Sovereign Citizens

 This crock has been floating around for some time built on the myth that the gold fringe on the U S. flag in the courtroom is an Admiralty flag and therefore the judge has no authority on land 

I see a new variant is when pulled over, saying "Ian traveling, not driving " is supposed to immediately disable officer authority.  This used to be an ignorant white people's thing but it appears that as part of full racial equality, black people are increasingly buying into Sovereign Citizenship.

UPDATE: reader pointed me to a case called Hallstrom v. City of Garden City (9th Cir. 1993) where a woman pulled over for a vehicle defect claimed that did not need a driver's license to travel. The decision upheld that Idaho could require a license. Where Garden City got in trouble and had to pay damages was that they refused to release her on bail until she completed the booking process (I suspect she refused fingerprinting, which would be hard with a recalcitrant prisoner). Her rights as a "sovereign citizen" were never discussed. Her right to travel was never held to exceed state authority to require a driver's license.