People v. State

The above was the original subtitle of this blog, before I changed it sometime back to “Fairly Undermining Public Confidence in the Administration of Justice.”

But you know who really excels at illuminating the philosophy and practice of law and liberty? Matt Brown, relative to whom I’m a piker. I want to highlight here a couple paragraphs from his latest post.

First:

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A few posts ago I wrote:

It’s true, as Scott [Greenfield] observes with respect to what’s going on in Egypt today, that “Nature abhors a vacuum.” But it was the outgrown size of the Egyptian State combined with its unacceptability to the Egyptian people which is responsible for the size of the vacuum its disintegration is leaving. By monopolizing and concentrating power unto itself, the State makes itself appear indispensable. A thoroughly Jeffersonian polity would not have left such a vacuum, and indeed would not have so easily disintegrated.

Darian Worden at the Center for a Stateless Society expresses more fully what I was trying to say, in a post titled Build Counter-Power, Create an Authority Vacuum, republished in its entirety below:

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You’ve got to like a guy whose self bio begins:

Julian Heicklen was born at an early age. At 8 days, he was circumcised. This was so traumatic that he did not walk or talk for a year.

Via Darian Worden at the Center for a Stateless Society, the septuagenarian libertarian activist has been criminally charged in Manhattan’s federal district court with “jury tampering,” apparently for distributing FIJA literature about jury nullification outside federal courthouses. Before his jury nullification outreach he was known for participating in weekly Marijuana Smoke Outs in front of the main gates at Penn State University, where he was a professor.     (more…)