This is really interesting stuff.
Film star Wesley Snipes (One Night Stand, Blade) is scheduled for release from federal prison on July 19, 2013, 31 months after being incarcerated for failure to file his income-tax returns.
During his trial several other charges against him were dismissed including attempts to use the 861 argument, a claim that section 861 of the tax code exempts certain activities from the income tax and that is used unsuccessfully by tax protestors to avoid paying income taxes, as well as fraudulent attempts to obtain income-tax refunds from the IRS — Snipes referred to himself as “a non-resident alien†despite the fact that he is a U.S.-born citizen.
These are some of the tools the “sovereign citizen movement†(SCM) teaches in its quest to free members from various onerous and perceived unconstitutional laws and to declare themselves independent of the government.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/8198-sovereign-citizen-movement-continues-to-attract-attention
Jerry and Joe Kane were part of an anti-government movement whose roots date back to the racist Posse Comitatus of the 1970s and the Montana Freemen of the 1990s. Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols was a sovereign citizen. And tax filings by actor Wesley Snipes, convicted of tax evasion in 2008, include numerous examples of sovereign language.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-look-at-the-sovereign-citizen-movement/2/
“Sovereign Citizen Movement†Continues to Attract Attention
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Mar 1, 2012 ... ... as well as fraudulent attempts to obtain income-tax refunds from the IRS — Snipes referred to himself as “a non-resident alien†despite the fact that he is a U.S.-born citizen. These are some of the tools the “sovereign citizen movement†( SCM) teaches in its quest to free members from various onerous and ...
A look at the "sovereign citizen" movement - Page 2 - CBS News
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And tax filings by actor Wesley Snipes, convicted of tax evasion in 2008, include numerous examples of sovereign language. "(The) Average sovereign citizen today is 30-35, and is in economic dire straits. They've probably lost their job. They've probably lost the wife," MacNab said. Asked if they're paranoid, she told Pitts, ...
The Paranoid Strain | Sovereign Citizens to Wesley Snipes
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Dec 5, 2017 ... This is our fifth episode, and the third of our series on the history of right wing, racist movements, and their evolution into the Sovereign Citizens. But most importantly, this is the episode where we explain why Wesley Snipes went to jail. That may seem like a weird point to harp on, but that's actually the ...
Tax protester 861 argument - Wikipedia
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The 861 argument is a statutory argument used by tax protesters in the United States, which interprets a portion of the Internal Revenue Code as invalidating certain applications of income tax. The argument has uniformly been held by courts to be incorrect, and persons who have cited the argument as a basis for refusing to ...
FBI — The Sovereign Citizen Movement
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Apr 13, 2010 ... Today, we look at a third threat—the “sovereign citizen†extremist movement. Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign†from the United States. As a result, they believe they don't have to answer to ...
Examining the Sovereign Citizen Movement in the Obama Era ...
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Apr 28, 2014 ... Ideology aside, the world has also changed in the sovereign citizens' favor. With the average American squeezed both by higher debt and economic pressures, more people are willing to try sovereign citizen strategies to escape financial calamity. (One sign of this is when actor Wesley Snipes tried to use ...
Why Sovereign Citizens Don't Pay Taxes - disinformation - Disinfo.com
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Apr 12, 2015 ... Now before you get too excited, if you're American and you decide you're a sovereign citizen (whatever that means), opting out of paying federal income tax will get you precisely as far as it did Wesley Snipes. Be that as it may, sovereign citizen logic can be quite amusing, as recounted by Brea Tremblay at ...
Psychotic Discourse: The Rhetoric of the Sovereign Citizen Movement
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Keywords: conspiracy theories, psychoanalysis, psychosis, Jacques Lacan. Ten years ago, actor Wesley Snipes issued a 600-page statement to the Internal. Revenue Service protesting its schemes to “terrorize, enslave, rape or pillageâ€. American taxpayers. Indicted for tax fraud, Snipes claimed that he was exempt.
The UCC makes our Constitution irrelevant? | Metabunk
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Jan 8, 2012 ... ... sovereignty (sovereign citizen) which then exempts them from out constitution … they stop paying taxes, drive without a license or license plates and even declare in open court that the courts don't have jurisdiction of them. This is the same conspiracy theory Wesley Snipes tried to use to not pay taxes.
Baton Rouge Cop Killer Was a “Sovereign Citizen.†What the Heck Is ...
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Jul 20, 2016 ... (Wesley Snipes, convicted of tax evasion in 2008, had ties to one of the first known black sovereign groups, the Nuwabians.) According to J. J. MacNab, an expert o@TomSea 
