What is a “Sovereign Citizen?”
Vengeancia In the old days, Citizen with a capital “C” was roughly equivalent to “People.” However, in the modern era of The Matrix = fictional corporate jurisdictional overlay onto the land, calling oneself any kind of “citizen,” can be risky. More here about citizenship.
Real people operate pursuant to "law"; tokens operate pursuant to "legal."
You might want to think of “Law” as the study of how real peoples’ unalienable Rights get turned into civil and legal privileges by a crafty Elite who count themselves “in charge “and declare themselves to be the “sovereign.”
Sovereignty refers to the independent legal authority of a population in a particular territory, based on the recognized right to self-determination.[1]
SOVEREIGNTY – …By “Sovereignty”, in its largest sense is meant supreme, absolute, uncontrollable power, the absolute right to govern. [2]
For example, God has sovereignty over all creation. “He Who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords” (1 Timothy 6:15)
Only people, created in the image and likeness of God, have any claim to sovereignty. Seems to me a “citizenship” is like a “membership” in a club, for example, a fitness club. Flesh and blood people with unalienable Rights never give up our Rights just because we happen to have a citizenship in a club. We can never agree to stop being real people and turn ourselves into tokens on a Monopoly board. This is why our Rights are unalienable. Like our eye color, human Rights can never be taken from us. They are an ontological constant.
So really, just like Jesus observed, there are two ontological “things” being discussed: 1) a real flesh and blood man or woman, who is a lawful sovereign and 2) a legal fiction, which he or she may possess, which is a legal thing aka an entity. Both exist simultaneously. Forcing a man or woman to admit to BEING a citizen is like asking him or her to admit to being a sewing machine, top hat, or race car!
There are a lot of very bright patriots and others who are very knowledgeable re: the united states and the 14th amendment, etc., that miss this point.
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Further, why would you need a driver’s license, or any type of license, really, to make use of roads, except to permit cops, magistrates, etc., acting under Color of Law, to ticket and harass you? Read about the Citizen’s right to travel.
I’ve posted a number of articles lately here and here and here related to the so-called “sovereign citizens,” and the trouble they are causing allegedly to the so-called authorities. For the record, we are not “sovereign citizens” at Musicians 4 Freedom. We are FOTLs aka Freemen on the Land, aka, freemen/people and sovrans. Learn more about our lawful approach at Get Out and Stay Out of Jail.
Here are relevant definitions from Merriam Webster and the Etymology Dictionary–
Sovereign Citizen, like "jumbo shrimp", is an Oxymoron!
not being under the rule or control of another <she left home and became entirely self-governing and financially independent at the age of 18>
Related Words freeborn; delivered, emancipated, freed, liberated, manumitted, redeemed, released; unconquered, unruled, unsupervised; empowered, enfranchised; democratic, republican
late 13c., from O.Fr. soverain, from V.L. *superanus “chief, principal,” from L. super “over” (see super-). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Milton spelled it sovran, as though from It. sovrano. Meaning “gold coin worth 22s 6d” first recorded late 15c.; value changed 1817 to 1 pound. As an adj., attested from early 14c.; of remedies or medicines, “potent in a high degree,” from late 14c.
Here’s a typical blurb:
“The three Fairbanks militia defendants were in a federal courtroom in Anchorage on Monday, using attorneys to assert their constitutional rights before a presidentially appointed judge, a far cry from the Denny’s restaurant that their leader once declared to be his sovereign citizen courtroom.” Fairbanks Militia Defendants Face More Federal Charges.
Two facts jump out 1) using attorneys to assert rights and 2) sovereign citizen. First of all, God creates people and the government creates citizens. Don’t miss Voodoo Dolls of the Elite. Also, check out our take on IRS Fraud.
“The privilege against self-incrimination is neither accorded to the passive resistant, nor the man who is ignorant of his rights, nor to one indifferent thereto. It is a fighting clause. Its benefits can be retained only by sustained combat. It can not be retained by attorney or solicitor. It is valid only when insisted upon by a belligerent claimant in the flesh.” Read more.
