His Honour, ISS Chief of Justice Jeff Bodner
The present Chief of Justice of the Interactive Sovereign Society, since August 3, 2020, is His Honour Jeff Bodner.
Chief Bodner served 30 years as an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, retired with honours in 2012. He received awards during his time in service, including Commissioners Commendation for Bravery in helping save a woman’s life from a partially submerged car in a flood swollen river in February 1999, and a life saving award from Saskatchewan EMS for reviving an elderly man who had suffered a heart attack while raking leaves in his front yard.
For the present time, Chief Bodner is appreciatively offered an annual honorarium of thirty dollars for his service to the ISS. If the Canada Interactive Legislature (CIL) is successful in its present intentions to allow people paying taxes to the nation of Canada to pay federal taxes to the CIL instead of the federal government, then a salary more suitable to the duties and responsibilities, of the chief of the judges of a court system, shall become affordable to the ISS, so that Chief Bodner may be remunerated reasonably. In the meantime, the ISS acknowledges and appreciates the service, that Chief Bodner charitably offers by gracing this position with His Honour’s integrity and impartiality.
The CIL Charter states that if the Crown gives affirmation that “the CIL’s legislation for ISS members shall be upheld in place of federal Crown legislation for similar matters for as long as the House of Commons continues its sustained periods of denial of the rights described in section 3 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, then CIL representatives shall be required to “maintain an attitude of cordiality and appreciation to the Crown and its authorities and consenting citizens”. Chief Bodner shall then be the public authority on facilitating the adjudication process that determines whether a CIL representative is adhering to this requirement if anyone alleges otherwise, subject to appeals to superior courts in Canada.
The present lead representative of the CIL, Psam Frank, has stated the intention to fulfil the requirements of cordiality and appreciation outlined above at such time that Chief Bodner expresses the opinion that the Crown has provided the above-described affirmation adequately by his interpretation of what those words mean. Subsequent to Chief Bodner’s expression of this opinion, Psam’s stated intention is to pursue disqualification of any candidate for the position of CIL lead representative who appears not to fulfil those requirements beyond reproach (or any established relevant precedent), by engaging the judicial process presided over by Chief Bodner.
Chief Bodner acknowledges that the academic training and professional qualification for the position he holds is most effectively gained by pursuing and receiving academic and/or professional accreditation in practising law, rather than through training or professional qualification in enforcement. The ISS may choose a successor for Chief Bodner if a person with more pertinent qualification makes it known to the ISS that she or he would be willing to hold this office. However, due to the negligence of the law profession in Canada in responding to allegations of denials of democratic rights made by the CIL in its pursuit of more effective democratic representation and a more meaningful role in the electoral process for voters, such a succession may be subject to extended delay and scrutiny to assure that Chief Bodner’s integrity in supporting these goals, out of a voluntary willingness to further the cause of democratic enfranchisement of all people, is not superseded by an individual whose support of this goal is not a personal conviction, despite whatever discrepancy may exist between the two because of academically and experientially acquired competency at the practice of law.
Chief Bodner is aware of the cocaine sales presently transacted from time to time by licensees of the CIL’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Committee of Canada, as the CIL’s most prolific present attempt to establish the validity of the constitutional defence put forward by the CIL (Appendix A, starting on page 10, here), alleging that the federal government denies democratic rights for several years at a time, without justification, while the CIL makes these rights constantly available to citizens, thus allegedly allowing CIL adherents to be liable to CIL drug laws instead of existing federal drug laws. Keeping in mind Chief Bodner’s experience as a police officer, it may be of some note that he has expressed uncertainty as to what other explanation might stand behind authorities having presently declined to take any actions against CIL licensees for drug sales, other than that the CIL’s constitutional defence appears to authorities to be consistent with precedent.
In the event of any ISS member appearing to act discordantly with ISS principles, or any ISS authority appearing to act discordantly with the ISS Charter, Chief Bodner, or any of the judicial panel chairs appointed by His Honour, may be approached with a request to have the member’s conduct recognised as unlawful and appropriately sanctioned to dissuade further such conduct and acquire any reparations, up to and including termination of membership in the ISS and/or a recommendation to government authorities to prosecute the member for unlawful conduct in which the CIL would withhold authentication of any attempt at a section 3 Charter defence. This includes an event in which you observe an ISS member using drugs subject to the laws of the CIL that would otherwise be unlawful under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, in such a way that you believe shows an evident unreasonable harm to their self-wellness.
