# 'Sovereign Citizens' arrested in domestic terrorism plot **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sovereign-citizens-arrested-in-domestic-terrorism-plot/666998 "2013-08-23T19:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sovereign-citizens-arrested-in-domestic-terrorism-plot/666998/1 "2013-08-23T19:58:24Z")
[Vegas arrests cast light on anti-government ‘sovereign citizens’ movement](http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/23/20151351-vegas-arrests-cast-light-on-anti-government-sovereign-citizens-movement?lite) > [@](#): > > A Las Vegas couple who plotted to kidnap and kill police officers are part of a growing movement whose adherents believe they aren’t subject to laws and follow a complex theory about the secret enslavement of American citizens, authorities say. > > \ > > The two shopped for guns, found a vacant house and rigged it to bind captives to cross beams during interrogation, and they planned to subject officers to their form of a trial for civil rights violations, authorities said. So… Couldn’t the kidnapped cops just tell them that they are sovereign citizens themselves, and therefore cannot be tried under the kidnappers ‘laws’? I knew that Sovereign Citizens don’t want to pay taxes (while at the same time enjoying the things those taxes pay for :rolleyes: ), but I didn’t know that some of them were terrorists. > [@](#): > > Arrested were David Allen Brutsche, 42, an ex-convict child sex offender… Oh, I see. It does go beyond taxes. Brutsche feels that he should not be bound by laws infringing on his freedom to have sex with children.