Pitcavage

Back in the mid-1990s, he wrote a document entitled "Strategy and Tactics for a Militia Civil War" in which he discussed the utility of snipers using "violence carefully targeted and clearly defensive: war criminals, secret policemen, rats Pitcavage take note."

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Pitcavage said both tactics are used commonly by extremist groups, but fell off when “in the 1990s a lot people got arrested for it.”

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Pitcavage said in most cases, if a judge decides a complaint is “malicious,” the judge can prevent the individual from filing further actions.

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Pitcavage said people who believe in sovereign citizenship believe lawyers “are illegitimate, or not even citizens.”

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“Some of them continue on under new leadership, some kind of die out and sometimes a leader may try to continue to lead from prison,” Pitcavage said.

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Pitcavage said the decline of civilian paramilitary groups has happened faster in other parts of the country than in the Midwest, where militias have remained relatively strong.

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Its "focus is not actually on taxes, but basically hostility to the administration of President Barack Obama in any capacity," Pitcavage says.

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That was the same period that saw the start of the Tax Protest Movement, an extremist, anti-government movement "that believed you have no obligation to pay income taxes and that a government conspiracy is hiding that fact," says Pitcavage, director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League.

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"We all know that white supremacists lash out violently against people of other races and religions and sexual orientations," Pitcavage told Hatewatch.

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"They are particularly dangerous in spontaneous incidents when confronted by a law enforcement officer, like being stopped for speeding or being visited by an officer," the ADL's Pitcavage said.

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