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You Tube has been throwing up a weird and interesting type of videos at me lately: Sovereign Citizen videos.
Sovereign Citizens believe in a weird mash-up of laws and statutes - mostly quoted out of context - that basically puts them outside of or above the law. Yeah, let that sit for a moment. The videos are in two categories: traffic stops and courtroom drama. Traffic infraction stops - taken mostly from police body cameras - lead to their arrest for: failing to have a driver's license (because they're not driving they're traveling) , failing to register the car, failing to have insurance, failing to obey the rues of the road, having fake license plates and failing identify themselves when stopped.
Yes, it the cops stop you on the road you _must_ identify yourself.
Then the Sov Cits getting all butt hurt and refuse to cooperate and barricade themselves in the car. This leads to windows being busted and them being dragged out of the vehicle, placed in handcuffs and placed in the back of a police car. Then cars get towed. So, yeah, add resisting to all the rest of the charges. It's sort of amusing watching dumb asses get shut down.
Apparently there's websites and Facebook posts offering people all these delusional ideas complete with kits to become "sovereign" with all the forms, quotations and legal references all for a very modest fee. All the paperwork, forms and even official looking IDs have all the legal weight of toilet paper but somebody's making money off of it!
Courtroom DRAMA videos comes next. Here, the Sov Cit pulls out all their bogus legal dogma and documents to try to prove that they're not the person in the documentation, it wasn't them but the corporation on trial and even if was them the court has no jurisdiction over them and even if they do the crime they're innocent! These can be interesting because sometimes the judges try to help these delusional fools but telling them how the courts operates and how the law functions. Yeah, sausage being made.
The big take away? OBEY TRAFFIC LAWS. KEEP YOUR LICENSE, REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE UP TO DATE. DON'T ARGUE WITH A COP AT A TRAFFIC STOP. DON'T GET YOUR LEGAL INFORMATION OFF THE INTERNET. DO NOT REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT. GET A LAWYER.
Sovereign Citizens believe in a weird mash-up of laws and statutes - mostly quoted out of context - that basically puts them outside of or above the law. Yeah, let that sit for a moment. The videos are in two categories: traffic stops and courtroom drama. Traffic infraction stops - taken mostly from police body cameras - lead to their arrest for: failing to have a driver's license (because they're not driving they're traveling) , failing to register the car, failing to have insurance, failing to obey the rues of the road, having fake license plates and failing identify themselves when stopped.
Yes, it the cops stop you on the road you _must_ identify yourself.
Then the Sov Cits getting all butt hurt and refuse to cooperate and barricade themselves in the car. This leads to windows being busted and them being dragged out of the vehicle, placed in handcuffs and placed in the back of a police car. Then cars get towed. So, yeah, add resisting to all the rest of the charges. It's sort of amusing watching dumb asses get shut down.
Apparently there's websites and Facebook posts offering people all these delusional ideas complete with kits to become "sovereign" with all the forms, quotations and legal references all for a very modest fee. All the paperwork, forms and even official looking IDs have all the legal weight of toilet paper but somebody's making money off of it!
Courtroom DRAMA videos comes next. Here, the Sov Cit pulls out all their bogus legal dogma and documents to try to prove that they're not the person in the documentation, it wasn't them but the corporation on trial and even if was them the court has no jurisdiction over them and even if they do the crime they're innocent! These can be interesting because sometimes the judges try to help these delusional fools but telling them how the courts operates and how the law functions. Yeah, sausage being made.
The big take away? OBEY TRAFFIC LAWS. KEEP YOUR LICENSE, REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE UP TO DATE. DON'T ARGUE WITH A COP AT A TRAFFIC STOP. DON'T GET YOUR LEGAL INFORMATION OFF THE INTERNET. DO NOT REPRESENT YOURSELF IN COURT. GET A LAWYER.