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They call themselves sovereign citizens, and they're part of a growing anti-government movement that rejects state and federal law. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks extremist groups and estimates there are 300,000 sovereigns nationwide, but a NewsChannel 5 investigation reveals the movement is thriving here in middle Tennessee. The Southern Poverty Law Center is warning police departments across the country about the growing movement. It has produced a video which shows officers how to identify sovereigns. In May, two men who belonged to the movement, shot and killed two West Memphis police officers after the officers pulled them over for...

This was passed to me by Jerry Kane, who delivered this speech below at the Freedom Celebration for We the People tea party rally last Saturday. I am sure hearing these words live and in person would have been much better, but even written Jerry Kane details very well the parallels between the current trends in America and the trends in Germany that lead to one of the most evil, fascist governments of the century. While I do not believe, as Kane suggests, that Obama himself is seeking the same end result as Nazi Germany, the trend in America is...

West Memphis police officer Bill Evans was found lying face down in a ditch after being shot multiple times by a 16-year-old, including a shot in the back, the city's police chief said Tuesday. The chief said his son, a sergeant over the criminal interdiction unit, took cover Thursday behind his vehicle as teenager Joseph Kane opened fire with an AK-47. He said bullets pierced the engine and the car and shattered glass. Brandon was riddled with bullets before being shot in the back of the head, Paudert said. SNIP Paudert told them that as of Tuesday, he wanted officers...

Just happened in the last hour or so. One of the killed police officers is the son of the Chief of Police.

Arkansas police authorities have sent the bodies of two people killed in a Thursday gunbattle with police to the state crime lab for identification. They refused to discuss any details about their investigation of the events that left two West Memphis police officers dead and two other law enforcement officers wounded. “The Arkansas State Police is not confident of the identification that we have at this moment in time, as of 8:40 on Friday morning ," said spokesman Bill Sadler. "We are waiting for results from the state crime laboratory. We don’t play CSI around here. We want it right.”...

Crittenden County Sheriff Dick Busby didn't even have a gun Thursday when the suspects in the slaying of two West Memphis police officers jumped out of their minivan and began spraying bullets at him and his deputy chief. "They got out shooting with what they had," Busby said Saturday from his home in Marion, hours after his release from the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. "We got back in the car," Busby said. "Then all hell broke loose." The ensuing gunbattle in the Walmart parking lot with Jerry R. Kane, 45, of Forest, Ohio, and his 16-year-old son, Joe Kane,...