In the bush outside Porepunkah, a small town in Victoria, Australia, a manhunt is underway. The Mount Buffalo national park stretches to the east; somewhere in its 31,000 acres of alpine forest there ...

It started as a traffic stop for a broken tail light. Then the case of self-proclaimed sovereign citizen Michael Mattingly devolved into a series of delays, unusual filings and, eventually, a ...

The sovereign citizen movement, according to a 2013 paper from the University of North Carolina School of Government, is a catch-all term encompassing several anti-government groups such as the ...

Police in Australia are searching for a “very dangerous” man suspected of killing two Victoria police officers and injuring another. Dezi Freeman, a 56-year-old with a history of offenses, remains at ...

When I wrote about the “Cavalcade of the Cretinous” in February 2022, I thought the anti-vaccination early incarnations of “sovereign citizens” were just a hopeless joke (“Summernats without the ...

The alleged killing of two police officers who attempted to serve a warrant on a self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen” in Australia shows how a movement that originated in the United States has taken ...

Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign citizen ideologies, or views that reject ...

While executing an arrest warrant at a property in the regional Victorian town of Porepunkah on Tuesday morning, two police officers were shot dead and another was seriously wounded. The alleged ...