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There Are Only 52 Cards In The Libertarian Legalist's Deck

Aug 5, 2009
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The problem is that there are 53 cards in the rest of the world's deck.

Now that Tim McVeigh is dead and until Osama Bin Laden is caught, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is about as close as we can get to the Joker: a batshit-insane psychopath who's probably still a Manson family adherent, and will probably murder again.  Squeaky not only attempted to murder Gerald Ford, she was probably the most vicious of the Manson monsters.  Think "fork."

She's not just up for parole.  She's getting it. If she's eligible and entitled, I reluctantly support parole for her.  But I hope she'll be set free in a state that has liberal firearms laws, and wouldn't vote to convict the neighbor who shot her for looking sideways at him or her.

The idea of Fromme as a neighbor is a classic case for jury nullification.

Update: Our friend Chris Berez points out that it was probably Katie Krenwinkel who wielded the fork.  Squeaky was probably one of the Manson Family members who killed James Willett after forcing him to dig his own grave.

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  1. Chris Berez  •  Aug 5, 2009 @5:22 pm

    The fact that any of the Manson family members are still breathing in the first place is an outrage.

    God, I wish I hadn't read that. Now I'm actually really pissed off.

  2. Chris Berez  •  Aug 5, 2009 @5:38 pm

    Although on second thought I'm a little confused. Fromme tried to kill Ford, but I don't think she actually killed anyone did she? And looking up the information, I think the fork thing was Katie.

    Still, though, Fromme shouldn't be getting out of prison.

  3. Scott Jacobs  •  Aug 5, 2009 @9:25 pm

    I wonder if she would get the humor in her neighbors all wearing masks of Ford when they show up to welcome her…

  4. Matt Rafat  •  Aug 5, 2009 @11:12 pm

    Did I read that right? Are you advocating violent vigilantism against a 60 years old woman? Seriously?

  5. Patrick  •  Aug 6, 2009 @6:13 am

    Well no Matt, you didn't read it right. A literal reading would be the correct one.

    I am suggesting that when Squeaky Fromme begins to terrorize her neighbors because they Support The System by having active cable subscriptions, I won't sympathize with her when what happens happens.

    Squeaky's not likely to be released into your neighborhood or (thank God) mine. Most of her neighbors won't know who she is, because she'll be released into a poor neighborhood. Even Hyde Park wouldn't accept her, because she didn't get advanced degrees before joining the Manson Family.

    The first link is hyperbole, but only just so. I'd be only marginally more comfortable with Squeaky as my neighbor, 60 or not, than I would be learning that the Joker had been released from the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane to the nearby Pickman Group Home for the Emotionally Troubled.

  6. Patrick  •  Aug 6, 2009 @6:25 am

    And Chris, you're right. It was Katie who wielded the fork. But Fromme has the "X" in her forehead, and probably killed James Willett after forcing him to dig his own grave.

    Again, the Joker is an entertaining character in comics and movies, but in real life?

  7. Corporal Lint  •  Aug 6, 2009 @12:26 pm

    Bill Ayers doesn't live in Hyde Park, he lives in Kenwood. Obama too, FWIW. Put another way, Leopold and Loeb lived in Kenwood, Clarence Darrow lived in Hyde Park.

  8. Ron Miller  •  Aug 7, 2009 @10:42 am

    I read it the exact same way Matt did.

  9. Shay  •  Aug 8, 2009 @5:12 am

    The fact that Fromme is now 65 doesn't mean that over the past 40 years she has acquired anything resembling a moral compass.