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...The sovereign citizen, anti-government movement is steadily expanding across the United States. It has also spread to many other parts of the world. Sovereign citizens are a subculture of anti-government extremists who falsely believe their interpretation of society’s laws supersedes all others...

... citizen. Policy recommendations are included, some of which are based on deterrence theory. Sovereign citizens fake liens rule of law anti-government movement policy responses Sovereign citizens are a loosely organized, anti-government movement that rejects the authority of their respective...

...-movement-undermines-democratic-rule-of-law Green , S. J. ( 2022 , June 27 ). Eviction of WA ‘anti-government extremist’ gives window into sovereign citizen movement . The Seattle Times . https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/eviction-of-wa-anti-government-extremist...

...References References Anti-Defamation League . ( 2023 , December 20 ). The sovereign citizen movement in the United States . https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/sovereign-citizen-movement-united-states Associated Press . ( 2017 , October 24 ). Austrian police...

...References References Anti-Defamation League . ( 2023 ). The sovereign citizen movement in the United States . https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/sovereign-citizen-movement-united-states Fischer , J. ( 2023 , July 12 ). Judge acquits Jesus Christ Superstar...

... and Management , 6 ( 1 ), 51 – 59 . 10.1037/tam0000105 Clifford , T. ( 2025a , April 28 ). Delusions or domestic terrorism? Will a death row NH native’s anti-government views save him? Union Leader . https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/delusions-or-domestic-terrorism...

... Bundy and People’s Rights . https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/ammon-bundy-and-peoples-rights Anti-Defamation League . ( 2023b ). The sovereign citizen movement in the United States . https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/sovereign-citizen-movement-united-states...

... Sovereign or autonomous citizens/anti-institutional movement; Common Law Nederland Earth (part of the Common Law collective) The Dutch government has articulated its concern with this growing group of people at risk of undermining the democratic rule of law. It is estimated that there are tens of thousands...

... . ( 2024 , April 9 ). Sovereign citizen movement undermines democratic rule of law . https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2024/04/09/sovereign-citizen-movement-undermines-democratic-rule-of-law Green , S. J. ( 2022 , June 27 ). Eviction of WA ‘anti-government extremist’ gives window...

...). Some of his followers referred to him as the Grand Sheik. The group is based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and claims to have about 100 members ( Greenberg & Arnett, 2021 ). The Rise of the Moors has been described as an anti-government offshoot of the Moorish Science Temple of America ( MSTA...

... about the movement. However, these are inconsistent and dated. Non-profit organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) and the Southern Poverty Law Center ( SPLC ) have filled the information gap, but their efforts may be limited by resource constraints and restricted access to classified...

..., including the fear that whites might become black or the ‘fear that men will become women’ (Seymour, 2024, p. 18). In England, where attempts to create new cultural patterns of living have repeatedly been blocked by authoritarian governments of both left and right, the witch hunt is now in full cry...

... into the international rule of law could work together to pressure governments who signed international rights treaties to actually honor them. This was the animating principle behind Amnesty International, a grass-roots movement started by a British lawyer in 1961. Amnesty International's growth inspired...

..., asylum seekers and refugees’ (Sarkar, 2025, p. 157). In other words, anti-immigration sentiment was deliberately driven by the government and the press working in collusion and not a ‘natural response’. Such forms of media management of public opinion have been evolving in Britain since at least...

...’. In The Long Revolution, first published in 1961, he wrote: However, he went on to clarify this view of Britain as ‘exceptionally misleading’ before criticizing the 1945 Labour Government for its failure to create ‘a new kind of social consciousness’. Only ‘the people […] [were] keeping the revolution...

..., and his children “spoke in the same sovereign citizen, anti-government rhetoric as their parents” ( Pearce, 2021 , para.10). Inside the vehicle, the police found a Glock handgun, an AR -15, a rifle, and other weaponry, along with ammunition ( Pearce, 2021 ). Detailed in the court records was Mr Kenyon’s...

... research has documented a crossover between QAnon and sovereign citizen ideology ( Sarteschi, 2023 ), nothing definitive linked Ms Niemela to the sovereign citizen movement. References References Anti-Defamation League . ( 2023 ). The sovereign citizen movement in the United States . https...

... in what has happened to universities under the Trump and Starmer governments. On 26 March 2025, with the endorsement of the UK Secretary of State for Education Bridget Phillipson, a record £585,000 fine was levied by the UK Office for Students against the University of Sussex for its alleged failure...