Pizzeria Owner Mounts Truly Bizarre Defense for Jan. 6 Riots

[turbinetree]

Not only is she representing herself, she’s using far-out “sovereign citizen” talking points to claim she is immune from prosecution.

Kelly Weill
Reporter
Published Jul. 11, 2021 5:15AM ET

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A Pennsylvania woman who allegedly stormed the Capitol and told a police officer to “bring Nancy Pelosi out here now… we want to hang that fucking bitch” has filed court documents claiming to be a divinely empowered entity immune from laws.

Pauline Bauer, a Pennsylvania pizzeria owner, is accused of multiple counts of violent entry, disruptive conduct, and obstruction of Congress after she allegedly broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6. Prosecutors allege that Bauer tried organizing buses to transport people to D.C. for a rally that preceded the riot, and that while in the Capitol rotunda she told police that she wanted to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

But in what experts describe as an inadvisable legal strategy, Bauer has demanded to represent herself in court, appeared to threaten a court clerk with prison time, and declared herself a “self-governed individual” with special legal privileges.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pizzeria-owner-pauline-bauer-mounts-truly-bizarre-defense-for-jan-6-riots

Okay I have a suggestion, she pay for her time in jail, now and into the future....since she thinks she is a "sovereign citizens" what ever the fuck that means....

[C_U_L8R]

1. Empress of her own mind.

It’s a very small nation.

[malaise]

16. Perfect

[Wicked Blue]

2. We need FAR more treatment for people with mental health problems

Sadly, they aren't receiving the professional treatment they desperately need.

[unblock]

3. " in what experts describe as an inadvisable legal strategy"

[multigraincracker]

4. Hope her case

puts and end to all of this nonsense.

[Baked Potato]

5. They should claim "the Devil made me do it!" Might get sympathy.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I wonder if she bothers to follow health code regulations for her pizzeria.

Probably not.

[thucythucy]

14. That is a very good question.

Since she claims to be a law unto herself.

[IronLionZion]

32. Big Government regulations infringe on her sovereign rights

food safety laws kill jobs

[plimsoll]

34. Food borne diseases are a hoax by big soap.

[lagomorph777]

36. They should check the basement of her pizzeria.

There could be pedophiles down there...

[PufPuf23]

7. Bauer should use the souvenir citizen defense rather than the sovereign citizen defense.

As in "I went to Washington DC and the Capitol on January 6, 2021" as a tourist, and all I have for a memory is a souvenir criminal record.

Perhaps Bauer should not have insurrected.

[RockRaven]

8. Well, unless the US Attorney, the federal judge, the jury, and the Bureau of Prisons all agree that

they themselves are indeed pointless and impotent institutions, she's gonna be very disappointed...

[Initech]

9. Lock her up!!!

[Chainfire]

10. If she is not subject to the laws of the land, then neither is she subject to the protection of the

law of the land. I say take her passport and other government issued ID and toss her over the Trump wall with a hearty, "And don't come back!"

The scary thing is that some people really believe that kind of silly shit.

[underpants]

11. This I, I didn't know. 😳

“Sovereign citizens will often refer to themselves as ‘flesh and blood’ people. They do this because they have this longstanding belief that the government has created artificial versions of them for various nefarious purposes,” Pitcavage told The Daily Beast, noting that the document appeared to be Bauer’s attempt to reclaim all supposed versions of herself.

[Thomas Hurt]

12. Standard MO, proclaim themselves something akin to feudal lords...

proceed to violate the law in some fashion, anything from traffic, building codes, zoning, criminal laws, etc.

Once caught they assert their lordliness and then sue their "oppressors" under their loony take on common law...read intimidation and extortion.

Oh and the damages they demand are usually gold, since federal reserve notes aren't real money.

[Maeve]

13. Fool for a client, ass for a lawyer

Edited to add--you aren't subject to the laws? Ok--where do you want to be deported to? And what makes you think they'll take you?

[Dan]

15. We should respect her sovereignty and give her 24 hrs to return to her country.

Failure to do that is give her an additional 24 hours to find some country that would accept her.

Failure to find a country that would accept her - put her in that Cuba detention site.

[griloco]

17. If you want to see what a sovereign individual looks loke

[bucolic_frolic]

18. "I was taking orders for pizza while networking" would stand a better chance

These people haven't a clue what democracy is about, or the common good and Commonweath. They are totally about their perceived self-interest, and they can't even see when their own actions harm themselves!

[appleannie1]

19. I live in PA. Where is her pizza shop. I don't ever want to mistakenly order pizza from her.

[SarcasticSatyr]

20. Maybe she going for an insanity defense?

Because she is nuts ...

[nuxvomica]

21. Congress should pass a law revoking their citizenship

It can be conditioned on their declaration of sovereign citizenship in legal briefs, as these people are doing in court. The law could simply recognize such a declaration as formal renunciation of citizenship, which it already does recognize under other conditions. It may not stop them from being crazy but at least some of them might not try to argue that in court, at least they would shut up about it! BTW, another way to lose your citizenship is to be part of an attempted overthrow of the government. Ideally all the insurrectionists should be adjudged as having done that.

[obamanut2012]

22. Yet another bonkers RWNJ sov cit

[dlk]

23. She can think whatever she likes

It doesn’t change the fact she’s a domestic terrorist and will be held accountable.

[Politicub]

24. Well, looky here... an enemy combatant.

Good thing Gitmo wasn’t closed down.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. I predict that someday, the DSM will describe a mental illness

or personality disorder that will encompass supremacists of all types, sovereign citizens, conspiracy theory advocates, incels, gun nuts, religious zealots, etc. While they have many symptoms in common with other mental illnesses and personality disorders, this new combination and the fact that they can all find others like them on the web is truly frightening. The only problem is that I doubt it's treatable.

As for this woman, audit all her tax returns going as far back as they can until they find some that are legit and throw her in federal prison for tax evasion.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

29. Delusions of Grandeur, Obsessive-Compulsive, ... . . . nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. If Sovereign Citizen, then it is an act of WAR for her to ATTACK the Capitol & the Government. nt

[struggle4progress]

27. ... Ain't no need to worry today! Thorazine shuffle make everything OK! ...

Stay right here with me now til the damage is done ...

Time drags by when you're boring
Don't care what you do!
Care what you say!
Come a time
when you got to let the monster inside you
Let him come on out ... and play ...

[Bird Lady]

28. all this is to allow her to plead insanity when she finally goes to court

I hope jury and the judiciary does not buy it.

[A_Woman_from_MI]

30. I wonder if she's related to the "Personhood Woman"

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Apparently personhood is also a protected status...

[keithbvadu2]

31. Surely she would accept self-issued money from other sovereign citizens as payment for pizza.

Surely she would accept self-issued money from other sovereign citizens as payment for pizza.

[padah513]

33. None of this is real to them yet

Wait until the trials start and the jailings start piling up. Every day pugs want to talk about critical race theory or some other nonsense, but what are they going to talk about when every day there is a trial and every day somebody gets sentenced and the news shows the evidence of their conviction every hour on the hour?

[colsohlibgal]

35. Wow

This whatever she is is insane. Dangerously Criminally Delusional. She needs to be locked up and maybe Prison Psychiatrists can bring her back to some semblance of reality.