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Watchfoxheadexplodes

(3,496 posts)
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 11:39 AM Jul 2017

I got a big WTF and question

So driving home from work I stop behind another vehicle and it looks like a paper temp plate. Closet I see:

No license no insurance and some drivel about right to travel?

I immediately call local highway enforcement dispatch tells me after I pass information this has become an issue here lately.

Any others seem this?

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I got a big WTF and question (Original Post) Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2017 OP
Pray tell, what state?.... asiliveandbreathe Jul 2017 #1
The "r" and "t" are right next to each other. I have not seen this, but rzemanfl Jul 2017 #2
S.C. Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2017 #3
Sovereign Citizen jberryhill Jul 2017 #4
When did this sovereign citizen crap start? MiniMe Jul 2017 #7
Quite a while jberryhill Jul 2017 #8
They should talk to Wesley Snipes about that n/t TexasBushwhacker Jul 2017 #9
Maddow did a very informative piece on it. It's tied with the goofy militia nutbars Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2017 #10
I did find Watchfoxheadexplodes Jul 2017 #5
LOL @ Sovereign Citizens. Iggo Jul 2017 #6
Fake plates: "No driver license or insurance required" and "Not for commerce-private mode of travel" VOX Jul 2017 #11

rzemanfl

(29,581 posts)
2. The "r" and "t" are right next to each other. I have not seen this, but
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 11:42 AM
Jul 2017

the plates for both cars expire next month....

MiniMe

(21,722 posts)
7. When did this sovereign citizen crap start?
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 06:34 PM
Jul 2017

What a bunch of crap. Had to laugh at the guy screaming for the police, and they tell him we ARE the police.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
8. Quite a while
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 06:42 PM
Jul 2017

It is a malignant branch of "you don't have to pay the income tax" school of thought that's been around since the beginning of the federal income tax at least.

They should claim it as their religion, and they'd get wider support from sympathetic crazy people.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,352 posts)
10. Maddow did a very informative piece on it. It's tied with the goofy militia nutbars
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 12:23 AM
Jul 2017

The posse comitatus movement




Not to be confused with...

VOX

(22,976 posts)
11. Fake plates: "No driver license or insurance required" and "Not for commerce-private mode of travel"
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 07:35 AM
Jul 2017

Here's a good example of a sovereign citizen's character:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/03/21/sovereign-citizen-christopher-byrne-indicted-federal-crimes
Christopher Byrne, a felon and self-proclaimed sovereign citizen — was indicted by a federal court on March 8, 2017 He is charged with illegally possessing weapons and ammunition, which police discovered when they pulled him over in a mall parking lot in Greenwood, Indiana.

Byrne was in a vehicle with a non-state issued license plate that read: “PRIVATE,” “No driver license or insurance required,” and “Not for commerce-private mode of travel,” terms commonly used by sovereign citizens. Byrne refused to provide a license or identification to the officers and claimed he was a sovereign national.

During a search of his automobile police found a loaded rifle, 100 rounds of ammo and an extended clip. They also discovered waters bottles filled with bleach and ammonia, ingredients that can be used to make a bleach bomb.

Police arrested Byrne for habitually violating traffic regulations. This is “any person who, within a 10-year period, accumulates two judgments resulting in injury or death”.

Law enforcement also suspected Byrne of planning to perpetrate an act of domestic terrorism. They initially assumed his target was Greenwood Mall, but now suspect that police themselves were his real target.
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