Florida became 'hotbed' for sovereign citizens, who FBI calls domestic terrorists

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Note: The I-4 Corridor is considered a hotbed for sovereign citizens.

The FBI identifies sovereign citizens as domestic terrorists who do not recognize the authority of state and federal government or the court system. They create their own drivers licenses as well as other documents. This has led to frequent confrontations with law-enforcement officials.

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Last year, a study on what U.S. police officers consider their greatest threat identified sovereign citizens first among 18 extremist groups. Islamic extremists ranked second, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland.

Sovereign Citizens' ideological roots stem from the early 1970s when anti-government movements started what became known as "paper terrorism" by filing lawsuits and liens without merit against public officials. That spread with the early 1980's recession and farm crisis.

And by the 1990s, the St. Petersburg-Tampa-Orlando corridor became a "hotbed" for the sovereign citizen movement, according to Mark Pitcavage, director of research for the Anti-Defamation League.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-sovereign-citizen-violence-orlando-20150215-story.html#page=1

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1. Oh yeah

Some of the bumperstickers around here get pretty weird.