I honestly don’t know who these people are (below). There is not much on the Net except in chats.
The string of videos resembles an episode of “Dr. Who.” But what’s the plot? Aliens have taken over the bodies of antivaxx activists in Liverpool? Or antivaxxers have uncovered an alien conspiracy by the National Health Service to kill off old people under the guise of administering treatment for Covid? And where’s The Doctor?
Sifting through these videos, it seems members of this British group are invoking vague, common-law authority to take the law into their own hands. Or else to ignore laws they don’t like. Or something. Wonkette spotted stirrings in 2016.
Did you know they’ve “arrested” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson? No? Me neither.
Our “sovereign citizens” last December tried to submit a fake slate of electors to the National Archives:
Copies of the documents obtained by The Arizona Republic show a group that claimed to represent the “sovereign citizens of the Great State of Arizona” submitted signed papers casting votes for what they want: a second term for Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Mesa resident Lori Osiecki, 62, helped created a facsimile of the “certificate of ascertainment” that is submitted to formally cast each state’s electoral votes as part of an effort to prevent what she views as the fraudulent theft of the election.
But hey, no British accent, Lori, no backstage pass to The Doctor’s Tardis.
If there is any saving grace to this lunacy, it is that at least Americans do not have a monopoly on crazy. Oh, and they are not heavily armed. But is it just a matter of time before this behavior makes it across The Pond to our own antivaxxers who are?