• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    SovCits in courts and at traffic stops are an unending source of entertainment. “The flag has a fringe on it, therefore this court is being run on maritime law and something something anyway this is all illegitimate and you must find me not guilty!”

    I also like it when they make their own license plates and try to argue that’s their right.

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      10 months ago

      If there was actually some technicality that meant they were trying them in the wrong type of court or whatever, wouldn’t they just end that trial and go and do it properly?

      I swear I’ve heard this sort of nonsense strategy before…

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        10 months ago

        I think some of them believe that the government has been replaced by some sort of fake organization that pretends to be a government, like a corporation or something, and as such that the proper court doesn’t exist and so they can’t legally be tried.

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          It is more that they believe they didn’t choose to be governed by their government and therefore they are a citizen within their own separate nation. In their eyes, the court exists but has no jurisdiction over them.