The sovereign citizen movement has spread from the US into numerous countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and South Africa.

There have also been a couple of isolated cases in Singapore, but nothing that adds up to a movement.

German police raid far-right prepper scene over coup plot

The suspects allegedly have connections to the Reichsbürger (sovereign citizen) movement. Police said investigations were underway. https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-raid-far-right-prepper-scene-over-coup-plot/a-64791463

I've set up accounts on three social media sites to replace Twitter.

CoSo is the clear winner but I need to find a way to attract more journalists and researchers to join for it to be an effective replacement.

Post.news is fine for news updates, but it's funded by Mark Andreesen, who isn't all that different from Musk and indeed helped ($) Musk buy Twitter.

Spoutible is problematic harassment-wise and I only set up an account there to prevent someone else from spoofing me.

East Bay (SF, CA Bay) high school teacher called out for antisemitic lessons

https://jweekly.com/2023/02/21/east-bay-high-school-teacher-called-out-for-antisemitic-lessons/

@MakerWerks Yeah. I was in Silicon Valley in the 80s and 90s. Musk is a recognizable type.

@JoyfullyDazed @danielbsmith The bankruptcy filing doesn't say, but it's probably because, once indicted, the J6 defendants were prohibited from having firearms in their homes as a condition of pre-trial release.

A lot of people wondered why I dropped Twitter within a week of Musk taking the helm.

It was like a dam burst and I got hit with a wave of abuse and threats.

I've always received a number of threats, but nothing like that.

Wow. It took Twitter four months to respond to just one of many threats I've gotten there since Musk took over.

Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

Alex Jones is ‘holding firearms’ for Jan. 6 rioters, bankruptcy docs show https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/16/alex-jones-holding-firearms-jan-6-rioters/

I had been monitoring the father but didn't focus on the sidekick son. Second generation sovereigns, it turned out, sometimes skip right past the paperwork phase into the violent phase because they see the paperwork fail over and over and over when their parent(s) try to use it.

Anyhoo, I wish I'd been involved in this project. There was a lot of nuance in the situation that was swallowed up by the fact that this father-son team shot four cops, killing two before dying in a gun battle.

The father wasn't the violent one; he was all wrapped up in the Byzantine paperwork that defines the sovcit movement. His 16 year old son was the killer and his father decided to die in a gun battle with his child after the initial two officers were dead.

We became friends but I didn't meet Bob in person until a couple of years later when we visited his son's gravesite together during the filming of a Canadian documentary.

It took a very long time for the American press to catch up with the movement. Foreign new orgs were on it from the beginning. When I pitched sovcit movement stories to American reporters, they got shut down by editors who didn't find them interesting enough to print/air.

Imagine thinking that sovcits were uninteresting...

Joe Kane (the teenage kid) murdered two police officers during a routine traffic stop, and since the sovereign movement was all but unheard of in 2010, I called the police department to offer what I knew about the Kanes and the movement in general.

The PD switchboard patched me right through to the Chief of Police, Bob Paudert. His son was one of the officers who had been gunned down.

It was an emotional conversation.

I had been tracking the father and son duo for months prior to the shooting, watching videos of their seminars, and hanging out on the website/forums/listervs where they were desperately trying to market sov cit theories.

They were failing miserably and in financial straits when they were heading back across the country to Florida. If Jerry didn't have a girlfriend in Florida, they'd have been living in their van.

I wrote the article to bring law enforcement up to date on the dangers of the sovereign citizen movement, which was really taking off in 2009-2010.
http://www.seditionists.com/sovcitkane.pdf

Sounds like the Jerry and Joe Kane story, which I wrote about in 2010.

Nick Offerman, Jacob Tremblay, Dennis Quaid Team for Crime Thriller ‘Sovereign’ (Exclusive)

Concourse Media is launching the film, the feature directorial debut of Christian Swegal that follows a father and son who belong to a group of anti-government extremists as they venture across the U.S., at the EFM.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sovereign-nick-offerman-jacob-tremblay-dennis-quaid-1235326189/

@Saorsa @tiptoeing @Render TK workship is a thing among some younger people groups.

May he never see the light of day again

Gunman sentenced to life in prison for Buffalo massacre of Black victims

Payton Gendron targeted Black people and posted a rambling online statement that included antisemitic rants and far-right conspiracy theories

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/02/15/buffalo-shooting-gendron-sentencing/

J6 defendant Hatchet Speed:

"Speed believes President Biden is operated by Jews, whom he believes want to destroy Christianity and kill Christians...He outlined a plan to enlist Christians to wipe out the country’s entire Jewish population and described his aspiration to improve upon the efforts of Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph.