Legal-ish links

[conuly]

Another article on "sovereign citizens", this time featuring a cop who wanted to become one, and now wants to take it back.

Two TSA employees were busted for stealing from baggage. Repeatedly. You have to admire their keen reasoning in only robbing from drug dealers on the grounds that they can't exactly go to the cops, but I wonder if either of them stopped to consider that people who won't go to the cops are exactly the sort of people you do NOT want to piss off. I think they got off lucky, frankly.

And then there's this two-year-old question at Yahoo. A teenager wants to know if it's okay to run a lending library of books her private school has banned. That is just awesome. (I want to know if it's okay to start charging money every time Ana lends out one of the household books to a friend. I don't trust her grubby little classmates!)

Comments

[ancarett]

That first link? There isn't enough WTH in all the world to make this concept understandable. Don't they know what "freeman" meant? Don't they understand what trying to divest oneself of citizenship would imply (especially regarding their right to maintain residence and access services)?

Wow. Totally bizarre!

The lending library idea? It's awesome. I was always impressed while growing up in my town how liberal the school libraries were (but we were in a university town that does tend to skew things toward liberalism).