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Common Law Community TrainingManual

Establishing the Reign of Natural Liberty: The Common Law and its Courts

A Community Training Manual

Issued by The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State !russels"

What is assembling is the first court in history to bring judgment against the Vaticanand the Crown of England as institutions. But our Court also signals the dawn of anew notion of justice: one defined by the people themselves, and especially by thehistoric victims of church and state, to bring about not only a judgment on theirpersecutors, but a new political and spiritual arrangement to undo the systems

responsible for intergenerational crimes against humanity# from the founding Charter of The International Common Law Court of $ustice%Se&tember '% ()'(

Introduction

*istory was made on +ebruary ''% ()',% when the first Catholic -o&e in historyresigned from his office during &eacetime in order to a.oid arrest for &rotecting andaiding child ra&ing &riests/

!arely two wee0s later% the same -o&e !enedict% $ose&h Rat1inger% was found guiltyby the International Common Law Court of $ustice for Crimes against *umanity %including child traffic0ing/ And the Arrest 2arrant that he had antici&ated% and which&ro.o0ed his resignation% was issued against him on +ebruary (3/

E.ading 4ustice inside the 5atican% Rat1inger is &resently an international fugiti.efrom the law 6 and a li.ing e7am&le of the &ower of Common Law courts tosuccessfully &rosecute so#called 8heads of state9/

The lawful .erdict of the International Common Law Court of $ustice was a 8shotheard around the world9% and has s&awned efforts in twenty one countries toestablish similar &o&ular courts of 4ustice to reclaim the law from the wealthy andtheir com&liant go.ernments/ see www/itccs/org"

This Manual &ro.ides instruction and training to those of you who ha.e mo.ed fromwords to actions/ 2e s&ea0 to those who not only recogni1e the &ermanent warbeing waged against humanity by a global cor&orate tyranny% but who are acti.elyengaged in dismantling that murderous system at its source so that 4ustice can bemade real in a reclaimed world/

ou are &art of a growing mo.ement to create a new% liberated society within theshell of the old by first allowing the law to act for all &eo&le and not a cli;ue of 4udicial
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s&ecialists and their friends/ That new society is emerging through e.ery act ofcourage and integrity by we who 0now what is at sta0e% and that is% our children andthe future of our s&ecies/

Why we are Taking Action: Freeing Ourselves by emembering the True Law

!an is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."

That fact has altered little o.er the centuries/ !ut the chains of o&&ression o.er muchof our s&ecies ha.e been forged through the wea&ons of .iolence and ignorance%and they can be undone/

Long before any rulers held sway o.er humanity% men and women establishedcustoms and laws among themsel.es to ensure their &eace and liberties as free% self#go.erning &eo&le/ They did so from an inherent recognition of a Natural Law ofE;uality or


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This Natural Law e7ists to maintain the natural &eace and e;uity between &eo&le andis their shield and &rotector against un4ust rule% rather than a force o.er them/ 2ithinthe ancient traditions of tribal communities% es&ecially in the Anglo#Sa7on world% thisLaw e.ol.ed into what became 0nown as the Customary or Common Law% or theLaw of the Land/ It has strong echoes in the customs of indigenous nations all o.er

the world/

*ere is a basic summary of the nature of True or Common Law .ersus arbitrary law/

#atural Liberty and the $asis o% Common Law Courts: First &rinci'les

'/ E.ery man% woman and child is born and is by nature free% e;ual and so.ereign%and &ossesses an inherent 0nowledge of what is true and right/ Accordingly% no#onecan be subordinated to another or to any e7ternal authority% since e.ery &erson?sinherent wisdom and liberty ma0es them com&lete and sufficient creations inthemsel.es% within a wider community of e;uals/

(/ This &ersonal so.ereignty is a reflection of the wider Natural Law% whereby all lifeby nature is indi.isible and &laced in common for the sur.i.al and ha&&iness of all/ Inany 4ust society% this commonality endows all &eo&le with the unalienable right toestablish among themsel.es their own go.ernance% and defend themsel.es againstany tyranny or .iolence% including that inflicted by e7ternal authorities/ Any authoritythat rules un4ustly and arbitrarily% without the free and uncoerced consent of the&eo&le% has lost its right to rule and can be lawfully o.erthrown/ *njust governmentis not government but tyranny"6 -lato

,/ This Natural Law gi.es rise to customary Common Law whose &ur&ose is to&rotect the inherent liberties and so.ereignty of men and women in a community bymaintaining e;uity and &eace among them/ The Common Law deri.es its authorityfrom the &eo&le themsel.es% and from the ca&acity of the &eo&le to 0now what is 4ustand to 4udge right and wrong for themsel.es/ This ca&acity is e7&ressed in a 4urysystem of twel.e freely chosen &eo&le who are the ultimate 4udge and authorityunder Common Law and its courts/

