account. Each account is allegedly organized as a trust or a corporation, and sovereign citizens believe that if you can legally separate this man” account from your person, you can use “straw the money for your own purposes and put yourself outside the reach of the law. Sovereign citizens believe evidence for their theory is found on the birth certificate itself. Since most certificates use all capital letters to spell out a baby's name, sovereign citizens claim the all-capital DOE” (for example) is actually the name of the corporate shell identity, or “JOHN "straw man," while Doe” is the baby's real, name. Sovereign citizens “John “flesh-and-blood” believe that legal documents utilizing capital letters, such as a person’s state-issued driver's license, marriage license, car registration, criminal court records, and correspondence from the IRS, all pertain to the corporate shell identity, not a person’s real, sovereign identity. This belief that official government documents with names in all capital letters refer to the man” is “straw the reason many sovereign citizens deny that they are the person named in court documents. The man theory” also underlies sovereign citizens’ reliance on the Uniform Commercial Code, “straw since they see most legal matters as financial transactions. Sovereign citizens create their own driver’s licenses and include their thumbprints, usually in red ink, on documents to distinguish their and blood” person from the man.” When writing their names, they often add “flesh “straw punctuation marks like colons or hyphens. The Redemption Scheme The Redemption Theory leads to sovereign citizens’ most prevalent method to defraud banks, credit institutions, and the U.S. government: the Redemption Scheme. In essence, the Redemption Scheme involves extorting money from the U.S. Treasury Department by issuing bogus instruments they call drafts” to pay off debts or make purchases. The redemption “sight process has two essential steps. First, the sovereign files a UCC Financing Statement against the
account. Each account is allegedly organized as a trust or a corporation, and sovereign citizens believe that if you can legally separate this “straw man” account from your person, you can use the money for your own purposes and put yourself outside the reach of the law. Sovereign citizens believe evidence for their theory is found on the birth certificate itself. Since most certificates use all capital letters to spell out a baby's name, sovereign citizens claim the all-capital “JOHN DOE” (for example) is actually the name of the corporate shell identity, or "straw man," while “John Doe” is the baby's real, “flesh-and-blood” name. Sovereign citizens believe that legal documents utilizing capital letters, such as a person’s state-issued driver's license, marriage license, car registration, criminal court records, and correspondence from the IRS, all pertain to the corporate shell identity, not a person’s real, sovereign identity. This belief that official government documents with names in all capital letters refer to the “straw man” is the reason many sovereign citizens deny that they are the person named in court documents. The “straw man theory” also underlies sovereign citizens’ reliance on the Uniform Commercial Code, since they see most legal matters as financial transactions. Sovereign citizens create their own driver’s licenses and include their thumbprints, usually in red ink, on documents to distinguish their “flesh and blood” person from the “straw man.” When writing their names, they often add punctuation marks like colons or hyphens. The Redemption Scheme The Redemption Theory leads to sovereign citizens’ most prevalent method to defraud banks, credit institutions, and the U.S. government: the Redemption Scheme. In essence, the Redemption Scheme involves extorting money from the U.S. Treasury Department by issuing bogus instruments they call “sight drafts” to pay off debts or make purchases. The redemption process has two essential steps. First, the sovereign files a UCC Financing Statement against the
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