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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where I live a lawyer or ex-lawyer is prohibited from serving in juries. I kinda regret that. But in Australia you just show up! Cool! Yes, this is a pseudolaw thing. It'd be fun to write about the legal implications of this court's operation. But I stick to Canada these days.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nicola & David Suppa reversed the taxation process. They took ordinary Canada Revenue Agency money deposit forms, scribbled on them, declared those were a “Coupon of Money” & demanded the CRA pay them $4,494.530.03. The CRA didn’t pay. The Suppas sued. Didn't work. Shocking. canlii.ca/t/knc62

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New Zealand has its first broad survey of pseudolaw caselaw in MA thesis by William Biss. hdl.handle.net/10523/52479 Biss identifies & surveys 267 NZ court judgments that involve pseudolaw, plotting a progressive increase over the past decade.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Meads v Meads day! 14 years! Looking at the CanLII website and my notes, it appears the decision has been cited in 536 court cases worldwide. Not bad for a trial-level decision that, purportedly, is nothing but obiter. If you haven't read it, here's a link: canlii.ca/t/fsvjq (It's long.)

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Profs. Harry Hobbs (Australia, University New South Wales) and Stephen Young (New Zealand, University Otago) @steveisinotago.bsky.social have published the first general access review of the pseudolaw phenomenon. It's good - solid. Very recommended. Here's a review: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

First comprehensive rebuttal of pseudolaw by South African courts. The judge relies extensively on Canadian and commonwealth jurisprudence, but conducts a detailed specific response in the SA context. Detailed review here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... Solid, solid piece of work.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Pseudolaw “law schools” intrigue me. Why would you trust an institution that places itself outside the legal norms? My favorite, the "Erwin Rommel School of Law", established 1974 disappeared. Yes that Rommel. But it's back! Still run by Michael Halsey Brown, now he has a number of collaborators.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens (eds Harry Hobbs & Stephen Young), an academic anthology of articles on pseudolaw phenomena worldwide, is now available in softcover. Still not cheap, but an interesting and useful resource, recommended to those interested in the subject.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal rejected a pseudolaw "Indigenous Representative". Notably, the Court doesn't even cite Meads v Meads. It doesn't need to. Weirdly, the pseudolaw litigant is a bud of Charles Manson Full discussion here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... Yes, THAT Charles Manson.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New academic paper discussing pseudolaw populations in the Netherlands and Switzerland, examining these phenomena as a reaction by privileged individuals against state interactions. First review of the Swiss variation I've encountered. Full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Spree murderer Valery Fabrikant died in Archambault Institution prison on July 27. In 1992 he killed four other engineering academics, blaming authorship issues. Now he's dead. I can relax (a little) about being sued by Valery. He's what I've called a "hyperactive litigant".

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Another guru website. Apparently former Canadian Muriel Biggs. I remember her back over a decade ago in Alberta. Obviously she's a devotee of David-Wynn: Miller's Quantum Syntax Grammar. But check out the cookie permission notices! They're written in Millerese/Gibberese!

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Sometimes when a judge tells you to get a lawyer? Get a lawyer. From Wang v RBC Direct, 2026 ONSC 624 (canlii.ca/t/khzk2) Third strike; he's out. Lawsuit got tossed and Wang was ordered to pay the bank $25,780.76.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

UK pseudolaw Peacekeepers Foundation collects £23,665 for contest: prove UK law doesn't require consent! Dude consults LLM, creates answer, tries to collect. Pseudolaw types try to back out. Court confirms it's a contract. Pay up. Comments by me here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Watching academic research on pseudolaw subjects expand is beyond cool. This analysis integrates German pseudolaw phenomena in the broader international matrix. Also, seriously, I am compelled to publish in a journal named "BEHEMOTH: A Journal on Social Dis/Order".

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Somebody posted the following reply to something I said online "on some other social media service". I've made skeptical comments on whether legal dictionaries define reality here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... Pseudolaw is a weird gnostic phenomenon, y'know. Wonder what Philip K Dick would say?

