Vegas arrests cast light on anti-government sovereign citizens movement
As this "Sovereign Citizen" cult movement grows, MSM needs to be covering it more often -- it's become an issue of public safety.
As this "Sovereign Citizen" cult movement grows, MSM needs to be covering it more often -- it's become an issue of public safety.
A Las Vegas couple who plotted to kidnap and kill police officers are part of a growing movement whose adherents believe they arent subject to laws and follow a complex theory about the secret enslavement of American citizens, authorities say.
The couple spent hundreds of hours developing a plot to attract attention to the movement, a cause known as sovereign citizens, which holds that police do not have legitimate power, authorities said.
The two shopped for guns, found a vacant house and rigged it to bind captives to cross beams during interrogation, and they planned to subject officers to their form of a trial for civil rights violations, authorities said.
Authorities have linked the sovereign citizens movement to the killing of police officers in the past. After two deputies in Louisiana were killed in a shootout last year, police said some of the seven people arrested had ties to the movement.