SINGAPORE, May 6 — A 40-year-old woman who has gained notoriety for claiming that she is a “sovereign” above the law was charged in a district court yesterday for public nuisance and breaching circuit breaker measures. Paramjeet Kaur, a Singaporean who is understood to be born here, faces...
Wednesday, 06 May 2020 09:04 AM MYT
Paramjeet Kaur, a Singaporean who is understood to be born here, faces three charges under the Covid-19 Regulations 2020 and one charge of public nuisance. While a police prosecutor asked that she be sent to IMH for two weeks for psychiatric observation, Singh said that she “has her own rights” and asked to speak to her in order to explain the law.It stated that she had claimed she was “not a person” and wants “to be referred to as thou, thy, thee”.
District Judge Clement Tan disagreed that there would be any prejudice to Kaur if she was remanded at IMH and ordered her to be sent there. If convicted of public nuisance, she could be fined up to S$2,000. The radical belief that one is a “sovereign citizen” above the law — and gets to decide which rules to obey and which ones to ignore — has its roots in the United States in the 1970s and was largely influenced by white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups from the 1960s to 1980s.
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