The lack of basic respect and the absolute certainty that they can just say or do something that will magically make law enforcement leave them alone is downright frightening. What possible basis could they think they have that snarking off to the officers that pulled them over or that simply "declining" to answer simple questions is going to work? "I'm a free inhabitant, I'm of the Earth, I have private sovereign citizenship"...really? Really?
I would expect nothing less to come out of a culture and time that told children that they got an award for showing up, that their every thought was important and should be shouted, that 'the customer is always right' and that you should demand to see a manager/superior, and that simply screaming that you are being assaulted or that you do not consent will stop cops from handcuffing you. The arrogance, the willful audacity, the unmitigated egotism...it makes me sad. My only shining point in this is that this is only a very small number of people.
Short version: the Articles of Confederation no longer apply, ever since we set the Constitution in place. Besides that, article 4 simply stated that any free inhabitant of a state had the same rights as any federal citizen, it did NOT give them license to not obey the law.
For more hilarity, there's a great compilation vid of these idiots, but it's twice as much fun watching a 'reaction' vid of it!
