| Story submitted
                           by KDivine 10 05 09  Maybe there is hope! ja I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer
                           to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering
                           and injustice? It doesn't seem to matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or philosophy great minds come up with, nothing
                           seems to improve our lot. Since the dawn of civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again.The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations,
                           our own included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development
                           of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great
                           suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security through domination.
                           The inventor of civilization - the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers
                           - was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage
                           over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies - especially military hierarchies.Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve
                           their disproportionate power. And as their power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We
                           are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld - the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and
                           law just as the underworld lurks below it.  During the past fifty years, psychopaths
                           have gained almost absolute control of all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully that no
                           matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really take him to task. All of the so called scandals
                           that have come up, any one of which would have taken down an authentic administration, are just farces played out for the
                           public, to distract them, to make them think that the democracy is still working.  One of the main factors to consider in
                           terms of how a society can be taken over by a group of pathological deviants is that the psychopaths' only limitation is the
                           participation of susceptible individuals within that given society. Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most active
                           deviants of approximately 6% of a given population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5% other psychopathies and characteropathies.)
                           The essential psychopath is at the center of the web. The others form the first tier of the psychopath's control system.  The next tier of such a system is composed of individuals who were born normal,
                           but are either already warped by long-term exposure to psychopathic material via familial or social influences, or who, through
                           psychic weakness have chosen to meet the demands of psychopathy for their own selfish ends. Numerically, according to Lobaczewski,
                           this group is about 12% of a given population under normal conditions.  So approximately 18% of any given population is active in the creation and imposition of a Pathocracy. The 6% group
                           constitutes the Pathocratic nobility and the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous.
                            When you understand the true nature of psychopathic influence, that it is conscienceless, emotionless,
                           selfish, cold and calculating, and devoid of any moral or ethical standards, you are horrified, but at the same time everything
                           suddenly begins to makes sense. Our society is ever more soulless because the people who lead it and who set the example are
                           soulless - they literally have no conscience.  In his book Political Ponerology,
                           Andrej Lobaczewski explains that clinical psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non-violent competitions to climb the ranks
                           of social hierarchies. Because they can lie without remorse (and without the telltale physiological stress that is measured
                           by lie detector tests), psychopaths can always say whatever is necessary to get what they want. In court, for example, psychopaths
                           can tell extreme bald-faced lies in a plausible manner, while their sane opponents are handicapped by an emotional predisposition
                           to remain within hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the judge or jury imagines that the truth must be somewhere in
                           the middle, and then issues decisions that benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too with those charged with
                           decisions concerning who to promote and who not to promote in corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result
                           is that all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths. Since psychopaths have no limitations on what they can
                           or will do to get to the top, the ones in charge are generally pathological. It is not power that corrupts, it is that
                           corrupt individuals seek power.  How can we distinguish between psychopaths
                           and healthy people? What is the portrait of a true psychopath?  Such a dangerous question has almost never been successfully asked. The reason is that we mistakenly
                           confuse healthy for normal. Human psychological diversity is the health of our race. There is no
                           normal because healthy humans continuously evolve beyond all normalizing standards. The terrorism of searching
                           through hierarchies for anyone deviating from normal is no different from witch hunts or Inquisitions. You must remember
                           that hierarchies thrive on such low dramas, torturing victims until they confess to evil beliefs. Not so long ago
                           the church and state ongoingly acquired significant income and property through witch hunts and Inquisitions. This continued
                           for over two hundred and fifty years. Ten generations of Europeans understood pogrom as normal life. Let us not return to
                           that nightmare. Testing for normal is guaranteed to backfire in our face. There is no normal. But there is
                           conscience.  We have very little empirical evidence to support the idea that true psychopathy
                           is the result of an abused childhood, and much empirical evidence to support that it is genetic. The neurobiological model
                           offers us the greatest hope of being able to identify even the most devious psychopath. Other recent studies lead to similar
                           results and conclusions: that psychopaths have great difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal affective (emotional) material,
                           that they tend to confuse the emotional significance of events, and most importantly, that these deficits show up in brain
                           scans! A missing internal connection between the feeling heart and the thinking brain is detectable.  Psychopaths are incapable of authentic deep emotions. In fact, when Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who
                           spent his career studying psychopathy, did brain scans on psychopaths while showing them two sets of words, one set of neutral
                           words with no emotional associations and a second set with emotionally charged words, while different areas of the brain lit
                           up in the non-psychopathic control group, in the psychopaths, both sets were processed in the same area of the brain, the
                           area that deals with language. They did not have an emotional reaction until they intellectually concluded that it would be
                           better if they had one, and then they whipped up an emotional response just for show.  The
                           simplest, clearest and truest portrait of the psychopath is given in the titles of three seminal works on the subject: Without
                           Conscience by Robert Hare, The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley, and Snakes in Suits by Robert Hare
                           and Paul Babiak. A psychopath is exactly that: conscienceless. The most important thing to remember is that this lack of conscience
                           is hidden from view behind a mask of normality that is often so convincing that even experts are deceived. As a result, psychopaths
                           become the Snakes in Suits that control our world.  Psychopaths lack a sense of remorse or
                           empathy with others. They can be extremely charming and are experts at using talk to charm and hypnotize their prey. They
                           are also irresponsible. Nothing is ever their fault; someone else or the world at large is always to blame for all of their
                           problems or their mistakes. Martha Stout, in her book The Sociopath Next Door, identifies what she calls the pity ploy. Psychopaths use pity to manipulate. They convince you to give them one more
                           chance, and to not tell anyone about what they have done. So another trait - and a very important one - is their ability to
                           control the flow of information.  They also seem to have little real conception of past or
                           future, living entirely for their immediate needs and desires. Because of the barren quality of their inner life, they are
                           often seeking new thrills, anything from feeling the power of manipulating others to engaging in illegal activities simply
                           for the rush of adrenaline.  Another trait of the psychopath is what Lobaczewski calls
                           their special psychological knowledge of normal people. They have studied us. They know us better than we know ourselves.
                           They are experts in knowing how to push our buttons, to use our emotions against us. But beyond that, they even seem to have
                           some sort of hypnotic power over us. When we begin to get caught up in the web of the psychopath, our ability to think deteriorates,
                           gets muddied. They seem to cast some sort of spell over us. It is only later when we are no longer in their presence, out
                           of their spell, that the clarity of thought returns and we find ourselves wondering how it was that we were unable to respond
