Guns, Cows, and the BLM

That's also why he has that bit about DBA RYAN C BUNDY, trying to say that anything the government has against the "corporate person" of Ryan Bundy doesn't apply to him because he's performed the correct magic ritual.

Also a marker for some of them: odd punctuation. David Wynn Miller (a.k.a :David-Wynn: Miller) is one of the most vocal proponents of it, via his website, but there are a bunch of variations. The basic idea is that same as OG_slinger explain for the all-caps/all-lowercase names: the names set off with colons refer to the "natural man", though there are several variations on how it's supposed to work. Jared Loughner, the man who attempted to assassinate Representative Giffords in Arizona, was prone to similar rants about grammar. The African-American sovereign citizen groups often append "Bey" or "El Bey" to their names, with different reasoning but the same intent.

The Bundy's Latter-Day-Saints-splinter-group-flavored version of sovereign citizen beliefs seems to confine the grammar shenanigans to his weird "i; ryan c, man" naming convention. At least in this document.

The “idiot of the ‘Legal Society’” bit is new to me, though by "Legal Society" he seems to be referring to the Bar Association. Which he calls the BAR Association, presumably due to the sovereign citizen belief that "bar" is an acronym for "British Admiralty Registry" or "British Accreditation Registry". (This is false1) They believe that the bar associations are a corporation that secretly took over the law--details on how this is supposed to work vary.

Spoiler:

1. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...

"whole body of lawyers, the legal profession," 1550s, a sense which derives ultimately from the railing that separated benchers from the hall in the Inns of Court. Students who had attained a certain standing were "called" to it to take part in the important exercises of the house. After c. 1600, however, this was popularly assumed to mean the bar in a courtroom, which was the wooden railing marking off the area around the judge's seat, where prisoners stood for arraignment and where a barrister (q.v.) stood to plead. As the place where the business of court was done, bar in this sense had become synonymous with "court" by early 14c.

What a bunch of loonies.

Loonies who have actually murdered law enforcement and government officials.

It's kinda why they're on the top of the domestic terrorism threat list. Good thing there's only a couple hundred thousand of them...

OG_slinger wrote:

Loonies who have actually murdered law enforcement and government officials.

True. But I'm sure sympathizers responded with "Blue Lived Matter" when that happened.

DSGamer wrote:

True. But I'm sure sympathizers responded with "Blue Lived Matter" when that happened.

Everybody know terrorists can only be brown or black people...

OG_slinger wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

True. But I'm sure sympathizers responded with "Blue Lived Matter" when that happened.

Everybody know terrorists can only be brown or black people...

White people reserve the terms 'revolutionary' and 'mentally ill'.

I remember both of those being used by my parent's generation to describe the Black Panthers...

Robear wrote:

I remember both of those being used by my parent's generation to describe the Black Panthers...

Yeah. It's interesting and often more than a bit terrible how people tend to 'other' each other to different degrees, and how that changes over time.

"Revolution" is great when *we* do it, but terrible when *they* do it against us.

"Mentally ill" is much more complicated because some types of mental illness can lead to violent behavior and even be indistinguishable from ideologically motivated behavior. Mentally ill people can fixate on particular beliefs. I tend to think that that term is more often legitimately used. And in the US, the collapse of the acute mental health care system has led to a lack of training for police officers, and that leads to violent incidents being recorded in such a way as to prevent the officer from being seen as having killed or injured a delusional person. We literally have created a system where symptoms and actions are taken at face value without responsibility for the ones with the guns to understand the actual situation they encounter.

However, it's often used in the US to excuse Whites from their violent actions, but denied as an excuse for minorities. A violently delusional White schizophrenic will be, sadly, mentally ill, and need to be confined for their own safety and that of those around them. A violently delusional Black schizophrenic will be vilified as an animal who gave into his basest instincts, and who needs to be put away and punished to protect society.

I suspect it's all tied to the long held belief that poverty == immorality, and that mental illness is the result of a horrible upbringing or an immoral, genetically weak pedigree. We still carry the baggage of pre-20th century beliefs (some people still believe mental illness is caused by demons, for example, and demonic possession is only possible if the victim is morally weak).