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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.
Richard Trevor Sivell is a New Zealand conspiracy theorist and "sovereign citizen" who was convicted of threatening to kill then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2021 and 2022. He spent 20 months evading police before his 2024 trial and also failed to appear for sentencing on 7 January 2025.
Gavin David Seim (born January 17, 1985, in Ephrata, Washington) is an American activist, self-described constitutionalist, conspiracy theorist, filmmaker [1] and photographer, known for using confrontational sovereign citizen tactics against law enforcement. [2] He posted a viral, controversial video on the internet, entitled "Citizen Pulls ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Jerry Kane and Joseph Kane were identified by Arkansas State Police the day after the shootings. [1]A lifelong resident of Ohio, [12] Jerry Kane ran a debt elimination business and traveled the country giving paid seminars on methods of "forestalling foreclosures", [13] lecturing that money and home loans are fictitious, and that people can simply sign a quitclaim deed and live in their houses ...
The redemption movement overlaps with the sovereign citizen movement, with several influential sovereign citizens promoting redemption schemes and ideas. [8] Part of its concepts were also adopted by the Canadian-born freeman on the land movement and by various other pseudolaw "gurus", movements and litigants.