So you think you are a 'person', eh? According to Black's Law dictionary, 'a human
being is not a person because he is a human being, but because rights and duties have been ascribed to him. Specifically, the person is the legal subject or substance of which rights and duties are attributes.
But not every human being is a person, as was the case in Old England when there were slaves'.
You see, you as a human being have certain inalienable human rights. Your person has
certain inalienable civil rights. Believe it or not, you are not the one paying taxes, your person is.
Its not you that votes, your person does. You don't get a ticket, your person does. The best way to
imagine it is to imagine a human being wearing a coat. The human being is a 'man' or 'human being' or a 'natural person'. The coat represents the 'legal person'. The two together is referred to as 'individual'. (Indivisible duo).
If you can understand that so far, you can understand the next as well. You have many
'persons'.
They all have the same name, but have different personalities or functions. See, a person
is not determined solely by the name, but by the rights and duties ascribed to that person. When you get a traffic ticket, it is almost as if they are creating a person right there solely to deal with that issue. Once dealt with, the person is no longer bound by it. Say you go to vote and on the way you get a ticket. Can the person who got the ticket vote? Can you show them the ticket and use that to secure your right to vote? No you cannot. The two entities, although having the same name, have different sets of rights and duties, and therefore are in fact different
persons or at least different facets of one.
Now ask yourself, where does it say that you have to have a 'person'? Are you obliged to
have one?
If you do have one, can you give it up? Why have they gone to such trouble to hide from
us the fact that they act upon our persons? The reason is simple; they need us to be ignorant for their deception to work. Without ignorance, all the deception in the world won't help them hold onto their power. The person exists not so they can have power over us, but so we can escape the power they claim if it gets too onerous. If all they can act upon is our person, and we can disassociate from that thing anytime we want, we can be in control. If we are never aware it is there, we are slaves. That which YOU will be is entirely up to you.
Friday, January 18, 2008
What is the legal definition of a Person?
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