Archives for: March 2013

If Your Money is in a Bank, it's not "Your" Money

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  Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 29, 2013 Financial affairs analyst Ellen Brown points out that ?Although few depositors realize it, legally the bank owns the depositor?s funds as soon as they are put in the bank. Our money becomes the bank… more »

What Happens to Good Cops

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 27 2013 Justin Hopson always wanted to be a New Jersey State Trooper. After graduating near the top of his academy class, Hopson was assigned to a training officer. Within a few days of beginning his patrol duties,… more »

Repeal the "War on Terror"

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 26, 2013 When Congress approved the post-911 ?Authorization for Use of Military Force? on September 14, 2001, Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California was the only member of the House to vote against i… more »

Collectivism Abounds

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 25, 2013 In politics, there is no deadlier word than ?we,? or the associated collective possessive pronoun, ?our.? Every large-scale enterprise in political tyranny begins with the use of those words to nullify indivi… more »

New Mexico's Torture State

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 22, 2013 According to a ruling by the New Mexico State Supreme Court, ?The law ? calls upon the citizen to exercise patience, if illegally arrested, because he knows he will be brought before a magistrate, and w… more »

Totalitarian Formula: Disarm Subjects and Have them Spy on Each Other

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 21, 2013 Benjamin Wassell of Silver Creek, New York, a wounded Iraq war veteran, is the first resident of that state to be charged under its draconian new firearms law. He was arrested during an undercover operation… more »

Gun-Grabbers and Child-Snatchers Unite

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 20, 2013 Shawn Moore of Carney?s Point, New Jersey was visiting a friend?s house when he got a disturbing call from his wife, who said that police and child welfare investigators were at their home. By the time… more »

Given The Chance, All Governments Would Abolish Freedom Of Speech

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 19 2013 With the support of leaders from all major political parties, the British government has announced plans to create an official ?press regulator? empowered to impose fines and demand prominent corrections… more »

Drug Kingpins are Evil. Prohibition Profiteers are Worse.

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 18, 2013 Ten former high-ranking officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration recently signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee criticizing the Obama administration for its supposed lack of zeal in enfo… more »

Police Intervention Always Makes Things Worse -- Continued

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 15, 2013 Last April, a Brooklyn landlady named Karen Brim was mopping the floors in her apartment building when three police officers suddenly materialized in pursuit of several local teenagers. The officers claimed… more »

How the System Treats a Good Cop

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 14 2013  As a New York City Police Officer assigned to the 81st Precinct, Adrian Schoolcraft became disillusioned when supervisors talked about manipulating crime statistics and carrying out illegal arrests. After… more »

The SPLC Calls for a Crackdown

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 13, 2013 The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, has sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security containing a dire warning: The conspiracy theorists are plotting against the government. According to SPLC… more »

Is It Seditious to Oppose Drone-Killing? If So, Count me as a Seditionist

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 11, 2013 While Senator Rand Paul?s drone filibuster will not restrain the Obama administration?s use of drones to carry out targeted killings of alleged terrorists and militants, it has laid bare an interesting… more »

Legalese and Semantics as Totalitarian Camouflage

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 8 2013 It took a 13-hour filibuster from Senator Rand Paul to wring this statement from Attorney General Eric Holder: ?It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: `Does the Preside… more »

Americans Can Be Executed Without Charges -- But Criminal Banks Can't Be Prosecuted

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 7, 2013 On the same day that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was filibustering the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA over the nominee?s involvement in lethal drone strikes, Attorney General Eric Holder defende… more »

Barack Obama is a Legitimate Stalinist

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 6, 2013 In a letter to Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that there are circumstances in which ?it would be necessary and appropriate ? for the President to authorize… more »

Who Could Possibly Be Safe when Police Are Around?

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 Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 5 2013 According to the Arkansas Court of Appeals, police were entitled to arrest, taze, and beat a teenager for the supposed crime of walking with his mother on a street in front of their own home. A police offic… more »

Apparently, Perjury Isn't a Crime When Police Commit It

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 Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute March 1, 2013 Last October third, a Salt Lake City SWAT team, working with a federal Drug Task Force, kicked in the door of a 76-year-old woman. As is so often the case, it turned out that the raiders had attacked the… more »

Corruption, Collusion, Cronyism and Police Abuse in Philly

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute February 28, 2013 Former Philadelphia Police Lieutenant Jonathan Josey lost his job after slugging an innocent woman named Aida Guzman during last September?s Puerto Rican Day Parade. The assault was captured on video.… more »