Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Under the silliness
Speaking of bank robbery ... a typical bank robber named Tyree Wortham tried to use the 'sovereign citizen' defense. He claimed to be an 'indigenous Moor' and refused the court's authority to try him. The court went ahead without his presence, and the jury took only three hours to convict him. Obviously no Gonzaga grads on that jury.
Gives me mixed feelings and mixed thoughts.
The 'sovereign citizen' stuff is silly whether it's used by a white thug or a black thug. I'm glad to see a Spokane jury rejecting it for a black thug just as it would for a white thug. No cultural exemptions here.
Nevertheless, there's a powerful idea under the silliness. Citizens can't be sovereign, but smaller pieces of government need to be sovereign. The monstrous all-destroying Feds have stolen most of the sovereignty from states and counties.
Only Redskin reservations maintain the level of control that used to belong with states.
The Fed monster is going to collapse one way or another. We need to be thinking and acting toward restoring self-control and self-sufficiency at the lower levels. 'Sovereign' thugs are an immature distraction from a more mature and sophisticated set of plans.
We should try to learn from the pieces of the Soviet empire. How did pieces like Belarus and Mongolia hold steady and maintain the good parts of the Soviet system? How did pieces like Moldova and Ukraine lose their bearings? 
Labels: defensible spaces, Natural law = Sharia law
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