Couple jailed in TN over handwritten license plate claim they’re following God’s law [View all]

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Have some respect! They're totally different than those sovereign citizens nutcases.

They were pulled over after police spotted them driving without a state-issued license plate, which Eshleman had attempted to replace with a piece of paper that said, “Non Resident 6-55-502. Privilege tax on nonresidents prohibited. Lienholder (my chattel).”

The couple had come to Tennessee, where land is cheaper, to build a natural – or cob – house using soil, straw, and fiber.

“Cob is where you put pieces of trees, you cut them up with a chainsaw, and it looks really cute,” Eshleman told the Jackson Sun in an interview. “It’s just a natural building.”

Rosondich denied May 22 in court that he had identified himself as a “free citizen,” as police claimed, and Eshleman said they would never use that term or sovereign citizen to describe themselves – because they’re not citizens.

“What we are, is we’re Americans,” Eshleman said. “What we did, is we did Expatriation Act of 1868 … What we did is we took our citizenship and we got rid of it. We’re expatriated from the United States.”

Police arrested the pair because they refused to sign the citation, and they remain jailed on $10,000 bond.

Rosondich described himself as an illegally oppressed non-citizen, saying he held “innate private rights.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/19/couple-jailed-in-tn-over-handwritten-license-plate-claim-theyre-following-gods-law/