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"I declare that I am not a citizen of this country!"
Also:
"Give me a passport"
I don't want to register my child, so instead a signed an affidavit and filed it with my local branch of government.
"I want all the rights of a citizen, but none of the responsibility!"
Right? My first thought was a sovereign citizen meant they simply want to exist without needing documentation to prove that they exist. But then I saw how complicated it got like they really want a passport? They really want documentation but they don't want WHAT exactly? I don't understand.
That’s alot of hoops to jump through for absolutely no benefit whatsoever.
Facebook should have a "call CPS" report function.
Sovereign citizens are just playing at being anarchists.
They still expect the state to protect them & cater to them.
"What do you mean I can't just get all the benefits without any of the responsibilities? I want to talk to your manager."
Anarchists have the ultimate social responsibility, taking part in all decisions and participating fully in their community.
Whatever they're doing is the opposite, but I guess they both disagree with hierarchal power.
My wife has found a YouTube channel that is nothing but SovCits getting arrested after escalating traffic stops & it is truly a salve for my soul.
The fact that black American SovCits exist, absolutely blows my mind.
The fact that British & Australian SovCits exist is absolutely ridiculous.
The sovcit arrests are hilarious. The Moorish black sovcits are some of the wildest. I'm in all their Facebook groups and the things they believe are crazy bonkers batshit.
spill the tea sister
Here's one from yesterday: 
Damn, they have the brain function to navigate all this bureacratic red tape but still mental acrobat their way into sovcitizenship.
I watched the entire Darrell Brooks trial and it was sovcit gold. If you're into that stuff I'd look up some highlights. The entire thing was absolute insanity.
I need to see this. Link?
It's on my wife's phone, but she said to search for Van Balion to start down the rabbit hole.
EDIT: Law Talk with Mike was another one.
The fun part is that the Department of State will send them a letter saying, "you can either provide a birth certificate or not, but we're keeping your money either way." Also, if the parent tries to "correct" their own passport, they'll get a different letter that says, "you can have the same regular ass passport you already have or you can have nothing, aaand we're keeping your money either way."
So I guess enjoy spending like $300 for nothing.
So I guess enjoy spending like $300 for nothing.
Don't forget the endless victimizing by a unjust government that they refuse to recognize as legitimate. They really get off when that happens.
The random capitalization of letters mid-sentence drives me unreasonably crazy.
As a Sovereign Citizen they are not Subject to your rules Of proper grammar And spelling
Oh my god, I hate you so much.
(Not actually, to be clear. I do get it was sarcasm)
I choose to believe that they had to google the spelling of those words - and then copied and pasted them in.
What is with people doing this? Do they think it makes something more important? Seems like a trump thing. Or maybe it's from how Christians always capitalize "God". Idk.
These are the Magic Words of Power that make it possible to slip outside the Machine and live the Life of ultimate freedom. Say the right ones and They will have no ability to control you.
renouncing my status
Please tell me this means renouncing their citizenship. Always hilarious watching people set up a bear trap, sharpen the teeth real good, double check the springs, and then intentionally step right on it
That's exactly it. They think they get a special state national passport.
This gonna be so unfortionant for the kid
I love misspellings you can hear
When I first read some judge's summary of their ruling on a sovereign citizen case, I was puzzled about why the judge spent so much time talking about the capitalization of letters in it. Then I read further and discovered that a core tenet of their goofball belief system is that words have different meanings (legal and perhaps even material) when you capitalize them differently.
What a fucking weird thing to believe. Reminds me of scientologists with Xenu.
Yeah they have a whole book about it called Word Magic. Here's an example.
If a movie had an insane person saying the words on that page, I'd call it too over the top to be believable. Sovereign citizens are self-parodying.
I'm sure I'm just over thinking some of the process!
Yeah, overthinking, that's your problem buddy.
Can someone explain to a non-usa person what is sovereign citizen ?
Sovereign citizen is a term some people to describe themselves. They feel they should be allowed to live in and benefit from society without being subject to the rules or duties that go along with that. It is not a real status and has no legal basis. The groups like this person has joined are an echo chamber where they feed each other bad interpretations of laws and loopholes. When they inevitably end up in court they will agree the loophole applies. It never works.
They often have a very poor understanding of the law, they think lawyers are basically wizards and if they too say the right magic words ("the flag in this court has a gold fringe which means it's an admiralty court and you don't have jurisdiction") then they won't have to pay their traffic fine or taxes or whatever it is that they don't want to pay for
There is some truth in their belief that "the Law" is a lot more flexible than the rest of us realize.
Look at the kid gloves the courts have used with Trump's cronies and other right-wing kooks. Alex Jones is a great example; owes over a billion dollars in restitution and hasn't paid one cent. The court's response has been "lol, blood from a turnip ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ".
The law is pretty much a sham.
That's not magic though, that's money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
Tl;dr is nutters/scammers who believe they can opt out of the laws/responsibilities of being a citizen.
As an aside, sovcits are not an exclusively US phenomenon. Most Commonwealth nations have some version of "freemen on the land" which is basically the same thing, though the specific details they fixate on may be different. I've also heard there's a German version as well.
Even in the US it's not exclusively MAGA-ish militia types or super fundamentalists. There's also the Moorish National strain, for example, which operates under the idea that the US Government is actually just a corporation operating under the sovereignty of an imaginary "Moorish Empire" in Africa, East India Company-style, whose existence is covered up by some kind of conspiracy
Idiots that think they know the magic words to make legal consequences for their bullshit disappear.
Of course, even if they did have a point with their conspiacist nonsense (they don't), they get humiliated in court every. single. time.
That's a lot of words to actually not say much. Which is what they're all about I suppose.
I'm sure it'll be fine. When has anyone ever needed a birth certificate? And surely nobody would ever get pedantic about something like that!
Why do these loons always capitalize random words? They all do it
It Makes Them Sound Authoritative In Their Head