Fictitious financial instruments are fraudulent, typically check-like documents that purport to transfer a sum of money like a check or money order. They are frequently created by adherents of the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement and used... Read more

Sovereign citizens frequently call themselves "flesh and blood" people, or similar terms, to distinguish themselves from artificial duplicates of people that sovereigns claim the illegitimate government has created for nefarious reasons.

Free man/woman or free man/woman upon the land are terms used by sovereign citizens to refer to themselves as ones not bound by the laws, regulations or rulings of the illegitimate government. In Canada, sovereign citizens are... Read more

Gordon Kahl (1920-1983) was a member of the far-right Posse Comitatus movement. Kahl was involved in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement in 1983, one in North Dakota and one months later in Arkansas after law enforcement... Read more

Alfred Adask was a prominent and influential Texas-based sovereign citizen guru, especially active in the 1990s in promoting bogus liens and other sovereign citizen theories. His writings can be found in fringe online spaces.