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The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States.
Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” from the United...
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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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Apr 23, 2018 · Features and Stories. What you should know about 'sovereign citizens' April 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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Aug 5, 2020 · Who are 'sovereign citizens'? The FBI has described the movement, which lacks any organisational structure, as "domestic terrorism" in the US and calls followers...
The Sovereign Citizens movement comprises a highly heterogenous anti-government ideology that originated in the United States. Adherents are united in their belief that the U.S. government illegitimately rules over them. They live under the assumption that by declaring themselves sovereign, they are not obliged to abide with government legislation.
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...
