in violation of natural, human, common law, constitutional rights, obligations, and inalienations.

    We saw the failure of our “Insurers of Last Resort” – the first purpose of the government – because of the ‘institutional capture’ of FEMA, CDC, WHO, and now IMF. On top of the failure of the UN that is just a hostile force against the developed world. These people are rent-seekers, seeking exit from the competitive economy, and instead, pursue status-seeking and career climbing along with their peers.

    We saw the ‘forcible conversion’ of our education system from one whose primary function is to produce citizens capable of self-determination by self-determined means and capacity to make democratic decisions under economically and empirically limited means and ends. The academy is for all intents and purposes repeating the Christian destruction of the roman world, from within, by the same means: a new cult promising freedom from the four laws of nature: scarcity, behavior, evolution, and logic.

    We have a limited set of defenses against a corrupt government and its special interests.
    – Boycott: is ineffective outside of commercial interests that are outside of state capture.
    – Canceling: Effective for commercial interests that don’t cave to threats of undermining.
    – The Vote: Ineffective for other than special interests, because votes always reflect those interests and never those the people demand.
    – The Court: Ineffective b/c of limitations on rule of law that grants special privileges to state actors.
    – And Uprising: Effective only for the radical left that assists the state in power accumulation.

    (Continued in Part 2)


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 16:50:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633510611656089606

  • How odd. Rights are a term of law, developed before the Christian religion by a

    How odd. Rights are a term of law, developed before the Christian religion by a very long time. Churchies tried to claim they did everything in their search for power.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 09:48:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633404423564312576

    Reply addressees: @BertFlirt @StevePender @ConceptualJames

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633371404560134145

  • RT @StevePender: @ConceptualJames There’s no such thing as individual rights, at

    RT @StevePender: @ConceptualJames There’s no such thing as individual rights, at least not in isolation. That’s a major misconception. Righ…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-08 06:59:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633361726786633733

  • I ran the company, and the institute, and I was an advocate of rule of law and s

    I ran the company, and the institute, and I was an advocate of rule of law and stayed on message that the justice department was the impediment to curing their problems. “if you have Sheriffs or Militia and judges you can fix everything”. So some activists promoted me. And once I was on national TV for a long interview the first time it just kept rolling. The reason? An American with money who comes to UA to start a business is somehow more legitimate because it’s sort of evidence of the goodness of UA people and their promise. I think more important was that I didn’t charge money for judges to talk to me about reform. They had to buy me coffee πŸ˜‰ and I ended up spending about two or three hours a week with judges.

    This is why I know a great deal about the internals of Ukraine. Hanging with judges who WEREN’T corrupt. πŸ˜‰

    (Other stuff I could add but I won’t here in public.)

    Reply addressees: @desilva_frank


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-07 19:54:39 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633194471360716806

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1633187143148519425