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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    I'm just waiting for a banned boardsie poster to turn up on the Help Desk Forum arguing that they are a freeman of the internet and that their ivioalable rights to travel on the Web under the magna carta have been breached. They will then no doubt ask an Admin if s/he is under oath and claim that he does not 'stand under' his decision as it is the law of the sea and he is only answerable to common law. :eek:

    This Bobby of the family Sludds must be a laughing stock in his local area, imagine the sniggering down the pub when people found out he was sent down. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Corruptable


    snow ghost wrote: »
    I'm just waiting for a banned boardsie poster to turn up on the Help Desk Forum arguing that they are a freeman of the internet and that their ivioalable rights to travel on the Web under the magna carta have been breached. They will then no doubt ask an Admin if s/he is under oath and claim that he does not 'stand under' his decision as it is the law of the sea and he is only answerable to common law. :eek:

    This Bobby of the family Sludds must be a laughing stock in his local area, imagine the sniggering down the pub when people found out he was sent down. :)

    Since you were looking for cases, the case of Stephen of the family Sutton before Judge Zaiden in the District Court in Kilcock should interest you:
    Published on Monday 24 May 2010 12:42

    A man who questioned the legal powers of the District Court after he was charged with driving without insurance was jailed for six months at Kilcock District Court last Thursday.


    Stephen Sutton, 67 The Walk, Moyglare Hall, Maynooth, who described himself as “Stephen of the family Sutton”, was jailed for six months after the Court found he had driven without insurance in the Moyglare area of Maynooth on 3 December last.

    http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/local/man_questions_district_court_but_is_jailed_1_1940175

    He basically felt that he did not have to comply with the Road Traffic Acts as they were "statute law", and not "common law", with pretty devastating personal consequences I must add.
    Judge Zaidan strongly suggested he seek legal advice but Mr. Sutton opted to represent himself and said he would “waive all benefits and privileges.”

    At a number of points he interupted Judge Zaidan and was told he could get seven days’ jail for contempt for making a mockery of the Court.

    He replied that he would put any interuption “down to nerves”.

    He said he had requested that a document of his would be passed to the judge but Judge Zaidan told Mr Sutton he would have to address the issue in public. “I do not deal with private correspondence with you or the Taoiseach,” said Judge Zaidan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    Stephen of the family Sutton! Imagine if they ever catch Sly of the family Stone.

    Thanks for the link.

    This is where this stuff goes beyond a joke and becomes dangerous - when people are for a start driving around without insurance, actually believing they don't need insurance, and secondly getting sent to prison.

    What this does show is that this freeman stuff is somehow escalating on a major scale. It's spreading like wild fire.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    "Stephen of the family Sutton before Judge Zaiden" It's like something out of a dodgy sci-fi B movie! :)

    I have to admit this freeman stuff is the best laugh I've had in a long time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    snow ghost wrote: »
    "Stephen of the family Sutton before Judge Zaiden" It's like something out of a dodgy sci-fi B movie! :)

    Yep: Dune!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    snow ghost wrote: »
    Sly of the family Stone.
    :D

    Post of the day, easily.

    That link is from two years back, though, I don't think this stuff is at crisis point yet, or even close. To be honest, I can see there being a major incident, like a forced eviction, that will demonstrate how flimsy these points are.

    Of course, the Gardaí, the banks, the courts and the government don't want this. I have a feeling that some of the protesters do, though, and this is why they're geeing people up with this stuff, even if there are plenty of Fremen who will be genuinely surprised to end up in the cells.

    ***
    On the whole fraud note, I found an interview with "Kev", who seems to be the founder of the Tir Na Saor/Land of the Free movement on one of their internet radio shows
    Missed this above ... confirms what I already thought. Fcking cnuts, duping people - I'm personally in favour of civil disobedience, but let people know what they're getting in to. I also like the LETS system, has the potential to make life much better for people who are cash poor but time rich. Why do they have to be such cute hoors about it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,709 ✭✭✭jd


    snow ghost wrote: »
    "Stephen of the family Sutton before Judge Zaiden" It's like something out of a dodgy sci-fi B movie! :)

    .

