“Individual Sovereignty” has nothing to do with it in reality.
This story is washing around to cast doubt and ridicule on the genuine people utilizing quiet title to aquire their forclosed homes from banks that have repossesed them while holding no real wet ink signed documentation for the loans they are foreclosing on.
Additionally, people can actually gain title to (usually land) properties under adverse possession laws, but you generally have to have paid taxes on the land in order to do so, over a period of years usually. The latter way is DEFINITELY a good way to garner oneself a meth lab cleanup or other contamination surprise unless you know what the heck you’re getting into...
Separate topic, since I would have shot the lying weasel straight off. My house, you trespass -you no longer have any worries at all.
I was under the impression that under something like the Homesteading Law (or something like that) you were allowed to legally claim any unclaimed property as long as you had it properly laid out (generally by a licensed surveyor), could show that you were making improvements upon it, and paid property taxes for it.
People do things like that all the time, albeit with no one particularly caring about some out-of-the way piece of worthless land no one else has been living on.
Have things changed so much that we are back again to the old axiom that all the lands belong to the king and you only live in your dwelling at the king's pleasure as long as you pay your taxes?