Freemen of the land

Com1186 · 2012-08-28 16:49:21

Just a quick question for other members of the Emergency Services, moreso gardai, has anyone have dealings with a "freeman of the land", they are of the belief that they dont have to interact with gardai, courts, goverment unless they consent to. a lot of stuff on youtube and websites such as…

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#62 13-10-2012 09:34AM

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mcmoustache wrote: »

I've a friend who's into all this nonsense but he's also into conspiracy theories as well so it's not too surprising.

I think people hear about this stuff from friends or the internet and without thinking about it critically, they accept it as plausible. It sounds cool and offers some advantages. It's like a piece of secret knowledge that no solicitor/barrister has ever thought of.

Then they see it as a get-out-of-jail card when they've broken a law and appear before the courts. They think they've found the ultimate loophole. They're mental - mods, it's ok to call them mental. Judge Zaidan thinks so. (The judge advised psychiatric treatment for the defendant - I lolled)

Ha, fantastic. It allays a sneaking suspicion I have that half the time the nuts get away with their nonsense because for minor transgressions they create an altogether out of proportion amount of work for the Gardai, and Thurles fines office etc.

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