    I keep thinking of Judge Dredd (2000 Ad) dealing with some mutant in Cursed Earth!


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Corruptable


    benway wrote: »
    Missed this above ... confirms what I already thought. Fcking cnuts, duping people - I'm personally in favour of civil disobedience, but let people know what they're getting in to. I also like the LETS system, has the potential to make life much better for people who are cash poor but time rich. Why do they have to be such cute hoors about it?


    Good point, benway. I'm all in favour of community involvement too, but I don't see why they have to attach their ideology to it and try and claim everything. Their newest one is their claim over Billy Maguire and the "sovereign seal" of Ireland from which the State supposedly derives it's powers, and their claim on the Brehon Laws of Celtic times.

    For anyone who is tired of the Inn's or Blackhalls, why not visit the freeman's spinoff - The Brehon Law Society - http://www.thebrehonlawsociety.com/index.html. I'd say the entrance exams are a hell of a lot easier than the FE-1s!


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,571 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    For anyone who is tired of the Inn's or Blackhalls, why not visit the freeman's spinoff - The Brehon Law Society - http://www.thebrehonlawsociety.com/index.html. I'd say the entrance exams are a hell of a lot easier than the FE-1s!
    That led me to watching some of this:

    So we have crude, animated versions of Einstein and wartime Churchill discussing Freeman guff. Fast forward to 3:00 or so where they disclaim the whole thing. It's like some bizarre Keats & Chapman where the punchline never arrives.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Corruptable


    I see that they've hijacked and confused the Anti-Eviction groups now, with the majority believing that Ben Gilroy's interpretation of the Constitution and Common Law is correct and what won out the day.

    People seriously need to know that this man is talking raw sewage (outside of the possible fair procedure issue with the Registrar doubling as the Sheriff), and does not stand up to scrutiny and is therefore no substitute for proper, independent legal advice which is available for solicitors, FLAC, and the New Beginnings group who specialise in this area.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    Registrar doubling as the Sheriff
    I always thought that the Courts Service was part of the executive? And that County Registrars and the Master are part of the Courts Service? Might be on some shaky ground, but I don't see that it would formally count as the judiciary encroaching on an executive function - it's all the executive.

    Now, having the executive perform both a quasi-judicial function, in cases where liberty is granted to enter final judgment, and executive in organising execution, or having dealt with the paperwork in advance of the Court granting an order for possession is far from ideal. Would the Supreme Court invalidate the scheme on that basis? Doubtful.

    Honestly, these guys are as bad as the "elites" they bang on about, knowingly lying to people so as to snare them into their belief set.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    I'm not sure this man is a freeman but the garda in the video takes no crap.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭Sesudra


    Why wouldn't he get out of the car??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,897 ✭✭✭MagicSean


    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    I'm not sure this man is a freeman but the garda in the video takes no crap.


    He's not a Freeman, he seems to be just a bit of an asshole.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    MagicSean wrote: »
    He's not a Freeman, he seems to be just a bit of an asshole.


    You can tell the difference???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    MagicSean wrote: »
    He's not a Freeman, he seems to be just a bit of an asshole.

    But, it sounded like he was using some "freeman" phrases, like going about his business, etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    He was deliberately being belligerant and obstructive. He was asked to move over so oncoming traffic could get by and his response was "I'm just going about my business" :rolleyes:

    I love how he tried to claim "I didn't hear you!" after the Garda had asked for licence yet he expected the Gardai to hear him say his window was broken, through his own closed window.

    He totally deserved everything he got. The kind of guy who'll put himself through a world of pain on some misguided point of principle. I bet he sits on all his invoices and doesn't pay them until he gets a phone call asking why he hasn't paid yet. Then goes ballistic when he gets cut off. Strikes me as that kind of person.


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Corruptable


    Definitely not a freeman, just a protester with an stubborn attitude (i.e.: if I barracade myself inside my car then it will lead to a confrontation which I can record).