D/ *istorically% Common Law arose in England after the ''th century NormanCon;uest as a bulwar0 in defense of the &eo&le against the arbitrary rule of self#a&&ointed elites% es&ecially monarchs and &o&es/ The authority of these elites was

deri.ed unnaturally% from warfare% .iolent con;uest and the theft of the earth% ratherthan from the consent of the community and its basis% the di.ine law of &eace ande;uality/ This elite rule arose most strongly in the Roman Em&ire and its descendent%the Church of Rome% under whose beliefs 8god9 is a dominator and con;ueror8domine8"% and all &eo&le are 8sub4ects9 of the -o&e/

3/ Such a con;uest#based rule of &a&al and 0ingly elites ga.e rise to a legal system0nown as Ci.il or Roman Law% and the belief that men and women are not endowedwith the ca&acity for self#rule and wisdom/ All law and authority is therefore deri.ede7ternally% from statutes de.ised and im&osed by a ruler% whether a &o&e% a monarchor a go.ernment/ This system de.elo&ed from Aristotelian &hiloso&hy and Roman

&ro&erty law in which creation is di.ided and human beings are treated as chattelsand the &ossessions of others% and are thereby de.oid of inherent liberties/ The


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&eo&le are thus in e.ery sense ensla.ed% cut off from the world gi.en freely and incommon to all/ This sla.e system ran0s and categori1es all &eo&le% and grantsrestricted 8freedoms9 freithoms% or sla.e &ri.ileges" that are defined and limitedthrough statutes issued by rulers/

=/ Common and Ci.il Roman" Law are therefore fundamentally o&&osed and are atwar with each other/ They cannot be reconciled% since they arise from two com&letelydifferent notions of humanity and 4ustice: Common Law 0nows life as a free gift gi.ene;ually to all% while under Ci.il Law% life is a conditional &ri.ilege% and humanity is amanaged sla.e &o&ulace/ Accordingly% go.ernments o&erate in &ractice according toCi.il statute" law and denigrate or ignore Common Law altogether through the ruleof unaccountable 4udge#dominated courts/

B/ The most e7treme form of elite#based Ci.ilRoman Law is what is called -a&al orCanon Law% which defines the Church of Rome as the only legitimate authority onearth to which all other laws% &eo&le and go.ernments are subordinate/ Canon law is

self#go.erning and com&letely unaccountable to anything but itself/ !ehind its front ofChristian rhetoric% Roman Catholicism is a neo#&agan cult based u&on the late ,rdcentury Roman Em&eror#worshi& system 0nown as Sol In.ictus% in which oneso.ereign entitled 8>od and Master9 +eus et +ominus" rules hea.en and earth:s&ecifically% the -o&e/ This tyrannical cult has not sur&risingly caused more warfare%genocide% con;uest and murder than any &ower in human history% and continues toconstitute the single greatest threat to Common Law and human liberty/

@/ The Church of Rome was the first and is the oldest cor&oration on our &lanet: alegal entity designed for the &rotection of tyrants% which nullifies the indi.idual liabilityand res&onsibility of the elites for any crime or con;uest they &er&etrate/ +rom Romeand the 5atican Incor&orated has s&read the contagion that now threatens to destroyour &lanet and our li.es% as unaccountable cor&orate oligarchy e.erywhere sub.ertsliberty and the health of our &lanet by subordinating all of life to &rofit and &ower/

/ At this .ery moment of cor&orate con;uest and its sub4ugation of humanity% acounter#mo.ement is arising to reassert the di.ine &ur&ose and its o&eration throughthe Common Law% and to restore the earth and humanity to their natural being as acommon body/ This mo.ement is foretold !iblically and in &ro&hecy as the time whenall &eo&le are returned to their natural e;uality% de.oid of all di.isions% &ri.ileges ando&&ression% in order li.e in harmony with creation and one another/

')/ This restoration of humanity is a di.ine &ur&ose% and begins by acti.ely dis#establishing all e7isting authority and institutions deri.ed from Roman ci.il law% andre&lacing them with a new go.ernance under Common Law 4urisdiction/ The creationof that new Natural Law authority among a liberated humanity is the fundamental&ur&ose of the Common Law Courts/

(ow )o We *se the Common Law+

The truth is that throughout e.eryday life% &eo&le e.erywhere use and rely onCommon Law to li.e and wor0 together/ It is sim&ly the inherent way that &eo&le

conduct their affairs together/ Li0en it to the roots that bind together humancommunities by unconditionally u&holding the life% dignity and wellbeing of e.ery


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Another crucial Rule of E.idence is the inadmissibility of hearsay e.idence% as in 8No%I wasn?t there% but I heardabout what ha&&ened9/ This is an es&ecially rele.ant rulewhen it comes to the commission of serious crimes% such as murder% genocide orra&e/

