Anons, I had a vertiginous experience at a US post office today that left me dizzy. I was behind (6+ freaking feet behind) a man in front of me who was filing forms to correct his passport. He had just obtained his renewed passport that had an error on it.
Now get this:
He was changing it from US Citizen to (his) State Citizen.
My ears perked up, I have (I thought) never heard of anything like this.
The man assured the clerk his form to change his 'status' was in order.
The postal clerk who was collecting the form was unfamiliar with such a request so she was back and forth on the phone with the US PASSPORT OFFICE.
And the US Passport office instructed her on how to accept the form with the requested status change to citizen of (his) state. She was surprised.
I was fucking floored.
The man continued talking to the clerk and he said 'I don't know why the new one they sent had the wrong status this time, I have always been a state citizen."
The clerk shrugged and said…
>Hold onto your hats
"Yeah the passport office called it 'sovereign'. They said it will take at least 6 weeks though. Sign here."
I could have shit a fucking brick. Sovereign? are you fucking kidding me? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? The US Passport office called it a thing?? Is this fucking shit about the US being corporation real and only state citizenship keeps us sovereign? and we sign over our rights (14th amendment) and become slaves of the corporation if we consent to be US citizens?
AND THE PASSPORT OFFICE ACCEPTED THIS?????? Knows about it?? HAS A FORM TO CHANGE IT?? And the PASSPORT OFFICE -itself —-calls it SOVEREIGN CITIZEN???
I have had the fucking rug of all rugs pulled out from under me. If I was not there, did not hear her talking to the US Passport office, did not hear this exchange, and did not see her collect his old passport with the papers, I would have thought I was on 'Constitutional Crisis Candid Camera'.
Make sense of this