Talk:Sovereign citizen movement

message: I question why the addition of the far left groups such as ANTIFA and BLM were conveniently left out of this report. This article clearly targets and depicts white conservatives as the main culprits and believers, all the while both ANTIFA and BLM were shutting out and denouncing the police and the overall respect for our laws. 174.231.208.195 (talk) 18:14, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have reliable sources that connect antifa or blm to the sovereign citizen movement? Schazjmd (talk) 18:18, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

text: I believe this person has gone astray and may be criticizing our content about January 6, 2021. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:56, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

text: If you're saying BLM/antifa/ACAB rhetoric led to the SovCit movement, I think there is a timing problem. —Tamfang (talk) 22:12, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless they're talking about time travel or backwards causation? TarnishedPathtalk 10:19, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased reporting of sovereign citizen beliefs  

message: I was skimming the page looking for things missing from the SovCit page I'm writing for a smaller wiki that mostly follows minor players in the American and Canadian movements and noticed that Russell-Jay: Gould was missing from the list of notable individuals. Russel took over most of David-Wynn: Miller's audience and Quantum Grammar after his passing. I also couldn't find a wiki page on Russell which kinda makes sense he has a tendency to drone on and on for hours blowing smoke up his own ass and revising the history of Quantum Grammar. 50.37.85.2 (talk) 19:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I am vaguely aware of Gould, IP, but I am not sure he has the sort of notability (yet) for a Wikipedia article.  I am not even sure he belongs in this article, but I certainly don't keep tabs as closely as I once did.  You could certainly prove me wrong by providing reliable sources about him!  Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 20:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing SovCit leader 

message: The last sentence in the second paragraph saying, 'Sovereign citizen arguments have no basis in law and have never been successful in any court' is more a truthy statement than a factual one. Not too many sovereign citizen ideologues have been successful in an american court however case law is more complex than a broad blanket statement. John Joe Gray is one example of a court removing an arrest warrant after a 15 year standoff with texas authorities.
This is not an attempt to justify the sov cit movement of course, however I'd like broad blanket statements to be clarified Filthy Peasant (talk) 09:30, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: John Joe Gray didn't win because of any sovereign citizen argument, but more because the DA thought fifteen years was enough. .Sjö (talk) 10:28, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

text: It's not subjective at all. There are no WP:RS which document a successful SovCit argument in court. Every "victory" they've claimed is because of actual legal considerations, the SovCit argument was never considered. For instance, SovCits love to claim Cliven Bundy won based on SovCit arguments, but that's flatly untrue: the case was declared a mistrial due to prosecutorial malfeasance. And that's how it always winds up, anytime a SovCit "wins" it had nothing to do with their nonsense. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 12:05, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Still, to say so, we need a reliable source saying so; otherwise it's a novel synthesis WP:SYNTH. Nø (talk) 14:35, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's WP:SKYBLUE. There is no synthesis, because there are zero examples of their strategies working. We don't have to prove there's no invisible unicorn in my backyard, the onus is on those who want to show the SovCits have ever had their strategies upheld by a court. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 17:56, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

text:  what are you talking about regarding SYNTH? The statement is already sourced and cited to the SPLC. OP: As others have noted this is an objective statement of fact not a subjective statement as you claim. VQuakr (talk) 18:06, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the first of the two sources cited at the end of the sentence warrants the statement "... have never been successful in any court". Never and Any are big words. The second source cited I cannot verify. Nø (talk) 15:00, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: They're very straightforward words. As I said, the onus is on those who want to show that there has ever been a successful SovCit argument in court. Just present one. Otherwise, this argument is WP:IDONTLIKEIT. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 18:06, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

text: that sentence and a section further on both clearly say 'Sovereign citizen arguments have no basis in law and have never been successful in any court' not 'movement'—blindlynx 00:38, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Sov Cit movement never been successful in court' is a subjective statement