Anyone who claims to be a sovereign/sovran/people should not be “re-presenting” himself as a citizen=subject or using an attorney! Have you researched the meaning of the word, “attorn?” Have you investigated the BAR? Rachel Barney, an associate of Shaeffer Cox and the folks up in Alaska also retained an attorney. Hiring an attorney creates consent. Read more here.
Bouvier’s Maxims of Law states, “He who consents cannot receive an injury.”
Also, a sovereign/sovran would not re-present him or herself, pro se. Real men and women, created by God, do not consent to be tokens in the Elite’s legal game.
Imagine a game of chess. All of the real people/sovereigns/sovrans are sitting around the game board; the citizens are the tokens on the game board, created by your opposition. If it’s Monopoly, then the tokens would be like the little race cars and thimbles, etc. The corp. dba the Govt. is like a winning chess player.
It’s THEIR game. The corporation dba the Govt. of the US of A is a PERMANENT PLAINTIFF pursuant to the common law, squatting on the American court system. They’ve been there so long, backed by the banksters and Elite, and municipalization into all the states and counties, that they’ve grown roots and convinced everyone they are legitimate. Peeps STAND UNDER their law, and then ask the ridiculous question, “Show me the law!”
What legitimizes the game? The peoples’ participation in it! Read more: The State: It’s Just an Act!
You can’t be half on, and half off the game board. You are either operating pursuant to the people/common law, or operating pursuant to the person/legal law. It’s a wicked game.
U.S. Persons are game pieces, just like in Monopoly
There are two sides to the coin. You have both: a real man or woman; and you also have a token=U.S. Person, which is actually a trust account with your name on it, a pawn created by the de facto corp. masquerading as the United States de jure govt. When you agree to BE this trust account, you have agreed to allow the corp. dba the Govt. of the US of A to control you.
Since you can’t be on the board and off the board at the same time, you have to choose. If you choose to be a token and play on their board, you are at a disadvantage since they are speakin’ the rules, the laws, the juris-diction. They are serving YOU the notices, right? It’s all pursuant to common law. The Constitution is based on common law. There’s no such thing as federal common law in the district court, lower case d and c because we the people BRING OUR OWN LAW, called a Claim, or Affirmation. We bring our own REMEDY, too, called a Fee Schedule.
Therefore, at M4F, we feel the solution for sovereigns/sovrans/people is to speak OUR law, the Truth. We DO NOT CONSENT to “appearing” in their game. Instead, we bring a case in our own court, pursuant to the 7th Amendment and the common law. Then, we serve THEM notices demanding justification for their coercion and harassment. More here.
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So, what the heck is a “sovereign citizen?” Did you know that the phrase “sovereign citizen” is not found in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence? In fact, the phrase cannot be found in any of the Organic Laws of America. Search and confirm this fact for yourself.
We, the people….right? Not, we, the sovereign citizens!!!??
Many Sovereign Citizens refer often to a manual called Redemption Manual 4.5. In over 500 pages, you won’t find either of the words, “people,” or “citizen.” So, what are they talking about?
For accurate information about the topic of sovereignty in America, please check out this Policy Document on UCC Redemption from the Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry. I don’t always agree with SEDM, but you’ll find reasonably accurate and thorough research there.
However, the word, “people,” is found throughout this nation’s founding documents. This is why Burt, myself, and others have concluded that this is the best word to use, currently, to describe the unique flesh and blood man or woman appearing subject to his or her common law court in “rerum natura,” who consents, (or chooses not to consent), to delegating his or her rights to a jurisdiction, thereby becoming a “citizen” of that jurisdiction.
In America, you delegate your rights to the corporate jurisdiction by agreeing to be the US PERSON, subject to statutes, rather than the real man or woman, subject to God, the people, and the common law. If you “appear” when you are called to the corporation’s statutory court, you have consented to their jurisdiction. Don’t be surprised if they treat you like a PERSON, their property. Don’t stand there and argue that you are a “sovereign!!”
Once jurisdiction is challenged, it must be proven. Read more here.
