More than a handful of New Zealand’s Sovereign Citizen associations have announced they’ve combined to form a political party that will field candidates in all electorates in the November election.
Calling themselves Sovereign Citizens of Aotearoa Taking The Initiative, the group is campaigning on a multilayered platform, spokesperson Knotten Umber told WWNews.
“Importantly, we will remove all forms of government interference in individuals’ lives apart from the funding thereof,” he said. “We will also give all freemen the right to consent only to reasonable laws and to have their birth certificates declared invalid as fake maritime contracts.”
The Sovereign Citizen movement stems from a group formed in the 1970s called the Posse Comitatus, often unfairly labelled as a white supremacist whackjob cult. The organisation’s own research showed that the US government had been secretly replaced in 1933 by a cartel to use citizens as collateral, secretly opening a bank account in each person’s name but withholding the PIN and operating under international maritime law instead of natural law. “The connection between berths and births, as well as shipping docks and courtroom docks is too much of a coincidence,” Mr Umber said.
SovCits around the world are now fighting back and asserting their freedom through tax evasion, unlicensed driving and posting overly long videos on social media, Mr Umber explained.
“We reject the corporate strawman identity completely,” he added. “Our aim is not to become part of the government, but as flesh-and-blood men and women under special notice, we’ll work from the inside to shut the corporate parliament down.”
When elected, SCATTI would also ensure the extension of government contracts with the Rio Tinto smelter. “Running out of tinfoil is not an option,” Mr Umber said.
Chair of the steering committee, Renee Gaide, was unable to attend the official launch function, having been laid low by an attack of non-geographically-aligned measles probably due to a flu jab, but said in a written statement, on parchment, that SCATTI would be happy to form a coalition with any interested parties and saw ACT, NZ First and NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party as “natural fits”.