Sovereign Citizens

[redrumloa]

The news below is just an excuse to start this thread. I've not followed these sort of people, but am mildly curious.

11 Armed Suspects Arrested Following 9-Hour Armed Standoff on Mass. Highway​

The members of the group reportedly refused to comply with orders to put down their weapons and other verbal orders. The people told the officers they do not “recognize our laws,” police said, according to the AP report.

The colonel said the men told the officer they were members of the “Rise of the Moors” group and were headed to Maine from Rhode Island for “training.” The men reportedly refused to put down their weapons and several members took off into the woods, the report states.

“You can imagine, 11 armed individuals standing armed with long guns slung on an interstate highway at 2 in the morning certainly raises concerns, and is certainly not consistent with the firearms laws that we have here in Massachusetts,” the state police commander said.

An alleged spokesperson for the group took to social media and said they were not anti-government, anti-police, or a sovereign citizen group.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1411295993975525379

 

[Robert]

Sovereign Citizen / Freeman on the Land concept was briefly discussed on here about a decade ago. I can't seem to find the thread or remember who the poster was but I'm pretty sure this is part 1 of the video, "It's an Illusion" that kicked off the discussion:

I became fascinated with it for a wee while but the more you look into it the flimsier the arguments get.

-EDIT-
I hadn't realised the presenter of that video, John Harris, passed away a few years ago. In his last interview before he died, he expressed a lot of regret and estimated he could now debunk about 75% of the content of "It's an Illusion".

 

[cecilia]

breitbart?
seriously?