While the White House held a Countering Violent Extremism summit this
week to talk about “extremist ideologies that radicalize” – not radical
Islam in particular but myriad forms of extremism domestic and foreign –
CNN reported that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has
circulated an intelligence assessment on the “domestic terror threat
from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists.” The assessment, reviewed
by CNN, was produced in coordination with the FBI and “counts 24 violent
sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010,” the news
group reported on Feb. 20.
According to the report, “(Sovereign citizen)
violence during 2015 will occur most frequently during routine law
enforcement encounters at a suspect’s home, during enforcement stops and
at government offices.”
The report adds that “law enforcement officers will
remain the primary target of (sovereign citizen) violence over the next
year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulatio
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