I don't want to register my child, so instead a signed an affidavit and filed it with my local branch of government.

"I want all the rights of a citizen, but none of the responsibility!"

Right? My first thought was a sovereign citizen meant they simply want to exist without needing documentation to prove that they exist. But then I saw how complicated it got like they really want a passport? They really want documentation but they don't want WHAT exactly? I don't understand.

The sovcit arrests are hilarious. The Moorish black sovcits are some of the wildest. I'm in all their Facebook groups and the things they believe are crazy bonkers batshit.

I need to see this. Link?

So I guess enjoy spending like $300 for nothing.

Don't forget the endless victimizing by a unjust government that they refuse to recognize as legitimate. They really get off when that happens.

As a Sovereign Citizen they are not Subject to your rules Of proper grammar And spelling

What is with people doing this? Do they think it makes something more important? Seems like a trump thing. Or maybe it's from how Christians always capitalize "God". Idk.

I choose to believe that they had to google the spelling of those words - and then copied and pasted them in.

That's exactly it. They think they get a special state national passport.

Yeah they have a whole book about it called Word Magic. Here's an example.

Sovereign citizen is a term some people to describe themselves. They feel they should be allowed to live in and benefit from society without being subject to the rules or duties that go along with that. It is not a real status and has no legal basis. The groups like this person has joined are an echo chamber where they feed each other bad interpretations of laws and loopholes. When they inevitably end up in court they will agree the loophole applies. It never works.

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

Tl;dr is nutters/scammers who believe they can opt out of the laws/responsibilities of being a citizen.

As an aside, sovcits are not an exclusively US phenomenon. Most Commonwealth nations have some version of "freemen on the land" which is basically the same thing, though the specific details they fixate on may be different. I've also heard there's a German version as well.

Even in the US it's not exclusively MAGA-ish militia types or super fundamentalists. There's also the Moorish National strain, for example, which operates under the idea that the US Government is actually just a corporation operating under the sovereignty of an imaginary "Moorish Empire" in Africa, East India Company-style, whose existence is covered up by some kind of conspiracy

Idiots that think they know the magic words to make legal consequences for their bullshit disappear.

Of course, even if they did have a point with their conspiacist nonsense (they don't), they get humiliated in court every. single. time.

Am I being detained?

It Makes Them Sound Authoritative In Their Head

Unfortionantly, prangent formed.

Proportionally unfortunate, duh

Pretty sure you are not allowed to renounce your citizenship if you only have one. I'm guessing it is so at least one country is ultimately responsible for them.

I know there are still cases where the country doesn't exist anymore, but we are talking about people intentionally trying to abuse the system.