Matthew Cox

Let's talk about another guy, a guy, he's actually not a sovereign citizen.

His name's David Goldsmith.

Lived in Alaska.

But in 2003, he decided to adopt the mountain man lifestyle.

And David Goldsmith changed his name legally to Trapper Killsmany.

First name Trapper, last name Killsmany.

Grizzly Adams, yeah.

He's a modern-day Grizzly Adams.

Anyway, Trapper kills many, had many grievances with the government, mostly relating to Social Security that he felt he was entitled to, even though he was in his 50s.

Maybe he had a disability or something like that.

But he believed that—

that they owed him a lot of money in Social Security.

And so he begins, and he's just frustrated because the government doesn't see it that way.

They're not willing to give him, you know, 50, you know, all the money that he wants when he's in his 50s.

So he ends up filing liens claiming against seven federal employees and people with state agencies and people with the Social Security Administration.

I guess it was seven employees in state, local, and Social Security.

for $950 million total, saying that he was entitled to their assets, including their homes, gummed up their title on their homes.

Now, again, as we discussed, the state, in this case Alaska, is not in the business of interpreting the legality of these liens.

You can place these liens on the property, and there's no one in the county clerk's office who's going to stop you.

Anyone can file the public documents for $20.