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The weird rules they come up with always make me laugh. Red ink at a 45 degree angle?
It's like some incantation from a fantasy story or something. How do go so far down a rabbit hole that you think you have wizard powers that you can use by simply writing things in a weird way?
Like do they imagine the clerk is there with a protractor and is like "damn, it's 45 degrees, nothing we can do about this one!" Or is it like the clerk will go into a trance and be compelled by their magic incantation to throw the ticket out?
The thing is sovcits get little bits of truth, exaggerate them, and string a bunch randomly together. For the 45 degree thing, one way to revoke a will in some U.S. states is to clearly write something like VOID on it. To avoid not being clear enough, best practice would be big red letters at an angle across the text. But also, there are easier and more normal ways to void it.
Point bring, I feel somebody saw something like that and took away that red text + angle = get out of jail free. Which, no, that's not how law works.
Source: am US lawyer.
Is it possible that such shenanigans do sometimes work like a confusion spell? Like a clerk sees that, is legally obligated to review this under the law but can't, would have to give this to some other department or something and then it gets shuffled away and never processed? Like an "appeal to bureaucracy" or something haha.
So... cargo cult lawyering?
Have you seen the red thumbprint one yet? It's my favorite.
I can't stop thinking about the thumbprint!
I even made a comment wondering it's purpose hoping for an answer.
This seems to be the closest to an answer I can give you: https://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10942860/sovereign-citizens-movement
Even one of the researchers interviewed who specializes in sovcits doesn't know why exactly the fingerprint, but I've seen it lots in the groups.
What thumbprint one??
I imagine them carefully measuring it to find it's at 44.5 degrees and thus doesn't count.
That's the saddest part. They know the secrets, but lack the required accuracy.
It's like Vance-ian magic for lunatics.