Hi Tom, are you mixing apples and oranges here? I was under the impression that claims were made in the law and complaints were made in the legal. Victimless crimes, of the category the article is addressing, are typically legal as well. You know, crimes against the state? A charge of murder, on the other hand, would be an actual crime, and judged by a jury would it not? I think the term "legal claim" would be an oxy moron. Not sure though.

As for not sweating the small stuff, and leaving it up to the branches of the gov't, if i'm not mistaken, and the gov't you're referring to is in D.C., then I believe that particular body is the corporation at the top of the US food chain, is it not? Wouldn't that make it the corporate body all of these administrative courts answer to?

It would make sense to me to handle these things where most of the power of men and women is concentrated...where those men and women stand (locally). It's becoming more widely known these days, that the statutes at large are the law handed down by that corporate body, and unfortunately liberties are taken at these local levels to subvert the intents, in many cases, of those statutes, in order to fill the coffers and collect the taxes from the lowly citizens (slaves).

Your position is understandable, but it is in support of the democracy, when the author of this article is clearly referring to the republic. The very sparsely populated republic. Apples and oranges.

How does the saying go? "Govern thyself, or you will surely be governed by someone else"? I think this article is about governing thyself.