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Ten Seconds to Implosion: The Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion
Donald J. Netolitzky, PhD, K.C.
Alberta Court of King’s Bench
Abstract: The Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion [MCLR] is an example of a “legal cult,” a social group organized
around key guru leaders who obtain their elevated status and hold followers via alleged special knowledge of law.
The MCLR’s two gurus, David Robinson and Jacquie Phoenix (legal name Jacqueline Robinson), claimed the true
binding law for residents of the Commonwealth is a hidden secret law, called “pseudolaw.” Pseudolaw is a highly
conserved set of false legal concepts nested in a conspiratorial narrative. Pseudolaw originated in the US, but post-
2000 has spread world-wide.
The MCLR pseudolaw variant is that the 1215 Magna Carta remains in effect and operates as a supraconstitutional
authority. Robinson and Phoenix claim that individuals may defeat conventional legal and state authority by
swearing an oath of allegiance to Lord Craigmyle of Invernesshire, a “New Rebel Baron.” Special paperwork then
permits extraordinary authority, including the right to execute government authorities and other enemies. However,
MCLR adherents instead employed these concepts in petty domestic circumstances, and without any success. The
MCLR’s leadership and adherent population appear similar: low-income, uneducated, and marginal persons
with conspiratorial anti-authority beliefs. This “cult of peers” largely operates online. The MCLR was a minor
and comparatively unsuccessful branch of UK pseudolaw culture until 2019, when Phoenix attracted numerous
followers, and led a “Redress” movement that promised defeat of New World Order oppressors via execution of
“traitors and quislings.” The 2021 failure of the “Redress” effort now threatens Phoenix’s status, and the long-term
viability of the MCLR and its concepts.
Keywords: Pseudolaw, Magna Carta, Law, Sovereign Citizen, OPCA, Organized Pseudolegal Commercial
Arguments, Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion, MCLR, Practical Lawful Dissent, David Robinson, Jacqueline
Robinson, Jacquie Phoenix, Lord Craigmyle
I. Introduction: Anti-State Pseudolaw Cults
Pseudolaw is a collection of legal-sounding but false rules
that purport to be law and that displaces conventional
law. Courts universally reject pseudolaw its rules and
outcomes are different from “conventional” law, and
therefore incorrect (Kalinowski, 2019 McRoberts,
2019 Netolitzky, 2021). Pseudolaw is usually associated
with a conspiratorial narrative or explanation for why
pseudolaw is true but suppressed--a secret law known
to a privileged few.
Pseudolaw incubated for decades in the US Sovereign
Citizen communities, a collection of right-wing, often
racist, conservative, largely rural, and fundamentalist
Christian groups (Sarteschi, 2020). The modern
form of pseudolaw crystalized circa 2000 (Netolitzky,
2018a Netolitzky, 2021). After that, pseudolaw spread
internationally into many marginal, extremist, and
reactionary anti-authority populations, who exhibit
a diverse array of cultural and political objectives
(Netolitzky, 2018a Netolitzky, 2023a, pp. 799-801
Sarteschi, 2022).
Pseudolaw is an alternative, or dissident, legal system,
now incorporated within the cultic milieu (Netolitzky,
2021). Pseudolaw has been likened to a memetic parasitic
virus that infects, and then activates and radicalizes
anti-authority groups (Netolitzky, 2021). Pseudolaw
promises a dramatic shifting of law-based authority to
individuals and away from state and institutional actors
(Netolitzky, 2021). The exact objectives of groups that
employ pseudolaw are surprisingly diverse, and often
incompatible between different groups. That variation
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Ten Seconds to Implosion: The Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion
Donald J. Netolitzky, PhD, K.C.
Alberta Court of King’s Bench
Abstract: The Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion [MCLR] is an example of a “legal cult,” a social group organized
around key guru leaders who obtain their elevated status and hold followers via alleged special knowledge of law.
The MCLR’s two gurus, David Robinson and Jacquie Phoenix (legal name Jacqueline Robinson), claimed the true
binding law for residents of the Commonwealth is a hidden secret law, called “pseudolaw.” Pseudolaw is a highly
conserved set of false legal concepts nested in a conspiratorial narrative. Pseudolaw originated in the US, but post-
2000 has spread world-wide.
The MCLR pseudolaw variant is that the 1215 Magna Carta remains in effect and operates as a supraconstitutional
authority. Robinson and Phoenix claim that individuals may defeat conventional legal and state authority by
swearing an oath of allegiance to Lord Craigmyle of Invernesshire, a “New Rebel Baron.” Special paperwork then
permits extraordinary authority, including the right to execute government authorities and other enemies. However,
MCLR adherents instead employed these concepts in petty domestic circumstances, and without any success. The
MCLR’s leadership and adherent population appear similar: low-income, uneducated, and marginal persons
with conspiratorial anti-authority beliefs. This “cult of peers” largely operates online. The MCLR was a minor
and comparatively unsuccessful branch of UK pseudolaw culture until 2019, when Phoenix attracted numerous
followers, and led a “Redress” movement that promised defeat of New World Order oppressors via execution of
“traitors and quislings.” The 2021 failure of the “Redress” effort now threatens Phoenix’s status, and the long-term
viability of the MCLR and its concepts.
Keywords: Pseudolaw, Magna Carta, Law, Sovereign Citizen, OPCA, Organized Pseudolegal Commercial
Arguments, Magna Carta Lawful Rebellion, MCLR, Practical Lawful Dissent, David Robinson, Jacqueline
Robinson, Jacquie Phoenix, Lord Craigmyle
I. Introduction: Anti-State Pseudolaw Cults
Pseudolaw is a collection of legal-sounding but false rules
that purport to be law and that displaces conventional
law. Courts universally reject pseudolaw its rules and
outcomes are different from “conventional” law, and
therefore incorrect (Kalinowski, 2019 McRoberts,
2019 Netolitzky, 2021). Pseudolaw is usually associated
with a conspiratorial narrative or explanation for why
pseudolaw is true but suppressed--a secret law known
to a privileged few.
Pseudolaw incubated for decades in the US Sovereign
Citizen communities, a collection of right-wing, often
racist, conservative, largely rural, and fundamentalist
Christian groups (Sarteschi, 2020). The modern
form of pseudolaw crystalized circa 2000 (Netolitzky,
2018a Netolitzky, 2021). After that, pseudolaw spread
internationally into many marginal, extremist, and
reactionary anti-authority populations, who exhibit
a diverse array of cultural and political objectives
(Netolitzky, 2018a Netolitzky, 2023a, pp. 799-801
Sarteschi, 2022).
Pseudolaw is an alternative, or dissident, legal system,
now incorporated within the cultic milieu (Netolitzky,
2021). Pseudolaw has been likened to a memetic parasitic
virus that infects, and then activates and radicalizes
anti-authority groups (Netolitzky, 2021). Pseudolaw
promises a dramatic shifting of law-based authority to
individuals and away from state and institutional actors
(Netolitzky, 2021). The exact objectives of groups that
employ pseudolaw are surprisingly diverse, and often
incompatible between different groups. That variation
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