"I'm a sovereign human being, I stand under common law only" - Thread of Freemen

Oregon Republican's violent threat draws militia support

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/germanys-new-mini-reichs/

The Reichsbürger’s ethno-nationalist ideology most closely resembles American strains of right-wing state-denying and secessionist groups known as “Sovereign Citizens.” Many of the exact conspiracy theories, tactics, and legal maneuvers employed by German Reichsbürger are borrowed from the Sovereign Citizens, whose earliest groupings can be traced back to the 1970s. Often survivalist or white nationalist in nature, Sovereign Citizens deny the legitimacy and jurisdiction of the US federal government and especially the IRS, claiming that the individual is inherently sovereign or that the highest authority is the local sheriff (as commissioned by local “free men”).

The Australian sociologist Judy Lattas sees microstates as “a largely grievance-driven form of political protest” but with a much deeper significance for our present understanding of the nation-state and the individual. Small groups and individuals who declare their own state may take their vocabulary from the establishing ceremonies of larger states, but they “relocate” sovereignty onto an assertion of individual rights. Thomas Jefferson’s individual hand signing the Declaration of Independence represented not himself but the united will of the nation. Microstates insist that tiny groups and even single individuals also deserve the rights of a state.

The Insanity in Oregon Is a Glimpse of Our Very Dark Future

Pierce is doing what pundits do, taking a news story and spinning out a narrative. A lot of these narratives involve the future and the horrible consequences that will roll out of the original news story and day now.

Pierce could be right here. The implications of the Oregon Republicans openly embracing people who make serious threats of violence against their political opponents is ugly as hell and much too easy to normalize as just another baby step in a trend that's been building for more than a decade. But it's good to remember that pundits, like stock pickers, make a lot of bad or overwrought predictions, based on seeing trends that move only in one direction.

is there a more positive narrative?

I can't see the future.

xp no there isn't

Let's see about that. Hmmm. How about:

• no actual violence occurs as a result of this act of political theater on the part of the Republicans.

• the episode ends with the Republicans further marginalized in Oregon politics as a result of their stupid shenanigans.

• the cap-and-trade bill is slightly altered to allow some face-saving but passes essentially as it is (which already contains a number of compromises to address the concerns of rural Oregonians and the 'mighty' timber lobby.

• in the parts of the state where the more militant, gun-toting, confederate flag-waving minority flaunts their ugly beliefs, the less militant majority continues to worry mostly about making a living and raising their kids.

• and the whole thing blows over.

does this... remind you of anyone?

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— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) July 2, 2019

is it possible to be both a sovereign human being and a seven nation army?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tax-evasion-natural-person-michael-millar-appeal-1.5253991

Early in ILX's existence there was a Millar who posted here. Kind of a contrarian, given to outbursts. I wonder...

lol

washington state senator is a real piece of work: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/us/matt-shea-washington-extremism.html

ex-wife testified that he insisted she walk on his left side because his sword, if he had one, would be on his right

also no one wants to arrest him due to fears of a violent confrontation

Kansas man asks judge's leave for sword battle with ex-wife, lawyer

A Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can “rend their souls” from their bodies.

David Ostrom, 40, of Paola, Kansas, said in a Jan. 3 court filing that his former wife, Bridgette Ostrom, 38, of Harlan, Iowa, and her attorney, Matthew Hudson, had “destroyed (him) legally.” The Ostroms have been embroiled in disputes over custody and visitation issues and property tax payments.

The judge had the power to let the parties “resolve our disputes on the field of battle, legally,” David Ostrom said, adding in his filing that trial by combat “has never been explicitly banned or restricted as a right in these United States.”

He also asked the judge for 12 weeks’ time so he could secure Japanese samurai swords.

Of course he fucking did.

broke, classist: making fun of Florida Man
funny, wholesome: making fun of sovereign citizens

this lunacy has crossed to the UK. apparently here the magic words are "article 61 of MAGNA CARTA"

no surprise that there is a connection with brexiteers, antiquarians and a faintly hapless baron:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qhsc4

lol that was hilarious.

