Criminal Procedure
Sam Aurelius Milam III
Do you think that we have the freedom to speak, write, assemble, or associate?  If so, then I suggest a careful reading of 18 USC Sec. 2385.  Under its provisions, if I print, publish, edit, issue, circulate, sell, distribute, or publicly display any written or printed matter advocating, advising, or teaching the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence, (this newsletter, for example) or attempt to do so with the intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of any such government, then I can be imprisoned. If you try to help me — organize or help or attempt to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any such government by force or violence, or become a member of, or affiliate with, any such society, group, or assembly of persons, knowing the purposes thereof, you can be imprisoned.  Thus, we have the freedom to speak, write, assemble, or associate only so long as it doesn't offend or threaten the U.S. government.  So much for our freedoms.
You might think that naming the use of force as a precondition to imprisonment makes the punishment reasonable.  Think again.  An important feature of Sec. 2385 is the definitions.  In the final paragraph, organizes and organize are explained with regard to the meaning intended in the U.S. Code.  Force isn't so explained.  Thus, we're left to our own resources to determine the intended meanings of force.  It's important to notice, in this regard, that force is contradistinguished from violence.  That is, at every mention, each is individually prohibited.  Thus, within the U.S. Code, force doesn't equal violence.  What, then, is force?

force.... n.... 3.a.  Intellectual power or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech. b. Moral strength. c.  A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior.... 4.a.  A body of persons or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose.... b.  A person or group capable of influential action .... 5.a.  Military strength. b. The entire military strength, as of a nation. c.  Units of a nation's military personnel, especially those deployed into combat.... 6.  Law.  Legal validity.... tr.v.... 1.  To compel through pressure or necessity....  2.b.  To move or effect against resistance or inertia....  c.  To inflict or impose relentlessly.... — from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Those don't seem like the sorts of things that ought to be a crime.  Yet other meanings of the word, such as those that deal with force as a concept in physics, mechanics, or baseball, are inapplicable.  Still other meanings, in both the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and in Black's Law Dictionary, define force in terms of violence.  Those meanings aren't the intended meanings in the U.S. Code.  Otherwise force would not have been contradistinguished from violence by being separately mentioned.  Still other meanings of force are given in terms of coercion.  Yet if this narrow interpretation was intended, then coercion specifically and not force generally would be prohibited.  Furthermore, Bouvier's Law Dictionary instructs us that in a law or contract words must be taken, if possible, in their comprehensive and common sense.  Therefore, in 18 USC Sec. 2385, force might be construed to include "intellectual power or vigor, especially as

Frontiersman  479 E.  700 N.  Firth, Idaho 83236              fascism....  1.  Fascism.  2.  any system of government in which property is pri- vately owned, but all industry and busi- ness is regulated by a strong national government.  n. — Thorndike Century Senior Dictionary 1941

Acknowledgments
•     My thanks to The Thought, of Glendale, Arizona and to The Affiliate, of Vankleek Hill, Ontario for printing reviews of the Frontiersman.
•     My thanks to Lady Helen the Gracious, Lady Shirley the Benevolent, Sir James the Bold, Sir John the Generous, Sir Donald the Elusive, and Terry, of San Leandro, California for their assistance.

Math Test For Today's Gang Members
(In order to make the learning process more effective, material should be written to more closely fit the experiences of today's youth.  In that vein, here are some math questions designed for today's gang members.)
Original source unknown.  Forwarded by Sir John the Generous.
•     Rufus is pimping for three girls.  If the price is $65 for each trick, how many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus can pay for his $800-per-day crack habit?
•     Willie gets $200 for stealing a BMW, $50 for a Chevy, and $100 for a 4X4.  If he has stolen 2 BMWs, 3 4X4s, how many Chevies will he have to steal to make $800?
•     If a spray can covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can a tagger spray with 3 cans of paint?