Archives for: December 2011

When "Decency" is Defined as a Willingness to Kill December 30, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 30, 2011 Newt Gingrich, lapsed adulterer and impenitent warmonger,http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/27/gingrich-wouldnt-vote-for-ron-paul/?iref=allsearch has presumed to excommunicate Ron Paul and his… more »

The CFR Orders Us To Attack Iran December 29, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 29, 2011 For decades, the Council on Foreign Relations (or CFR) has been the self-appointed custodian of the bipartisan foreign policy ?consensus.? Minuscule in numbers yet immense in influence, the CFR has s… more »

Soviet-Style "Neighborliness" December 28, 2011

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 28, 2011 An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a native of Soviet Russia were condemned to death and granted one last wish. The Englishman requested a pipe; the Frenchman, a bottle of wine. The Russian told his captor:… more »

From "Enemy Aliens" to "Enemy Citizens": Military Rule in America

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 27, 2011 The National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision mandating the military arrest and indefinite detention of anyone, including U.S. citizens, who is designated a terrorist suspect or enemy comba… more »

If We're Going to Start Arresting Judges, Let's Begin With This Guy

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 26, 2011 Newt Gingrich has said that if elected president, he would order the arrest of federal judges who refuse to appear before Congress to explain rulings he considers objectionable. A despicable bully named… more »

Lee County, Florida -- Where Murder by Torture isn't a Crime

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 23, 2011 Cleveland resident Joyce Christie was understandably concerned when her 62-year-old husband, Nick, who suffered from emotional problems, suddenly took off to visit his brother in Ft. Myers, Florida. Nick… more »

All Hail the Heroic Lt. Frank Gordo! (That's a Joke, Son)

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 22, 2011 Last November Lt. Frank Gordo, a "resource officer" employed by California's Stockton Unified School District, arrested a five-year-old child named Michael Davis, who had been summoned to the principal's… more »

Killing a Million People is a Bargain?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 19, 2011 According to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, although the war in Iraq never received the unqualified support of the American public, ?We all recognize the tremendous price that has been paid in lives, i… more »

The Child-Snatchers Won't Leave Maryanne Godboldo Alone

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 16, 2011 Detroit resident Maryanne Godboldo, whose handicapped teenage daughter was seized from her home at gunpoint by child ?protection? bureaucrats last March, keeps winning in court ? but the vindictive… more »

A Good Start: One Lawless Prosecutor Behind Bars

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 12, 2011 Two years ago, John Bujak, at the time chief prosecutor for Idaho?s Canyon County, ?instructed? police to ?target? people who are observed texting while driving, despite the fact that the stat… more »

Psst, Buddy -- Want To Get Paid By the Government to Sell Drugs?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 14, 2011 Sheriff Dwayne Price of Kentucky?s Johnson County recently made an interesting recruiting pitch. In an interview broadcast on a local news program, Sheriff Price offered to pay $100 to any local citize… more »

Police On Your Doorstep: No Good Will Come Of This

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 13, 2011 Dallas resident Diane Irons was startled to see the police on her doorstep. She was puzzled when they asked her to step out onto her porch. Her bewilderment quickly mutated to fury when she was arrested… more »

The Predator State Targets "Right-Wing Extremists"

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 12, 2011 Last June, a farmer named Rodney Brossart from Lakota, North Dakota got into a dispute with the local sheriff over a half-dozen stray cattle. Brossart was arrested, and the following day three of his son… more »

Making Criminals Out of Innocently Misbehaving Children

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 9, 2011 Like many other grade school-age boys, 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett of Gaston, North Carolina noticed that his teacher was pretty. He made the mistake of mentioning this out loud, not knowing that the… more »

Barney Frank's Only Regret

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 8, 2011 After decades of dutiful service to the tax-devouring class, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank announced his retirement. Frank was a figure out of some of the gamier passages of imperial… more »

Why Don't YOU Try Being Waterboarded, Newt?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 7, 2011 During a recent town hall-style appearance in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich exploited an opportunity for a cheap applause line by saying: ?Waterboarding is by every technical rule not torture?. [U]nde… more »

Hurry Up and Bomb Iran -- Before They Act Like Reasonable People!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 6, 2011 The American Enterprise Institute is one of the most prominent of the Washington-based think-tanks promoting pre-emptive war against Iran. Danielle Pletka, who heads the group?s foreign policy section,… more »

The Narcotics Trade: A Public/Private Parnership

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November December 5, 2011 From the Afghan opium fields that are guarded by U.S. troops, to the street-level drug retail networks that are honeycombed with informants and undercover police officers, the narcotics trade is… more »

The Police Have Always Been "Militarized"

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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?

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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

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  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

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  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 »