"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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm not a sovcit nutter, I capitalise words when they're pronouns (even if they're not normally pronouns, like if I'm talking about a Training Module at work, it's because it's an official specific training module I'm referring to) to emphasise them.
Holy shit! This guy's taking Roy off the grid!
Walkie-talkie die hard.
That's a nice top.
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.
You can't actually renounce your citizenship if you're not also the citizen of another country
US citizens, as an exception, actually can. But one has to be in another country first. Most other countries don't let their citizens renounce their citizenship without having another citizenship.
Awww lame, I thought these people were fucking themselves over but apparently they only fuck over their kids
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.
That's a lot of words to actually not say much. Which is what they're all about I suppose.
Am I being detained?
Yes. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
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
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
There are German, Austrian and Swiss versions, yes.
The biggest and best known groups are the "Reichsbürger" who in one way or another reject the legitimacy of the German state. Very popular is the conspiracy-narrative that the Reich still exists and that Germany is actually just a corporation working on the territory of the Reich, that you can simply quit or that there is no peace-treaty between the Allied Powers and Germany and so Germany is still occupied by the Allies.
Some of the so-called Reichsbürger are just a bit crazy, others are clearly right-wing extremists
- Head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the federal state of Brandenburg
They are partly directed and supported by the Russian foreign intelligence service, have contacts to some SovCit movements in the US and Canada, QAnon and the Proud Boys and have been known to be violent, hoarding weapons and some have shot at police, so they are being cracked down on pretty hard right now.
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.
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!
unfortionantly
Unfortionantly, prangent formed.
Proportionally unfortunate, duh
Abortionately
Why do these loons always capitalize random words? They all do it
It Makes Them Sound Authoritative In Their Head
its actually the start of a new sentence But their period/fullstop key is broken
I don't know but it reminds me of old timey letters from before spelling and grammar were standardized
I’m confused, they aren’t part of (country) but they registered with it and want a passport from it anyway?
Why haven’t they been deported?
Pretty sure you are not allowed to renounce your citizenship if you only have one. I'm guessing it is so at least one country is ultimately responsible for them.
I know there are still cases where the country doesn't exist anymore, but we are talking about people intentionally trying to abuse the system.
Fun fact: in order to get citizenship in Germany by way of naturalization, you must first renounce your current citizenship before you can proceed to become a German citizen. The process makes the applicant stateless.
In the United States, you can renounce your citizenship without having another nationality, therefore becoming stateless. You will just not have the rights that come with being a citizen. But there are caveats and they will deny your request if you express that you want to keep some of your citizenship rights.
Source https://www.germany-visa.org/german-citizenship/by-naturalization/ https://md.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/renounce-citizenship/
I'm assuming they want a passport for whatever fantasy-land sovereign state they think they actually belong to
