Archives for: November 2011, 12

The Commissars of San Juan, Capistrano

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 »

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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"

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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

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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"

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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

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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

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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

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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....

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 »