Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1B from the Government They Disavow

Re:Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1B from the Government... by pbhjpbhj on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:10PM (#19537138)

In the UK we sometimes get this stuff leaking in, which is really interesting to me as obviously it fits far more poorly (ie doesn't) with the legal-historical position here.

It happens with "wage gap" stuff too; people assume the USA wage gap stats apply to them here.

Oh yeah, and we get Trump supporters.

I think copyright is the only other area I can recall where people assume USA legislation applies (that's a pre-internet example), some think you have to add © to get copyright protection.

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Re:Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1B from the Government... by learc83 on Sunday March 31, 2019 @07:37PM (#19539208)

>as obviously it fits far more poorly (ie doesn't) with the legal-historical position here

A country with a thousand years of accumulated legal rulings seems like fertile soil for conspiracy theories. Superseded common law is the framework for many sovereign citizen's arguments in the US.

>Oh yeah, and we get Trump supporters.

We also weirdly get Brexit supporters.

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