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Sep 24, 2020 · Though traffic stops are a large danger to LEOs, and often trigger sovereign citizen violence, the danger of an ambush is both real and deadly. The targeted attacks on LEOs, both those that were carried out successfully and those that were attempted but thwarted, highlight the predatory capacity of the sovereign citizen movement.
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- 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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Sep 1, 2011 · As sovereign citizens’ numbers grow, so do the chances of contact with law enforcement and, thus, the risks that incidents will end in violence. Law enforcement and judicial officials must understand the sovereign-citizen movement, be able to identify indicators, and know how to protect themselves from the group’s threatening tactics.
Jul 24, 2020 · As with any understudied phenomenon, it is important to explore the full scope of the movement. In an effort to understand the nature of sovereign citizen violence, 214 cases of sovereign citizen violence or planned acts of violence, between 1990 and 2019, were collected. An individual is considered a sovereign citizen if they have self ...
- Christine M. Sarteschi
- 2020
Sovereign Citizen Movement often resort to pro se litigation, so it is necessary to examine the effects of this movement on American courts. 6. Moreover, the Sovereign Citizen Movement is an influential movement, which poses threats to law enforcement and society. 7. This threat is expected to spread through the
- Mellie Ligon
- 2021
Aug 5, 2020 · A growing movement of people who believe that laws do not apply to them threatens police and law enforcement around the world, experts and officials say. So-called sovereign citizens believe they ...
The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law and claim to not be ...
