As the internet creates new unmoderated spaces for ideas to spread, the sovereign citizen movement moves on to new audiences and finds a lot of angry divorced dads who don’t want to pay child support.
Content notes: This episode continues our discussions of fascist ideology, racism, and antisemitism from part 1.
Featured image: A man shows off his documents issued by the “Kingdom of Heaven,” which he claims got him out of legal charges because he had given up his state citizenship. (Image source)
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A document created by sovereign citizens showing an unusual style of punctuation they believe they can use to distinguish their “real” identity from their “legal” identity. I assume the inclusion of DNA from hair and bodily fluids is part of this distinction showing they are signing as their real bodily selves. (Image source)
An illustration of the “license plates” issued by a sovereign citizen organization. (Image source)
Another illustration of the kinds of license plates issued by the “Moorish National Republic Government.” (Image source)
Sources
- Brian S. Slater. “Sovereign Citizen Movement: An Empirical Study on the Rise in Activity, Explanations of Growth, and Policy Prescriptions” MA Thesis for the US Naval Postgraduate School, 2016
- Skin in the Game: How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism
- His ‘Straw Man’ Free, a Scammer Finds the Rest of Him Isn’t | Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Sovereign Citizen Movement: Common Documentary Identifiers & Examples
- Arrested Development – You’re A Crook Captain Hook (Isaac insisted on citing this in the show notes)
- The Sovereigns: A Dictionary of the Peculiar | Southern Poverty Law Center
- Judge refutes ‘idiotic’ claims | Edmonton Journal
- Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571
- Lexomancy: Law and Magic in the Pseudolegal Writings of the Sovereign Citizen Movement
- Communication-Methods by David-Wynn: Miller
- Full Colon Miller
- Who Stole Oregon’s Courts? | Embassy of Heaven
- Social Security Numbers for Children? | Embassy of Heaven
- Is This Oregon? No, It’s Heaven, Pastor Says; State Disagrees
- Washitaw Nation Comes Under Investigation | Southern Poverty Law Center
- Return of The Ancient Ones – The Washitaw Files – Empress Verdiacee
- Recalling the FBI raid of late Washitaw Nation leader’s home | The Franklin Sun
- Moorish-American Nationality
- 15 years later, painful reminder of 2 officers’ deaths during land-dispute standoff may be removed
- FBI — Bogus Election Spawned Assassination Plot | Southern Poverty Law Center
- 3 police officers fatally shot in Baton Rouge; dead suspect identified
- ‘Sovereign citizen’ Jan. 6 rioter gets seven years for leading mob assault on officers
- Rise of the Moors members convicted for armed standoff on I-95 in Wakefield