    I understand the frustration the members felt at this, but it would appear that the force used was somewhat excessive, even with the drivers failure to follow lawful direction. I would hope that he would simply be charged with obstruction, but the use of force plays right into the driver's hands, although he was acting unreasonably.

    Has anything ever come out of stacks of complaints the Garda Ombudsman's received from the protesters? As I often predicted that what went on up there will eventually fill the pages of the next Morris Tribunal.

    One sided, but an extensive record of events:



    What happened to your man, SNIPPED who was the public order expert? Apparently he seems to have resigned from the gardai and gone into private security. I know a lot of complaints were directed at his handling of things.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    Just being reading this thread, there is one person I know where I have heard all this stuff, gets a bit head wrecking after a while.

    He reckons he has "seen the light" and can't believe he was "so bloody stupid" before opening up his mind to the Freeman stuff. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 969 ✭✭✭murrayp4


    The first thing I thought with the Mayo video was 'Freemen' due to the driver's phraseology.
    That said, if the video can be taken at face value, it would appear that the Garda's use of force was disproportionate


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    What amazes me is why anyone would be driving around making video recordings anyway?

    If you're going about your business surely you would rock up the check point say 'how ya Gaurds, ****ty enough weather how can I help you' they say 'miserable enough isn't it, have you your licence' you show it to them have a bit of banter and off you go whistling away to yourself?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭snow ghost


    It did sound freemanish tbh.

    Did anyone see that video on youtube of the freeman guy in England who made the cop sign a contract to pay him 20,000 pounds to exit his car? He might have had a shock if he came up against this Robo-cop from Belmullet and his truncheon, I don't think it'd be 20,000 euro he'd be getting. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    This has been circulating around Facebook:
    397082_2916889954852_1038836661_32266537_348702788_n.jpg


    I emailed McCann Fitzgerald who (to their credit) gave me a quick reply:
    "Dear Lockstep

    Thank you very much for getting in touch and bringing this email to our attention - a number of people have done so. The email did not originate with this firm and does not express any legal opinion from this firm. We are investigating how our name has come to appear on the email.

    Thank you again."

    It annoy me that someone made up this piece of crap. Granted, the flat household charge is rubbish (although the government have said they plan on introducing a progressive charge) but for someone to spread this pseudo-legal rubbish and to attach a law firm's name to it is really suspect. I hope noone took this seriously.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Robbo wrote: »
    That led me to watching some of this:

    So we have crude, animated versions of Einstein and wartime Churchill discussing Freeman guff. Fast forward to 3:00 or so where they disclaim the whole thing. It's like some bizarre Keats & Chapman where the punchline never arrives.

    Skeleton's Paradox:

    What if you don't consent to the law of fremenism?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    Lockstep wrote: »
    This has been circulating around Facebook:

    I emailed McCann Fitzgerald who (to their credit) gave me a quick reply:


    It annoy me that someone made up this piece of crap. Granted, the flat household charge is rubbish (although the government have said they plan on introducing a progressive charge) but for someone to spread this pseudo-legal rubbish and to attach a law firm's name to it is really suspect. I hope noone took this seriously.

    That is actually an interesting development, insofar as someone somewhere felt the need to attach some sort of legitimacy to this argument by linking it to a top law firm.

    Who and why are the questions here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭Corruptable


    Lockstep wrote: »
    This has been circulating around Facebook:
    397082_2916889954852_1038836661_32266537_348702788_n.jpg


    I emailed McCann Fitzgerald who (to their credit) gave me a quick reply:


    It annoy me that someone made up this piece of crap. Granted, the flat household charge is rubbish (although the government have said they plan on introducing a progressive charge) but for someone to spread this pseudo-legal rubbish and to attach a law firm's name to it is really suspect. I hope noone took this seriously.

    That's actually frightening how someone actually went as far as putting out a reputable firms name on this piece of freeman waffle which has done the round extensively on facebook, in print, and spread orally during public meetings on the various charges.

    The reliance of someone on this, acting in good faith that it did in fact come from MF would be a serious issue.

