Know the Meaning of the Word “Crime.”
The term “crime” is thrown around loosely and is slippery than WD-40.
A crime is not the same thing as a “violation,” or “offense” or “citation.”
A common crime involves injury to another human being or damage to their property. Murder, theft, vandalism, pick pocketing, fraud and the like are criminal in nature.
Going ten miles over the speed limit is not a crime! Driving without a seat belt doing your private business is not a crime.
Consequently, if you are arrested and charged with a crime, you have a right to see the body; that is, to see and hear from the injured party. If there is no injured soul, there is no crime. The case must be dismissed.
If you are charged with a crime as to see the body (Habeas Corpus), and to see the contract. If there is no injured body, there is no crime. If there is no contract, there is no violation or offense.
Such crimes as are punishable by the force of the common law, as distinguished from crimes created by statute. Wilkins v. U. S., _ 96 Fed. 837, 37 C. C. A. 588; In re Greene I* (C. C.) 52 Fed. 111. These decisions (and many others) hold that there are no common- law crimes against the United States.
There are no common law crimes against the United States because the United States is not a living soul that can be injured, and because all “crimes” against the United States are, in actuality, violations of a contract . . . if you have one. And, as such are not common law crimes.
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