Douglas Leguin

[JamesVincent]

I have seen articles saying this man called himself a sov'run and other articles don't mention it.

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/dall ... d-assault/

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police are trying to determine what caused a man to open fire on authorities in an upscale, private community in north Dallas on Monday.

The North 40 community was flooded with law enforcement, including SWAT, for over two hours before the alleged gunman gave himself up.

Authorities have identified the gunman as 60-year-old Douglas Lee Leguin of Corinth. He has been charged with seven counts of aggravated assault.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/he ... dallas.ece

Initial reports had indicated that the gunman had told police he was part of the “sovereign citizen” movement, which believes the federal, state and local governments operate illegally.

[Famspear]

From WFAA-TV in Dallas:

"I seceded from the nation. This is Doug-e-stan right here," Douglas LeGuin said to a 911 dispatcher Monday asking where he was.

When asked his name, he responded: "Dougie Doug from Doug-e-stan," explaining that Doug-e-stan was "a little republic" he'd just started.

http://www.wfaa.com/news/crime/Ambush-s ... 12391.html#

--Teresa Woodard, Aug. 12, 2014, "Ambush suspect tried to stake claim to his own nation," WFAA-TV Dallas.

More from the report:

Dallas police say LeGuin got inside the gated North 40 Lane subdivision off Frankford Road near the Dallas North Tollway on Monday afternoon. It is in the City of Dallas, but also in Collin County.

He allegedly knocked on a door and threatened the people inside — a babysitter and an eight-year-old girl — ordering them to leave. They refused, taking cover deep inside the residence.

Police said LeGuin booby-trapped the outside of the home with propane tanks and jars of flammable liquids.....

If "Dougie" is found guilty of this, he needs to be imprisoned permanently. He can call his prison cell "Doug-e-stan."

This is Texas, and he's just lucky that he wasn't shot by a well-armed home owner.

[Judge Roy Bean]

Get a load of what he had to drive by to get up the road:

http://goo.gl/maps/PM0ls

[Famspear]

Get a load of what he had to drive by to get up the road:

http://goo.gl/maps/PM0ls

Umm.. OK... well, I think I understand Dougie-Poo's thought process here: If you're going to invade other people's property, try to take it away from them by force, and declare the property to be the site of your own sovereign country, you might as well start with something substantial.

So, Dougie isn't 100% hair-on-fire batsh*t nutball crazy.

He's only 95% of the way there......

[JamesVincent]

So is Dougiestan right next to Dumfukistan or is it a separate province of aforementioned country?

[Gregg]

So is Dougiestan right next to Dumfukistan or is it a separate province of aforementioned country?

Pretty soon its gonna be at the John B. Connally Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections.

[Judge Roy Bean]

As usual, the news folks find people to fill in the story:

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/26274028/ ... -surprised

And the weird get weirderererer:

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/08/14/man- ... from-jail/

[Lambkin]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairp ... _texas.php

"Sovereign Citizens" Like the Dallas Fire-Truck Shooter Are Skipping Straight to the Guns
By Stephen Young Mon., Aug. 18 2014 at 8:00 AM

[...]

Traditionally, people have been attracted to the Sovereign Citizen movement due to financial or legal trouble, says JJ MacNab, a journalist who has chronicled the movement extensively for the Southern Poverty Law Center and publications like Forbes. They seek a magic bullet, a painless way to escape their troubles. They often begin to use a tactic called "paper terrorism," -- filing hundreds, or even thousands, of documents in otherwise simple legal proceedings. Sometimes, new adherents experience some initial success. Maybe a cop doesn't show up when a Sovereign contests a ticket, or maybe an opposing attorney fails to keep up with the mountain of paper work filed in a case. Eventually though, every single time, the strategies fail and the Sovereign winds up with a massive debt bill or in prison. Rather than acknowledging that they've been duped, Sovereigns often conclude that a conspiracy has been perpetrated against them by the federal government, MacNab says. That's when Sovereign Citizens become their most dangerous.

"If you truly that the government is committing this great big whopper of a crime, violence is really the only answer," she says.

The thing is, MacNab says, that's not what happened with Leguin.