• saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    3 months ago

    Funnily enough, this flag …

    …is used by anti-government “cookers” and sovereign citizens.

    Why? Dunno. It’s for a ship registered as part of the Australian merchant navy. Cargo ships, cruise liners, etc.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Sovereign citizens have a weird obsession with archaic naval law (or their envisioning of it)

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Admiralty law, and it stems from it being one the few areas of jurisdictions covered by federal courts per Art 3 sec 2 of the US Constitution.

    • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      Probably because sovereign citizens beliefs are defined by believing the very first piece of info they come across and then blocking out all other conflicting info for the rest of their life.