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lifestyle of “do as I please,” and “take what I want”
(Netolitzky, 2021, pp. 180-183, 188 Netolitzky, 2023a,
pp. 818-820). Resistance and rejection of COVID-19
pandemic management steps is also commonplace.
However, MCLR theory is most frequently deployed
in minor social sanction processes and debt scenarios:
e.g., avoiding utility and telephone bills, refusing traffic
tickets and defying motor vehicle legislation, rejection
of government registration procedures, and refusal to
pay council (municipal) taxes. This petty dispute focus
extends to the MCLR leadership. Both Robinson (2017,
pp. 4, 6-7) and Phoenix (AVI v MHVB, 2020 ABQB 489,
para. 19) deployed MCLR techniques against motor
vehicle tickets and regulation steps. Phoenix’s “Lawful
Rebellion” was a failure--she was convicted. Robinson
admitted that he was the subject of arrest warrants
for unpaid council tax (Robinson, 2018a Robinson,
2018b).
Commonplace applications of MCLR theory are
therefore “overkill.” Overthrow of all established
authority and mass killings are “the solutions”
for comparatively minor personal issues. Active
enforcement and violence is then passed off to police,
via the “Lobby the Bobby” concept.
E. Leaders and Adherents
MCLR leadership is clearly defined. Robinson is the
MCLR’s creative guru messiah figure, though his
effectiveness in that role was, at best, limited. Robinson’s
pseudolaw theories are shallow and derivative. His
presentation of those concepts in the Laymans Guide
and other sources was amateurish and unsophisticated.
The available record shows that Robinson was
intolerant of internal and external challenge to his
ideas, but, unlike Phoenix, Robinson did not engage
in wholesale censorship of opposing statements and
criticism. Insults were Robinson’s preferred response.
With Robinson behind the wheel, the MCLR was, at
best, a marginal phenomenon, but one that interacted
with and referenced other activity by UK pseudolaw
elements. The Robinson MCLR was therefore part of a
broader anti-authority pseudolaw ecosystem.
Little is documented about Robinson himself, other
than he had at least one sibling (Phoenix, 2021a).
Based on his unsophisticated writing and “research,”
Robinson’s education and training were likely minimal.
Robinson self-reported that he was unemployable
due to muscular dystrophy, received Disabled Living
Allowance support (Robinson, 2018b), and existed
in a precarious economic state (Robinson, 2018c
Robinson, 2018d). Robinson exhibited a broad range
of conspiratorial beliefs, a commonplace characteristic
of pseudolaw adherents (Netolitzky, 2021). The
Laymans Guide (2017a, pp. 3-8) framed its techniques
in response to commonplace cultic milieu (Campbell,
1972) and improvisational millennialist (Barkun, 2013)
allegations of government, financial, and pedophiliac
conspiracies. Robinson’s social media posts include
stereotypic conspiratorial and QAnon type beliefs,
5G wireless threats, “chemtrails,” and that Robinson,
personally, was the target of covert energy technology
attacks (Robinson, 2017b Robinson, 2018b). Even
post-Brexit, Robinson continued to denounce
European Union influences.
Robinson’s post-death canonization is very much a
product of Phoenix’s reverential treatment of Robinson
and his ideas. Phoenix represented herself as Robinson’s
most faithful apostle, a Saul of Tarsus/St. Paul
character, carrying the sacred word outside the UK to
the Canadian philistines. Unlike St. Paul, Phoenix then
returned to Jerusalem/London, bearing a sword (or
a staff). Like Robinson, Phoenix tolerates no dissent
or disagreement, but enforces absolute orthodoxy in
communication networks that she controls. Until her
2021 “apocalyptic phase,” Phoenix’s “Redress” program
was a strict attempt to advance Robinson’s concepts.
Phoenix was born in Drumheller Alberta, and lived
in smaller communities known for “redneck” and
reactionary conservative politics. Like Robinson,
Phoenix has a marginal lifestyle based on government
assistance via the provincial Assured Income for the
Severely Handicapped program (Phoenix, 2019).
Phoenix’s social media does not indicate any substantive
affiliation with the many post-2000 Canadian
pseudolaw movements (reviewed in Netolitzky, 2016
Netolitzky, 2023a Netolitzky, 2023b). The MCLR was
Phoenix’s gateway into pseudolaw.
