My contribution to this thread from the wonderful land of Oz.
So, I work for a Corporate Entity that collects illegal penalties from non-consenting living breathing souls...ie I enforce the payment of government penalties.
While I see a small amount of FMOTL nonsense in my job, there is this one guy that really stands out. I mean he brings the whole box and dice. Contracts, fee schedules, international "law", common "law", consent, trusts, STRAWMAN: Mr, illegal governance, UN charters etc. I mean hook, line, sinker, rod & copy of angling times.
We have received approximately a dozen letters/emails from him over the last 3 or 4 years. Always the same deal, we don't have authority, we're using the "colour of law", though he would reference different "laws" each time which really helped keep it interesting.
So far he's lost his licence, vehicle registration, and had his name and address published online with the rest of the defaulters. None of these tools have had any effect on him, so it was time to take it to the next level.
We rocked up at his place of residence, and even had we not known which number we were looking for, he had made it plainly obvious with a wonderful "notice" on the gate to his driveway. I didn't read it too closely (I had read his previous 12 pieces of correspondence after all) but it was along the lines of trespass and all the laws/statutes that he did choose to consent to.
His cunning attempt to prevent access was easily trumped by our search warrant.
Anyway, we enter the property and make contact with the freeman. He initially denies his identity, because he is really named Idiot of the Family Moron, which is a TRUST we don't have access to (I use capitals to imitate his correspondence). After a few minutes of word-games, we get past the initial nonsense. He does pay attention to the fact our IDs don't include all-caps for our names though, haha.
Once the initial introducts were done, it was on like the Rebels had just exited hyperspace to discover the Death Star shields were still up. Every twist and turn from the Freeloader movement is brought out in a ridiculous attempt to avoid the inevitable. I even learned new stuff, like about the London fire of the 1600s that changed the world's legal system. You couldn't make up comedy this good.
This went on for, I dunno, 20 minutes. The guys I had with me, though not FMOTL knowledgeable like me, knew what we were in for when we issued the warrant, and were destroying the nonsense piece by piece. After the initial confrontation, the Freeloader got really angry and physically removed us from the property. Obviously we let him do so (we're not police officers and are not interested in physically dealing with clients).
We argued a little bit more, where we advised the client of the penalties for disobeying the warrant, and that we'd be back with the cops. After he left us and had a little teary inside, he returned to allow us access to the property. This is what's funny I think. I mean this guy is as committed as anyone I've ever read about, yet even he wasn't sure his nonsense would prevent a police visit.
To cut a long post short, we did not find anything of value (shock horror) because he was freeloading off his partner and the government, but now he has:
No licence
No Rego
Name published on the web
Had to let a bunch of Corporate Entities search his home.
Another victory?
Edit: I am expecting (and can't wait for) the invoice from him adding another ~$240,000 in fees to his current amount of ~$50,000. Good times.
