We have lived in the Land of Oz for so long that we take the existence of witches and flying monkeys for granted.
Will
someone please show us "the UN"? Or, for that matter, Pepsico, Inc.,
or 3M, or Subaru, Inc.? Or "the United States Government,
Incorporated"?
What happens when you try to produce these "entities"?
They don't exist.
The
evidence that they do exist is circumstantial. We have lists of names
of directors sitting on boards of directors, we have names of officers,
including a CEO or "President", we have meeting minutes, all sorts of
charts, graphs, and ledgers, receipts, projections, stock reports,
logos, and we have products bearing trademarks, yes.
But where, exactly, is the corporation itself? Let the court produce it and sit it down in a chair....
You
see, corporations don't exist. They impact our lives for better or
worse, they make profit or they don't, but in the plodding final
analysis, they don't exist. They are what lawyers call "legal fiction
entities".
Corporations are "defined" into quasi-existence, and there they remain---- or should remain.
A
closer examination reveals that a corporation is nothing but a gang of
men and women organized for some purpose, having a mailing address and
representatives, a name, and some form of structure imposed by the kind
of corporation it claims to be.
That's it. Every corporation on Earth is a projection-- a figment of our imaginations and some arbitrary definitions.
When
the Corporation Craze started in the 18th century, men rationalized the
quasi-existence of corporations by comparing them to ships. John
Hancock famously referred to The United States as a "ship made of
paper".
The
group of men and women responsible for the existence, operations, care
and maintenance of a corporation also tend to remain somewhat in the
shadows, defined only by their offices and functions: "Jerilyn Grant,
our Personnel Officer....."
Most
important from the standpoint of those responsible, if the corporation
goes bankrupt, only the corporation's assets are at risk. The
shareholders take the loss, the bankruptcy court tidies things up, but
the employees, directors, and officers of the corporation are unharmed
(and left unaccountable) by "the corporate veil" --- the fact that a
corporation doesn't actually exist.
A
corporation only appears to exist by "convention" --- we should say,
"social convention". We all agree that we'll pretend that corporations
exist and act as if they do.
We
make up rules and procedures by which to define and govern the behavior
of these imaginary things. We set up special courts to enforce these
rules and procedures on the men and women who "embody" the corporation
-- to the extent that it can be said to exist -- for example, the
Administrative Procedures Act of 1946.
As
the degree of sentience possessed by Artificial Intelligence has
resulted from the computer's ability to define the existence of
something called "a cat", let's go back to Felix familiaris ourselves.
We
have evidence that a specific cat exists: a breathing, living, furry,
eating, moving, warm blooded, bewhiskered, clawed, defecating,
scratching, meowing cat exists in our experience. We have named him
"Felix".
The name, "Felix", is a representation of the cat we experience and have evidence of.
We
like Felix and we have learned how to make paintings representing him,
drawings representing him, photos representing him, videos representing
him, too, and yet, none of these representations of Felix, in all these
different mediums, are Felix.
Felix,
the actual cat, belongs to a different realm -- a realm that is
impervious to all the representations of Felix that we may devise. Try
as we might, a photo of a cat is not a cat, and the name of a cat is not
a cat, either.
The
same circumstance, the same actualities, pertain to a man named John.
The name "John" isn't John, the photos, paintings, and videos we create
to represent John aren't John.
Now
apply this to corporations, where we start with something we created
out of thin air, in our imaginations, and then proceed to apply the same
process of abstraction and representation of it. We give it a name,
for example, "Toyota".
We define what kind of corporation it is: "C Corp, issuing stock shares, traded in public".
We
find investors who buy "shares" representing "percentages of ownership
interest" in this essentially non-existent thing, and they trade these
shares "representing" a percentage of ownership interest dictated by the
total number of shares issued.
As
a shareholder of one share of Toyota stock, you might actually own one
ball bearing in a giant sheet metal machine, but it's impossible to say
which ball bearing or which machine or even if it has anything to do
with sheet metal or car manufacturing, yet, at the end of the day, we
have evidence that Toyota exists, in the form of a truck bearing the
"Toyota" name.
Stock
certificates representing "shares" of ownership interest in
corporations are fungible assets; there is no clear, defined physical
thing attached to the "share of ownership interest". A stock share
doesn't grant you ownership of a single desk chair. It's a "generalized"
ownership interest that goes up and down in value along with all other
shares of that kind, depending entirely on how much other investors are
willing to pay you for it.
Toyota, C-Corps, and shares in "Toyota" are all nothing but paper and agreed-upon imaginings and representations of reality.
Note:
whereas a representation of Felix, say a photo or drawing of Felix,
might allow us to recognize and identify the actual cat, all that we
have to "actualize" a corporation are representations of it.
After
we paw back through the piles of paper, the trademarks, the logos, the
ad campaigns, the name, the registration, the lists of officers and
personnel, the physical products --- "Toyota" still doesn't exist.
The
actual and factual world is already abstracted and "represented" by our
process of naming and categorizing and labeling and describing: "Felix,
a nine year-old American Short-Hair, breeding male, black and grey
striped tortoise-shell, small notch on left ear...." and further
represented by paintings, drawings, photos, videos, voice recordings
---- but underlying all of this, there is, in fact. a living breathing
cat at the bottom of the pile.
This
remains true until Felix dies or disappears the way cats are known to
do, and then all we have left are all the representations we made of
Felix, including his name, and evidence, like stray cat hairs and
well-chewed cat toys.
