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Sovereign citizens pop up just about anywhere these days — spouting their sometimes violent, antigovernment rhetoric.
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On Friday, February 9, 2018, two Henry County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home of Tierre Guthrie in Locust Grove, Georgia, to serve an arrest warrant related to his failure to appear in court.
Intelligence Report
The radical right started the year on a roll, with allies in the White House. But then came Charlottesville, and the movement was knocked back on its heels. Still, Trump's rhetoric and the country's changing demographics continue to buoy the movement.
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In this month’s Sovereign Files, a sovereign flat-earther attacks a neighbor with nunchucks, another tries to claim a religious exemption from taxes, and more.
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A group of “sovereign citizens” in Pennsylvania have handed down an “indictment” and are seeking the possible execution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, movie producer Harvey Weinstein and others.
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On an unseasonably warm and clear afternoon in Anchorage, Alaska, in early December, Anna Maria Riezinger, aka Anna von Reitz, a self-proclaimed judge and internet guru in the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement, concludes a three-hour interview in a suburban home with a complex series of prescriptions for the visiting Hatewatch reporter.
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State prosecutors in Colorado have obtained guilty pleas or convictions against five of nine antigovernment sovereign citizens and common-law court activists accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy against assorted elected public officials.
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In this month’s Sovereign Files, a famous pitchman turned pariah attempts sovereign citizenship in court, a man who calls himself “Man” is sentenced to prison and a tax preparer who sought to defraud the government will be behind bars in the New Year
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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.
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An accused double-murderer — described as one of Florida’s most “notorious criminals” — apparently now thinks he’s a sovereign citizen.