In short% any allegation must be bac0ed u& with &ro.able facts% and must be made byone who was a direct &artici&ant in or an eyewitness to the e.ent/

+or our &ur&oses% it must be noted that in the case of es&ecially monstrous%cor&orate crimes committed by go.ernments or other &owers% such as wars ofaggression% genocide or human traffic0ing% normal rules of e.idence are lessstringently a&&lied/ This is because of a realistic understanding that crimescommitted by entire societies or regimes are of a different nature than crimes byisolated indi.iduals/ A different set of norms regarding intent and &ro.able e.idencea&&lies/

In the words of the chief American &rosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials in 'D=%Robert $ac0son%8No regime that see0s the e7termination of entire grou&s of &eo&le generally retainswritten &roof of their intent to commit this crime/ Considering the murderous nature oftheir regime% there is no need% since such e7termination is not considered a crime/Ne.ertheless% e.en such a system see0s to fog and dissimulate the e.idence%es&ecially during wartime G The &roof of crimes against humanity generally lies notin documents but in the witness of sur.i.ors% in mass gra.es% and in the implied proofof the intent to commit these crimes contained in the everyday and institutionaliedlaws, attitudes and norms of the murderous regime.9 our em&hasis"

Im&lied intent is a legal conce&t es&ecially rele.ant and s&ecific to litigation in.ol.inggenocidal regimes% including go.ernments and churches whose world .iew and lawsconsider other grou&s to be unworthy of life or e;ual rights% such as the grou&s thatwere tried and sentenced in the first case of the International Common Law Court of$ustice concerning the genocide of indigenous &eo&les in Canada by church andstate/ www/itccs/org"

Laws such as the Indian Act of Canada% which im&ose a different set of laws on aracially targeted grou&% or the Roman Catholic 8canon law9 called Crimen-ollicitationas% which condones and facilitates the concealment of child ra&e within

the church% indicate a clear im&lied intent to commit and abet criminal acts/

That is% it is unnecessary to &ro.e the indi.idual intent to harm children by Catholic&riests% since under their own self#go.erning rules called 8canon law9% e.ery &riest issystematically re;uired to harm children by aiding those who do so if he is to retainhis 4ob and ordination/ The collective guiltof these clergy as a whole is im&lied andclear% 4ust as it was concerning all of the ser.ants of the Na1i regime/

Thus% while normal due &rocess re;uires that the &rosecution &ro.e that the accusedcommitted an act and did so with deliberate intent% such an intent may also beassumed to e7ist by the larger conte7t of a crime% es&ecially when that crime is

&er&etrated by entire organi1ations or regimes/
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Ascertaining the truth is always laborious% but ultimately the &rocess is bestguaranteed by a body of 4urors than single ad4udicators/ Common law 4uries% and notindi.idual 4udges% are in.ariably a better guarantee against the abuse of Rules ofE.idence and 4ust &rocedure in a courtroom/

Self#go.erning 4udges are notoriously &rone to corru&tion and &olitical mani&ulation%and when a&&ointed by the .ery go.ernments under criminal in.estigation% areob.iously unsuited to the tas0 of rendering a fair 4udgment/ In fact% under legal&rocedure% such state#a&&ointed 4udges ha.e no 4urisdictional com&etence to rule onthe criminality and guilt of their em&loyers/

$udges routinely wai.e 4ust &rocedure and rules of e.idence% and are authori1ed todo so by statute law/ In Canada% 8crown9 a&&ointed 4udges e.en ha.e the &ower toalter or destroy court records% silence one &arty in a dis&ute% and ignore due &rocessaltogetherH

The whole &oint of establishing a 4ury#run Common Law Court is to &re.ent such amani&ulation of the law and 4ustice by unaccountable &arties or .ested interests/ It isnot accidental that a +ounding +ather of the American Re&ublic% $ohn *ancoc0%declared in 'BBB%

'f we have not Courts that are established and maintained by the eople, rather thanby bribable /udges, then we will have no $epublic 0 (ur Constitution and our%ation will rise or fall according to the independence of our Courts."

,stablishing and Maintaining Common Law Courts

The Common Law?s +irst -rinci&les establish its general legitimacy and lawfulness/This .alid system gi.es rise to Courts with the &ower to &rotect the &eo&le as a wholeby &rosecuting and indicting any &ersons and institutions that threaten thecommunity/

The mandate to establish such Courts is deri.ed from the so.ereignty of the &eo&leas a whole% and not from any &articular &olitical system or go.ernment/ Common LawCourts are therefore universal% not constricted by customary borders or laws% and are4urisdictionally com&etent to ad4udicate any issue or grie.ance/ Common Law Courtsare not sub4ect to and do not recogni1e any other legal or moral authority% immunity

or &ri.ilege% li0e those routinely claimed by heads of churches and states/

En4oying uni.ersal 4urisdiction because of its rootedness in the Natural Law% CommonLaw Courts can be established in any country or community% and not only withinnations with a s&ecifically common law legal tradition% such as England% Canada andAmerica/

