Thread by @egavactip

I decided to do another sovereign citizen "show and tell" thread today, prompted by having discovered a series of nifty new bogus sovereign license plates.

So buckle up, folks, it may be a bumpy ride!

Let's start with the new plates, from a Moorish sovereign citizen group, with different plates for different regions.

It took the sovereign citizen movement 50 years of making bogus plates to come up with some attractive ones.

They do look nifty. Illegal, but nifty.

Some, however, opt for more boring bogus plates.

Here's a potpourri of sovereign citizen plates.

One new twist on the sovereign citizen bogus license plate is the "religious autonomy" plate.

Hawaiian sovereign citizens have their own various plates.

Sovereign citizens don't always spend their time on bogus plates. This one's offering a mock trial you can attend.

Some make bogus ID cards, too. Or even their own birth certificates--although many sovereigns prefer to call it their "born day" rather than their "date of birth." Sometimes you even see a "date of conception" on a bogus ID.

Sovereign citizens often believe the government has created fictional duplicates of people called "strawmen," that are used for nefarious purposes. Often they use the movie The Matrix to explain this, but here a voodoo analogy is used, which is interesting.

Since 1999, sovereigns have believed regaining control of their strawman can give them access to a magical treasury account. A more recent variation--VERY popular these days--is that it's not a treasury account but a "birth certificate trust," aka a "cestui que vie" trust.

One variant of this theory says that the birth certificates end up in the Vatican.

When I read this post, I thought "okay, not bad little sovereign citizen joke there, armies, ha ha," but then I got to the end and discovered my first sovereign citizen menstrual cycle reference.

Sovereign citizens are really the ultimate example of misplaced confidence.

Another *big* trend right now, taught by some sovereign citizen gurus, is that getting a passport is necessary for becoming a sovereign citizen (or "American state national") and gives you magical immunities.

And finally, I'll leave you with one the oldest sovereign citizen beliefs of all, inherited from the tax protest movement--that paper money is not remotely close to legitimate. Only gold and silver, or notes backed by gold and silver, are legitimate money.