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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: 10 Acre Field
Posts: 444
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Out of curiosity, does anyone know about this chap:
http://www.levi-tarot.co.uk/freemanontheland.html |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 3,953
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Muse
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: W1
Posts: 834
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,087
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I feel like I've lost IQ points just reading that.
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: 10 Acre Field
Posts: 444
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Ha ha!
Apologies for going off topic but this guy has not only done one of the most entertaining freeman maritime law explanations, but he's done some cracking predictions elsewhere on his website. I really liked this one -
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: UK
Posts: 1,080
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Whilst it is both funny and sad that some people fall for and believe this nonsense, I am glad you found your way back into the real world
![]() With regard to the con artists using "complicated words"... they don't. They don't understand the words they are using themselves, never mind Law, and they rely on other people's lack of comprehension to propagate their incredibly silly stories. (ETA) e.g. look at the quote in post 5684. Utter gibberish... Not all countries speak English so the "theory" of the origins of words is ludicrously stupid. |
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Mostly harmless
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nor Flanden
Posts: 22,101
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"You got to use your brain." - McKinley Morganfield "The poor mystic homeopaths feel like petted house-cats thrown at high flood on the breaking ice." - Leon Trotsky |
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Mostly harmless
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nor Flanden
Posts: 22,101
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Spike Milligan used this joke on the Goon Show over half a century ago:
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Master Poster
Join Date: May 2007
Location: NW United States
Posts: 2,786
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Well dang someone else made the same comment....so deleted mine
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New Blood
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 2
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There's a film and food night put on in my town every month on various environmental topics etc. Last week the subject was 'commercial redemption' and basically it turned out to be FOTL nonsense. This really appalled me as it was a pretty packed meeting and the speaker was very articulate and persuasive.
I already knew a bit about the Freeman movement but since that meeting I've done research (read most of this thread) and am even more concerned at the high profile this guy got and the fact that people I know are seriously talking about going down this road and think they can win against the courts. It would be hugely useful if some of the more expert posters here could create some kind of resource debunking this stuff from a UK perspective. It certainly seems to be gaining currency amongst green-inclined types which is ironic, given the selfish nature of the whole thing. |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: UK
Posts: 1,080
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What was the name of the speaker, do we know?
Or is it just a local nobody who's just graduated from The University of YouTube? |
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New Blood
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 2
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The speaker was 'The Spaniard' from the 'White Rabbit Education Group'.
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Scholar
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 107
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Has anyone linked to this one yet? A freeman in the High Court getting 9 months for contempt?
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2011/B15.html |
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Mostly harmless
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nor Flanden
Posts: 22,101
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Yes. Now out after hiring lawyers and getting the sentence suspended: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.p...12#post7596512 |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: UK
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___ Sincerely and without malice aforethought, ill will, vexation or frivolity, Comfy: of the family Slippers Footwear-on-the-Loungefloor ___ |
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Master Poster
Join Date: May 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 2,973
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Rather unexpectedly, merlincove seems to have come over all sensible, although a little dim.
I'm sure normal service will be resumed shortly. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,064
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I predicit it is simply a temporary lapse into lucidity for Merlincove.
And if he reads this he will snap back into stupidity instantly rather than agree with the comments. |
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“She’s pregnant and in very big trouble.” ......And wasn't she just http://www.angelfire.com/planet/thin...hildorlife.pdf Part 1 of this thread http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=176799 |
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NWO Kitty Wrangler
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Posts: 21,894
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Obviously, that means cats are indeed evil and that ownership or display of a feline is an overt declaration of one's affiliation with dark forces. - Cl1mh4224rd |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,064
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Quote:
http://forum.davidicke.com/showpost....9&postcount=96
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“She’s pregnant and in very big trouble.” ......And wasn't she just http://www.angelfire.com/planet/thin...hildorlife.pdf Part 1 of this thread http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=176799 |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 7,866
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While I'm rather concerned that many stundie noms are merely poking fun at the mentally disturbed and that drawing from the David Ike forum is rather like shooting dead fish in a barrel ..... for my sins I started reading another thread at DI and came across this from 'Madandbad' ......
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Big corner office in NWO Towers
Posts: 11,580
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It's like shooting dead fish floating in dead fish in a barrel made of dead fish
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Illuminator
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,064
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With a bazooka.
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“She’s pregnant and in very big trouble.” ......And wasn't she just http://www.angelfire.com/planet/thin...hildorlife.pdf Part 1 of this thread http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=176799 |
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Student
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 33
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FOTLs are making their presence known as Occupy LSX. The Guardian found a chap who calls himself "commonly known as dom" who had these words of wisdom...
"I might be a danger to corporate control of humanity, but what's the worst they're going to do? Lock me up? The last place they want me to be teaching is in prison. I've been in jail: I talk to the inmates, I talk to the screws. I take every opportunity to speak to the police, to educate them. Don't forget, the police are part of the solution. I'll talk to anyone: laymen, lawyers, magistrates, judges. I say to people: educate yourself. Google "lawful rebellion". Google "freeman on the land". Google the difference between "legal" and "lawful". Understand the rules that are keeping you enslaved." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-occupy-london This clown has been enlightening his fellow occupiers about the FOTL woo (various videos on Youtube) and can be seen spouting his nonsense in the video below. The New World Order gets a mention at 2.40. His belief that the legal definition of occupy is "to go to war" comes up at 3.10 and, rather delightfully, he reckons the whole Occupy LSX thing is an "inside job". He's pretty far gone and, by the looks of some of the other videos, has found a few disciples. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1ax_5lDws The Guardian allowed a voice of sanity to prevail yesterday: The love freemen show for magic texts, incantations and ritual is not just funny: it shows a strange, childlike respect for the trappings of justice, and a commitment to jargon not even the stuffiest solicitor can match. This thinking is to law as crystal healing is to medicine and, like fake healing, it's not as harmless as first appears. Perhaps some freemen really have found that small debts have been written off because of the nuisance they've been able to cause. Confusing people can be a useful way of bluffing, and fobbing them off. But there are limits. The barrister and law blogger Adam Wagner has called freemanism "quackery plain and simple" and says: "These ideas are most attractive to desperate, vulnerable people who are going through terrible times in their lives." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...occupy-freemen |
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