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Sovereign Citizen.
They believe traffic laws apply only to commercial vehicles. They don’t get insurance or proper registrations and often use fake plates.
UCC is “Universal Commercial Code” which they use to justify their exemption.
Youtube has lots of videos of them interacting with cops and it almost always ends badly.
I would avoid them, not a joke. But a call to the police might be a good idea.
davidual-
Sovereign Citizen.
Condolences on having one of these in your life. I’ve come to the working conclusion that it’s a confluence of an undiagnosed mental illness/dysfunction/trauma, and a wildly incomplete/naive misunderstanding of the nature of laws and power in society.
Are human laws arbitrary? Yes, by definition. Can you opt out? No, by definition laws are imposed forcefully on their subjects, with or without their consent. Are there specific series of words that you can say to maneuvre around certain laws? In principle yes however these words and concepts are themselves specified by other laws within the same legal system. What if I think the jurisdiction doesn’t apply to me? Then you need to construct a legally logical argument using the same legal system to prove that it doesn’t apply to you; failing this, you need another jurisdiction that’s willing to agree with you and protect you.
All of the above is rational and routine within the legal world, but unless a person is a lawyer they’re unlikely to know how to apply what, when, and where.
Laws are worth the paper they’re printed on unless people follow them. They’re also like spiderwebs, catching the small insects but not doing a thing to more powerful animals intent on moving through.
Leshaches
What's going on here? The owner has another car which is plastered with equally strange wording which I hope to capture soon...