FREEDOM-OF-THE-LAND MOVEMENT: Really
stupid people
.The Police seized this
twerp’s van, arrested him and charged him with six traffic offences, but the
incident signaled that the anti-government Freemen
on the Land, Movement, of which
he is a prominent member, had taken root in Canada.
These kooks further claim that we
as Canadians are enslaved by government encroachment but that the Freemen know the remedy which is to them; anyone can
simply opt-out of Canada by severing our “contract” with the government and
living instead according to a “common law” enforced by other Freedom-of-the-Land Movement members. The way I interpret that twaddle is that these kooks
are saying that we as Canadians shouldn`t obey any legislation and other laws
that govern us as a nation but instead we should live by the rules these kooks
have created for themselves.
“We have our own police force, we
have our own insurance company,” Mr. Rasila said. “But what we don’t have is
the compliance of the government, so what they’re doing is they’re sending out
their mercenary thugs and their criminal judges.”
What he is really saying is
that our police officers are enforcing the laws that govern us so that we can
be protected from wrongdoers who would otherwise harm, violate or cheat us and
for this reason, he calls them are thugs and he is also saying that the judges
who punish wrongdoers who have committed wrongs against us are also thugs.
Rasila described his activities
as “peaceful non-compliance.” On the Internet, however, he doesn’t always sound
so peaceful. In a letter he posted on-line, he warned that “there is in fact a
war coming and we the people have had enough.”
In a YouTube video, he is seen throwing
knives at a painted gunman while captions advise to “be prepared” because the
government has been “co-opted by criminals.” In essence, he is actually
depicting throwing knives at police officers whom he maintains are thugs. Another
post encourages unlicensed gun ownership.
He also claims affiliations with
U.S. militias and right wing groups like the Oath Keepers. “It is basically us against the government now,” he
said. “If we don’t rein them in then they are just going to take over every
possible freedom that we have. I mean if it comes down to defence, we are
willing to defend ourselves.”
Asked if he was peaceful, he
responded, “I am, yes. But I will defend myself if I have to. I mean, what are
we going to do, allow these people to just throw us around? It’s crazy. So we
all have to be prepared. We’re not slaves. We are not subject to these laws. We
are subject to the laws of nature and the laws of our creator and that’s it.” Alarmingly, certain members of the Freeman-on-the-Land Movement believe they have an unrestricted
right to possess and use firearms. That has led in at least once instance of a FLM member being found with a concealed
unauthorized handgun; that that person threatened
to use the weapon on law enforcement personnel.
Of course, he isn’t the only twerp in that idiotic Movement.
After 30 years of marriage and
his wife bearing six children, Dennis Larry Meads split up with his wife two
years ago. When the divorce proceedings were held in court in Edmonton in June
of this 2012, Mr. Meads tried a new tact that the judge called “bluntly
idiotic.”
This stupid kook who said that he was a Freedom-of-the Land Movement member, argued
that “man’s law” did not apply to him. He claimed the judge only had
jurisdiction at sea, not on land. He even said that the Bank of Canada kept a
secret account in his name. Why, I am forced to ask, does his judge only have
jurisdiction on the sea? I guess you have to find your way through that tangled
workings of that man’s ‘mush for brains’ to find out why he made that
ridiculous statement.
He isn’t the only FLM
twerp in Canada who spouts nonsense. Across Canada, both the courts and police had been
dealing with Canadian fools like Mr. Meads (who lives in the province of
Alberta) who think that they can evade paying their income taxes, parking fines
and spousal support payments by spouting lines from FLM literature. Don’t these fools realize that when they buy
anything at a store, they automatically pay taxes on those items?
The judge, who happens to be the Associate Chief
Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, had heard enough from Meads during the
latter’s arguments that he didn’t have to pay spousal support. He decided to turn Mr. Meads’ divorce proceedings
into an opportunity to set things straight as to what he thinks of Freemen.
In the judge’s scathing written 185-page
decision, he not only dealt with Meads’ divorce, but also eviscerated the Freemen
movement Mead represented. He wrote; “These persons employ a collection of
techniques and arguments promoted and sold by ‘gurus’ to disrupt court
operations and to attempt to frustrate the legal rights of governments,
corporations and individuals.”
