The reason theories like that sound so crazy is that they posit a government that ignores the rules entirely until someone points them out. It’s like reading the Soviet Constitution, noticing it doesn’t allow gulags, and expecting Stalin to let you go once you mention that to his goon squad.
It just isn’t self-consistent. A government that plays by no rules makes sense. A government that blindly obeys arbitrary rules makes sense. A government that alternates between the two based on magic words (Sovereign Citizen, Fourteenth Amendment Citizen, Strawman, “lien draft” as used by Leroy Schweitzer, etc.) doesn’t make sense.
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I find it puzzling that there’s no corresponding “World’s Stupidest Cops” TV franchise. Certainly not the venerable “COPS,” set in a fantasy world where the police are always unfailingly polite, eschew profanity, always get their man after a vehicle or foot chase, and never use excessive force during arrests. Portrayals of bumbling/incompetent police are ironically left to fiction, like “Reno 911” or—some commercial a year or two ago for some product I can’t remember, which showed various scenes of a hapless cop locking his keys in his patrol car, being elbowed in the groin by a fleeing suspect, etc. I suppose it would be harder to convince police to participate in a show about police foibles than in an idealized morality play like “COPS.”
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Well, we’ve got World’s Wildest Police Videos and such that occasionally do show felons getting away and cops losing it and getting assaulted (and in one case, attacked by three creeps, dragged out of camera range and murdered). If you prefer, watch these shows instead of COPS.