WAS Dezi Freeman a creation of the state – a Manchurian Candidate waiting for his final call?
Or was he just a man obsessed with getting justice from a state that was never going to allow him to get his way?
The former scenario has been proposed by “Mickamious”, an X account holder who describes himself as a “libertarian nationalist”. “The more I look into Dezi Bird Freeman, the more I get the feeling that this bloke has essentially been created as a result of the state,” he wrote.
“No, I’m not saying he’s a state operative, what I’m saying is that the government’s behavior is what has pushed him over an edge that has led to the events that occurred in Porepunkah today.
“Anyone can be radicalized, anyone can become a sovereign citizen, but generally it is with cause or as a result of other events.
“There’s a history here from continual police events involving himself that one could almost argue were police harassment, that have led him to becoming the way that he is.
“This does not justify his actions, but it does make one become concerned how many more people are potentially on the edge of becoming like this due to heavy handed police targeting and harassment?”
Freeman’s battle with Victorian authorities goes back to his dispute with Parks Victoria in 2019 over their attempt to block the community’s right of access to Mt Buffalo National Park along the Buffalo Creek Road, Myrtleford.
Freeman, representing himself in court, fought against local Lawyer Charles Morgan and VicBar barrister Timothy Chalke from Castan Chambers in Melbourne, for a year in his bid to uphold the community’s access to Mt Buffalo.
Freeman was taken to court nine times for what he called bushwalking. “It’s an insult to our community and the tourism industry and a gross waste of taxpayers money to even debate our access along a road that has been used to access Mt Buffalo for over 100 years,” he said at the time.
“There have been multiple procedural errors in this case and the course of justice has been perverted. Magistrates are not above the law and I will be holding them accountable for every last law broken and abuse of process that they commit unless they cease their relentless attacks upon me in this ridiculous, vexatious case.”
The stand-off eventually led to Freeman arresting the magistrate under the provisions of state law, when it appeared that Magistrate Watkins was attempting to railroad the case. From then on it was clear that Freeman became a target for the Victorian legal establishment, police and government departments.
“Mickamious” repeated what was already well known: “Friends claim Dezi Freeman had been harassed for months by government agencies and police before the tragic shooting. Another example of heavy-handed policies pushing people over the edge?
“Where is the accountability? He posted a list of Victorian policies fueling tension in rural communities, policies that often become flashpoints for anti-government activists:
• Firearms Regulation Crackdowns •More frequent Firearms Prohibition Orders targeting rural gun owners. •Expanded police powers to seize weapons based on “risk assessments,” often without criminal conviction.
• Land and Property Control
• Native Vegetation Clearing Laws: Restrictions on clearing private land, heavy fines for non-compliance. • Renewable Energy Zoning: Land earmarked for wind or solar projects, sometimes overriding local objections.
• Bushfire Management Overreach: Property access rules, fencing changes, and “fire-ready” mandates.
• COVID Legacy Measures with harsh penalties for non-compliance during lockdown.
• Some rural families faced repeated checks and fines, seen as harassment.
• Planning and Development Rules with tight restrictions on self-sufficient living (water tanks, off-grid solar, composting toilets), clashing with “sovereign” lifestyle choices.
“These create perfect friction points for citizens who believe government is unlawfully stripping freedoms and property rights. What happened in Victoria is tragic,” he said.
“Friends say Dezi Freeman had been harassed and intimidated by government agencies and police for months. How many more Australians have to be pushed to breaking point by government overreach?”
Jim Rech, a Commonwealth Public Officer who assisted Freeman at the Wangaratta court, related an incident in relation to the Dan Andrews misprision of treason court case in Myrtleford on December 17th 2021.
“It was falsely reported on a certain web radio program that Dezi Freeman was, after being assaulted by a gang of police members and ‘arrested’ on a false charge, was put in a paddy wagon and taken to Wangaratta Police Station so that he could not enter into the Myrtleford court house to make an arrest on the sitting Magistrate Dunne who was to hear the Andrews case,” said Rech.
“True facts are, after Dezi was king hit from behind and thrown to the road surface falling forward on to his face as a result sustaining facial injuries and grazing to his body in an unprovoked attack by state hired thugs, he was handcuffed and then frog marched 400 metres through the centre of Myrtleford town to the local police station in an act of public humiliation in an attempt to bringing disgrace on the Freeman family who have been fighting for truth and freedom from harassment in the local community for years now.
“His wife Mali Freeman also sustained physical bruising to her arm by the police while attempting to help her husband as he was being dragged away by what seemed to be at least a dozen police.
“Dezi was detained and interrogated for at least two hours and then released without a charge and then he walked backed to the main body of witnesses with his injuries clearly evident, who were there to attend the court case of Dan Andrews whose case was struck out without being heard while Dezi was in unlawful custody – a huge travesty of justice.”
