This seems to have massively taken off in Aus in the last few months, particularly after Dan Andrews one the Victorian election on a platform of “These people are the enemy, and I will make their lives hell”…
The sheeple/NPCs here call them “cookers”.
Essentially, not just SovCits, but anyone who doesn’t conform to/tow the party line…
To most of them, if they knew that I didn’t play along with their bullshit (acknowledgements of country, vaxx, not questioning stupid government/institutional decisions, etc), they would class me as a “cooker” and try to have me “cancelled”, too…
But yeah, the media campaign demonizing such people here is REALLY ramping up, and they’re no longer even bothering with facts - it’s just rumors and pulling unrelated things (opposition to the Covid bullshit, number plates, conspiracy theories, taxes) together to claim what “the enemy” believes…
I feel like they’re laying the groundwork for something much worse, but who knows, could just be a distraction, I guess…
The number of references in Australia to Waco, lately, and to Trump as some sort of “enemy figure” who will lead the breakup of the US/lead to another Civil War, is rather alarming…
TDS-by-proxy all over again…
We've just had something like that in Germany a couple of months ago. The government arrested a bunch of Reichsbürger (kind of sovereign citizens-ish). They made a HUGE orchestrated media circus. TV crews were present during arrests. Thousands of cops for a couple dozen arrestees. Claiming they were about to start an insurrection and bullshit like that.
That's just another day ending in Y in Germany. Whenever somebody dares to criticize the government the media and politicians throw all the usual buzzwords around to discredit people. They went full retard during the pandemic, even going so far as to call protesters "enemies of the state".
Oh yeah, wasn't that that "monarchist" """insurrection""".
Fuck, who would even want to be king of Germany at this point. Some descendent of Wilhelm is just thinking "this shit is sooooo not my problem."
Germany being German again. It doesn't surprise me that the guy who came up with the firebombing campaign against Germany... was German.
Sovereign citizens only get the hate they do because they're white. The most extreme sovereign citizen groups are Indigenous Australian communities (find me a white sovereign citizen who reinstated corporal punishment), but they are actively supported by the government.
The SovCits originate from America as far as I can tell, and over here, they earned the blowback against them with multiple shootings, putting liens on people's houses, being squatters, and being genuinely fucking crazy. Remember the Black Leftist who ran over all those white people in Waukesha? His entire defense was based on SovCit logic (Black SovCits typically call themselves Moors here, and usually claim that they are somehow foreign guests from an Islamic Caliphate they know nothing about). I honestly believe he drove through that crowd of children because he was already angry about a fight with his girlfriend, and was even more furious that people were walking in the street when he had a god given right to drive through them. A lot of them really are that crazy.
Isn't that the demon who pushed insane lockdown measures that caused 2 people to self-immolate in protest?
Y'all motherfuckers need to put that psycho out of power before he builds concentration camps... oh wait, MORE concentration camps.
I can't fucking believe I had to argue with Australians that concentration camps are not a solution to the problems they had with people being kept in hotels under squalid or abusive conditions. Blows my fucking mind.
There were times I genuinely worried for you Bamboozler. Literally watching videos from Australia and thinking, "I hope Bamboozler's okay and keeping his head down." You're countrymen appear to be insane. Helen Dale once said that Australia is the descendent of both it's prisoners and it's jailers; and that seems to be quite true.
Not that I can dispute your experience, but I have never heard that reputation of the sovereign citizen movement in the US. They are mostly quacks who think they can fight the IRS because "income tax is unconstitutional." Even the basic squatters are the rare variety.
To the extent that the public even know about the Waukesha tragedy beyond "an SUV suddenly attacked people on the street!", almost nobody knows he had any connection to those types.
I've honestly never heard of much blowback or reactions at all to sovereign citizens. Maybe it's a regional thing.
Maybe because I know them for being trigger happy and irrational.
Any SovCit would follow common law…which adheres to a non-aggression principle. If you are physically assaulting people you are not free from just punishment under common law.
The blowback is mostly institutional. Nobody even understood what the term "paper terrorism" meant until judges and police officers started getting harassed and threatened with eviction from false claims.
After that, there were several fairly notorious shootings and fights. One particular one occurred when a father-and-son duo got pulled over, and the son shot a cop to death with an AK after the cop walked his dad to the back of the cruiser.
Yeah the enemy of my enemy is not my friend. Sovereign citizens are the equivalent of batshit bandits in media
And the enemy of my enemy will very quickly become my enemy when he becomes a squatter in my garage, puts a lien on my house, and then shoots my dog for "attacking him".
I'm an American, I don't pay attention to other countries.
No, but seriously, cultural stuff like that doesn't always hit my radar, such as in this case.
Doesn't surprise me though; these globalist-aligned governments love to smear anyone who is on the side of liberty or individualism.
Also, what does 'number plates" refer to?
License plates. We call them “number plates” here…
Some SovCit people here have (allegedly) been replacing their license plates with ones saying “Private” or “Property of the Republic of X” or whatever… As some attempt at “rebellion” (or, more likely, to attempt to get around plate-scanners)…
The media keeps trying to make an example of those types, for whatever reason…
That is simultaneously based and retarded. So sovereign citizens in a nutshell.
they're basically harmless schizos
Until they start shooting at you, or squatting on your property.
A schizo is never truly harmless.
Until they shoot you after you try to get them to leave your property
What does Cookers stand for? I'm guessing it has something to do with Captain Cook who explored a ton of the Pacific, Americas, and bits of Australia. He died by pissing off Hawaiians.
In Florida there is the term Cracker and it's used openly and proudly by some. It weirds me out because the only real term I get is that I'm German and must be a Nazi.
You're living through what it was like being artsy and in Seattle. I kept my head down, and never mentioned my politics. The arts scene in Florida has some of the same lunatics, but I can also talk fairly openly with most friends without fear of reprisal.
These people made a whole wiki of us https://cookerpedia.org/wiki/Cooker
That's messed up
my mom asked me if i knew what one was for the first time last week.
she's been big on watching court cases lately...
Yeah it's been going on here for a while but ever since the Qld thing few months ago it's really ramped up there at least. And on the news sites lately
No one is "sovereign" unless they can wield force necessary to protect their sovereignty
Yeah I noticed this in Oz as well. they're so obvious with their foreshadowing.
I honestly think Wieambilla (the cop shooting last year) was all the event they needed for a “crackdown”…
Because it so happens that those involved were a) Christian, b) at least mostly white, and c) were “antivaxxers”…
This has all happened before, in this part of the world (Port Arthur, Bourke Street, Lindt Café, Christchurch) - I honestly dread to think what they will do this time, fml…
Yes, I have definitely (((nooooticed))). It’s because the movement is growing. The minute they claimed SovCits were “domestic terrorists” it validated everything about the movement that had previously made me skeptical.
Sovereign citizens are bad and retarded. They're like Fuds but deranged and often dangerous
Then you are bad and retarded by association, if you also reject a lot of what the Australian government has been doing
That's the level of logic they operate on