Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko spotted this Accord in the South Bay parking lot yesterday with a list of citations for federal court cases where you’d expect a license plate.
Translated into English, those numbers basically express the sovereign-citizen belief that they don’t need a pesky license plate just to “travel,” that plates are only for vehicles engaged in driving, which is the commercial transportation of goods for sale, not for sovereign citizens enjoying their natural right under the 14th Amendment to go about freely and unhindered by officers of the corporation that replaced the US of A.
Specifically, the first case, the one starting with a 5, is a citation for Marbury v. Madison, the 1803 case in which the Supreme Court said courts could strike down laws and executive decrees they find unconstitutional. Wouldn’t seem to have much to do with the notion of “license plates” but sovereign citizens have always shown an amazing ability to stretch something’s meaning to cover whatever they want to do – in this case, their supposed right to determine which laws are legal…