The Game of Joinder — How They Attach You to the Fiction
Following on from our last blog, where we uncovered how silence is treated as consent, we now take the next step: how that consent is used to create joinder; the trick that joins the living man or woman to the corporate fiction in your name.
What Is Joinder?
In law, joinder simply means two parties are linked in a matter. In commerce, it’s the process of attaching you (the living being) to the ALL CAPS legal person, the fiction that can be taxed, fined, and bound by contracts.
How They Create Joinder
- “Are you MR JOHN SMITH?” If you answer “yes,” you just joined.
- Summons, letters, bills: If you accept or stay silent, joinder is presumed.
- “Do you understand?” Saying “yes” is taken as standing under their jurisdiction.
Why Joinder Matters
Without joinder, there’s no bridge from the commercial fiction to the living you. With joinder, liabilities, penalties, and obligations of the paper entity are presumed to be yours.
How to Avoid Joinder
- Don’t automatically answer to the ALL CAPS name.
- Ask questions: “Who is making the claim?” “Who is the injured party?”
- State your position: “There is no joinder between me, the living man/woman, and that name.”
- Rebut in writing when you receive commercial notices you do not agree with.
Awareness Is Key
Joinder is invisible until you see it. Once you recognise how the game is played, you can stop playing the part they assigned and stand as the living man or woman, by choice, not by assumption.
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