# SarahWitch, the premier expert on American law. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713 "2017-11-26T00:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/17 "2017-11-26T05:04:47Z")
SarahWitch…SarahWitch… it all sounds so familiar…the incoherency, the batshit ideas about how government should work…SarahWitch…do you think she might be from Alaska? Maybe a former high level elected official there? And the undisputed queen of WTF? That would explain so much. The quote below is from the other thread, I found it but I’m not sure it was linked to [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825660](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=825660) She appears towards the end of page 3. But I was struck by her habit of _highlighting_ random _words_ with italics. It reminded me of _how_ I punch up _random_ words when _I’m_ singing McArthur Park (Richard Harris version) at the _karaoke_ bar. So I _started_ to sing the _below_ post to the tune of McArthur Park. It fit better than I expected although I had to replace Oh No Oh No with…All About…All About…pure bunk…pure bunk…and. ie NONE ie NONE. It’s a long song. It was a long post. > [@Is there any legitimacy to the Sovereign Citizen argument?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-legitimacy-to-the-sovereign-citizen-argument/786097/148): > > This is quibbling. The sole issue is national sovereignty of a individual nation-states, which the USA does not have over its member-states-- as the federal government _claims_. Nothing else matters. > > You’re confusing centralization, with _national sovereignty_– which the CSA states never ceded to the CSA Union, nor did did the CSA allege; indeed, that was the sole issue between the two Union, i.e. the USA claimed that the states formed a single nation-state, while the CSA states claimed they were always separate nation-states. > > That’s what it was ALL about. If the North admitted that the truth, that the states were sovereign nation-states, then there could have been no war; however charlatans fabricated many arguments to _deny_ this fact under color of law, from Jackson to Lincoln. > > Separate nation-states can form federal republics which can be as centralized as they _please_, without _forfeiting_ their status as separate nation-states; this can only be lost if they expressly _manifest_ such an act; and the American states never did that. > > That’s the confusion which plagues most people today, in claiming that USA’s common military, currency, whatever, _made_ the states into a single nation-state, by implication… when all that is pure _bunk_. It doesn’t work that way, for reasons I just stated. > > The Euro, the UN army, etc. did not make those nation-states into a _single_ nation-state-- but Hitler, Hussein and Hirohito \* claimed\* this in their various conquests, with the same legal validity as Lincoln-- i.e. none. Again, it can only happen by\* express action,\* since a nation-state is its own supreme ruler by law, in terms of _judging_ legal intent. Thus, nothing can be \*left \*to judgment in such a treaty which joins two or more nation-states as a single one. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713)._