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New academic publication from the Netherlands examines how judges interact with pseudolaw adherents in court proceedings: scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%... Worth a look. First time I've seen a report of a judge singing along with a pop song in a court proceeding, too.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

While criminal proceedings against HRM Didulo have ended, I suggest there's another alternative - securities illegality. Say wut?! It's the Loyalty Money she was handing out. Is that a security subject to regulation? Discussed here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... Lovely Money pictured below.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Pseudolaw sometimes involves real law, so sometimes the best cases to explain why a real legal dispute ends up with an outcome are cases about pseudolaw. Yes, this is a Meads v Meads thingie. I discuss a land access dispute example here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... And here's the key part.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Tax Court of Canada addresses and rejects a novel pseudolaw argument in Curran v The King, 2026 TCC 79 - that claiming copyright in legislation somehow affects income tax obligations. Which is goofy. I comment in some length here: www.reddit.com/r/amibeingde... Enjoy!

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Pseudolaw litigant in London UK gets 6 months contempt breach of zoning & construction court orders. UK written pseudolaw decisions are pretty rare, probably since trial courts don't report most judgments. This one is fun. We get wet ink signatures, home-made seals, Strawman Theory. But best is...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Alert! Fellow malevolent entities and Reptilians! (Since I self-identify as a yugoloth, I'm confident I qualify as the former.) HRM Didulo has ordered our extermination! I've been keeping an eye out for orbital bombardment laser strikes - nothing so far. Watch The Skies!

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Sovereign Citizen "Judge" Anna Von Reitz's residence sold at public auction by judicial order after Anna doesn't pay her income tax. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Ooppsieee...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Been playing with LLMs testing their ability to detect & respond to pseudolaw concepts. Gemini pointed to this US government resource for a rebuttal to Strawman Theory secret bank accounts. Nice, concise, accurate. Good stuff. Maybe we are making progress? www.treasurydirect.gov/laws-and-reg...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A tasty pseudolaw academic publication from Poland that focuses on pseudolaw itself. The results are a bit unremarkable. Prof. Pastuszko identifies usual core pseudolaw concepts: governments are corporations, the duel of laws, and - of course - Strawman Theory. journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

New academic publication on ideology of Australian “Sovereign Citizens”. Labels the phenomenon as (government) Illegitimacy, Individualism, and Immunity. I’m not going to make a detailed analysis. There’s “local experts” who are better positioned on Australia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Pseudolaw scholarship is expanding at an amazing pace. Here is the first article (that I know of) documenting the Polish variations. Patryk Król uses parallels in language, concepts & objectives to identify Polish pseudolaw groups. That's the Strawman. www.abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wyd... Recommended!

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Honestly, I enjoy when judges move into cold clinical rage mode. Judge Stephanie Wanke of the Alberta Court of King's Bench issued a short piece sharply criticizing a failure to follow basic service rules in a foreclosure. I've attached the whole thing. It's worth reading.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Investigation and analysis of pseudolaw is truly an expanding field. Now an academic in Hungary - Nóra Falyuna - is looking at the subject! folyoirat.ludovika.hu/index.php/filologia/article/view/8132 inmediasresfolyoirat.hu/imr/article/view/294/567

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Hey! You underemployed bums! Getcher ass to Australia and join the Common Law Sheriffs! You'll get a cool purple shirt! commonlawsheriffs.au/become-a-com... Policy Enforcement Officers are NOT welcome!

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The Australian Law Journal in September published an issue entirely focused on pseudolaw. There's good stuff here - but warning, everything is paywalled at the moment. If you have academic/professional access, I recommend taking a look. Here's a link: search.informit.org/toc/auslawjo...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sigh. I am attempting to work up another research project. And I want to properly explain why an Ontario lawyer cited the "Eye of Isis Treaty" as a binding Canadian legal authority. Attached is the most coherent description I've located for the document. F'ing Enki. (Not judicial review, tho!)

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This one made me laugh out loud. Appeal to the SCC rejected. Appeal grounds appear to be that that the ABCA judge was biased because of favouritism to the ABKB judge. Judges are buds to judges. So no appellant can ever get a fair hearing due to judicial bias. SCC: Nope. (Surprised?)

