Outlaw
From Wolfekipedia
OUTLAW
In modern western usage, the term outlaw most commonly means "a lawless person or habitual criminal, esp. one who is a fugitive from the law."
However, the origins of the term are more complex. Originally the term derives from the Old Norse word ūtlagr, "outlawed, banished," made up of ūt, "out," and lög, "law." An ūtlagi (derived from ūtlagr) was someone outside the protection of the law. [1] The status was occasionally taken voluntarily, when an individual chose to leave society and its strictures and establish his own. [2]
The term can also more loosely mean a person who refuses to be governed by the established rules or practices of any group, and as such can sometimes be misconstrued. A classic modern example of this occurred in the mid-seventies, when a group of prominent country musicians, disgruntled with the establishmentarian Nashville country music business, developed a rival Austin-based movement called "Outlaw Country" and found themselves harrassed by law enforcement. [3]
Freedom Outlaw
With reference to the freedom movement, the term "Freedom Outlaw" was coined by writer Claire Wolfe and defined in a series of Backwoods Home Magazine[4] articles entitled "Living the Outlaw Life." [5] In these articles she clearly outlined the difference between an outlaw and a criminal (a person who breaks the law):
"To be truly free, you will be an Outlaw.
I don’t mean criminal — although you are probably that, also. I mean a person who thinks “outside the law.” When you are an Outlaw, your body (just like everybody else’s) may be subject to the dictates of bureaucrats, armed enforcers and various elected fixers, controllers, connivers, pork-barrellers, socializers, corporatizers, fear-mongers, cigar-sexers, bribe-takers, old-boy-networkers and global influence peddlers.
But when you are an Outlaw, your heart and mind (unlike most everybody else’s) are your own."
She later followed this up with the publication of The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution. [6]
