“What do you think the government would do in the remote case that significant numbers of people starting taking this “sovereign citizen” stance? I know it’s not likely, but at least it’s a realistic course of action and could be done, as shown by those doing it.”
I doubt it would ever come to that, in a few isolated cases where the guy is willing to live like a hermit in the wilderness like this one you can just leave em well enough alone.
But when you start getting people engaged with our civilization buying, selling, and using the public road & utility system allowing them to simply ignore the law is a threat to the rights of every around them with whom they deal. Leaving them alone thus becomes an unacceptable stances for rather obvious reasons.
So the answer your question, no it could not come to that because there simply aren’t enough people in situation where they can live like a hermit like this man. And even if there were, odds are few wise authorities would take note. Their “protest” would largely fall on deaf ears, just as this man’s protest has.
A solution to the scale of the Federal problem is going to require organization on a massive State sized scale to even have a serous enough impact to take notice.
Then to win over public opinion which will be essential to victory your going to have to lul them into looking evil.
This is regretfully something hermit sovereign citizen like this man are least capable of doing of all people.
If it will take large scale opposition and organisation, I don’t see how it can ever happen then. Way too may people are perfectly satisfied to bend the knee to government as long as they get freebies and perks. Government has a nice little racket going of buying people’s birthright of freedom for a mess of pottage (and the idiots are only too happy to sell it). Then after having sold their birthright for the mess of pottage, and having eaten the pottage, they have neither. I suppose all the “freedom of perversion” of various kinds keeps them in a stupified state of submission, after that.