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Old 08-21-2012, 07:24 AM
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The agency said: 'Although the sovereign-citizen movement does not always rise to violence, its members’… activities…make it a group that should be approached with knowledge and caution.'

Not only do the vast majority of them not rise to, or condone violence, but you probably find higher ratios of violent people in the democratic or republican parties. Point being, that in perspective, thse people are not unlike any other demographic. what makes them so worriesome to the government is that they dare to point out the weaknesses of government structure, and do so using the very words the government also uses to keep the populace under their thumb.

I don't subscribe to many of the sovereign's practices and beliefs, but after researching them, I have found they have many good points. They do believe in the adherance to the constitutional law, and that's another thing that troubles the government. The constitution perscribes our coin, our prosecutiona; system, basic rights, and limits the power of government. These are things that our current government finds repugnant and develop crafty methods to evade. The failure of the government to obtain precisely what they want from constitutional law spurred them to create administrative law, which has invaded the legal system like a virus, and destroyed many basic rights that a person has. They created a system of "infractions" that are neither crimes nor civil suits to get around the jury trial rights of persons. Administrative penalties can and are levied in the thousands of dollars, by a person, not even a judge, without a trial, and all you can do is "appeal" after the fact.

I won't get into the that whole can of worms right now, but the sovereigns use of the constitution is the biggest problem to the government, not the few crimes they commit. If the government was so worried about a certain demographic that committed crimes, they'd be hot on the trail of illegals. But illegals don't use the constitution's plain language in most cases, and immigration law is basically administrative law too, so they're no grand problem to the machine

Say what you want about the few that have latched on to the sovereign movement and committed crimes and mayhem, but that's not the whole of them. The government in this case is trying to snuff out a smoldering fire that threatens to burn the paper chains that keep them in power.
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