Experts warned of potential risk of violence in sovereign citizen movement before deadly Porepunkah shooting
A former magistrate issued a stark warning a week ago about the sovereign citizen movement in Australia. “Government…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/86196/
The biosecurity officers' fight against fire ants and allegations of threats, harassment and stalking
A Glen Turner Déjà vu
“We’ve had threats of ‘If you come on my property, I’ll shoot you’. ‘If you try and come on my property, I’ll set my dog on you...Australian police are routinely escorting biosecurity officers onto private properties after they reported being threatened with dogs and guns. In cases when people were “incredibly hostile”, program staff would “proactively engage with the police to escort us and to keep the peace and to keep everyone safe in that environment, because we need to complete the treatment”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/03/fire-ants-australia-eradication-biosecurity-officers-queensland-ntwnfb
The environmental officer Glen Turner
was shot in Croppa Creek, near Moree in 2014 investigating illegal land clearing. "There is an interweaving between the physical murder of Glen Turner, and the ecological ‘murder’ of the brigalow through the voracious demand for agricultural land." Book review: ‘The Winter Road’ by Kate Holden
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https://residentjudge.com/2022/04/09/the-winter-road-by-kate-holden/
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I found myself parked behind a 'sovereign citizen' today. Believers in this particular flavor of sovereign craziness hold that the US government is illegitimate and that they are immune from federal, state, and local laws under the 1786 Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship -- a treaty that supposedly grants them sovereignty. Including, obviously, the right to display this fake license plate.
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https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/moorish-sovereign-citizens
The Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection of independent organizations and individuals that emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the antigovernment sovereign citizens movement, adherents of which believe that individual citizens hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of federal and state governments.
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Vancouver lawyer suspended after accusations of pseudolegal 'paper terrorism' over neighbour's deck
Naomi Arbabi's suspension 'necessary to protect the public,' Law Society of B.C. says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-lawyer-pseudolegal-lawsuit-1.7072762
A Vancouver lawyer accused of filing a groundless pseudolegal lawsuit against her neighbour over a glass deck divider has been banned from practising law in British Columbia while the province's law society investigates the case.
If you look at the Art Technica article I linked, the three sons of bleach patriarch Mark Grenon rejected the authority of the court because they "did not consent". That's Freemen on the Land rhetoric. I thought that particular bizarre pseudolegal cult had died out, but apparently not.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Freeman_on_the_land
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Freeman on the land, also known as FMOTL, FOTL (not to be confused with ROTFL), "Footle", or simply freeman,[2] is a form of pseudolegal woo in various English-speaking countries. Freemen believe they can opt out of being governed, and that what normal people understand to be "laws" are merely a form of "contract" that applies only if people consent to it.[3][4] In short: saying a few super-secret legal phrases will get you out of anything!
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"The government must accept the Magna Carta as common law ..." the statement reads, repeating the typical language of pseudolegal groups like Sovereign Citizens & the Freemen on the Land movement.
Friday's court proceedings highlight how the anti-vaccine movement has come to rely on Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA) in its attempts to fight public health measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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I've just had an article published in the International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation! It follows up on my PhD research by exploring themes of power and identity in Sovereign Citizen pseudolegal courtroom filings. You can read it here:
https://www.ijcam.org/articles/i-hereby-and-herein-claim-liberties
International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation (IJCAM) Vo. 6, (2023). Published June 07, 2023. DOI: 10.54208/1000/0006/007 PDF of Article | PDF of Issue (in development) “I hereby and herein claim liberties”: Identity and Power in Sovereign Citizen Pseudolegal Courtroom
Obama citizenship denial or #birtherism is a phenomenon that began during the 2008 US Presidential campaign as an attempt to discredit Barack Obama by claiming that he was not born in the United States or that his father was not a US citizen at the time of his birth and that being born in the US is a requirement for being elected President.The bogus suspicion was initially shopped around to the media by aides to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and then spread by bitter Hillary Clinton supporters who opposed the concession of the Democratic nomination to Obama and taken up by the usual far-right conspiracy theorists.
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https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Obama_citizenship_denial
Obama citizenship denial or birtherism is a phenomenon that began during the 2008 US Presidential campaign as an attempt to discredit Barack Obama by claiming that he was not born in the United States or that his father was not a US citizen at the time of his birth and that being born in the US is a requirement for being elected President.[note 1] The bogus suspicion was initially shopped around to the media by aides to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and then spread by bitter Hillary Clinton supporters who opposed the concession of the Democratic nomination to Obama and taken up by the usual far-right conspiracy theorists.
A great summary of the #pseudolaw arguments used by the #cookers in Australia
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