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Full judgment is here: Community Trust Company v Peart-Williams, 2025 ONSC 6753 (canlii.ca/t/kgt7c) I'm not going to attempt to digest this. Just enjoy all the chewy, bloody goodness. Kudos to Justice Dennison for a clinical, merciless, methodical dissection.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Woman disputes operation of father's will. In wrong jurisdiction, after will already probated. Father's will uses name in all capital letters. Woman invokes Strawman duality. Gets declared vexatious litigant. Rusler Estate (Re), 2025 BCSC 2269: canlii.ca/t/kgjbl

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Criminal proceedings vs woman entering Canada, ignoring COVID-19 quarantine processes. She says she doesn't have to comply with any instructions of a mere corporation. Doesn't work. Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales c Bastien, 2025 QCCQ 5392 - canlii.ca/t/kfwxx Original in French.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Reported Scottish pseudolaw cases aren't terribly common, making this of interest: Together Commercial Finance Ltd v Smith, [2025] SAC (Civ) 22: www.scotcourts.gov.uk/media/hzyppz... It's a foreclosure appeal. Turns out declaring you're a "living man" doesn't miracle away court proceedings.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

My recent chapter “The Sun Only Shines on YouTube: The Marginal Presence of Pseudolaw in Canada” is now available online. Subjects include Canadian pseudolaw from the 1950s, surveying numerous groups that have risen & disappeared, Canada-specific pseudolaw concepts (few), recent & peculiar trends.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Happy (belated) Meads v Meads day, everyone. Thirteen years! Seems like yesterday. I'm delighted to share that judgment is still pissing off pseudolaw types. Here pseudolaw guru "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger is demanding ChatGPT reject that authority. It doesn't.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Something unusual to share - a document I authored, but that I do not "own". Back in 2016 I prepared a "Bestiary" of pseudolaw documents, 17 different classes/types/examples. This was part of my old employment as a in-house lawyer with the Alberta Court of King's Bench. www.bc.edu/content/dam/...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Just discovered Meads v Meads has been cited not once but twice on TV Tropes! I'd tell Rooke, but, sadly, I know he wouldn't get what a popular culture triumph that represents. Oh, the topics? Frivolous Lawsuit (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...) and Author Filibuster (tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...).

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Most of what is written about pseudolaw comes from academics, so-called "experts" (like me!), and lawyers. We don't often see the judicial perspective. That makes the "Sovereign citizens: ideology, impacts and judicial responses" chapter in the "Handbook for Judicial Officers" interesting.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Most discussion of pseudolaw is based on review of written court judgments. That misses the drastic negative effects on court staff and judges. Those are reviewed in this recent preprint concerning Australian courts: unsworks.unsw.edu.au/entities/pub... Pretty alarming stuff. Worth the read.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Just a reminder of the extent to which the Canadian legal system emphasizes accommodation. Behold! Fursuiters (or feathersuiters) loose in the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I've just published in the Alberta Law Review what I believe is the first broad analysis of how pseudolaw is deployed in criminal litigation, in this case in Canada: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Hope you find that of interest! Questions and comments are most welcome.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Another setback for Ontario lawyer Glenn "Spirit Warrior" Bogue. He's one of the rare trained lawyers who advances pseudolaw, then suspended by the Law Society of Ontario in 2017. Glenn does not care. He continues to attempt to appear in court. He is Metis, and therefore outside anyone's control.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Two factually opposite privacy screen lawsuits! Canadian former lawyer Naomi Arbabi was a property owner who wanted a privacy screen removed. Here, Australian 'Cil': Cilla‑Louise: of the Family: Carden: the living breathing woman' wants her privacy screen up. www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Came across another Canadian promoter, Angela Albright aka “©BOWOLIN,Angela™ Estate Appointed Agent” who operates the Sovereign By Design (sovereignbydesign.com) website. Dates from 2020. Her website has the usual pseudolaw suite of concepts, for example duality of law, Strawman Theory. Yawn.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I've been waiting for pseudolaw gurus to turn to LLM AIs. Sure enough, here's "minister" Edward Jay Robin Belanger engaging ChatGPT about Strawman Theory. And it doesn't go terribly well, which leads to lots and lots of arguing. Not a bad job, ChatGPT.

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Dr. Donald J Netolitzky, PhD, LLM, KC (retired) @dnetolitzky.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Fun pseudolaw failure in an Australian child access matter, featuring that noted North Carolina jurist of the 1700s, Lord Denning! Yeah, you know, the other one. Full decision here: www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

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