How the 'Cookers', conspiracy theorists, and Sovereign Citizens are marking ... trends now
They may not believe in the Australian Government, but conspiracy theorists and members of the 'Sovereign Citizen' movement have flooded social media with videos spouting their messages and a rally cry to gather on Australia Day.
Waving flags, singing songs and hymns and chanting slogans, groups often derogatively known as 'cookers' have flooded online sites with messages and statements about their beliefs.
Collected on Twitter pages, the videos are a window into the world of alternative thinkers who object to being subjected to Australian law.
In one clip , a man with a loud hailer drives around with friends in a car belting out a slightly slurred invitation for all Australians to gather in Canberra on Australia Day to protest.
Driving by people who totally ignore him, the man yells: 'We the free people of Australia are to invite everyone for a day of great events, barbecues, and actually expressing out feelings for our great country of Australia.
In one' cooker' video, a man with a loud hailer drives around with friends in a car belting out a slightly slurred invitation for all Australians to gather in Canberra on Australia Day
'We would love to see all the people of Canberra. We need every Australian now to be one and move forward as this beautiful nation as we are.
'There'll be music and barbecues and a lot of good things'.
The conspiracy theory group, Unite in White, chant and hold banners saying 'expose the 28', a reference to a dated theory once espoused by former Liberal senator Bill Heffernan that a purported list of 28 paedophiles who were 'prominent' citizens of the country.
In one of several videos, about 12 sovereign citizens gathered in the Victorian border town of Wodonga to present a letter to the town's military barracks.
Unite for White protestors gather on the banks of Lake Burley Griffin and hold their arms in the air, sing songs and hymns and chant slogans about conspiracy theories
The man who wrote the letter, addressed several long-bearded men, quoted Martin Luther King and delivered his theory on what the Australian Government was currently doing.
'You know
