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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.
He attended Plano Senior High School at Plano, Texas, and graduated in 1996. Chi was arrested for theft in 1998 in San Angelo, Texas. [1] Anson Chi has been identified as being part of the sovereign citizen movement. [2] In 2007, Chi allegedly expressed support for tax protesters Edward and Elaine Brown.
The movement, which started growing in popularity in the late 1970s, is inspired and promoted by Sovereign Citizen “gurus” and leaders around the country, many of whom espouse legal and ...
Guardians of the Free Republics, active around 2010, was a group based in the U.S. state of Texas regarded as being part of the sovereign citizen movement.The group was associated with Sam Kennedy (whose real name is Glenn Richard Unger), a talk-show host, [1] and with Clive Boustred, a British-born conspiracy theorist living in California. [2]
[2] [3] As a result, they may sometimes be referred to as sovereign sheriffs. [4] The movement is related to previous nullification and interposition notions, [1] and promotes such efforts. [5] It has been described as far-right by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [6] The CSPOA has claimed a membership of 400. [3]
The Riverside top cop also accused Miller of being part of the so-called sovereign citizens movement that doesn’t believe in government or laws, but Miller also strongly rejected that, according ...
[4] The SPLC notes that the antigovernment movement includes the militia movement (including paramilitary organizations, such as the Three Percenters (also styled III%ers) and Oath Keepers); the "sovereign citizen" movement, which rejects the government's authority; the so-called "constitutional sheriff" movement, which holds that local ...
John Joe Gray (born c. 1950) [1] is an American who identified as a sovereign citizen and was a fugitive from the law. He lived on his 50-acre, wooded ranch in Trinidad, Texas. He was involved in the longest-running law enforcement standoff in American history, lasting a few days short of 15 years, before the district attorney dropped the ...