• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I’ve often wondered if one of the reasons this bullshit keeps going is that some percentage of cops and judges just think, “I’m too tired for this crap” and let it go, so the SovCit thinks their legal argument is valid.

        • Delphia@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I like to think that every now and then a judge sits one of them down and explains to them that they have been given some very terrible legal advice that doesnt work and wont be accepted. Gives them an extension and tells them to get a lawyer or they will be going to jail.

          And I want to think they listen.

          • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Sadly, I’ve seen videos of judges saying stuff like that, and the SovCit saying the judge is just trying to scare them into not sticking to their rights or whatever.

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          9 months ago

          It happens, for sure. I had an acquaintance who was a cop say that she didn’t feel like dragging the dude out of his car that day, so she wrote a ticket, wrote ‘refused to sign’ on it, and threw it in the truck bed.

          My personal opinion on whether she acted like that every time an arrest would have had to get physical aside, I bet the next officer who dealt with the dude when he had a warrant for failing to appear at court had to get physical. Just delaying the inevitable.

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            9 months ago

            Ive commented about that before, If I were a cop and saw the “sovcit” plates on a car I would definitely have to take a moment to consider if I have the patience to deal with their bullshit today.

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              9 months ago

              The only remedy for this is for real citizens to go full vigilante on their arse. Sovereign Citizen plates on are car are a request to have your tyres slashed.

              Honestly, I have more respect for a criminal who doesn’t have plates, or has stolen plates because at least they admit that they are breaking the rules.

              SovCit idiots are just fucking idiots who think that the laws do not legally apply to them.