There’s some relevance to internet grifting in this story, but the meat of the story revolves in the live action events that played out a couple of days ago. Queen Romana was told to hit the road. The full story can also be found at the Sovereign Citizen Watch website as well as various MSM news outlets.
Since part of the marketing plan for internet scams involves outreach towards new, unsuspecting potential marks, internet grifters will travel to locations to make a pest of themselves. Romana bounces around all over the place and makes a point of live streaming events to spin it to match her normal modus operandi.
A quick recap of that modus operandi:
She’s the legitimate Queen of Canada.
She issues royal decrees that you are not obligated to pay utility bills, taxes, mortgages, or anything that would mean less money to donate to her.
Occasional death threats.
Issues “Loyalty Money” as a reward that has less real value than Monopoly money.
Occasional alien spaceship weirdness - https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb5y/queen-romana-didulo-citizen-arrest-qanon
In short, a wide array of typical crank magnetism just to attract attention, leading to internet activity to funnel towards a never ending need for donations, because these aliens don’t have South Park space cash in ample supply.
The articles relate how this incident did not go particularly well for her. In about a six hour window the small town citizens heard she was coming, figured out what it was all about, organized a protest in record time and let her know she wasn’t welcome. This restrained and calm reaction was handled remarkably well. Kudos for the nonviolent response (which if happened would backfire as more ammunition for the, “I’m being persecuted” content that would follow) and its effectiveness for booting her out of town with a courtesy law enforcement escort.
Yes, that’s right. The people of Kamsack did their own research on the Internet. There’s enough real info out there if you know where to look for it and don’t shut your brain off from only listening to a message that you want to hear.
Hubbard is not a stranger to the live event making a pest of himself scene. These do get turned into an immediate fundraiser ranging from a simple desperate need for gas (even though he’s taken a gazillion dollars out of the casinos) to finding an excuse for looking at a big ticket purchase like a building in OKC to “help the cause”. It’s not easy to tell what details in these events are real and if there’s any manufactured details for fake persecution related sympathy. He is a good showman.
With the meat and potatoes of Zach’s operation being sports - people love themselves some sports, there often is some unlucky mid level lieutenant in the MLM pyramid that either gets the bright idea on their own to make a live visit, or if they’ve been successfully pressured and courted to do more for the cause than simply liking and commenting on YouTube videos. (Now would be a great time to ask for a pay increase since some long time supporters have dropped off the scene or hardly post new content anymore. And that pay increase may be suggesting that they should be upgraded from zero to something more than zero). Unlike Zach, who is more than willing to hop in the car and make a pest of himself at a shooting crime scene, these mid level folk who are treated merely as gullible free advertisement providers to Zach’s top of the pyramid, they might not feel comfortable and safe talking to an officer of the law who really doesn’t want to be interrupted in the process of doing his job. So traveling to a ball game is the way to go.
People love themselves some sports. So much that every major metropolitan area has a major sports gig available. Usually within a couple hours drive of anywhere but the most remote parts of the U.S. or tiny Saskatchewan towns. There’s no need to coordinate a group for the mental security of strength in numbers to go to NYC for 9/11 conspiracy grifting. There’s no need to join a gathering with a cutesy but bad ass title like “Anarchadelphia”. You can make a solo trip to the stadium on your own and you definitely will get the cult leader Attaboy! you crave.
Now is a good time to remind that even though a civil judgment has been passed and things have slowed down, Alex Jones is still doing everything in his power to not pay up. These things take time, more time than they should, but as the evidence mounts up on the unforgiving and not forgetting Internet there will be a point sometime where people will simply not be interested in bogus sports picks. You are perfectly within your nonviolent civil rights to send a message to your local sports team management. “My right to the pursuit of happiness by enjoying a ball game was infringed by some scammer in the parking lot. Please do something about that.”
Or you could just ignore it and let your curious teenager do his own research after the incident and roll the dice they don’t get involved with something worse than gematria, aka Conspiracy Lite.
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