Nashville Killer A "Sovereign Citizen"

The unhinged sociopath that shot and killed four people at a restaurant near Nashville called himself a "sovereign citizen," a subset of far-right wingnuts who are anti-Government and believe that they can decide what laws to obey, if any. Travis Reinking, 29, was captured today after a 36-hour manhunt. He had come to law enforcement's attention last summer when he was arrested after trying to enter White House grounds to meet with demagogue and bigot Donald "Rump" Trump.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) tracks the sovereign citizen movement, which included Oklahoma City bomber accomplice Terry Nichols. Many members of militia groups (of the kind that occupied Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Preserve in 2016) are self-described sovereign citizens.They were also a key component of the mob that occupied the Bundy Ranch over the deadbeat owner's failure to pay grazing fees to the Government. Their confrontations with law enforcement have often ended in violence.

But don't let StormTrumpers, right-wing media or politicians hear you call them "domestic terrorists."