But Corporations ARE People!

Romney made a supposed gaffe that was immediately pounced upon by the liberal media and has been regurgitated so many times in the ensuing months that I'm going to regurgitate soon. "Corporations are people," the governor said. Taken out of context like that, yeah, I can see how it would make him appear to be clueless and out of touch with the sensibilities of the common man. In full context, Romney was referring to the fact that corporations are made up of people. However, even out of context, it is still an accurate statement.

A corporation is an entity known as a legal fiction. Basically, you make something up, give it to a clerk or notary, and it is called into existence. "As above, so below," in alchemical parlance. And the production of legal fictions is an ages-old practice designed to separate real people from the liabilities incurred by these entities, which, once created, become virtual people, puppets controlled by the board of directors or whomever pulls the strings.

The basis of the sovereign citizen movement is that birth certificates create legal fictions with names similar to those of the real people to which they are attached. The assertion is that once a real person uses the Social Security number attached to the legal fictional "person," it signifies acceptance of control of that legal fiction as an unlimited liability corporation, subjecting the real person to any consequences of the actions of the legal fiction -- taxes, incurred debt, legal violations, etc. There are two branches of the sovereign movement. One advocates "redeeming" the legal fictional "straw man," converting it into a limited liability corporation to insulate oneself from any repercussions. The other favors cutting all ties to the legal fiction. Members of both branches have suffered prosecution and persecution as a result of their actions, although the "Redeemers" have suffered more. For more information, visit the Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (sedm.org)." (Be aware that merely looking at the information presented there subjects you to their member agreement.)

I was long skeptical of the assertions of the sovereign citizen movement regarding birth certificates, driver's licenses, and so forth. The idea began to gain traction in my mind, however, when the gay marriage debate really began heating up and I began to research marriage. The idea that the state can regulate who marries whom really struck me as wrong. But when I began to consider marriage as akin to a corporate merger -- as famously mentioned in the classic comedy film Back To School -- I realized that, if a marriage is between two legal fictions, rather than two real people, then the state has every right and, indeed, obligation to properly regulate the practice.

Regardless of the truth about my legal status, whatever that may be, I do not believe that marriage should be a legal institution. It is entirely spiritual, a bond forged by and between two people for their own purposes and with the blessings of their own God, and not requiring the intervention of any institution of man.