Why would it be unconstitutional to take them at their word?
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There was some discussion of this nonsense on our local Facebook group. The one thing no one could do was produce proof of a single case where this defense got them out of anything.
They all had websites and wording you’re supposed to use but no evidence it holds up in any court.
I have to make some federal tax deposits for my business, I think I’ll try telling them I’m opting out of the voluntary tax system.
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Its more like a recipe for a court to throw the book at someone. Frivolous arguments annoy judges and juries. Annoying people deciding your fate is just dumb
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They islands may be uninhabited, but that doesn’t mean they’re not unowned.
That said, here’s another place they can go live:
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Of course sending people to these radioactive islands is how we get super intelligent crab monsters.
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Yeah, I don’t think there’d be much to worry about here. You’re not getting super intelligent anythings with this lot as a founding population.
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Ah, but then we can attack their weak point for MASSIVE damage
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Ohhhhhhhhhh, if I could only hurl more than just derision upon them.
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But only on a roll of a natural 20
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At the heart of each sovereign citizen’s legal argument is the steadfast belief that reciting some specific sequence of words will release them from the rule of law like a magical incantation. It’s like watching a LARPer try to cast a sleeping spell at a charging grizzly bear.
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I used to run into this sort of thinking all the time when I was doing IT Compliance work. People would think that by inserting what I called “magic words” into their documentation that they would be in the clear, despite not actually, you know, doing the work that was involved to comply with the regulation/policy/control/whatever
It was infuriating
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I have this mental image of me turning a high-pressure hose on the three-cornered hat guy and sending him cartwheeling into the air and across the room. It soothes me.
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Doesn’t “Comes now the plaintiff” feel like an incantation?
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Most of the 2021 murders were committed by people associated with longstanding extremist movements, such as white supremacy and the sovereign citizen movement.
ha. ha. ha.
Ok I spend a lot of my time listening to podcasts that are mostly about these vittupäistä and laughing at them. Laughing is better then screaming I guess…
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This pretty much happened - a bunch of these gentlemen got “resisting arrest” and “contempt of court” added to their sheets.
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Well no. Nowhere can they. This shit is all over the world now and as I always say it ends one of two ways.
1 “yes your honour, I will comply with the will of the court”
2 “bailiffs, detain this person for contempt of court”
Some day soon though, and unfortunately most likely in the US, there will be appointed a chucklefuck judge who goes along with it. Obviously any appeal will succeed but there’s already some pretty crazy judge shit out there.
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Sorry, you aren’t wealthy enough for that.
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That’s true but how did you know that?
Did Alexa leak the conversation me and the wife were having about who had cheaper toilet paper, Amazon or Costco?
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