PC65481: Being a Marginal Note on the Confusion of Arithmetic with Law

On the Enumeration of Correspondence as a Substitute for Authority

A Marginal Note on the Confusion of Arithmetic with Law

This document records a single administrative letter in which a public authority responds to lawful complaints by counting them, expressing fatigue, and proposing restriction.

No complaint is identified as abusive.
No rule is cited as breached.
No finding is made.

The difficulty, it appears, is numerical.

Through close reading, the document demonstrates how:

• participation in a complaints process is reframed as problematic by volume alone,
• procedural downgrade is imposed without adjudication, and
• threat is introduced as a substitute for authority.

This is not commentary.
It is documentation.

What You Are Purchasing

• A preserved primary-source example of administrative minimisation
• A concise evidentiary note suitable for court, audit, or oversight
• A model for recording procedural overreach without editorialisation
• An archival entry written with deliberate restraint

Who This Is For

• Judges, lawyers, and public law practitioners
• Parents navigating complaints and safeguarding systems
• Policy reviewers and governance professionals
• Anyone interested in how procedures quietly acquire conditions

Tone

Dry.
Literal.
Unimpressed.

This is not a blog post.
It is a record.

Because accountability does not expire when it becomes repetitive.