Trust Chairman Dandrews going too far yet again and making masks compulsory even in suburban outdoor settings, (well, unless you are smoking, drinking, eating or jogging). If he was wasn’t so stubbornly heavyhanded, he would attract less opposition , but he simply cannot stop implementing draconian rules that make no sense, except in the context of total obedience to the state.

The freeman-on-the-land movement, is a loose group of individuals who believe 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” based on the constitution

The problem is, it’s more a philosophy than law (An “alternative” law) and because the government is armed, their statutes are usually enforced at gunpoint.

Philosophically speaking, Freeman law does stand up as valid, and our society would be better if it did apply rather than our Australian 20+ million statutes and counting.

As it is, though,Freeman law is a game protesters play, sometimes well, if the police are inexperienced, but these day it’s more widely know about and the cops have upped their game. Also, it does not tend to stand up in court.

Still, the lady has a point and I applaud her for her courage: the mask law is probably unlawful and therefore she can just take her fine to court and will probably win, no need to wrestle with the cops.

Alternatively, she can just try to circumvent the law by smoking or drinking while wearing the mask on her head or a more or less useless scarf, which Dandrews declared acceptable  and which proves the “law” has nothing to do with virus  safety  but rather exists to normalize mask wearing in order to create a dystopian society.