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The TSA is a natural target for political demonstrations. Their invasive sexual molestation is unpopular with everyone, and their checkpoints come ready made with a captive audience. In 2010 Aaron Tobey was handcuffed and held for 90 minutes by the TSA at the Richmond Airport in Virginia after he stripped off his shirt to display the Fourth Amendment scrawled across his chest with a marker.

On Friday he won a civil rights lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages against the TSA for being wrongfully detained on a disorderly conduct charge. And for that he is our Rebel of the Week.

In case there are any doubts as to our power to abolish the federal government, this article presents a pretty good roadmap to how it could be done...correctly and effectively.

Same-sex couples can currently marry in six states and the District of Columbia, and there's no residency requirement to marry. That means that couples who live outside of those states can just pop in for a day to get married and then go home. There are also five states that allow civil unions. But if a marriage should fall apart in a state that doesn't recognize the couple's legal status in the first place, that's when things get complicated.

Yesterday I accidentally threw myself into a depression with the Tinfoil Tuesday coverage about how fast the tyrannical laws were rolling out. But as they say, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Today it seems I have the opposite problem. There are just too many Rebel stories to pick just one. So, this week instead of focusing on a single Rebel we’re going to have to do a quick round-up of all the Rebels who have hit the headlines that we haven’t had time to cover.

For the next 5 weeks we’re going to hold 5 contests giving away Guy Fawkes masks as prizes. This week we're asking for entries of Rebel Poetry.

On Thursday, Washington became the first state to officially legalize marijuana, soon to be followed by Colorado as their new laws legalizing the drug for recreational use go into effect. A survey out Friday shows what Americans want the federal government to do about the states whose drug laws clash with national laws: Leave them alone. Fifty-one percent of Americans in the new HuffPost/YouGov poll said that in the two states that have legalized marijuana use for adults, the federal government should exempt any adults following state laws from federal drug law enforcement.

The government of the United States has proved destructive to stability, justice and order. Indeed, all governments ultimately devolve into some form of tyranny, chaos, or both. It is time to discard government as we know it entirely.

Today happens to be the birthday of one of my all time favorite rebels. So, I thought I’d take us back in time and declare Lysander Spooner the rebel of this week in 1808.

Lysander Spooner was a nineteenth century American political philosopher, pamphleteer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and individualist anarchist. Spooner advocated what he called the “Science of Justice” which held that the initiation of coercion against an individual or their property was a natural crime, but so-called crimes that violated man-made statutes but had no victim were no crime at all.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit challenging a government regulation that unconstitutionally restricts photography on federal property, including public plazas and sidewalks.