Reclaim your straw man! Act today!

Let's count the errors of law:

• There is no such animal as common-law copyright in Australia;
• Copyright, common-law or otherwise, does not subsist in a person's name, at least not in this country, or any others that I know of;
• Copyright and trademarks are two different things -- don't ask me what the copyright "of" a trade name/mark is supposed to mean;
  
• Copyright, common-law or otherwise, does not last 1025 years, not even in the United States of America (give it time);
• etc

After some googling, the wording of this notice bears striking similarities to bizarre notices such as this, and the information on this website, which states:

1. Are you aware that you are not a "person", because the statute law defines a "person" as a corporate entity?
2. Are you aware that the registered name that appears on your birth certificate is not your name, but a carefully engineered trade-name that sounds exactly the same as your true, proper-name?
3. Are you aware that there is no provision in the rules that govern the English language to allow for a proper-name, i.e. Michael John Smith to be written in all-capital-letters, i.e. MICHAEL JOHN SMITH and any such alteration turns your proper-name into a fictitious corporate trade-name, which is defined as a nom de guerre? Look it up at www.dictionary.com
4. Are you aware that the Governor-General of the "Commonwealth of Australia" did not proclaimed an end to the Second World War and that this is one of the main reasons why the fictitious corporate trade-name, that appears on all your legal documents i.e. a charge and summons from the police, your drivers license, passport, home loan, car registration, telephone account, etc. etc., is not your true, proper-name, but your government created nom de guerre?
5. Are you aware that when you go to court, you are being subjected to admiralty law (military law) not the common law which protects your inalienable human rights, one of which includes a compulsory trial by jury, i.e. a court hearing that is absolutely free and governed by twelve of your peers, not some tyrant sitting in a chair higher than yours?
6. Are you aware that the "Commonwealth of Australia" registration number (CIK 0000805157) is not a country, but a privately owned foreign corporation, which is registered on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission?
7. Are you aware that the "Reserve Bank of Australia" (NRGD 066 319 864), the bank that creates all our money, is a privately owned foreign corporate bank, and that our "money is backed by nothing", that is, thin air, not by gold as you have been led to believe?
8. Are you aware that "the Government" used your original registration of birth document to formulate a cestui que trust, and then issued Treasury Securities in the form of Treasury Bonds, to raise capital in exchange for guaranteeing your original registration of birth document, as a security i.e. collateral, for the fiat money that was created; at the same time, investing the proceeds in the stocks and/or bonds market?
9. Are you aware that the "Victoria Police" (NRGD 050 797 763) is a privately owned foreign corporation and has no authority to intervene in any of your private affairs?
10. Are you aware that all this goes on right before your eyes, every moment of your day, and that this predicament has absolutely no force and effect without your consent. That's right, because if you assert "I DO NOT CONSENT" the police, the courts, the tax office, the banks, etc., etc., all of which are in-fact privately owned foreign corporations, cannot make you comply with their terms and conditions? If you do not consent, then they will have no control over your life.

The website asserts that "[y]ou can reclaim your straw man by using a copyright notice" -- of course, you will need a copy of their book, which is available on CD-ROM for only $15.  And there are seminars!  Call or email for details!  As the Australian-specific references above, and the phone number on the web page indicate, this mumbo-jumbo is being pushed by an Australian individual.

It seems to me that Ms Morris has fallen victim to a scam.  That opinion was further reinforced by another notice, this time on page 65, and again reproduced verbatim except the phone number:

SECURITY AGREEMENT has been entered into between the juristic person, MARGARET ALTHEA MORRIS, and any and all derivatives and variations in the spelling of said names except "Margaret-Althea :Morris", (Debtor), and the living, breathing, woman, known by the distinctive appellation Margaret-Althea :Morris, (Secured Party).  For details, call [phone number redacted] and ask for: Margaret-Althea :Morris.

This seems to be an "escape your debts" scam.  A google turned up this site, with the same kind of legal mumbo-jumbo as the last one, eg: "Did you know that when you get a loan, the bank never did give you a loan?  When you signed a promissory note with the bank, it was your signature that created the credit.", etc.

If only it were that easy to escape your debts.  God knows that if I could dodge my mortgage with a hyphen, a colon, a few public notices, and pretending that the bank contracted with a nom de guerre instead of with the living, breathing Dale Clapperton, I'd be doing it.

It's sad that Ms Morris has apparently fallen victim to these scams.  Not only because she may have given good money to crackpots, but because if she tries any of this garbage in court, god help her.  She should be compromising with her creditors or taking actual legal advice on her financial situation, not relying on bogus public notices and conspiracy theorist legal mumbo-jumbo to save her.

Because the Australian individual promoting this scam is using the Internet to do so, he falls within the extended application of Part V of the Trade Practices Act 1974.  I think it is beyond doubt that he is engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct, and because he's promoting the sale of CD-ROMs and seminars, is probably also in trade or commerce.  I'll be drawing his shenanigans to the attention of the ACCC as soon as I get back from Sydney tomorrow.

Then again, that might not bother him.  The ACCC is probably just another privately owned foreign corporation, and the TPA has no force or effect against him because he doesn't consent to it.  If he ignores the orders of the court, since they are apparently exercising admiralty law against him, presumably they will put him in the brig instead of jail.

And I thought that stuff like Rout, An application by C4/2002 was bad, in which the applicant Rout began his oral argument in the High Court by saying:

Okay, I might point out that the High Court of Australia, the legal system and I are victims of a mythological peer review organisation that does not exist and is staffed by volunteer workers of which there are none. So I am responsible for more than just proving there is another set of dividing and multiplying by zero and that it is incorrect. I have also proven in 1993 that Einstein's.....relativity is law. Now, all this data is related to, directly and indirectly related to, fusing of hydrogen which is..... I proved that the speed of light is alterable and controllable and I have delivered the evidence verbally in the Supreme Court on 29 August. I then went on in September last year to prove that time and the speed of light equal one another, such you alter one, you alter the other, and this in turn enables the altering of the speed of light within Einstein's relativity.

I wonder if Kiefel J knows what she's gotten herself into?