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Apr 15, 2013 · Sovereign citizens are extremists or radicals who claim they are a government unto themselves. They say they have the right to reside in the United States without being under U.S. or state government control. Sovereigns typically don’t pay taxes, register vehicles, or obtain driver’s licenses.
Jan 16, 2014 · Sovereign Citizen Movement Continues To Be On The Rise In Ohio. The sovereign citizen movement appears to be growing across the nation and is on the rise in Ohio-- in both rural...
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2016-Ohio-2834, ¶ 9 (noting that “[t]his court and other courts have repeatedly rejected the ‘sovereign citizen’ argument or defense when challenging jurisdiction and have actually characterized such arguments as frivolous”); State v. Few, 2d Dist. Montgomery No. 25969, 2015-Ohio-2292, ¶ 6 (sovereign citizen theories “‘are meritless
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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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May 21, 2013 · The FBI says the sovereign citizen movement is growing -- with many people right here in central Ohio classifying themselves as sovereign. Find out what central Ohio law enforcement...
The Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection of independent organizations and lone individuals who emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the antigovernment sovereign citizens movement, adherents of which believe that individual citizens hold sovereignty over, and are independent of, the authority of federal and state governments.
Jan 6, 2021 · An Ohio couple who recorded themselves breaking into the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and posed for pictures on the Senate floor tried to use sovereign citizen arguments to get themselves out of...
