New Course Coming soon- Structural Captivity upon Governments

The structural captivity upon government is one of the most fundamental yet concealed dynamics in the modern legal-political order. Unlike individual captivity of the mind, knowledge, or emotion the captivity of government operates not just through coercion but through inversion. Governments, which were created to serve and protect, have become agents of suppression and deception when they depart from the international legal order and peremptory norms.

Here is a structural breakdown:

Governments Are Not Sovereign in Absolute Terms

Governments are subordinate to international law, more specifically to peremptory norms under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Article 27) and the ICCPR (Articles 2, 5, 16, 18). Any domestic law or action that contradicts these norms is legally null and void.

"A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty." Vienna Convention, Article 27

On paper and in the international order, governments are not at the top of the hierarchy. But to the citizen standing in front of a judge, a cop, or a ministry counter, that’s not the picture being projected at all.

What I am pointing to is the manufactured image of supremacy. The performance of absolute sovereignty, which is itself a tool of structural captivity.

Let’s unpack how that illusion is built.

The image governments project: We are the top.

Domestically, the government (and all its organs) presents itself as:

the final maker of rules (parliament, legislature)
the final interpreter of rules (courts, tribunals)
the final enforcer of rules (police, agencies, regulators)

The narrative pushed into citizens is:

Law = what we enact. Authority = what we say it is. You are under us, because you are our subject / citizen / resident.

That’s the myth of sovereign absolutism. In practice the idea that the state is the highest legal and moral authority, with no superior jurisdiction that limits it.

School, media, and legal culture all train people to think of the hierarchy as such,

government constitution statutes you

instead of

being peremptory norms international order domestic government

The reality underneath. Government is subordinate, not supreme.

In the real legal hierarchy:

Vienna Convention, Article 27: a state cannot use its internal law to justify breaching a treaty.

ICCPR Article 2.2: states must change their domestic laws to give effect to the rights in the Covenant.

ICCPR Article 5: no state, group, or person has any right to destroy or limit those rights beyond what the Covenant allows.

The state is not the source of your rights. The state is a duty-bearer under a higher order of law.

When a government acts like it is the origin of law and rights, it’s already in structural rebellion against the actual hierarchy: being → jus cogens → international covenants → domestic law → administrative action.

How the illusion is maintained: recognition capture

The only way that contradiction can survive is by capturing recognition:

You are trained to recognize the state, the court, the ID, the statute – before you recognize yourself as a being with inherent, prior rights.

Birth registration, citizenship, licenses, permits, and IDs all function as mechanisms to transfer recognition from essence to construct.

Over time, people walk in recognition of citizen under state, not being under universal order.

Your recognition is the fuel that powers the illusion. Without citizens treating the government as top-of-chain, the entire façade collapses.

Structural captivity of government

Here’s the truth and reality:

Governments are legally bound, structurally bound to the international order and peremptory norms.

Yet they operate as if they are above it, to maintain control and obedience.

That means the government itself is in structural captivity: trapped in a position where it must continuously violate the higher law that legitimizes its own existence.

What the people on earth end up with:

Outward story: We are the highest authority.

Legal reality: Governments are a subordinate organ under international law. Moral reality: Governments lose legal legitimacy the moment they violate peremptory norms.

That gap between appearance and reality is the captivity field.

Why this matters for Human Beings.

Since Human Beings are captive to this false understanding, they accept the projected image, that domestic government is the top of the chain:

They stop appealing to the true hierarchy (international law, peremptory norms, recognition of being).

They argue inside the cage: “Please be nicer under your own rules,” instead of “You are in violation of the higher rules that bind you.”

Once a conscious being sees that the governments top of the authority stance is a crafted illusion, not a legal fact, the entire frame shifts.

Government in Rebellion Against the Rule of Law

When a government enacts laws that violate non-derogable rights, such as forced statutory personhood, coercive identification, or suppression of conscience it ceases to operate under the Hierarchy of law. It becomes a governance structure in rebellion against the lawful order it is bound to uphold.

When a legal or political system fails to uphold the Peremptory Norms it is legally obligated and commanded to protect, it enters into rebellion against its own foundational order.

Governments Are Constructed Actors

Governments are not moral agents. They are systems comprised of organs of the state (courts, hospitals, schools, police, legislators). All of these organs are bound by international obligation, and each is complicit if it enforces structural captivity.

The conduct of any State organ shall be considered an act of that State under international law. Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, Article 4

Recognition Capture as the Primary Tool

Modern governments do not operate primarily through force, but through the capture of recognition. This capture of recognition is structurally done through the captivity of knowledge, emotion and belief. The government enforces itself via identification systems, jurisdictional claims, legal fictions, and the psychological training of obedience. This renders governments dependent on the illusion of legitimacy, not on actual lawfulness.

Structural Captivity of Government is the Legal Inversion

The structurally captive government:

Replaces international law with statutory control

Substitutes moral conscience with bureaucratic obedience

Redirects authority away from being and into construct

Uses fear, registration, or reward is used to extract compliance

This violates ICCPR Articles 16 and 18, which are non-derogable and universally binding.

The True Legal Hierarchy

The rule of law is not statutory law. The rule of law is brought forth through peremptory norms. It is the principle of limitation, accountability, and justice that binds all government action.

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