There has to be some basis for people claiming that the laws of the land do not apply to them, but for the life of me, I can’t begin to understand it.
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Magical thinking. Lawyers talk legalese and they always seem to get their way so that’s where their power must lay. Therefore, if one says the right combination of magic words then they can generate any result they choose.
It has similarities to the cargo cults, where certain groups of barely contacted people thought that the European people’s power to obtain stuff came from knowing how to attract those flying dragons carrying all the goods in the sky. Therefore they began undertaking all manner of ritual to try and attract the planes themselves. It was rooted in a total misunderstanding of what’s actually happening.
So we end up with a group of people spouting gobbledygook at cops and judges because they’re trying to ape something they don’t really understand… And they’re arrogant enough to believe that they do know.
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