Experts Say 'Sovereign Citizens' a Threat to Law Enforcement

Experts Say 'Sovereign Citizens' a Threat to Law Enforcement: Allegations that David Allen Brutsche, 42, and Devon Campbell Newman, 67, planned to confront police officers during traffic stops and kill them if they resisted illustrated the volatility of official interactions with people committed to the idea of fighting governmental authority, they said.

These people are not anarchists, they are homicidal maniacs

The two stood before a judge Friday and told him they didn't recognize his authority to keep them in jail.
Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen had none of it.
"So noted," he responded.

Beirich, at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said not all people who consider themselves sovereign citizens are violent.
But she called traffic stops involving people driving with fake license plates or without registration or driver's licenses a "typical flash point between cops and sovereigns."