Oh, I have a good one. I guess they're sort of right wing, but the Sovereign Citizen movement is amazing. Apparently US citizens are of two flavors: natural citizens (subject only to natural and common law, but not federal law), and Fourteenth Amendment citizens (subject to federal law and taxes). One becomes a "natural citizen" by virtue of a quiet title action (a term of art in property law) whereby a person renounces their US citizenship, but not in any way recognized by any official body. Some other weird beliefs include:
- 13th Amendment is not valid, so only whites have rights.
- 19th Amendment is not valid, so any election in which women voted is not valid.
- The Social Security Act created an account for each citizen and you can draw off that account to pay off debts (scammers hit up gullible "sovereign" citizens).
- Courts that have gold borders on their American flags are admiralty courts.
- I'm butchering it, but something about Fourteenth Amendment citizens being corporate entities by virtue of entering into a contract with the US in exchange for freedom.
- They supposedly cannot be detained while traveling.
In any event, they're classified as a terrorist group by the FBI, and a 2014 survey of law enforcement placed them higher than Islamic terrorism in terms of threat. Anyone that works in a federal courthouse is trained on these nuts because they're legitimately dangerous.
Good video on them starting around 2:20. It's confusing as hell because it's actual nonsense.
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