Abstract
Can a dog be made a legal person by public proclamation? Can a person avoid any law she does not explicitly consent to? Are the government and its agencies merely for-profit trading corporations, with no compulsory jurisdiction? Is the only true law found in one version of the Bible from the seventeenth century?
Welcome to the strange world of pseudolaw – a growing global phenomenon where the forms and methods of legal reasoning are distorted through a fever dream of conspiratorial thinking into a twisted parody of the law. Pseudolaw adherents earnestly believe that they (and often they alone) have access to the ‘true’ understanding of the law, and by deploying stylised forms of words imbued with magical or mystical meanings, they can avoid what they see as odious and illegitimate state interference.