Good article on the history of FOTL

I found a good article on the history of the sovereign/FMOTL stuff. It describes, in a several decades long history, how a group of black defendants came to espouse bizzare, conspiratorial, legal theories which originated in southern, white-supremacist circles.

http://ift.tt/1QpDafj
At one point, the judge reprimands the defendant for spouting off about the beauties of "common law":

Quote:

Gardner tried to argue that the court had no power over him under “common law.” “At common law,” Judge Davis replied, “you were property. You were bought and sold just like those Timberlands on your feet today can be bought and sold. That’s what your ancestors were, some of them, and that is what my ancestors were, some of them.” “You have invoked ideas formulated and advanced by people who think less of you than they think of dirt,” Davis continued. “The extremists who have concocted these ideas that you are now advancing in this courtroom are laughing their heads off. You are giving them everything they ever wished for. They should be paying you to do what you are doing. They are going to make you the poster child for their movement. When you complete this suicide, they will honor you because you are doing their work, better and more effectively than any of them ever dreamed they could do. Some of them—

via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/1aWif2v