In many ways Phoenix is a peculiar guru. She is an
unremarkable individual, except for her increasingly
eccentric appearance and dress. Phoenix is an inept,
practically illiterate communicator, which is strange
given that text is her primary medium to recruit
lifestyle of “do as I please,” and “take what I want”
(Netolitzky, 2021, pp. 180-183, 188 Netolitzky, 2023a,
pp. 818-820). Resistance and rejection of COVID-19
pandemic management steps is also commonplace.
However, MCLR theory is most frequently deployed
in minor social sanction processes and debt scenarios:
e.g., avoiding utility and telephone bills, refusing traffic
tickets and defying motor vehicle legislation, rejection
of government registration procedures, and refusal to
pay council (municipal) taxes. This petty dispute focus
extends to the MCLR leadership. Both Robinson (2017,
pp. 4, 6-7) and Phoenix (AVI v MHVB, 2020 ABQB 489,
para. 19) deployed MCLR techniques against motor
vehicle tickets and regulation steps. Phoenix’s “Lawful
Rebellion” was a failure--she was convicted. Robinson
admitted that he was the subject of arrest warrants
for unpaid council tax (Robinson, 2018a Robinson,
2018b).
Commonplace applications of MCLR theory are
therefore “overkill.” Overthrow of all established
authority and mass killings are “the solutions”
for comparatively minor personal issues. Active
enforcement and violence is then passed off to police,
via the “Lobby the Bobby” concept.
E. Leaders and Adherents
MCLR leadership is clearly defined. Robinson is the
MCLR’s creative guru messiah figure, though his
effectiveness in that role was, at best, limited. Robinson’s
pseudolaw theories are shallow and derivative. His
presentation of those concepts in the Laymans Guide
and other sources was amateurish and unsophisticated.
The available record shows that Robinson was
intolerant of internal and external challenge to his
ideas, but, unlike Phoenix, Robinson did not engage
in wholesale censorship of opposing statements and
criticism. Insults were Robinson’s preferred response.
With Robinson behind the wheel, the MCLR was, at
best, a marginal phenomenon, but one that interacted
with and referenced other activity by UK pseudolaw
elements. The Robinson MCLR was therefore part of a
broader anti-authority pseudolaw ecosystem.
Little is documented about Robinson himself, other
than he had at least one sibling (Phoenix, 2021a).
Based on his unsophisticated writing and “research,”
Robinson’s education and training were likely minimal.
Robinson self-reported that he was unemployable
due to muscular dystrophy, received Disabled Living
Allowance support (Robinson, 2018b), and existed
in a precarious economic state (Robinson, 2018c
Robinson, 2018d). Robinson exhibited a broad range
of conspiratorial beliefs, a commonplace characteristic
of pseudolaw adherents (Netolitzky, 2021). The
Laymans Guide (2017a, pp. 3-8) framed its techniques
in response to commonplace cultic milieu (Campbell,
1972) and improvisational millennialist (Barkun, 2013)
allegations of government, financial, and pedophiliac
conspiracies. Robinson’s social media posts include
stereotypic conspiratorial and QAnon type beliefs,
5G wireless threats, “chemtrails,” and that Robinson,
personally, was the target of covert energy technology
attacks (Robinson, 2017b Robinson, 2018b). Even
post-Brexit, Robinson continued to denounce
European Union influences.
Robinson’s post-death canonization is very much a
product of Phoenix’s reverential treatment of Robinson
and his ideas. Phoenix represented herself as Robinson’s
most faithful apostle, a Saul of Tarsus/St. Paul
character, carrying the sacred word outside the UK to
the Canadian philistines. Unlike St. Paul, Phoenix then
returned to Jerusalem/London, bearing a sword (or
a staff). Like Robinson, Phoenix tolerates no dissent
or disagreement, but enforces absolute orthodoxy in
communication networks that she controls. Until her
2021 “apocalyptic phase,” Phoenix’s “Redress” program
was a strict attempt to advance Robinson’s concepts.
Phoenix was born in Drumheller Alberta, and lived
in smaller communities known for “redneck” and
reactionary conservative politics. Like Robinson,
Phoenix has a marginal lifestyle based on government
assistance via the provincial Assured Income for the
Severely Handicapped program (Phoenix, 2019).
Phoenix’s social media does not indicate any substantive
affiliation with the many post-2000 Canadian
pseudolaw movements (reviewed in Netolitzky, 2016
Netolitzky, 2023a Netolitzky, 2023b). The MCLR was
Phoenix’s gateway into pseudolaw.
In many ways Phoenix is a peculiar guru. She is an
unremarkable individual, except for her increasingly
eccentric appearance and dress. Phoenix is an inept,
practically illiterate communicator, which is strange
given that text is her primary medium to recruit
