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• targeted killings.
Didulo states that death penalties will be carried out
as soon as possible, or within 24 hours, and will be
done via public hanging or firing squad. Executions
will occur in the city square, or a on designated island
where the killings will be public viewing for anyone 24
years or older.
IV. The Danger of Didulo
Didulo is and remains one of the most active conspiracy
figures currently operating in North America. No one
else in Canada who expresses this kind of radical agenda
has accumulated a similar sized follower base. Didulo
regularly engages in stochastic terrorism: inciting
speech used to encourage others to engage in violent
acts (Amman &Meloy, 2022). For instance, she said
in a live stream video that anti-COVID-19 vaccines
were “coerced” on “We The People,” which she regards
as murder and genocide, both of which are crimes
against humanity. Those responsible for “coercing”
people to inject themselves with a “foreign chemical”
should “pay with their lives.” Moreover, Didulo has
told her followers that staying quiet meant that they
were contributing to the problem, and adopted a new
tagline: “Speak up and save lives.”
In the past year, Didulo has called for “citizen arrests”
of various public officials. She created a Telegram
group solely dedicated to the discussion and planning
of citizen arrest events, the “Live &Peaceful Citizen
Arrest(s)” group. At present, this group has close
to 1,500 members. Group members target persons
for arrest. Didulo has created videos with specific
instructions on how to conduct citizen arrests. This
program culminated in a group of her followers
attempting to arrest police officers at the Peterborough
police department on August 13, 2022. Their stated
goal was to arrest police officers for “COVID crimes”
that are “crimes against humanity” (Davis, 2022a). The
arrested police officers would then be handed over to
the military. Which military was never specified.
Fortunately, that attempted vigilante action failed.
The weekend after the Peterborough event, Didulo
and her inner circle of 11 followers held a lengthy
“press conference,” reflected upon what went wrong,
and discussed plans for future citizen arrests. Frank
Curtin, the main organizer of the citizen arrest event,
wrote that “it is all OK because the opportunity to do
it right is still ahead of us. We will get it done.” (Davis,
2022b). Didulo’s telegram followers agreed, and vowed
to try again, next time bringing additional persons
and being more organized. Followers subsequently
posted disparaging memes that feature the retired
Peterborough police chief, warning that they plan to
eventually arrest him. Didulo’s citizen law enforcers
appear determined to finish what they started.
Curtin is one of Didulo’s most ardent supporters
(Fondue, 2022), and provides a useful example of an
“active agent.” Curtin came to believe in Didulo’s ideas
after parting ways with his employer, approximately
one year before the Peterborough event. Problems
began between Curtin and his employer when his
employer received funds from the government to
boost the manufacturing of hand sanitizer as part of
the fight against COVID-19 (Davis &Giunta, 2021
Fondue, 2022). Curtin considered this government
funding suspicious. Curtin believes that COVID-19 is
fake, and that his employer had collected that money
illegally. These conspiratorial beliefs then allegedly led
to Curtin’s departure from the company.
After leaving the company, Curtin began regularly
serving Didulo’s cease and desist letters to public
officials (Fondue, 2022). He then specifically targeted
Police Chief Scott Gilbert of the Peterborough police
department (Fondue, 2022). Curtin was upset about
not receiving from Police Chief Gilbert what Curtin
deemed to be an appropriate response to his complaint
about his employer’s supposed illegal activities. Curtin
recorded himself serving a cease-and-desist order upon
Chief Gilbert, and posted the video on his YouTube
channel. Curtin became convinced that Chief Gilbert
was purposefully hiding from him, which only further
increased Curtin’s paranoia. Curtin also believed that
the police chief was purposefully taunting him after
observing a suspicious, low-flying plane above his
home. Curtin claimed that the Chief was, personally,
in that plane.
