From Lachlan Murdoch’s Cairns Post, by Adella Beaini and Charles Miranda
The threat of violence and social destabilisation by Australia’s so-called “sovereign citizens” is rising, as they contest government legitimacy, authorities have warned.
A few years ago, sovereign citizens were perceived as fringe dwellers wanting to live off-grid largely in regional Australia, or extreme libertarians rejecting civil laws down to the odd traffic fine.
But the creation of anti-authority “assemblies” and declared mini-states has prompted ASIO and the Australian Federal Police to warn government they now carried an “underlying capacity to inspire violence” particularly as they merge with more known extremist groups.
Australia’s magistrates and judges have noticed a rise in orchestrated campaigns to clog the courts with bogus legal arguments, some fuelled by law firms specifically spruiking how to not accept society’s rules and laws. No cases are ever successful, but hundreds are being heard every week, tying up resources for days.
Such is the growing threat of the movement, the watching brief now falls under the AFP’s Joint Counter-Terrorism Teams (JCTT) operating in all states in Australia.
The AFP has warned the government’s Covid-19 restrictions had “significantly shaped” the resurgence of the movement, which is now “co-opting or overlapping” with patriot and nationalist groups, conspiracy theorists, anti-authoritarian collectives and far right extremists.
think every day ordinary citizens
are the oxymoron
‘sovereign citizens’
According to a JCTT briefing, movements are becoming more organised with formal and informal leadership and assemblies connecting via social media sharing information, support and financial aid. SovCits, as they are known, have been actively recruiting including tapping former police and Australian Defence Force personnel to become “sheriffs” for their self-declared “assembly groups”. The JCTT brief states they are growing in confidence as they believe they will be vindicated once the government is “deposed”.
The AFP cites the January 6 demonstrations in the US as an example of how movements can quickly mobilise against governments.
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, people were spending an increased amount of time online, (with an) increasing susceptibility to conspiracy theories due to the crisis and hardening of consensus ‘radical’ perspectives,” an AFP spokesman said.
“The AFP, through the JCTT, remains alert to information and intelligence that indicates any group’s propensity for or movement towards violence, including sovereign citizens groups.”
Associate Professor of Law at UniSA Dr Joe McIntyre said the recent riots in the UK highlighted how social media can unite disparate ideologies. While that sort of scale of disturbance has not been seen yet in Australia, sovereign citizens were already straining local governments and the legal system, with judges now feeling “intimidated and unsafe”.
“Death threats have been made against judges and it isn’t a laughing matter,” Dr McIntyre said.
“It is easy to look at this and think ‘oh these are funny kooky arguments,’ but there really is a dark undertone to it.
“Courts administrators are telling us this is a top five concern for them. This is significantly hamstringing them and having a huge impact on their ability to administer justice.
“It’s massively destabilising … These people tend to find the emails of registry staff and court staff and email through huge amounts of materials, so just the process is adding a huge burden on courts.”
These cases typically involve minor issues such as speeding or parking fines, driving without a licence, trespassing, or drug use.
By using pseudo-legal arguments questioning jurisdiction and citing the 1215 Magna Carta, these matters can take time for the courts to resolve.
“We are getting these strange arguments being made disrupting the administration of justice on a case-by-case basis, but now it’s gone beyond that and is starting to flood the courts,” Dr McIntyre said.
Similar issues were facing local governments, health providers and police – all with huge resourcing implications, he said.
“Once they say ‘the laws don’t apply to me and I can literally do whatever I want’ it’s only a small step from someone saying ‘I am going to disregard the laws around firearms or violent protest’; it’s a half step away from violence.”
Cairns News:
It is hard to believe, as a result of overwhelming legal research by academics and the legal profession just how unlawful Australian ‘government’ has become over the past five decades. LibLab and the Greens must be worried the tide is about to turn on bogus corporate state and federal political party dictatorships fostered and promoted by Deep State’s Murdoch media empire, the Marxist ABC, the commercial television industry and the banksters.
To find diatribe such as this penned by Charles Miranda, a once responsible and reliable reporter indicates to the Freedom Movement the heat is on in the kitchen.
The importation of several million militant Muslims into the UK and a million or so into Australia is beginning to bear chaotic fruit for Deep State and the industrial military elite.
Naturally, decent Britons have retaliated against the madness of Islam as rape gangs attack Anglo-Saxon children across Britain and more recently a UK-born Muslim youth killed three young girls with a knife sparking massive riots across the UK.
ASIO and the mindless Federal Police are misdirecting scant resources looking for Christian ‘extremists’ under the bed while they have a million Muslims plotting devastation right on their doorstep.
The Tara, SW Queensland massacre of two police officers, an innocent bystander and subsequent extermination of three members of the Train family by police in 2022, who were allegedly ‘Christian extremists’ (whatever this media tag means) has sent Deep State into a frenzy, trying to keep the lid on child trafficking rife around Australia (and the world).
Former Labor leader and member of the NSW Upper House Mark Latham reportedly was briefed by one of the Train brothers before he fled NSW for Tara. Latham has since refused to speak to the media, such is the power of Deep State.
This dilemma for the hidden government will emerge sooner or later and what will Charles Miranda and his cohort Adella Beaini write about then?
Perhaps they could pen a truthful piece about proven, wide spread voter fraud or the disappearance of Constitutional government and the underlying disastrous effect on the legal system where Admiralty courts simply rubber stamp corporate policies and have made justice accessible only to billionaires.
Lawfully, Australia has become the 51st state of the US whether we like it or not according to former Labor PM Paul Keating. Cairns News has been saying this for 10 years. LibLab had better beware of the incoming Trump administration. ANZUS and AUKUS could no longer exist in 2025.