In Australia I knew I guy who was a SovCit and he would do stupid things like quote the bill of rights. We’d say “what bill of rights?” Australia doesn’t have one. All his info came from the US and he just followed it with realising none of it was relevant in a different country.
True. But things like the UCC are real laws. Sovcits just hilariously misinterpret them. There is no such law in other countries. Plus sovcit stuff is based on common law. It makes even less sense in civil law jurisdictions.
Huh. Call me provincial, but I had no idea that sovereign citizens existed outside of America. The idea of a Cypriot sovcit never occurred to me.
In Australia I knew I guy who was a SovCit and he would do stupid things like quote the bill of rights. We’d say “what bill of rights?” Australia doesn’t have one. All his info came from the US and he just followed it with realising none of it was relevant in a different country.
To be fair pretty much all the US sovcit stuff isn’t relevant or applicable in the US either
True. But things like the UCC are real laws. Sovcits just hilariously misinterpret them. There is no such law in other countries. Plus sovcit stuff is based on common law. It makes even less sense in civil law jurisdictions.
We have people in Canada who demand their first amendment rights and put Trump stickers on their trucks. These people are not the smartest.
None of it is relevant in the USA either, it’s all bullshit.
I did expect Australian and British sovcits, but didn’t expect Greek ones.
I didn’t expect Spanish SovCits…
No-one expects The Spanish SovCit!
I don’t know man. Idiots are everywhere.
They have been identified in 26 countries.
the internet was a mistake
It is effectively a memetic virus, and there’s no SCP foundation to implement quarantine procedures…
Alas US stupidity leaks.
Here in Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-08/nsw-magistrates-report-sharp-rise-in-sovereign-citizen-cases/102285772
https://theconversation.com/living-people-who-are-the-sovereign-citizens-or-sovcits-and-why-do-they-believe-they-have-immunity-from-the-law-143438
We have a few so-called sovereign citizens in the UK.
And ONE actual sovereign citizen.
We call them “autonomous” in the Netherlands, and Germany has “imperial citizens”.
Everywhere has its own flavour of these morons thanks to the Internet. And they often literally copy the talking points, and occasionally even laws.
Pretty sure they’re called “wappies” in the Netherlands
Well, Autonomen are a flavour of Wappies :P