In the judge’s decision, he wrote about Freedom of the Land Movement by describing
them
collectively as Organized Pseudolegal
Commercial Argument (FLM) litigants. The judge gave a detailed review of the FLM
community, its membership, its Movement,
and known history. It sets out the Court’s understanding of persons who
affiliate with FLM concepts, what
traits they do and do not share, and how they organize themselves. He further
wrote that the particular community has “guru” leader, and follower /customer,
cohorts—groups of persons who have similar beliefs and who join together into
“movements,” Known gurus and various group Movements
are identified and described to the Movement’s members. The judge also decried
their “legal and intellectual bankruptcy” and called their methods “scams”
promoted by “con men.”
The FLM community includes a number of
subsets that the judge called Movements.
Each Movement includes persons who
have adopted similar alternative histories, and hold generally compatible
beliefs. Different Movements in many
instances use exactly the same FLM
strategies. Members of a Movement
will often attend one another’s court appearances. They appear to engage in
considerable ‘lateral’ discourse, and often seem to be, at a minimum, social
acquaintances.
The gurus of the FLM are what we can call “legal alchemists” who promise gold, but
give their adherents straw since the guru’s methods are principally intended to
impress the gullible, or those who wish to use this useless drivel in hopes
that they can beat the court system. The gurus proclaim they know secret
principles and law, hidden from the public, but binding on governments, courts,
and individuals. And according to these crooks, all these ‘secrets’ can be
yours, for a small payment to the guru who made these outlandish claims to you.
According to the World Freeman Society website, which
promotes their silly ideas, its members have “revoked consent to be governed by
human laws.”
FLM litigants sometimes call themselves students of the law.
That is a ridiculous sham because their interest goes no further than finding
the proverbial “Gotcha!” exception or loophole that they can spring to defeat government
and court authority. So far, it hasn’t worked.
What is crucial is to
understand that a FLM litigant in
court is likely operating under instructions obtained from a guru, and has been
told to conduct and frame his or her court activities in an unnatural,
incorrect, and distorted context. The litigant is instructed to follow a script
that is, in all probability illogical, and certainly contrary to law. The FLM litigant may not be able to explain
his or her actions for the very same reason that a judge is equally confused by
the documents, submissions, and in‑court conduct that these silly Freedom-of-the-Land Movement litigants provide
and do.
Mr. Mead was
not the author of those documents, but rather. he had purchased a kit with
those materials and the instructions as to their use. There was a strong
American influence in his FLM
materials. Evidence of the ‘pre-fab’ nature of the documents was found in their
content and format. They came from the United States because there were words
that referred to governments that wouldn’t apply in Canada such as the United States Code”, which is the
criminal and penal code for the federal government of the United States.
Stating the obvious, the court in Mead’s did not apply that legislation in its
decision.I remember years ago when I was the producer and the host of a television talk show and I had as one of my guests on one of my hour-long shows; the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada. He was reading from a document and later in the program he admitted that it was a document printed in the United States.
The judge hearing the Mead case further said in
his decision that; “The persons who advance these schemes, and particularly
those who market and sell these concepts as commercial products, are parasites
that must be stopped.”
No Canadian
court has ever accepted the KLM concept or
approach as being valid since the FLM concept
directly attacks the inherent jurisdiction of Canadian courts. That fact that FLM members try to thwart the proceedings
with their nonsense is also the reason why FLM
schemes are inherently vexatious which then provides the judges with evidence against
FLM members that can lead to orders
for contempt of court against them.
When reduced
to their conceptual core, most FLM
concepts are contemptibly stupid. Mr. Meads, for example, had presented the Court
with documents that appeared to be a contract between himself and himself. In
one of the documents, Mr. Meads promises to pay for any liability of the other
Mr. Meads. One of the Mr. Meads owns all property, the other all the debts.
What is the difference between these entities? One of the Mr.Meads spells his
name with upper case letters. The other adds spurious and meaningless
punctuation to his name. Mr. Meads (with punctuation) is the Mr. Meads who
appeared in court. He says the Mr. Meads (all capitals) is the one who should
pay child and spousal support. Is this man insane? If so, how did he get
released back into society from the loony bin? Perhaps he is a reject from
another planet.
The judge in his decision also had a message for
those considering using the methods of the FLM.
He said they have been proven invalid in law and anyone who tries them could
get stuck paying court costs. He urged them to ask their gurus: If these
schemes really work, why don’t those who advocate them try them out themselves?
As for the
gurus, the judge quoted Dante’s Inferno, which placed those who counsel
evil in the eighth circle of hell. “At some basic level, you understand that
you are selling lies, or at the very most generous, wildly dubious concepts.”
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