                           or counter what they were doing.  Psychopaths learn to recognize each other in a crowd as
                           early as childhood, and they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to themselves. They also become
                           conscious of being of a different world from the majority of other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance.
                            Think about the ramifications of this statement: Psychopaths are, to some extent, self-aware
                           as a group even in childhood! Recognizing their fundamental difference from the rest of humanity, their allegiance would be
                           to others of their kind, that is, to other psychopaths.  Their own twisted sense of honor compels
                           them to cheat and revile non-psychopaths and their values. In contradiction to the ideals of normal people, psychopaths feel
                           breaking promises and agreements is normal behavior.  Not only do they covet possessions and
                           power and feel they have the right to them just because they exist and can take them, but they gain special pleasure in usurping
                           and taking from others; what they can plagiarize, swindle, and extort are fruits far sweeter than those they can earn through
                           honest labor. They also learn very early how their personalities can have traumatizing effects on the personalities of non-psychopaths,
                           and how to take advantage of this root of terror for purposes of achieving their goals.  So now, imagine how human beings who are totally in the
                           dark about the presence of psychopaths can be easily deceived and manipulated by these individuals, gaining power in different
                           countries, pretending to be loyal to the local populations while at the same time playing up obvious and easily discernable
                           physical differences between groups (such as race, skin color, religion, etc). Psychologically normal humans would be set
                           against one another on the basis of unimportant differences (think of Rwanda 1994, think of Israelis and Palestinians) while
                           the deviants in power, with a fundamental difference from the rest of us, a lack of conscience, an inability to feel for another
                           human being, reaped the benefits and pulled the strings.  We are seeing the final desperate power-grab
                           or endgame (Alex Jones) of brutal, cunning gangs of CIA drug-runners and President-killers; money-laundering international
                           bankers and their hit-men - economic and otherwise; corrupt military contractors and gung-ho generals; corporate predators
                           and their political enablers; brainwashers and mind-rapists euphemistically known as psy-ops and PR specialists - in short,
                           the whole crew of certifiable psychopaths running our so-called civilization. And they are running scared.  Why does the Pathocracy fear losing its control? Because it is threatened by the spread of knowledge. The
                           greatest fear of any psychopath is of being found out.  Psychopaths go through life knowing that
                           they are completely different from other people. Deep down they know something is missing in them. They quickly learn to hide
                           their lack of empathy, while carefully studying others' emotions so as to mimic normalcy while cold-bloodedly manipulating
                           the normals.  Today, thanks to new information technologies, we are on the brink of unmasking
                           the psychopaths and building a civilization of, by and for the healthy human being - a civilization without war, a civilization
                           based on truth, a civilization in which the saintly few rather than the diabolical few would gravitate to positions of power.
                           We already have the knowledge necessary to diagnose psychopathic personalities and keep them out of power. We have the knowledge
                           necessary to dismantle the institutions in which psychopaths especially flourish - militaries, intelligence agencies, large
                           corporations, and secret societies. We simply need to disseminate this knowledge, and the will to use it, as widely and as
                           quickly as possible.  Until the knowledge and awareness of pathological human
                           beings is given the attention it deserves and becomes part of the general knowledge of all human beings, there is no way that
                           things can be changed in any way that is effective and long-lasting. If half the people agitating for truth or stopping the
                           war or saving the earth would focus their efforts, time and money on exposing psychopathy, we might get somewhere.
                            One might ask if the weak
                           point of our society has been our tolerance of psychopathic behavior? Our disbelief that someone could seem like an intelligent
                           leader and still be acting deceptively on their own behalf without conscience? Or is it merely ignorance?  If the general voting public is not aware that there exists a category of people we sometimes perceive as
                           almost human, who look like us, who work with us, who are found in every race, every culture, speaking every language,
                           but who are lacking conscience, how can the general public take care to block them from taking over the hierarchies? General
                           ignorance of psychopathology may prove to be the downfall of civilization. We stand by like grazing sheep as political/corporate
                           elites throw armies of our innocent sons and daughters against fabricated enemies as a way of generating trillions in profits,
                           vying against each other for pathological hegemony.  Nearly everyone who has been part of
                           an organization working for social change has probably seen the same dynamic play out: The good and sincere work of many can
                           be destroyed by the actions of one person. That doesn't bode well for bringing some sort of justice to the planet! In fact,
                           if psychopaths dominate political hierarchies, is it any wonder that peaceful demonstrations have zero impact on the outcome
                           of political decisions? Perhaps it is time to choose something other than massive, distant hierarchies as a way of governing
                           ourselves?  So many efforts to provide essays, research reports, exposés and
                           books to leaders so they might take the new information to heart and change their behavior have come to naught. For example,
                           in the final paragraph of his revised edition of the book, The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg writes:  I still believe that if the people of the world can be helped to understand the situation we
                           are in, the options available, and the consequences of the path we are currently on, then it is at least possible that they
                           can be persuaded to undertake the considerable effort and sacrifice that will be entailed in a peaceful transition to a sustainable,
                           locally based, decentralized, low-energy, resource-conserving social regime. But inspired leadership will be required.
                            And that is the just-murdered fantasy. There are no inspired leaders anymore. And in
                           hierarchical structures there can't be. Assuming that you can elect men or women to office who will see reason and the light
                           of day, and who will change and learn and grow, make compassionate decisions and take conscientious actions... is a foolish,
                           childish dream. Continuing to dream it simply plays into psychopathic agendas.  Only when
                           the 75% of humanity with a healthy conscience come to understand that we have a natural predator, a group of people who live
                           amongst us, viewing us as powerless victims to be freely fed upon for achieving their inhuman ends, only then will we take
                           the fierce and immediate actions needed to defend what is preciously human. Psychological
                           deviants have to be removed from any position of power over people of conscience, period. People must be made aware that such
                           individuals exist and must learn how to spot them and their manipulations. The hard part is that one must also struggle against
                           those tendencies to mercy and kindness in oneself in order not to become prey.  The real
                           problem is that the knowledge of psychopathy and how psychopaths rule the world has been effectively hidden. People do not
                           have the adequate, nuanced knowledge they need to really make a change from the bottom up. Again and again, throughout history
                           it has been meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If there is any work that is deserving of full time efforts
                           and devotion for the sake of helping humanity in this present dark time, it is the study of psychopathy and the propagation
                           of this information as far and wide and fast as possible.  There are only two things that can bring
                           a psychopath under submission:  A bigger psychopath.The non-violent, absolute refusal to submit to psychopathic controls no matter the consequences
                           (non-violent noncompliance).
 Let us choose path 2! If individuals simply sat down and
                           refused to lift a hand to further one single aim of the psychopathic agenda, if people refused to pay taxes, if soldiers refused
                           to fight, if government workers and corporate drones and prison guards refused to go to work, if doctors refused to treat
                           psychopathic elites and their families, the whole system would grind to a screeching halt.  True
                           change happens in the moment that a person becomes aware of psychopathy in all its chilling details. From this new awareness,
                           the world looks different, and entirely new actions can be taken. Distinguishing between human and psychopathic qualities
                           begins the foundation of responsibility upon which we have a real chance to create sustainable culture. 
  
