Also known as SovCits or Freemen on the land, Sovereign Citizens although more well known now days are not a new phenomenon, there have always been those who insist they're exempt from the law or that it is illegitimate and precursors to the American groups popping up in response to the civil rights movement.
Due to the decentralized nature of SovCits and it's ability to encompass a wide rang of conspiracies, misconceptions, be a general nuance, offer seemingly easy answers and solutions, and, in the most unfortunately cases, fit perfectly with violence paranoid schizophrenia, what exactly the movement is, seeks and says can very wildly from person to person. As such this section isn't going to be a list but rather a collection of commonalities in the movement as a whole.
Although like most things SovCit the extent and “legal” precedent for STRAWMAN varies especially country to country, the crux of the nonsense is the same: there's you and then there's the you on paper that is created when you are born and has the exact same name as you but in all capital letters. After this however things go batshit insane.
Some believe that signing a birth certificate at all or in any color other than the “good one” means that they are signing over their children to the government. From here it can branch off into Qanon territory with SovCits believing that if they loose their kids they'll be trafficked, sold or enslaved. Others think that the STRAWMAN is a commodity being sold, traded, or invested in. Some also believe that the STRAWMAN is a bank account in which money is either placed into upon creation or used to accumulate interest the commodity has gathered. Those who believe in the latter have been known to not pay bills instead forwarding them to their STRAWMAN to pay.
Another popular use of this STRAWMAN is to avoid taxes or legal sentences such as jail time. Because they think the STRAWMAN is a separate person that exists on paper in all capital letters, and legal paperwork list names in all caps that their STRAWMAN is actually the one responsible for them and refusal to identify as [name] all caps will free them from these responsibilities and consequence.
Paper terrorism encompasses a vast array of trees that died for literally nothing. It is by far the most successful tactic used by sovcits however this isn't because it actually works, rather it relies on the law of averages, confusion, not being worth it to the other party, the other person not even knowing that something has been filed, or being in-able to fight what's been filed. In essence it's throwing enough bullshit at the wall that something eventually sticks. The Moorish Nationals are very fond of using paper terrorism in regards to private property, submitting pseudo-legal paper work claiming ownership, leasing or lean against homes.
Other forms include frivolous lawsuits, illegitimate lines of credit and bankruptcy petitions.
Some SovCits, especially followers of Russell-Jay: Ghould believe that things like gold fringe on flags denote if the court is legitimate or not. Russell also claims to own the US flag, there's not only no proof of this but he also never shuts up about it.
A lot of SovCits subscribe to a form of linguistic purism that insists certain words have one objective meaning and or a secret legal meaning meant to confuse and trick you. There are even some who take this farther proclaiming there to be one mathematically objective linguistic structure and set of definitions, that of Quantum Grammar[8]. Another part of this is a misunderstanding of prefixes and suffixes with SovCits believing that any word that happens to have what could be one to actually contain it regardless of if they makes sense, the prefix or suffix has the same root language as the word itself.
SovCits are also fond of appropriating language of and laws pertaining to indigenous people. This can be seen in the use of “natural law” or “native law” or “indigenous law”, claiming to be a tribe for land rights, and claiming exception to local law. According to Marcel he is native and entitled to native rights because he is “a native of earth”. Others like some of the Moorish, in a move similar to the Black Israelites claim to be the actual original natives of the land.
Popular SovCit words/phrases and the meaning to them are as follows: