A Law of Their Own

摘要

One day last month wichita district Attorney Nola Foulston looked at her copy of the Daily Record, a trade newspaper, and was stunned to read that she had been subpoenaed. She was ordered to appear in District Court and produce her license to practice law. If she failed to appear, the sheriff would be directed to arrest her. Her alleged crime: holding public office. The subpoena was an unofficial document drafted and filed by a local man who had been charged with a misdemeanor for burning trash without a permit. Angered by the government interference, he joined a growing number of disgruntled Americans who think they've found a better arbiter of justice. He went to a "Common Law court," one of the latest incarnations of the extremist right. Foulston ignored the subpoena. "I don't practice in false courts," she says.