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The sovereign citizen movement originated from a combination of tax protester ideas, of the radical and racist anti-government movements in the 1960s and 1970s, and of pseudolaw, which has existed in the United States since at least the 1950s.
Today, we look at a third threat—the “sovereign citizen” extremist movement. Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this...
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- Key Moments
- What’s Ahead
- Background
- The Sovereign Belief System
- Paper Terrorism
- 2022 Sovereign Citizens Groups
The sovereign citizen movement continued to see membership growth in 2022. The QAnon conspiracy theory that initially brought new people into the movement has remained a gateway into sovereign citizenship. A new group, which calls itself Life Force Network, is a fusion of Q-centric conspiracy theories, science fiction and fake alternative governmen...
The most notable moments for the sovereign citizen movement in 2022 involved legal interactions where adherents' beliefs came head to head with the justice system. Sovereign citizen Darrell Brooks was tried and sentenced to six life sentences for his attack on a Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2021. And, in December of 2022, some 50 sove...
While the movement is plagued with rivalries, infighting, and conspiracies that often lead to the disbanding and recreation of groups, unprecedented growth in this movement is expected to continue. Growing online instructional methods for becoming sovereign citizens have created a groundswell of adherents from a variety of communities and backgroun...
Sovereign Citizens often abuse the court system with indecipherable filings and, when cornered, many of them lash out, retaliating through acts of paper terrorism and, in the most extreme cases, acts of deadly violence – usually directed against government officials. In May 2010, for example, a father-son team of sovereigns were filmed killing two ...
The contemporary sovereign belief system is based on a decades-old conspiracy theory. Sovereigns believe that the American government set up by the Founding Fathers under a common-law legal system was secretly replaced. They think the replacement government swapped common law for admiralty law, which is the law of the sea and international commerce...
The weapon of choice for sovereign citizens is paper. A simple traffic violation or pet-licensing case can end up provoking dozens of court filings containing hundreds of pages of pseudo-legal sovereign arguments. For example, Donna Lee Wray – the common-law wife of Jerry Kane, who was half of a duo that was recorded killing two police officers in ...
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Jul 24, 2020 · Researchers categorize sovereign citizens as belonging to multiple movements including antigovernment, the far-right, and also anti-Federalist (Perliger and Sweeney 2019). The anti-Federalist movement emerged in the 1970s and its main goal was to undermine the federal government.
- Christine M. Sarteschi
- 2020
Aug 5, 2020 · The sovereign citizen movement is different from the militia movement, which puts more emphasis on paramilitary weapons training and organisation, experts say.
Mar 29, 2019 · By the 1970s, the intellectual father of the sovereign citizen movement, William Potter Gale, helped spread this type of falsehood to a larger audience.
Apr 23, 2018 · The strange subculture of the "sovereign citizens" movement has been growing at a fast pace since the late 2000s. Sovereigns hold truly bizarre, complex, antigovernment beliefs that are rooted in racism and anti-Semitism.
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