Archives for: March 2013
If Your Money is in a Bank, it's not "Your" Money
by Will
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
by Will
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"
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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.
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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?
by Will
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
by Will
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
by Will
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 »