Archives for: June 2014

"No Refusal"? Our Forefathers Would have Drawn Blood Over This!

by Will

Liberty Minute June 30 2014 During the mid-1980s, a state radio broadcast in East Germany proudly announced a record-breaking national blood drive. In the audio equivalent of fine print could be found the critical, defining detail: ?Most of the don… more »

Unless SWAT Teams Can Burn Babies, The Terrorists Will Get You!

by Will

Liberty Minute June 27 2014 As Iraq descends into sectarian civil war, familiar fright-peddlers from Dick Cheney to Lindsey Graham are depicting the Sunni insurgency, known as ISIS, as a potentially lethal threat to our sacred Homeland. Not surprising… more »

Don't Expect Police to Protect You; That's Not Their Job

by Will

Liberty Minute June 25 2014 Kuna, Idaho resident Tricia Gillaspy and her husband awoke early on June 22 to find a naked stranger in their bedroom. Mr. Gillaspy grabbed a gun and ordered him from the home while his wife dialed 911. The uninvited visitor… more »

"Public Authority," Drone Murders, and the Death of the Rule of Law

by Will

Liberty Minute June 24 2014 In America, wrote Thomas Paine, ?the law is king.? In a totalitarian state, Vladimir Lenin wrote more than a century later, rulers exercise ?power without limit, resting directly on force, restrained by no laws.? Le… more »

A Timid Sheriff Keeps his "Gang" on the Streets

by Will

Liberty Minute June 23 2014 Darrion Holiwell is a self-described gang leader who is accused of serious offenses. After learning that he was being investigated by the King County, Washington Sheriff?s Office, Holiwell concealed his substantial arsenal… more »

Salutatorian Defies Soviet School Administrators

by Will

Liberty Minute June 20 2014 As salutatorian of his class at California?s Brawley Union High School, Brooks Hamby was invited to address the audience at the graduation ceremony. He was required to submit a draft of his speech prior to the event ? an… more »

Murderers Jerad and Amanda Miller Were Police Informants

by Will

Liberty Minute June 19 2014 Jerad and Amanda Miller were among many hundreds of people who traveled to Bunkerville, Nevada to support rancher Cliven Bundy in his confrontation with the BLM. They may well have been the only volunteers who were asked to… more »

Police Seek to Suppress Social Media Criticism

by Will

Liberty Minute June 18 2014   Most establishment media outlets are reluctant to devote critical attention to abuse and corruption on the part of law enforcement agencies. Social media such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have offered activists the… more »

They Don't Even Pretend to Obey the Law

by Will

Liberty Minute June 17 2014   When summoned to testify before Congress regarding allegations that her agency had singled out conservative non-profits for special scrutiny, Lois Lerner ? who headed the IRS's non-profit division ? asserted her inno… more »

Iraq Pays for Washington's Sins -- And We Will, Too

by Will

Liberty Minute June 16 2014   When Napoleon unwisely executed a political foe, his adviser Talleyrand said that it ?worse than a crime ? it was a blunder.?   The Iraq war was a world-historic crime. It was also one of the worst strategic blu… more »

Lynching Bowe

by Will

Liberty Minute June 13 2014 Owing to a severely restricted information diet, millions of Americans believe that Bowe Bergdahl is a collaborator who was cynically exchanged for five hard-core jihadists and war criminals. Many of them likewise believe th… more »

The Government's Lethal Lessons in Lawlessness

by Will

Liberty Minute June 12 2014   Josh Horowitz of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence invoked  the recent murder of two Las Vegas police officers and an armed citizen to demand that the Regime conduct a nation-wide purge of ?insurrectionists,? who a… more »

Life in Prison For Using a Gun in Self-Defense

by Will

Liberty Minute June 11 2014 Ronald Williams fired his gun in what he described as self-defense without injuring another human being ? yet he was sentenced to 80 years in prison. Williams fired five gunshots well above the heads of four gay men he be… more »

Neither "Authority" nor "Revolution" Can Justify Murder

by Will

Liberty Minute June 10 2014 Three human beings were murdered in Las Vegas on June 8. Two of them were officers with the Metro Police Department, whose names have been widely publicized, and whose deaths will be the focus of an elaborate public ritual o… more »

Once You've Been the Hammer, it's no Fun to be the Nail

by Will

Liberty Minute June 8 2014 Sandy, Utah resident Mark Shurtleff recently joined the ever-growing ranks of Americans whose homes have been violated, and families have been terrorized, by SWAT raids. Shurtleff?s 17-year-old daughter was  in the bathroom… more »

"The Future is Too Good to Waste on Lies"

by Will

Liberty Minute June 6 2014 Bowe Bergdahl?s detractors have depicted him as a coward, a shirker, a deserter, and a traitor. They claim that Bowe?s desertion cost the lives of U.S. soldiers sent to rescue him. The claim that Americans lost their liv… more »

Should Bob Bergdahl Sacrifice his Son on the Altar of the Nation-State?

by Will

Some Neo-cons Wish Bowe Hadn't Come Home

by Will

Liberty Minute June 3 2014 While the family of Bowe Bergdahl celebrates the release of the only American solider taken prisoner during the Afghan war, some supporters of that misbegotten venture are upset by the prisoner exchange that freed him. Five… more »

Involuntary Servitude in Colorado

by Will

  Liberty Minute June 2 2014   The State of Colorado doesn?t recognize the novel social arrangement called same-sex marriage. Denver businessman Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, declines to accept business from same-sex couples w… more »