them at all. they may not put real license plates on their cars as well because to them there is no legitimate state or federal government. and it's silly stuff in a way, but over time these self-proclaimed sovereign citizens have become pretty violent and therefore pretty scary. in 1993 a farmer named james nicholls contested a speeding ticket in michigan by claiming that he was a sovereign citizen and thus could not be prosecuted. his brother tried to pull the same thing by paying a debt on a bank that he -- on a bank that was an institution that he made up, did not exist. his brother was terry nichols. timothy mcveigh and terry nichols both consider themselves to be sovereign citizens. they ended up blowing the alfred p. murrah federal building in oklahoma city in 1995, killing more than 150 people. when timothy mcveigh got pulled over after the oklahoma city bombing, it was because he was driving a car without license plates because sovereign citizens don't believe in license plates. over the years members of these