Van Balion's Sovcit Fails Channel

 

The above YouTube channel is a very cool collection of silly sovcit stupidity - give it a look!  

Reichsburger: Germany's Sovereign Citizens

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The German-based web site dw.com has an interesting article about the German so -called  Reichsburger movement. These are in effect the German sovereign citizens. The article is highly informative. The photo, taken from it, is of a police magazine edifying law enforcement on 'How to deal with Reichsburgers'. 

More About Sovereign Citizens

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If you want to know more about the American Sovereign Citizen movement, you could do worse than going to the SPLC's web site about them. Note in particular their links to the Moorish sovereign citizens groups and the 'National Liberty Alliance'. 

The Effect of "Sovereign Citizen" Nonsense on Family Members

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So what if someone is a "sovereign citizens"? One may ask. After all, we have the courts to deal with that, and it's a free country -- everybody has the right to go to hell in their own way, as the old saying has it.

A lot of what, that's what. This article -- 'The Crazy Tax Scam You've Never Heard of' -- from which the photo above is taken -- shows the effect it has on family members, here, young children. The author's father, in desperation, fell for this scam, with terrible effect on his family.

But sometimes, incidentally, they get what's coming to them. Here is a "Freeman" getting owned by a judge, who spews his nonsense right back at him: the "Freeman" insists he is the settler, the agent, and the individual David Hall (DAVID HALL?), but not the the person David Hall.

The judge notes, that, in that case, the settler, agent, and individual David Hall is staying in the county jail -- adding 'and if you meet the person David Hall, tell him he's not leaving jail either', to the laughter of the spectators.

Denver Fenton Allen's Light-Hearted Banter with Judge Bryant Durham

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Believing that one is immune to the law, and can make all kinds of threats and leave the court at will, can be rather dangerous to all concerned. Recently, a court case between the two individuals named above ended rather abruptly after Mr. Allen decided to 'hold himself in contempt', as he put it, by cursing at the judge, threatening to expose himself in court, and finally threatening to kill the judge's family. The quatloos! thread in the link has the photo above, as well.

To be fair, the latter threat was probably not meant too seriously, but only as part of the tactic to get himself held in contempt, since after threatening to kill the judge's children and being notified that he has no children, Allen declared that, in that case, he will kill the judge's grandchildren.

The judge, understandably, was not amused and probably rattled by Allen's antics. At any rate he said, among other things, that Mr. Allen looks like a homosexual. When Allen objected that he shouldn't call him names in court, the judge declared that he didn't say Allen is homosexual, but only that he looks like one. You can always tell when someone has a legally-trained mind, used to making fine distinctions, I suppose.

Of course, the judge did not reach that conclusion out of thin air. Allen had previously declared, in the attempt to hold himself in contempt, that he has sexual preferences that make the judge's opinion, let us say, rather reasonable. Among other things Allen compared his (own) anatomy to that of a well-known barnyard animal.

The (very NSFW) trial transcript is here. The creators of Rick and Morty had somehow heard of this case, and had created a cartoon version of the court transcript. It is very much NSFW, of course, but well worth watching. We emphasize that they added nothing. Rick and Morty are simply saying the official court transcript word for word. We pity the poor stenographer (who, incidentally, has a cameo non-speaking appearance in this video).

Enjoy!

Sovereign Citizens -- the Parade of Idiots

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Okay, the title is a bit unfair -- some of them aren't idiots per se, but "true believers". That as it may be, to get an idea how well the "sovereign citizens" actually manage in real life, just go to Youtube and enter "Sovereign Citizen" in the search box. What will you get?

Some videos about what sovereign citizens are like; some videos of sovereign citizens complaining about how they are mistreated; and... numerous videos of these people getting arrested, tased, handcuffed, denied bail, put in prison, etc., etc. -- for trying their idiot theories in real life.

Perhaps it isn't representative. Perhaps many people like to blow smoke online / in print on how they sovereigns, Freemen on the Land, non-14th-amendment-citizens, and the like, but once they get in trouble their lawyers talks some sense into them, so those in the videos -- the ones who go full sovereign, so to speak -- may well represent the most intractable sovereigns.

Sovereign Citizen Cut-Out Kit

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Amazon.com will sell, apparently, anything.

One of their interesting items is a Sovereign Citizen's Cut-Out Kit. All you have to do is but the kit, cut out the material, stick it in all kinds of places in your home, wallet, car, etc. -- and you are tax-free, do not have to get a driver's license, and in general have it made.

But aren't cut-out kits usually toys for children who use them to recreate fantasies? Well, indeed they are. Amazon's other cut-out books offer, are, almost exclusively, of that sort. Here is where, ranked by popularity, one finds the Sovereign Citizen's Cut-Out Kit when one searches for "cut out kit" items in "books":

Other items on the list are similar to the first and last item here: e.g., cut-out doll houses, haunted houses, dragons, etc. Of course, the other manufacturers do not imply that, once you are done building their kit, you will own an actual Roman amphitheatre or old-fashioned carousel. The only item to make (or strongly imply) such a preposterous claim -- that once you're done playing with their kit, you really will be a "Sovereign Citizen" -- is the Sovereign Citizen's Cut-Out Kit.

This certainly shows something about the mental and emotional level of maturity of the average "Sovereign Citizen".

It's not that Good to be the King after all, I Guess.

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Apparently, the man above -- Crown Prince Emperor El Bey Bigbay Bagby (badaboom badabam), a.k.a. William McRae -- does not, in fact, posses diplomatic immunity. A rather extreme (in silliness, not violence) case of people considering themselves "sovereigns".

The judge threw out his claim for diplomatic immunity, needless to say, but I noticed something in his titles: it is even logically impossible to be a "crown prince emperor el bey", since one cannot even logically be a crown prince, an emperor, and a bey (roughly, a chieftain or ruler of an area within a country) at the same time.

Not that the man in question is even on nodding terms with this thing called "logic", but still...