A sovereign only “appears” subject to a common law jurisdiction, which is subject only to God and the people. Therefore, the only court that a sovereign “appears” at would be his or her own common law court called for the purpose of suing someone who has violated his or her rights according to the terms of his or her Fee Schedule.
“All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.” Barack Obama, January 2011
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We also like the word, “Freeman,“defined in the Magna Carta. Read more about our Unalienable Rights.
Also, for an overview of just how complicated all of this can be to sort out, check this link.
Most agree there is a dual system between the states united under the Constitution, populated with PEOPLE, with authority directed from the BOTTOM UP, and the United States, headquartered in D.C., populated with U.S. CITIZENS = PERSONS, with authority directed from the TOP DOWN. Check out Do Not Consent: The Path to American Freedom.
All people have the right to be "people," and not corporations
While Burt, myself, and others, are of the opinion that the United States is a corporation operating in a similar manner to a PLANTATION, with owners and slaves., we are NOT members of the so-called “sovereign citizen” movement.
We share views in common with Sam Kennedy, Tim Turner, Winston Shrout, David Williams, and others in the so-called “restore the republic,” “sovereignty, and “freedom” movements, but we differ in some important aspects.
mid-14c., “pre-eminence,” from Anglo-Fr. sovereynete, from O.Fr. souverainete, from soverain (see sovereign). Meaning “authority, rule” is recorded from late 14c.; sense of “existence as an independent state” is from 1715.
The U.S. Code, including the income tax system, is a voluntary system predicated upon “citizenship.” People have the right to choose not to “volunteer” to be a citizen; in other words, people who are made citizens by virtue of their birth on the land (or naturalization) and by virtue of the fact that they become “subject to” the jurisdiction of the U.S., via the birth certificate registration, have the right to renounce their citizenship, at which point, they become “people,” with ALL UNALIENABLE rights restored as recognized in the Declaration of Independence and other founding documents.
“Our tax system is based on individual self-assessment and voluntary compliance.” — Mortimer Caplin, former Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Internal Revenue Audit Manual (1975).
What does is mean, “individual self-assessment?” It means that we, flesh and blood men and women, have the right to declare our independence from the system.
Barack Obama admits that we have the right to maintain that we do not consent, do not subject ourselves to, and are not any of the following: persons, individuals, residents, citizens, etc.
We feel that the phrase, “Sovereign Citizen,” is an oxymoron, like Jumbo Shrimp. I don’t claim to be any kind of expert in the constitution! I’m a musician. But this guy, Alfred Adask, is probably an expert! More of his work found here.
Check out Freedom School in Texas. I like Bill Thornton. But my favorite source for the most accurate scholarship on these subjects is SEDM – Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry.
“…you were coerced, by fraud, to join a system of perversion created by power people, not the little people, way back in 1776. This assured the King would get his treaty wishes fulfilled by you being the credit of the United States and its political subdivisions called States. Therefore, being a citizen you can’t set up a trust with the land or property you pledged as credit.” The Informer
Michael Badnarik is known and loved in the freedom community for his expertise in this area, as is Edwin Vieira. Really, there are far too many great researchers to mention by name.
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Clearly, the corporation is an occupying army, taking over this country, little by little.
Senate Document # 43; SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 62 (Pg 9, Para 2) April 17, 1933. “The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called “ownership”is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State.”
No matter what you call it, great patriotic people from all over this nation are fighting with the same goal in mind: restoring the republic. Many are quite competent and creative. I hear that Rod Class is on top of things; find his work here.
As Keynes, the author of central bankstering wrote: “…by this means, government may confiscate the wealth of the people and not one man in a million will detect the theft.”
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The percentage you’re paying is too high priced
While you’re living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he’s made on your dreams
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys by Steve Winwood & Traffic
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Lieber Code, General Orders No. 100 by Abraham Lincoln (04/24/1863) Section II, Article 31: “A victorious army appropriates all public money, seizes all public movable property until further direction by its government, and sequesters for its own benefit or that of its government all revenues of real property belonging to the hostile government or nation. The title to such real property remains in abeyance during military occupation, and until the conquest is made complete.”
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That says it all…..peace, Ven
