California Appellate Court Smacks Down Sov'run Divorcee

[Dr. Caligari]

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case? ... 5971116523

Exhibit C is an invented quotation attributed to an 18th-century Supreme Court decision,
Penhallow v. Doane's Administrators (1795) 3 U.S. 54. The quotation
says, "`Inasmuch as every government is an artificial person, an
abstraction, and a creature of the mind only, a government can interface
only with other artificial persons.'" It goes on to state that governments,
including their courts, can only be concerned with corporations, not natural
persons, because governments and corporations are both imaginary;
governments are "`foreclosed from creating and attaining parity with the
tangible.'" Neither the United States Supreme Court nor any other court has
ever held anything of the sort and the quotation is obviously fabricated.

Loads more goodies at the link.

[bmielke]

WHOA! A female Sovrun. I did not think they existed.

[fortinbras]

The same fake quotation from the Penhallow decision was also used (and caught) in US v. Heijnen (D.NM 2005) 375 F.Supp.2d 1229.

As a matter of fact, the US Supreme Court didn't use the word "interface" until 1973 in Federal Maritime Comm'n v. Seatrain Line Inc. , 411 US 726.

The fake quotation is much used in militia/sovereign literature, including Cracking The Code.

[Pottapaug1938]

Thanks for the post, Doc. It gave me some of the best laughs I've had in weeks.

[Thule]

The fake quotation is much used in militia/sovereign literature, including Cracking The Code.

I would like to ask Petey how it feels to be imprisoned by a "creature of the mind only."