Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Freemen-on-the-land\" are a loose group of individuals believing in a conspiracy theory that they are bound by statute laws only if they consent to those laws. They believe that they can therefore declare themselves independent of the government and the rule of law, holding that the only \"true\" law is their own interpretation of \"common law\". Freemen are mainly active in the United States and in other English-speaking countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.In the Canadian court case Meads v. Meads, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice John D. Rooke used the phrase \"Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments\" (OPCA) to describe the techniques and arguments used by freemen in court describing them as frivolous and vexatious. There is no recorded instance of freeman tactics being upheld by a legal verdict; in refuting one by one each of the arguments used by one such litigant, \"Rooke [ACJ] concluded [that] a decade of reported cases, many of which he refers to in his ruling, have failed to prove a single concept advanced by OPCA litigants.\"Freemen-on-the-land are also called \"Freemen-of-the-land\" and the \"Freemen movement\". They may be an offshoot of the Sovereign Citizen movement."@en }
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- Freemen_on_the_land abstract "\"Freemen-on-the-land\" are a loose group of individuals believing in a conspiracy theory that they are bound by statute laws only if they consent to those laws. They believe that they can therefore declare themselves independent of the government and the rule of law, holding that the only \"true\" law is their own interpretation of \"common law\". Freemen are mainly active in the United States and in other English-speaking countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.In the Canadian court case Meads v. Meads, Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice John D. Rooke used the phrase \"Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments\" (OPCA) to describe the techniques and arguments used by freemen in court describing them as frivolous and vexatious. There is no recorded instance of freeman tactics being upheld by a legal verdict; in refuting one by one each of the arguments used by one such litigant, \"Rooke [ACJ] concluded [that] a decade of reported cases, many of which he refers to in his ruling, have failed to prove a single concept advanced by OPCA litigants.\"Freemen-on-the-land are also called \"Freemen-of-the-land\" and the \"Freemen movement\". They may be an offshoot of the Sovereign Citizen movement.".