Common Law Courts are established when any number of men and women cometogether to 4udge a matter of concern to them and to their community/ Thus% suchCourts are in.ariably and naturally lin0ed to &olitical mo.ements% 8town hallgatherings9 and Tribunals of Conscience that unite citi1ens and gi.e direct .oice to

their concerns and demands/ The Court is thereby the e7&ression of that .oice/


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The Court itself is established by the direct will and .ote of the &eo&le as a whole%who elect Citi1en $ury of at least twel.e &eo&le% a Citi1en -rosecutor to conduct thecase on behalf of the &eo&le% a &residing Ad4udicator whose 4ob is strictly ad.isory%and a Sheriff and grou& of -eace fficers to enforce the summonses% warrants and.erdicts of the Court/

Additionally% the community may a&&oint local magistrates .ersed in the law 0nownas $ustices of the -eace $-?s"% who traditionally ha.e the &ower to summon 4uriesand issue warrants/ The $- may also initiate the formation of a Common Law court/

All of the &artici&ants in a Common Law Court must &resent their own case in all ofthe Court &roceedings% since to allow another to 8re#&resent9 them would constitute asurrender of their natural rights and so.ereignty/ This a&&lies both to the &laintiffsand the defendants in.ol.ed in any matter before the Court/

There are% accordingly% no &rofessional lawyers or &ermanent &residing 4udges in a

Common Law Court system/

There is no restriction on the &ower of a Common Law Court to access any &erson%&lace or thing% nor any limitation on the duration or rights of the Court/ The Court andits Magistrate can issue -ublic Summonses that are binding on any &erson orinstitution% and enforceable by the Court Sheriff% who has an unrestricted right todetain any &erson named in the Summons and bring them into Court/

The final .erdict of the Common Law Court $ury is final and not sub4ect to a&&eal%sim&ly because a reasonable and non#coerced grou& of citi1ens can come to thetruth of any matter on the basis of the e.idence alone% &ossessed as they are of aninherent 0nowledge of right and wrong/ The truth is not mutable/ A defendant is eitherinnocent or guilty the truth is not sub4ect to re.ision or reconsideration% since then itis not true/

*owe.er% if it can be &ro.en beyond any doubt that the Court?s .erdict was madeunlawfully% was unduly influenced% or occurred on the basis of incom&lete or faultye.idence% a Common Law Magistrate can re#o&en and re#try the case with thenormal $ury and Court officers/

In the same way% the sentence of the Court is also final% and is enforced not only by

the Court Sheriff but by all citi1ens/ +or the Common Law arises from and is thedirect res&onsibility of all &eo&le% as are all of its &rocedures/ The .erdict really is adeclaration of the &eo&le that they will go.ern themsel.es according to their owndemocratic law and decisions/

There is no restriction on the &ower of a Citi1en $ury to im&ose a sentence on any&erson% grou& or institution/ The Court Ad4udicator or Magistrate has no &ower toalter% influence or direct the original .erdict or sentence of the $ury 6 sim&ly to ad.isethe $ury on legal &rocedure and &oints of law/

+inally% u&on issuing its final .erdict and sentence% the Common Law Court 4ury is

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A Statement of Claim must be &roduced by those bringing a case% 0nown as the-laintiffs/ Their Statement sets out in &oint form the basic facts of the dis&ute% thewrong being alleged% and the relief or remedy being sought/

Ne7t% the -laintiff?s Statement of Claim must be accom&anied by su&&orting

e.idence: documents and testimonies &ro.ing their case beyond any reasonabledoubt/ This e.idence must be duly sworn by those not &arty to the dis&ute in the formof witnessed statements and it must consist of the original documents themsel.es%and not co&ies/

As well% anyone whose testimony is used in this body of e.idence must be willing tocome into Court to testify and affirm their own statement/

-te' Two . -eeking the emedy o% a Common Law Court: Filing a #otice o%Claim o% ight

After gathering his case% a -laintiff must then see0 the aid of a Common Law Courtand its officers/ Such a Court can be brought into being by &ublishing a Notice ofClaim of Right see #ppendi2 B, Court +ocuments""% which is a &ublic declarationcalling for the assistance of the community in the asserting of the -laintiff?s rightunder Natural $ustice to ha.e his case heard through the Common Law% by way of a4ury of his neighbors and &eers/

Such a Notice can be &ublished in local news&a&ers or sim&ly notari1ed and &ostedin a &rominent &ublic location% li0e a town hall or library/

-te' Three . Forming a Common Law Court

2ithin (D hours of the issuing of such a Notice of Claim of Right% any twel.e citi1ensof a community can constitute themsel.es as a Common Law Court and its 4ury% andmust then a&&oint the following Court fficers from their ran0s:

