The Anti-Defamation League has warned of the merger since January with Lawrence and his group, David Straits, who are hosting the nationwide seminar, and thanks to a new appeal to incorporate QAnon’s views into a similarly conspiratorial worldview. sovereign citizens, they are increasingly packaged.
As their background author explained:
Lawrence teaches sovereignty with QAnon’s inclination, urging his followers to become “American citizens” before Trump is reinstated as president. “American citizen” is one of the many terms used by sovereign citizens to distinguish themselves from citizens under the jurisdiction of an illegitimate, de facto government. Trump is working on the fall of Kabbalah, which will allow our Constitutional Republic to rise again, but the newly partially restored Constitutional Republic will need We The People with renewed status, using the “Great Awakening” to fill and operate in the new republic. partially restored the Constitutional Republic, ”Lawrence published in October 2021 to the Telegram. “This will only be done through the We The People program, which will regain its birthright by becoming an American citizen … As the number of American citizens and one nation increases, so will [sic] our constitutional republic. It will start at an absolute local level (you and your neighbors) and then grow, grow and grow.
The views of the sovereign citizen and QAnon converge almost imperceptibly, as the ADL explains, because their fundamental worldviews of massive global conspiracy to enslave humanity are so similar. The sovereign movement’s belief that the current U.S. government is illegitimate helps support their view of Baiden’s presidency as fraudulent, as well as the means to “get rid” of such “tyranny.”
Lawrence primarily promotes a version of sovereign citizens’ views called the “Redemption Theory,” which refers to the basic concept that anyone who is an American citizen is considered a corporate entity of the “straw people” at birth, making them America Inc. subsidiary property. “Redemption” is the process by which they separate straw from the flesh and blood of man, and have a dual purpose. As explained by the Southern Poverty Rights Center (SPLC):
Newly detached from the corporate shell, the newly released man is now outside the jurisdiction of all admiralty laws. More importantly, by submitting a series of complex, legally sound documents, a sovereign can access this secret Treasury account for his own purposes. Over the past 30 years, there have been hundreds of sovereign facilitators wrapping different combinations of forms and documents in an effort to streamline the process. Of course, although no one has ever succeeded, they know that they are close with the religious convictions of a true cult believer. You will only need the right wording, say the promoters of ransom fraud.
Lawrence regularly invokes his audience with his version of “redemption” fraud, but with a strong aroma of QAnon. At April 21 event “Patriots are rising”. In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he shared the stage with Republican governor-designate Dag Maastriano, Lawrence began to shout that the confluence of the two conspiracy universes was creating a twice-wide crack.
He explained how the modern process of childbirth and birth certificate is actually satanic rituals:
Fred read a quote from [Woodrow Wilson adviser] Edward Mandel’s house where they talk about this construction, where they will make us all slaves, using a mortgage system where we pledge our children as collateral with something called a birth certificate and the satanic ritual that takes place. …
So I’m going to introduce you to the satanic ritual that’s going on, and it started with a birth certificate that was actually issued by the Department of Transportation. And everything is an Admiralty. We all live under water, and what is the law, and where does the law come from? Where does the word “law” come from? Land, air and water. And where the founders of this nation thought of what the law was, the Bible, the Bible of Geneva, King James Version 1611, from which we got the word law. And the earth, the air, and the water were in Genesis 24: 28, “and God created the heavens and the earth.” And God hath power over the earth, and God hath power upon the earth, and upon every creature that walketh and creepeth. And God hath power over the air, and over all fowl that fly: and God giveth power over the waters, and over every fish that moveth. And that’s the law.
Lawrence then reiterated the views of sovereign citizens (all as untrue as the etymology of his word “law”) that there are three levels of law: canonical law, common law, and the law of the Admiralty, each representing a government over air and land. , and water, respectively. Then he continued:
So how do they make you pledge your child, and how did our parents and our grandparents pledge us as property, as collateral, in our personification, all the big names? This happened through an evil, satanic ritual called the birth of a child.
