Posted on 11/23/2010 6:13:38 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
He's a 69-year-old veteran who says he is no longer an American citizen.
"I am an American sovereign of the Republic of the United States of America," said Hollis Fay Summers. "I do know there's a lot of us."
He is part of a growing movement that the FBI labels domestic terrorism, but Summers said he is not violent.
"I am strictly for doing what I believe is right under the constitution," said Summers.
Summers lives in Union County, Tennessee. He became a sovereign four years ago after attending a seminar in Alabama.
Sovereigns believe you can separate yourself from government control and access secret government accounts by filing the right paperwork in court.
Summers is now in a battle with his bank which claims he is living in his home illegally.
He admitted he hasn't paid a mortgage in at least three years, but claims he paid off the loan in full, using money from his secret government account.
"I paid for the house, that's all I'll say about it. The house is paid for in full," Summers said.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates responded, "But the bank doesn't say that."
Summers said, "Well they agreed to it."
Retired federal ATF agent James Cavanaugh spent his career monitoring anti-government groups like sovereigns.
"Sovereigns are people who operate on the lunatic fringe of America," Cavanaugh said.
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Makes sense to me. Government fails to follow the constitution, then you have the right to opt out.
Sounds like a viable social contract.
He claims that, in his sovereign language, frivolous really means "true and correct."
Right. Good call there.
Zer0 just makes stuff up, why not everyone else?
Is this kind of like an anarchists’ union?
Or a herd of cats?
So, where’s the secret gub’mint accounts we can access for our fun and profit?
Wonder if Mr. Cavanaugh ever investigated Congress, speaking of lunatic fringe.
This guy is complete moron, and defending his nonsense gets the conservative movement exactly nowhere.
Yep. I don’t think he’s a terrorist. I just think he is a moron. Waste of time all around.
The IRS will climb so far up this guy’s ass that when he sneezes, 1099s will fly out of his nose.
The account that tracks all the Social Security money they took from your paychecks, plus compound interest.
Declare yurself sovereign and tell the bank the federal account number and assign the money to them, with a notice of sovereignty to the US Government and a preious attendence at US Federal Court to renounce citizenship.
I think thats sort of how its claimed to work.
Waco Jim Cavanaugh I presume?
The right to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness sounds like were all sovereigns but the truth is supressed.
I think you have to go to the nearest welfare office to access the secret account.
Ah,yes ... the "lunatic fringe." That was once a lonely and desolate place.
This individual is clearly a monster of ego, who believes that he has no obligation to honor any contract or follow any law because he stands above the rules of morality and community.
He is morally capable of pretty much any enormity.
So, I know the enviro nazis have clearly committed terrorist acts, just what acts have patriot types committed?
Because all I ever hear is, they want to be left alone.
So, show me the terrorist acts they have committed please.
Yes, it’s now occupied by the TSA and DHS, it seems.
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