Archives for: February 2011

Teaching Kids to Trust Police is Child Abuse February 23, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 23, 2011 Last October, ?Tim,? an 11-year-old grade school student in Arvada, Colorado, drew stick figures of himself with a gun and a caption reading: ?Teacher must die.? Tim, who has been diagnosed w… more »

The Tax-Feeder Tantrum in Wisconsin February 22, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 22, 2011 Wisconsin is in the throes of a tax-feeder tantrum, with thousands of government employee union members thronging the state capital. Displaying a remarkable gift for self-dramatization, the protester… more »

This is How Empires End February 21, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 21, 2011 "We are getting shot by American weapons fired by American-trained Bahraini soldiers with American-made tanks," a medical orderly in Bahrain told Robert Fisk of The Independent of London. Bahrai… more »

Debt and Bondage February 18, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 18, 2011 The Bible?s Book of Proverbs teaches that ?The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.? Debt is one of the most common forms of enslavement, oppressing households a… more »

February 17, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 17, 2011 Former CIA analyst and Army veteran Ray McGovern has been a consistent critic of Washington?s foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. On February 16, McGovern was in the audience during a… more »

The Murderous Serenity of a Sociopath February 16, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 16, 2011 Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi admits that he lied about Iraq?s alleged weapons of mass destruction, and that his lies were used in the service of a war in which more than 100,000 civilians have been… more »

Democracy at Gunpoint February 15, 201

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 15, 201 During a panel discussion in a recent installment of The McLaughlin Group, Fox News commentator Monica Crowley declared that ?the only Arab democracy that we currently have in the [Middle East] is… more »

Totalitarian Conservatives "Purge" Ron Paul February 14, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 14, 2011 A political organization that conducts public purges and accuses dissidents of suffering from mental disorders is clearly a totalitarian cult. The so-called Young Americans for Freedom (or YAF) displ… more »

Washington's Global Torture State February 10, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 10, 2011 Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was abducted in Pakistan by bounty hunters. In Pakistan, Habib was tortured under CIA supervision; in one session he was hung by a ceiling hook and subjected to ele… more »

Let's Play "Name That Arab Despotism" February 9, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 9, 2011 There is an Arab nation whose gross domestic product has grown consistently for the past thirty years, even as the percentage of its population in poverty has grown even faster. Its military dictat… more »

Death By Government: Mohammed Bouazizi, Capitalist Martyr February 8, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 8, 2011 Last December 17, a 26-year-old Tunisian produce stand owner named Mohammad Bouazizi committed suicide. Bouazizi, who lost his father at age three, managed to eke out a living as a street vendor. He… more »

The Sin of Torture February 7, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 7, 2011 The reporters covering demonstrations in Cairo?s Liberation Square were among dozens who were arrested and detained by the regime?s secret police. ?Where are you taking us?? one asked a so… more »

Loving Our Neighbor: The Egyptian Example February 4, 2011

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Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 4, 2011 In early January, dozens of Egyptian Christians were killed, and scores were wounded, in attacks by Muslim terrorists. The prospect of additional attacks haunted Coptic believers as they prepared to celeb… more »

Chaos in Cairo: The True Face of Government February 3, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 3, 2011 The ongoing upheaval in Egypt offers a potent illustration of the fact that government police agencies are instruments of plunder, rather than protection -- and that protection of person and property… more »

Take It From Grandma: Don't Trust the Police

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 2, 2011 Karen LeVert-Woitalla was baking cookies for her grandchildren when the police showed up. A few minutes later she was beaten and bloody, handcuffed and on her way to jail, where she would spend the n… more »

Egypt Isn't Ours to "Lose" February 1, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 1, 2011 As hundreds of thousands throng the streets of Cairo demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak?s rule, media pundits in America are earnestly discussing the question, ?Who lost Egypt?? That question ass… more »

Statist Pseudo-Scholarship on Nullification January 31, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 31, 2011 Writing in the Idaho Statesman, Professor David Gray Adler of the University of Idaho rebuked the state legislature for discussing the possibility of nullifying the patently unconstitutional Obamaca… more »

Who's "Lynching" Whom? January 28, 2011

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Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 28, 2011 Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff would wring laughter from American audiences by describing his homeland as the reverse of the U.S. A typical punchline would be: ?… more »

Don't Mind the Stormtroopers; They're Here to "Protect" You January 27, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 27, 2011 Six months ago, the FBI conducted a series of raids against the homes and businesses of people associated with left-leaning peace and labor organizations. Despite the fact that this crackdown wa… more »

A Child's Death and a Prosecutor's God Complex January 26, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 26, 2011 Meadow Nickel died on the night she turned three months old. She suffocated while sleeping next to her father, Wyatt Grenough, who had been drinking. Meadow?s mother, Betsy, spent the night with fr… more »