Archives for: November 2011, 12
The Commissars of San Juan, Capistrano
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 16, 2011
Like many other cities in California, San Juan Capistrano was settled by Catholic missionaries. The historic mission building that gave the city its name still exists today, and tourists who visit… more »
Another Prohibition Raid Gone Wrong
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 15, 2011
See if this story sounds familiar:
Alex Clemens of Alameda, California was getting ready for work at around 7:00 the morning of September 14 when he heard an insistent pounding on the front doo… more »
Rick Perry: Bargain-Basement Political Whore
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 14, 2011
Several years ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry issued an order compelling schoolgirls to undergo mandatory vaccinations with a dangerous STD drug called Gardasil. Chided in the recent presidential deb… more »
We Can Be Fearful, or Free -- We Can't Be Both
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 13, 2011
?As Americans, we refuse to live in fear,? insisted Barack Obama during a 9/11 memorial service. This would come as news to Shoshana Hebshi, a young mother who was arrested, handcuffed, and t… more »
SWAT Raids: Any Excuse Will Do
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 12, 2011
Once reserved only for exceptional situations involving hostage rescues, armed robberies, and barricaded gunmen, SWAT teams are now increasingly used for routine police calls.
It often seems a… more »
Time to Make Uniformed Bullies Pay Their Own Way
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 9, 2011
It was about a quarter to nine in the evening, and Raleigh, North Carolina resident Lynwood Artis hadn?t eaten since breakfast. He grabbed a taco from a popular Tex-Mex restaurant and went to cat… more »
Jeremy Hill, Extortion Victim
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 8 2011
Jeremy Hill of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, shot and killed a grizzly bear that threatened his family. The Federal government threatened to prosecute him under the Endangered Species Act, a charge that cou… more »
A Child Giggles -- And His Mother May Go to Prison
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 6, 2011
Last October, Donetta Foster was visiting the library in Decatur, Georgia in the company of her 14-month-old son. As the two of them reviewed a set of animal flash cards, the toddler?s delighted… more »
Reign of the Assassins
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 6 2011
Despite the rampant abuse and institutionalized corruption that characterize the regime ruling us, most Americans still cherish the idea that the rule of law ? specifically, God?s law -- is at the… more »
The Libyan War: Liquidating Another CIA Asset
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 5, 2011
Is there any incumbent dictator who has not allowed his secret police to act as torture subcontractors for the CIA?
Human Rights Watch recently uncovered a trove of documents in the office of Mo… more »
Maryanne Godboldo: A Heroine's Vindication
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 1, 2011
Detroit District Court Judge Ronald Giles has acknowledged that Maryanne Godboldo was morally and legally entitled to use deadly force in an attempt to prevent the illegal abduction of her mentally h… more »
Practicing "Airport Security" After Hours
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 31, 2011
Until he either confesses to the crimes or is proven guilty to the satisfaction of a jury of his peers, David Anderson of Spring Creek, Nevada is innocent of the charges of lewd conduct with a child. T… more »
How DARE You Harass Your Rulers?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 30, 2011
Five years ago, while he still afflicted this country as its Vice President, Dick Cheney visited Beaver Creek, Colorado. A local resident named Steven Howards noticed Cheney?s entourage. Howards wan… more »
It's Tough Out There for a Pimp
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 29, 2011
The Fifth Amendment dictates that government may not deprive any individual of his property ?without due process of law?; in other words, one has to be convicted of a crime before the state can i… more »
Support Your Local CIA Satellite?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 25, 2011
The so-called ?war on drugs? led to the amalgamation of the military and domestic law enforcement. Nearly every police agency in the country now has a SWAT team ? a specialized paramilitary unit… more »
Washington's New Sharia-Compliant Colony
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 24, 2011
For the third time in less than a decade, the United States military has been used to inflict a Sharia-compliant constitution on a foreign country. The proposed draft constitution for post-Qadaffi Liby… more »
There's a Little Bit of Judas in Us All
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 23, 2011
Perhaps unwittingly, contemporary songwriter Gino Vannelli offered a valid theological insight when he wrote that there is ?A Little Bit of Judas in Us All.? This trait is relentlessly exploited by… more »
Jay Sekulow's Lies about Ron Paul
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 19, 2011
Legal activist and radio host Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice is a passionate advocate for the Israeli government, which is his right. Where the foreign policy views of Republica… more »
Government as Organized Cruelty
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 18, 2011
Every government action is accompanied with the tacit ? and often overt ? threat of lethal force. This is why every time someone seeks to involve a government agency in a dispute, he risks becoming… more »
Should We "Invest" in Incarceration?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 17, 2011
Morgan Reynolds of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis is a prominent advocate of building prisons not where the crime is but where the jobs are.
