Jan. 6 rioter who used sovereign citizen 'gobbledygook' at trial is found guilty
Jan. 6 rioter who used sovereign citizen 'gobbledygook' at trial is found guilty
A jury convicted Taylor James Johnatakis on multiple charges, including assaulting officers. The federal judge overseeing his trial grew frustrated with his arguments.
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you can be a sovereign citizen any time you want by renouncing your citizenship. it's a real thing you can do and it has a process. and then you're completely fucked.
You generally can't be made stateless, from my understanding, so unless you have dual citizenship, I doubt you could.
not according to Wikipedia
the U.S. does not prohibit its citizens from making themselves stateless, but the State Department strongly recommends against it,
Strong Douglas Adams energy here
Aside from the fact that this isn't true for people giving up their citizenship (in the US at least), it's especially not true around the world. Lots of people are born stateless or made stateless during conflict or upheaval.
That's not the same as intentionally making yourself stateless though.