This has nothing to do with witches, Wicca, or the neighborhood. This guy is mentally ill, probably paranoid schizophrenic, and it's scary that he's got small kids bolted into the house with him.
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The witches he's talking about could be people just as cray as he is. There are 15 or so self-described witches in our small (50,000) town.
It has nothing to do with homeschooling, but advocates of unrestricted homeschooling (of which I am one) would do well to seriously address what should be done about cases like this. Paranoid schizophrenics probably really are disproportionately inclined to "homeschool" their children, but homeschooling clearly isn't the issue here. What are the proper steps for a free society to address a group of siblings who are being held in a house with an absolute nutcase (and possibly violent/dangerous nutcase, if he's responsible for his brother's house burning down), getting brainwashed by all this paranoid nonsense, and most certainly not getting anything that any sane person would regard as an education? They'll all be unemployable and mentally ill themselves whenever they finally get out of there.
Wilkes-Barre never fully recovered from Hurricane Agnes back in '72.
They didn't have FEMA back then, you know.
Exactly.