Freeman busted for unlicensed travelling - in the air

[Burnaby49]

Apparently even if you don't get behind the wheel of a car or use the public roads you didn't pay for you can't exercise your charter given Freeman right to travel without getting busted.
In this case Tony, our hero, found the perfect solution for travelling around Winnipeg without a driver's license, he flew over it in a paraglider and was busted by a police helicopter! At least a new approach to the problem.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 20281.html

Tony's had this hobby for awhile, poor guy had his paraglider burn up with his car;

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ppg ... opics/6673

At present Tony is 35. Four years ago another Tony Gibson (aged 31) wanted to set up "EcoVillage", a eco-friendly campground:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-a ... 11919.html
https://mariannecurtis.wordpress.com/20 ... elaxation/

I'd say that's our guy. And his wife is named "Mandy".

Then he kind of built a diorama!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7tqx3vnxT0

But did it ever open? Maybe...
http://www.campsource.ca/parks/default.aspx?parkid=4582
http://www.milebymile.com/main/poi-7649.html
http://www.fyple.ca/company/ecovillage- ... nd-q1e21z/
http://www.mysteinbach.ca/business/ecovillage-resort/
http://www.hometowncanada.com/links/Man ... aint_Anne/

Oops! Someone stole his construction vehicles!
http://rvdailyreport.com/campground/can ... ampground/
http://www.manitobacrimestoppers.com/steinbach.html

And the EcoVillage campground website is dead
http://www.ecovillageresort.ca

But Wayback Machine has a copy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110208062 ... resort.ca/

He seems to be a sucker for motivational speakers and get rich quick schemes:
http://www.persistencepays.ca/testimoni ... rack.shtml

Tony works for "Fast Track Capital"
https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/tony-gibson/b/a6a/58a

I'm sure they're reputable
http://fasttrackcapital.com

Or not;

http://www.investmentexecutive.com/-/os ... ck-capital
http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/SecuritiesL ... -track.htm
http://www.bonnyvillenouvelle.ca/articl ... 9974/0/sag
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/busine ... 90747.html

Probably just an isolated incident. Mr. Weeks, the promoter, has a nice suit. I'm sure he wouldn't do something stupid like run a sleazy charity donation tax shelter, would he? Not with a silly name like "FAST - Fight Aids Save Taxes", right? Wrong;

http://www.fasttracktocashflow.com/about-us/history/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ ... s-1.882345
http://www.canadiancharitylaw.ca/blog/e ... taxes_fast_
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fight-Ai ... 2945287034

Fight AIDS Save Taxes! (FAST) claims to help people suffering from HIV-AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa through a tax shelter scheme fuelled by money from Canadians willing to circumvent federal tax laws for the sake of philanthropy and profit.

Headquartered out of a strip mall in a remote part of St. Albert, Alta., the organization solicits donations and uses that money to obtain loans to purchase anti-retroviral drugs for African AIDS patients.

Donors are issued tax receipts for the full amount of the loan that they can then use to claim large tax credits on annual income tax returns.

I can't say I recall the Fight AIDS Save Taxes! scheme but it is just one of many donation in kind schemes that donated worthless pharmaceuticals to African AIDS groups and claimed huge values for the drugs for donation purposes. They'd buy very heavily discounted drugs from third world manufacturers which were almost worthless because they were on the edge of their expiry dates. The Canadian participants would get tax donation receipts based on the cost to buy the same drugs, newly manufactured in Canada, in Canadian pharmacies at retail prices under prescription rather than the bulk fire-sale prices they were actually acquired at.

Other schemes did things like buying a shipload of unsorted broken third-rate rice in Thailand then give the whole shipment "as is" to a third world government. The scam was to have taxpayers donate to the scheme on the basis they were paying for and donating the rice indirectly. The scheme promoters would charge them say five times the price it paid for the rice on a per pound basis then write a donation receipt giving a per pound value of say twenty times the actual price based on the price that high quality rice sold for in small packages in supermarket in Toronto or Vancouver. Taxpayers gave themselves big warm fuzzy hugs for being so generous and helping the third world then they claimed tax refunds much higher than their actual donated amounts thereby making the so-called donations big profit generators. Until it all fell apart. The CRA went after all of them and it didn't end well. I attended one promotional high-pressure seminar where the speaker said the scheme was foolproof because the CRA had no legal right to challenge any amount, no matter how ridiculous, that a charity put on a donation receipt. He said the CRA was legally oblidged to accept them. Unfortunately for the suckers that bought into these schemes the CRA though otherwise.

So, wonder what else is going on with Tony and Mandy. Hey! The Business Development Bank is suing them and EcoVillage for a half million!

CI14-01-91715 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BANK OF VS 5926115 MANITOBA INC.

