Sovereign citizen jailed after kidnapping her own child from park
www.abc.net.au
A sovereign citizen who abducted her child in a hire van before she was intercepted by police en route to a supposed "sovereign state" is sentenced to two years' jail.

Didn’t work out as she’d hoped I guess ?

The trial heard the “statement of notice” the woman handed to the care worker asserted she was “a living being sovereign to this land” who “hereby renounce and reject my former engagement with the courts… and their kronies (sic)… and disregard all orders as null and void”.

Throughout the trial the woman regularly interrupted the proceedings, resulting in Judge Haesler finding her in contempt of court.

“[She] repeatedly interjected, directed personal insults to me and others, harassed witnesses (including her own [children]), refused my directions and orders and talked over me excessively,” Judge Haesler wrote in a scathing judgement.

  • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Tom Tanuki created a two-part summary of the two main Aussie SovCit movements:

    p1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea_7jUU489g

    p2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrcWtuLkdA

    A couple of interesting notes I remember:

    • Being more closely tied to British monarchy, our versions seem to stem more from the Canadian variant than the US, but there’s def plenty of crossover.
    • Not sure if this is a big factor in the US movement too, but there’s a big focus on the family courts, so plenty of them are disenfranchised divorced parents who lost custody and have engaged in collective harassment of ex-partners and legal workers like judges.
    • One of the main SovCit movements comes from an indigenous liberation perspective. It’s just as much a scam and stands in the way of actual resistance efforts, but there’s more to it than just ultraliberalism (e.g. US Libertarian ideology) and contrasts with the US SovCit White supremacy tones you mentioned.