Sunday, March 9, 2014

#947: David Wynn Miller


A.k.a. Judge: David-Wynn: Miller (what he prefers to be called)

David Wynn Miller is a Milwaukee-based tax-avoidance activist affiliated with the Sovereign Citizen Movement, who claims exemption from income tax liability on various pseudolegal grounds, in particular a lack of jurisdictional applicability. He is the originator of an incoherent ideology that invokes a supposedly mathematically-based variation of the English language (no, not Montague grammar). That is, Miller believes that inserting punctuation into one's name changes one’s legal status (a rather common pseudolaw practice). Specifically, in what might be termed the most idiotic use-mention fallacy ever committed, he believes that this turns a person into a “prepositional phrase”, as opposed to a citizen, and thus exempts one from having to pay income taxes.

Apparently the government is also seeking to control the population by controlling grammar. Turning yourself into a prepositional phrase is a way to escape. Or so it seems. Getting a clear idea about what Miller thinks is somewhat tricky; sample quote from his website: “FOR THE FORMS OF OUR PUNCTUATIONS ARE WITH THE CLAIM OF THE USE: FULL-COLON=POSITION-LODIO-FACTS, HYPHEN=COMPOUND-FACTS =KNOWN, PERIOD=END-THOUGHT, COMMA-PAUSE, AND LOCATION-TILDES WITH THE MEANINGS AND USES OF THE COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE FULL-COLON OF THE POSITION-LODIAL-FACT-PHRASE WITH THE FACT/KNOWN-TERM OF THE POSITIONAL-LODIO-FACT-PHRASE AND WITH THE VOID OF THE NOM-DE-GUERRE = DEAD-PERSON”. Precisely. In fairness, though, the thought he sought to express in that passage can probably not be put much more sensibly in any other way. Miller refers to his syntax as QUANTUM-LANGUAGE-PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR and asserts that it constitutes “correct sentence structure communication syntax,” and that his language is “for the stopping-claims of the Theft, Cheating, Fraud, Slavery and War.”

His career seems to consist of appearing in courts around the world on behalf of others, claiming to be a judge (“plenipotentiary judge”) eligible to practice anywhere on the planet. In the courts he asserts things such as that the dots between the words of the motto on the New South Wales coat of arms in a court mean the court has no jurisdiction. His success rate in court is rather modest. So is the success rate of others who have tried to use his syntax in court; for instance:
- In 1998 Miller assisted Illinois resident George Johnson in his legal defense against child molestation charges; Johnson was convicted and returned to prison in 1999.
- In 2001, Paul and Myrna Schuck unsuccessfully used Miller’s language during a tax-evasion trial in Calgary; they were later sentenced to jail after claiming postage affixed to their clothing and signed by them made them legally equivalent to royalty.
- In 2002, Miller was profiled when Milwaukee-based accountant Steven Allen Magritz was jailed after engaging what authorities called “paper terrorism,” or filing large numbers of legal claims against perceived enemies, as part of the sovereign citizen anti-government movement, and partially influenced by Miller’s belief that people don't need to pay taxes if they can “prove that money is a verb;” Magritz failed to do that, and was convicted in 2003.
- The same year Wisconsin residents Janice K. Logan and Jason Zellmer (Miller’s cousin) were convicted of “simulating legal process” by filing documents which purported to be legal documents from the jurisdiction of the “Unity States of the World,” an idea they got from Miller; Miller testified at the trial, remarking for instance that the genesis of Truth-language was when he “turned Hawaii into a verb,” and showed “how a preposition is needed to certify a noun.”
- In 2008, Rita Makekau was convicted of eight counts of assault and one count of domestic abuse for injuring five children in her care with hammers and knives; she challenged her child abuse conviction in 2009 by claiming her sovereignty group, Hawaiian Kingdom Government, declared her innocent, and Miller said he is the group’s spokesperson and is a “plenipotentiary judge, ambassador and postmaster.”

Miller claims to have 1 billion adherents worldwide, and has claimed that Bill Clinton and the entire Supreme Court of the United States were his students. He does have some adherents, however, and his ideas have been linked to the delusions of Jared Loughner (though Miller claims that Loughner must have been brainwashed by the Air Force).

The SPL has a profile of Miller here.

Diagnosis: Among the most incoherently insane people in the US. And that doesn’t prevent him from having several followers. Tells you something, methinks.

