“Security of rights” v. due process of law in America
And the railings of an increasingly irrelevant leftist Establishment against “sovereign citizens”
The “security of rights” is a “sovereign citizen” concept of liberty perhaps better known in the Swedish language than in English. This is not extremism, but the very position of the Swedish state prosecutor's office under the present leadership of Katarina Johansson Welin.
Någon entydig definition finns inte, men allmänt brukar begreppet betyda att ett land har en lagstiftning och ett system i övrigt som innebär att den enskilda medborgaren har ett skydd för godtyckliga ingrepp från samhället självt, t.ex. att man inte åtalas eller döms utan tillräcklig bevisning, att man inte döms utan tydligt lagstöd och att alla medborgare oavsett samhällsställning eller ursprung bedöms på ett likartat sätt.
The emphasis on rights for the individual citizen (“den enskilda medborgaren” in Swedish) alludes to the idea of a “sovereign citizen” — who is not a law-breaker or extremist as commonly supposed, but merely a citizen of a sovereign country insisting on the security of his or her own rights as a citizen of that country.
The rights of a sovereign citizen are unalienable.
The United States was founded as a nation of sovereign citizens, and individuals who consider themselves sovereign citizens naturally insist on faithfulness to those same founding principles.
Title 42 of the United States Code, Section 1983 also alludes to “rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws” in very similar language with much the same meaning as that used by the Swedish prosecutor.
The morbid Establishment of leftist political think-tanks and non-profit institutions is extraordinarily enraged, even to the point of extreme violence, at the idea of rights for individual citizens, or civil rights.
Sovereign citizens are not extremists for insisting upon civil rights, the SPLC and other groups who once supported civil rights having turned against them in favor of the totalitarian police state.
It’s not entirely clear what the Southern Poverty Law Center does support except for the police unions themselves when they have appeared in court so ardently in favor of arbitrary and absolute federal government authority not only against the mostly white rural people who consider themselves “sovereign citizens” but also against black people and other minorities who find themselves increasingly marginalized by an increasingly oppressive, violent, and authoritarian federal government. The SPLC and associated groups appear to have sold themselves out wholesale to leftist authoritarian Mafia and Nazi-like organized crime groups who have infiltrated federal and state law enforcement agencies with their violence, and turned against the non-violent heritage of their own hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Sovereign citizens” (to use white people’s language) certainly do consider our federal government to be illegitimate when it turns against the principles of our founding fathers.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
This is the same language on “security of rights” from our own Declaration of Independence in the United States of America. Please excuse our whiteness and Swedishness, not to be racist. Simply a fact of what it is, our language and culture and how we speak of certain things.