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      I don’t want to register my child, so instead a signed an affidavit and filed it with my local branch of government.

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      Right? My first thought was a sovereign citizen meant they simply want to exist without needing documentation to prove that they exist. But then I saw how complicated it got like they really want a passport? They really want documentation but they don’t want WHAT exactly? I don’t understand.

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    My wife has found a YouTube channel that is nothing but SovCits getting arrested after escalating traffic stops & it is truly a salve for my soul.

    The fact that black American SovCits exist, absolutely blows my mind.

    The fact that British & Australian SovCits exist is absolutely ridiculous.

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      The sovcit arrests are hilarious. The Moorish black sovcits are some of the wildest. I’m in all their Facebook groups and the things they believe are crazy bonkers batshit.

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        It’s on my wife’s phone, but she said to search for Van Balion to start down the rabbit hole.

        EDIT: Law Talk with Mike was another one.

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        If it’s the same guy I’m thinking of, it’s a bald dude with glasses and he plays on MoistCritical’s competitive esports or video game team (whatever that is called).

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          Is that the dude who got stopped at an AG station between Nevada and Cali, refused to allow the service person to inspect his vehicle for foreign pests, and then proceeded to ignore the cops requests for documentation to issue him a ticket (that he could contest in court if he wanted, avoiding the whole situation), 100s of times before crying when they smashed his car window and arrested him?

          Because that shit was hysterical.

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    The fun part is that the Department of State will send them a letter saying, “you can either provide a birth certificate or not, but we’re keeping your money either way.” Also, if the parent tries to “correct” their own passport, they’ll get a different letter that says, “you can have the same regular ass passport you already have or you can have nothing, aaand we’re keeping your money either way.”

    So I guess enjoy spending like $300 for nothing.

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      So I guess enjoy spending like $300 for nothing.

      Don’t forget the endless victimizing by a unjust government that they refuse to recognize as legitimate. They really get off when that happens.

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    When I first read some judge’s summary of their ruling on a sovereign citizen case, I was puzzled about why the judge spent so much time talking about the capitalization of letters in it. Then I read further and discovered that a core tenet of their goofball belief system is that words have different meanings (legal and perhaps even material) when you capitalize them differently.

    What a fucking weird thing to believe. Reminds me of scientologists with Xenu.

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        If a movie had an insane person saying the words on that page, I’d call it too over the top to be believable. Sovereign citizens are self-parodying.

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    I’m sure I’m just over thinking some of the process!

    Yeah, overthinking, that’s your problem buddy.

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    I’m sure it’ll be fine. When has anyone ever needed a birth certificate? And surely nobody would ever get pedantic about something like that!

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    I’m confused, they aren’t part of (country) but they registered with it and want a passport from it anyway?

    Why haven’t they been deported?

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      Pretty sure you are not allowed to renounce your citizenship if you only have one. I’m guessing it is so at least one country is ultimately responsible for them.

      I know there are still cases where the country doesn’t exist anymore, but we are talking about people intentionally trying to abuse the system.

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      I’m assuming they want a passport for whatever fantasy-land sovereign state they think they actually belong to

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    renouncing my status

    Please tell me this means renouncing their citizenship. Always hilarious watching people set up a bear trap, sharpen the teeth real good, double check the springs, and then intentionally step right on it