24 comments:

  1. Hey G.D.

    I am just writing on your latest blog post, which has no relevance to the individual it happens to be about. I have been going through a lot of your posts, and I am wondering who you are and what your credentials are.

    Seeing as you incontinently throw around words like "crackpot, loon, fool, idiot," etc., I was wondering on what science you base these diagnoses on. Your writing skills aren't especially good (so we can rule out a lot of qualifications here). You don't seem to know much about science either, other than simply insisting on the status quo, just for the sake of insistence, but gladly link to other websites, written by similar minded individuals, who vigorously wish to cling on to the present-day established views and established institutions.

    I noticed that you don't really criticize religion itself. You don't criticize cults, sects, politicians (I have not read every single entry of yours, so please forgive me if I am wrong), psychiatric/pharmaceutical practices, corruption in government and business, and other established institutions.

    I don't think you're as stupid as you pretend to be, with all these puerile, half-baked 'opinions' of yours. Nothing on this site merits serious attention or academic scholarship. It's just one gigantic, poorly written, angry rant about people who are anti-establishment (be it establishment science, or otherwise).

    You must be a Randi fanboy (or at the very least, working with Randi to maintain similar interests). I don't think you're as angry as you pretend to be. I think there is some method to your madness.

    I want to make clear that I am neutral regarding the individuals you criticize here. I neither respect, nor disrespect any of the people you write about. I have no stake in it.

    However, it should be made clear, that while you criticize all these people for lacking in scientific and critical thinking skills, not once have you demonstrated scientific training or critical thinking skills yourself. I have looked hard to find some evidence for it -- but I have failed. All I see is a rant, some links to support your rant (written by similar-minded ranters), along with a "diagnosis," which has no basis in physics/biology/chemistry/medicine/psychology.

    My conclusion is this: you're a relatively low-level occultist, who has established a minor and rather insignificant internet presence, to continue his 'art' by yielding to the demands from 'higher up.'

    You'll label this as some nutty conspiracy theory, no doubt. That's fine, "G.D."

    You're safe, while you're 'anonymous.' We all know that quite a lot of intelligent and educated people would have a lovely field day with you, if only you had the testicular fortitude to at least include an email address, where people can contact you.

    I am pretty certain you will delete this comment or block it. So I'll take a screen shot, just to prove my point.

    My diagnosis of you: boring, pathetic, and ultimately useless.

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    1. Well, I know a bit of science and, in particular, scientific methodology, but I am not completely sure my credentials are really that relevant here. The purpose of the entries is to synthesize and organize already available material; I usually provide little or no new "research" or discussion. The links are supposed to provide either a discussion or at least suggestions on where to find the relevant material. The legimitacy of my critiques will thus rest on the legitimacy of the critiques provided in the material I link to (or, in some cases, to the original material, when this requires little further comment).

      And no, I don't discuss politics or religion. That's not the purpose. Instead, we call out people who display (recurrently) poor reasoning skills and blatant denialism concerning well-established and well-documented scientific results. Usually, their conclusions are based on a failure to appreciate how science works or how to properly assess evidence. That's what qualifies for being a "loon" as that notion is defined here - I readily admit that it is not a notion with any basis in physics, biology, chemistry, medicine or psychology. So what?

      Not that I think there is much point in saying so, but as opposed to what you seem to suggest, there is no insistence or defense of the status quo; people are not called out for making novel claims - they are called out for insisting that their novel claims are worth taking seriously, or true, without having any evidence beyond personal experience or a sense that their conclusions are intuitively right. And as anyone who knows the basics of critical thinking would be able to point out, personal experience, anecdotes and intuitions are not evidence for empirical claims, and the plural of "anecdote" is not "evidence". Making strong, novel, even crazy-sounding hypotheses is fine; thinking that those hypotheses are true without having actually done the arduous job of rigorously and meticulously comparing those hypotheses with reality, is not.

      "Nothing on this site merits serious attention or academic scholarship."

      I have no idea what to make of that ... criticism?

      "We all know that quite a lot of intelligent and educated people would have a lovely field day with you, if only you had the testicular fortitude to at least include an email address, where people can contact you."

      And that's precisely why I, unfortunately, am reluctant to include an email address on the site. Take the criticism to the Internet so that everyone else can see it as well and determine its merit or not, not to my inbox.

      "I am pretty certain you will delete this comment or block it."

      I cannot remember having deleted or blocked any comment that wasn't spam or involved some kind of threat (directed at someone other than me). The amount of spam means that I need to let comments go through moderation before I post them, however.

