Threat of “sovereign citizens”?

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   Doug on February 9, 2012 at 1:21 pm

   Based on news reports, most the recent activity involving “sovereign citizens” has involved squatting in foreclosed homes and their questionable practices to claim legal possession.

   And the actual number of reported cases have been very small.

   The government seems to be going to great lengths to find examples to justify what is says are greater and greater levels of law enforcement and government-provided “security.”

   And to provide more security, government bureaucrats insist they need bigger and bigger bureaucracies and budgets.

   We really shouldn’t be surprised by any of this. It all fits nicely with a pitch made by Barack Obama on the campaign trial in 2008: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”