Irony Alert

Drug dealers and gang members in Baltimore have been boning up on teabag theory and are using the old "your government has no jurisdiction over me" defense so beloved by libertarians, white supremacists and various gun nuts over the years. Oh the irony...

Four African American men were facing federal charges of racketeering, weapons possession, drug dealing, and five counts of first-degree murder.

Suddenly, the leader of the defendants, Willie Mitchell, a short, unremarkable looking twenty-eight-yearold with close-cropped hair, leapt from his chair, grabbed a microphone, and launched into a bizarre soliloquy.

“I am not a defendant,” Mitchell declared. “I do not have attorneys.” The court “lacks territorial jurisdiction over me,” he argued, to the amazement of his lawyers. To support these contentions, he cited decades-old acts of Congress involving the abandonment of the gold standard and the creation of the Federal Reserve.

Paging the Pauls... oops, sorry, wrong color!