The first freemen I became aware of that prompted me to start the thread where in the UK

i met my first in 2009 through work on ach1ll

it feels a very ancient kind of lunacy

"antiquarian bookseller Gregg Lance-Watkins"

the guy who got sent down for drink driving and seriously hurting somebody then describes his prison time as his "apprenticeship" and says he had volunteered to be a hangman for the execution of the treacherous QEII!

whats the penalty under art 61 of the magna carta of an irish lad using a vpn to listen to this podcast

you get bled out till death like the subhuman pig eyed mick you are, overseen by an executioner who is a serial drink driver and did time for child porn in the 00's!

fuckit, will we chance it anyway lads hah?

https://www.statesman.com/news/20200310/conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones-charged-with-dwi-in-travis-co-authorities-say

Driving While Idiot

sounds like a job for the freemen

it's not a car, it's a boat, and the dwi law only applies to airspace

sovereign citizen storyline in the new BOSCH

^^^ Was just coming here to mention this.

https://i.imgur.com/FZDQeMl.jpg

i'm just going to start posting coronavirus protest pictures here, rather than ruining all the other threads

don't click this thread if you don't want to see freedom

MAGA version of Tiananmen Square = blocking ambulances until someone reopens Waffle House

Consecutive tweets from @natalie_allison pic.twitter.com/LafzDsztRY

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 20, 2020

this is a press release from the GOP in Virginia:

https://virginia.gop/liberate-virginia/

Richmond, VA – On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!” That tweet was accompanied by two others directed at the citizens of two other states also subjected to the tyrannical rule of incompetent liberal governors.

COVID-19 testing, the key to lifting public restrictions, stalls in Virginia
Timely COVID-19 information is vital, but Va.’s state government is falling short
During Governor Northam’s 2:00 PM press conference today, please consider asking him if shutting down Virginia is actually for our health. Before he attempts to enchant you with a canned “now is not the time for partisanship” answer in his Eastern Shore drawl, consider the following:

When the State tells you it’s safe to go to the store to buy a broom but too dangerous to go and buy a flower, it’s not about your health.
When the State shuts down thousands of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it’s not about your health.
When the State bans dentists because its unsafe, but deems an abortion safe, it’s not about your health.
When the State prevents you from buying gardening supplies because it’s dangerous, but allows in person lottery ticket sales, it’s not about your health.
When the State tells you it’s dangerous to go golf alone, fish alone, or be in a motor boat alone, but the Governor can get his stage make up and hair done for multiple TV appearances a week, it’s not about your health.

When the GOP wants your vote, it's about your stupidity

is it freeman stuff tho

its certainly a boon companion alright, dont get me wrong, but if it isnt quoting maritime law then....

i don't know if it's exactly freeman stuff, but if you want to start a new covid19-related thread and answer to a bunch of people who get mad at the idea of seeing underlined words on a screen that they don't want to click on, by all means take the initiative!

rhonda,

see above.

rgds,

we regret to inform you that Rhonda is Out of Office today. she is at the gathering shown in the attached image, governmet.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1ejJpJI.jpg

governmetropolitan elites imo

Karl, instead of violating the natural sovereignty of this thread, maybe you should post pro-virus images here: "Get a Brain! Morans": Word is out

in honor of coronavirus 2019 i will post pro-virus images on all threads, so they can spread as quickly as possible

This is close enough to Freemenry to justify this digression imo

coronatruthers are morphing into wildlings. it's not the game of thrones prequel we hoped for, but it is what we deserve

its certainly a boon companion alright, dont get me wrong, but if it isnt quoting maritime law then....

truth(er) bomb

Contingent of heavily armed individuals in back of an old military vehicle just showed up. They said they’re all independent. No affiliation. pic.twitter.com/Y8GMcN12eG

— Miguel Marquez (@miguelmarquez) April 20, 2020