 Story submitted by Kristi Divine 9 14 09  And we shall go
                           a court ing.. as we three shall go a court ing. I think it is fraud, just like the state's fraud in being part of the marriage
                           contract,  to wit...
 
 D R A F T
 State as Third Party to Marriage Contract
 On or about
                           14 February 1988, Petitioner, one George-Leedom entered into what he believed, at the time, to be a valid Christian marriage
                           agreement solely between he and Plaintiff, one Malia Lynn Westlund.  The Petitioner’s understanding was based on
                           the Scriptures, which were read at the ceremony:
 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
                           cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”  Genesis 2:24
 “And he answered and said unto them,
                           Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man
                           leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain,
                           but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Matthew 19:4-6
 
 The
                           purported marriage ceremony of or about 3 June 1989 at Simsbury, Connecticut was conducted by Rev. Timothy Christenson.  In
                           performance of his duties, Rev. Christenson did not inform Petitioner, either prior to or during said ceremony of the State
                           of Connecticut nor the Commonwealth of Massachusetts nor the State of California nor the United States [hereafter, ‘State’]
                           as third parties to a contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff.
 There was no notice, warning, caveat, disclaimer
                           or any other information or disclosure(s) contained within the alleged marriage license of 23 May 1989 informing Petitioner
                           that the State was third party to the alleged contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff.
 Petitioner, in conduct of his
                           own due diligence on the matter, only recently discovered the existence of this undisclosed material fact with regard to any
                           state being a third party to Petitioner’s purported marriage contract.[1]  “The State makes itself a party
                           to all marriages, in that it requires the marriage contract to be entered into before officers designated by itself, and with
                           certain formalities which it has prescribed.” Dennis v. Dennis, 68 Conn. 186, 196 (1896).  What marriages between
                           our own citizens shall be recognized as valid in this Commonwealth is a subject within the power of  the Legislature
                           to regulate. But when the statutes are silent, questions of the validity of marriages are to be determined by the jus gentium,
                           the common law of nations, the law of nature as generally recognized by all civilized peoples.  Commonwealth v. Lane,
                           113 Mass. 458, 463 (Mass. 1873).  Even US Code, TITLE 1 > CHAPTER 1 > § 7 states in its
 Definition
                           of “marriage” and “spouse”  In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling,
                           regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word “marriage”
                           means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word “spouse” refers only
                           to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.
 Much to Petitioner’s surprise and legal peril, the
                           existence of the State as a third party to marriage contracts is not a novel development, nor is it exclusive to the great
                           State of Connecticut nor the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts :
 “Marriage is a contract but it is not merely
                           a civil contract, for it can only be entered into in a manner recognized by law, and can only be dissolved in a like manner.
                           The state is the third party to every such contract, and has a direct interest therein” (citing to Blank v. Nohl, 112
                           Mo. Loc. Cit. 167, 20 S.W. 477, 18 L.R.A. 350; State v. Bittick, 103 Mo. 183, 15 S.W. 325, 11 L.R.A. 587) (emphasis added).
                           In Trammell v. Vaughan, 158 Mo. 214, 59 S.W. 79, 81 Am. St. 302, 51 L.R.A. 854 (1900), the Supreme Court of Missouri .
 Petitioner also discovered that the concept of the State
                           as a third party to marriage contracts is not some antiquated notion which died out with horse-drawn buggies and oil lamps,
                           but is still a contemporary and integral part of any marriage contract (see State v. Lynch, 301 N.C. 479, 486, 272 S.E.2d
                           349, 13 A.L.R.4TH 1317 [1980]: the State is a third party to a marriage contract) and in Blackman v. Iles, 4 N.J. 82, 89 (1950),
                           "The legislature, in dealing with the subject of marriage, has plenary power, as marriage differs from ordinary common
                           law contracts, and is subject to control and regulation by the state."  The State argues it has the right to determine
                           at all times what a valid marriage is:
 As Justice Spina acknowledges, the common law is "continually evolving."
                           Ante at 361 (Spina, J., concurring). Moreover, the many changing contours of the common law will vary from State to State.
                           It is appropriate for a court to resort to the common law of its own jurisdiction to fill in the gaps and interstices of statutes,
                           see Goodridge v. Department of Pub. Health, 440 Mass. 309, 318-320, 798 N.E.2d 941 (2003), and to modify that common law where
                           circumstances so require. In some circumstances it may also be appropriate for a court to plumb the common law of another
                           State. These well-established jurisprudential practices avail nothing in the face of a Massachusetts statute that directs
                           our courts to employ a specific set of criteria for determining the law of another State.  Cote-Whitacre v. Dep't of
                           Pub. Health, 446 Mass. 350, 387 (Mass. 2006)
 Petitioner now finds himself enmeshed in a civil matter involving the Commonwealth
