The car proceeded to drive in,” but left when the woman came outside and said she was calling the police. “At that time accidentally pressed the wrong button on her phone’s security gate interface and opened the gate. He said he was from ‘some sort of government organization or something,’” the report reads. “She told him this was ridiculous, and told the male to leave. According to a police report, he replied that he was there to repossess her home.
She used an intercom system to ask the man what he wanted. Like the Edmonds man, the woman had recently moved into the ritzy home, and was surprised to see a visitor outside her front gate.
While the Edmonds man was researching Maddox Bey, a woman in nearby Woodway received a similar visit approximately an hour later. When the Edmonds man searched for the group online, he found a picture of his visitor (red fez and all) on a webpage for the group’s “supreme judiciaries.” The man called himself Marcel Maddox Bey, his last name a common appendage that connotes noble heritage in Moorish circles.
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Like other sovereign citizens, the group routinely files massively long lawsuits full of faux-legal jargon (in this group’s case, claiming to seize land by eminent domain and declaring themselves the rightful owners of $666 trillion). The Moorish National Republic, which did not return a request for comment, bills itself as the true government of the United States, and purports to own all the land in North America. The paperwork contained a map with the man’s house marked with a pin. “The paperwork went on with rambling somewhat nonsensical statements,” claiming to own the man’s property. After his visitor drove off, the man “looked at the paperwork he had been handed and saw it was from the ‘Moorish National Republic Federal Government,’” a police report reads. The Edmonds, Washington, homeowner (unnamed in police reports) appears to have landed on the receiving end of that ideology. They believe they were the first inhabitants of the Americas, and that therefore they own everything.” “Some believe they have diplomatic immunity because they’re members of these North American fictitious tribes, that they’re descended from them. Even this subgroup has different sects, Sarteschi told The Daily Beast. “They’re sort of a subgroup of sovereigns,” said Christine Sarteschi, an associate professor of criminology and author of a book on sovereign citizens.
Contained within this sprawling alt-legal movement are Moorish sovereign citizens, who believe Black people are indigenous Americans and are therefore not bound by the same laws as the rest of the country. citizenship, and therefore immune to most or all laws. Sovereign citizens falsely believe themselves to be emancipated from U.S. Christine Sarteschi, expert on sovereign citizens
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