David Wynn Miller

David Wynn Miller (1948/1949 ), also styled :David-Wynn: Miller, was an American pseudolegal theorist, self-proclaimed judge and leader of a tax protester group within the sovereign citizen movement. Originally a tool and die welder,

Miller's activism stemmed from his own frustrating experience with the legal system. and appeared pro se in numerous child custody hearings (67, according to his website), losing every time. In the following years, he promoted it through various seminars, books and videos. has also been variously called, with or without capital letters, "PARSE-SYNTAX-GRAMMAR",

Miller's design involves sentences that begin with prepositional phrases, using the word For. It is easily recognizable, among other traits, by the constant and repetitive use of the phrases "for the" and "with the" and a word that starts with a vowel followed by two consonants means "no contract" and will therefore void any document.

Although the language he pioneered is incomprehensible to most people, Miller asserted that it can end all forms of misunderstanding and conflict The person is thus identified as a "fact"

Donald J. Netolitzky, writing for the Alberta Law Review, commented that "Documents written in Millerese are a challenge to interpret" and that "video recordings of Miller's seminars defy both description and credulity". He also claimed to have "turned Hawaii into a verb", thus becoming "King of Hawaii". Like many sovereign citizens, Miller asserted that the world is secretly governed by maritime law; his own explanation for this situation was that "Earth is a vessel in a sea of space".

Besides his pseudolegal ideas, Miller was a proponent of the 2012 phenomenon and also adhered to a wide variety of conspiracy theories, some related to 9/11.

The Los Angeles Times called Miller a "far-right activist". The Anti-Defamation League described Miller as "one of the most unusual of the 'common law gurus' who travel the country holding seminars and offering legal advice. Miller has created his own unique version of English grammar, one that even many sovereign citizens find hard to understand or accept."

Despite the unusual nature of his theories, Miller became popular as a "guru" within the sovereign citizen movement, which he helped expand to other English-speaking countries. where he would disrupt court proceedings, file unintelligible documents, and host paid seminars to explain his theories and advertise the use of his language. or "incomprehensible"

In 2001 he was banned from entry into Canada for two years after a number of judges had jailed people for contempt of court after they had attempted to use his "truth language" to defend against tax evasion charges. In 2011, an Australian barrister, who had been paid by his clients to attend one of Miller's seminars, described Miller's teachings as "the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life." This "court" had no courthouse or fixed location, but Miller claimed that it had transitory jurisdiction with a presence wherever the federal postal eagle symbol may be.

In 2016, Miller's "Federal Postal court" issued a $11.5 million dollar judgement against the mortgage service company Ocwen by declaring that its loans were fraudulent. A federal judge investigated Miller's court and struck down the filing, concluding that the "Federal Postal court" was "a sham and no more than a product of fertile imagination"

Lawyer Colin McRoberts finds Miller's linguistic experiment remarkable by the fact that he could find followers despite the strangeness of his theories and their consistent failure in court, and considers him a good example of a pseudolaw litigant and guru whose ideas "flout consensus reality": "as baffling, incomprehensible, and plainly false as his theories are, he sold them. His customers paid to take seminars on how to use proper "quantum" phrasing in court. He and his followers relied on his strategies to the detriment of all involved—including Miller himself." Johnson was convicted and returned to prison in 1999.

In June 1998 Prescott, Arizona resident James McCreary filed a federal lawsuit after being arrested in February for aggravated assault and possession of drug paraphernalia. In his filing, "McCreary mentions the name of his apparent mentor. David Wynn Miller of Ohio is an advocate of the restoration of Constitutional rights through 'correct' language and procedure." McCreary's actions in court got his conviction reduced by the Judge to three misdemeanors, and he was sentenced to three concurrent 60-day sentences in jail.

In August 2001, Paul and Myrna Schuck unsuccessfully used Miller's language during a tax evasion trial in Calgary, Alberta. They wrote their names on postage stamps affixed to laminated identification badges, which they claimed gave them authority equal to the Queen of England's. Online posts during the proceedings show they were using Miller's methods. They served 19 days of a 30-day sentence. Magritz was convicted in 2003 on seven counts of criminal slander of title and sentenced to five years in prison.

In December 2002, Wisconsin juries convicted Oconomowoc, Wisconsin residents Janice K. Logan and Jason Zellmer (Miller's cousin) Zellmer had been previously convicted of resisting an officer. Rickard and co-defendant Jamila Davis were convicted of conspiracy and six counts of bank fraud in 2008.

In 2006, Hemet, California physician Jerome Mueller was jailed for tax evasion: "Part of a loose-knit group calling themselves 'freemen' and 'patriots,' Mueller is an adherent of 'truth language.' Developed by self-professed genius David Wynn Miller, of Milwaukee, truth language is based on mathematics and purports to be the only correct way of interpreting English. (...) The U.S. government, however, contends in everyday English that Mueller owes income taxes back to 1993."

In 2008, Wai'anae, Hawaii resident Rita Makekau was convicted of eight counts of assault and one count of domestic abuse for injuring five children in her care with hammers and knives. In 2009, Makekau challenged her child abuse conviction by claiming her sovereignty group, Hawaiian Kingdom Government, declared her innocent. Miller said he was the group's spokesperson and is a "plenipotentiary judge, ambassador and postmaster". Makekau was ordered to prison in 2009.

In 2012, imprisoned sovereign citizen and tax protester leader David Russell Myrland enlisted Miller's help to file a lawsuit against the federal government over its improper use of grammar. The lawsuit was unsuccessful. The document filed by Miller included, among other statements: For the 'why' of the sheriff's-statement-writings and: United States Attorney's-statements-writing are with a second-grade-reading-level and: writing-level and: vacating-facts, opinions, guessing, modifications, viod [sic]-factual-syntax-grammar word-meanings by the vassalees against the collusion-conspiracy with the handycapping [sic]-parse-syntax-grammar-communication-pleadings and: babbling-collusions-threats against the David-Russell: Myrland by the vassalees. Miller has stated that although he did not know Loughner, he agreed with Loughner's video postings on government mind control and grammar, but was appalled by Loughner's actions. Miller stated that the idea that his work could have inspired the mass shooting was "ridiculous", and "I expect he's been on my website... He's just repeating things I've had up on my site the past 11 years."

Associates and legacy Pseudolegal sovereign citizen document written in Quantum Grammar. Miller's language is used by various groups and individuals associated with the sovereign citizen movements, including African-American "Moorish" activists. During his trial, he persisted in using Miller's language in his documents and oral arguments, despite being repeatedly ordered by the court to communicate in a comprehensible fashion. The court eventually revoked his self-representation. In August 2018, he was sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison.

In August 2017, after Miller suffered a heart attack, Russell Jay Gould, published a video in which he purported to "court martial" Miller and to remove his authority as a "judge". The website of Miller's "Federal Postal court" later went offline. or the "sovereign king" of the United States. In 2023, the Anti-Defamation League described Gould as the most popular quantum grammar advocate among sovereign citizen theorists.

In July 2024, a British group led by Mark Kishon Christopher, a Miller disciple, along with Matthew Dean Martin, Sean Harper, and Shiza Harper identifying themselves as the 'Federal Postal Court' or 'the Court for the People' were convicted of conspiring to kidnap the Senior Coroner for Essex. Christopher had appointed himself 'Chief Judge of England and all Dominions', while Martin and Sean Harper were 'Sheriffs'. They had sent a series of threats to the Coroner, and went to the Court, equipped with handcuffs, intending to kidnap him. For this Christopher was sentenced to 7 years in prison, while the others were given 30 month sentences.