Ben Carson is literally a brain surgeon, and he believes some seriously crazy stuff. Here is an explanation of his crazy ideas about the pyramids, including rejecting actual science and expert opinions, and apparently also believing that some actual scientists think aliens built the pyramids (that’s not Carson’s theory).
I keep thinking that he must gotten that from playing too much Civ 3.
That’s hilarious! Hey, I wonder if any of those loons have come up with the “theory” that only the original 13 states were “in perpetual union” and thus the others can secede at will.
That’s some serious non-thinking from the loons, isn’t it?
Oh, and that site’s explanation is a bit disgusting. Thanks!
I hadn’t known about that development. Their movement had been old and quiescent. I wasn’t expecting anything new out of them.
LOL! That was great!
In Civilization 3, if you build the Great Pyramid wonder it puts a granary in your every city.
Re SovCits Being ‘Crazy’
Some types of craziness are defined by the culture one lives in. As a ‘mental health consumer’ I’ve seen plenty of forms that say ‘do you have beliefs not supported by your culture?’
Re SovCits Being Consciencious Objectors
I don’t buy it for a second. CO’s organize to change the law. SovCits just don’t want to personally deal with the consequences of the law.
I strongly disagree that all conspiracy theorists are “mean-spirited shitheads” who care only about themselves. In my experience, many conspiracy theorists are noble, selfless folks who risk punishment and even death at the hands of THEM in order to boldly bring the truth to the world. It’s a lot like Don Quixote. Sure, he’s a nut charging at a windmill. But he genuinely believes he is going into battle against a giant for the cause of good.
You have a point.
Most of what you all are calling “Sovereign Citizen” arguments boil down to the idea that the utter plethora of seemingly labyrinthine texts that have some force of law can be arranged in some novel way to produce a result contrary to what law enforcement and the established judiciary might expect. Occasionally, this does happen:
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[li]In 2008, Nebraska became the last state in the US to pass a “safe haven” law allowing parents to surrender their infants without fear of legal repercussions. Though this was intended to prevent people from dropping their babies in dumpsters the statute did not specify a maximum age. For much of the next year, parents from all over the country would drive kids as old as 17 to Nebraska and drop them off at the first hospital inside the state line. This was remedied in a special session a few months later.[/li]
[li]In 1980, Rhode Island passed a law adjusting the penalties for sex work. However, the resulting statute inadvertently removed the operational language criminalizing sex for hire per se. As such, sex work itself was technically legal in Rhode Island until another law was passed in 2009. (Many associated activities, such as streetwalking, pandering, and brothel keeping, were explicitly illegal during the period, but the act itself was not.)[/li][/ul]
Many of the folks we see in courtrooms today making convoluted arguments invoking irrelevant law are hoping they’ll hit on a similar circumstance. Almost always, though, their reach exceeds their grasp.
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HEY! I take that personably. 
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Love that last phrase!
Or conscientious objectors work within the law as, get this, conscientious objectors.
Nah, I don’t buy that they’re selfless, etc. They’re buying into a magical belief to make themselves feel better and oh-so-special. Then they’re laughing at the rest of us. That is, they’re laughing until they get tazed. If they were really all that selfless, they’d be telling us all 24x7 about their [del]gonstic[/del] special truth. So, yep, they’re mean-sprited shitheads.
Now, if you’re whooshing me, well, I got whooshed.
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That the solution to sovereign citizenship. Argue that they have voluntarily renounced their citizenship and ship them off to some 6th-world country
Interesting calling for the forceful expulsion of dissidents here.
They’re not dissidents, they’re wanna-be freeloaders.
What did that 6th world country ever do to you?
It amazes me that they read this:
And they interpret that to mean that Congress only has any power at all over those areas and none anywhere else.
In my experience, conspiracy theorists DO tell us all 24x7 about their special truth. Indeed, the hard thing is getting them to shut up. OTTOMH, isotope money man (I can’t remember his name) SeeThruArt, etc.
Do you think the jackboots are going to be more successful with their “Expel the dissidents” campaign or their “Expel the wanna-be freeloaders” campaign? Perhaps they should focus-group that.
Also I am amused by the hatred of wannabe freeloaders when successful freeloaders are much more common and less grateful.
Hatred? I’m seeing a mix of faintly amused mockery and calm questioning of their mental states.
Which is why they want them forcibly removed from the country. Thanks for the analysis.