We're missing good quantitative social sciences data to back this up but my observation is pseudolaw adherents who are "true believers" & not just in it for easy money are already peculiar/fringe actors in some sense.

Sometimes that's political. Sometimes it's conspiracies. Or criminal affiliation.

Aside from the anti-vaxxer/pseudolaw interrelationship seems to be more:

(1) pre-existing and newly recruited community of those who resist conventional medicine and vaccines,

(2) who adopt pseudolaw as a method to counter state authority.

So, the worst of both.

& incoherence of pseudolaw gurus means LLMs are validating pseudolaw concepts & rejecting Canadian law. Fortunately no one is paying much attention to the gurus in question; they are now marginal players. Their videos demanding freedom of thought for LLMs are pretty comical. FREE CHATGPT NOW!

(4) Old-school pseudolaw gurus are intrigued by Large Language Model (LLM) AIs, and are using LLMs as sources for information and as mechanisms to validate their claims. The fact LLMs can be bullied or tricked by demands and claims by users and the incredible sloppiness...

None of the gurus are innovators, but exhibit & slightly remix familiar source influences, like New Age Freemanish flavours, small scale Moorish offshoots, and anti-debt schemes. Older gurus like Christopher James Pritchard (A Warrior Calls) who were highly active in the COVID-19 period are fading.

(3) The historic pattern of Canadian pseudolaw adherents orbiting a few key figures appears to have shifted. Instead, numerous new gurus have emerged, largely online, operating in the social space formerly occupied by COVID-19 mitigation and anti-vaccine activism.

Bogue’s groups claim to be recognized by the Canadian federal government, and have documentation to support that. Bogue’s groups have thus far been rejected by Canadian courts. Legitimate Indigenous groups continue to not employ pseudolaw. Expect developments on this front.

(2) As predicted, hybrid indigenous/pseudolaw claims are on the rise. Many of these claims and their conceptual basis are flowing from suspended Ontario lawyer Glenn “Spirit Warrior” Bogue, and illegitimate “Indigenous” groups and tribunals he influences and/or operates.

(1) Pseudolaw is increasingly deployed in family law disputes between partners/spouses. There never was any conceptual reason why that couldn’t occur, but the reason for this shift isn’t clear. I’m not seeing new gurus who are marketing to this niche, instead entry seems to be on many paths.

Downloadable here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The article’s review ends in mid 2023. That’s when publication finalized. Since then there have been several interesting developments in Canada’s pseudolaw landscape:

I'm not going to comment in any detail on this publication, since this is pretty much a strictly US, "Sovereign Citizen"-based analysis/investigation. I don't have any special knowledge or expertise within this domain.

Interesting reading though!

And it's great to see more writing in this area.

Direct link to the thesis here:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

*fiendish laughter*

Pseudolaw gurus aren't exactly the most eloquent persons I've met.

But Belanger is an unusually dismal example.