Thread by @ariehkovler

QAnon has finally discovered and syncretized the Sovereign Citizen movement. I'm just surprised it took this long. Full thread from @_MAArgentino

https://twitter.com/_MAArgentino/status/1349218103239077888

@_MAArgentino The Sovereign Citizens are a really weird movement that exist, in their own flavours, around the world.

@_MAArgentino Basically, Sovereign Citizens believe that the modern Government is a corporation and laws are only binding because people opt into them.

@_MAArgentino They generally think people opt out of the fake Government/law by somehow separating your physical self from your legal personality. They mainly use this to try and get out of paying parking fines.

Sovereign Citizens in each country have their own unique legal theories. In Germany they believe that the German state set up by the allies post-WWII is fake. In England they talk about Magna Carta, the Crown, statute law and the Admiralty.

Actually, here are some British pro-Trump protesters from 2 years ago spouting this stuff after they disrupted London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/952470660290367488

American sovereign citizens also talk about strawmen, and believe that your name in CAPITAL LETTERS might have to pay taxes but you, the actual person, don't.

There's also Sovereign Moorish Citizens, black Americans who believe that they can claim to be citizens of the Moorish nation and basically have diplomatic immunity because of some treaty.

These people, by the way, are a nightmare in court, often representing themselves. Sometimes they get off of minor administrative stuff like fines because local courts don't have the time or expertise to deal with it all.

Anyway, QAnon basically sucks up all conspiracy theories in its path, from child-abusing elites to JFK Jr to aliens and EMPs, so I guess it was inevitable that they'd drag in Sovereign Citizen stuff eventually, too.