A man who spent 26 years wearing a badge and enforcing the law in Florida now thinks he’s above the law as a self-described “natural, free-born sovereign citizen.”
A man who spent 26 years wearing a badge and enforcing the law in Florida now thinks he’s above the law as a self-described “natural, free-born sovereign citizen.”
The Liberty Counsel, an anti-LGBT hate group, has entered the already intense debate over same-sex marriages in Alabama by saying it will represent probate judges who refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Editors' Note: This story has been updated to clarify that the rally was organized by a new group calling itself "Sanctity of Marriage Alabama." John Eidsmoe of the Foundation for Moral Law was the rally's featured speaker.
Late last week, on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, a hooded individual distributed flyers and hung posters declaring a war on immigration. Using the most recent covers of Charlie Hebdo as a backdrop, the flyer was intended to be a call to action and an ominous warning: “America is ours, and we are tomorrow.”
A judge in Alabama—tired of the blather and repeated interruptions from a man police say is an antigovernment “sovereign citizen”—found an answer to silence courtroom outbursts from the antigovernment activist: threatening to tape the man's mouth closed.
Just hours after the release of a surveillance photo, two men were arrested for the hate-crime assault of a transgender woman who, with the help of dozens of supporters, took her case this week to the Spokane City Council.
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