                           of Massachusetts as an unannounced third party[2], the ramifications of which were not fully disclosed to Petitioner at the
                           time he purportedly entered into what he believed, at the time, to be a valid marriage agreement involving solely Petitioner
                           and Plaintiff.  That this material fact was withheld from Petitioner prior to entering into the alleged marriage agreement
                           is tantamount to fraud in any jurisdiction and by any standard.
 Definition of “Contract”
 Black’s
                           Law Dictionary defines “contract” simply as “An agreement between two or more persons which creates an obligation
                           to do or not to do a particular thing…Its essentials are competent parties, subject matter, a legal consideration,
                           mutuality of agreement, and mutuality of obligation.” That marriage is construed to be a contract cannot be disputed.
                           Sir William Blackstone says that : " Our law considers marriage in no other light than a civil contract. The holiness
                           of the matrimonial state is left entirely to ecclesiastical law.  Such a contract is good and valid, if the parties were,
                           at the time of making it, willing to contract, able to contract, and actually did contract, in the proper forms and solemnities
                           required by law." Hull v. Hull 2 Strobh. Eq (S.C.) 174, Duke v. Fulmer, 5 Rich. Eq. (S.C.) 21 (emphasis added)
 Although Massachusetts case law holds that marriage is not merely a contract between the parties when Massachusetts
                           is attempting to not jeopardize marriage contract integrity (. It is the foundation of the family. It is a social institution
                           of the highest importance. The Commonwealth has a deep interest that its integrity not be jeopardized. Austin v. Austin, 62
                           Mass. App. Ct. 719 (Mass. App. Ct. 2004), in Picarella v. Picarella, 20 Md. App. 499, 316 A.2d 826, 832, n.10 (1974), quoting
                           1 BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES, ch. 15, § 433 (Lewis's Ed.), the court ruled that “the law treats marriage ‘as
                           it does all other contracts: allowing it to be good and valid in all cases, where the parties at the time of making it were,
                           in the first place, willing to contract; secondly, able to contract; and, lastly, actually did contract, in the proper forms
                           and solemnities required by law.’” (emphasis added).
 Perhaps Connecticut , and Massachusetts should be more
                           forthcoming as to the terms of contracting with them.  The Petioner did not understand and therefore did not consent
                           to contract with the State of Connecticut or the Commonwealth of Massachusetts .  To wit note Connecticut has nothing
                           “precise” as it promulgates marriage: “Our statutory scheme specifies no precise form for the celebration
                           of marriage; nor does it explicitly require that the parties declare that they take one another as husband and wife . . .
                           . No requirement is made concerning witnesses, but, like consent, the physical presence of the parties before an official
                           is an implicit requirement to the performance of a marriage in this state.” Hames v. Hames, 163 Conn. 588, 596, 316
                           A.2d 379 (1972).  “Consent of the participants is a necessary condition to the creation of a valid marriage relationship,
                           and there must be an intention of the parties to enter into the marriage
 status.” Bernstein v. Bernstein, 25 Conn.
                           Sup. 239, 201 A.2d 660 (1964)
 
 But the nature of consent is to have consent with understatnding.  Petitioner
                           finds the Connecticut marriage license is a permission granted by the state of Connecticut to commit the “unlawful”
                           act of marriage, in direct conflict with the U.S. Supreme Court’s definition of liberty.  In 1923, the Supreme
                           Court defined liberty as, among other things, “...the ability to freely marry, establish a home, and bring up children.”4
 Given the foregoing, an essential element to a civil contract, then, be it marriage or otherwise, is competency on the part
                           of both parties.  The issue of competency in re marriage contracts is clarified admirably in No insane person or idiot
                           is capable of contracting a marriage.  An engagement to marry being an executory contract, it requires the intelligent
                           assent of both parties, and a person lacking in mental capacity to understand the nature of the marriage agreement is incapable
                           of entering the marriage status.  Middleborough v. Rochester , 12 Mass. 363.
 Clearly, ignorance of the existence
                           of a third party on the part of the parties allegedly contracting, specifically Petitioner in particular and, in all likelihood,
                           Plaintiff, unquestionably evidences a fundamental lack of understanding of the “special nature of the contract and duties
                           and responsibilities which it entails.” Therefore, if one of the “essential elements” of a contract was
                           absent ab initio, as is the case in the above-captioned matter, a contract cannot be said to have existed in the first instance
                           between Petitioner and Plaintiff. Absence of any valid and binding contract, it would logically follow, therefore deprives
                           this Court of jurisdiction over the subject matter.
 That Massachusetts and California or other corporations or persons,
                           even at the request of Plaintiff, could be added to the parties to the agreement is also challenged:
 Though a
                           sealed instrument may be ratified by parol it cannot be so ratified by persons not named therein as principals. An undisclosed
                           principal cannot become bound in this manner by a sealed instrument. Nor, if the instrument does not show on its face that
                           any persons other than the signer were intended to be bound thereby, can the seal be treated as surplusage. Moran v. Manning,
                           306 Mass. 404 (Mass. 1940)
 
