During the trial, Sidis stated that he had been a conscientious objector of the World War I draft, did not believe in a god, and that he was a socialist (though he later developed his own philosophy of quasi-"libertarianism" based on individual rights and "the American social continuity")
Under retsagen bekendtgjorde Sidis at han samvittighedsfuldt havde modsat sig indkaldelsen til første verdenskrig, at han ikke troede på en gud og at han var socialist (selvom han senere udviklede sin egen kvasi-libertarianistiske filosofi baseret på individuelle rettigheder og "den amerikanske sociale kontinuitet").
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For en betydning af libertarianisme, se fx http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianisme