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Sovereign citizens are a diverse group of individuals whose activities and motives vary, but whose core tenets are the typically the same. They view United States citizenship, established government, authority and institutions as illegitimate and consider themselves immune from and therefore above the law.
As America continues to process the aftermath of white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, the nation’s premiere law enforcement agency appears to be focused on yet another emerging terrorist threat — Black Identity Extremists, or BIE.
An accused double-murderer — described as one of Florida’s most “notorious criminals” — apparently now thinks he’s a sovereign citizen.
Few flinch at Moore’s talk of outlawing homosexuality; NRA’s bogus claims it’s innocent of racism; FBI has 1,000 investigations of racists going; and more.
The ideology behind violent anti-abortion extremism
The religious concepts of militia extremists
In this month’s Sovereign Files, a man shoots at numerous law enforcement personnel and shuts down a highway over a dispute about his driveway, a fake psychic skips his own sentencing hearing to watch the eclipse, and a New Hampshire politician who refused to pay his traffic ticket calls a judge a “private profit making corporation” and says her court has no authority over him.
The religious concepts of the Sovereign Citizens Movement
The Christian and Norse mythology behind white supremacist violence
A self-described Moorish “Grand Sheik,” who led a sovereign-citizen-style fraud scheme seeking more than $100 million in tax refunds, has been sentenced to 68 months in federal prison.