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Two police officers and two people who considered themselves "sovereign citizens" -- a 16-year-old and his father -- werekilled in West Memphis, Ark., in a 2010 shootout. Two North Carolina officers who train police to deal with sovereigncitizens often cite the Arkansas case when explaining the danger. (Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal / May 20, 2010)

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By David Zucchino, Los Angeles TimesApril 5, 2013 ,4:14 p.m.

GREENSBORO, N.C. With his shaggy hair, bushy

mustache and obstinate ways, Jeffrey Allen Wright was well

known to sheriff's deputies in Santa Rosa County, Fla.

Wright, 55, drove around with a phony license plate. When

stopped, he refused to produce a driver's license. Once he

threatened to sue a deputy who pulled him over.

After he was fined for traffic offenses in September, Wright

paid with counterfeit money orders. When deputies served

warrants for felony counterfeiting March 8, Wright

barricaded himself in his garage and declared that he would

not be "a servant of the king."

He broke out windows with a handgun, then pointed the

weapon at officers, police said. Three deputies fired, killing

Wright.

When Det. Rob Finch of the Greensboro police department

heard about the incident, two words came to mind: sovereign

citizen.

Finch teaches police and public officials around the country

how to deal with self-described "sovereign citizens" like

Wright. Finch and his partner, Det. Kory Flowers, have

trained nearly 15,000 police and 5,000 public officials to

combat sovereigns, zealots who refuse to recognize

government authority in virtually any form.

Violent confrontations are rare, but the FBI says at least six

police officers have been killed by sovereigns since 2000. A

man tied to the movement shot and killed a California

Highway Patrol officer who stopped him in Contra Costa

County last year. A responding officer shot and killed the

assailant.

The agency calls sovereigns who number between 100,000 and 300,000 a "domestic terrorist

movement."

This time of year has federal authorities on alert, since a central tenet of the sovereigns movement is

that its adherents believe they owe no income taxes.

Sovereigns assert that the U.S. Treasury has set up a secret money account for every American, which

can be reclaimed through a bizarre set of legal filings known as redemption. They say everything

from taxes to traffic tickets can be disposed of by drawing on the secret Treasury accounts through

elaborate legal claims and mountains of paperwork.

Many sovereigns file invoices with police or judges, demanding hundreds of dollars an hour for time

spent stopped by officers or when in court to answer charges.

Finch, 31, said his training sessions began after several sovereigns pulled over by Greensboro policen 2008 and 2009 refused to produce driver's licenses. They demanded that officers recite oaths of

office and fill out long questionnaires.

"To them, a police officer is just a man in a Halloween costume," Finch said.

Other police departments began requesting their eight-hour seminars. Finch and Flowers now train

agents of the FBI, DEA, ATF and Homeland Security as well as district attorneys, clerks of court,

udges and registrars nationwide. Finch says they are the only officers in the country who offer such

street-level training.

They teach police to recognize sovereigns by their convoluted legal jargon and "mouthy" defiance.

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"Sovereign citizens are more likely not to obey their commands and more likely to commit violence

during a traffic stop," Finch said.

Finch and Flowers often cite the 2010 deaths of two police officers in West Memphis, Ark., who were

shot by a father-son sovereign team during a traffic stop for a bogus license plate. One officer had

become distracted by a thick sheaf of papers thrust at him by one of the sovereigns.

Finch said he instructs officers to ignore paperwork other than license and registration. "Your

antennae should immediately go up," he tells officers. "They refuse to recognize your authority, and

that creates a dangerous situation."

As recently as August, two sheriff's deputies in Laplace, La., were shot and killed in an ambush.

Police said at least two of the five men accused in the killings were sovereign citizens.

In Florida, police approached Wright carefully because he had told them in past encounters that he

was not subject to police authority. Wright paid his taxes with a handwritten "coupon for payment,"

said Deputy Richard Aloy of the Santa Rosa Sheriff's Department. He had renounced his U.S.

citizenship.

"They knew they had a bad individual, and they took the necessary precautions," Finch said.

Even nonviolent sovereigns can cause headaches through what Finch calls "paper terrorism." Some

squat in foreclosed homes and file phony deeds claiming ownership, "paying" with photos of silver

dollars. Sovereigns believe U.S. currency has no value but recognize precious metals as valid

currency.

Many sovereigns including the father-son team in the Arkansas shooting hold seminars of their

own in which they charge for lessons on redemption and tax avoidance. "You pay them in cash for

them to tell you money has no value," Finch said.

Officials from Greensboro and other cities pushed for a new North Carolina law that makes filing

false liens a felony rather than a misdemeanor. Finch said the law, coupled with training of court

officials, has helped block or dismiss many phony liens and nuisance lawsuits.

But sovereigns continue to file suits and liens, hoping to claim property and damages, Finch said.

At one meeting Finch attended, a charismatic sovereign citizen told a rapt audience that U.S.

currency has no value. But he also explained how to redeem millions of dollars from secret U.S.

Treasury accounts, and how to use the courts to evade government control and taxes.

Afterward, Finch said, he asked the man what he did for a living. He was a U.S. Postal Service

worker.

Finch asked how he justified working for a government he considered illegitimate. "He told me he

needed the money to live out his ideology," he said.

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South Seas Cave at 11:32 AM April 08, 2013

This is so 1980's China, they could as well rename the US to Republic Of Tiananmen (R.O.T.)

MauiHI at 11:27 AM April 08, 2013

....and so begins the training of the sheeple to accept that some of their fellow citizens are"terrorists" and must be dealt with harshly. Such as indefinite detention/dronestrikes/martial law. It's for their safety and for the children don't ya know. Don't you worry

your pretty little heads. Big daddy government will take care of the bad men, and keep theEBT cards coming....back to sleep now.Of course I guess they have a point. Had we used such tactics on Obama mentors/ Marxistrevolutionary Weather Underground leaders Ayers and Dohrn, we wouldn't be in thesituation we are today.

Darla33 at 10:03 AM April 08, 2013

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power tocrack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. Onedeclares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without

breaking laws.

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