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- canada@lemmy.ca
Start of article:
A B.C. family’s attempt to trade in their birth certificates for access to mythic, secret bank accounts containing untold riches has prompted a scathing decision from a judge, who called their claims “incoherent, unintelligible nonsense.”
Jason and Nadia Zimmer, residents of Abbotsford, B.C. — a city about 70 kilometres southeast of Vancouver — along with their daughter Taliyah, filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court earlier this year, arguing that they were each “promised heir to the kingdom” at birth, but they have been unfairly denied their rightful property by government officials.
Their claim appears to draw on a decades-old pseudolegal scheme promoted by leaders in the Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument (OPCA) world, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Gary Weatherill said in a judgment posted online this week, describing it as completely devoid of any merit.
Yeah this is the “Free Man On The Land” movement. It’s been going on for decades at this point. I’ve been running into them (personally, they’ve been around for a lot longer) since the mid-90s. Their whole schtick is that in some way or other nation states bake in this way you can (if you’re crafty enough) reneg all of your quasi-legal citizenship and in return gather all of the money said nation state has “made off of you” in a lump sum. The catch is that you are now nation-less and can’t get a DL or passport or whatever, and so you need to be dedicated to living in place after you do so (but rich, so whatever, in their mind).
The highest concentration of this idea I’ve found is/was in the koots but it’s all over the place. Never heard of it outside of BC though. In 30+ years. So there’s that.