Stories here and here. This group calls themselves “Moorish American Nationals,” and one of their number just got popped for burglarizing (by which they mean “living in”) an unoccupied mansion in this area that he says belongs to him, via paperwork that he’d prepared that includes references to a 1787 peace treaty and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Apparently this has been happening around the country, with Moorish Americans squatting in homes under the theory that local mortgage laws are invalid. They do other sovereign-citizen stuff too, like making up their own car registration documents. One twist in these cases is that their beliefs stem in part from an assertion that African Americans lived in the US prior to the arrival of Europeans. Law enforcement generally doesn’t seem to be any more impressed or sympathetic than they are with more widely-known sovereign groups.
The fellow in the linked articles, born Lamont Butler, now goes by the name Lamont Maurice El, so perhaps he sees himself as having some Kryptonian roots as well.
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“Even though,” Butler wrote, “there was no false arrest made on Jan. 5, 2013, by the Public Servant Trustee Police Enforcers for the private foreign corporate-for-profit entity styled as Montgomery County Police Department, and conversations ended on peaceable terms, I, as well as others, will be coming to the land property estate this week.”
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Now that is some quality word salad right there. One day, I hope to own a land property estate of my own.
Just of curiosity, does British/English/UK/whatever law allow for some really obscure but possibly valid claims? Like some guy on the Isle of Wight claiming descent from a Cornish chieftan who was granted an ecclesiastical privilege that in theory means that Queen Elizabeth II is supposed to ceremonially present him with a goat every Candlemas?