Curtin has sent other letters to the Peterborough
police. He was upset about vaccines being given to
children. He did not like that the police sent “an army
of officers ...to guard against anyone interfering in the
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police were engaged in illegal activity, that Curtin had
collected evidence to establish that, and how police
were “deceiving our community.” Accompanying his
letters were Didulo’s cease-and-desist orders, and a
purported “International Common Law Court Verdict”
by conspiracy theorists who claimed to have “convicted”
75 public officials for crimes against humanity related
to the pandemic (Vivek, 2022). (See Netolitzky (2022)
for more on Kevin Annett, the conspiracy theorist
behind this vigilante “court verdict.”) Curtin further
wrote that “if you like to surrender to me, I can arrange
to have military present ...for your protection and the
protection of the community.” “Arrests are imminent,”
he warned. Curtin’s seeming paranoia, coupled with his
belief that public officials were engaged in COVID-19-
related crimes, and his dedication to Didulo, is likely
what motivated his decision to attempt a citizen arrest
at the Peterborough police station in August 2022.
Weeks after his arrest, Curtin sent a letter to the same
police department, along with video “evidence” of
“war crimes” involving covert mandates. He warned
police that if they chose to ignore his email, he would
consider it “one more attempt at being complicit in this
crime” and to “conduct [themselves] accordingly.” He
seems determined to carry out what he believes are
legal arrests of law enforcement personnel. Curtin is
currently awaiting trial on criminal charges, and plans
to represent himself.
Curtin is far from the only follower serving cease-and-
desist orders to public officials. Thousands of cease-
and-desist letters have been sent to public officials
by Didulo’s followers. A specific cease-and-desist
order Telegram group continues to operate with new
members joining weekly. Individuals in this group
routinely send out cease-and-desist orders in batches.
One particularly ardent follower each week posts
a list of the people and locations he has sent orders.
Common targets are medical centers, utility companies,
mortgage companies, lawyers, businesses, schools,
courts, and government officials across Canada and in
other countries.
Though difficult to explain, many of Didulo’s followers
believe her self-created promissory note is valid. Her
decrees, especially those that say that Didulo has
erased all debts, abolished income tax, and made
electricity and water free, are received enthusiastically.
It is impossible to determine the exact number of
Didulo’s followers who have decided not to pay their
bills, but a significant number regularly post messages
on Didulo’s Telegram pages that report they have
now stopped paying their bills, or that publish copies
of letters from utility companies that indicate bills
have not been paid. Vice News documented the case
of a Romana Didulo follower who had been sending
copies of the decrees and cease-and-desist orders to
the Alberta Court of King’s Bench to prevent the bank
from repossessing her home (Lamoureux, 2023b). Her
tactics failed. Soon thereafter the family was removed
from their former home by a bailiff. Pictures and videos
of utility company workers arriving to shut off power
and water supplies are also fairly common. Another
frequent report is letters from law firms that state any
attempts to stop paying utility bills, based on Didulo’s
decrees, may be considered fraudulent. At least one
reported Canadian court decision addresses a Didulo-
related debt collection dispute (AMEX Bank of Canada
v Vincent, 2023 ABKB 126). More will likely follow.
Thus, evidence shows many of Didulo’s followers are
true believers, who have negatively altered the course
of their lives in significant, if not drastic, ways. These
persons are staunch supporters of their “queen.”
Their willingness to regularly engage in real-world
activities in response to Didulo’s edicts, as well as their
willingness to send money to support her activities,
clearly establishes that fact. Didulo has revealed that
it costs $20,000 per month for her and her entourage
to continue their operations. Without the money and
devotion of her followers, her reign would likely end.
Instead, Didulo’s convoy has now been operating for
over a year.
Didulo has created two primary threats. First, Didulo
is activating others to engage in vigilante acts, either
violence or “citizen arrests.” She has dedicated
followers who are willing to carry out real-world
actions. This development is especially concerning in
light of Didulo’s recent order to shoot migrants who
enter “her kingdom.” Second, Didulo is creating a
pool of desperate persons who may act violently or
dangerously when confronted by legitimate authorities,
when they lose homes and property, and have utilities
disconnected. This second pool of persons is the source
of the majority of violence associated with pseudolaw
in Canada (Netolitzky, 2016).