Do you hate paying taxes? Are you fighting foreclosure? Do you feel like
no one should be allowed to commit violence against you and don’t
always blindly follow the commands of the authorities? Do you film
encounters with police or believe gold makes better currency than
Federal Reserve Notes? Well you might be part of a domestic terrorism
movement and not even know it. ~ Joe Wright – Video
On Friday, the Los Angeles Times posted an article
attempting to define a domestic terrorist movement consisting of as
many as 300,000 Americans. Some are even labeled as non-violent “paper
terrorists”.
Is there a more Orwellian term than “non-violent terrorist”? If you can think of one please share it in the comments below.
They refer to this so-called terror group as
“sovereigns, zealots who refuse to recognize government authority in
virtually any form.”
When attempting to further define and identify individuals in this movement, some very broad and dangerous stereotypes appear.
“Sovereigns believe U.S. currency has no value but recognize precious metals as valid currency,” wrote the LA Times, much like the US Constitution does.
“A central tenet of the sovereigns movement is that its adherents
believe they owe no income taxes,” also much like the Constitution
forbids.
What’s more, federal and state law enforcement are being trained that
anyone who disobeys their commands falls into this terrorist movement
and may pose a violent threat to them.
“Sovereign citizens are more likely not to obey their commands and more
likely to commit violence during a traffic stop,” said Detective Rob
Finch who’s made a cottage industry of anti-sovereigns police training.
“They refuse to recognize your authority, and that creates a dangerous situation,” Finch emphasized.
The LA Times piece points to a handful of colorful examples of
people who defended themselves against police aggression, or who were
plain crazy, as to why the movement should be considered violent.
But they don’t stop there. The FBI has even invented a new form of
terrorism committed by nonviolent sovereigns called “paper terrorism”.
Even nonviolent sovereigns can cause headaches through what Finch calls
“paper terrorism.” Some squat in foreclosed homes and file phony deeds
claiming ownership, “paying” with photos of silver dollars.
Who knew fighting foreclosure was a form of terrorism? Paying taxes and
mortgages with hand-written notes and photos is just funny, not really a
threat to anyone.
However, self-described “sovereign citizen” James Turner faces “a
potential maximum prison term of 164 years, a maximum potential fine of
$2,350,000, and mandatory restitution” to the state for the nonviolent
act of paper terrorism.
A blog for law officers, PoliceOne.com, also tries
to help cops identify sovereign citizens, saying they’ll “likely to be
argumentative with police authorities…may attempt to videotape your
encounter…may refuse to give you their name or documents…”
To his credit, the article’s author states that the “Sovereign Citizen
movement is not an organized civil or criminal enterprise. It’s a
fractured series of loosely affiliated individuals who adhere to
anti-government ideologies.”
It should be noted that the Feds and local law enforcement all received
these characteristics and tactics from one original source: The Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC has been on a publicly-funded
partisan crusade to demonize so-called rightwing or patriotic
extremists.
In 2010, SPLC put together a short documentary about “sovereign
citizens” and the threat they supposedly pose. To help identify
potential sovereigns, they warn about certain bumper stickers and
challenges to authority in a professionally produced propaganda video.
Significantly, the video below has three times as many down-votes on YouTube as up-votes.
Many believe that SPLC gets paid to make mountains out of mole hills to
keep the terror-industrial complex thriving. After all, when are bumper
stickers and paperwork a threat to anyone? And only an extreme minority
react defensively when they are threatened by men in costumes they don’t
worship as authority.
What’s confusing is that those who would try to either lump people with
these characteristics into a collective group are either operating out
of ignorance or with an agenda, or a little of both. The adjective
“sovereign” when referring to a citizen or a state is defined as
“enjoying autonomy, or independence”.
The
most extreme sovereigns would certainly not adhere to the authority of
any collective that aims to define them as a group. And just because one
person who adopts this philosophy ends up shooting a cop, doesn’t mean
all people who hate taxes or fight foreclosure are violent threats. To
think otherwise smacks of a demonization agenda, nothing more.
The few examples of “terrorists” who committed violence are used as
examples in every single article about Sovereign Citizens clearly aiming
to smear the entire ideology as inherently violent. Yet, in every case,
who initiated force against whom?
Some may argue that if an armed stranger forced you to pull over your
car, or demanded entry into your home at the threat of shooting you or
putting you in a cage, it could be considered an act of aggression or
violence against you as a free and sovereign human no matter what
assumed authority the aggressors think they possess. Strip away labels
and you are defined by your actions. What does that say about actions
of the cops or the feds?
Is that really too complicated to add to these articles? The problem
with doing that of course is that too many people may then sympathize
with these people and the label of terrorist may not stick very well. In
fact, it may expose the entire war on terror as a complete fraud,
looking under cracks for perceived threats against people who just want
to be left alone.
It’s unclear where the Feds came up with number 300,000 for potential
terrorists wrapped in this label, but the number may not even be half of
it. Now, anyone who protests the government can be considered anti-government
which is also now considered domestic terrorism. And, apparently,
everyone fighting the banks in foreclosure with creative paperwork are
also terrorists.
This begs the question, who isn’t a terrorist?
If the fraudulent banks and the guys with the badges, guns, armored
vehicles, drones, surveillance equipment, and torture cages are the good
guys in this plot, while foreclosure victims and advocates of
individual liberty are terrorists, our society is in very big trouble.
1984 is here.
Joe Wright – April 7, 2013 – posted at ActivistPost
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