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Rubes Fight Tyranny with White Privilege and a Farcical Justice System

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
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Portland, OR
Mom whose kids sang for armed occupiers in Oregon loses custody


The family headed west and performed for armed occupiers who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The kids sang patriotic and gospel music for Ammon and Ryan Bundy and their supporters.

The trip to Oregon made the Sharps famous. It also gave the family a distrust of government and law enforcement, Sharp said, referencing the death of rancher LaVoy Finicum at the standoff. Years before, one of Sharp’s eldest children had been taken away by the state after reports of abuse and neglect. And earlier this year, the state received tips that the children still living with Sharp were being abused.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,154
13,322
Portland, OR
Wow, I had no idea.

Bundy’s use of semicolons and insistence on referring to himself in lower-case letters are hallmarks of a crackpot legal theory favored by so-called “sovereign citizens.” These Americans believe that a nefarious cabal of secret authorities long ago usurped the true and legal government of the nation. The supposed infiltrators convert every American born into collateral for borrowing money from abroad, the theory goes.

Until a person goes through a process called “redemption” to abandon the all-caps version of their name printed on formal government documents, sovereigns believe, they remain a debt-slave to this shadow state. Once “redeemed,” sovereigns go to work defying the courts with documents like the ones Bundy has been submitting in recent months.

The anti-government radicals who promote this stuff say they are rooting their arguments in “common law,” and that U.S. courts operate on “admiralty law” that can’t be applied to people like Bundy. It’s a dangerous way to think, as reason magazine’s Jesse Walker told ThinkProgress in January, because it leads gullible people to put themselves in serious jeopardy.
The best part:
“People are throwing their lives away thinking they can be protected by these magic arguments, and then ending up in jail,” Walker said. “To me it’s the equivalent of somebody giving shitty alternative health advice. This is alternative legal advice.”

Naturally, there are people out there trying to make money off of all this. Sovereign Filing Solutionswill sell you a three-volume “Redemption Manual” for $330 plus shipping, fight to get you out of a child support agreement for $1,000, or take on your foreclosure case for $3,500.
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,154
13,322
Portland, OR
:fans:

Defendant Ryan Bundy, who is representing himself, addressed jurors directly. With a photo displayed to jurors of him standing beside his wife and seven of his eight children, Ryan Bundy described himself as a son of a rancher, member of the Mormon church and a family man who now "raises cattle, melon and children.'' Holding up a copy of a pocket Constitution, Ryan Bundy told jurors that he believes that governments are instituted by God for the benefit of man, and that "human law'' should punish guilt, "but never suppress the freedom of the soul.''
<edit> And now you can buy a tshirt!
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
41,154
13,322
Portland, OR
The other day there was a Jeep that was doing laps around the park across from the courthouse (where the protesters hang out) blaring "American Idiot" with a signs that said "Domestic Terrorism is not patriotic" and "The Bundy's are guilty as hell" :rofl:
 

kidwoo

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The other day there was a Jeep that was doing laps around the park across from the courthouse (where the protesters hang out) blaring "American Idiot" with a signs that said "Domestic Terrorism is not patriotic" and "The Bundy's are guilty as hell" :rofl:

It's the little things. The little things that remind you, not everyone in this country is a complete fucking shit whit.