Dezi Freeman
Precis; two cops shot dead by a sovereign citizen, Mr Dezi Freeman, when they went to his place to hassle him for something or other.
“The shooting – which appears very similar to an ambush of police in Queensland three years ago – has revived questions over how the country deals with growing sects of anti-government conspiracy theorists.”
(it’s not rocket science; leave them alone).
Sovereign citizens are anti-authoritarian conspiracists and pseudo-law believers: people who reject established law as illegitimate, using legal-sounding arguments that have no actual basis according to legal experts (but they would say that).
In practice, this results in behaviours ranging from refusing to register a car or holding a driver’s license, to – in the case of Mr Freeman – trying to use their own asserted authority to arrest a magistrate in court.
You see where he went wrong, right there. Hell hath no fury like a judge scorned.
Generally judges are deeply insecure nerds that have clawed their way to some level of ascendancy through the abuse they are free to hand out in court.
So, my suggestion, let’s ensure judges and magistrates are generally held to the same level of accountability regarding their behaviour as the rest of society. That might help.
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