The Dark Side Of ‘Freedom Of The Land’ Types

Members of a “cult” who believed they could overrule the judicial system have been jailed after storming a court armed with a pair of handcuffs in a failed attempt to kidnap and falsely imprison a senior coroner.

What a bunch of nutters! How could they possibly do more damage to our legal system than the activist judges and incompetent CPS are already doing? 

Lincoln Brookes, the senior coroner for Essex and target of the four-strong group’s botched kidnap attempt, told Chelmsford crown court that he regularly had nightmares about the incident.

Why? Their actions were comically ineffective and doomed to fail... 

The judge Justice Goss said all four were members of a group called the Federal Postal Court, or the Court for the People, which had “self-conferred” powers. In July, the prosecutor Allister Walker had called the group an “anti-establishment protest, cult or conspiracy theory”.

Well, given how often conspiracy theorists are proved absolutely correct these day, maybe they were a genuine threat after all. 

Mark Christopher, 59, was described as the “self-appointed leader” who went by the title of Chief Judge of England and All Dominions. Matthew Martin, 47, was a sheriff and coroner, Sean Harper, 38, was a sheriff, and his wife, Shiza Harper, 45, was a postal inspector for the group, the judge said, with all three “qualified by” Christopher. The judge said Christopher “lay at the very heart of these offences” as he jailed him for seven years. He said Martin and the Harpers “were prepared to commit offences while doing his bidding” and jailed them for 30 months each.

Any more indications they were all bonkers? Glad you asked, Reader: 

Martin, who represented himself, said he was “here to save younglings” and that “we find younglings tied up in places like underneath Asda supermarkets”.

Nah, mate, got to check the Jedi Temples for those. 

Just Obey The Rules Like Everyone Else Has To!

A barrister, who asked not to be named, told The Mail on Sunday that security guards at the court behave like 'night club bouncers'. Another barrister added: 'Some are thinking of a boycott here.'

Like you'd ever pass up money. Just bloody do as you're told, you're not special.  

Defence solicitor Dele Johnson said guards wrestled him to the ground after he refused to take off his shoes in a security search. Mr Johnson, 37, said it was like the ordeal of George Floyd, whose murder by Minneapolis police, as he protested 'I can't breathe', sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

'I never thought I'd also be saying 'I can't breathe',' said Mr Johnson. 'I was just trying to do my job.'

What do you think the security guards were trying to do then? When someone tries to circumvent security?  

Mr Johnson's identification card was checked when he arrived as a duty youth court solicitor last Wednesday. After leaving the building to have a cigarette, he agreed to a pat-down search when he returned but refused to take off his shoes, which he said resulted in four guards forcibly removing him.

With a defendant waiting for him, he re-entered the building via a side door but was blocked from entering a court and allegedly grabbed by 'four or five' guards.

'I started swinging, I felt I was fighting for my life against five men to stop them grabbing me,' he said.

You deliberately evaded security and started fighting with them when they tried to stop you. I guess standards have fallen further than anyone thought if someone like you can be a solicitor.