# a Court Ad4udicator% to ad.ise and o.ersee the Court

# a ublic or Citien rosecutorto conduct the case this &erson is normally the-laintiff himself or someone he authori1es to ad.ise but not re&resent him

# a +efense Counsel to ad.ise but not re&resent the accused

# a Court -heriff% either elected from the community or delegated from amonge7isting &eace officers

# Bailiffs, a Court $egistrar and a Court $eporter

It is assumed that &eo&le with 0nowledge of the Common Law and legal &rocedurewill act in these ca&acities/ And% as mentioned% a Common Law Magistrate or $usticeof the -eace may also initiate this formation of a Common Law Court/

-te' Four . -wearing in and Convening the /ury and Court O%%icers: Oaths o%O%%ice


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J&on the a&&ointment of these Court fficers% the Ad4udicator a $ustice of the-eace or a com&arable Magistrate" will formally con.ene the Court by ta0ing andadministering the following ath of Common Law Court ffice to all of the Courtofficers:

' 3name4 will faithfully perform my duties as an officer of this Common )aw Courtaccording to the principles of %atural /ustice and +ue rocess, acting at all timeswith integrity, honesty and lawfulness. ' recognie that if ' fail to consistently abide bythis (ath ' can and will be removed from my (ffice. ' ma5e this public (ath freely,without coercion or ulterior motive, and without any mental reservation.

After ta0ing this oath% the $ury members% Court Counselors% Sheriffs% !ailiffs andRe&orter will then con.ene and recei.e instructions from the Ad4udicator concerningthe case/ The Ad4udicator is not a &residing $udge or Magistrate but an ad.isor to theCourt% and has no &ower to influence% direct or halt the actions or the decisions of the$ury or other Court officers% e7ce&t in the case of a gross miscarriage of 4ustice or

negligence on the &art of other Court officers/ Thus% the Court is self#regulating andde&endent on the mutual res&ect and go.ernance of all the Court officers and the$ury/

-te' Five . &re"Trial Con%erence

The Ad4udicator brings together both &arties in a &re#trial conference in an attem&t tosettle the case &rior to a trial/ If a settlement is not achie.ed% both &arties must thenengage in a mandatory E7amination of


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the .erdict to the Court% and based on that .erdict% the final sentence is also declaredby the $ury/

-te' Twelve . The Court ad0ourns and the -entence is en%orced

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case% usually before a single magistrate who is &art of a self#go.erning andunaccountable 4udicial cli;ue/

The law% under this elite#deri.ed system% is a &ri.ate wea&on to wield against another&erson or grou& o.er commercial interests% not an a.enue of 4ustice for all or of the

common good/

In the Common Law% contrarily% the Court is defined not by contending indi.idualinterests% but by the needs of the community as a whole% and by 4ustice as defined bythose who ha.e suffered from the lac0 of it/ A bedroc0 of collecti.e morality sha&eshow the Common Law o&erates% according to a sim&le issue: Will this legal decisionand precedent best serve the community as a whole, and those within it who are themost vulnerable or who have suffered or been victimied, or who may be8

Men and women ha.e a natural tendency to resol.e their differences and mediatedis&utes among themsel.es% when non#coerced and left to themsel.es to a&&ly their

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,n%orcement

The big and thorny issue% of course% is not whether men and women can come to aCourt .erdict% but rather% how their decision can be enforced% and effecti.e in theircommunity/ This is es&ecially an issue when the .erdict is im&osed against heads of

church or state% or e.en entire institutions% as in the +ebruary (3% ()', .erdict of theInternational Common Law Court of $ustice ICLC$" concerning >enocide in Canada/www/itccs/org"

To use that case as an e7am&le% the moral weight of the .erdict was clearly thestrongest wea&on in the arsenal of the Court% and created the conditions for theenforcement of the .erdict against the thirty officials of church and state named in theindictment/

+or one thing% the +ebruary (3 .erdict 6 which sentenced all the defendants to &ublicbanishment% twenty fi.e years in &rison and the loss of all &ro&erty and assets 6

directly hel&ed de&ose not only -o&e !enedict% $ose&h Rat1inger% but the most&owerful Catholic Cardinal in Rome: the 5atican Secretary of State Tarcisio !ertone%who also resigned while in office after the ICLC$ .erdict was &ronounced/

Rat1inger and !ertone 0now about international law% e.en if others don?t/ Theyunderstand that the .erdict of the ICLC$ carries a recogni1ed legitimacy under theLaw of Nations and the &ublic right to form Tribunals of Conscience whengo.ernments and courts refuse to address a matter/ And the 5atican also 0nows thatthe ICLC$ .erdict can be entered into other nation?s courts and used for the issuingof arrest warrants against &ro.en war criminals li0e church officers/ And so theresignation of these ostensibly 8untouchable9 church leaders in the s&ring of ()', issim&le &roof of the &ower of inde&endent% common law court .erdicts/

