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Apr 12, 2022 · The Republic of Texas, which aligned with the burgeoning sovereign-citizen movement, began to draw followers across the state. Members made their own license plates and issued a notice of...
Apr 12, 2023 · David Straight was arrested Monday in Texas for driving without a license and not properly displaying license plates, despite his position as one of America’s most influential promoters of the...
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Published: 12.21.2023. Extremism, Terrorism & Bigotry. Key Points. The sovereign citizen movement is a large anti-government extremist movement whose adherents believe the government is the illegitimate product of a conspiracy that subverted the original, lawful government.
Nov 30, 2008 · November 30, 2008. Sonia Scherr. Raids in East Texas open up a case that shows the 'sovereign citizens' movement still thrives in certain quarters. About six years ago, a man who said he was a dentist established what he claimed to be a church in Jacksonville, Texas, a city of about 14,000 in the rolling hills two hours southeast of Dallas.
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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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TMCEC AY 2012. Sovereign individuals claim to be non-citizens of the state and subscribe to the erroneous belief that no government−state or local−has authority over individuals. These individuals often have homemade driver licenses, license plates, and identification cards. Sovereign defendants refuse to submit to the court’s ...
Aug 25, 2023 · Irate citizens overtook Ward at Kenney's Fort on Brushy Creek and retrieved the documents. The Texas seat of government remained at Washington-on-the-Brazos until July 1845. Texas had two navies during its short history as a nation. The first was commanded by Charles E. Hawkins, who carried the title of commodore. To protect the supply line to ...
