Inside The Life Of A Sovereign Citizen (See the face of a Tennessee "Domestic Terrorist")

News Channel 5 ^ | 11/23/2010 | News Channel 5

[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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“I paid for the house, that’s all I’ll say about it. The house is paid for in full,” Summers said.

Oh, I'm sure that's all he'll say.

Because if he were to actually describe how he "paid" for his house, he would be admitting to fraud.

The house is not paid for in full, which is why the bank has foreclosed on him and will evict him.

[wideawake]

Legal tender should be anything that people will accept

Of course it shouldn't.

The entire point of having legal tender is to have a standard which everyone is required to accept for the satisfaction of an obligation.

Were that not the case, then creditors could take advantage of debtors by continually changing the goalposts of what they are willing to accept to satisfy a debt.

[B4Ranch]

Soon creditors will be saying that about the US dollar.

[wideawake]

Soon creditors will be saying that about the US dollar.

Not really germane to the thread.

However, the creditors of the US have far shakier economies than they are willing to admit.

China is essentially an enormous Greece with an even worse entitlements mismatch.

[RaceBannon]

NONE of McVeigh’s or Rudolph’s actions were related to their sketchy relationships with militia types

Neither are the militias that McVeigh is known to befriended nor Rudolph’s associated with sovereignty groups

You keep making assumptions that fit your scenarios

Sometimes people are just whacked, sometimes they are associated with muslims from Iraq like McVeigh and sometimes they are lunatic murders like Rudolph.

I know several people in the sovereignty-ish movements, those who heavily pursue Obama and the birth certificate issue issue and such who would NEVER associate with a militia knowingly and would disassociate themselves from that association once it was found out.

You are making a straw man argument based on innuendo, not proven association just because you dont like that man’s methods of dissent.