Sovereignty Movement: The Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments of "Freemen"

By Gi Linda

Q: When is a scam not a scam?
A: When it's run by "Sovereign Citizens".

Litigation against "Sovereign Citizens" is like playing chess with electric eels... they play by different rules. They operate by the "Law of the Brute", that means the biggest brute wins. There is no level playing field. Opponents are obliged to play by the rules, while "Sovereign Citizens" do not. They knock over all the chess pieces, burn up the chess-board, viciously bite their opponents, then boast they won the game. 

"Sovereign Citizens"  do not recognize the authority of the courts, so they believe they can commit crimes such as fraud, larceny and perjury with impunity if their private interests can be advanced. 

Ironically, while denying the authority of courts over their own illegal conduct, Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock regularly use the state legal system to protect their own commercial interests and to ruthlessly intimidate and silence critics... as anyone attempting to expose and oppose them quickly discovers.

"Sovereign Citizens" also known as "Freemen", Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock, are leading mentors of Australia's "Sovereignty Movement" who collaborate closely with Mark McMurtry, a British born "adopted Origine" who calls himself "Gunham Badi".

Agressively seditious, "Mr Badi" dislikes the term "Sovereign Citizen". He heads an aborigine sovereignty faction, the "Original Sovereign Tribal Federation (OSTF)" that teaches followers to reject the assumed authority of the corporation that poses as Australia's government.

In 2016, after investors who paid for the property at 3222 Kyogle Rd,  "Bhula Bhula Village Community"  were driven off their land, "Mr Badi" occupied the property and the derelict homestead in the name of "Origine Sovereignty". He has now locked the gate to the property and effectively dispossessed  investors of their own property, declaring it to be under his personal control as "Origine sovereign territory".

Darwin and Brennock, attempting to stop their land-share scam being further exposed, are pursuing authors of this blog with defamation charges in NSW Supreme Court, boasting that they are "the best in the business" at playing "dirty pool". 

Extracts from two articles illustrate the contempt for the judicial system that characterizes the dealings of "Sovereign Citizens" Darwin, Brennock and accomplice McMurtrie. Their "Truthology" movement, referred to in these articles was shut down after it was exposed as a front for a land-share scam in the October 2016 Nimbin GoodTimes article, "The Truth About Truthology".
 

Sovereign Citizens: The Real Terrorist Threat

By Sydney Criminal Lawyers

14/01/2016

"Sovereign citizens say they are not bound by statute law unless they contractually agree to be so bound. Government acts are optional and can only be used on individuals who agree to them. They argue that statutes are “maritime law”, never meant for dry land as they were laws made for ships that were outside jurisdiction on the high seas. They believe that they can declare themselves independent of the government and the rule of law, the only “true” law is their own interpretation of common law.

"If you’re a sovereign person, you make the laws for yourself.”

"In the infamous 1987 Canadian court case Meads v Meads, Alberta Queens Bench Associate Chief Justice John D Rooke described the techniques used by the ‘Freemen’ in court as “frivolous and vexatious”, coining the term ‘Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments’ (OPCA).

 

The Attraction

"Sovereign Citizens is a movement that suits a variety of combustible outsiders; from men’s rights activists to groups like Truthology, who hold seminars on how to operate outside of the ATO.

Mark Darwin, who runs Truthology, explains how the “world monetary system impacts your daily life. Everything you thought you knew about money, taxes, fines is one of the greatest illusions ever perpetuated by mankind.”

"The Truthology website offers to free people from wage slavery so they can enjoy their lives by getting around fines of all kinds using the Sovereign Citizen tactics. The site makes it all sound quite palpable. Perhaps we all question why we slog to work every day, frustrated about how our lives are ruled by mortgages, wages and a plethora of rules. We wonder whether we are prisoners of system that is beyond our control, and long for a better and easier way to live in the world.

"But the problem with not paying your electricity bills is that sooner rather than later, the lights will be turned off."