Bizarre signs come out as mystery pair move into upscale Sacramento neighborhood - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee: "Sacramento police were in one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods Tuesday investigating a scheme with a twist: claims that the house involved is under the protection of a sovereign republic and that trespass could be met with 'self defense' and 'justifiable homicide.'

The bizarre case unfolded Tuesday in a gated West Natomas neighborhood that boasts million-dollar homes and some of the city's most prominent residents... two printed signs appeared on the front window, one of them warning against trespassing and claiming the home was the "Private Property of sovereign Woman of republic of California" and that federal and state employees could not access the property.

The sign mentioned "freeman," an apparent reference to the radical anti-government group that gained fame in 1996 during an 81-day standoff with federal authorities in Montana.

It also referred to the occupants' right to "Self-Preservation – Right To Repel Force By Force – Self Defense – Justifiable Homicide.""
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Fred Pilot found this suburban vignette. This is an $865,000 house in a gated community. It has been vacant for a year. Now...hey, honey...the new neighbors are here! It seems as though the police think the new occupants are squatters. Maybe there is a new theory from the posse comitatus/black helo/Freeman folks that allows them to occupy foreclosed homes. Anybody know about this?