Thread by @textfiles

OK, very quickly. Jason Explains Soverign Citizens.

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1416235276582760448

If you want a much better, much more entertaining presentation about Soverign Citizens and the wonders of their thinking, just see my presentation on one:

I didn't understand that Paul Andrew Mitchell was a Soverign Citizen, but now I do.

Before anything else: Yes, they're crackpots. Yes, they're completely off the scale. No, there's no secret germ of truth inside the SovCits. Generally, they are tax dodgers or scammers.

Conspiracy Theories as product tend to boil down as blame to a group or selling you something (supplements or books are popular). SovCit effort generally is to indicate they're not subject to law, almost always taxes, or that they are owed some sort of money.

They do this with legal hijinkery that plays weird, rough and dirty with, primarily, courts. They sue many people, they use kind of made up language, and they have a bizarre reading of flags, symbols, language and structure such that, in the case of MY sovcit, you get committed.

What they also are, is relentless, like all grifters have to be. Don't file one motion - file 50. Don't file with one court - file with a dozen. And constantly, consistently, unstoppingly target individuals and their families, especially individuals holding office or funds.

In my case, the Sovcit Mitchell, was involved in threatening and lawsuiting for over 12 years, and when it got thrown out, did he stop? No, he went to an Oregon County and just started terrorizing them:

nrtoday.com/news/governmen…

You are entirely allowed to find humor and amusement at their lawyer cosplay, the use of fingerprints to indicate they are of an Otherhood, the double-triple-quadruple switchback language in their writings. It's hilarious stuff.

As long as you're not the target.

But yeah, your gut reaction is correct. They are 5 skee-ball machines short of a Family Fun Center. They are at best a nuisance and honkytonk sideshow and at worst they have caused some true pain and terror in regular folks unaware of what has been loosed upon them.