Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005
"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert
"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker
"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison
"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman
From the Associated Press:
EASTON, Pa. - A man accused of driving drunk said Pennsylvania courts have no jurisdiction over him because he’s his own country. After seeing the paperwork that 44-year-old Scott Allan Witmer filed with the court claiming sovereignty, a Northampton County judge said Tuesday he cannot be released from jail until he gets a mental exam. [Emphasis added.]
Reminds me of how psychiatry was used in the old Soviet Union.
Cross-posted at Anything Peaceful.
—Henry David Thoreau
"Free association . . . the only true form of society."
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
2 comments:
When I moved to San Francisco years ago, I remember hearing on the radio that a man had been arrested for secreting himself overnight in a dryer at a laundromat he had broken into. He was, it was reported, taken for psychiatric observation. Leaving aside the criminal act, what could be more rational for a homeless man to do than seek warmth in a dryer that was not then in use? His next warm night should have been in jail, not a psychiatric prison.
I am going to use that "I am my own country" response sometime too!
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