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They have been featured at LGF and LGF Pages, now covering the Sovereign Citizen movement reached the mainstream media. Reports 60 Minutes:
Anti-government U.S. extremists who don’t pay taxes and ignore requirements like social security cards and drivers licenses are on the rise. Called sovereign citizens, some have become violent and the FBI considers them a domestic terror threat. Byron Pitts reports.
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aagcobb Mon, May 16, 2011 5:57:17am |
These whackos have been around awhile. Do you remember the freemen from Montana, back in the nineties? They considered themselves "sovreign citizens."
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dragonfire1981 Mon, May 16, 2011 8:24:24am |
Do these guys cross ideological lines with the Tea Party?
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aagcobb Mon, May 16, 2011 9:17:39am |
re: #2 dragonfire1981
Sovereign citizens are extreme libertarians. They believe that statutory laws do not apply to them. They only answer to the common law, as applied by "common law" courts, that is, not state or federal courts, but courts without judges or lawyers with juries consisting of other sovereign citizens.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Mon, May 16, 2011 12:49:25pm |
re: #2 dragonfire1981
Do these guys cross ideological lines with the Tea Party?
While both probably would self-define as Conservatives, I think Tea Partiers still believe that they can affect government in some way. Sovereign Citizens seem to have given up on the concept of change through participation in the political process and instead opted for some bizarre form of internal secession.
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(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was) Mon, May 16, 2011 2:18:32pm |
By the way, guess who else buys into sovereign citizen myths of the "straw man", which includes the conspiracy theory that the US government has in the creation of Social Security pledged the US citizens, born and unborn, as collateral for the debt it owes to the Federal Reserve? Wayne Paul, brother of Ron Paul, featured here in Alex Jones' film The Obama Deception:
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wrenchwench Mon, May 16, 2011 2:31:36pm |
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