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Monday, February 06, 2012

Uh-oh. They're on to us.



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.These extremists, sometimes known as "sovereign citizens," believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.
The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.
Routine encounters with police can turn violent "at the drop of a hat," said Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director in the FBI's counterterrorism division.
"We thought it was important to increase the visibility of the threat with state and local law enforcement," he said.
In May 2010, two West Memphis, Arkansas, police officers were shot and killed in an argument that developed after they pulled over a "sovereign citizen" in traffic.
Last year, an extremist in Texas opened fire on a police officer during a traffic stop. The officer was not hit.
Legal convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011, FBI agents said.
"We are being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters," said Casey Carty, an FBI supervisory special agent.
FBI agents said they do not have a tally of people who consider themselves "sovereign citizens."
J.J. MacNab, a former tax and insurance expert who is an analyst covering the sovereign movement, has estimated that it has about 100,000 members.
Sovereign members often express particular outrage at tax collection, putting Internal Revenue Service employees at risk.
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We also don't like the feds violating our Civil Rights, telling us how to live, how to raise our kids and how to live our lives.
We don't like being threatened, tracked or monitored.
We don't like having legislative bills that are going to cost us money shoved down our throats.
We don't want to support lazy fuckers that refuse to support themselves.
We don't like politicians that refuse to live under the same rules they force on us.
We don't like politicians that think they are on the same level as God.
The list goes on and on, but it's funny, taxes aren't even close to the top of my list.

4 comments:

  1. From MamaLiberty over at War on Guns:
    "Here's an idea...If nobody wants a 'civil disturbance,' why in heck don't they quit disturbing us?"

    Indeed.

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  2. And somehow the muslims and illegals that violate our laws and try to kill us are somehow not mentioned. I guess that we are picked out because we are not a favored constituancy

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  3. Bob beat me to it. To the government the *real* threat is internal, to the disregard and exclusion of all other threats.

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