politics, people having strange ideas about 

Apparently there's a whole movement of people who think that if you're a US citizen and you just say you don't want to be subject to US law, then you're not

where on *earth* would people get that idea?
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politics, people having strange ideas about 

@Felthry

people who cannot distinguish the behavior of actual lawyers from the behavior of SovCit advocates. People who don't cross a certain fairly high bar of political literacy, judicial literacy, and "legalese" literacy have no grounds to distinguish "actual law" from "legal-sounding gibberish". Combine it with distrust for US governmental authority and you get, well, that.

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re: politics, people having strange ideas about 

@kistaro what's sovcit mean?
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re: politics, people having strange ideas about 

@Felthry

"Sovreign Citizen", the most common USA form of this specific pathology.

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