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The sovereign citizen movement originated from a combination of tax protester ideas, from the radical and racist anti-government movements in the 1960s and 1970s, [20] and pseudolaw, which has existed in the U.S. since at least the 1950s. [6]
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
Sovereign to prison Middletown 'sovereign citizen' gets prison for guns inside Langhorne-Yardley Road home A photo of Curtis G. Smith taken outside his Middletown home on Sept. 6, 2023 as a ...
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]
Smith, 42, considers himself a sovereign citizen, a movement whose adherents believe the government is the illegitimate product of a conspiracy that subverted the original, lawful government ...
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.