 
 Definition of “Fraud”
 “Fraud” is defined in Black’s
                           Law Dictionary as:
 An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part
                           with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right. A false representation of a matter of fact, whether
                           by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which
                           deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury. Anything calculated to deceive,
                           whether by a single act or combination or by suppression of truth, or suggestion of what is false, whether it be by direct
                           falsehood or innuendo, by speech or silence, word of mouth, or look or gesture…As distinguished from negligence, it
                           is always positive, intentional. It comprises all acts, omissions, and concealments involving a breach of a legal or equitable
                           duty and resulting in damage to another. (emphasis added)
 In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , the answer to the question
                           “What is fraud?” was answered in Hurwitz v. Prime Communs., 2 Mass. L. Rep. 74 (Mass. Super. Ct. 1994) An action
                           for the tort of deceit or misrepresentation consists of five elements: 1) Misrepresentation as to a matter of fact. 2) Misrepresentation
                           made with the intention to induce another to act upon it. 3) Misrepresentation made with knowledge of its untruth or was made
                           of a fact susceptible of actual knowledge with recklessness as to its truth or falsehood, or was the utterance of a half-truth.
                           4) Defendant intended that the misrepresentation should be acted upon, and it was acted upon, and 5) Damage resulted directly
                           therefrom.
 In Reynolds v. Reynolds 85 Mass. 605, a marriage was annulled where a man had been entrapped into an undisclosed
                           aspect of the contract.  In White v. Bigelow, 154 Mass. 593: "To satisfy the statute [of frauds], the agreement
                           or memorandum must, either by its own terms or by reference to some other writing, express with reasonable certainty all the
                           conditions and essential elements of the bargain." (emphasis added)  The agreement was alleged to have been made
                           upon consideration of marriage.  Hayes v. Jackson, 159 Mass. 451, 457 (Mass. 1893)
 
 Petitioner submits to this
                           Honorable Court that all of the essential elements of fraud, as previously enumerated herein, have been perpetrated in the
                           alleged marriage contract via the purported marriage ceremony as well as the alleged marriage license allegedly attaching
                           to Petitioner and Plaintiff, to wit:
 (1)   the material fact was represented that said alleged marriage contract
                           was solely between Petitioner and Plaintiff; nowhere was “the Commonwealth” plainly and unmistakably referenced
                           as a third party, either on the alleged license itself or during the alleged marriage ceremony;
 (2)   there
                           can be little question as to the materiality of an unknown third party to what was initially represented strictly as an alleged
                           two-party contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff;
 (3)   that the purported marriage contract was solely
                           between two parties, Petitioner and Plaintiff, was and continues to be a blatant misrepresentation by the PLAINTIFFS, THE
                           MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT DIVISION, State of California, and Malia L. Mason;
 (4)  
                           Tim Christenson cannot be said to have concealed the fact that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was a third party to Petitioner’s
                           and respondent’s purported marriage contract; rather, in consideration of the fact that Tim Christenson never mentioned
                           the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a third party during the alleged marriage ceremony, Tim Christenson appears, to the reasonable
                           mind, to have been ignorant of the existence of this material fact;
 (5)   Tim Christenson clearly intended
                           for both Petitioner and Plaintiff to act upon their alleged covenants and promises made during said alleged marriage ceremony,
                           irrespective of the fact that both were oblivious to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s interests, as a third party,
                           in the purported marriage contract;
 (6)   Petitioner was blithely unaware of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
                           as a third party to Petitioner’s alleged marriage, but the Commonwealth and its agents moved forward that day under
                           the fraudulent representation that the purported marriage contract was strictly between Petitioner and Plaintiff;
 (7)  
                           heretofore, Petitioner relied upon the legitimacy of Tim Christenson’s alleged marriage ceremony, as well as upon the
                           purported marriage license which affirmed that said alleged marriage involved only Petitioner and Plaintiff, only to recently
                           discover the fraud and misrepresentations attendant to both;
 (8)   Petitioner, at the time under mistaken
                           belief that he was party to a legitimate marriage ceremony and legitimate marriage contract, was well within his rights to
                           rely upon the representations made both by Tim Christenson during said alleged marriage ceremony as well as upon the representations
                           made within said alleged marriage license;
 (9)   Petitioner has already been financially damaged, to date,
                           by attorney’s and other state actor’s and department’s fees attendant to resolution of the above-captioned
                           matter; Petitioner also now finds himself on the business end of a Contempt Judgment ordering him to pay to some $17,000 to
                           Plaintiff via the Commonwealth’s “Department of Revenue” or face bodily attachment in the form of a jail
                           sentence.
 Fraud vitiates any contract, including a marriage contract..  The Petitioner had no knowledge Rev. Tim
                           Christiansen was an agent or representative of Connecticut and/or Massachusetts and could bind him to a contract with either. 
                           State Ex Rel. Felson v. Allen , 129 Conn. 427, 431-432, 29 A.2d 306 (1942). “The plaintiffs appeared in Greenwich before
                           a person whom they believed to be a justice of the peace; he purported to join them in marriage, but they are unable to prove
                           that he was authorized by the statute to do so, and they do not claim that there is any basis upon which we can hold that
                           he was. The situation falls within the express terms of the statute, which declares such a marriage to be void.” 
                           Gross fraud in the marriage, such as outrageous falsehood or misrepresentations by one of the parties to the contract is sufficient
                           to render a marriage voidable. 38Leavitt v. Leavitt, 13 Mich. 452; Cams v. Cams, 24 N. J. Eq. 516
 So, marriage contracts
                           can be annulled based on fraud.  Had Petitioner understood the State was a third party, and not God as the third party,
                           he would have rescinded the statutory part.  The first part of 1855 Mass. Acts 145, § 11 is as follows: When the
                           validity of a marriage is doubted, either party may file a libel for annulling such marriage, or, when the validity of a marriage
                           is denied or doubted by either party, the other party may file a libel for affirming the same.  The omission of the words,
                           "for fraud or other cause," contained in the Mass. Gen. Stat. ch. 107, § 4, and in 1855 Mass. Acts 27, does
                           not change the meaning of the provision. The statute assumes that there may be marriages which are legal in form but invalid
                           in fact.  In terms it confers jurisdiction upon the court, but in reference to the law of marriage it is merely declaratory.
                           Smith v. Smith, 171 Mass. 404 (Mass. 1898)  "A marriage which is voidable . . . is presumably
 valid and should
                           for all legal purposes be treated as a valid marriage unless and until a court of competent jurisdiction has annulled it or
                           entered a declaratory judgment determining that it is null." C.P. Kindregan, Jr., & M.L. Inker, supra at § 19:3.
                           See Robbins v. Robbins, 343 Mass. 247, 251-252, 178 N.E.2d 281 (1961) (voidable marriage considered valid until annulled);
                           Callow v. Thomas, 322 Mass. 550, 555, 78 N.E.2d 637 (1948) (same). In Massachusetts , for example, fraud that goes to the
                           essence of a marriage contract renders a marriage "voidable." See Reynolds v. Reynolds, 85 Mass. 605, 3 Allen 605,
                           609-611 (1862) v. Reynolds, 85 Mass. 605, 3 Allen 605, 609-611 (1862).  Cote-Whitacre v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 446 Mass.
                           350, 361 (Mass. 2006)
 