A court .erdict% after all% is a binding order carrying with it the full force of the law% andwhoe.er ignores or sub.erts such a .erdict% and the Court?s orders arising from it% isguilty of an indictable crime/

In the A&&endi7 to this Manual% we ha.e re&rinted all of the Court documents relatedto that first ICLC$ case of >enocide in Canada/ The Court rder and Arrest 2arrantdated March 3% ()',% can be acted on by any sworn agent of the ICLC$ or whoe.ersuch an Agent a&&oints/ Any citi1en% in short% can assist in the arrest of $ose&h

Rat1inger% Tarcisio !ertone and the twenty eight other officials of church and statefound guilty of Crimes against *umanity by the ICLC$/

Such enforcement of the law by citi1ens themsel.es is generally recogni1ed in mostcountries% under the &recedent 0nown generically as 8the Right of Citi1ens? Arrest9/ InCanada% for e7am&le% under a law 0nown as the Citiens #rrest and -elf9defence #ct()'("% citi1ens can detain anyone who either commits a crime or is e.en sus&ectedof ha.ing done so% or who &oses a threat to their own or others? safety: li0e% for our&ur&oses% a child ra&ing &riest/ This &ower of Citi1ens Arrest has in fact beenbroadened under this new Canadian law% from what it was &re.iously/ see :http:laws9lois.justice.gc.caengannualstatutes;?&ull6e2t.html"
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In theory% then% the enforcement of Common Law Court .erdicts by any citi1en is notonly &erfectly legitimate and lawful% but is guaranteed e.en under the laws ofcountries dominated by Ci.il% statute law/ !ut &ower% as we 0now% is not only aboutlaws and theory% but ultimately in.ol.es na0ed force: the ca&acity of one grou& toim&ose its will u&on another/

*ugh >rotius% a si7teenth century &ioneer of international law% said that legal&rinci&les ac;uired &ower only when bac0ed by cannon fire/ So besides its legal andmoral weight% what 8cannons9 will bac0 u& and enforce the .erdicts of our CommonLaw courtsF Es&ecially when the fire &ower of those we are sentencing and arrestingis a&&arently so much greater than oursF

Another great &ioneer% the Chinese general Sun T1u% wrote millennia ago that in anyconflict% &ower is not ultimately what you ha.e materially but rather &sychologicallyand the su&erior fire&ower of a much bigger enemy can always be negated with theright% unforeseen maneu.ers/ We@ve reprinted forty of -un 6u@s most relevant

teachings in #ppendi2 C"/

Those rulers indicted by the ICLC$ are men and women garbed by the illusory robesof their offices% and they are guarded by other men and women who% li0e the rulersthemsel.es% are moti.ated &rimarily by fear/ That fear is their greatest wea0ness% andcan be easily e7&loited by e.en a small grou& of &eo&le% as anyone who hasoccu&ied a Roman Catholic church learns .ery ;uic0ly/

The fact that laws guard the rich and the &owerful is not as im&ortant as the realitythat any functional law rests u&on its moral and &olitical legitimacy/ nce suchlegitimacy is wea0ened or gone% the laws and hard &hysical &ower of a state orchurch begin to crumble/ nce &ublic confidence in a ruler wanes% internal di.isionsa&&ear in the ruling hierarchy% and usually a 8&alace cou&9 occurs and the regimefalls/ 2e are witnessing &recisely such de.elo&ments and such a colla&se oflegitimacy within the Roman Catholic church today% in the manner of e.ents &rior tothe de&osing of any dictatorshi&/

And so the short answer to the ;uestion% how do we enforce our .erdicts in the faceof the &ower of the enemy% is sim&ly% we do as Sun T1u teaches% and stri0e at thewea0est% not the strongest% &art of that enemy/

The wea0 &oint of any institution% es&ecially a church% is its &ublic image and itssource of money/ Threaten either% and the entire institution must res&ond to thesmallest of enemies/ 2e ha.e &ro.en that in &ractice/ And the .ery fact of oursmallness gi.es us a freedom and fle7ibility to stri0e at such big targets when andhow we li0e: a &ower that is denied to big institutions/

A Common Law Court .erdict li0e the one of +ebruary (3 is a wedge between thecredibility of an institution li0e the 5atican and the rest of the world/ Clearly% bystri0ing at that credibility 6 a wea0 lin0 in the church?s chain 6 we are maneu.eringaround the ob.ious strong &oints of that o&&onent and hitting them where they ha.eno defense: the fact that as an organi1ation% they officially &rotect and aid child

ra&ists and human traffic0ing/ And it was &recisely by doing such a strategic


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The custom of electing community &eace officers li0e sheriffs% in other words% arosefrom the belief that e.eryone in a community had the obligation to &olice and &rotectthemsel.es and their children/ The Court Sheriff is thereby the ser.ant of the &eo&le%ta0en from among them% answerable to and recallable by them% and not an e7ternalforce o.er them/

