Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.
These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.
The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.
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Expect more of this. Dissent cannot be tolerated for long. Dissenters must be demonized.
Gee, maybe this forum is on their hit list?
Seems like most libertarians, conservatives and anti washington, D.C. folks fall into their definition of extremists. Are those camps that the government is building for us?
In Germany they first came for the Communists
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
–The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church
who spent seven years in a concentration camp.