Australian so-called 'sovereign citizen' on the run, after killing two police officers.

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I wonder why they didn't just keep an eye on his place remotely, then pick him up when he next headed off in to town? I mean, if they thought him worthy of sending 10 officers to arrest him, then not a bad plan. I don't know 'exactly' what went on here, but the BBC News article on the matter is pretty pathetic. Anyone who wants to live their life off-grid, which is a stupid term, is painted as seriously edgy and at least having a 'propensity' for violence. What about all of the on-grid lunacy and violence?! RIP to the deceased police officers. 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porepunkah_police_shootings

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgyk7ry8rdo

 

'Manhunt in Australian bush brings long-dismissed conspiracy theorists to the fore.'

 

Even in Australia, Porepunkah is a town few would have heard of before this week. Fewer still could pronounce it. Nestled at the base of densely wooded mountains in the Australian Alps, it is home to about 1,000 people and beloved for its wineries, bushwalking, and a peaceful atmosphere - something that has now been shattered. Choppers whir overhead. Kevlar-clad officers methodically patrol the town. Armoured vehicles roll down its streets. Porepunkah is now the centre of a massive manhunt for a heavily armed man that police allege murdered two of their own in cold blood. 

 

Officers went to Dezi Freeman's property on the outskirts of the rural Victorian town on Tuesday, with a warrant to search it. They were met with gunfire, before their alleged attacker – a "sovereign citizen" with a well-documented hatred of authority – vanished into nearby bushland. The shooting – which appears hauntingly similar to an ambush of police in Queensland three years ago – has shocked the town and revived questions over how the country deals with growing sects of anti-government conspiracy theorists. "This is exactly the sort of thing that we've been fearing," says Joe McIntyre, who has spent years studying these groups in Australia.

 

Pseudo-law believers are not new in Australia, or unique to it. Large sects of these people exist in the US, and similarly have been documented in Australia since the 70s. In the US, which has seen many incidents of violence from sovereign citizens, the FBI has for at least 15 years seen them as a domestic terrorism threat. But in Australia they've long been treated as a bit of a joke - at worst, an annoyance. That perception shifted as Australia confronted the pandemic and implemented some of the world's strictest Covid-19 rules. Unprecedented government intervention - everything from lockdowns to vaccination mandates – further fuelled growing mistrust in authorities, proving a massive boost to anti-authoritarianist ranks and a trigger for increasing fervour amongst them. Porepunkah locals say this was true of Mr Freeman. (No shit. And, when it comes to 'Covid' vaccine safety, as well as other aspects of 'Covid', then the naysayers have been proved right!)

Edited October 4 by numnuts