• In short: Aboriginal elder Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta was arrested in March for protesting against native logging in Tasmania. He says he won’t recognise the “colonial” courts.
  • He bailed to appear on June 3, but a warrant was issued for his arrest on Monday after he failed to appear in the Hobart Magistrates Court.
  • What’s next? Mr Everett says he expects to be arrested again, but he’ll have to be “pushed” into the court — where he intends to question its sovereignty over Aboriginal people.
  • tau
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    -165 months ago

    The American inspired variety of sovereign citizen is enough, I don’t think we really need our own special version of the idea.

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      You’d enjoy the yidingi nation in Cairns then.

      They have their own governer general, police, taxation department and more.

      They have an immigration department, and you can even apply to be a citizen.

      They are a nation, and are recognised as such by a fair chunk of overseas countries.

      They literally were dual policing, in public, with the Queensland police, side by side, on nadoc week, and have their own vehicles, officers and more.

      When you see that, and you see this guy from Tasmania, his claim doesn’t feel so far fetched anymore.

      If he’s from the nation that traditionally owns the land being logged, and he protests on his own land, then from a human perspective I feel for him. From a legal perspective though, situations like the yidingi of the north will probably need to be tested first.

    • @[email protected]
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      195 months ago

      Yeah, nah, this is different.

      I hate the US Sov Cit loonies, but this guy is righteous.

      Besides, fuck the logging companies that destroy native forests.

    • Zagorath
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      75 months ago

      We already have our own nutso right-wing sovcitz. This isn’t much more extreme than Mabo was, prior to that case being decided.