WA cops, employing a “divide and conquer” strategy against firearm owners, have seized more than 100 firearms in a series of raids conducted on people accused of being “sovereign citizens”.
Media has again misrepresented people expressing certain political views on social media as “sovereign citizens who believe they are immune from the law”.
They also misrepresented Dezi Freeman as one such person, ignoring the fact that Freeman repeatedly cited state and federal laws in his various court appearances.
But according to WA Today, gun owners “known for espousing sovereign-citizen ideology were targeted in the five-day operation last week across metropolitan and regional WA”.
“WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch said the operation was conducted for both public safety, and ensuring officers were safe on the beat,” WA today reported.
“The recent murder of two serving police officers in country Victoria was allegedly committed by a sovereign citizen,” he said.
Cairns News says: “No it wasn’t Commissioner Blanch. Are you really that misinformed or are you just using the case of Freeman to justify intimidation of firearm owners to keep your Labor Party bosses happy and to advance some globalist, totalitarian agenda?”
“Following this tragedy, I instructed my officers to conduct a review and risk assessment of those individuals in Western Australia who are licensed firearm holders and whose beliefs align with sovereign citizen ideologies,” the Commissioner was reported as saying.
Cairns News now wonders whether you are suggesting that having certain political beliefs now disqualifies one from holding a firearm licence.
Cairns News also wonders whether the Freeman case was always planned to be used as a general attack on firearm ownership across Australia.
“Sovereign citizens are anti-government activists who believe they are immune from the law, and often use social media platforms to discuss how to evade car, birth and gun registrations,” WA Today’s girl reporter Hannah Murphy wrote.
Cairns News advises Ms Murphy to get her facts straight. There is no organised group of people in Australia called sovereign citizens, but there are growing numbers of people with various views about the legality of our corporatised system of government.
Many of these people advocate a return to lawful, constitutional government that has clearly been subverted by series of Fabian Socialist-influenced Labor governments going back to Whitlam and earlier.
Some of these people attempt to use unorthodox, “pseudo-legal” arguments in court, but many others such as those who challenge various traffic fines through groups like Aussie Speeding Fines, which operate within the law.
And you, Ms Murphy and Commissioner Blanch, think it’s OK to target a group of dissidents who don’t accept the garbage churned out on a daily basis by the mainstream media.
The WA cops executed 70 searches at addresses across suburban Perth and regional towns, seizing 135 firearms and cancelling or suspending 44 firearm licences. Officers also inspected 26 firearm storage units.
Blanch went on to admit that gun owners “had been integral in completing the operation without incident” but then said “responsible members” of the WA firearms community came to police “with concerns about the behaviours of a very small number of firearm owners” and much of this intellligence was used to inform the operation.
In a follow-up article, Murphy repeated the “sovereign citizen” lie in respect of Freeman: “A sovereign citizen believes they are not subject to the law or government authority, and Freeman had previously expressed sovereign citizen beliefs before allegedly shooting two police officers dead in August.”
The implication of police and this stupid reporter is that these so-called sovereign citizens are all lawless and therefore deserve harassment under WA’s “strict new gun laws”.
“All up, police have issued charges of failing to store a firearm in a compliant cabinet, three counts of unlawfully possessing ammunition, two counts of possessing prohibited accessory – that is, suppressors – one count of failing to secure ammunition, one count of possessing cannabis and one count of cultivating cannabis.
“Police also issued one charge of possessing a controlled weapon – namely, a cross bow. Officers also revealed out of the 135 firearms seized, 125 were long-arm firearms, 10 were handguns and two were suppressor barrels.”