THE Herald-Sun and Daily Telegraph have published alarmist statements by police about the alleged existence of potentially violent “sovereign citizens” across NSW and Victoria.
According to the Telegraph “police have identified 370 sovereign citizens across NSW, with some under active surveillance as authorities fear copycat attacks following recent police shootings in Victoria”.
Are police so paranoid about so-called sovereign citizens that they expect them to randomly come out in public, guns blazing?
It should be abundantly clear to police and media that Dezi Freeman was a special case with a history of conflict with police and magistrates going back nearly a decade.
And it is now clear from media reports that the police team confronting him on the day of the shooting attempted to force their way into his caravan while claiming to be just wanting to execute a search warrant.
Perhaps if Freeman was given a little more time to think about the situation while police stood off things might not have turned violent.
Commenting on the story Scott McArdle said he “knew when this shit with Dezi Freeman kicked off there was an underlying agenda as always”.
“The whole thing stinks to high heaven. I predicted that they would go after so called ‘Sovereign Citizens’ and try to demonise anyone who challenges the status quo.
“Now look what they are doing. What a farce. Fear of copycat attacks and as to the historical sex offences of a minor sounds like another ruse.
“Who is this alleged victim? Does anyone else smell a rat with this entire shitshow?”
Cairns News is well aware, as revealed on recent ABC TV shows, that police and the legal profession are alarmed by the increase in numbers of cases where people present certain challenges to court jurisdiction based on what is commonly described as “pseudo-legal theory”.
But what constitutes “pseudo-legal theory” is debatable. Many of the so-called sovereign citizens are simply Australians who believe the corporatisation of government and removal of the Constitutional Queen and its replacement with a Queen of Australia has itself made government and courts constitutionally invalid.
Government Attorney’s General departments, magistrates and judges could at least openly and honestly address this matter if they think the belief is amiss. In like manner they could also address the frequently employed “living-man theory” used in courts by people claiming statutes have no jurisdiction over them.
Unfortunately the disputes between so-called sovereign citizens, more accurately called law activists, can turn violent with police undertaking harassment campaigns against those like Derek Balogh of Educate for Protection, who they perceive as troublemakers.
A Melbourne man named Allan Aguirre claimed Balogh had been subjected to a smear campaign by the Herald Sun because Balogh had helped him at the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court after Victoria Police threatened him with 10 to 15 years in jail and a $50,000 fine for “terrorism” involving a laser pen incident.
Aguirre claimed this was after he had “had enough of having two of his dogs and his mother fried with direct energy weapons from drones” as part of a harassment campaign by Victoria Police, all of the neighbours around him and the military “in an effort to shut me up”.
He also accused Wangaratta police in league with the local council and Albury pound of maliciously killing his dog Rambo “for exposing their Agenda 2030 – their plan to mass murder most of the world’s population and to enslave the rest for over a decade”.
He said Balogh and others who had supported his cause for freedom and real justice resulted in his case being dropped by the public prosecutor along with four charges.
We also know that Balogh’s approach in court is not supported by everyone fighting various cases. He is currently involved in multiple cases in Victoria and NSW and will no doubt be causing headaches.
Cairns News has emailed Balogh asking him to explain his approach.
Speaking on a video on his Facebook page after the Aguirre case, Balogh said the case validated that his group’s paperwork was doing its job. He denied he was a sovereign citizen and said his cases were done “in the court room and under law”.
Balogh went on to rail against the ABC reporter Mahmood Fazal who he accused of lying about his fund-raising meetings and getting paid by the ABC to “make stuff up against me and I’m in the courtroom and getting the job done correctly”.
“We’re the only group that can do this in a court room under a magistrate and get criminal charges dropped,” he said.
