I was thinking about the whole sovereign citizen thing, I believe I may have touched upon similar ideas previously...
If Dezi was indeed a sovereign citizen, as reported - sovereign citizens often engage in something called paper terrorism. The following excerpt is taken from
Wikipedia:
Cases involving sovereign citizens can cause law enforcement officers and court officials severe problems. Sovereign citizens may challenge the laws, rules, or sentences they disagree with by engaging in the practice known as paper terrorism, which involves filing complaints with legal documents that may be bogus or simply misused. Minor issues such as traffic violations or disagreements over pet-licensing fees may provoke numerous court filings. Courts then find themselves burdened by having to process hundreds of pages of irregular, sometimes incomprehensible documents, straining their resources.
A central aim of paper terrorism appears to be the imposition of substantial costs - in time, money, and manpower - upon the system.
This is particularly intriguing because Police Chief Commissioner Mike Bush
said last week that
several hundred police are still in the area searching for Freeman.
This September 29th
The Age article states:
Bush told reporters the number of police hunting for Freeman had been significantly scaled back... “At the height we had nearly 500 officers up there conducting the search, investigating and providing reassurance to the community,” Bush said. “At the moment, we have in excess of 200 officers there.”
The current deployment therefore suggests that the operation has in fact been escalated once more.
It was
estimated at the 47 day mark (October 12th) that the manhunt had already cost $100 million.
If one of the movement's strategic objectives is to drain government resources to the greatest extent possible, then a protracted, high-cost search of this nature would represent an almost ideal outcome for an adherent such as Dezi.
In the latest article from
The Australian, it was reported that while fleeing the scene, Dezi told his wife that he would see her in heaven. If that's true, it strongly implies that he believed his own death was imminent.
If he was already convinced that he would not survive - whether at the hands of police or by his own action - then, from the perspective of his ideological commitments, one of the most effective courses available to him would be to exploit his knowledge of the terrain, retreat to a location where his remains might never be recovered, and thereafter take his own life.
I'm sure he would be aware that police would be duty-bound to conduct an exhaustive search, and in his mind it would be the perfect physical analogue of the resource-drain tactic... instead of flooding courts with paper terrorism, he could force many months, or even years of helicopters, ground teams, dogs, and overtime - every dollar of it paid by the very government whose legitimacy he denied.
www.theguardian.com
www.abc.net.au
au.finance.yahoo.com
www.dailymail.co.uk
www.9news.com.au
