Archives for: December 2011, 02
The Police Have Always Been "Militarized"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
December 2, 2011
Prior to 1829, there were no police forces anywhere in the English-speaking world, at least as we understand them today. In that year, Robert Peel, England?s Home Secretary and the former English milita… more »
Don't Help the Police Put You In Jail
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
December 1, 2011
Rick Aleman ran a day care facility in Hanover Park, Illinois. In September 2005, a woman named Danielle Schrik, whose 11-month-old son Joshua was enrolled in the day care, told Aleman that the child had… more »
The Show Trial of Julian Heicklen
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 28, 2011
Five-year-old Stockton, California resident Michael Davis has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and sometimes proved to be a disruptive influence in his class.
Seeking to ?… more »
Give That Hero a Medal: Cop Gets "Battered" by Five-Year-Old
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 28, 2011
Five-year-old Stockton, California resident Michael Davis has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and sometimes proved to be a disruptive influence in his class.
Seeking to ?… more »
We Live In a Prison Society
by Will
Willl Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 25, 2011
The Occupy protests have offered many examples of the following scenario:
Peaceful demonstrators confront riot police; individual riot policeman commits physical aggression against protester, then imme… more »
When Godly Men Rejected the State
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 24, 2011
Cecil B. DeMille?s film The Ten Commandments is neither an authoritative history lesson nor a rigorous sermon, but it does contain at least one unassailable insight. In an early scene, a defiant Joshua… more »
They Never Run Out of Patsies
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 22, 2011
Over the past decade, the FBI has created a series of controlled false-flag terrorism schemes involving informants who manipulate marginalized and powerless people ? usually, but not always, Muslims ?… more »
Why Burglars are Less Dangerous than Cops
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 21, 2011
Last September, 90-year-old Willie Williams was startled to see armed men outside his Lubbock, Texas home. One of them shattered a window and apparently fired a gunshot. The elderly man grabbed a shotg… more »
Democracy be Damned
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 18, 2011
Politics is almost always an effort by power-seeking people to carve out self-serving exceptions to the Golden Rule. Democracy is the art of inducing victims of government power to focus on the question… more »
What Police Really Do (Hint: It's Not Protecting Your Rights)
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 17, 2011
The ?legitimate? purpose of government, we are constantly told, is to protect life and property against criminal violence and fraud. If this were true, it would follow that most of those arrested by… more »
Couldn't We At Least Try Talking with Iran?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 15, 2011
During the administration of Gerald Ford, the U.S. government supported Iran?s nuclear program. At the time, Iran was ruled by Shah Reza Pahlavi, a brutal militarist dictator whose regime was propped u… more »
Once America's Example Was Admired; Now, It is Feared
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 14, 2011
China?s ruling Communist Party recently proposed revisions in its criminal code that would permit the secret detention of suspects for as much as six months. As the McClatchy News Service reports,… more »
Lynn Winmill: An Armed Robber in Judicial Robes
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 16, 2011
U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill has never been burdened with respect for the Constitution.
Ten years ago, at the behest of a radical environmental group called the Western Watersheds Project (or WW… more »
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