The sovereign citizens movement is a far-right anti-government extremist movement in the US that believes the government — at all levels, local, state, and federal — is illegitimate and has enslaved the American people.
Their belief system is complex and rooted in a series of bizarre conspiracy theories that hold that the original US government set up by the Founding Fathers has been replaced with an evil secret government that has sold all US citizens into slavery by using them as collateral against foreign debt.
As explained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, they believe the government creates a secret alternate identity for each American at birth and sets up a secret US Treasury account — sort of like a corporate "trust" — under that alternate identity. The US government funds these "corporate shell" accounts to the tune of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
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Sweet, where are my hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars?
did you fill out all the paperwork in the right order, with all the secret code words and the correct ink colors?
looks like I gotta change my name to THE MODESTO KID if I want to collect.
is that your flesh name or your corporate name?
cf https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement
You Americans get all the best conspiracy theories. I’m jealous. I’ll I get is a lizard queen.
i’d like a lizard queen.
is she like the queen from V, or is she more like a female Jim Morrison ? either would be fine.
OMG!
I just went down a sovcit hole on youtube. Sovereign citizens just love a bunch of specious legalese. I feel like they are all frustrated lawyers and had fate not dealt them a dummy’s brain, they might have found fulfillment at the bar.
Shh.
I wonder if the part of the brain that senses proportion has been zapped on these people. The very idea that you’re going to stand up to the fucking federal government waving a laminated copy of the Constitution. . Ludicrous. Sort of like 2nd amendment nuts who think their collection of pea shooters is going to withstand a military assault.
i really love the idea that all you have to do is submit the right documents in the right order with the right code words, ink colors and text formatting and the bureaucrats in charge of maintaining the conspiracy will be powerless to keep the charade going. they won’t just throw your documents into a shredder. no, they’ll give you access to the innermost workings of the diabolical machine!
I don’t think you are exaggerating even a little. They seem genuinely aggrieved and perplexed when their tactics fail.