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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM

Duncan Lemp

Duncan Lemp was a 21-year-old supporter of the boogaloo movement who was shot and killed in 2020 by SWAT officers with the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. The officers were serving a no-knock search warrant for... Read more
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FEAR (Forever Enduri…

FEAR was a large militia group formed by soldiers stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia. It operated between 2011 and 2012. Members of FEAR plotted various terrorist acts - including assassinating then-President Barack Obama - and killed... Read more
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FEMA Camps

"FEMA Camps" are a common conspiracy theory among anti-government extremists, especially the militia movement, that maintains that the U.S. government plans on declaring martial law and imprisoning American dissidents in concentration camps run by FEMA. The theory... Read more
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Fictitious Financial…

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
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Flesh and blood man/…

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.
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Free man/woman

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
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Gold-fringed flag

The Gold-fringed flag is a symbol sovereign citizens have fixate on--in courtrooms as elsewhere--because they claim that such flags are military flags, so a fringed flag in a courtroom indicates that the court is a military or... Read more
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Gordon Kahl

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
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Alfred Adask

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.
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III% Security Force

The III% Security Force is a prominent militia group that has had chapters in different states, with the Georgia chapter being the most active.
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