When it comes to crap like this have you ever wondered how a city gov't. that's essentially a corporate legal fiction can somehow gain control over living souls? How have we come to a point where agents for these corps. can run roughshod over it's citizens....whether it's code enforcers, econ.development, tax appraisers, etc. what gives them the right to enter the private affairs of citizens?
"How have we come to a point where agents for these corps. can run roughshod over it's citizens"
Remember Dr. Zhivago? When Zhivago comes home after the war?
I haven't only wondered, I've spend several years researching it!
To answer your question, they do it by creating an artificial *legal entity* (without knowledge, consent, OR full disclosure).
They ASSUME jurisdiction, and because no one REFUTES that jurisdiction, or the legal entities existence, they are prosecutable by our 'legal system'.
I actually have a partially completed paper on the subject...mostly because it makes me too damned angry when I think about it too long.
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Everyone complains there are 'two sets of laws', one for the illegals and elites, and one for Joe American.......there IS!
Natural law for the people and positive law for government, artificial entities, and anyone violating the rights of another PERSON.
The two sets of laws it what MAKES us a REPUBLIC!