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Sovereign citizen movement — Wikipedia (en)

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The sovereign citizen movement (sometimes abbreviated as SovCits) is a loose group of anti-government activists, conspiracy theorists, vexatious litigants, tax protesters and financial scammers found mainly in English-speaking common law countries—the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Sovereign citizens have a pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of common law, and claim not to be subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them. The movement appeared in the U.S. in the early 1970s and has since expanded to other countries; the similar freeman on the land movement emerged during the 2000s in Canada before spreading to other Commonwealth countries. Sovereign citizen ideas have also been incorporated by other fringe movements in the United States and abroad, such as the Reichsbürger in Germany and Austria. The FBI has called sovereign citizens "anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or 'sovereign' from the United States". The sovereign citizen phenomenon is a primary contemporary source of pseudolaw. Sovereign citizens believe that courts or law enforcements authorities have no jurisdiction over people and that certain procedures and loopholes can make one immune to government laws and regulations. They regard most forms of taxation as illegitimate and reject state documentation such as Social Security numbers, driver's licenses, and vehicle registration. The movement's appeal to people facing financial or legal difficulties or wishing to resist perceived government oppression has helped it grow significantly during times of economic or social crisis. Most schemes promoted by sovereign citizens aim to avoid paying taxes, ignore laws, eliminate debts, or extract money from the government. Sovereign citizen arguments have no basis in law and have never been successful in court. American sovereign citizens claim that the United States federal government is illegitimate, and those outside the U.S. hold similar beliefs about their countries' governments. The movement can be traced to American far-right groups such as the Posse Comitatus and the constitutionalist wing of the militia movement. It was originally associated with White supremacy and antisemitism but now attracts people of various ethnicities, including a significant number of African Americans. The latter sometimes belong to self-declared "Moorish" sects. Most sovereign citizens are not violent, but the methods the movement advocates are illegal. Sovereign citizens notably adhere to the fraudulent schemes promoted by the redemption "A4V" movement. Many have been found guilty of offenses such as tax evasion, forgery, threatening public officials, bank fraud, and traffic violations. Two of the most important crackdowns by U.S. authorities on sovereign citizen organizations were the 1996 case of the Montana Freemen and the 2018 sentencing of self-proclai

Tema degli esploratori: ricerca e scienza aperta (deposito sistematico; ricerca «citizen science»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Sovereign citizen movement» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement
Wikidata Q7571617 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7571617
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