I suspect Mr. Menard has lost control of his cult/movement. . . really just another failure in a life time of the same.
One suspects that after a decade of Menard's failed projects, unaccounted for donations, ridiculous tall tales and countless freemen wannabes thrown under the bus a brand of nuttier, meaner more prejudiced freemen intent on doing something more than sitting on a couch have grabbed the reigns.
We saw this coming months ago when the mouthy, mean spirited, bigoted and violent Dean Clifford rose to ascendancy while and the phony, scheme a minute narcissist Menard was being pushed to the road side.
As the wheels come off the freeman cult little old lady landlords get their apartments ruined by freeman squatters, trappers have their cabins occupied by shotgun totting freemen, out of control freemen impersonate cops, some even assaulting the police who stop them.
We can bet Captain Couch will find a place to roost during the reckoning. Family may take him in, or he might find a new brand of snake oil as the vein plays out.