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Reply #60 - Jun 10th, 2024 at 5:59pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jun 10th, 2024 at 5:43pm:
Not at all - in our form of democracy, as opposed to some 'democracies' - our people are sovereign and possess the right to disempower government when it is wrong.


Your error - a variation of chimera's idiocy: "our people' are a highly variegated body of individual opinions - individuals who get to vote, to determine WHICH  opinions will be made law ( aka sovereign law). 

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However, to be a 'sovereign citizen' in the context that these people do, one is saying that he/she is refusing to abide by the rules commonly accepted by the whole - while still demanding the right to accept all the benefits of the society in which that person(s) swims (swim) like a fish.


Correct, except that law is necessarily enforced, not merely voluntarily accepted. 

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This, of course - has a direct link with those currently doing the rounds who are claiming 'sovereignty' to some past empire while still expecting to receive full benefits of this nation... it follows directly from such a stance that those individuals are not citizens of this state and thus cannot take advantage of the benefits of being citizens of this state, such as voting, sustenance, or even residence.


Correct, though black activists appeal to the concept of dual sovereignty - which amounts to dividing the nation via two sets of laws. 

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With privileges come responsibilities - that is the nub of the matter.


Agreed.....(biting my tongue....including responsibility of the sovereign government -  oh... never mind. )
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Reply #61 - Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:07pm
 
As sovereign people we offer limited acceptance of the right of government to do things on our behalf... but whenever there is a chain of abuses and impositions and exclusions - it is the right... it is the duty... of the people to remove such government, by any means necessary.

What we - the people as sovereign - do not possess is unlimited right to do as we wish, but are, instead, bound by the rules of civilised behaviour.
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Reply #62 - Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:19pm
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 9th, 2024 at 12:39pm:
The US constitution itself - or rather the obsolete 2nd amendment - aids and abets all the sovereign citizen ideologues.
Result: the greatest gun-death violence of any 1st world country.

You say sovereign citizens are aided by the constitution. Guns are a result and sovereign citizens have the greatest violence.
Or no you didn't say it.  tgd is not tgd. sjr balfn kdn lewyqpo
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Reply #63 - Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:26pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:07pm:
As sovereign people we offer limited acceptance of the right of government to do things on our behalf..


Moving you further in the direction of chimera's idiocy - "gibbersih" according to judges in Oz courts of law:

"As sovereign people" (your words)..... of whom each has his own opinion on what the law should be.

Restating your same argument in different words won't save you.

"We offer limited acceptance, etc.": no "we" don't, we fight in fraudulent elections (and shoot one-another in many countries) to try to get our own idea of law up, while the rich laugh all the way to the bank.   

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but whenever there is a chain of abuses and impositions and exclusions - it is the right... it is the duty... of the people to remove such government, by any means necessary.


Same old error : "the people" -  who are divided by fraudulent flat-earth economics which keeps  the rich laughing all the way to the bank.   

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What we - the people as sovereign - do not possess is unlimited right to do as we wish, but are, instead, bound by the rules of civilised behaviour.


You misunderstand the meaning of "the people are sovereign" , which means the people who are governed by their sovereign government.

Individuals can't make laws, governments can. 
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Reply #64 - Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:43pm
 
You have made no argument.  We, the people, will decide....
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Reply #65 - Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:51pm
 
George Washington gave people guns which made them sovereign citizens. George was slightly insane and was greatly divided. He didn't say that.
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Reply #66 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 12:40am
 
chimera wrote on Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:51pm:
George Washington gave people guns which made them sovereign citizens. George was slightly insane and was greatly divided. He didn't say that.


I have a big textbook in the second bedroom, awaiting to be read. I will try and see if your claims have any merit.
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Reply #67 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 11:23am
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:43pm:
You have made no argument. 


The individual doesn't make law, the individuals chosen to fill government positions in the legislature and courts make law. There is no such thing as a 'sovereign individual/citizen', sovereignty resides with government.

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We, the people, will decide....


Showing why "democracy is the worst form of government"; you simply can't refute any of the points made, and resort to your asinine comment above ("made no argument") - and you think you deserve a 'right' to vote....

Fact is 50%+1 of the people (not "we the people")  will decide in a 'democratic' election which laws are legislated.   The losers will have to wait until they can  try again at the next election, by which time the elected governement will have shown itself to be incompetent.

Modi (as did Obama a decade before)  actually had total control of Congress at the start of their reigns, but they failed to deliver for their supporters, hence lost support at the next election.  Repeat and rinse endlessly, politicians love it, and you blindly blame the government rather than the system which prevents governments from eliminating unemployment, improving public services, and ensuring housing for all. Sunak will get his just deserts soon, and the French are forced to choose the fool Macron again. 

