'Sovereign Citizens' Claim Immunity From IN, Federal Law

[One Voice]

Holy crap!


INDIANAPOLIS -- Fed up and fired up, an increasing number of Indiana residents who have lost confidence in the government are going to extreme measures to claim they are "sovereign citizens."

By doing so, residents contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using identification cards that show them as diplomats, 6News' Rafael Sanchez reported.

Moore and others said they draw their beliefs from the Bible and U.S. Constitution. Moore said all that has to be done to be exempt from U.S. laws is to file documents available online with the Secretary of State.

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[hobbit709]

1. Then they need to find their own "Sovereign" country.

Are there any unclaimed islands left?

[notesdev]

11. Greece may need to sell a few

[CanonRay]

2. They no longer drive on the roads, drink water from the tap

can't use FDA approved drugs, and can't fly on FAA controlled aircraft. Good luck with that.

[MUAD_DIB]

3. And anything that is sent to them via USPS gets a 1000% export fee.

[LiberalFighter]

16. I'm wondering if they are still going to pay the water and sewage bill?

If they are not then it will be easy to shut that off.

Are they going to continue paying property taxes because that is in support of the government. Otherwise, they stand a good chance of losing their home.

[Winterblues]

23. What would they pay with, Federal money?

:shrug:

[LiberalFighter]

25. Obviously, they haven't thought it out.

[dmr]

26. Wouldn't they need a visa for that? They can't vote either. Reminds me of Family Guy.

Either you are a participating & responsible American citizen or you are not.

If you're not, then don't step on the public sidewalks, lest you be jailed for illegal immigration.

Reminds me of the E. Peterbus Unum episode of Family Guy.

http://www.tv.com/family-guy/e.-peterbus-unum/episode/25465/summary.html

The town zoning laws won't allow Peter to build a pool in his yard. When he tries to get a permit, he discovers that his property is actually not part of Quahog, and therefore not part of the United States. Armed with this new information, Peter makes his land his own country, calling it Petoria. When Peter gets no respect in the United Nation, he decides to invade Joe's pool, which brings the U.S. Army to his border. The Griffins can only survive so long without water, electricity, heat, or access to the United States, and finally, Lois and the kids leave President Peter, along with Brian, to his third-world country. Peter finally repatriates only a week after seceding.

[Blue_Tires]

28. have to print their own passport, apply for a temp work visa for the U.S.

and can't breathe the air protected by that "BIG GUMMITT" EPA

[POAS]

4. They will soon hear a knock on the door

from a variety of government agents (ie IRS).

This should work out really well for them!

[Xipe Totec]

5. What a bunch of Peter Griffins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Peterbus_Unum

[Odin2005]

6. The stupid, it BURNS!!!

:banghead:

[hobbit709]

7. Stupid really should be excruciatingly painful.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. There have been 'sovereign citizen' groups around for decades. They're just more extremist

organizations. There have been a few nasty ones watched by the SPLC.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/return-of-the-sovereigns

"On Jan. 11, 2007, FBI Director Robert Mueller sounded a similar note in testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "The militia/sovereign citizen movement," he said, "continues to present a threat to law enforcement and members of the judiciary. Members of these groups will continue to intimidate and sometimes threaten judges, prosecutors, and other officers of the court."




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement

[MineralMan]

9. Morons abound!

[Heidi]

10. Schools, roads, electrical/gas/sewer utilities, law enforcement, fire protection, civil defense...

I certainly hope these ambassadors and their embassies aren't depending on any of these taxpayer-funded services.

[The2ndWheel]

12. You can't escape it

It's ubiquitous.

[rbixby]

13. So if these folks want to be foreign citizens...

Shouldn't they be rounded up and deported like the illegal immigrants they rail against so much?


But where do you deport these kind of morons to? Moronia?

[One Voice]

14. Kicking to expose the crazies...

This story just gets me.

Fuckin nuts.

My house is an embassy!

Um, NO it's not, dipshit.

JFC...:banghead:

[Solly Mack]

15. So they are using the US Constitution to proclaim their sovereignty from the US?

Because the government they seek sovereignty from gives them the right (through that country's Constitution) to do so? That's their argument?

[One Voice]

18. I guess

I don't know what they're thinkin/not thinking.
They're getting their papers from a state office too.

I am at a loss for words.

[Solly Mack]

20. They're idiots.

Some of them are potentially dangerous idiots.

[One Voice]

21. I know

I agree.

[Blue_Tires]

27. lol...forget it; they're rollin'

let them keep going...I'd love to see them try and make their own neighborhood into a sovereign country, for comedy's sake alone...

[Solly Mack]

29. It has the makings of a good comedy.

I wonder how they made it this long without winning a Darwin Award.

[WeDidIt]

17. Throw their asses in prison

Problem solved.

[One Voice]

19. lol great idea!

Then they wouldn't be on the streets or out in public.
Or on TV, where others will just get the same idea.

They're gonna multiply faster now!




:scared:

[Renew Deal]

22. They can build their embassies in taxpayer funded prisons.

;)

[One Voice]

24. yeah,

with lego building blocks. ;-)

[One Voice]

30. Kick

for the evening crew :hi:

[KamaAina]

31. Separatist native Hawaiians have been doing this for years

for example, they won't pay traffic tickets because the counties (divisions of the State of Hawai'i) aren't legal, etc. etc.

(They represent only a tiny fraction of native Hawaiians, who number about a quarter of a million statewide.)