You see, the mother enters the center of the field and goes to the doctor – the doctor; tors is a bill of lading when a ship arrives at the berth – and the mother puts her feet on the steps, and the mother breaks the water, and the baby comes out of the water through the birth canal, just as you land the ship, in the air, in the dock – tor. And then, historically speaking, a satanic ritual would take place – the child was hit on the bottom, turned upside down, crying out of fear and pain. And then, before the child could put his feet on the ground and take his breath away from God as a free creature of God, a document of legal bond came out. It is on bond paper because it is a bank instrument, it is a guarantee bond.
And the child’s soul was captured at the back of this document. It was called the imprint of the soul. And then the umbilical cord and the birth were thus dead and the mother abandoned, because it was part of your birth, your birth. Construction, evil says that now that is dead, part of you has died, and now you are a dead vessel, you are a complete legal fabrication. They called you human. If you look at your driver’s license, if you look at every document the government or any company sends you, it’s in capital letters. Your personification. Now the Bible tells us not to take a person, not to take a person.
Lawrence also agreed with the belief in the radicalization of stocks on the “red float”: “We currently live in Babylon,” he said. “It simply came to our notice then. This is the Matrix. Keanu Reeves has said this publicly Matrix is a documentary about how we live our lives. Your money is not real, you don’t own anything.
In the end, he ended it with a classic QAnon-style statement that Donald Trump is secretly one of them:
Yes, President Trump has done many things for us. And I will not go into many of them, because, to be honest, many people are not ready for it. And it’s hard to verify. But Donald Trump has told you all, if you return to his speeches, he has said that when he returns, he will be in lowercase, in lowercase. Check out his speech at the 2021 CPAC in Texas. He said that when we return to the White House this time, it will be in small print. He told you at another rally that the people are sovereign. He told you at another rally that you are all millionaires. He told you that at another rally you are elite. And they are villains. He told you at another rally that the Bar was corrupt. He tells you over and over again – he could speak for two hours, but only four sentences are for those who are awake. And there is a huge difference between waking and waking up, right?
Lawrence has developed close relationships with leading QAnon influencers such as Anna Wanderstill, Allen and Francis Fosdick, Pennsylvania-based QAnon show Up Front in the Prophetic and David Straight.
Vanderstille proudly announced in Gabon that she was “officially an American citizen,” meaning she was no longer under the U.S. government. Speaking on The Conservative Daily Podcast, she mentioned the potential benefits of becoming an American citizen, such as the freedom from paying federal taxes to “voting as a four-vote delegate.” led by Joe Oltman and Max McGuewier.
She said she was introduced to the idea by Lawrence, who ran for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2018. Wanderstill said Lawrence then radicalized contact with David Straight, a sovereign citizen activist who also promoted QAnon’s theories. Vanderstill said Straits was “the commissioner of the Presidential Trump’s Commission on the Sexual Trafficking of Children.”
ADL analyst Mark Pitcavage explained Lawrence roared on Twitter, stating that the “redemption theory” originated from a sovereign citizen named after Roger Elwick in 1999 and became widespread.
“The basic redemption theory is something like this: in 1933, the United States deviated from the gold standard and was therefore no longer able to pay its debts to international bankers. To circumvent this, the government has turned people into collateral by turning birth certificates into shares, ”he wrote. “They did this in part by creating duplicate dummies for each person (called ‘straw people.’)
He also noted that much of the talks were devoted to explaining to sovereign citizens that the conspiracy that infiltrated and overthrew the original, legitimate government and replaced it with a de facto tyrannical government had done so by replacing constitutional rights with a lower “naval” or “admiralty”. ” the law.
“Finally,” he noted, “the satanic references therein are derived from QAnon and may have been developed to make these theories more pleasing to QAnoners.”
Given the current size of Lawrence’s audience and the regularity and breadth of American nationalist training, ADL’s January warning: “Seems more far-sighted.” In fact, it may be underestimated.