Alberta decide once again rebukes woman who claims Magna Carta invalidated Canadian legislation

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In an unusual ruling a few months in the past, an Alberta choose created it distinct Jacquie Robinson was on slender ice.

If she continued to threaten the courts with her bizarre, “pseudo law” claims about the Magna Carta and treasonous judges and governments, the legal method would not sit idly by, promised Justice Robert Graesser of the Court docket of Queen’s Bench.

As a initially action, he banned the girl from continuing to signify a mom embroiled in a bitter child-custody dispute.

It seems Robinson – who likes to go by the pseudonym Jacquie Phoeni x – was unmoved.

She responded by sending extra hostile letters to court employees, likening them to war criminals and suggesting that they could be tried and experience lifetime in jail.

Meanwhile, some of her movement’s 1000’s of followers have been peppering other law enforcement and govt companies in Canada and the U.K. with very similar oddball statements and threats.

Now Graesser has issued a 2nd ruling , a single that is especially topical as conspiracy theories like QAnon and false promises about the pandemic, vaccines and U.S. election fraud unfold widely.

The judge warned frequently about the perils of a variety of “fakery” staying broadcast more than the World wide web, where “there are no filters to distinguish concerning fact and fiction.”

Then he imposed contemporary sanctions on Robinson, barring her from representing everyone in the province’s legal system or sending correspondence to the courts professing authority based on her strange Magna Carta principle.

The choose also prompt she might have damaged prison guidelines towards scary justice officials, and threatened to cite her for contempt of court if she didn’t heed his cautions.

“This may well look to be the use of a sledgehammer to crush an ant,” wrote Graesser. “I would as an alternative use the analogy of an inoculation to cease a virus.”

“These schemes are nothing additional than drawbacks, led by people who count and feed on the oft-quoted assertion attributed to P.T. Barnum (of circus fame): a sucker is born every minute,” the judge extra. “(But) the Courts are not suckers. And the Courts will not be intimidated.”

Alberta’s authorized program, while, is not alone in currently being qualified.

The Magna Carta group’s Facebook web page, which claims 34,000 users, involves letters from different British and Canadian federal government entities responding to members’ problems. A single U.K. municipality claims a follower’s assertions did not let the person to keep away from spending assets tax. An additional voices disappointment that “you go on to generate in an intemperate fashion, particularly threatening to arrest me.”

Ottawa law firm Richard Warman , who has very long fought extremism on the net, stated it is time law enforcement investigated what he called Robinson’s “psychotic attacks” on the courts.

The danger is that anyone functions on Robinson’s rhetoric in a violent way, he reported, as transpired with a diverse brand of “sovereign law” proponent who murdered an Ottawa tax decide and two other persons in 2007.

“You’re threatening a decide with the gallows, and now you’re threatening courtroom clerks, arguing they’re similar to Nazi war criminals. And which is not Okay,” Warman explained. “The police will need to phase in to defend the integrity of the judicial program.”

Robinson, who’s in the U.K. meeting with other followers of the motion, was unrepentant when reached Friday, calling the courts a “criminal company.”

“My notices are not threatening,” she told the National Post by means of text. “They point out the Legislation and the penalty for breaking that Regulation.”

On her group’s Facebook web site Robinson warns that her “grand fannaly” (sic) is coming before long. “Greasser are you all set for your arrest?” she wrote about the choose. “We confident are.”

Robinson is a proponent of “Practical Lawful Dissent,” a convoluted principle the court ruling describes only as “nonsense.”

It revolves all over the Magna Carta — the 13th-Century accord involving England’s King John and noblemen — and specifically its article 61. That provision stated a committee of barons could strip John of belongings if he violated the arrangement.

The section was eliminated a 12 months later, in 1216, and Canada adopted its own, independent structure almost 40 several years ago. Even in the U.K., the Magna Carta is a generally historical document currently, a wonderful symbol of democracy whose precise articles has been largely changed around the hundreds of years.

But 28 British lords invoked defunct article 61 in a failed, 2001 attempt to avert the ratification of a European Union treaty. As a end result, the movement statements, all governments and laws in the course of the Commonwealth are now invalid.

The principle could audio far too absurd to be taken seriously, but the Alberta female has currently carried out tangible harm, the choose notes.

The mom Robinson represented experienced wanted larger obtain to her daughter. Now she’s billed with abducting the female to the U.S., and is wished for failing to surface in courtroom.

“After joining with Ms. Robinson and her team, (the mother) no lengthier has any access to her daughter,” the decide mentioned.

The movement has obtained tiny traction in other places, possibly. Just one of the letters posted on its Fb website page is from the federal Justice Department , responding to a member’s missives demanding that the Canadian military services be built available to “protect the realm” towards a treasonous routine.

The creator politely rejects the request, noting that the Magna Carta is of no power or effect in Canada and the letters “reflect no authorized approach regarded to Canadian jurisprudence.”