• stevedice@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    This is a sovcit. In very brief terms, they believe that the US turned into a corporation several years ago and, since corporations can’t force you to do anything unless you agree to it, individuals don’t have to follow any law other than “common law”. We’re not gonna get into what they mean by common law, but let’s just say they pick which laws they like and decide those are the only ones they have to follow. With that said, this is probably what happened:

    Their car got towed so they sent a letter to the towing company saying something like:

    I’M AN INDIVIDUAL THAT NEVER CONSENTED TO THE LAWS OF THE STATE SO THEY CAN’T GIVE YOU ANY AUTHORITY TO TOW MY TRUCK AND YOUR VIOLATING THE COMMON LAW BY DOING IT

    This letter was also full of legal-sounding nonsensical jargon so, understandably, the towing company called them to try to figure out what the hell was going on. After being unable to get anywhere with the sovcit, because that’s how it usually goes with them, the towing company just said “screw it, I’ll let my lawyer handle it”.

    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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      3 days ago

      Oh, I figured that part out pretty quickly; and I can’t say that I’m unsympathetic to the cause. Threatening someone with action like a lien that requires the government to enforce that lien makes no sense. I do believe that there’s a lot of law that was passed in ways that mean we the people should be able to freely rescind consent, or which violates the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, or which is in direct defiance of the British, French, and Spanish common law treaties that remain the basis of the US legal system.

      That’s between me and the officials, though. Between me and everybody else (even cops, btw - they’re not elected officials, they’re just jackboots doing a job - if they didn’t enforce the laws, someone else would, and I’m under no misconception that the replacement would be any nicer), we’re all in the shit together and nobody gets out alive - so to quote one of the founding fathers, we must all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately.