re: politics, people having strange ideas about
There are two main branches:
1. people who explicitly refuse all governments they regard as wrought by humans and accept only religious law
2. people who believe that the founding documents of their nation have more judicial weight than literally everything the nation has done ever since, and their specific interpretation of those is the final say in what is "real law", which is roughly concordant with "the parts of the law they like, and things they wish were law"
re: politics, people having strange ideas about
The long and short is that SovCits don't believe that US laws apply to them, nor do they think other countries laws should.
Only the laws that they claim, which are a bunch of out-of-context legal double-speak that all just basically says that they want to live without any repercussions, and because they say so.
re: politics, people having strange ideas about
@JulieSqveakaroo@dragon.style @Felthry@awoo.space @kistaro@dragon.style ah yes, the folks responsible for the Boozy Barrister becoming the Boozy Badger (SovCit stuff & a furry convention crossed paths and someone tapped him to explain what the heck was up and suddenly a lawyer blogger finds himself with a fursona, shrugs, and says, "a badger? You know, I do often feel badgerish now you bring it up.)
re: politics, people having strange ideas about
@Felthry @kistaro So-called "sovereign citizens" are quite often also involved in one or more conspiracy-focused communities, typically the sort that believe in the "secret world government" or "all government is illegal" variety of conspiracy.