With
corporations, when we sort through the piles of representations, all we
find is another representation --- before it goes, "Poof!" -- and
vanishes into the thin air from which it sprung.
Felix, by which we mean the living cat, has "substance", but "Toyota" does not.
Corporations
and their representations are all airy-fairy and "insubstantial"; for
them, there is no true embodiment associated with them at any point of
their genesis, and this is why it is impossible to sit Toyota down in a
chair and make it listen to your complaints.
At
best, you will find a CEO hired by a Board of Directors, and maybe the
name and address of an Agent on dusty registration paperwork.
These
facts-- once examined-- should give any living man cause to pause and
realize that with representations generally, and with corporations
specifically, we are treading on the edge of lies and madness.
It
has become commonplace for people to "believe in" things that don't
exist, and for them to accept representations as actualities -- which is
dangerous.
We
aren't quite to the point of mistaking a photo of Felix for Felix
himself, but we may assume that "Toyota" exists as a result of seeing it
blazoned on the tailgate of a truck.
Therein lies the rub.
As
we have become sloppier in maintaining our cognitive grid we are losing
our overall grasp on reality; by not taking time to sort fact from
fiction, by no longer knowing and respecting our own limitations as
name-makers, we've slid inexorably into a nightmare world populated by
symbolic representations and unaccountable fantasms.
When
we start treating our representations of living men "as if" the
representations were living men, we have clearly crossed the line and
lost our ability to tell the difference between a cat and a photo of a
cat --- which gives rise to all sorts of bizarre assumptions and
expectations.
If you expect a photo of a cat to purr, you will be waiting a long, long time.
Similarly,
if you expect a corporation to grow legs, sit in a chair, and take
responsibility for its actions, doomsday will come and go.
As
living, breathing, sentient men and women we have a responsibility to
discern what is true and untrue, what is fact and what is fantasy; if
nothing else, being "substantial" ourselves, we have skin in the game,
and reason to impose our actuality over the realm of fiction.
We
have the ability, at least circumstantially, to hold the men and women
who have created and operated and profited from corporations accountable
for their actions.
We
can, and must, retain and exercise our role and character as beings of
substance, represented by Dorothy's character in The Wizard of Oz.
We
have the ability to liquidate evil corporations just as Dorothy
liquidated the Wicked Witch of the West, and we must exercise that
ability--- not with a bucket of water, but with exposure of their evil
deeds and the application of both common sense and those tools
we have or can devise to hold corporations and those who operate corporations, accountable.
The
ability to create corporations is a privilege, not a right, so we can
stem the tide of evil corporations by denying the ability to form
corporations to those who have abused the privilege and used
corporations to promote harm and criminality. George Soros comes to
mind.
Short
of liquidation, we can create and pass new Public Laws to prevent
corporations that have engaged in harmful unlawful practices from
forming other corporations. We can strip offending parent corporations
of their franchises and subsidiaries.
We can enforce already existing Public Laws against monopolies and predatory trusts and interlocking trust directorates.
Once
we focus on the clear and present danger posed by rampaging,
unaccountable, lawless corporations causing problems for living people
and our living planet, we can draw the line between our realm and
theirs, closing the borders between actualities and fantasies,
representations and facts.
The
Land of Oz may exist in a sense, together with all its denizens, but
when the Flying Monkeys are armed with hypodermic needles and told to
reduce the population of living men, it's time to strip away the
"corporate veil" and deal with the very actual and factual men and women
who are operating these corporations as a means to profit themselves by
harming us.
This
Ultimatum from the Factual World goes for "governmental services
corporations" and "non-governmental organizations" alike; it applies to
all forms of corporations, public and private, for-profit, non-profit,
or charity, S-Corp, C-Corp, B-Corp, Cooperative, Foundation, Trusts --
meaning Statutory Trusts, Partnerships, Limited Liability Corporations
-- any kind of corporation at all, on land, on sea, or in the air, and
to all forms of corporation "bodies" --- Congresses, Councils, Bureaus,
Commissions, Tribunals, all their organizational units, districts,
municipalities, precincts, parishes, citizenries, shareholders,
individual franchises, personnel and officers and political parties
included, as well as Boards of Directors and Boards of Governors and any
other individuals or groups engaged in organizing and operating any
form of registered corporation and any organization receiving the
benefit of incorporation.
It
may be a "war" made of paper, but it will be short-lived; entities that
are made of paper are easily shredded and burned, a fact that many
courts that are operating as corporations, and many jurists who are
operating as individual corporations, and many attorney firms that are
sheltering under Limited Liability Corporations, need to be forcibly
reminded of; indeed, it is a fact that the members of the "U.S.
Congress"--- Incorporated, need to be reminded of. Bank "Presidents",
too.
They
are all engaged in a Grand Illusion, the equivalent of a play, each
playing roles that they may or may not be aware of, all protected by the
so-called corporate veil from bearing the full weight of their acts and
atrocities.... until that veil is stripped away, a house falls on their
heads, a bucket of inconvenient water rains down, their lack of both
substance and standing is revealed--- and Dorothy lands with a thump,
back in Kansas again.
Just
as the "creatures of statute" that we deal with in the Land of Oz have
no standing in actual Law or Fact, what "represents" money in the Land
of Oz is also a photo of a cat, and isn't money at all, a circumstance
that is becoming increasingly problematic for the players on stage.
Stay tuned for Land of Oz 2.0.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
March 18th 2025
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