-art of the &ower of such a Sheriff is that he can de&uti1e anyone to assist him%including other police officers and agents of the very institutions being named andtried in Common )aw courts.This is an es'ecially im'ortant action and tacticduring this2 the early stages o% the develo'ment o% our local Common Lawcourts2 since it uses the very strength o% the system we are o''osing againstitsel%3

To gi.e an e7am&le% if a Common Law Court Summons or Arrest 2arrant is to bedeli.ered against a church or go.ernment official% the Court Sheriff will first deli.er aco&y of it to the local% e7isting &olice agency along with a


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responses. ric5 them to test their strength and wea5ness. +o not outfight them butoutthin5 them.9

Common Law &eace officers return &ower to the &eo&le by ma0ing them their own&olice authorities/ In so doing% they challenge the .ery basis of the status ;uo and its

elite#based rule% by undermining those unaccountable 8armed bodies of men9 whoconstitute the final and ultimate &ower of the State/The Common Law% in short% is a seed of fundamental social and &oliticaltransformation% not sim&ly a wea&on of self#defence for the o&&ressed/

On Citi4ens5 Arrests

The right and necessity of citi1ens to detain sus&ected or actual criminals has longbeen recogni1ed under both ci.il and common law/

+or e7am&le% as mentioned% under a recent law in Canada% The Citi1ens? Arrest and

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The crucial im&ortance of the &ower of Citi1ens? Arrest is that it trains and em&owersciti1ens to ta0e res&onsibility for &olicing their communities and for the law itself/ Itmo.es democracy from theory to action/

$roader Conse6uences o% the Common Law Court: A World made #ew

ur first real ste& towards inde&endence from England was the establishment of ourown Re&ublican courts% right under the nose of the !rits/ 2e set u& a different legalsystem of our traditional !rehon laws% e.en while under military occu&ation/ And wehad to defend that system in arms/ So you can say that once we started li.ing underour own laws% e.erything else had to follow% right u& to becoming a new nation/9 /oe !ac'nnes, $epublican veteran of the 'rish Civil War 3=?F interview4

+or what you call the Law is but a club of the rich o.er the lowest of men% sanctifyingthe con;uest of the earth by a few and ma0ing their theft the way of things/ !ut o.erand abo.e these &itiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce

us to &o.erty to ma0e you fat stands the Law of Creation% which renders 4udgementon rich and &oor ali0e% ma0ing them one/ +or freedom is the man who will thus turnthe world u&side down% therefore no wonder he has enemies9 Gerrard Winstanley, 6he 6rue )evellers@ -tandard, -urrey, England, =F?

+or the &eo&le themsel.es to sit in 4udgment of historically 8untouchable9 rulers li0e&o&es and heads of state% and to render an enforceable .erdict on their crimes% is are.olutionary act/ And such a re.olution has begun% with the +ebruary (3% ()',.erdict of the International Common Law Court of $ustice/2e cannot shrin0 from or deny the &rofound conse;uences of ta0ing such anecessary historic ste&/ Rather% we must recogni1e that the new 4udicial system inour hands is in fact a doorway to a transformed world% in which the land and itswealth and society as a whole is reclaimed by all &eo&le% and brought into harmonywith Natural $ustice through a great social le.elling/

Many traditions and &ro&hecies foresee such a time as now as a 4udgment u&on thecorru&tion and in4ustice of the human world/ !iblically% such a moment was 0nown asthe $ubilee% when all human laws and di.isions are abolished% and society% li0enature during a fallow year% is allowed to rest from warfare% corru&tion and in4ustice/

In truth% we recogni1e this historic moment not only as a condemnation of what has

been% but &rimarily as a transformation into what is coming to be: a rein.enting ofhumanity according to the sim&le &rinci&le that no law or authority shall e.er againcause anyone to rule% harm or dominate others/

The aim of Common Law is to re#establish direct relations of mutual aid among&eo&le by &lacing 4ustice and the law within their reach again/ And that de.olution of&ower will simultaneously disestablish all hierarchical institutions of state% businessand church which control and mediate human life as a &ower o.er &eo&le/

A &rocess so &rofound and re.olutionary can only be enacted from the grassroots% bymany &eo&le who ha.e relearned freedom and use it to ta0e action in their own

communities to go.ern themsel.es as their own 4udge% 4ury and &olice/ n the basisof this good renewed soil% a great har.est will one day arise in the form of new and


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'/ Notice of Claim of Right 6 To be &ublicly issued in order to con.ene a localCommon Law Court

&*$LIC #OTIC, OF CLAIM OF I7(T

Issued by KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK onKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

in the community of KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK/

I% KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK% gi.e &ublic notice of my &ersonalclaim of right and of lawful e7cuse to con.ene and establish a common law courtunder my liberty as a flesh and blood man or woman and I do hereby call u&on thesu&&ort of all com&etent men and women to assist me in this lawful right/

