Canadian criminal proceedings are very, very slow by international standards.

Though admittedly not on the India level.

Actually, I translated it.

Or rather Google did.

My french is pretty dismal at the technical level, but I've been impressed at how well Google Translate handles court judgments. Almost so well one wonders if there was specific training on that.

There were a lot of "copy pasta" arguments like this circulating back in the day.

It's good to see prosecutions are following up on those.

Oh, that's been the subject of a lot of commentary.

And not much in the way of useful suggestions. Eh. That's criminal law for you.

By coincidence I was attending a conference earlier this week which discussed terrorism charges in Canada.

Briefly, the problem is linking firearms offences to a "terrorist purpose". Simply possession isn't enough. Complicating matters further, the definition of "terrorism" in Canada is awkward.

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.