 Lack of Petitioner’s Signature Voids Marriage Contract and Divorce Orders of
                           the State
 The requirement of the law that a marriage
                           must be proved as the first step in a suit for divorce is based upon the theory that it is necessary to first judicially and
                           legally determine the present status of the parties before any decree can be properly made which will affect their future
                           status. This is intended to preclude any fraud or error in any claim for relief in person or property in any suit for divorce
                           where no legal relationship, through marriage, ever existed.1212 Harman v. Ilarman, 16 11l. 85; Mangue v. Mangue, 1 Mass.
                           240; Vree- land v. Vreeland, 18 N. J. Eq. 43.
 The term “signature” is defined in Black’s Law Dictionary
                           as “The act of putting one’s name at the end of an instrument to attest its validity.” (emphasis added)
 Petitioner submits that, pursuant to the foregoing definition, his bona fide signature is not affixed to the purported marriage
                           license allegedly pertaining to, and antecedent to, the alleged marriage ceremonies and alleged contract involving Petitioner
                           and Plaintiff.[3]  This substantive issue of fact, viz, the lack of Petitioner’s signature on the purported marriage
                           license, gives rise to Washington ’s statute of frauds, which stipulates at RCW 19.36.010:
 In the following cases,
                           specified in this section, any agreement, contract and promise shall be void, unless such agreement, contract or promise,
                           or some note or memorandum thereof, be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some person thereunto
                           by him lawfully authorized, that is to say…(3) every agreement, promise or undertaking made upon consideration of marriage,
                           except mutual promises to marry…(emphasis added)
 The phrase “upon consideration of marriage” within
                           the foregoing statute has been the subject of much legal wrangling. Koontz v. Koontz, 83 Wash. 180, 184-85, 145 P. 201 (1915),
                           citing Browne on the Statute of Frauds (5th ed.), SS 215b, is instructive in this regard:
 The distinction should be carefully
                           noted between agreements in “consideration” of marriage, and agreements, which are merely in “expectation”
                           or “contemplation” of marriage. In order that the contract shall be within the statute, marriage or the promise
                           of marriage must have been its consideration or inducement. (emphasis added)
 It would be difficult for any reasonable
                           person to consider the execution, in this case alleged execution, of a purported marriage license as being in consideration
                           of any purpose other than marriage. (See also Friedlander v. Friedlander, 80 Wn.2d 293, 300 494 P.2d 208 [1972]: “[M]arriage
                           is consideration of the highest value.”)
 Petitioner respectfully reminds this Honorable Court that the statute
                           of frauds is not a doctrine in equity, it is a positive statutory mandate which renders void and unenforceable those undertakings
                           which offend it. See Forland v. Boyum, 53 Wash. 421, 102 Pac. 34 (1909); Farrell v. Mentzer, 102 Wash. 629, 174 Pac. 482 (1918);
                           Sposari v. Matt Malaspina & Co., 63 Wn.2d 679, 388 P.2d 970 (1964).
 In consideration of the foregoing, to wit, that
                           Petitioner’s signature is not literally, legally or lawfully affixed to any alleged marriage license pertaining to Plaintiff,
                           any alleged contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff is void ab initio and unenforceable. Therefore, this Court lacks jurisdiction
                           over the subject matter.
 Remedy
 Inasmuch as Petitioner
                           never signed the purported marriage license, and inasmuch as he is not, and cannot be, a party to this action, and inasmuch
                           as there is not currently, and never was, a contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff and the State of Connecticut and the
                           Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of California, and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue owing to fraud, there
                           never was a marriage and so there is no controversy for this Honorable Court to adjudicate.
 Henceforth, the Court lacks
                           personal jurisdiction over Petitioner and over the subject matter.  “A marriage ceremony, especially if apparently
                           legally performed, gives rise to a presumptively valid status of marriage which persists unless and until it is overthrown
                           by evidence in an appropriate judicial proceeding.” Perlstein v. Perlstein, 152 Conn. 152, 157, 204 A.2d 909 (1964). 
                           This is that evidence and this is the judicial proceeding.  Petitioner Notices this Court’s Judgment of Contempt
                           is void ab initio.
 This marriage evidenced by the Connecticut license is fraudulent.  It was not disclosed that
                           the woman in the dress was a legal entity, a fiction.  It was not disclosed the de facto state was a party to the contract
                           of the de jure flesh and blood man George-Leedom with the de jure flesh and blood woman Malia Westlund in the church. 
                           The marriage is a nullity.  And therefore the divorce is void.  Please find Undersigned’s status papers filed
                           into case, evidencing he is not a state-created legal entity.
 Further, Petitioner respectfully directs this Court’s
                           attention to Coson v. Roehl, 63 Wn.2d 384 (1963), citing to Angerosa v. White Co., 248 App. Div. 425, 290 N. Y. S. 204 (1936):
 ". . . To deny relief to the victim of a deliberate fraud because of his own negligence would encourage falsehood
                           and dishonesty . . .
 ". . . In this jurisdiction protection is given to one who is injured by falsehood or deception;
                           fraud vitiates everything which it touches, and destroys the very thing which it was devised to support; the law does not
                           temporize with trickery or duplicity. A contract, the making of which was induced by deceitful methods or crafty device, is
                           nothing more than a scrap of paper, and it makes no difference whether the fraud goes to the factum, or whether it is preliminary
                           to the execution of the agreement itself. . . ." (emphasis added)
 Pursuant to the foregoing, Petitioner also Notices all past orders and judgments of the Massachusetts Trial Court, Probate
                           and Family Court are void ab initio, thereby granting relief to the victim of the fraud(s) described herein. (See Marley v.
                           Dep't of Labor & Indus., 125 Wn.2d 533, 539, 886 P.2d 189 (1994): “A judgment is ‘void’ only when the
                           issuing court lacks personal jurisdiction over the party or subject matter jurisdiction over the claim.”)
 
