So let me make sure I understand this
A member of the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement used the power of the .gov on his enemies?
Dude, you’re doing it wrong. And it’s apparently ‘sovereign citizen’ at the local fish wrap:
When Newport police cited Ronald James Lyons’ bar in Newport for liquor sales without a license, Lyons walked into the police station and informed the chief his business wasn’t subject to U.S. law.
“He tried to serve me with a handwritten trespass notice,” Police Chief Maurice Shults said. “I explained to him that as long as he lived in or operated a business within the city limits, if there was a violation of the law we’d be there.”
February 20th, 2017 at 6:52 pm
Deport them!
Lyons, for example, filed a “certificate of non-United States citizen status” in Cocke County Circuit Court, replete with misspellings, random capitalizations, clashing fonts and legal nonsequiturs.
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“I am a man, on the land, a lawful man, capable of bearing an oath,” Cooper wrote in an “affidavit of truth” that denounced all federal courts as “legal fictions” and followed the familiar sovereign citizen script. “There is no evidence that I am a U.S. citizen … and I believe none exists.”
February 20th, 2017 at 7:13 pm
Nico has the best idea, deport these loons to a deserted isle.
February 20th, 2017 at 10:02 pm
When we were moving out of Knoxville, I had picked up my grey-market Land Rover Defender from a local shop, and on the way to pick up dinner from visiting Dennis at his gun store, I got pulled over by an Oak Ridge policeman. I still had the British plates on it (though it was registered in the US, and had TN plates, I just hadn’t gotten around to putting them on yet – different hole patterns and all).
The very first question out of the policeman’s mouth, once he figured out which side the driver was on, was, “Are you one of them sovereign citizen folks?”
I think my incredulous, “Uh, no?” clarified the situation for him.
I had no idea Eastern TN had such a population of them, and specifically Oak Ridge. That’s all kinds of odd.
February 21st, 2017 at 9:58 am
I have a handwritten note saying that you have no power over me. Now unlock this cell.