Tag: Sovereign Citizens

This Southern Poverty Law Center video was created to help law enforcement agencies better prepare for encounters with “sovereign citizens.”

The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American litigants, commentators, tax protesters and financial scheme promoters. Self-described sovereign citizens take the position that they are answerable only to common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state, or municipal levels, or that they do not recognize U.S. currency and that they are “free of any legal constraints”. They especially reject most forms of taxation as illegitimate.[4] Participants in the movement argue this concept in opposition to “federal citizens” who, they say, have unknowingly forfeited their rights by accepting some aspect of federal law.

The sovereign citizen movement believes that the U.S. Government is illegitimate
– Source: Wikipedia

The movement is rooted in racism and anti-Semitism, though most sovereigns, many of whom are African American, are unaware of their beliefs’ origins.
– Source: Southern Poverty Law Center