Another Demonization Campaign

by Lew Rockwell
Lew Rockwell Blog
Aug. 12, 2010

Pro-government entities like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the AP, the ADL, and Huffpo are worried by Americans who consider themselves “sovereign citizens.” These are “U.S. residents who declare themselves above state and federal laws. Many don’t register children’s births, carry driver’s licenses, or recognize the court system.” Their numbers have increased “thanks to the recession, the foreclosure crisis, the growth of the Internet and the election of Barack Obama in 2008.” One leader argues that “he’s not subject to the laws of the U.S., which he calls a corporation along the lines of a car company. “General Motor’s laws don’t affect me because I’m not an employee of them. Same with the state of Ohio and the United States.’” If this article is accurate--and it is based on allegations by professional dissident-haters--the sovereign citizens need to read some Rothbard on economics, American history, and anarcho-capitalism. Indeed, they need to do a lot of reading. But whatever happened to tolerance and diversity? The sovereign citizens are hardly wrong in wanting to be free. No matter how naive they may be otherwise, these people are--like the vast majority of us--victims of the regime, its Fed, its wars, its corporatism, its spying. It is the state we should scorn, and all those who shill for it, not those crushed under its treads.