Thursday, August 19, 2010
Whack Jobs DeKalb DA: Extremist group seized foreclosed homes, shopping center
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:45 AM
Best story o' the day, folks!
Prosecutors say the $1 million brick home next to the Goddards’ farmhouse [in south DeKalb County] is one of at least 19 properties that have been taken over by a sect of anti-government extremists involved in criminal behavior.They call themselves “sovereign citizens” and believe they are immune to state and federal laws. They assert, among other things, that banks can’t own land and that any home owned by a bank — including the thousands throughout Georgia — is free for the taking.
Police and prosecutors take a different view. The FBI has listed them on the domestic terrorist list, saying their crime of choice is paper terrorism and attempting to disrupt the U.S. economy.
“Let’s not paint these people to be Robin Hood because they’re not giving to the poor,” DeKalb County Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney John Melvin told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “They are taking.”
And we are giggling!
The paper reports the group has ties to at least 19 property thefts in metro Atlanta which include mansions and AN ENTIRE SHOPPING CENTER. Read this feelgood story here.
UPDATE: The Anti-Defamation League passes along this report on the sovereign citizen movement, which is worth a read.
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for the record - i too am a "common man of the sovereign people" but don't need no stinking affadavit to affirm it.
u can tell by my walk.
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Can someone explain this excerpt from the AJC:
The FBI says the national movement has been around for decades and has ties to the Nuwaubians, a black supremacist group that started near Augusta. Nationally, sovereign citizens, which originated as a white supremacist group...
Are they white or black supremacy groups???
Kevin.Bacon,
Via the ADL report linked above:
Though the sovereign citizen movement is still largely white (and contains some white supremacist members), in recent years a growing African-American offshoot of the sovereign citizen movement, often called the "Moorish" movement, has been gaining strength, teaching sovereign citizen ideas and tactics to a new pool of potential recruits.
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