Facts About Mount Warning Eco Village Scam

By Gi Linda.

“Truthology” was the deceptive front used as a database by Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock in 2014, when they first began calling for investors to buy land and form a “Village Community.”

Mark Darwin aka "Dumass Boofhead"

Darwin and Brennock acquired $1.5 million to purchase the land, plus loans and superannuation, and established “Bhula Bhula Village Community”  at 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW, Australia.  

But the “Village Community.” was governed by an improperly executed Trust that enabled Darwin and Brennock to betray the trust of the supposed "unit holders".  

Potential investors were misled by false representations and the silent omission of known restrictions on potential land use.  Investors who paid for the land were then disenfranchised with only a beneficial interest in an empty Trust.

Online “Truthology” marketing material was removed after the land-share scam was exposed in local newspapers in 2016.

Tweed Daily News: "Living in a Nightmare"

Many assurances were given to potential investors that development approval was in process, yet Darwin and Brennock never applied for the required permits, knowing that the land was protected as water catchment for a proposed future drinking water dam.

More than 21 investors who had purchased the communal property at Mt Burrell, were forcibly driven off the land during 2016-17, without return of their funds. 

Despite much pretense, investors have received no restitution as Darwin and Brennock attempt to take private control of the land through a deceptive “phoenix move.”

Adrian Brennock aka "Jimmy the Maggot"

Darwin and Brennock, after fleecing the purchasers of the 640 acre property, are again rattling the can, asking credulous investors to believe their "new promises" and give them money, as they aspire to purchase 3,000 acres and form another “Village Community” on adjoining property, together with landowner Peter van Lieshout.

Landowner Peter van Lieshout

"Mount Warning Eco Village” is again marketed by Darwin and Brennock with assurances that dwelling is permitted, and cabins are offered for sale. Yet the intended "Eco Village", like the failed "Bhula Bhula Village Community", is located on environmentally protected land. Again, there is NO DA in place for multiple occupancy on the land, and no application for development of a "Village Community" has been submitted to Tweed Shire Council, although Darwin and Brennock are, as before, loudly stating their "intention to extend existing permissions".

Mt Warning Eco Village - baiting with "alternative lifestyle" lures

The continual soliciting by Darwin and Brennock, of "mezzanine finance," "loans,” “advances," “ethical investments,” "superannuation funds"   and “pre-DA purchase of home-sites" on environmentally protected land without development approval has been ongoing since 2014. This is a SCAM that has already left investors with trust betrayed and shattered lives, defrauded of over $1.5 million.

Buyer Be Warned!

Recreating the Village

Marketing Videos

The videos linked below were part of the Darwin / Brennock marketing campaign in 2014-16, under the guise of "Truthology" and "Freedom Summits," and were used to raise purchase money for land. These videos were scrubbed from the net after the land-share scam was exposed in the Nimbin GoodTimes article, "The Truth About Bhula Bhula", but were archived by defrauded investors.

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Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock Marketing Village Communities - Sydney, July 2015 
Part 1 (edited synopsis of 2 hr 15 min presentation)

Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock Marketing Village Communities - Sydney, July 2015 
Part 2 - (edited synopsis of 2 hr 15 min presentation)

Bhula Bhula Legal Structure presented by Mark Darwin

Truthology Inquiry Video with Mark Darwin, 2014

Buyer Be Warned!

Sovereignty Movement: The Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments of "Freemen"

By Gi Linda

Q: When is a scam not a scam?
A: When it's run by "Sovereign Citizens".

Litigation against "Sovereign Citizens" is like playing chess with electric eels... they play by different rules. They operate by the "Law of the Brute", that means the biggest brute wins. There is no level playing field. Opponents are obliged to play by the rules, while "Sovereign Citizens" do not. They knock over all the chess pieces, burn up the chess-board, viciously bite their opponents, then boast they won the game. 

"Sovereign Citizens"  do not recognize the authority of the courts, so they believe they can commit crimes such as fraud, larceny and perjury with impunity if their private interests can be advanced. 

Ironically, while denying the authority of courts over their own illegal conduct, Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock regularly use the state legal system to protect their own commercial interests and to ruthlessly intimidate and silence critics... as anyone attempting to expose and oppose them quickly discovers.

"Sovereign Citizens" also known as "Freemen", Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock, are leading mentors of Australia's "Sovereignty Movement" who collaborate closely with Mark McMurtry, a British born "adopted Origine" who calls himself "Gunham Badi".

