Why I left FMOTL

 

One of the central drives of the Truth movement in the 2000's and early 2010's was the "Freeman on the Land" movement and it's associated philosophies. It was embodied by its charismatic chief theorist, John Harris, see background links below. I was very keen on its ideas and the people proposing it. I was a member of TPUC, went on protests and attended British Constitution Group meetings. FMOTL sounded like the perfect solution. The very law of the land itself contained the means to undo the New World Order and change our society into a just and free one. It even sounded easy; certainly controlled and non-violent. Today I have completely abandoned FMOTL. How I rejected its ideas is a long and complicated story, but I am not alone. In fact most people I know who used to be Freemen are now as cynical about it as I am. Several things have happened that made me realize that it is wrong. The first was the fate of Carla Buckle. Carla is a friend of mine who used to help run the group Oxfordshire and Berkshire Seeking Solutions. She endured fifteen minutes of media infamy after she refused to pay her council tax and was jailed. I remember talking to her about this before she started her project. She had researched it thoroughly and examined every element of the legal situation and was confident that the authorities could not wriggle out of it... But it was not to be, see: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2015/03/programme-131-podcast-carla-buckle.html. The second lesson I learned is far more recent, the defeat of Richard D Hall at the Royal Courts of Justice, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/07/rdh-lawsuit-mini-portal.html. I have not rejected FMOTL because I think it is fundamentally incorrect, morally or lawfully; it is not. I've rejected FMOTL because it is impractical. It is based on the assumption that our enemy has a sense of fair play and will obey its own rules when those rules are wielded against them. It will not. In both Richard and Carla's court cases, the defendants technically won. They were both right, but they still "lost", meaning that the government just replied with a "So what? Yah-boo sucks to you, we're still going to screw you!"

I'm a big fan of the science fiction TV series Blakes 7; it is one of the most interesting and meaningful TV shows ever made. I've even reviewed the entire series, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2007/10/blakes-7.html. There's an episode called "Voice from the Past" in which a group of three rebels plan to overthrow the Federation by establishing a legal challenge to its rule. The leader of the Federation, Servalan, responds simply by cornering the three and killing them. In the classics this is called a "Melian dialogue", a conversation in which only one side has the power. It is from an incident in which Athens blockaded the island of Melos in 416 BC and negotiated with the captives. There is no point trying to use the system to overthrow the system. This is a common mistake also found in the world of politics; it's a lesson Nigel Farage has not yet learned, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/07/general-election-2024-livestream.html. So what is the solution then, Ben? I hear you ask. To be frank, this country has become so authoritarian that there is actually a limit to how I can answer that question without ending up in prison myself. I will say this much, I still have faith in something coming out of left field. It could be something related to Donald Trump, "that letter of the alphabet", see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/08/pr-portal.html, UFO's, or a revelation by a group of insiders. It might be something else we haven't yet heard of. All I know is that I must stay on course in the present. We need patience. The future must be left where it is.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2015/06/john-harris-dies.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/03/andy-barlow-in-oxon.html.