I have written several blog posts about the absolutely crazy bona fide conspiracy theory that so many American "sovereign citizens" believe, primarily summarized and detailed in this one.
Very brief summary is: They have concocted this ginormous theory (based on literally just a few words and short expressions in a few legal and some non-legal documents, isolated from their context) that secretly, behind the scenes, the US government is actually a "private corporation" and that citizens "contract" with said "private corporation" and that, moreover, you can game the system by knowing all of this stuff that's happening behind the scenes and using certain code words and expressions, a secret code, that lawmakers, judges, lawyers and law enforcement officials are secretly privy to and obliged to respect.
Their use of this "secret code" is particularly common when they are driving and stopped by a traffic cop. You can recognize them from the very specific and peculiar words and expressions that they use (and somehow expect the cops to understand and acknowledge.)
One thing I note in that last article is that a driver demanding a supervisor is not in itself, all on its own without any of the other stuff, a certain sign of a sovcit. However, it is something that they very, very commonly do, especially during traffic stops.
Because it's so common as to be almost ubiquitous, quite clearly this is something that they are taught to do, probably in the tutorial documents and videos that they learn this stuff from. I admit that I have never read these tutorials or seen the videos (except for a few short clips), but it's relatively clear that this is one of the things that they teach: Always demand a supervisor if detained by the police.
I have been wondering why they do that. What's the purpose?
I hypothesize that the tactic serves a dual role:
Firstly, it's a delaying tactic. Its aim is to waste as much of the cop's time as possible and make him frustrated. Most police precincts have a policy that if someone who is detained demands a supervisor, they ought to call one if practical. The sovcits (and sometimes other non-sovcit people) abuse this policy in order to waste time, make the cop frustrated and, perhaps with any luck, have the cop just think "oh, fuck it, I'm not doing this, life is too short" and let the driver go with a warning.
I have never seen a video where this tactic actually works, but it may well be that's part of the tactic.
Secondly, and more fundamentally, it may well be that this is actually part of the sovcit conspiracy theory: Perhaps they think that lower-level cops are usually not so privy and knowledgeable about the secret state behind the facade, nor know the secret code, and have no idea what it's all about because they have never been taught it nor joined the "club" that's the secret government behind the scenes.
So, I'm thinking that they might well believe that only higher-ups in the police forces, like supervisors, sergeants, sheriffs and so on are "in" on the secret, are knowledgeable of the secret government and the secret code, understand it and are obliged to acknowledge and respect it. Thus, if a supervisor arrives and the sovcit spouts the "secret code", the secret code words and expressions, the supervisor will understand and let him go.
Not that I have ever seen that happening either, of course. But I wouldn't be surprised that that's part of what they believe.
Quite often even if a supervisor does arrive to the scene and isn't letting the sovcit go, the sovcit will then usually demand someone even higher up in the chain of command (and while that will pretty much never be done, even if it were, they would just then demand someone even higher, ad infinitum.) I have the hunch that this is precisely because of that conspiracy theory: They believe that someone in the chain of command must be taught and knowledgeable of the secret government and secret code, even if their underlings are not.
(Of course in reality there is no secret government, the US government is not secretly a "private corporation" behind the scenes, there is no secret code, there's nothing like this secretly taught to judges and law enforcement officials. It's all a completely delusional conspiracy theory.)
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