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On 10 December 2015, the web site The Mind Unleashed published an article provocatively titled Judge Calls for US Marshals and FBI to Arrest Congress and The President: Von Reitz's letter was copied in full beneath the article's opening paragraph. Addressed Alaska Dear Federal Agents, the lengthy missive held (in part): As the text of the letter suggested, its writer espouses a sovereign citizen approach to government and how it ought to operate. That ideology is largely a combination of wishful thinking and willful ignorance which holds that those who embrace it are answerable only to their particular interpretation of the common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state or municipal levels, including such ordinary legal conventions such as driver's licenses and taxation. Anna von Reitz, the letter's writer, was described by The Mind Unleashed (and on social media repostings of the missive) as a judge, but she holds no such legal standing or authority. In a post (titled Am I a 'Real' Judge?) on the web site American Law of the Land, a response attributed to von Reitz explained that she is in fact a judge because ... she says she's one: Of course, had any real judge court in the land genuinely issued an order calling for the arrest of the President of the United States and the entirety of Congress, it would have been widely reported outside a handful of fringe web sites (which it was not). Anna von Reitz is not a judge by any commonly accepted legal (or general) definition of that term, she carries no authority to issue such an order, and her political screed is not an official legal document of any kind. [article-meta]
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