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DHS Funded Report: Sovereign Citizens Greatest Threat To US

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Brandon Turbeville
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Back in April, 2014, I wrote an article entitled “FBI Visiting Gun Shops To Investigate ‘People Talking About Big Government,” where I reported the fact that FBI Counterterrorism agents were visiting South Carolina gun shops in order to gain information regarding potentially “suspicious” customers. These “suspicious” people were not those suspected of Muslim extremism but Americans who were concerned with big government.

The agent who approached the gun shop discussed in my article was actually quoted as saying “If you see some Middle Eastern guy come in. You don’t have to be so worried about that. What we’re really looking for are people talking about being sovereign such as sovereign citizens or people talking about Big Government.”

At the time, I received a substantial amount of skepticism from those who found the agents words to be too unbelievable to be legitimate.

However, with the revelation of a recent survey conducted by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), all doubt should be removed as to the veracity of the original report.

This is because the START survey “Understanding Law Enforcement Intelligence Processes,” has determined that the Sovereign Citizen movement – not Islamic extremism – is the number one threat for domestic terrorism inside the United States.

RT reports that the survey “found that “52 percent of respondents agreed and 34 percent strongly agreed that sovereign citizens were a serious terrorist threat” as opposed to 39 percent of respondents who agreed and 28 percent who strongly agreed that Islamic extremists were the most serious threat.”


To be fair, Islamic extremism was considered as one of the top three greatest threats to domestic internal security. Also in the top three, was the American Patriot Militia movement, a favorite target of the FBI for 25-30 years despite the fact that the American militia movement is only connected to terrorism in the fantastic realms of propaganda pushed by government agencies.

The report reads that: 

First, law enforcement perceptions about what is a serious threat in their community has changed significantly over time. Law enforcement is much more concerned about sovereign citizens, Islamic extremists, and militia/patriot group members compared to the fringe groups of the far right, including Christian Identity believers, reconstructed traditionalists (i.e., Odinists), idiosyncratic sectarians (i.e., survivalists), and members of doomsday cults. In fact, sovereign citizens were the top concern of law enforcement, but the concern about whether most groups were a serious terrorist threat actually declined for most groups (e.g., the KKK; Christian Identity; Neo-Nazis; Racist Skinheads; Extremist Environmentalists; Extreme Animal Rights Extremists).

This response, of course, is also interesting considering the fact that mainstream media outlets as well as politicians and other commentators have been promoting the idea that there is not only the possibility but the probability that terrorist attacks will occur here in the United States and in Europe as a result of Western-backed death squad fighters returning from the battlefield in Syria and other locations.

Other groups considered potential domestic terrorists include

1. Sovereign Citizens

2. Islamic Extremists/Jihadists

3. Militia/Patriot

4. Racist Skinheads

5. Neo-Nazis

6. Extreme Animal Rightists

7. Extreme Environmentalists

8. Ku Klux Klan

9. Left-wing Revolutionaries

10. Extreme Anti-Abortion

11. Black Nationalists

12. Extreme Anti-Tax

13. Extreme Anti-Immigration

14. Christian Identity

15. Idiosyncratic Sectarians

16. Reconstructed Traditions

According to RT

The officers surveyed said the most useful law enforcement entities in combating terrorism include state/local fusion centers, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force(s), the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis.

In addition, the officers said that the most valuable open-source materials they use to gather information are the Internet, human intelligence sources, and the media.

START is funded by the US Department of Homeland Security with an initial $12 million grant in 2005 which was subsequently renewed in 2008. The DHS’ Science and Technology Directorate supports START but the program also receives funding from other agencies, universities, and private organizations.

Regardless of what one may think of the Sovereign Citizen movement, the fact is that the Homeland Security police state behemoth that was justified under the pretext of protecting Americans from Islamic extremism and al-Qaeda (which is funded and directed by the very same government), is now fully turned inward toward the American people and all who may dissent from the dictates of the State.

Recently by Brandon Turbeville:

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real ConspiraciesFive Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria. Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV.  He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 


Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2014/08/dhs-funded-report-sovereign-citizens.html


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    • bozzchem

      Oh the irony!!

      The greatest threat to US citizens is the DHS and the criminal government which uses it as a tool for oppression.

    • ConfuciousSay

      Sovereign citizens are the one and only group of people in this country that want to be left completely alone. They are not a threat to anyone or any government because they don’t even acknowledge the existence of the government, let alone want to take it over.

    • desertspeaks

      greatest threat to the PRIVATE FOR PROFIT CORPORATION commonly called the UNITED STATES or the united states of America?? because the two are NOT one in the same!!!
      The corporation is a murderous lying death machine run by homicidal maniacs!

    • MSG Chicken

      Some other threats are:

      Illegal sodomite Negroes.
      Ugly women Demoncraps.
      Foul-mouthed politicians (usually Demoncraps)
      Moslems appointed by illegal sodomite Negroes.
      Moslems appointed by foul-mouthed politicians (usually Demoncraps).
      Negress Congresswomen.
      Transgendered Negroes.
      Racist Negroes.
      Racist Negro Pastors.
      Politicians that advocate 2-barreled shotguns.
      Politicians that have the last name of Gutierrez.
      Released Negro rapists.
      Illegal immigrants.
      Drunk Mexican drivers.

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