In September 2012, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), acting as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, held a Congressional hearing on the threat posed by violent right-wing extremists after a white supremacist murdered six worshippers at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
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.
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
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.
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.
