I believe the ‘Sovereign Citizen’ peeps embrace that flag. They are scary, YMMV.
Correct, as I stated the same individuals who were in that parade hold events with the American flag now.
The one flag that looks like the American flag is the Aryan Nations flag, that organization doesn’t really exist now.
But the same Nationalism is still the driver in the events that I have seen lately.
The Northwest Front is the only group I have seen using their own flag post 9-11. There is an intentional effort to mainline the message in these particular groups.
The Tea Party embraced that flag too, and they’re not scary.
Nm
Terrifying, really.
They scare me.
Where have you been? That sort of thing was extremely common after 9/11.
Why?
You really can’t imagine someone being scared of a Tea Partier? Really?
The Sovereign Citizens movement has its origin in White extremists groups.
The FBI classifies them as Domestic terrorists.
Yeah, I really don’t understand it. 99% of the “Tea Partiers” I’ve ever met have been utterly mundane and completely non-threatening.
I’ve always assumed that the kind of pick-up-truck-flag-waving described by OP is just self-perceived “patriotic” people being very holier-than-thou pretentious about it. Their message always seems to scream to me “We’re holier (more patriotic) than all the rest of you.”
It’s gay code, like that colored handkerchief thing. In the middle of the flatbed means you’re a catcher.
And for some weird reason, they’re the same folks who are all too eager to overlook treason against the US.
I have no problem with a little patriotism. So they fly the flag on their vehicle. Good for them. Some people still fly them at their house. At a time when so many people openly disrespect their nation and what it stands for, a little waving of the flag seems rather nice to me.
Sovereign Citizens only care about whether or not the American flag has a gold fringe. They have some really weird beliefs.
^^^Is that true?
It’s overstated a little, but largely true. Gold-fringed flags are a convenient shorthand for illustrating the inherent ridiculousness of the SovCits’ pseudolegal self-justifications.
Actually the Sovereign Citizens movement (along with a lot of the weird right wing fringe stuff like FEMA Death Camps) has its origins in the 1960’s left, whereas different radical black organizations where they argued that since most blacks were not considered citizens when the Constitution/Bill of Rights was written and since officially no amendment was ever passed explicitly granting them citizenship that all blacks in America officially weren’t citizens and were exempt from almost all laws.
Eventually variations of this belief filtered into various libertarian groups who expanded on it and eventually would become the Sovereign Citizens movement.