Sovereign Citizen Movement - the US 'Reichsbürger'

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After a "Reichsbürger" shot and killed a policeman in Germany this week, the right-wing movement garnered international media attention. "Reichsbürger" do not recognize the German government's authority or even the legality of the Federal Republic of Germany. They do not pay taxes and they print their own driver's licenses. While there are only a few hundred of them in Germany, similar groups exist in other countries as well ...

Aside from walking around with bogus documents, Embassy of Heaven members do not pay taxes and generally do everything they can to show they do not recognize state or federal employees' authority --- after all, they live in the Kingdom of Heaven and not in the United States ...

... the Central Oregon Constitutional Guard ... was created as a "defensive unit against all enemies foreign and domestic," co-founder B.J. Soper told the "Washington Post" newspaper in May 2016 ... Members practice survival tactics, read the Constitution and hone their shooting skills with handguns and rifles ...

The Bundy clan has a history with sovereign citizen standoffs. In 2014, Ammon's father Cliven Bundy was at the center of his own stand-off with BLM officials and law enforcement at the family cattle ranch in Nevada. For years, Cliven Bundy had let his cattle graze on federal land without a valid permit - after all, he did not recognize the government's rights to said land ...

http://www.dw.com/en/sovereign-citizen-movement-the-us-reichsb%C3%BCrger/a-36103640

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1. Sovereign citizens being owned.

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They are a pathetically idiotic bunch.
Witness:

BTW, I am not driving. I am traveling!!!!

Yup. That will work. Good luck with that.