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A lot of sovereign citizens are scammers who try to sell people fake legal advice.
Such fraudsters see Q followers, who now more than ever are disenchanted with government and the rule of law, as marks.
This self-promo was posted in the telegram channel of a major Q promoter: https://twitter.com/_maargentino/status/1352499314451476485
Such fraudsters see Q followers, who now more than ever are disenchanted with government and the rule of law, as marks.
This self-promo was posted in the telegram channel of a major Q promoter: https://twitter.com/_maargentino/status/1352499314451476485
It's likely this person is attempting to attract attention so that the members of this Q telegram will be interested and willing to pay him or her money to tell them how to operate without oversight by the US government and all the bad things Q theories says it entails.
This is just one small example, but I've seen this a lot, where sovcits try to recruit from Q groups--and I've seen the reverse, where sovcit gurus push QAnon to their followers.
Some of you might be curious about what this person is (probably) selling. A UCC-1 form? What's that?
This person is either offering to teach people a form of especially insidious harassment or selling absolute nonsense.
This person is either offering to teach people a form of especially insidious harassment or selling absolute nonsense.
In the real world, a UCC-1 financing statement is how one gives notice about their interest in a debtor's property--as a simple example, if you loaned a friend money and she offered her car as security, you'd file a UCC-1 to announce you could take the car if you weren't repaid.
UCC-1 forms are easy to file. This ease helps people who might not be legally savvy or able to afford a lawyer protect their monetary interests. Sovereign citizens often abuse this simple system by filing UCC-1 forms to claim ownership interest in the property of their enemies.
(Typically, these enemies are judges, prosecutors, town councilors, police officers, or employees at the county building that don't let them have their way.)
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2017/paper-terrorism The practice of filing fraudulent UCC-1 forms is called "paper terrorism" because the removal of even a lien is a complicated and expensive process that ruins the target's credit and has even driven some targets into bankruptcy.
Pretty much everywhere it is illegal to file fraudulent liens, but illegality and the threat of prison time does little to deter people like sovereign citizens who do not think the law applies to them.
It is possible this person is not trying to teach a crash course in harassment but instead is aiming to teach people how to exempt themselves from the law. Many sov cits believe that the Uniform Commercial Code contains "hacks" that will insulate them from legal consequences.
Sovereign citizens believe that when they sign papers, they are submitting themselves to the illegitimate federal corporate jurisdiction of the US government. They believe if they do this, the government can essentially have its way with them.
To get around their own imaginary rules, sov cits claim that if they write "§UCC-1-308" on papers they sign, they are revoking their consent to be subjected to laws they believe are illegitimate.
It is also possible that this person wants to teach (likely for a fee) Q followers about this bogus "method" of escaping US legal jurisdiction to get them started on the sovereign citizen lifestyle.
The combination of QAnon and SovCit ideology is not new. One example of the mixture is the story of Neely Blanchard, a very troubled woman who was sucked into Q and sovereign citizen conspiracies during a custody dispute and now is suspected of murder. https://m.soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-118-the-tragic-tale-of-neely-blanchard
Sovereign citizens are pretty funny when you see videos of them arguing with judges in court, but the ideology is dangerous and if vulnerable people in trouble financially or with the law follow sovcit "legal experts" to fix their issues, their problems often get worse.
The greater invasion of sovereign citizen thought into QAnon circles that we're seeing now is likely going to make the bad situations of people dislodged from reality a whole lot worse.
