Berto Jongman: US “Sovereign Citizens” As Top US Domestic Extremist Threat — Paper from George Washington Program on Extremism

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Without Prejudice: What Sovereign Citizens Believe

J. M. Berger

When surveyed, United States law enforcement consistently ranks sovereign citizens as the top domestic extremist threat, even greater than that presented by homegrown jihadists. Despite the considerable size of the movement, estimated to include hundreds of thousands of adherents, few
Americans know what sovereigns believe and how those beliefs inform their actions.

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Mises Institute: Trump’s Potential Legacy: 50 Million+ Enemies of the State

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Ludwig van Mises

Trump's Potential Legacy: 50 Million+ Enemies of the State

As Murray Rothbard illustrated in Anatomy of the State, “What the State fears above all, of course, is any fundamental threat to its own power and its own existence.” A vital part of the state’s existence is its ability to justify its action with a mantle of “legitimacy”—which in an age of democracy comes from the notion of the “consent of the governed.”

The result of 50+ million Americans viewing the next president as a fraud imposed on the people is an inauguration taking place in a Washington, DC, that resembles a warzone, surrounded by soldiers whom the regime does not trust with their own ammo.

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