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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Sovereign citizens are much more likely to believe in the supernatural. As a result, they believe that they can treat the law as a sort of supernatural force.
If they just say the right incantation, the right words in the right order, and attempt to reason with officers through explorations of ambiguous language, or at the very least passages that can be seen as ambiguous when not accompanied by surrounding context, then they can get out of anything.
They feel as if they can “out-logic” the law in a 4d chess game of intellectual gymnastics by spinning loose justifications that they’re special big deal because they’re smart, libertarian, “know the secret code” because they’re so wise, and are trained in the ancient ways of the arcane art of lawmancy.
Of course, this is nonsense. They’re just entertaining a fantasy in their heads that in all likeliness they saw on a tv show or a film, and thought it was cool, so they adopted it as part of their identity. Because that is what it is, a fantasy. It’s not how *any* of this works.
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