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A federal jury Friday returned across-the board guilty verdicts against Winston Shrout, a prominent sovereign citizen charged with 13 counts of issuing fake financial documents to banks and the U.S. Treasury and six counts of willful failure to file tax returns from 2009 to 2014.
a prominent sovereign citizen charged with 13 counts of issuing fake financial documents to banks and the U.S. Treasury
The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American, Canadian and Australian litigants, commentators, tax protesters, and financial-scheme promoters. Self-described sovereign citizens take the position that they are answerable only to their particular interpretation of the common law and are not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.[1] They do not recognize United States currency, and maintain that they are "free of any legal constraints".[2][3][4] They especially reject most forms of taxation as illegitimate.[5] Participants in the movement argue this concept in opposition to "federal citizens," who, they say, have unknowingly forfeited their rights by accepting some aspect of federal law.[6] The doctrines of the movement are similar to those of the freemen on the land movement more commonly found in Britain and Canada.[7][8][9][10]
Sovereign citizen movement
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: anonentity
you do realize that the the Sovereign Citizen Movement is nothing but a big joke and just about all of them that go to criminal court wind up in jail right?
from the wiki,
The sovereign citizen movement is a loose grouping of American, Canadian and Australian litigants, commentators, tax protesters, and financial-scheme promoters. Self-described sovereign citizens take the position that they are answerable only to their particular interpretation of the common law and are not subject to any government statutes or proceedings.[1] They do not recognize United States currency, and maintain that they are "free of any legal constraints".[2][3][4] They especially reject most forms of taxation as illegitimate.[5] Participants in the movement argue this concept in opposition to "federal citizens," who, they say, have unknowingly forfeited their rights by accepting some aspect of federal law.[6] The doctrines of the movement are similar to those of the freemen on the land movement more commonly found in Britain and Canada.[7][8][9][10]
Sovereign citizen movement
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: missed_gear
i was gonna tell the Op to try it and get back to us and lets us know how it works out.
this for some reason reminds me of something the Sovereign Citizen Movement would push.