So this really exists? This group of people really exists? I just learned about this today. Before tonight I had no idea of and never heard of sovereign citizens before. This is real?
The mind boggles. I am firmly convinced that, if this a real group, that they were either put here on earth for the sole purpose of entertaining others when they finally get the good smackdown that they so deserve…or… are real life masochists who deliberately troll others just so that they can get an abusive beatdown.
I took great delight in watchingvideoslikethese, Basically “sovereign citizens getting owned”. I could watch this stuff all day, hours of it. That moment when they finally get what they deserve; whether that’s being tasered or arrested or handcuffed or held down forcefully–all for being a complete asshat, jerk twat–it is SO satisfying.
I don’t really keep up to date on current events or news. I don’t know who the Bundy family is, unless you mean Ted Bundy’s family, I know who he is, but I didn’t know anything about his family was relevant now a days.
“Knowing your rights” is a far cry from spouting sovereign citizen/freeman on the land nonsense. I’ve seen plenty of videos on YouTube of citizens legitimately refusing to identify themselves, to consent to searches, or to desist from peaceful and non-interfering activities (such as recording a third party’s arrest) during encounters with police. By and large these citizens are entirely in the right, legally speaking, and they’re to be commended for not allowing themselves to be pressed, deceived, or intimidated into waiving their legal rights. There is plenty of case law and no shortage of legal experts supporting these people’s choice not to comply. The same cannot be said of sovereign citizens, whose legalistic reasoning is not based on any sane interpretation of statute or case law, and is roundly condemned by just about anyone with the faintest inkling of how the law actually works.
Idle Thoughts, if you have time on your hands, read the Meads decision from the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. More than you will likely ever need to know about the SovCits.
In addition to the Bundys, there are kooks like Eric and Daniel Rudolph. The Olympic Park bomber and his brother, who sawed off his own hand as a show of solidarity.
In the first video of the OP (around 3min), it’s interesting that while being dragged out of the car (by the police), one apparent SovCit starts with “I do not consent” and then moves on to “I’m being assaulted, call the police!” Did he just forget the script at that point, or what was he expecting to happen involving other police enforcing his “rights”?
One of the unspoken tenants of SovCit is that everyone secretly agrees with them and will support them When Things Go Wrong. That person being pulled from his car expects that either a) the police that Real Police and sympathize with the poor SovCit, having heard them state that they do not consent or b) one of the various psuedo-police that SovCits have tried to set up over the years will come running and exert their authority.
This was linked to in a thread I started a while ago, and I gleefully read it over the course of several days. I parceled the damned thing out like Charlie Bucket rationing his chocolate bar.