Brodie Finegan Forbes

We've got to... And you get the survivalist part of it as well comes in.

Yeah, very dangerous.

So...

I realised when I'd heard those speeches about, you know, like, here's how you kill cops, you create an electromagnetic pulse weapon, two bullets to the back of the head, cut out their radio.

Like, it was almost like a half-baked plan.

And I remember thinking at the time, I'm like, that's...

fucking insane like i'm just here for the bank again i'm sorry i'd fled and i was i was terrified genuinely i was homeless and i was terrified and the only people i could rely on were people who were connected in that movement to other people in that movement who you know some of them were dangerous some of them more like me but i can see why you felt vulnerable

Yeah.

So I went to the cops and that's like the worst thing you can do because you're siding with the big evil empire.

These are the same cops who like in the months before were watching me in the cells, like making a fool of myself and being real arrogant to them.

And they had every reason to turn me away, but they didn't.

They helped me.

which I'm forever grateful for because they did their duty, which is so important for people to just like, yeah, like at a point, at a point, and I've realized this in hindsight, but at a point where I was desperate and I think when I was an addict as a, as a teenager, it was the same thing.

I was, I got to a point where I needed help.

I needed to reach out and I knew I needed help.

And I,

If I was met with them just going, nah, go away, you're a sovereign citizen, we don't have to deal with you, would have made me feel more isolated.

But they met me with kindness.

They met me as a human being and they were like, we're going to deal with who you are now, not with who you have been.

And that was a real like, holy crap, these people are people.