re: #5 Decatur Deb

They seem to have skipped the Threepers, though I know they are aware of some of them. They, like the sovereign citizens, are not overtly focused on ‘groups’, but on government and liberal ideology. Some to see (from a distance): III Patriots/III Percent, Sipsey Street, Western Rifle Shooting Association. These groups are undergoing a good bit of internal stress and the violent rhetoric is going critical at the moment. They overlap with the Oathkeepers, who are listed.

True. The SPLC reports regularly on Sov. Cit. groups, but unless they cross the line into religious or ethnic bigotry it does not call them ‘hate groups’. Its a matter of keeping definitions sufficiently ‘tight’ and taking care to not classify opposition to a strong federal government as ‘hate’. They still give it to the sovereign citizens groups with the bark on, but the care taken in classification makes the criticism more effective by making sure it is honest.