Intelligence Report: Movement at Root of Recent Police Murders Growing

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Intelligence Report: Movement at Root of Recent Police Murders Growing


The "sovereign citizens" movement, based on a bizarre ideology promoted by a father-son team that murdered two police officers recently in West Memphis, Ark., is growing at a rapid pace, according to the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, released today.

In the new issue, the SPLC explores the strange world of the sovereign citizen movement and estimates there are now as many as 300,000 followers in the United States. About a third of those are considered hardcore adherents, with the rest testing out sovereign citizen techniques for resisting everything from speeding tickets to drug charges to home foreclosures.

Sovereign citizens believe most Americans have no obligation to obey laws, regulations or tax codes, especially those imposed by the federal government. They justify their beliefs on the basis of decades-old conspiracy theories and intricate, nonsensical legal theories.

“It would be easy to dismiss sovereign citizens as people who simply believe in ludicrous ideas and conspiracy theories,” said Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report. “But the reality is that the bizarre ideas they espouse can drive some people to violence, even murder, as was seen so tragically in Arkansas this past May.”

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