Decisions regarding prison constr… more »
The Painful But Inevitable Death of a Durable Illusion
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
August 12 2011
Forty years ago this August 15, the Nixon administration closed the ?gold window? ? that is, it defaulted on the federal government?s debts by severing the connection between the dollar and gol… more »
Politics Becomes Gang Warfare
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 11, 2011
With the support of a majority of City Commissioners, Mary Lee Cook, the 84-year-old Mayor of Oak Hill, Florida, recently fired the city?s six-member police force. This came several weeks after the p… more »
The Wave Recedes, the Walls Remain
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 9 2011
According to the Sacramento Bee, the migratory wave from Mexico to California has gone into reverse. While the official unemployment rate in the U.S. is around ten percent, in Mexico the rate is lower th… more »
The Police as Tribal Predators
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 8, 2011
Like thousands of other police union officials nation-wide, John Barnes of Michigan?s Warren Police Association is infuriated that he and his comrades may have to start paying a larger share of their… more »
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 5, 2011
Police in in Renton, Washington seek to arrest and prosecute an anonymous satirist who created several animated cartoons mocking the scandal-plagued police department.
The videos ?target specific… more »
The Double-Secret "Patriot Act"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 4, 2011
In a memorable scene from the 1970s film ?Animal House,? the odious Dean Wormer of fictional Faber University informs the slovenly misfits of the Delta House fraternity that they?ve been on ?dou… more »
Washington Defaulted Forty Years Ago
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 3, 2011
During the overwrought and ultimately pointless Capitol Hill melodrama over raising the debt ceiling, the public was routinely told that it would be unprecedented for the federal government to ?defaul… more »
The Dreaded "2 A.M. Knock"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
August 2, 2011
Sterling Heights, Michigan resident Ramsey Tossa is an Iraqi expatriate who served as a translator for U.S. troops occupying his country. He lived under the reign of one-time Washington subcontractor Sa… more »
Countless Statutes -- But Hardly a Legitimate Law Among Them
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
August 1, 2011
For a crime to exist, three conditions must be met: There must be criminal intent, a violation of a specific criminal statute, and a victim. Any act failing to meet all three of those criteria cannot legi… more »
We Tighten Our Belts -- They Tighten the Noose
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
July 29, 2011
When the economy takes a nose-dive, households tighten their belts. Governments, on the other hand, tighten nooses.
Household budgets confront dramatic increases in the cost of non-discretionary items… more »
The Vandals Arrive
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
July 28, 2011
Not long ago, it was common to hear of people "taking money out" of their homes. It was as if those houses were equipped with magic ATM consoles through which some portion of their inflated market value co… more »
Once Again: If You Don't Despise Prosecutors....
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
July 27, 2011
The worst thing that can possibly happen to a parent is to lose a child. Atlanta resident Raquel Nelson suffered that unfathomable loss on April 10, 2010, when her four-year-old son was struck and killed b… more »
Criminalizing the Maternal Instinct
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
July 26, 2011
For several horrible minutes, Tara Keener thought her 5-year-old son may have been dying. After depositing the Kindergarten-age child on a school bus, Tara heard several of the other students shouting th… more »
Making Felons Out of Foodies
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
July 25, 2011
The federal Food and Drug Administration recently dispatched an officious letter to Diamond Foods informing them that the walnuts sold by that company have been categorized as ?drugs.? This is becaus… more »
The Robbers Who Presume to Rule Us
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
July 22, 2011
If you steal a dollar, you?re a thief. Defraud a business partner out of a thousand dollars, and you?re an embezzler.
Seize homes from hundreds of thousands of people through bogus foreclosure proce… more »
Once Again: Restore the Right to Resist
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
July 21, 2011
Marco Sauceda of Lufkin, Texas, did nothing wrong. Yet the mentally handicapped 30-year-old was pepper-sprayed, shot with a pepper-ball gun, and severely beaten by nine police officers in his own home afte… more »
When City Hall Becomes a Third World Junta
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
July 20, 2011
It seems like a spectacle out of a Third World dictatorship: A frail woman addressing a public meeting is set upon by police, who tear away the microphone, seize her in a painful compliance hold, and dra… more »
Of Motes and Beams, Mosques and the Fed
by Will
Will Grigg's Liberty Minute
July 19, 2011
The Federal Reserve ? a criminal syndicate engaged in government-licensed counterfeiting and fraud -- profits from government profligacy: For a fee, it prints the money spent by the government, and its m… more »
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