“Common law” is a legal term

I just spotted an article in the Dutch news about groups of people who want to overthrow the government or whatever – called “soevereinen”. In the article, “common law” is described as jargon exclusive to these Dutch circles.

That’s incorrect.

This is a potentially dangerous mistake by this journalist, in my view.

You can for example be someone’s common law wife and that has nothing to do with wishing to overthrow the government.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2528098-aivd-waarschuwde-om-twee-verdachten-in-soevereinenzaak-langer-vast

I notice that I have a tendency to mix up AIVD and IND. Probably a good thing.


“Common Law Nederland Earth”? Really? These particular Dutchies sound like nutcases to me. Unfortunately, apparently they’re also dangerous nutcases. They must be folks quite like the crazy lunatics who still continue to pester me, for whatever reason. These dangerous Dutchies use code words, such as “bananas” for “weapons”. The lunatics who are after me do that too.

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