    On Grolshevik's note, it's an interesting development which shows how inconsistent their approach is, as if you "contract" with a member of the BAR or Law Society, you're doomed in their belief system. Hence, why they refuse representation in court.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭berrypendel


    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    I'm not sure this man is a freeman but the garda in the video takes no crap.

    bully boy cop no better than the freemen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Lockstep




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    Skeleton's Paradox:

    What if you don't consent to the law of fremenism?

    I think you just blew my mind :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    snow ghost wrote: »
    It did sound freemanish tbh.

    Did anyone see that video on youtube of the freeman guy in England who made the cop sign a contract to pay him 20,000 pounds to exit his car? He might have had a shock if he came up against this Robo-cop from Belmullet and his truncheon, I don't think it'd be 20,000 euro he'd be getting. :)


    I think the cops in the UK are copying unto the freeman crap.

    If your man tries to enforce his 'bill', all the cop has to do is say he doesn't consent.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    bully boy cop no better than the freemen


    Rubbish. You're man was begging for a response and he got it. The garda took no crap whatsoever and rightly so.

    Why did he refuse to open the window and then claim it was broken? Why didn't he open the door? Why didn't he pull in when directed?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭Trick of the Tail


    But the cop did lose it pretty quickly. Unless he suspected the guy was up to no good he didn't have the right to get as heavy-handed, even damaging the guy's property.

    The guy was obviously gunning for a confrontation, so the best thing the cop should have done was not give him one. Instead he played right into his hands.

    One would have thought that their training went some way towards teaching them not to lose their cool like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    alinton wrote: »
    But the cop did lose it pretty quickly. Unless he suspected the guy was up to no good he didn't have the right to get as heavy-handed, even damaging the guy's property.

    The guy was obviously gunning for a confrontation, so the best thing the cop should have done was not give him one. Instead he played right into his hands.

    One would have thought that their training went some way towards teaching them not to lose their cool like that.

    They are not monks, occasionally everyone gets wound up. In this instance a Garda got wound up and broke a car window after the driver refused to move his car when directed, refused to open the window to deal with the Gardai (could have also opened the door if the window was genuinely broken) and refused to produce his licence when requested.

    A broken window and him dragged out and dumped in a cell for a few hours for wasting everyone's time sounds about right to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    MungBean wrote: »
    They are not monks, occasionally everyone gets wound up. In this instance a Garda got wound up and broke a car window after the driver refused to move his car when directed, refused to open the window to deal with the Gardai (could have also opened the door if the window was genuinely broken) and refused to produce his licence when requested.

    A broken window and him dragged out and dumped in a cell for a few hours for wasting everyone's time sounds about right to me.

    I neither saw nor heard any evidence of window breaking or dragging out.

    The guy refused to comply with requests. He refused to pull over to the side. He refused to open his window, or, if it was genuinely broken, open the door. He was uncooperative and acting suspiciously.

    Based on his behaviour, I'd say there were legitimate grounds for the gardai to want to investigate further. He could have had drugs, guns or a bound-and-gagged ewe in a nightdress in the boot, for all they knew...


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    Just saw this. I think my head's going to explode.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    I neither saw nor heard any evidence of window breaking or dragging out.

    :D Had to laugh at that.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    benway wrote: »
    Just saw this. I think my head's going to explode.

    You said it yourself: don't go looking for pigs to wrestle.

    That's why I don't venture into the politics forum here, and only rarely go into AH.

    EDIT: Just watched that: Christian Messiah on a two-wheeled mechanical conveyance!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,071 ✭✭✭Finnbar01


    I neither saw nor heard any evidence of window breaking or dragging out.

    You can quite clearly hear the window being broken at 2:06 in.

    I also hope he was dragged out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    benway wrote: »
    Just saw this. I think my head's going to explode.

    What the hell was he trying to ask ? Where barristers got the authority to operate ?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    don't go looking for pigs to wrestle.
    Passes the time, brother. ;)
    MungBean wrote: »
    What the hell was he trying to ask ? Where barristers got the authority to operate ?
    I don't think he even knows himself. I don't see any mention of solicitors or firemen in the constitution either. Tbh, I think he's just trying to show off owing his superior intelligence. Pity that the last guy indulged him as far as he did.

