How do you interpret and uphold the law once the law goes seriously wrong,
and worse, they pressure you to bend good law in a bad way; their
way. I fled judging rather than being a tool of the state, not that they'd
have let me remain had they learned what I was doing on the side.
That's how I came to be a respected arbitrator in private matters, where the
state had not yet claimed undue interest. It made my hobby safer, though
with free speech a dinosaur in the asteroidal aftermath of power politics,
not really safe. Always handy with computers and communications, and
something of a frustrated writer, I took to writing online, and other
activities, even when it meant some of us had to cobble together a
surreptitious alternative to "online," and some of it had to go offline.
I've been more fortunate than some, having a relatively large, private,
secluded property. Not that I'm a practicing survivalist type, but I enjoy
dabbling in light farming I grew up around, and I've always been an
armchair, what-if survivalist. Hope that's enough for this mission...
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