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    2. This is a marvelous site! Thanks so much for your work. David Wynn Miller continues to this day to suck in sad folks who actually believe his advice and intervention means something to courts.

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    3. Sidionian, you rock.
      OP didn't have solid facts, but plenty gosdip.
      Paid shill, likely a weak minded phoney attorney with nothing better to do.
      Obviously terrified to death of David.

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    4. So much irony in such a short note. Where to begin:
      "Op didn't have solid facts, but plenty gosdip(sic). I listened to 9 hours of one of his seminars where he talked alot about how he cracked the code on what words really meant, but offered no proof. Just have to take his word for it.
      "Paid shill, likely a weak minded phoney attorney with nothing better to do." David Wynn Miller charged large fees to gullible people to attend his seminars and to buy his books. David Wynn Miller proclaimed himself a judge over a court that went extinct over 200 years ago.
      "Obviously terrified to death of David" i am going to guess no, as David and his clients have won squat and a half when going to trial under his guidance. I would be more worried about his followers who accept his teaching without questioning. The sheer fact he makes the following claims during his seminar and his followers still don't question him is even more worrisome. He claims: there is a huge ufo that landed in Greenland a long time ago carrying the dinosaurs and controlling the weather. There were 4 ufos set to arrive in 2012 that were going to release an emp, killing all off our items that ran on electricity. He died, having his kidneys and adrenal glands removed, came back and did not have to sleep for 8 years. He is the King of Hawaii (contract law only). Finally, he can time travel or send items through time as some of his personal books were found in a slab of cement poured long before he was born. He became even more vague than usual on this subject. There was so much more, but this is getting too long already.

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    5. this site is run by trolls, selling out to the people, shame on you scumbag.
      thankyou to federal judge david miller and russell gould

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  2. I found a few more pundits of note
    Rick Moran (of the very aptly named Right Wing Nuthouse)
    Emperor Misha (of the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, not sure what his real name is, that's just what he goes by)
    Marc Morano
    Rev. Austin Miles (of RenewAmerica)
    Jason "Molotov" Mitchell (another WND guy)

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  3. Isn't this what ALL lawyers do? Play with words? Because this guy happens to be defending what most consider "archaic" (the US Constitution) he's crazy? I'm so tired of hearing how the sovereign movement represents domestic schizophrenics and murderers, etc. Many are people who are waking up to the deception, realizing our "govt" is made up mostly of private companies, all getting rich in bed with the sleazy politicians we voted to protect OUR best interests. They have been robbing us blind, changing laws behind our backs and without our consent, and violating the US Constitution from every angle, with 0% repercussions. They are criminals, I think most Americans would just like to have their constitutional rights restored, and are peacefully, intellectual people who might be angry, but would never resort to violence. I know several people w/sovereign status, among the smartest people I know - attorneys, doctors, etc. However unfortunately due to years of tyranny and scare tactics, most people (ie. me) are too scared to step up and claim our God-given rights at US citizens, fearing retaliation. And that's the sad truth. The only thing more horrifying than the government-induced propaganda & lies .. is the number of Americans who swallow it with little-to-no interest in researching. Shame on us, quite frankly I believe that as a nation we deserve what's coming to us. They've done a great job with the brainwashing, I give them that.

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    1. "I know several people w/sovereign status, among the smartest people I know..."

      I believe that to be, literally, true.

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  4. The opening statement concerning DWM is totally incorrect.
    He is NOT a tax-avoidance activist at all, however, my taxes are non existent thanks to this man.
    Your taxes are voluntary!
    If you choose to pay your taxes in Now-Time, they cannot accept!
    End of story, ok? Free of taxes of any kind, and you won't be required to pay sales tax either.
    Stop whining you bloody British colonists and wake up.
    David has shown you the light, but just like Americans(British colonists), you try to re-invent that which already exists. Ho Hum!

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    1. Wow DWM has a losing record in court and his apprentice Leighton Ward is in jail and facing serious time in prison.

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    2. Want to know something funny? The majority of people in America do not pay taxes. The majority of people in America get a refund of everything they paid and they didn't have to pay a scam artists like King Judge Miller. Many people even get back more than what they paid because they have kids.

      But if you want to keep sucking the knob of a guy that has never won a court case, has had people lose everything by following his advice, go for it.

      I can assure you, however, you have not seen "the light". Your head is too far up your arse to see anything but darkness.

