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This looks like some http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemen_on_the_land which is a fringe belief in how the law operates.

First of all, those guys are terrorists. That's extraordinarily rude to lump me in with them.

Second, Your comment is an ad-hominem [1], unless you can provide evidence that I believe what they believe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

I am not saying you are an adherent to this movement, but to my uninitiated eyes, it looks like some thing I have seen said or written by FOTLer, namely the reference to contract, etc, but I agree this was bad form to infer that you were a supporter of all or any idiosyncrasies of these groups.

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