Archives for: August 2012

Do You Recognize This Country?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 24, 2012 A propaganda video produced by the Kansas City Police Department unwittingly illustrates just how thoroughly militarized domestic law enforcement has become. The clip begins with an on-screen narration by… more »

All Tyranny is Local

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 23, 2012 Lubbock County, Texas Judge John Head insists that a tax increase is necessary in order to expand local government operations. In addition to a pay increase for local prosecutors, Head seeks additional fun… more »

Sara Weaver's Forgiveness, Lon Horiuchi's Unpunished Crimes

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 22, 2012 Twenty years ago today, Sara Weaver saw her mother Vicki gunned down while holding a ten-month-old infant. Her father, Randy, was severely wounded by the same FBI sniper who murdered Vicki. The sniper had de… more »

THIS. IS. HYDRA!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 20, 2012 When tax inspectors from the Greek government descended on a small seafood restaurant on the island of Hydra, they expected to collect sales receipts and take the owner into custody. Things didn?t quite… more »

The SPLC's "Hate Group" Racket Draws Blood

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 17, 2012 For decades, the left-wing pressure group called the Southern Poverty Law Center has compiled and published rosters of organizations it has designated as ?hate groups.? Some of them ? such as the Ku… more »

Resistance, not Obedience, is the Free Person's Default Setting

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 16, 2012 In 2006, 44-year-old Mount Washington, Kentucky resident Walter Nix was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager named Louise Ogborn. Posing as a police officer, a con man named David Stewart called the… more »

America's Slave Labor System

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 15, 2012 For many years, American manufacturers have protested that China?s use of slave labor gives it an artificial price advantage. While this is true, Chinais not the biggest offender; that distinction goes t… more »

Soap Box, Ballot, Box, Jury Box -- And Ammo Box

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 14, 2012 Earlier this year, the State of New Hampshire enacted a law recognizing the legitimacy of ?jury nullification? ? the power of a citizen jury to rule on both the facts of a case, and the validity of t… more »

"Protecting" the Public From Plants -- By Invading Their Homes?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 13, 2012 The Malheur County, Oregon Sheriff?s Department casually announced that it had found several small marijuana gardens during a two-week aerial surveillance operation conducted with the help of the Nationa… more »

Do Citizens Have the Responsibility to Protect the Police?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 10, 2012 Beverly Mutrie of Greenland, New Hampshire is being sued by four police officers who were wounded during an April 12 shootout at the home of her late son, Cullen ? who was killed in the gunfight.  Mrs.… more »

Thou Shalt Not Torture -- Without the State's Permission

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  Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 9 2012 Melvin and Pauline Morse of Georgetown, Delaware, have been charged with four felony counts of child abuse. Their 11-year-old daughter has accused her father of repeatedly waterboarding her as a form of… more »

One Honest Cop vs. the "Photo Enforcement" Racket

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 8, 2012 To his eternal credit, Corporal Clayton Alford of Maryland?s Riverdale Park Police Department refuses to be party to a lucrative fraud. Marylandstate law permits municipalities to carry out the patently… more »

Please, For the Love of All that's Holy -- Never Call the Police!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 7, 2012 Tacoma resident Lashonn White is deaf. On April 6, White used a specially equipped video phone to call the police after being attacked by a visitor in her home. Six minutes later two officers arrived. They… more »

Police Crackdown Armed Self-Defense

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 6, 2012 Tonya Beck saw a stranger climbing over the back fence of her Kansas City home early on August 4th. The night before, two men had attempted to break into her home and were chased away by her dog. Beck grab… more »

Free Gary Harrington!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 2, 2012 For a decade, Gary Harrington of Eagle Point, Oregon, has been collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his property.  He has accumulated the water primarily for fire protection ? a wise and timely precau… more »

How "Tolerance" Becomes Totalitarianism

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute August 1, 2012 All human beings who enjoy a measure of personal liberty practice discrimination. Each of us makes choices in social, economic, political, and religious associations that involve including some and excludin… more »