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Sovereign Citizens Are a Sometimes Violent Fringe Group Rejecting All Government

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Embracing God as the only authority, they clog the courts with endless protests, writes Winston Ross.

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His name is Craig Douglas Fleshman, though he won’t answer to that, just as he no longer carries a driver’s license or pays taxes. Pastor Paul Revere doesn’t recognize the authority of the State of Oregon, the United States of America, or anyone else that presumes to have some command...

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