 This contract is rescinded.  Please
                           find Notice of Rescission attached filed into case., per Fisher v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 160 Mass. 386 (Mass. 1894):
                           "I instruct you, as a general proposition of law, that if there had been misrepresentations made to her which induced
                           her to make the contract with the company, then she had a right to rescind the contract when she discovered the fact of these
                           misrepresentations having been made, and having thus rescinded the contract, and put the defendant in the condition it was
                           before the making of the contract, then she would have the right, as matter of law, to recover the money she had paid in pursuance
                           of the contract. She had the right to annul the contract, and, having annulled it, then you will observe that the defendant
                           had among its funds money of hers, received from her, which in equity and good conscience it ought not to hold, but should
                           pay it to her, provided she was
 induced to make the contract by misrepresentations on the part of the company.”
 Finally, for reasons unknown to
                           Petitioner, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through either negligence or willful intent, chose to not inform Petitioner
                           (and Plaintiff) at any juncture of any option other than the procurement of a purported marriage license (e.g. cohabitation
                           under God’s law), which license is fundamentally permission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to do that which
                           otherwise would be illegal[4], in order for Petitioner and Plaintiff to work and cohabitate together and possibly raise a
                           family.  Petitioner suggests that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , as a body politic and through its myriad and often
                           indecipherable laws and regulations, has successfully inured to itself sufficient control over the lives and marriages of
                           others and is simply unwilling to surrender this control.
 Moreover, based on this fraud, any collection methods pursued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Department
                           of Revenue, the State of California, the United States Federal government, and/or its assigns, are in violation of U.S. Code
                           15 USC§ 1692e.  False or misleading representations:
 A debt collector may not use any false, deceptive, or
                           misleading representation or means in connection with the collection of any debt. Without limiting the general application
                           of the foregoing, the following conduct is a violation of this section:
 (1) The false representation
                           or implication that the debt collector is vouched for, bonded by, or affiliated with the United States or any State, including
                           the use of any badge, uniform, or facsimile thereof.
 (2) The false representation of--
 (A) the character, amount, or legal status of any debt; or
 (B) any services rendered or
                           compensation which may be lawfully received by any debt collector for the collection of a debt.
 (3)
                           The false representation or implication that any individual is an attorney or that any communication is from an attorney.
 (4) The representation or implication that nonpayment of any debt will result in the arrest or imprisonment
                           of any person or the seizure, garnishment, attachment, or sale of any property or wages of any person unless such action is
                           lawful and the debt collector or creditor intends to take such action.
 (5) The threat to take any action
                           that cannot legally be taken or that is not intended to be taken.
 (6) The false representation or implication
                           that a sale, referral, or other transfer of any interest in a debt shall cause the consumer to--
 (A) lose any claim or defense to payment of the debt; or
 (B) become subject to any practice
                           prohibited by this title [15 USCS §§ 1692 et seq.].
 (7) The false representation or implication
                           that the consumer committed any crime or other conduct in order to disgrace the consumer.
 (8) Communicating
                           or threatening to communicate to any person credit information which is known or which should be known to be false, including
                           the failure to communicate that a disputed debt is disputed.
 (9) The use or distribution of any written
                           communication which simulates or is falsely represented to be a document authorized, issued, or approved by any court, official,
                           or agency of the United States or any State, or which creates a false impression as to its source, authorization, or approval.
 (10) The use of any false representation or deceptive means to collect or attempt to collect any debt
                           or to obtain information concerning a consumer.
 (11) The failure to disclose in the initial written
                           communication with the consumer and, in addition, if the initial communication with the consumer is oral, in that initial
                           oral communication, that the debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and that any information obtained will be used
                           for that purpose, and the failure to disclose in subsequent communications that the communication is from a debt collector,
                           except that this paragraph shall not apply to a formal pleading made in connection with a legal action.
 (12)
                           The false representation or implication that accounts have been turned over to innocent purchasers for value.
 (13)
                           The false representation or implication that documents are legal process.
 (14) The use of any business,
                           company, or organization name other than the true name of the debt collector's business, company, or organization.
 (15)
                           The false representation or implication that documents are not legal process forms or do not require action by the consumer.
 (16) The false representation or implication that a debt collector operates or is employed by a consumer
                           reporting agency as defined by section 603(f) of this Act [15 USCS § 1681a(f)].
 
 
 Petitioner respectfully avers that this is prima facie evidence why the State, as a whole, is unwilling to disclose options
                           other than State-licensed marriage.
 
