BBC: "Reichsbrger: German 'crackpot' movement turns radical and dangerous"

[DBoon]

The Reichsbürger were, for years, a source of national derision, dismissed as crackpots.

But they're increasingly a source of concern for the security services who say they're becoming more radical and more dangerous.

Members don't recognise the post-war German state and reject the authority of its government. Despite the name, which translates to Citizens of the Reich, this is no organised national movement - rather a disparate set of small groups and individuals scattered across the country who are united in that shared belief.

Some print their own currency and identity cards and dream of creating their own autonomous state.

Earlier this year for example, a group calling itself the Königreich Deutschland (Kingdom Germany) bought two pieces of land in Saxony upon which they intended to create their own self-administered state.

Others refuse to pay tax or intentionally clog up the administration of local authorities by sending large volumes of, often abusive, letters.

And many have guns - legally or otherwise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63889792

Sound like a Teutonic "sovereign citizens" terrorist group

[Eugene]

1. Sovereign citizen types are a subset of this movement.

all kinds of right-wing crazy

[Ray Bruns]

2. I was about to post the same thing

[Chainfire]

3. The biggest problem with these types of people is that no government would make them happy.

They seek chaos.