    That McCann Fitzgerald thing is an absolute disgrace as well, they ought to be ashamed for outright lying to people. This will not end well.


  • Registered Users Posts: 146 ✭✭Brother Psychosis


    so these people think that by harrasing secretaries with random legalese Bulls**t they are proving a point? the bar councilis not supposed to have any authority, they have no impact on daioly court proceedings, yet these delusional people think that this backs up their argument of nonsense? i dont know whats scarier, the fact that people dreamed up of this nonsense or that people actually believe it


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    MungBean wrote: »
    What the hell was he trying to ask ? Where barristers got the authority to operate ?

    He thinks the Bar Council have some sort of authority over the law. The fact that they don't doesn't seem to have occurred to him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    You can quite clearly hear the window being broken at 2:06 in.

    I also hope he was dragged out.

    I missed that so. Poxy speakers...


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    benway wrote: »
    That McCann Fitzgerald thing is an absolute disgrace as well, they ought to be ashamed for outright lying to people. This will not end well.

    Every word out of their mouth about Freemanism is a lie to people. They're hardly gonna stop now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    I thought for a while that they actually believed this stuff. Less funny and harmless now that they've shown their true colours.

    Don't like that the Rossport thing is getting lumped in there with them either, two very, very different phenomena.
    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    Rubbish. You're man was begging for a response and he got it. The garda took no crap whatsoever and rightly so.
    This is in the context of a long and bitter dispute. Tbh, if I had a massive police presence pushing through a controversial development on my doorstep, after a couple of years of roadblocks, bordering on intimidation, I'd get a bit uncooperative as well. In fairness, he started to pull to the left just as the second cop from the van came towards his car. Can't understand why people think this is all fine, the cop went way overboard.

    Anyway, well done fremen, soon enough any protest is going to be tarred with your looney brush.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭berrypendel


    Finnbar01 wrote: »
    Rubbish. You're man was begging for a response and he got it. The garda took no crap whatsoever and rightly so.

    Why did he refuse to open the window and then claim it was broken? Why didn't he open the door? Why didn't he pull in when directed?
    Rubbish the garda res;ponse was not reasonable . three of them with pepper spray and batons. Did not have rto smash windows. Garda was a thug. He is the person who would tell someone they must meet a house breaker with reasonable force. Is he one of the so called shell thugs?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭berrypendel


    alinton wrote: »
    But the cop did lose it pretty quickly. Unless he suspected the guy was up to no good he didn't have the right to get as heavy-handed, even damaging the guy's property.

    The guy was obviously gunning for a confrontation, so the best thing the cop should have done was not give him one. Instead he played right into his hands.

    One would have thought that their training went some way towards teaching them not to lose their cool like that.
    freemen crap does not excuse the fact the cops were thugs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭berrypendel


    Originally Posted by Finnbar01 viewpost.gif
    Rubbish. You're man was begging for a response and he got it. The garda took no crap whatsoever and rightly so.
    cops do not have the authority to take no crap. that is emotional ****e


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭berrypendel


    MungBean wrote: »
    They are not monks, occasionally everyone gets wound up. In this instance a Garda got wound up and broke a car window after the driver refused to move his car when directed, refused to open the window to deal with the Gardai (could have also opened the door if the window was genuinely broken) and refused to produce his licence when requested.

    A broken window and him dragged out and dumped in a cell for a few hours for wasting everyone's time sounds about right to me.
    you do not know much law do you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭MungBean


    cops do not have the authority to take no crap. that is emotional ****e

    They do however have the authority to forcefully remove someone from their vehicle when they refuse to cooperate in any manner.

    Roll down the window/open the door and exchange a couple of polite words and he'd have been on his way. Instead he deliberately wastes Garda time by being an idiot and considering he had a dash cam on I'd wager he set out with the express purpose of drawing a reaction. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever and I dont see that the Gardai did anything wrong considering the position he put them in.


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