 
 ______________________________                                   
                                                  ____________________
 George-Leedom: Mason                                 
                                                              
                           Date
 
 
 AFFIDAVIT OF GEORGE-LEEDOM: MASON
 
 I,  George-Leedom: Mason (hereinafter
                           “affiant”), being first duly sworn according to law, having first hand knowledge of the facts contained herein,
                           and being competent to testify, do affirm the following:
 1.                            
                           During purported marriage ceremony involving affiant and Plaintiff on or about 3 June 1989, conductor of the alleged ceremony
                           Tim Christenson made the material representation that said alleged ceremony, and ensuing alleged marriage contract, was solely
                           between affiant and Plaintiff.  The same material representation was made to affiant on purported marriage license.
 2.                            
                           Neither prior to nor during alleged marriage ceremony between affiant and Plaintiff on or about 3 June 1989 was affiant informed
                           of the existence of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as third party to any alleged marriage contract between affiant and
                           Plaintiff. No mention was or is made on purported marriage license allegedly attaching to affiant and Plaintiff that the Commonwealth
                           of Massachusetts was to be a third party to this purported contract.
 3.                            
                           The representation by Tim Christenson that said marriage ceremony, held on or about 3 June 1989 , strictly involved affiant
                           and Plaintiff was false. The representation contained within purported marriage license that affiant and Plaintiff are the
                           sole parties involved in said alleged marriage ceremony was and is false.
 4.                            
                           Based upon knowledge and belief, affiant attests that Tim Christenson, prior to and during his conducting of the alleged marriage
                           ceremony between affiant and Plaintiff, was ignorant of the truth that said marriage also involved the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
                           as a third party.
 5.                            
                           Affiant attests that Tim Christenson intended that affiant should act upon the representations made during alleged marriage
                           ceremony held on or about 3 June 1989 . Affiant attests that the purpose of the alleged marriage license was for the parties
                           involved to rely upon its truthfulness that any ensuing alleged marriage was solely between the two parties, specifically
                           affiant and Plaintiff.
 6.                            
                           Affiant attests that, prior to and during alleged marriage ceremony between affiant and Plaintiff on or about 3 June 1989
                           affiant was ignorant of the false representation made by Tim Christenson that the purported marriage was solely between affiant
                           and Plaintiff; until recently, affiant was unaware of the existence of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a third party
                           to this alleged contract. Affiant, until recently, was also ignorant of the false representations contained within alleged
                           marriage license that the purported marriage was solely between affiant and Plaintiff.
 7.                            
                           Affiant heretofore relied upon the truth of the representation made by Tim Christenson during the purported marriage ceremony
                           held on or about 3 June 1989 , viz, that said purported marriage ceremony only involved affiant and Plaintiff. Affiant heretofore
                           relied upon the truth of the same representations contained within the alleged marriage license.
 8.                            
                           Affiant, although at the time ignorant of the falsity of the representation made during alleged marriage ceremony on or about
                           3 June 1989 that said alleged ceremony involved only affiant and Plaintiff as interested parties, had a right to rely upon
                           the representations made therein. Affiant also had a right to rely upon the representations contained within alleged marriage
                           license.
 9.                            
                           Affiant has been damaged monetarily in the amount of $90,000 in attorney’s and other fees due to affiant’s reliance
                           upon the representations made by Tim Christenson to affiant during purported marriage ceremony held on or about 3 June 1989
                           and also due to affiant’s reliance upon the representations contained within alleged marriage license; said attorney’s
                           and other fees are a direct consequence of the fraud and misrepresentations perpetrated upon affiant.
 10.                        
                           Affiant’s signature is not affixed to any alleged marriage license or alleged contract pertaining to affiant and Plaintiff
                           in the above-captioned matter.
 11.                        
                           Affiant is not now, and never was, married, by definition, to Plaintiff in the above-captioned matter.
 12.                        
                           Affiant has no contract with either Plaintiff or with Commonwealth of Massachusetts .
 13.                        
                           Affiant’s bona fide signature is not affixed to any other documents, including but not limited to bank accounts, checks,
                           drafts, promissory notes, certificates, agreements, contracts, applications, mortgages, leases, loans, tax returns, and any
                           other document(s) of which Petitioner may, at this time, be unaware, which documents allegedly attach or pertain to any purported
                           marriage contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff.
 Further affiant saith not.
 
 
 ____________________________________
 George-Leedom: Mason
 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS            
                           )
 )          
                           ss.
 COUNTY OF WORCESTER                          
                           )
 
 
 On this _____ day of_______________,
                           in the year 2009, George-Leedom: Mason did appear before me,_____________________________________, a Notary Public in and
                           for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and being duly sworn, acknowledged that he executed the foregoing as his free act and
                           deed.
 
 
 
 ______________________________________
 Notary Public   in and
                           for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 residing at:      ___________________________
 __________________________
 
 
 
 
 
 [1] Petitioner was also surprised to learn that, via marriage license together with birth
                           certificate, any children (or “issue”) that are the product of any marriage contract are effectively, by operation
                           of law, wards of the State.
 
 [2] Petitioner submits that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts should fulfill its role
                           as third party to, and allocate funds in support of, Plaintiff’s request for financial support.
 
 [3] Petitioner
                           further attests that his bona fide signature is not affixed to any other documents, including but not limited to bank accounts,
                           checks, drafts, promissory notes, certificates, agreements, contracts, applications, mortgages, leases, loans, tax returns,
                           and any other documents of which Petitioner may, at this time, be unaware, which documents allegedly attach or pertain to
                           any alleged marriage contract between Petitioner and Plaintiff, and of which document(s) this Court may desire to take silent
                           judicial notice.
 
 [4] Black’s Law Dictionary defines “license” as “The permission by competent
                           authority to do an act which, without such permission, would be illegal, a trespass, a tort, or otherwise not allowable.”
                           Petitioner, to date, has been unable to locate any statute, law, rule, regulation, finding or prohibition against non-statutory
                           marriage thus necessitating a license.
 
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