QAnon is the umbrella term for a sprawling spiderweb of right-wing internet conspiracy theories with antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ elements that falsely claim the world is run by a secret cabal of pedophiles who worship Satan and are plotting against President Trump. Though some influential individuals are active in the movement, it is not an organized group with defined leadership.
It was to have been a historic roundup of enemies of the extreme right, ending with Hillary Clinton, former FBI director James Comey, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Senator Harry Reid and a slew of other politicians, jurists and law enforcement officers in the custody of those who would have them tried by “common law grand juries” for their perceived crimes.
In this month’s Sovereign Files, the alleged Holy Fire starter pleads not guilty, it takes three officers to pull a man from his car when he refuses to move, and an accused killer says laws do not apply to him.
In this month’s Sovereign Files, a Utah sovereign citizen has a standoff with police, a sovereign guru gets hard time, a man in Louisiana claims to have monkey blood in his possession and Ryan Bundy sues the U.S. Attorney General and four former members of the government.
In this month’s Sovereign Files, a sovereign was forcibly removed from her car by Florida sheriffs, a drug trafficker committed paper terrorism from his jail cell, and a longtime tax protestor with a predilection for aliens was evaluated as competent, rather than crazy.
A Florida resident accused of killing two police officers last summer is the latest addition to the growing list of domestic antigovernment extremists known as sovereign citizens who have committed serious crimes including a number of other murders.
A former Tennessee resident was convicted last week on two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Michael Wayne Parsons, 57, has also been linked to an extremist plot to kidnap a Nebraska sheriff and a Tennessee judge last year.
A fugitive sovereign citizen wanted by South Carolina authorities for his reported involvement in a fatal shooting in Sumter was apprehended August 15 by the U.S. Marshals Service in Jacksonville, Florida.
In this month’s Sovereign Files, a man who conned people into filing cases in a fake court is convicted on multiple charges; an Illinois man is charged with contempt of court for the second time in four years; a man who calls himself Church reveals plans to run for president upon his arrest; and more.
