Court experience
I had my first court experience this week.
In September I received a bill for £625. this was after I was fould guilty in court in my absence for failing to supply information as to the driver of a vehicle registered in my name which was caught speeding.
Now as far as I know it is not a legal requirement to open my post. So I dont open any letters that come form the police or might do so. (You can try this one yourself) As it happens my wife opened the final one with the £625 bill. So I called the court. I mean how ridiculous that a court can find you guiltyt in your abence even though they had ZERO correspondence from me and they hadnt even sent a registered letter ! These type of things bring up questions in me and perhaps in you.
So they told me I can go to court and make a statutory declaration. I get there. Its a bizzarre experience (One that I recommend you to ttry even if it is just to observe.) Now i have read and heard stuff about the freeman movement (if you havent go to www.tpuc.org and see john harris vids) but i havent relaly understood it all to the level of use at the court. But when I went I just got the feeling that its all very dodgy. it presents a facade of justice but it is very far from that. it FEELS like its all a set up. I felt very intimidated by it all. The majistrates sit above you and yo uhave to stand. I made my first 'mistake' by agreeing to go in the 'dock' but as I was there to make a stat dec, i did so anyway. I got out my mobile phone and told them I was recording it. The clerk got very shirty and told me I was not allowed. (As with the police, these clerks fallinto a certain bad father like role in which they assume they can order you around. THey seem to have lost their humanity) I said under which law exactly. He said he would have to take a 10 minute recess to check which he did. He was delighted with himself when he found the ridiculous statue (one of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS which is ridiculous when you think that they claim that ignorance is no defense in the law) but said I could ask special leave but that if I published it , it would be contempt of court ! They agreed I could tape it on this basis but what on earth are they hiding ?
Anyway , they then said 'All stand' as the majistrates entered and I sat and said I didnt want to stand. They said that I had to or it would be contempt of court. SO i agreed but I realise that i coudl probably have taken it further. Evetually i made my declaration but I decided to hang around to hear the next case.
It was a 65 year old woman who had owed £4000 council tax since 2003 but had paid off 3500. The councils solicitor must have been carefully employed by the council because he was a soulless robot. I almost fell over when this woman told us her story. She had cancer, had just had part ofher lung removed and could hardly speak, her husband died in January and her mother died last year ! Yet the way these proceedings were going, it was as if the solicitor just didnt care. I didnt think of it at the time but I should have shouted out - I will pay for it if you guys are solacking in compassion. They agreeed that she could pay £30 a month which she could ill afford. I am sure that this case cost us and the coucil much more than the £500 she owed. To top it all they had given her a 28 day suspended sentence !!
What I am left with is more and more of a feeling that there is something very very fishy going on in these courts which has been uncovered by the freedom movement. If you do your hoework, you can find out how it all works and avoid letting them bully you.
