• dhork@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This nutter got it all wrong; if she wants to ignore laws with impunity, she should have gotten herself elected President.

    • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Just file an llc and do whatever you want. Cops don’t hassle company vehicles. I see dump trucks with no plates all the time.

  • Laser@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I love watching vids of sovereign citizens explaining their rules

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      My favorite is P. Barnes explaining to a sovcit how he isn’t getting into the courtroom, and the sovcit just won’t take no for an answer and ends up getting himself arrested…again.

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      I feel bad for them because they see people saying fancy words and terms in courts and they think that if they use the magic language they can do whatever they want.

      There’s whole industries of people selling guides and licence plates to them too and it’s just people taking advantage of gullible people.

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    Oh look at that. They can safely end a pursuit and arrest someone without pitting the car into traffic or an embankment, and without assaulting or killing the person.

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      2 months ago

      Still way more dangerous than just not chasing. A traffic violation is not worth putting the lives of any bystanders at risk.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    So … the Moor’s are a unique kind of sovereign citizen.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_sovereign_citizens

    Moorish sovereign citizens, who consider Black people to constitute an elite class within American society,[3] are in a paradoxical situation of using an ideology originating in a White supremacist environment.[4]

    In addition to the Moorish Science Temple doctrine that Black Americans are of Moorish descent, Moorish sovereign citizens claim legal immunity from U.S. federal, state, and local laws,[5] stemming from a mistaken belief that the Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship (1786) grants them sovereignty.[2][6] In reality, the 1786 treaty was primarily a trade agreement.

    Some also believe that Black Americans are indigenous to the United States.[7] The Moorish sovereign citizen movement has also expanded to include a few whites.[8]

    They’re roughly hoteps, but instead of appropriating and falsifying Egyptian history, they base it off of a made up history around the Islamic populations of Iberia and northwest Africa circa roughly 700 AD to 1300 AD, and then do sovereign citizen style ‘one weird legal trick that lawyers hate’ nonsense to conclude that laws do not apply to them.

    Their version of history is about as legit as the Mormon conception of American history… which is to say it is crude historical fan fiction at best, horrendously offensive to actually indigenous peoples at worst.

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    9/10 sovereign citizens are victims. 1/10 are charlatans selling a fiction to those in dire need of a way out of legal trouble.

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    No one going to mention the thin blue line flag… Hard to project an air of rationale with that background.