Hardy Lloyd just doesn’t know when to shut up.

The former Pennsylvania leader of the neo-Nazi group World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) began referring to himself as “the doctor of all hate” in 2003 after he was kicked out of the WCOTC following an involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital.

The next year, he shot to death Lori Hann, a 41-year-old divorced legal secretary he met online. There were no witnesses to the shooting. Hardy claimed self-defense and was acquitted of murder—although he was convicted of possessing an unlicensed firearm and put on probation.

Soon enough, Lloyd began taunting Hann’s family online, bragging about how he got away with murder and writing that he shot her “just to watch her die.”

This year, Lloyd began referring to himself as “The Wolf,” informing the world that he is no longer a neo-Nazi, but an “anti-American terrorist.”

When anti-government extremist Richard Poplawski allegedly gunned down three Pittsburgh police officers on April 4, Lloyd celebrated their deaths, calling police “the front-line troops against the people.”

That may have been one loudmouth comment too many for Hardy Lloyd. He was arrested last week at his Crafton, Pa., apartment for violating the terms of his probation, which prohibit him from possessing firearms, among other conditions.

It’s unclear at this point why exactly Lloyd was arrested, although Pennsylvania law enforcement sources told Hatewatch that Lloyd’s rants have earned him a slot on a domestic terrorism watch list and that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently warned local law enforcement that Lloyd was openly calling for the murder of police officers.

Federal authorities in the Seattle area filed weapons and drug charges against a man alleged to be involved in the militia and sovereign citizens movement as well as a local secessionist group. Andrew Steven Gray, 32, was arrested early last month after FBI agents searched his storage unit and found a machine gun, twenty rifles, four silencers, two bulletproof vests and 9,000 rounds of ammunition.

Gray’s arrest is another example of revived strength in the sovereign citizens movement, a trend recently reported on in the Intelligence Report.

In court documents unsealed last week, federal agents said the case began after a paid informant revealed that Gray had been shooting a rifle and pistol in Snohomish County, Wash., at a building called the Militia Training Center which “routinely holds training for individuals involved in the militia movement.”  The informant secretly recorded Gray admitting to owning guns, even though he is forbidden to possess firearms as an ex-felon.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer noted, “among the weapons seized were two guns manufactured by a Snohomish gunsmith whose offerings include parts named ‘Christian warrior’ and ‘NObama.’”  In an affidavit, FBI agent Gregory Kraus stated that one of the indicators of Gray’s sovereign citizen ideology were previous legal filings he made claiming the State of Washington had no authority over him due to problems with the constitutional convention of 1889, as well as Gray’s driver’s license, on which the words “no liability accepted” are written over his signature.  “Based on my training and experience I know that this is also an indicator of ’sovereign citizen’ ideology,” stated Kraus. ( continue to full post… )

The man suspected of fatally shooting abortion provider George Tiller as Tiller served as an usher during church services yesterday has a long history of involvement with the anti-government “sovereign citizen” movement, as well as anti-abortion radicalism.

Scott Roeder, 51, allegedly killed Tiller with a single shot in the foyer of the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan. Roeder was taken into custody a few hours later in Kansas City and is being held without bail.

Roeder’s arrest is further evidence of a resurgence of right-wing extremism. A recent Department of Homeland Security report came under severe criticism from the right for making the point that such extremism is likely on the rise.

Roeder’s support of violent extremism dates back at least as far as April 1996, when police in Topeka, Kan. pulled him over for driving with a bogus license plate. Instead of a legitimate license plate his vehicle bore a “sovereign citizen” plate that proclaimed the driver immune from state and federal laws. ( continue to full post… )