So you’re saying anyone can just claim Canada?
Behold! I crown myself Babale First of His Name, Holy Emperor of Canada, and Lord Protector of The North.
I’m in the market for some Viceroyals to manage Canada’s provinces, PM me if interested.
Or wait, was I supposed to take out a newspaper ad to make it official?
I don’t see a problem with this:
Even in Norway … Though a couple of years ago I saw someone “translate” the SovCit nonsense and picking an actual Norwegian set of laws that was supposedly more SovCit friendly. It was the code of Christian IV of Denmark-Norway. I didn’t dig into the details, but I highly doubt the code of an absolutist Monarch granted anyone in Norway much more freedom than they have today.
“The part…??”
Apparently somebody did something of the sort (albeit not very seriously) with a bit of unclaimed territory between Egypt and Sudan:
As of 16 June 2014, Bir Tawil has been claimed – although not by either Egypt or Sudan. The claimant instead is the unlikely sounding Jeremiah Heaton of Abingdon, Virginia.
Heaton, we are led to believe, is a man who would do almost anything for his seven-year-old daughter, including fulfilling a promise that she could be ‘a real princess’. Eschewing the easy option of procuring a natty costume from a local royal outfitter, Heaton instead cast his geopolitical eye around the world in order to establish his own independent kingdom. He initially considered staking a claim to a portion of Antarctica until he “discovered” that sovereignty claims on the continent are suspended under the Antarctic Treaty System, agreed in 1959. The unclaimed Bir Tawil was a natural second choice. In a move discomforting for its similarity to past colonial possession-taking across Africa, Heaton travelled to Bir Tawil where, on 16 June 2014 (yes, you guessed it, his daughter’s seventh birthday) he planted a self-designed flag and ushered into being the ‘Kingdom of Northern Sudan’…
It’s legalize explaining, in simple terms, that the husband and wife had three kids and are transferring all of their assets to those three kids who will become independent adults at the age of 18.
By the way, I find legalize very annoying. Sorry, it just had to be said.
FOTL?
Fruit of the Loom? Fall off Toilet Laughing?
It goes a bit farther than that, @Jasmine:
Why do these guys write in a convoluted language that would embarass e-mail scammers? I mean, when I read that text I expect to ba asked for a deposit so they can give me access to their gold coins or “paper endowments of the legal corporation uNIted sTaTES of amrICa” or something like that.
There is tragic beauty there, like a text that’s gone to too many web tranlsators.
Objection! That manatee is clearly wearing a red tie. The absurdity of a manatee wearing a black tie remains.
And one good thing we can say about this, at least: By paying for these announcements in the newspaper, these nuts are helping to keep print journalism alive.
“emancipate”?! My God, what bombast! LOL
Because they believe they have discovered a clever loophole in the legal system which renders them immune to various annoyances like having to pay taxes (send the bill to the “shadow” corporate identity), as long as they invoke the right magic words. As this description puts it:
Constitutionalists look upon law as the word-magic of lawyer-necromancers who draw their wizardly powers from grimoires, from books of magic spells they have selfishly withheld from the people. Constitutionalists have extracted from these books – from judicial opinions, from the Constitution, from legal dictionaries, from the Bible, from what-have-you – white magic with which to confound the dark powers of legislation, equity, and common sense. Never mind what words like “Sovereign Citizen” or “Lawful Money” mean – what does “abacadabra” mean? – it’s what they do that counts. Unfortunately, Constitutionalist words don’t do anything but lose court cases and invite sanctions. Constitutionalism is the white man’s version of the Ghost Dance. But believing you are invulnerable to bullets puts you in more, not less, danger of being shot…
There’s nothing in there about assets. It’s all pseudo-legalese “magic” about “Trade Names” to free them from the evil government.
Freeman of the land.
It’s not legalese. It’s a fake version of legalese made up by someone who thinks they are more clever than all lawyers combined.
To claim salvage, amongst other things the property must be in danger, and one’s salvage efforts must have been successful.
Is Canada in danger? And if so what have the FOTL people successfully done to save it?
Cargo cult legalese.
Sovereign citizens like to cite the Articles of Confederation, which is no better than trying to cite US law in Canada or Australia. Unfortunately I’ve yet to see a cop or judge respond to their nonsense with “you know the Articles of Confederation became null and void when the Constitution was ratified, right?”
It says it right in the title of this thread…