While it doesn’t seem to be a major focus of the group, Utah Patriots does include a very particular brand of anti-government messaging and beliefs on its website. Calling itself the “Duchesne Safety Committee,” the group purports to pattern itself after the “Committees of Correspondence,” and later “Committees of Safety,” that were formed as shadow governments during the American Revolutionary War. They believe the government is an “abomination,” and have come together as “sovereign individuals” that “operate under common law” to “self-govern from the county level.”