The sad thing is, they often do. Especially cops. We keep seeing that from posts people put up in this community.
There’s a lot of “I don’t get paid enough to deal with this shit” when it comes to interacting with SovCits, so they get their way a lot more often than they should.
Also, while systemic racism and classism is very much a real thing, the court system on the ground is intended to be equally accessible within the context of the (deeply flawed) laws that govern it, and many of the people working in it want to do the right thing. You have a right to represent yourself, and there is a long jurisprudence (not yet eviscerating by the ThomasRoberts SCOTUS) of courts digging deep to find anything adjacent to reasonable within the garbage that unrepresented litigants have been known to file. That same spirit will guide some reactions to SovCit bullshit.
The SovCits then view the resulting actions (documents “filed,” complaints dismissed but without prejudice, default judgments against non-appearing opponents, etc. etc. etc.) as evidence that they’re actually on the right track, and not simply being humored out of an abundance of caution by the authorities. A few of them post it to social media, and boom: THE PROPER PAPERWORK really works! It’s still mostly just grifters telling lies, but enough truthiness sneaks it in to provide that veneer.
The sad thing is, they often do. Especially cops. We keep seeing that from posts people put up in this community.
There’s a lot of “I don’t get paid enough to deal with this shit” when it comes to interacting with SovCits, so they get their way a lot more often than they should.
Also, while systemic racism and classism is very much a real thing, the court system on the ground is intended to be equally accessible within the context of the (deeply flawed) laws that govern it, and many of the people working in it want to do the right thing. You have a right to represent yourself, and there is a long jurisprudence (not yet eviscerating by the
ThomasRoberts SCOTUS) of courts digging deep to find anything adjacent to reasonable within the garbage that unrepresented litigants have been known to file. That same spirit will guide some reactions to SovCit bullshit.The SovCits then view the resulting actions (documents “filed,” complaints dismissed but without prejudice, default judgments against non-appearing opponents, etc. etc. etc.) as evidence that they’re actually on the right track, and not simply being humored out of an abundance of caution by the authorities. A few of them post it to social media, and boom: THE PROPER PAPERWORK really works! It’s still mostly just grifters telling lies, but enough truthiness sneaks it in to provide that veneer.