• Dem Bosain@midwest.social
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    https://worldservice.org/onlineform.html

    “Carrying a World Passport enables you to identify yourself as an individual…”

    And it does literally nothing else.

    “Although the World Passport has been recognized by most countries previously, there is no guarantee…”

    Uhhh, yeah, I recognize that. It’s bullshit. Guaranteed.

    “The wealthiest countries, especially those in North America and Western Europe, are the most restrictive and may reject your claim of your right to travel, in violation of their human rights obligations.”

    None of us have been stupid enough to try using this in a 3rd world country.

    “…the fees are non-refundable.”

    Yeah, that tracks.

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      I think you did the quotes backwards. All your replies are greyed out like you quoted from the website and the stuff you quoted from the website is the normal color of typing in a post.

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        They’re quoting the scammer in a pretend conversation where the scammer reads their own website rules and provides subtext for the terms.

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      My favorite part is that they check a box that says they live within the USA. How can you be a citizen of the world and live in the USA at the same time? 😂

      You’d have to identify your property as “not part of the US”

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    Firstly, of course they’re not paying child support, because being a sovcit requires you to be an insufferable asshole first obviously.

    Secondly, I mean, I don’t condone shady businesses practices or grifting. But man, whoever running that is an absolute genius. Scammer for sure, and while I hate scammers to my very core, something about scamming these people in particular feels so very poetic. Someone should maybe tell them, but man… this is funny.

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      A shocking amount of sovcits seem to get into the deranged world of sovshit strictly because they want to escape child support. I’d be curious to see some data on that, because it’s gotta be like 40-50% of their gateways.

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    The address leads to National City Christian Church, but they rent to the “World Service Authority” which is run by someone named Gary Davis (not the excellent blues artist Rev. Gary Davis). Their site is at worldservice.org

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    Someone is laughing all the way to the bank. I want to know who it is.

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    Nooo! I need to read the whole post! How can they pay if no bank or credit cards? Monopoly money?

    Also, I bet the company selling those documents place a lot of ads in those fb groups!

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            Im wondering who is more stupid - people who subscribe to this way of thinking or me for not making bank from it

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                  I think it was far north? White woman, had the “private” plates and everything.

                  There was also a Maori lady in Auckland who was refusing to pay her rates, saying Auckland council didn’t have jurisdiction or something.

                  That was our very own flavour of SovCit.

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              Oh I just want to buy one of these with magic letters written in red ink at 45 degrees with some magic words and a thumb print. My bills are safe, I like having a credit score where I can rent. And buy things.

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        Lol “the open roads in America”.

        They’re not naturally occuring. Someone owns them (whether private or state) and to use their property, you have to respect their terms. Else I could just walk in your house and start using your kitchen, “It’s cool, I’m sovereign so your rules don’t apply to me.”

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        “Start traveling correctly and stop do ‘driving’ under a privilege.”

        This guy’s gotta be an M.D. at least. Or a card-carrying member of MENSA. But, like, sovcit MD and sovcit MENSA. So…neither.

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      I’m surprised crypto currency is not very popular with sovcits. It seems like something that aligns with their desire for lack of regulation.

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      Depending on the country, they might not get too much trouble. I am more interested to hear how it goes trying to come back.

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        I don’t think they’ll be able to leave - no airline is going to board them with fake docs.

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          I guess I was thinking of driving into Mexico. They often don’t even stop you. Coming back to the U.S. with some madeup papers would not be a fun experience.

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            And I spent most of my life so far in Australia so I default to needing an airline to go anywhere.

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            That’s where technically being a US citizen is nice. They will let you back in, but it’s going to be a more thorough I’d process.

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    I wonder why they don’t accept a letter signed with a 45 degrees slanted signature, verified by a thumbprint in red ink and accompanied by a silver coin for payment. I mean, you can even get a premium gold-embossed passport so it’s not like we are talking about scammers preying on the uninformed and weak of mind, right? Right?

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    And you can get one which identifies you as a citizen of the World Government if you’re feeling like beating the Illuminati lizard people at their own game. Or something.

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    This reminds me that I was following a crazy guy on LinkedIn who was into MAGA (despite being British) and every conspiracy theory going, and he said at one point he was a “Sovereign Citizen Of The World”. Didn’t think anything of it at the time, but he was managing to move around between countries so I guess he didn’t throw away his real passport yet.

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    Did you see the testimonials page?

    December 3, 1948

    Institute for Higher Studies

    Princeton University, NJ

    I AM EAGER TO EXPRESS TO THE YOUNG WAR VETERAN DAVIS MY RECOGNITION OF THE SACRIFICE HE HAS MADE FOR THE WELL BEING OF HUMANITY. IN VOLUNTARILY GIVING UP HIS CITIZENSHIP-RIGHTS HE HAS MADE OF HIMSELF A “DISPLACED PERSON” IN ORDER TO FIGHT FOR THE NATURAL RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO ARE THE MUTE EVIDENCES OF THE LOW MORAL LEVEL OF OUR TIME…

    ALBERT EINSTEIN

    Oh, and others. It’s a hoot.