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Example illustration of a sovereign citizen homemade license plate. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Freemen on the land, like sovereign citizens, share the core beliefs commonly seen in pseudolaw. [10] Their theories have been broadly defined as "see[ing] the state as a corporation with no authority over free citizens". [15] Freemen's beliefs are largely based on misunderstandings and wishful thinking, and do not stand up to legal scrutiny. [49]
The Sovereign Citizen movement is a disparate collection of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of anti-government radicals who believe they're not subject to local or national laws or authority ...
The Montana Freemen were an anti-government Christian Patriot militia based outside the town of Jordan, Montana, United States.The members of the group referred to their land as "Justus Township" and had declared their leaders and followers "sovereign citizens" no longer under the authority of any outside government.
A run-of-the-mill traffic stop quickly escalated when a Florida driver claiming to be a sovereign citizen was pulled over.. Volusia Deputies pulled over a blue Ford truck on 11 November after ...
The Moorish sovereign movement, sometimes called the indigenous sovereign movement or the Rise of the Moors, is a small sub-group of sovereign that mainly holds to the teachings of the Moorish Science Temple of America, in that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" by nationality, and Islamic by faith.
Sovereign citizen ideology eventually spread to Canada where it gave birth during the 2000s to a local offshoot known as the freeman on the land movement. [25] The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) classifies some sovereign citizens ("extreme sovereign citizen extremists") as a domestic terrorist movement. [26]
Sovereign citizens often retaliate through acts of "paper terrorism," which involves bombarding the legal system with frivolous lawsuits or falsified documents. Violence is the most extreme form ...