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By Larry Rulison Updated 7:41 pm, Saturday, August 6, 2016
ROTTERDAM State Police said they had to break into the car of a Schenectady man who became uncooperative during a traffic stop ...
Troopers .. say that when they pulled over Noel T. Parson, 27, for speeding, he refused to roll down his windows or hand over his driver's license, declaring himself a "sovereign citizen."
... Parson had a suspended license ...
http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Cops-Schenectady-man-arrested-after-locking-9127009.php
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)having to spend the night in a government run facility.
Serious question: if the fire department shows up because the house is on fire, does a sovereign citizen refuse to let them on the property?
PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)We can bulldoze our own roads, purify our own water and hunt our own varmints!
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)Do you have a big shiny truck that can pump 60 gallons per minute?
PatrickforO
(14,593 posts)I don't think people understand a) how ubiquitous government really is in our lives, and b) how bad things would be if it wasn't.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)When a cop is pulling them over or April 15th is coming up. Otherwise, they consent to accept government, like the Tea Party guy ranting about socialistic health care and then grinning when someone compliments his scooter, "Yep, Medicare paid for it, didn't cost me a cent."
Megafuckingstupidity
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)built by the government.
Squinch
(51,022 posts)Skittles
(153,202 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Way to go, dude! Remember Malheur!
But especially sad that a black man would get sucked into this crap.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)make Forrest Gump look like Albert Einstein.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I take it as a warning that they're about to be an asshole.