Agressively seditious, "Mr Badi" dislikes the term "Sovereign Citizen". He heads an aborigine sovereignty faction, the "Original Sovereign Tribal Federation (OSTF)" that teaches followers to reject the assumed authority of the corporation that poses as Australia's government.

In 2016, after investors who paid for the property at 3222 Kyogle Rd,  "Bhula Bhula Village Community"  were driven off their land, "Mr Badi" occupied the property and the derelict homestead in the name of "Origine Sovereignty". He has now locked the gate to the property and effectively dispossessed  investors of their own property, declaring it to be under his personal control as "Origine sovereign territory".

Darwin and Brennock, attempting to stop their land-share scam being further exposed, are pursuing authors of this blog with defamation charges in NSW Supreme Court, boasting that they are "the best in the business" at playing "dirty pool". 

Extracts from two articles illustrate the contempt for the judicial system that characterizes the dealings of "Sovereign Citizens" Darwin, Brennock and accomplice McMurtrie. Their "Truthology" movement, referred to in these articles was shut down after it was exposed as a front for a land-share scam in the October 2016 Nimbin GoodTimes article, "The Truth About Truthology".
 

Sovereign Citizens: The Real Terrorist Threat

By Sydney Criminal Lawyers

14/01/2016

"Sovereign citizens say they are not bound by statute law unless they contractually agree to be so bound. Government acts are optional and can only be used on individuals who agree to them. They argue that statutes are “maritime law”, never meant for dry land as they were laws made for ships that were outside jurisdiction on the high seas. They believe that they can declare themselves independent of the government and the rule of law, the only “true” law is their own interpretation of common law.

"If you’re a sovereign person, you make the laws for yourself.”

"In the infamous 1987 Canadian court case Meads v Meads, Alberta Queens Bench Associate Chief Justice John D Rooke described the techniques used by the ‘Freemen’ in court as “frivolous and vexatious”, coining the term ‘Organised Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments’ (OPCA).

 

The Attraction

"Sovereign Citizens is a movement that suits a variety of combustible outsiders; from men’s rights activists to groups like Truthology, who hold seminars on how to operate outside of the ATO.

Mark Darwin, who runs Truthology, explains how the “world monetary system impacts your daily life. Everything you thought you knew about money, taxes, fines is one of the greatest illusions ever perpetuated by mankind.”

"The Truthology website offers to free people from wage slavery so they can enjoy their lives by getting around fines of all kinds using the Sovereign Citizen tactics. The site makes it all sound quite palpable. Perhaps we all question why we slog to work every day, frustrated about how our lives are ruled by mortgages, wages and a plethora of rules. We wonder whether we are prisoners of system that is beyond our control, and long for a better and easier way to live in the world.

"But the problem with not paying your electricity bills is that sooner rather than later, the lights will be turned off."

"In Australia, the movement has been embraced by Indigenous communities; a natural fit for people who have never accepted sovereignty. Former fisherman Mark McMurtrie has been a leading Aboriginal Freeman, travelling the country with message of an Original Sovereign Tribal Foundation. “Our tribes are sovereign” he tells cheering indigenous people at rallies,

“The legislation is entirely immaterial to us. We don’t give two shits what the crown thinks. We are not particularly concerned about their legislation other than the fact that they continue to use their blue coated bully boys to railroad us and to commit ethnic cleansing on behalf of this thing called crown corporation.”

Armed with his own treaties, he is telling dispossessed people what they want to hear,

“Not one piece of legislation of the crown has any authority over any person. If a court is going to exercise any of the powers attaching a right of ownership over me, forcing me to accept any right of punishment over me, then I will be addressing the matter from a point of view of slavery. They do not own me, they have no right to tell me anything.”

"In 2002, McMurtie lost a case against the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Commission who he sued for $33 million after losing out on a business grant worth $35,000. In other unsuccessful cases, he has demanded to have cases of Indigenous persons heard by a Tribal Council of Elders or under Common Law with a jury.

Read more: 

sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/sovereign-citizens-the-real-terrorist-threat/

Freemen Movement

By Ramon Glazov, The Saturday Paper, Edition No. 28 September 6 - 12, 2014  

"Sovereign citizens” are advising Indigenous Australians to operate outside the laws of the land".

