the “Common Law” craze

Can you recommend a good book to me?

There is a thing that rubs me the wrong way — when good people do really stupid things.

As an ostensibly good person who has done really stupid things, I sympathize with people who have done really stupid things. It’s hard to know in the middle of doing a stupid thing that you are doing a stupid thing.

There is a movement called “common law” that is full of charlatans and novices. I theorize there may also be people who really know what they are talking about in the common law movement. That is probably me just giving the benefit of the doubt, as I am apt to do.

I realize that any idea that works is a good idea. That’s really important to recognize: in politics and government, any idea that works is a good idea. There are limits to how shady you want to be (you need to stick to your ethics, morals, and values), but within those limits, if someone asks me “Is that a good idea?” one of the most basic questions I am going to need to answer is going to be “Well, does it work?”

I don’t know what to make about the common law approach just yet, but the next time someone tries to throw me in the slammer, I’ll probably have a look at the approach more diligently.

What I find so far is that it works sometimes. I don’t know if it works predictably. In fact, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t work predictably, and that is part of the problem I have with anyone using the approaches I have heard, correctly or incorrectly, described as “common law.”

And anyone reading this who has a book they can recommend to me from a non-charlatan and a non-novice on the topic I’m game for. I really do mean a book. I don’t want a course. I don’t want a podcast. I don’t want a video. I know the thought process it takes to write a book. Those who write books have digested the material differently than those who spew from their mouths. The books that are not well digested are fairly easy to spot from the get go.

Also my experience with activists around the term common law tends to be this - “When I use the term common law, I am going to turn off my sense of skepticism around the topic.” That’s really not a good way to approach anything in the courts.

Now some people will read this and say “Allan is against common law.” That is not true at all. Allan has no idea what the term “common law” even means. And this isn’t from lack of trying to understand.

And don't get me wrong. I can have a very insightful conversation with a legal scholar on the term "common law," as it is traditionally applied, which I would define as approximately the following:

"Practices developed from judicial decisions and traditions rather than through statutes or constitutions."

I feel fairly studied on the concept.

It is the way that I see the term used currently that I am having a hard time defining. Lots of very not-serious people tend to wield the term. AND some very serious people wield the term. Lots of people who tend to show up to one meeting of a group, raise their voices a lot, and never come back tend to wield the term. AND some very invested people wield the term. Lots of people who are flaky and play minimal role in their own community tend to wield the term. AND some very solid and dedicated people to their community wield the term.

What does Allan think about common law? I like what works. That’s what I think about every political tactic, gambit, and strategy. If it makes you more free, it works. If it makes you less free, it doesn’t work.

There are short term measures of that, long term measures of that, individual measures of that, and societal measures of that.

As for common law in particular, that is about as good of a question as “What does Allan have to say about ‘n’est-ce pas’ or ‘apotheosis’ or ‘Weltschmerz?’” Allan doesn’t know what any of that crap means. Much like Allan doesn’t know what the term “common law” actually means the way it is being bandied about today, as if it were some kind of get out of jail free card.

Sometimes there are get out of jail free cards.

My experience is that there usually aren't, so I'm naturally skeptical when someone presents me with a guaranteed get out of jail free card that they have never used or that they have used but which may or may not have played a role in them actually getting out of hot water.

After decades of fighting tyrants, Allan can’t tell you what he thinks of those words "common law" because Allan doesn’t know what they mean.

“Oh, well it’s an old concept. Americans have forgot the meaning of it,” some expert will say. Well that doesn’t help me. Do you know the words humpenscrump or nicker-pecker or sack-butt or pakapoo? They are old words that I don’t know the meaning of and I don’t use them. So why do you go around using the word “common law,” like you know what you are talking about?

People use “common law” in this amorphous and mystical way and don’t expect anyone to say to them “prove it to me.”

And lots of people give them a pass because they used it in an amorphous and mystical way.

That’s not what friends do to each other.

Friends tell their friends when they are skeptical and hold them to account and tell them when they think they are making a mistake. I don’t know about your belief system, but in my book, only God gets to be amorphous and mystical.

Everyone else has to prove themselves.

So, no, waving the word “common law” in my face isn’t enough for me to shut up and say “Oh, okay. I will now surrender to you and say you have great ideas that work.”

Yes, humpenscrump or nicker-pecker or pakapoo.

Those are words I don’t use because I don’t know what they mean. And if someone tried to use them in front of me I would expect them to explain themselves.

Or how about these words “Covid-19” or “science” or “safety.”

Those words get used out of context and without definition to make some people really miserable.

Like really miserable.

We all witnessed that.

Because those words had no definitions in 2020 and still don’t today, they can be used to make some people really miserable.

The same is true with any word that you refuse to define and that you let others use without defining…. Including the mystical and magical “common law.” So, the truth is, I’m looking for a good book on so-called “common law,” so I can alleviate my ignorance and stop reserving judgment.

I want to be able tell people “it’s total crap” or “there are some good ideas such as…” or “yes, trust anyone who says the word ‘common law’ to you.” I expect to fall somewhere within that spectrum after reading a good book, which has been my experience on probably hundreds of other topics from chem-trails, to fluoride, to vaccines.

It’s not hard. It’s simple. “Common law” doesn’t get a pass from my intellectual process. The term needs to be used rigorously and with definition or else I am doing those around me a disservice.

And not everyone will listen to me and that is okay. I will still offer my support and encouragement where I can. In fact, most people won’t listen to me. I suspect some emotionally triggered folks stopped reading this many lines ago and sent me a nasty email.

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I just think most people who I encounter who use the term do not realize that they are saying that.

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