... show that there will always be breakaways. I hope one day that a good one actually takes hold.
Peter Fitzek has done a "Prince Leonard of Hutt River Province" but in my opinion not half so well as Good King Len. But I'm noting that many of these sovereign citizen affairs end up with antimaskers and antivaxxers and are generally a disgruntled lot.
I.e. generally speaking each of these "Königreiche" are formed from people that feel they can't influence a government to their will or are unwilling to go through the local political process. Mr Fitzek aka King Peter did try, but didn't make Mayor, and didn't make parliament, and so felt that he had no options but to loudly secede.
He should take a lesson from the "quiet quitters" who get on with civic stuff (their jobs, providing the national product) but don't take it home with them nor let it become overtime or anything else. We know from experience that every government becomes corrupted and diluted and divided as it gets older.
Mr Fitzek maintains that "People who are corrupt, criminal or willing to be used thrive in the German system and those with an honest heart, who want to change the world for the better, in the interests of the common good, don't have a chance." but that's always going to happen. And people who go to a castle and just secede rarely change the system, while firebrands and activists seem to.
Sometimes, the change in a government when it reaches the end of its life is a gradual segue into a new form, and sometimes it comes with revolutions, deaths, and destruction. It rarely comes from somehow establishing a kingdom within a nation. And the Reichsbürger that were arrested weren't one kingdom, they were a bunch of people each with their own divergent views. Such a government would have been a disaster.
See, meanwhile, Leonard Casley did things right. For questionable reasons to be sure, but he exploited legal loopholes and had he had a bit more popular support, could have become a mini power in Western Australia. Unfortunately for history, he didn't put his foot down, didn't do much world diplomacy, and in the end has become a lovely and quaint footnote to Australian history.
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