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For Want of a Tree, Freedom Was Lost

"A judge in Fairfax County (VA), with the wonderfully apt name of McWeeny, ordered the owner of a golf course held in jail because the county bureaucrats didn't like his taste in landscaping artistry. He planted 700 trees at his Golf Park at Hunter Mill, and the bureaucrats ... holding to standards of taste and refinement found only in a county courthouse ... said
he must move 92 of the trees and plant 50 more. John Thoburn, the errant
landscaper, balked. Judge McWeeny threw him in jail, and there he has sat
for 71 days and counting. Judge McWeeny insists that 'the last thing I want
to do is put Mr. Thoburn in jail,' but the record demonstrates that this was
the first thing the judicial weenie thought to do."

- Wesley Pruden, "Pruden on Politics"