
Commercial Law is the Law of the Sea? Law degree from the University of LSD, it appears.
Why do people believe this bollocks?
OK - I've got to 4:00 now, and I'm pretty much shaking with anger at this. Anger directed at the commentator, and the "lay representative"... This is incredibly stupid. Really, really, really incredibly stupid.
6:50: "The steward looks bewildered..." I'm not fucking surprised...
12:00: I can't believe that I'm actually watching this shit.
13:55: Treason? Sweet jeebus.
13:35: Hahahahahaha! What an utter fucking idiot!
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 9:18, Reply)

complete and utter nonsense. Watched a bit of that talk mentioned up there too ^ and it seems to be based on getting out a dictionary and looking up legal words with their ordinary definitions.
nonsense
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 9:53, Reply)

There's no amount of taking words out of context that could justify the "law of the sea" or "maritime law" nonsense that's spouted. I may have misheard, but I think that the courtroom was referred to as a ship at one point.
That's not just a misunderstanding. It's utter lunacy.
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:08, Reply)

they referred to it as a ship?
oh dear me. Yeah, I don't get that law of the sea/law of the land nonsense. The conspiracy runs deep, they didn't mention that once in my public law lectures
edit: oh man, I just watched some more. They have a bit of an issue with the idea of legal personality don't they? the birth certificate made me laugh out loud..
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:10, Reply)

So after all the pseudo-legal bollocks, the liability order was granted so the guy either pays up or the bailiffs will impound his gear and sell it to pay the council tax bill. So being "A Freeman On The Land" achieved the square-root of fuck all.
Simple minded buffoons.
Cheers
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 9:55, Reply)

I figured that, if it was as important as he claimed, it'd've generated a fair bit of legal and academic commentary. So I did a quick search of a century's worth of journals...
... and came up with nothing.
This suggests one of two possibilities. First, the conspiracy is so deep that every legal practitioner, legal academic, moral and political philosopher and political theorist of the last hundred years has been silenced on the topic, and the only people who know the truth and are willing to do anything about it are internet warriors. Second, there's nothing to say, because the whole thing is nonsense. I wonder which is the more likely...
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:04, Reply)

the bollocks-ness of it I thought was made particularly plain by the fact they couldn't get anyone other than one of their own conspiraloons to represent them!
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:08, Reply)

Im my courtroom its is up to me who sits and stands.
Also I can't watch the video but is it a filming of inside the courtroom? I'd be recommending he be arrested for contempt if it is.
ED: Sorry meant as a reply to the OP
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:03, Reply)

The filming in the courtroom is, by quite some way, the least egregious violation of legal tradition in the vid.
HANG ON: Given that you're one of the evil lizard people who runs the court, you would say that, wouldn't you?
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:06, Reply)

I'll watch the vid when I get home, I'm sure it'll make me smile
( , Mon 21 Jun 2010, 10:14, Reply)