# SarahWitch, the premier expert on American law. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713 "2017-11-26T00:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/81 "2017-11-26T19:43:00Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > They don’t seem that familiar at all. Hence the suspension after some whining to the mods that they really, really truly read the rules but didn’t realize that ‘pig-ignorant’ would be considered an insult. Nah, they are just being disingenuous and know exactly what they’re doing. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/82 "2017-11-26T19:49:53Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > I’m being gender-neutral. “it” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/83 "2017-11-26T19:51:31Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “it” He-she-it. (Say it quickly.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/84 "2017-11-26T19:59:02Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > “it” Not a clown in the storm drain! ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/85 "2017-11-26T20:23:43Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Not a clown in the storm drain! No, just a witch. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/86 "2017-11-26T20:42:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > We’ve had posters pitted before they made a single post, just because of their user name. Well, don’t keep us in suspense. What names? (I assume they saw it in the “welcome to our latest poster” thing. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/87 "2017-11-26T21:41:40Z")
Well, **SarahWitch** is more than a little clownish and delivers quite the volume of effluent, so yeah, “it” seems fitting. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/88 "2017-11-26T21:54:14Z")
Great, now I’ll have to wait 3 days to find out how the Civil war really ended. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/89 "2017-11-26T21:54:48Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > “Misspell”. 🙂 Nice…!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/90 "2017-11-26T22:10:01Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Great, now I’ll have to wait 3 days to find out how the Civil war really ended. Spoiler: Cap and Tony agree to disagree and go their separate ways. ---
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/91 "2017-11-26T22:24:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Decades ago one of Coors’ advertising campaign slogans was “Ain’t no downstream beer”. Delivered in a rural Colorado drawl while the camera panned across high mountains. > > Always seemed to me that was them trying to dispel the notion it was just lightly refined used beer. We’d do our own voiceover: “Ain’t no pre-flushed beer”. 🙂 It’s in the water. That’s why it’s yellow. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/92 "2017-11-26T22:29:46Z")
> [@DirtyHippy](#): > > It’s in the water. That’s why it’s yellow. Bear Whiz beer! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/93 "2017-11-26T22:54:19Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Darn socks. That’ll fix 'em! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/94 "2017-11-27T00:11:17Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > And there you have it. Just another racist revisionist using the internet as a platform to spread her disease. I don’t think so. There is a frequently expressed idea on the SDMB that racism is at the root of most social troubles. There were a number of people who persistently posted that the Tea Party was simply formed as a racist reaction to Obama’s election–disregarding the fact that it had its origins in reaction to (and during the presidency of) G W Bush. (Obama’s election certainly allowed a large number of racists to join the Tea Party, but it was not created for racist purposes.) Similarly, there are a number of groups, (Sovereign Citizens primary among them, some libertarians joining in), that hold the Civil War as a defining moment in the destruction of their view of utopia and, accordingly, regard Lincoln as the antichrist and the prevention of secession as a clear example of Big Bad Government triumphing. To support that view, a revision of history requires that the issue of slavery be downgraded to a footnote, as if the Southern states simply proposed a mild separation for no particular reason other than a desire for independence. For such people racism is not a primary cause, although they will accept racists into their ranks as long as the racists stick to arguing the “facts” of sovereignty. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/95 "2017-11-27T00:35:20Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > For such people racism is not a primary cause, although they will accept racists into their ranks as long as the racists stick to arguing the “facts” of sovereignty. Sovereign to do what? I’m not trying to be a smart ass. Honestly asking if they go on further to explain. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/96 "2017-11-27T00:37:22Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Sovereign to do what? > > I’m not trying to be a smart ass. Honestly asking if they go on further to explain. I’m not trying to be a smart ass. Sovereign to not obey any laws. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/97 "2017-11-27T00:52:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’m not trying to be a smart ass. Sovereign to not obey any laws. I was more getting at how they rationalize their common cause with racists (for a sovereign south), if their’s is not primarily an argument for maintaining slavery. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713/98 "2017-11-27T01:01:15Z")
Since the subject has been suspended, I’m closing this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sarahwitch-the-premier-expert-on-american-law/802713.md?page=4)