Archives for: April 2012

Government's Only "Business" is Extortion -- And Murder

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 30, 2012 If a customer neglects to pay his internet service provider, the company discontinues the service. The service ends when the payments stop. Someone who stops paying the government, by way of contrast, can… more »

For a Police Chief, Punishing Officer Misconduct is a Firing Offense

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 27, 2012 In August 2011, a Columbia, Missouri police officer named Rob Sanders was caught on camera committing an act of undisguised criminal assault. Reacting to complaints from a pepper-sprayed detainee who didn?… more »

Why Are Police Permitted to Produce Porn?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 25, 2012 Krystal Rice was a married 22-year-old when she joined New York?s Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office. She was approached by a senior detective named Steven Cote, who enlisted her in what he described as… more »

The Regime Prepares for "Urban Warfare" -- Against Us

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 24, 2012 For a decade, the Pentagon and the CIA have been using remote-piloted drones to conduct lethal operations overseas. The Obama administration has escalated this robotic aerial war and expanded it to include… more »

The Right to Resist Wins in Michigan

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 23, 2012  The Michigan State Supreme Court has validated the right to resist unlawful actions by the police. In its April 20 decision in People v. Moreno, a 5-2 majority ruled that Angel Moreno, Jr. acted legally w… more »

Learning the Wrong Lessons From Our Enemies

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 20, 2012 A recently minted principle of popular logic called ?Godwin?s Law? dictates that in any debate, the first person to compare his opponent to Hitler loses the argument. Facile analogies to Hitler and hi… more »

Mass Murder at Mt. Carmel: The State, Distilled to its Evil Essence

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 19, 2012 The social artifact called the State is a mechanism of murder. This is a fact that we should remember every April 19. On this date in 1993, the FBI slaughtered scores of people at the Mt. Carmel religious… more »

Support Your Local Rogue Cop. I'm Serious.

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April17, 2012 Officer Ramon Perez is an Evangelical Christian from Texas. Bogota, New York Police Officer Regina Tasca identifies herself as a gay female. Both of them intervened in the line of duty to protect helpless ci… more »

John McNeil: Martyr for the "Stand Your Ground" Principle

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 16, 2012 Georgia resident John McNeil shot and killed an armed trespasser named Brian Epp in December 2005. Epp had threatened McNeil?s teenage son with a knife. When he arrived, McNeil fired a warning shot into t… more »

Amerika, 2012: One Phone Call Away from Being Tortured to Death by the Police

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 13, 2012 Denver resident James Moore was standing outside his apartment when he was thrown to the ground and beaten by two police officers. After eight more police arrived, Moore was repeatedly slugged, kicked, and… more »

Cynical Games Prosecutors Play

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 111, 2012 Jimma Reat and several relatives were riding in a car near Denver?s city limits when the occupants of another vehicle, a Jeep SUV, threw bottles at them and brandished a gun. After fleeing the scene, Re… more »

If Jimma Reat Hadn't Sought Police "Help," He'd Be Alive Today

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 111, 2012 Jimma Reat and several relatives were riding in a car near Denver?s city limits when the occupants of another vehicle, a Jeep SUV, threw bottles at them and brandished a gun. After fleeing the scene, Reat an… more »

Police Chief Admits: Lying is Universal Standard Operating Procedure in Drug War

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 10, 2012 Drug Enforcement Officer Michael Reichert of the Collinsville, Illinois Police Department was fired twice after being put on the so-called Brady List. That is a roster of police officers whose documented di… more »

When Public "Servants" Make Private Vice Their Master

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 9, 2012 Nineteenth century American jurist Lysander Spooner pointed out that while vices are sins, they aren?t necessarily crimes. That insight must be wedded to another by St. Augustine, who observed that a man h… more »

Paul Krugman: Our Correspondent from the Reality-Free Zone

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 6, 2012 Outside of an asylum for the clinically deranged, it?s difficult to find anyone as reality-impaired as Paul Krugman, the purported economist who was awarded a Nobel Prize for peddling Keynesian nostrums fr… more »

Never Forget: Leniency is for the Corrupt and Powerful

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 5, 2012 During his two years as a Criminal Court Judge in Knoxville, Tennessee, Richard Baumgartner presided over an estimated 1,000 cases and sent hundreds of people to prison. Deena Castleman was convicted of dru… more »

"Watch What You Say" -- and Mind What You Hear?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 4, 2012 U.S. District Judge Victoria A. Roberts has dismissed conspiracy charges against Michigan?s so-called Hutaree militia. The Feds charged nine militia activists with ?sedition? ? an ?offense? consisting of expr… more »

When Finger-Pointing is a Felony

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 3, 2012 While the Bible?s Book of Isaiah condemns those who make people ?a sinner for a word,? under the doctrine of ?officer safety? a silent man can be charged with multiple felonies. Just ask 58-year-ol… more »

Taxation by Citation: Patently Illegal, Universally Practiced

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute April 2, 2012 In an internal e-mail memorandum written on March 30, Lt. Frank Schirillo of the Connecticut State Police described a ticket-writing binge ? a contest to see which unit could write the largest number of ci… more »

Do Police Get "Bounties" for Officer-Involved Shootings?

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Willl Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 30, 2012 In New Mexico and at least a few other states, police officers placed on administrative leave after a shooting are given small but substantial checks from their unions. Twenty Albuquerque police officers i… more »