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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCouple jailed in TN over handwritten license plate claim they’re following God’s law
Have some respect! They're totally different than those sovereign citizens nutcases.
The couple had come to Tennessee, where land is cheaper, to build a natural or cob house using soil, straw, and fiber.
Cob is where you put pieces of trees, you cut them up with a chainsaw, and it looks really cute, Eshleman told the Jackson Sun in an interview. Its just a natural building.
Rosondich denied May 22 in court that he had identified himself as a free citizen, as police claimed, and Eshleman said they would never use that term or sovereign citizen to describe themselves because theyre not citizens.
What we are, is were Americans, Eshleman said. What we did, is we did Expatriation Act of 1868 What we did is we took our citizenship and we got rid of it. Were expatriated from the United States.
Police arrested the pair because they refused to sign the citation, and they remain jailed on $10,000 bond.
Rosondich described himself as an illegally oppressed non-citizen, saying he held innate private rights.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/19/couple-jailed-in-tn-over-handwritten-license-plate-claim-theyre-following-gods-law/
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Aristus
(66,509 posts)Freeloading losers...
obxhead
(8,434 posts)They're not citizens, let's send them back to the mother country. However, they first need to be bounced from prison to prison losing personal effects and priledges with every move.
Ms. Toad
(34,123 posts)Cobbled together laws that have nothing to do with what they are being asserted for. Challenging as all get-out to respond to because you couldn't just say, "this is nonsense." You had to walk through why each line was nonsense.
The only thing that surprises me about this couple is that it is apparently a hot news item...Couples like them were a dime a dozen about 15 years ago when they kept landing on my desk.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)for a while, at the taxpayers' expense.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)What Would Jesus Drive?
arcane1
(38,613 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Congress's power to legislate for implicit expatriation of Americans was later heavily restricted by the 1967 case Afroyim v. Rusk, which concluded that natural-born Americans cannot be deprived of citizenship by any means except a voluntary renunciation in the presence of a consular official. Associate Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion extensively discussed the Expatriation Act of 1868, including the history of proposed amendments to it.
They've got the voluntary renunciation down, but would have to travel abroad to find a consular official.
edit: And once they did that, they'd be stateless, and thus ineligible to re-renter the U.S.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)they couldn't pass without proper passport? Better than jail and cheaper. They would be required to provide their own health care, living expenses, utility bills and such. On the other hand they would remain a pain in the ass.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)"The disciples were all in one Accord."