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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]
William Potter Gale (1916–1988) [1] was an American political activist who was involved with several white supremacist groups, including Christian Identity and the Posse Comitatus. [2]
The Posse Comitatus (Latin, "force of the county") [1] is a loosely organized American far-right extremist social movement which began in the late 1960s. Its members spread a conspiracy-minded, anti-government, and antisemitic message linked to white supremacy aiming to counter what they believe is an attack on their social and political rights as white Christians.
Elvick was imprisoned again in 2005. The strawman theory eventually became one of the most successful pseudolegal concepts and a core belief of the redemption movement originated by Elvick, as well as of the sovereign citizen movement. Elvick's ideas went on to influence the Canadian "Detaxer" and freeman on the land movements in Canada. [36]
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 ...
When they did, they sometime carried a license plate bearing “358238” and below "OFFICIAL DIPLOMAT" of the fictitious Shaykamaxum Republic Tribal Nation, part of the sovereign citizen movement ...
In 1970, he joined the family business: Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States. He became president of the subsidiary Koch Engineering in 1979 and became a co-owner of Koch Industries (along with elder brother Charles) in 1983. Koch served as an executive vice president of Koch Industries until he ...
"The Moorish sovereign citizen movement is a collection of independent organizations and lone individuals who emerged in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the antigovernment sovereign citizens ...