FBI: ‘Sovereign citizen' cases on the rise

FBI: ‘Sovereign citizen' cases on the rise

Federal authorities are seeing an increase in the number of foreclosed and unoccupied homes in metro Atlanta being seized by members of an anti-government group.

"I'm not sure I can connect it with the economy, but we've seen a surge of these in the last year, in particular," Stephen Emmett, special agent in the Atlanta field office of the FBI, said Saturday. Emmet said federal and local authorities increasingly are running into confrontations with members of a sect known as "sovereign citizens."

The group believes banks can't own land or property and that any home owned by a bank -- including the thousands of foreclosed properties throughout Georgia -- are theirs for the taking.

"They're expanding throughout the Metro Atlanta area," Emmett said. "DeKalb has had (its) fair share of problems with them and now Clayton."

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The Israels were not charged and left without incident. Shortly after, cleanup crews for the bank put furniture and other belongings on the lawn and boarded up the house.


http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-sovereign-citizen-cases-861611.html

Now SWAT teams get to spend all their time chasing out squatters from foreclosed homes. How uniquely American.

Our police force used to protect the stolen property of the banksters.

All bow down to our corporate aristocracy.

I have no problem with people squatting in a vacant place but these "sovereign citizen" kooks are another matter.

How long until these guys get their next Waco and are pushed over the edge again?

Now that we again have a Democratic president they're coming out of the woodwork again, along with the related militia movement.

Funny how these groups don't seem as active during Republican administrations.

Democrats are, apparently.