... but they counterclaimed and among the counterclaim defendants are: "Governor General of Canada and Attorney General of Canada (As Members of the Queen's Privy Council). So they've apparently gone OPCA. The counterclaim is set to be struck out on January 29, 2015. So, I'd say Tony and Mandy's little campground was a bust.

Tony also is a defendant in a $25000 action: CI14-01-92587 BRYANT, GORDON vs 5926115 MANITOBA INC. that has just started.

There's also a $9000ish unpaid utility action back in 2012: SC12-06-14438 MANITOBA HYDRO vs 5926115 MANITOBA INC.

Surprisingly neither seems to have any income tax related issues that I can find.

[Fmotlgroupie]

Ok, this is the wackiest Freeman on [off, really] the Land story I've seen in a while! Thanks for bringing it to our attention along with all the background on Tony and his new job. I wonder what Tony's story is - was he sketchy the whole time, and the Eco resort was a scam, or was he an overbitious and naive tinkerer/entrepreneur, brought low in part by an equipment thief, before falling in with the tax scammers who dragged him into the FMOTL wormhole?

Either way, there's lots of entertainment that Tony brings to the sadness-fest which is a Freeman's life

[Burnaby49]

More news on our dauntless aviator. He's flown the coop! The story is right there in the link title!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 67401.html

Of course the media, always pandering to the lowest common denominator, can't (unlike Burnaby49) stop mocking a serious topic with pathetic flying quips;

He claims to be above the law and exempt from prosecution. Now justice officials are trying to clip the wings of a high-flying Winnipeg man who refused to show up for his trial.

[Jeffrey]

Do we even have to draw the obvious connection between him evading a warrant and being associated to Dean Clifford?

[Burnaby49]

Do we even have to draw the obvious connection between him evading a warrant and being associated to Dean Clifford?

Menard is the one who ran from his own trial and has an outstanding arrest warrant. Dean showed up and took his punishment.

[Jeffrey]

I'm referring to the previous case that Dean ran away from which led to a warrant being issued, and then Dean evaded that warrant by hiding in Ontario.

[Wake Up! Productions]

I'm referring to the previous case that Dean ran away from which led to a warrant being issued, and then Dean evaded that warrant by hiding in Ontario.

I will give Dean credit on that issue. Yes he went to Ontario, but it had less to do with running from an arrest warrant, and more to do with collecting on a giant win fall by attending the seminar in Hamilton. That seminar had been booked months prior. If Dean was arrested prior to the seminar, he wouldn't have made his cut of the money, and Kate of Gaia would have been the headliner !!!

[NYGman]

I seem to recall a video of Dean's where he went with another person to collect his property from Lockup. I thought this was the Glider guy, picking up his microlight. However, with all the Dean deletions I am not sure where that video went, but I am sure this guy got his stuff back, even though he almost messed that up, almost becoming belligerent when asked for ID to get "his property" back. Dean had to step in, and stop him from blowing it, when he realized the ID request was to check it was his stuff. The whole scene was quite comical, and I am sure it was this idiot.

[Wake Up! Productions]

I seem to recall a video of Dean's where he went with another person to collect his property from Lockup. I thought this was the Glider guy, picking up his microlight. However, with all the Dean deletions I am not sure where that video went, but I am sure this guy got his stuff back, even though he almost messed that up, almost becoming belligerent when asked for ID to get "his property" back. Dean had to step in, and stop him from blowing it, when he realized the ID request was to check it was his stuff. The whole scene was quite comical, and I am sure it was this idiot.

You are absolutely right. Damn, I never made the connection until you said it. Here is the video:

Tony and Dean Clifford going after Tony's Property at Police Warehouse. August 14/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0tVwFmR4uQ

[Burnaby49]

Free-flying Tony has been picked up by the police and has decided to fight it out in an unconventional way, with an actual lawyer!

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 06681.html

We'll see how long his lawyer lasts once Tony starts the "I'm the only one here who knows the law" beligerance.

[Burnaby49]

The saga is finally over. Tony gave up the fight and pled guilty.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/ ... 39471.html

Although his Face Book page might indicate a strategic retreat rather than a change of heart;

https://www.facebook.com/tony.gibson.5891

since his friends list still included Dean Clifford and Anna Von Reitz and his cover picture is him in his flying contraption. He does seem obsessed by micro-flying. An amble through his friends shows a very heavy weighting to guys sitting in flying chairs and his groups section is devoted to owerchuter and powermotor groups.

[Jeffrey]

. Gibson, who had reportedly been linked to the Freemen on the Land movement, had a criminal charge against him for failing to comply with a summons stayed Tuesday. He’d previously said in court he believed it was an "unlawful summons" and told a judge she had 15 minutes to drop the case against him.

Wolson said despite past media reports, Gibson was not a member of any such "association."

That's just dishonest on the part of the lawyer.