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so this is an interesting article it's a
freeman on the land article about this
guy here who went you look he lived a
normal life lived in the house we have
wife and kids but he got divorced and
with his settlement money he bought a
plot of land and built a hobbit house
without planning permission and after
three years of battling and copying
buckling the cars he's finally lost and
the bulldozers will be coming in a few
weeks so I yet myself see what has to
say Dean Mitchell lives in his own
version of paradise but not for much
longer
nestled in ancient Sussex woodland a few
hundred yards from the main road leading
south to Hairston's is what the Burton
annual calls his hobby house it has no
running water our mains electricity and
the pier style been carved out of the
landscape around it it's covered in moss
and vegetation bird's nest above a star
where it looks like it's been there
forever
Mitchell rolling a joint as he sits
beside his crackling fire explains how
he built the house single-handedly over
two weeks three years ago I've combined
the quarter acre plots of land for 7,000
pounds the brick Bobbi's marriage had
left him with nowhere to live and sent
him into a deep depression in a few
weeks time the local council will order
some bulldozers to demolish his idol
while it is his land
Mitchell never asked for planning
permission and the council has been
fighting him through the court since
2015 to get to tear the house down in
July the High Court finally put an end
to the matter by granting Wheeldon
district council an injunction to force
its removal
Mitchell didn't fight his case in court
he says his dyslexia stops him from
reading the court papers but more
importantly he considers himself a
freeman on land an obscure term with
roots in the u.s. is anti-government
libertarian movement of the 1970s used
to describe people who believe they are
not bound by law as determined by
Parliament
or any lot they have not consented to
it's Mitchell's land his rules and at
least while he's there he's not bound by
any man-made law he says yeah good luck
with that difference he's not alone
stories of Freeman illustrate court
hearings with strange above all about
the Magna Carta and maritime law
occasionally percolate for the legal
community and social media where
Facebook groups such as practical lawful
dissent attract thousands of followers
it's a lovely place Jim yeah but who are
these Freeman who sometimes refer to
themselves as part of a lawful rebellion
against the legal control of citizens
lives and where does that ideology come
from is this a subculture movement built
on a conspiracy theory or are they
making an important point about an
individual's rights and how we are
governed by the state I was happily
married I had a house in Hastings I have
two kids a 14 year old and an 8 year old
and she just decided that was it
obviously people fall out of love I
understand that so you went through the
divorce and I moved into my workshop in
the garden for three weeks
saved Mitchell he ended up with about
15,000 pounds from the sale of the
family house in his hometown with a
stings and spend that spent that on his
quarter acre site and the building
materials to construct the Hobby house
the turning point was when already
feeling suicidal as a result of a broken
marriage he suffered a slip disc in his
back he was offered treatment only if he
went to drug rehabilitation because of
his regular use of magic mushrooms and
cannabis when he refused the doctor told
him then there's nothing I can do for
you
this was the moment Mitchell checks out
of mainstream society that's when I
decided to have paid my taxes I've
worked hard all my life and this is how
society to pay me back I thought right
that's it no I'm going to make a stand
he's
having fun to kill himself Mitchell
tearfully explains he then visited a
church to ask for forgiveness the sermon
convinced him that suicide was wrong
then came the Hobby house it's a small
but impressive structure completely in
keeping with an actual environment wood
carved mushrooms lie around the site
Mitchell works two to three days a week
making things like this for paying
clients for which he pairs taxis keen to
point out he has held parties here but
says he has always turn the music down
when asked he has a good relationship
with his neighbor a cattle farmer so it
looks pretty pretty cool place really
was little place like this stuff like
this but he didn't get planning
permission so yeah Jim the article just
gone a little bit but I won't carry on
boring it maybe he didn't let you I'll
put a link in the description so you can
you can all read it yourselves it goes
into a lot of other Freeman stories that
I have covered before so I what I want
carry on anyway thanks for watching guys
and have a nice day right

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