Comment on 'Sovereign citizens' sentenced to prison term in Western Australia for defiance of court order
eureka@aussie.zone 5 days ago
I’m late to the thread but shout out to Tom Tanuki’s deepdive into the surprisingly unique world of the Aus SovShit movement.
Nath@aussie.zone 5 days ago
It’s taken all day, but I’ve managed to listen to this in the background at work in between stuff.
I finally got to the end, and realise there’s a part 2! Oh man. I’m not entirely positive I can take another hour of talking about these loonies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrcWtuLkdA
So far, the tl;dw is “These people are wrong. None of their bullshit actually works, and some have lost homes or ended up in prison over their idiot ideas”.
Which brings us full-circle to this article of two guys being imprisoned over their mistaken belief of being outside the law.
eureka@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Yeah part 2 is about a different subsection specific to niche indigenous groups trying to play the same kind of “well technically” game with fake laws instead of actual effective resistance strategies, so while I think it’s interesting too, it’s less relevant to these news stories we see so it’s alright to hold off on.
Yeah, interesting to see that the legal system (at least that judge) has finally stopped with the initial toleration of these SovCit-style claims. When the system ignores or shows the restraint to tolerate this flavour of SovCit pseudolaw, it can validate them and (as you pointed out) some have lost homes or ended up in prison over their idiot ideas. That really puts context into the judge’s quote below; it’s not just the harassment or gun-holding compounds to worry about, but the danger this delusional arrogance can do to themselves.