THE PURE SPEECH CASE
"Well," a healthy skeptic would have to consider, "Thomas loses a lot of cases. Maybe the system is functioning just perfectly, and he's nothing but a wingnut, loser, loose cannon without a legal synapse in his alleged brain."
To avoid being a fanatic Thomas he has to factor this possibility into the equation.
Fortunately on Easter eve, 1996, Thomas was warned by S.S. agents to stop reciting the Declaration of Independence in a public park, and assualted and imprisoned by a gang of S.S. agents for subsequently reciting the First Amendment.
That sequence of events, coupled with the interest of a local law firm, provided the basis for an experiment to begin determining the validity of the Lose Cannon theory. Instead of filing a legal challenge pro se the perennial legal loser, got a professionally prepared case filed in the potentially First Amendment-protecting legal system by a bonafide member of the Bar.