As I write this début post for this blog, the theory of "Free Man on the Land" is being tested in practise. Big time.
At 9.30am on Friday 22 January 2010, men in black suits knocked on the door of the Harrison family in Leicestershire.
The men in black suits were court bailiffs who had come to see Richard of that family and, when someone in that house refused to give his name to them, they arrested him, took him straight to court and sentenced him to 28 days in prison.
Richard's "crime" was to unregister his car with the DVLA. Not, as some may suggest, just to shirk the payment of 70 measly quid, but to contract himself out of the tyranny of rule by statute (as opposed to common law). His car had subsequently been seized, he challenged the policy enforcers' right to do this in court. The arrest is apparently in connection with the court costs incurred by that case.
The full story behind all this is still unfolding at http://tpuc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10036 but one concern that has emerged is that police staff repeatedly refused to tell the Harrison family of the arrested man's whereabouts when asked to do so, claiming that the Data Protection Act prevented them from doing so. This is a common excuse given by public officials and it has no basis in law.
Watch this space for updates...
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