• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    You don’t need to have a license to have a suspension on your license. I know it’s fucky, but the legal reality is interesting: a "suspended license is a state of legal reality where a person does not have the right to drive, even with a license. No one takes license away; it means that within a state that issued the suspension, your license is effectively invalid.

    • HonkyTonkWoman@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      In CA they can actually suspend your license if you do not have insurance. CA law requires all drivers to have uninsured motorist insurance, specifically because of all the people wrecking shit without their own insurance.

      I’m pretty sure I heard that you can be ticketed for a lack of uninsured motorist coverage, even if you don’t have a license or a car.

    • tyler@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      What software engineer enjoys acronyms? It’s all the business people that use them for literally everything.

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      2 months ago

      There’s a ton of self documented examples on YouTube. I suggest a comfy chair, and a bucket of popcorn.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Sovereign Citizenship is such a white thing.

    Black people already know that your rights are whatever the cop decides they are, and they’re probably not going to be deciding in your favour. They learn that if they don’t antagonize the cop, they might get close to the rights they should actually have.

    These morons think that they can get away with antagonizing cops and demanding that the cops respect some secret set of rights that the cops have most likely never heard of.

    I understand where this impulse comes from. If you’re not very smart, the things happening in court must seem like magic. Lawyers cite obscure precedents. There are rules about evidence. You can take the fifth and suddenly the lawyers have no power to make you talk. People with good lawyers get away with things when their crimes seem obvious. So, while you don’t understand any of this, there are people online who tell you the cheat codes you need to use in court. And, it’s not like it gets you out of real crimes, it just means that they have to give you the rights that you think you should have anyhow.

    What’s interesting is that this must never work. Like, I can’t imagine a Sovereign Citizen ever getting away with anything using these “cheat codes”. But, somehow, that information doesn’t seem to be making it back to these groups. You’d think that after years of this with a 0% success rate, the movement would eventually start fading.

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      2 months ago

      It can seem to work though. My brother-in-law tells stories about seeing his friends get out of tickets with their hand written IDs. To me those stories sound like cops stopping a car full of drunken probably armed rednecks in the middle of nowhere - cops who just want to go home alive.