Losers.
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Reply #68 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 11:46am
 
chimera wrote on Jun 10th, 2024 at 6:51pm:
George Washington gave people guns which made them sovereign citizens. George was slightly insane and was greatly divided. He didn't say that.


Wrong (leaving aside your idiocy). 

Washington was the first president of the sovereign US government. At that time most Americans had guns which were necessary to  defend the new self-proclaimed government of the USA from British imperialists, and for citizens to defend themselves against 'savages' in a frontier society, without police protection. 

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"The Second Amendment was originally introduced in 1791 by President James Madison. It was meant to give citizens the opportunity to fight back against a tyrannical federal government".  (and an overseas tyranny eg Britain).   

Apparently in 1876,   SCOTUS actually ruled that only people who were attached to "militias" had "the right to bear arms" (another story in the long saga of the 2nd amendment in US history)...so much for 'sovereign citizens'. 

https://mblawyers.com.au/history-second-amendment/#:~:text=The%20Second%20Amendm...



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Reply #69 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 11:56am
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 9th, 2024 at 12:39pm:
The US constitution itself - or rather the obsolete 2nd amendment - aids and abets all the sovereign citizen ideologues.

tgd :'SCOTUS actually ruled that only people who were attached to "militias" had the right to bear arms ...so much for 'sovereign citizens'.

Where does any sovereign citizen claim the ideology through the 2nd Amend? Now you contradict your first statement.

However, China's government repeats nonsense to make it more factual.  No sanity, just repetition.


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Reply #70 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 12:22pm
 
chimera wrote on Jun 11th, 2024 at 11:56am:
thegreatdivide wrote on Jun 9th, 2024 at 12:39pm:
The US constitution itself - or rather the obsolete 2nd amendment - aids and abets all the sovereign citizen ideologues.

tgd :'SCOTUS actually ruled that only people who were attached to "militias" had the right to bear arms ...so much for 'sovereign citizens'.

Where does any sovereign citizen claim the ideology through the 2nd Amend? Now you contradict your first statement.


All the current pro-gun, delusional 'sovereign citizen' ideologues in the US claim it, do try to keep up; they even regard the sovereign US government as their enemy.

The original US constitution (see the preamble)  was created by "We the Citizens"  to "form a more perfect union" (of the then 13 states), and to "ensure the common welfare..."

Now THERE's a contradiction: the 2nd amendment which was later added to the constitution,  has resulted in the highest rate of gun deaths in any 1st world nation.

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However, China's government repeats nonsense to make it more factual.  No sanity, just repetition.


Show us some  '"nonsense repeated by the Chinese government", (for whatever reason). 
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Reply #71 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 12:28pm
 
So crossing out the comment that you contradict yourself proves you don't contradict?

'All the current pro-gun, delusional 'sovereign citizen' ideologues in the US claim it'.
Where? You feel that saying anything becomes fact because you say it?  That's seriously insane.
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Reply #72 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 12:48pm
 
chimera wrote on Jun 11th, 2024 at 12:28pm:
So crossing out the comment that you contradict yourself proves you don't contradict?

'All the current pro-gun, delusional 'sovereign citizen' ideologues in the US claim it'.
Where? You feel that saying anything becomes fact because you say it?  That's seriously insane.


https://www.heritage.org/the-essential-second-amendment/how-does-armed-people-se...

In the United States, our constitutional system is premised on the theory (sic)  that, in a truly free society, ultimate power lies with the people and not with the government. But should the government forget this basic principle, the people maintain the practical power that comes with being armed for their own defense.

Madness, resulting from delusional  'individual freedom"/sovereign citizen ideology; I already explained to graps the "the people" (sic)  are self-interested sh*ts who need to submit to government and rule of law,  to avoid chaos. 
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Reply #73 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 1:05pm
 
People under the constitution by definiton are not sovereign citizens. Where do sovereign citizens claim their right due to the 2nd Amend? Why do you contradict youself and say the 2nd Amend doesn't give that right?
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Reply #74 - Jun 11th, 2024 at 1:11pm
 
Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jun 3rd, 2024 at 6:19pm:
Well - they do have a point - as much point as the Secessionist States seceding from the Union.... a Union entered into voluntarily can be broken...... and one entered into by one side involuntarily from birth is open to discussion at the very least......


Actually it can't. The Australian Constitution was written at a time the American Civil war was within the living memory of those involved in its writing and the preamble contains the words "...one Indissoluble Federal Commonwealth..."  to make perfectly clear that once a colony joined it was permanent with no legal option to leave.  This was probably one reason new Zealand opted to remain apart.

As for these 'sovereign citizens' the best way to deal with them is to give them what they want. Total separation from political and civil involvement. Of course this means that as they are not citizens they cannot access our welfare, education or healthcare services, have no call on our police and emergency services, cannot drive on our roads etc....they can be non citizens and enjoy all the perks that comes with it Grin 
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