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    3. Aloha, :Keline-Kameyo:Kahau I am a :Federal-Postal-Judge in Hawaii our nation is still independent and out of bankruptcy, I am here to let you know if you dont know all ready is that Judge :David:Miller has been and working with us in our nation and he is the "king" of syntax, not Hawaii.
      you also need to know that in AMERICA NOT HAWAII the taxes are not given back to our people but AMERICA STILL THINKS THEY HAVE A CLAIM. we are not slaves of the BIG AMERICAN DREAM THAT YOU ALL ARE STUCK IN.
      YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT :David:Miller has help us in Hawaii now the CORPORATION NEEDS TO KNOW THEY ARE ONLY A CORPORATION NOT A CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. WE ARE NOT JUST CARE TAKERS OF THE LAND WE ARE THE TRUE OWNERS OF THE LAND. THE MILITARY PLAYS A BIG PART OF THIS AS WELL.
      SO FOR YOU THAT DO NOT HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING YOU NEED TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

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    4. FOR YOUR KNOWLEDGE, THE COURT SYSTEM IS NOT A COURT IT RUN BY A CORPORATION AND THAT THE UNITED STATES IS IN BANKRUPT BUT INSOLVENT UNDER CHAPTER 11, WHAT DOSE THIS MEAN? THEY CLAIM BANKRUPTCY AND CAN STILL PAY WHAT THEY OWE. WHAT WAS THERE CLAIM? YOU THE PEOPLE WITH THE SSN,BC, AND THE ONES THAT OWN THEIR OWN COMPANIES. THEY TOOK ALL OF YOUR SSN,AND BC NUMBERS AND MADE YOU INTO A CORPORATION AND GOT ALL DUNS NUMBERS FOR YOU ALL AND THAT IS WHY THE ONES THAT PAY THE "IRS" CORPORATION GET BACK YOUR MONEY BECAUSE THEY ARE TAPING INTO YOUR SSN,BC ACCOUNTS.
      IF YOU KNOW MORE AND THEN HAVE MORE OF A CLEAR KNOWLEDGE OF THE "BANKING SYSTEM" THEN YOU KNOW. BUT AS FAR AS THE PEOPLE IN HAWAII SUCH AS THE MAKAAINA WE HAVE BEEN PUT INTO THAT TORT SYSTEM.
      THE ONLY WAY I DID IT WAS I CHALLENGED THE SYSTEM AND I WON. BECAUSE ITS NOT JUST SPECKING TRUTH BUT USING MY KNOWLEDGE AND AUTHORITY. WITH THE COMMANDING OF THE MILITARY.
      SO FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THEIR BIG HOUSE AND NEW CARS AND LOVE PAYING THE IRS. THIS IS WHY THE SYSTEM IS STILL RUNNING.

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    5. Kook-le-doodle-doooooooo!!

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  5. Gate keeping G.D.? COINTRLPRO much G.D.? Maybe its damage control G.D.? Maybe you're just a hired goon/shill that hates freedom.

    I can tell you this, that your lame attempt to put someone down is doing nothing but doing humanity a disservice.

    What you've just written is one of the most insanely, idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling incoherent response were even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought...I aware you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.

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    1. Can we just clarify who is in jail right now?

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  6. What you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought...I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

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  7. Listen to this guy on the following interview. His level of delusion is astounding. Among other things, he obtained Hawaii's independence from the U.S. using grammar, and the Queen Of England invalidated the constitutions of the United Kingdom because of him. Hilarious and tragic at the same time. https://projectcamelotportal.com/2017/12/01/judge-david-wynn-miller-interview-re-leighton-ward-insurance-mortgage-fraud/

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  8. I find Miller both extreme and spot on. Jurisdiction is a body of language and if one has ever spent time near the legal profession, Miller is on to something that is not new to jurisprudence or the theory of law which is color of law by use of legal panguage.

    We are far off the track of common law the founders have us. Sovereigns used to duel, gunfights, sovereigns in full knowledge and in full honor and defense of their respective properties. No less in our history is Hamilton and Burr duel.

    Words replaced swords. Words are far more dangerous than swords. A coup of our government has been operating by words and swords and men capable of keeping government honest have and are being sent to their demise in conflict over seas and while so socialist elites continue to strip man and woman, "We the people," of our rights, most often in name of safety or security.

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  9. David Wynn Miller is dead, that is what happens when you stress so much you have a heart attack and die. Oh and Leighton Ward is in jail for at least 18 years.

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  10. Notice that the people who follow this nutjob are not posting in his crazy-person language.

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