"Rolling Stones" on Moorish Sovereign Citizens

 

These days, with COVID and many other issues, there is significant resentment of the government. This is not a political blog and we are taking no position about which such resentments may or may not be justified. But one result is that groups like sovereign citizens get more popular, or at least, noticed. Here is one example, from the Washington Post, of a recent stand-off between Moorish sovereigns and police on the I-95. (It ended with 11 arrests, no injuries.) 

Academic Paper about Pseudolaw

Source; see below

Donald Netolitzky had published recently "Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments ["OPCA"] as Magic and Ceremony" in the Alberta Law Review. We hope the readers of this blog will find it interesting -- one example he gives of such pseudolaw is the "Moorish Law Affidavit" in the picture above. The article is great fun, and is surely one of the first academic articles (if not the first) which cites Quatloos! as a source...  the abstract notes:

This article discusses ways in which Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA) litigants use pseudolegal concepts, techniques, and procedures before the courts. The author begins by looking at where OPCA legal arguments originate, and the historical sources where these arguments find grounding, while assessing the flaws in such. A thorough analysis is then conducted into some of the tactics used by OPCA litigants in order to evade legal consequences, including a survey of global case law where these arguments have been brought before the courts. The article culminates with an analysis of the implications of the use of pseudolaw by OPCA litigants and how tactics permeate through OPCA movements, while looking for solutions in dealing with OPCA litigants as they move through the courts.

Martian Law Not Declared After All

Photo Credit: Deep Though

Sovereign citizens are not known for their literacy, as this post of the SPLC center notes. A man tried to declare that he is not subject to the laws of the state of Georgia (the US state, not the former Soviet Republic), but rather to the law of the "Moorish Nations", and therefore he wants to be tried by their laws, which, presumably, say he can do anything he feels like.

The judge noted that it may as well be "Martian law", which, presumably, is the law they have on Mars, where the man in question -- Akeem Kwame, the executor of the Akeem Kwame trust, a.k.a., somewhat less grandiosly, as Gregory Ross of Covingron, GA. -- seems to be living.

Kwane seemed bewildered when he was thrown in jail: "You're placing the occupant of the executor office of the Akeem Kwame [trust] in custory?". Why yes, Mr. Kwame. Yes indeed.