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Expert Expertologist
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Location: Florida
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Sovereign Citizen exchanges gunfire with police.
A Texas man pulled a gun when an officer approached him over an arrest warrant for traffic charges.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/07...zen-group.html More details on the legal comedy that resulted in the arrest warrant. http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/07...tout-with.html |
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Pixelated Reality | Alareth Does Art! Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak |
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From a traffic ticket for driving without a seat belt to an attempted capital murder charge in just under a year and 5 months. Slow and steady gets you the WIN.
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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Okay, did I miss something? What's this "sovereign citizen" group?
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"Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair." -T.I. |
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There is a long -- really long -- thread dedicated to this idiocy. Warning: reading some of the posts may make you dumber.
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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"Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair." -T.I. |
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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I got into an argument with what I would call an amateur FOTL the other day. I knew more about it than he did but he kept insisting the british NAVY owned my Jaguar because it took a boat across the ocean to get here from England.
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“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Looks like Bert Gummer, doesn't he?
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Enturbulator Extraordinaire
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I love this line:
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I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. Trudeau A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black. |
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To paraphrase an old truism: "A man who is is own sovereign has a fool for a subject."
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"...The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them -- the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status." - Carl Sagan
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"Don't be too offended by the likes of him - I hear he doesn't even own ascots." -JoeyDonuts "I must be more tired than I thought. Howie, you are starting to make sense." -MG1962 "You're a mean old evil cynic. And mean." Halfcentaur |
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I've wondered if this guy arrested in Utah was not revealing his identity because he's a FotL kook. Don't have enough details to go on.
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"So, they laugh at my boner, will they? I'll show them! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!" -- The Joker, Batman #66 |
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Obviously, that means cats are indeed evil and that ownership or display of a feline is an overt declaration of one's affiliation with dark forces. - Cl1mh4224rd |
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Bow Tie Daddy
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"Don't be too offended by the likes of him - I hear he doesn't even own ascots." -JoeyDonuts "I must be more tired than I thought. Howie, you are starting to make sense." -MG1962 "You're a mean old evil cynic. And mean." Halfcentaur |
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"So, they laugh at my boner, will they? I'll show them! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!" -- The Joker, Batman #66 |
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"an exchange of gunfire" sounds so polite.
"you first" "no, after you" "please, I insist." "Alright, if you insist." BANG BANG |
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That's odd. That's very odd. Wouldn't you say that's very odd?? |
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If that was your name, and you did not pick porn as a career, you are obviously going against the law of the universe.
Fotl'ers love to talk about the universal laws that govern us all, while apparently spitting in the face of one of the most recognizable. If your name sounds dirty, you must be a porn star. Maybe that is what it is, some research would probably show us all Fotl'ers have names like... Richard Hardwick Mo Todger Phil Crackswell Dick Plenty ETC. And are just ****** off that they must choose a career they don't want. |
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I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. Trudeau A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black. |
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NWO Litter Technician
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Well, it quite obviously sounds better if you use it in its real form, i.e. Phil, of the house of Beavers.
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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from the one article:
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"The perfect haiku would have just two syllables: Airwolf" ~ Ernest Cline "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop" ~ Dara O'Briain. |
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Pixelated Reality | Alareth Does Art! Light travels faster than sound, which is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak |
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Illuminator
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Has anyone been able to use a freeman term to escape punishment? If they have I will eat my hat.
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NWO Kitty Wrangler
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Obviously, that means cats are indeed evil and that ownership or display of a feline is an overt declaration of one's affiliation with dark forces. - Cl1mh4224rd |
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I've always believed that cluelessness evolved as an adaptation to allow the truly appalling to live with themselves. - G. B. Trudeau A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Kay, Men in Black. |
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NWO Litter Technician
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I can see that happening once. However, I assume that instead of an "Oops, I really screwed the pooch there but got lucky" -type of a learning experience, Freeloaders take that as a vindication of the FOTL insanity, which means they'll soon be in courts again, trying to pull the same
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, doesn't work that way. I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips
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This caught my eye:
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NWO Kitty Wrangler
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I imagine it went down something like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bLR04OkC-I&t=2m38s ...just with less pistol exploding. |
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Obviously, that means cats are indeed evil and that ownership or display of a feline is an overt declaration of one's affiliation with dark forces. - Cl1mh4224rd |
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