• saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    4 days ago

    Funnily enough, this flag …

    …is used by anti-government “cookers” and sovereign citizens.

    Why? Dunno. It’s for a ship registered as part of the Australian merchant navy. Cargo ships, cruise liners, etc.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      Sovereign citizens have a weird obsession with archaic naval law (or their envisioning of it)

      • FireTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Admiralty law, and it stems from it being one the few areas of jurisdictions covered by federal courts per Art 3 sec 2 of the US Constitution.

    • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      Probably because sovereign citizens beliefs are defined by believing the very first piece of info they come across and then blocking out all other conflicting info for the rest of their life.