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From the Washington Monthly:Too Weird for The Wire - How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds(N)early twenty defendants... had begun adopting what lawyers in the federal courthouse came to call ?the flesh-and-blood defense.? The defense...: As officers of the court, all defense lawyers are really on the government?s side, having sworn an oath to uphold a vast, century-old conspiracy to conceal the fact that most aspects of the federal government are illegitimate, including the courts, which have no constitutional authority to bring people to trial...(It) came from a place far from Baltimore... Its antecedents stretched back decades, involving religious zealots, gun nuts, tax protestors, and violent separatists driven by theories that had fueled delusions of Aryan supremacy and race war in gun-loaded compounds in the wilds of Montana and Idaho...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).