"Freemen believed all government acts to be optional and only enforceable on individuals who consented to them. As long as they did not acknowledge statutory law or the judiciary, sovereign citizens claimed they were exempt from prosecution – as well as from taxation, debt and road rules. In courts, they submitted rambling declarations containing private heraldry, wax seals, oddly coloured text and signatures jotted in blood or unusual inks. Written statutes, they argued, were actually tyrannical “admiralty laws”, never meant for dry land.

"In Australia, a burgeoning faction of Freemen is targeting Indigenous audiences. A taste of the subculture can be gleaned online, in groups such as the Tribal Sovereign Parliament of Gondwana Land, the Original Sovereign Tribal Federation (OSTF) and the Original Sovereign Confederation.

"The most quoted and influential Aboriginal Freeman guru is OSTF founder and travelling speaker Mark McMurtrie... McMurtrie's OSTF "is currently partnered with a sovereign citizen outfit called the Truthology Foundation, which holds yearly “freedom summits”. These feature talks by Truthology’s creator Mark Darwin on “how you can operate privately outside the rules of such organisations like the ATO” and workshops by a “Mr X” on “successful techniques for negating and or waiving council fines, traffic infringements and tolls”."

"When part of a culture senses the court system is rigged against it, when a society has managed to make the terms “protection” and “child welfare” sound grim, then the OSTF mentality is partly understandable. Alienation begets anti-politics. Alienated people want explanations for the absurdism they feel around certain institutions; answers to why some professional fraternities give them the chills.

"Fantasies about tyrannical admiralty lawyers provide just that. They’re the opiate of the excluded."

 Read more:

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/indigenous-affairs/2014/09/06/freemen-movement-targets-indigenous-australia/1409925600

 

Blog Administration: Mount Warning Eco Village Scam

By  Free Radical

Two blogs, Mount Warning Eco Village Scam and The Truth About Truthology have been administered by Free Radical on behalf of the Group of Investors Defrauded by Darwin.

Mark Darwin & co have reacted to these blogs, bringing an urgent Notice of Motion listed at Sydney Supreme Court for Thursday August 24, seeking orders to force removal of these blogs, with prevention of publication of similar material.

On June 21, Darwin & co withdrew a similar previous urgent injunction, made to the Supreme Court on grounds that they are losing sales of shares in Mt Warning Eco Village as a result of potential victims apparently doing better due diligence after reading the blogs. 

The intimidating claim was withdrawn after two hearings before Justice MCallum in which their conflicting and perjured affidavits were examined. An amended claim against myself and the Nimbin GoodTimes is listed for a fourth hearing on September 14 at Sydney Supreme Court.

Since 2014, it has been the habitual pattern of Darwin & Co to isolate and menace those who attempt to hold them accountable or expose their scam. As a result of their abuse of legal process as a tool of intimidation, Free Radical has passed administration to the collective control of the "Group of Investors Defrauded by Darwin", together with a "Group of Concerned Neighbours," who are independent observers of the ongoing scam. 

Because, for more than two years, we have been deceived and defrauded, threatened, harassed and intimidated by Mark Darwin and cohorts, admin of this blog will remain anonymous, and will now be managed by several individuals represented collectively by the pseudonym "Ven.Cera." 

Vencerá: By Truth, Justice Prevails! 

"Vencerá", of Portuguese etymology, is the first and third-person infinitive and future subjunctive of the Portuguese verb "vencer", derived from vincĕre, the inspiring present active infinitive of the Latin vincō, meaning "to defeat the enemy, to overcome, to conquer, to win."

We invite you to contact us directly for more information about our experiences with "Bhula Bhula Village Community" and "Mount Warning Eco Village"; both ventures being "dream castles" built on sand by Mark Darwin and Adrian Brennock, who, without development approval, continue advertising opportunities for "ethical investment" in the purchase of shares... to acquire unapproved home sites on environmentally protected land where habitation is not permitted.

With deep appreciation and gratitude to everyone who has supported those of us who lost our life savings, our inheritances, our homes, hopes and dreams in this "village community" fiasco. 

We hope our warning, will help potential victims to be better informed of the land-share scam, and so avoid the hurt, harm and loss that we have suffered.

Free Radical

Contact us: ecovillage.expose@gmail.com 

mountwarningecovillagescam.blogspot.com.au  thetruthabouttruthology.blogspot.com.au