• It’s just as nuts as any letter, but this is the most clear and understandable version of this I’ve yet seen. You can clearly identify what they believe that makes them think this will work: “all debts are the responsibility of the United States”. This is the best version of this, with the fewest incantations, no spelling out grammatical errors (that I noticed; they’re usually illegible).

    It’s quite nice, actually.

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      I was really surprised to see that they had four points, in a row, with consistent formatting. I went back to double check because I was sure that it’d be missing point three or something. This SovCit is oddly competent.

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    The sovereign citizen movement can be described as a form of witchcraft. They are ceremonies that people have convinced themselves have some sort of effect if performed correctly.

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      Quarters minted before 1964 are 90% silver, but even then the total weight is 0.1808 troy ounces per quarter. A quarter would have to be over five times as large in order to be composed of .9 oz of silver.

      Now if sovcit wanted to do the bank right(!) here, he’d attach a .999 troy oz silver coin, such as a US Silver Eagle, which would set sovcit back about $40 or so. Postage would increase, if sovcits pay postage, because the envelope would need to be padded and the increased weight of the coin versus the quarter would increase rates. I did not do the math on that - someone else can.

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      No, no, you gotta think sovict.

      Its a coin, that is silver in color, i.e a “silver coin,” that is .9 0z.

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      No, what the sovcit attached is called a bullion coin. They usually have a nominal value, so they are official legal tender and you can pay with them in a store, but their actual worth is basically the price of the precious metal they are minted from (+collector’s value for some coins) which is usually much higher. 0.9 troy ounces of pure silver are around $28.

      It is the coin holder’s duty to liquidate the coin before payment, so the sovcit basically just scammed themselves and gave their coin away for the nominal value (although it will likely be returned as this letter will not be accepted for obvious reasons).

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        That’s not a bullion coin, it’s just a pre-64 quarter. It’s about $20 in silver, depending on spot price.

        I collect coins, not silver, and these are not special in any way. I sell them for melt value to buy better coins.

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    This incantation will fail because they didn’t correctly refer to the coin as a “.9 troy ounce silver coin” every time. Also, they didn’t affix it with genuine horse glue.

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    Is this a new Magic The Gathering mechanic? Affidavit of Truth sounds a little redundant but ok.

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    Nah this one has to be a troll, there were no spelling errors lmao.

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    I’m beginning to see this as the corporate fiction that everybody is a legal scholar who can read 10,000 words per minute is having some blowback.

    Edit: I hate propose a problem without a solution so I think the fix would be something like “the top 10 contracts used by businesses and households should just be legislated into standard contracts and taught in school as part of curriculum”

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    Even if this was the correct amount of payment in silver. Would that even work as a means of payment?

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      Any company can take barter for their services if they wanted to.

      They’d have to be pretty dumb to take a normal quarter as barter worth a whole mortgage instead of 0.25$ though.

      Generally barter relies on the good being a similar value, whereas sovcit logic tries to force them to take terrible barter through the magical contract system america is beholden to, because obviously an all-encompassing contractual indentured servitude will have easy cheat codes to break out and get paid while you do.

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        They are hoping some employee of the lender pockets the coin that they offered for discharge of the debt, thereby accepting the “offer”.

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          I don’t think that’s the goal but if it is at least make it a $20 bill or something. 25 cents isn’t enough of a bribe to get seated at a restaurant more quickly, much less erase hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

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            The debt is in currency. The coin is not offered as a token of currency, but as a piece of silver. It’s not being offered as a bribe.

            “I’ll give you this mystery box in exchange for discharge of all past debts I owed you”. If you accept the mystery box, you cannot claim the debts. If the bank knowingly accepts and deposits the “silver coin” under these conditions, the debt would theoretically be discharged.

            Of course, making an offer in this way is explicitly prohibited under postal regulations: The recipient is under no obligation to abide by the terms of such an offer, and is free to keep the coin without it constituting acceptance. The bank is under no obligation to return the coin.