Archives for: January 2012

Yes, Park Rangers Now Have Portable Torture Toys, Too

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 31, 2012 Gary Hesterberg of Montara, California was assaulted with a lethal weapon on January 29 while walking his dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. ?I heard what I thought was a pistol shot,?… more »

Once Again: NEVER Call the Police

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 30, 2012 Police Officer Ladmarald Cates was one of two Milwaukee cops who responded to a 911 call from an anxious single mother whose home had been vandalized with a brick. After arranging to be alone with the wom… more »

The Police: Every Breath You Take, Every Move You Make, They're Watching

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 24, 2012 With the help of federal subsidies, police in East Orange, New Jersey have created a system of immersive surveillance that appears to be modeled after the totalitarian ?pre-crime? system depicted in t… more »

Newt Gingrich: "Presidential" in the Worst Sense of the Expression

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 23, 2012 Bill Clinton cheated, stayed married, and wagged a finger at his critics as he was impeached. Newt Gingrich cheated, ruined two marriages, demanded an ?open marriage? from his second wife, waggled his… more »

"Support Your Local Police"? There aren't any "Local" Police Anymore!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 20, 2012 Los Angeles resident Shawn Nee, an amateur photographer, was accosted by sheriff?s deputies while taking photos of subway turnstiles. Because Nee was doing nothing illegal, and the deputy had no… more »

Cops: They Lie All The Time About Nearly Everything

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 19, 2012 Brian Hitchcock won?t be going to prison for the supposed offense of being rear-ended by Hermosa Beach Police Officer Anthony Parente last June. The motorcycle cop had pulled behind Hitchcock at a stop… more »

Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Government Employees!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 18, 2012 ?This is a Glock Forty,? explained DEA agent Lee Paige while lecturing an audience of about fifty students on gun safety. After dry-firing the handgun, Paige informed the gathering, ?I?m the only… more »

When Christians Boo the Golden Rule

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 17, 2012 On two occasions roughly four and a half years apart, Dr. Ron Paul has provoked the wrath of a supposedly Christian audience by insisting that the government is bound by the Golden Rule. During the 2007 Va… more »

The State's Hired Killers are not "Ministering Angels"

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 16, 2012 Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, the U.S. found itself mired in a campaign to suppress an independence movement in the Philippines. That conflict was condemned by many American commentators as… more »

Pearl Harbor in the Persian Gulf?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 13, 2012 In his diary for November 25, 1941, FDR?s Secretary of War Henry Stimson described a meeting that day of the administration?s ?War Cabinet? at the White House. The question discussed at that meeti… more »

Is it a "Crime," or a "Policy"?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 12, 2012 Former Republican Congressman Mark Siljander was sentenced to prison for offenses related to his work for a Muslim charity called the Islamic American Relief Agency.  The charges arose from Siljander?s… more »

How Gitmo Conquered America

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 11, 2012 Ten years ago today, the U.S. government opened the Cuban detention facility that has come to be known as ?Gitmo.? It was soon filled with hundreds of prisoners, many of whom were swept up by Pakistan… more »

"Sovereign Immunity" for Police Torture?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 10, 2012 At about 2:30 in the morning of February 3, 2011, two Pennsylvania state troopers pulled over a vehicle driven by Jamie Cornell, who was suspected of driving while intoxicated. Cornell was arrested, and t… more »

Gabby Giffords, Jose Guerena, and the Politics of Public Grief

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 9, 2012 A year ago on January 8, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was among thirteen people attacked by a deranged gunman in the parking lot of a Safeway in Tucson. Six people, including a nine-year-old gi… more »

West Point Grad Defends Freedom -- From the Local Police

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 5, 2012 Austin, Texas resident Antonio Buehler was the designated driver on New Year?s Eve when he saw a woman being abused by police outside a convenience store. The 34-year-old Buehler, a combat veteran of Ko… more »

The Enduring Evil of an Unjust War

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 4, 2011 Carlos Arrendondo and his wife Victoria are still trying to absorb the loss of their son, Brian, who took his own life on December 19. Brian, 24, had been left inconsolable and incurably depressed by the d… more »

Time to Restore the Right to Resist

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 3, 2012 Under Title 18, Chapter Seven, section 703 of the Idaho State Code, it is a crime for a law enforcement officer to arrest or detain a citizen, or deprive him of any property right, ?without regular proce… more »

"Time To Nuke Iran"? Really?!?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute January 2, 2012 Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman insists that a genocidal nuclear attack on Iran is necessary in order to prevent genocide. In a December 30 WorldNetDaily essay entitled ?Time to Nuke Iran,? K… more »