I further gi.e &ublic notice of my &ersonal claim of right and of lawful e7cuse to

con.ene and establish as &art of such a court a 4ury of my &eers% consisting of twel.emen or women% to 4udge a matter affecting the wellbeing% rights and safety of myselfand my community% that matter being the following:


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I--*,) *#), T(, A*T(OIT9 OF T(, -(,IFF5- OFFIC, OF T(,COMMO# LAW CO*T OF /*-TIC,

A#) T(, /*I-)ICTIO# OF #AT*AL LAW A#) T(, LAW OF #ATIO#-

To all -eace fficers and Law or Statute Enforcement fficials:

This -ublic Notice is issued to you as a lawful warrant by the Common Law Court of$ustice% &lacing you under the 4urisdiction of the Court and Natural $ustice% andde&uti1ing you as its officers/

J&on your ta0ing the a&&ended ath of Common Law Court ffice below"% you areem&owered to act as the lawful agents and &rotectors of the Court and its&roceedings% and to ser.e and enforce its writs% warrants% summonses and courtorders on any and all &ersons and cor&orations named by the Court/

If you choose not to ta0e this ath of ffice% you are com&elled and ordered by theCourt and by Natural Law to refrain from interfering with the actions of other fficersso de&uti1ed and em&owered to act for the Court/

If you resist% disru&t or im&ede the actions of the Court or its fficers you can and willbe charged with criminal assault and obstruction of 4ustice/

Issued on KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK in the Community of

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK by the following Legal Agent or Sworn -eace

fficer or Sheriff of the Common Law Court of $ustice:

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKsigned"

stam& of the Court"

Oath o% Common Law Court O%%ice

To be issued to any sworn agent of the Court or to all &ersons or law enforcement

officers de&uti1ed by the Court or its Sheriffs

I% KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK% being of sound mind and clear conscience% dohereby swear that I will faithfully and 4ustly e7ecute the office of an agent of theCommon Law Court of $ustice according to the best of my abilities/

I understand that if I fail in my duties or betray the trust and res&onsibilities of myoffice I will forfeit my right to this &osition and can be dismissed/

I ta0e this solemn oath freely% without coercion% reser.ation or ulterior moti.e%according to my conscience as a free man or woman% and as a citi1en under the

authority and 4urisdiction of the Common Law/


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KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKsigned

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKdate

court stam&

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(D/ -ower is found not in solid things but in the constant flow of relationshi&s% whichare ne.er still/ The &ower of a s;uirrel to cross a ri.er on a log lies neither in thes;uirrel nor the log% but in their momentary combination/ That combination is its&ower/

(3/ To em&loy the s0ill of understanding an enemy?s &ower% one must be formless%li0e water/ The water mo.es from high to low your army?s mo.ements aredetermined fluidly% according to the state of your enemy/ Thus is your &ower notfi7ed% and it is without &ermanent form% to reflect and ca&ture the &ower of yourenemy/

(=/ Ne.er reinforce error or a defeat% but let your understanding mo.e fluidly witheach new e7&erience/ There is ne.er a final or definiti.e outcome to the army thatmo.es li0e water/

(B/ !eing without &ermanent form and fluid in your mo.ements and tactics% you

com&el your enemy to defend against you at e.ery &oint/ *e is thereby dissi&atedand wea0ened% and 0e&t ignorant of your &ur&ose while forced to re.eal his conditionto you/

(@/ !y this means of formlessness% you can form the strongest enemy to the groundyou ha.e chosen for it% on the terms of your .ictory/ !ut without fore0nowledge of theground itself% none of this is &ossible/

(/ *ostile ground heightens your focus/ Cut off from home su&&ort% you ta0enourishment from the enemy/ Such su&&ly lines cannot be se.ered/ Jse the threatsurrounding you to stay united and sustain your army/

,)/ -lace your soldiers where they cannot lea.e/ +acing death% they find their truestrength and cannot be routed/ 2hen they cannot lea.e% they stand firm and fight/

,'/ E7treme situations cause your troo&s to res&ond from &rofound sources of inner&ower/ Training and commands cannot accom&lish this/


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e7traordinary moment: that which they cannot antici&ate or &re&are for/ Jse thee7traordinary to win .ictory/

,=/ !e in this manner in.isible and unfathomable to your enemy/ To be thus withoutform% first be so orthodo7 that nothing remains to gi.e you away/ Then be so

e7traordinary that no#one can &redict your action or &ur&ose/

,B/ Thus% in battle% use a direct attac0 to engage% and an indirect attac0 to win/,@/ Ride the inade;uacies of your enemy/ >o by un&redicted ways/ Attac0 whereyour enemy has not ta0en &recautions and a.oid where they ha.e/

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