How did you get here? Keywords of the month.

I thought I would share some search engine ana­lyt­ics with you each month. Maybe you will see your search term in this list. How did you get here? Read on…

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The Politics of Obedience — The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de la Boétie

Men are like hand­some race horses who first bite the bit and later like it,” and even “learn to enjoy dis­play­ing their har­ness and prance proudly beneath their trap­pings.” They “grow accus­tomed to the idea that they have always been in sub­jec­tion, that their fathers lived in the same way; they will think they are obliged to suf­fer this evil, and will per­suade them­selves by exam­ple and imi­ta­tion of oth­ers, finally invest­ing those who order them around with pro­pri­etary rights, based on the idea that it has always been that way.” Read on…

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Judicial Misfit, Judge Vincent Lopinot, does it again.

Once again, a St. Clair County Judge has exhib­ited cal­lous­ness and arro­gance in refus­ing to fol­low the law; this time against my niece when appear­ing in his court for a seat belt vio­la­tion. Judge Vin­cent Lopinot, of the Twen­ti­eth Judi­cial Cir­cuit bul­lied Melissa McCoy into tak­ing a fine for a seat belt ticket which was never law­fully charged and denied here right to be heard when chal­leng­ing the verac­ity of the offense. Read on…

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The Collinsville, Illinois Business License Ordinance

McCoy Letter to Herald for Business License

Sub­se­quent to those con­ver­sa­tions, I appeared at a City Coun­cil meet­ing after over 2 years hav­ing passed since I refused to pro­cure a busi­ness license. Dur­ing that meet­ing, I demanded an inter­pre­ta­tion on the applic­a­bil­ity of the ordi­nance and if I were so oblig­ated, then the City should arrest, pros­e­cute, and fine me to the tune of over $233,000. Read on…

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Part II of the Collinsville Attempt at Crime Free — But You Don’t Need to Know

As cor­po­rate coun­sel, Steve Gia­co­letto told me, (para­phras­ing), “They pass bad law all the time, but it is still law until some­one chal­lenges it.” There you go. Straight from the horses mouth. Read on…

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Limited Time Offer to Government has Expired

Well, there have been zero responses from ANY gov­ern­men­tal body to my offer. Upon review­ing the server logs and inspec­tion thereof reveals a num­ber of agen­cies that have vis­ited my site, but failed to accept my offer. I have had the IRS, DOJ, State of Illi­nois, and other lesser bod­iesit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Do Away With Tyrants By Not Voting.

Do Away With Tyrants By Not Vot­ing. “.….deriv­ing their just pow­ers from the con­sent of the gov­erned.…” How many peo­ple con­sider the sig­nif­i­cance of those ten words? I could write an essay on each one of them. It is dis­turb­ing to see how the Dec­la­ra­tion of Inde­pen­dence is gen­er­ally dis­missed.it gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Understanding how you not only marry your spouse, you marry the State.

He said, first of all, the mar­riage license is Sec­u­lar Con­tract between the par­ties and the State. The State is the prin­ci­pal party in that Sec­u­lar Con­tract. The hus­band and wife are sec­ondary or infe­rior par­ties. The Sec­u­lar Con­tract is a three– way con­tract between the State, as Prin­ci­pal, and the hus­band and wife as the other two legs of the Con­tract. Read on…

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The Illinois Administrative Code

Link to file direc­to­ries of the entire Admin­is­tra­tive Code Link to search­able indexes of the entire Admin­is­tra­tive Code Be mind­ful, that the State does not do a good job of main­tain­ing their site and you can expect many errors when search­ing or nav­i­gat­ing the offi­cial site. TITLE 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS TITLE 2: GOV­ERN­MEN­TALit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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The real slumlords — Government leading by example

The City of Collinsville, Illi­nois recently aban­doned an ordi­nance which would have forced land­lords to open their ten­ants doors and pri­vate lives to gov­ern­ment inter­ven­tion and inspec­tion; requir­ing ten­ants to apply for and receive a occu­pancy per­mit to inhabit an apart­ment. It would also have forced pri­vate home own­ers toit gets bet­ter. Read on…

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Illinois Motor Vehicle Law — by Samuel S. DuHamel

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A pub­lic street is a pas­sage open to all the cit­i­zens of the State to go and to return, pass and repass at their plea­sure. In the use of a pub­lic street the law rec­og­nizes no favorites. Sub­ject to the law of the road, no one man or body of men has a supe­rior right upon and in the street against the gen­eral pub­lic. Read on…

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Illinois Municipal Law With Selected Commentary

A “munic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tion” has been defined as a pub­lic cor­po­ra­tion cre­ated by gov­ern­ment for polit­i­cal pur­poses and hav­ing sub­or­di­nate and local pow­ers of leg­is­la­tion. Read on…

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The Aim to Repeal Home Rule for Collinsville

The peo­ple of Collinsville just recently avoided a dra­con­ian Occu­pancy Per­mit Ordi­nance and Crime Free Ordi­nance thanks to the com­bined efforts of local activists and con­cerned cit­i­zens. This issue is not over by any stretchy of the imag­i­na­tion. The pro­po­nents of this ordi­nance are regroup­ing and craft­ing a new ordi­nance as I type. They are tak­ing all of the input from the dis­senters and mas­sag­ing the legalese to work on fears and prej­u­dices of the masses. Read on…

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