His Honour, ISS Deputy Chief of Justice Kane Follis
The present Chair of the Justice Committee, and Deputy Chief of Justice of the Interactive Sovereign Society, since March 19, 2017, is His Honour Kane Follis. Deputy Chief Follis is also qualified as a panel chair on the ISS judiciary, with the title of Judicial Chair Follis.
His Honour, Judicial Chair Follis, believes that a significant aspect of his basic character is a devotion to impartiality: taking a neutral ground between different sides in disagreements and helping both sides have their reasoning be clearly heard and acknowledged. Chair Follis finds personal satisfaction in treating principles such as impartiality and rule of law (judging actions based on publicly prescribed law rather than any person’s potentially arbitrary discretion), with the greatest of importance. He has the trust of the members of the ISS to exercise these skills consistently and dependably when called upon to preside over the facilitation of resolution of differences between members of our society.
The mandate of the position of Chair of the Justice Committee includes being proactively receptive to any interest expressed in any changes to the methods and protocols by which ISS justice is conducted, and to have these desired changes brought before the Justice Committee as a motion. When Chair Follis believes that such a motion is ready to carry, he can initiate the final stage of the motion, at which point other candidates for the position of Justice Committee Chair can veto the motion as stipulated in the Representative Collaborators Part of the ISS Charter (page 3 here).
As ISS Deputy Chief of Justice, Deputy Follis’ main role is to act on behalf of the Chief of Justice whenever Chief Bodner is absent or unable to act. If a judicial hearing is called, then the Chief of Justice is responsible for choosing which member of the judiciary should chair the panel to conduct the hearing. It is generally considered advantageous to avoid having the Deputy Chief act as panel chair in a judicial hearing so that the Deputy is less distracted from the role of Chair of the Justice Committee and more available as the potential stand-in for the Chief if necessary. It is the Chief whose discretion shall be applied in weighing this factor against any other factors that might be relevant, one possibly more important factor being that parties involved in a dispute have their hearing chaired by a judicial official who both parties have the least possible reason to believe is any less partial to their own side in the dispute than to the adverse party.
To any ISS member who might be willing to offer to perform the functions of Chair of the Justice Committee and Deputy Chief of Justice of the ISS, Deputy Follis wishes for her or him to know that these positions are elected by the ISS Justice Committee, and Deputy Follis intends to be supportive at helping her or him pursue the same skills for which Deputy Follis’ proficiency have made him the ISS’s present choice, so that a potential successor might demonstrate sufficient competency to meet the approval of the Justice Committee’s members.
The lead representative of the Canada Interactive Legislature (CIL), Psam Frank, has stated the intention to abide by his duty, as depicted in the CIL Charter (second paragraph of preamble, page 1 here), to maintain an attitude of cordiality and appreciation to Crown authorities and citizens if affirmation is received that ISS members will be subjected to CIL laws in place of Crown laws wherever the two differ, if Chief Bodner expresses the opinion that the Crown has provided this affirmation satisfactorily. Representative Frank has also stated that he will respond in the same way if the same opinion is expressed by Deputy Follis, even if the Chief and Deputy disagree as to whether the affirmation has been satisfactorily conveyed. Representative Frank expresses a view concurred with by Deputy Follis: that a collective judiciary should set an example of equality for society by acting concurrently with a fundamental purpose of the existence of justice: that people working together for a common purpose should regard each other as equals to whatever extent they are pragmatically capable, despite whatever discrepancies in authority may have been designated by society as a deterrent to harms that may be caused by breakdown of societal unity.
As a qualified panel chair for the judiciary, His Honour Chair Follis can instigate a judicial hearing in which a panel of selected members can decide whether a complaint about an ISS member failing to adhere to ISS principles is accurate, and if so, how to respond toward the member on behalf of the society. The Chair is required not to instigate such a hearing if it is motivated by a desire to anger or frustrate the defendant, to cause prejudice toward the defendant or needless wasting of their time, or contravention of principles of ISS justice. If you know of any ISS member who acts discordantly with ISS principles, then His Honour is one of several members designated by the Chief of Justice to whom you can voice your complaint and ask for judicial action.
Deputy Follis believes that many of the skills used to perform in the three distinct roles he is endowed with on behalf of the ISS judiciary are also skills that assist in the goal of showing loving support toward children in one’s life who one wishes to see flourish, and he encourages others who exercise these skills to view them as a part of their dignity and worth.
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Thank you for taking the time to learn about the roles of members of the ISS judiciary. Numerous informed citizens (and potential jurors) can have even greater effect at facilitating a fair and reasonable existence of the rule of law in a land than the individuals chosen to hold positions of authority, so your time reading this is a valued contribution to the ISS’s pursuit of a more democratic legislative process than has previously been the conventional standard enforced by existing governments.