Archives for: October 2014

A Measure of Justice for Home Invasion Victims

by Will

Liberty Minute October 3 2014 Denver resident Daniel Martinez and his sons were gathered in the living room watching television when the home invasion took place. Five armor-clad berserkers carrying rifles beat down their door and attacked everybody wi… more »

The Criminal Prosecutors of Flathead County

by Will

Liberty Minute October 2 2014 What you just heard was first- person evidence of a criminal conspiracy by the Flathead County, Montana Attorney?s Office and the Northeast Montana Drug Task Force. The woman in that recording, Kristina Corey, an informa… more »

FBI Commissar vs. The Free Market

by Will

Liberty Minute October 1 2014 Reacting to consumer concerns about privacy, Apple and Google have enhanced the security features on their cell phones. The new privacy protections will make it difficult, if not impossible, for law enforcement officials t… more »

From Imperial Presidency to Military Junta?

by Will

Liberty Minute September 30 2014 Republican Congressman Dan Lamborn of Colorado is upset with the Obama administration?s new war in Iraq and Syria, and he claims that his view is shared by several high-ranking military officials. According to Lambor… more »

SWAT Raid on a Yard Sale: A Typical Day in the Soyuz

by Will

Liberty Minute September 29 2014 If Troy Wheeler really was a dangerous fugitive who was believed to be heavily armed, why did police choose to arrest him in a way that put innocent lives at risk? Wheeler was arrested by the Ada Metro SWAT team at a c… more »

How the Feds Corrupted the Police

by Will

Liberty Minute September 26 2014 There are more than 17,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, all of which are either operated by the federal government or subsidized by it. With federal subsidies come federal controls. This is why most sh… more »

Sheriff Raney: "Trust Us" with Military Gear

by Will

Liberty Minute September 24 2014 Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney took to the editorial page of the Idaho Statesman newspaper to assure local residents that his department has taken note of public concerns regarding police militarization. Within a few day… more »

Police as a "Paramilitary" Body

by Will

Liberty Minute September 24 2014   We know how police officials describe the role of law enforcement for public consumption ? but what do they say when they think the public isn?t listening?   During a September 17 Indianapolis City Council bu… more »

Obama: The View from the (Relatively) Honest Left

by Will

Liberty Minute September 23 2014  During a recent interview, left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore shared what he would say if he had a personal audience with Barack Obama: ?When the history is written of this era, this is how you'll be remembered ? h… more »

The "Restitution" Racket

by Will

Liberty Minute September 22 2014   When someone is found guilty of a crime ? that is, a deliberate offense that injures the person or property of another ? justice requires restitution. How does one make restitution for a victimless offense?  W… more »

End, Don't Mend, Police Militarization

by Will

Liberty Minute September 19 2014  Idaho Republican Congressman Raul Labrador and Georgia Democrat Hank Johnson have co-sponsored a measure intended to limit a federal program that transfers war-fighting materiel to local police departments. The Penta… more »

No Good Can Result when Governments Conduct Human Inventory

by Will

Liberty Minute September 18 2014 It was a Roman tax census that took Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, where the Christ Child was born. A few years later, points out Lew Rockwell in his new book Against the State, the information collected by the Roman go… more »

Blasphemy and Civic Idolatry

by Will

Liberty Minute September 17 2014  Blasphemy is a grave sin. It is not, however, an offense that falls within government's jurisdiction.  A young man in Pennsylvania faces prosecution and the prospect of a prison term after photographing himself pant… more »

Seeking Political Profit from Persecution

by Will

Liberty Minute September 16 2014   Representatives of displaced and persecuted Arab Christians gathered in Washington for a conference entitled In Defense of Christians. The keynote speaker, Republican presidential aspirant Ted Cruz, insisted that ?… more »

How Many More Times?

by Will

Liberty Minute September 15 2014   The nihilistic movement calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS, boasts a membership of roughly ten thousand fighters. It has neither a navy nor an air force. It has seized control of a handful of cities and towns… more »

Killing Without Consequence: "Qualified Immunity" in Action

by Will

Liberty Minute September 9 2014  Kelly Roach of Orlando, Florida has been charged with murder in the shooting death of 22-year-old Maria Fernanda Godinez ? but he never fired a shot. While he did have a handgun, it wasn't loaded. The fatal gunshot w… more »

Alba Gu Brath!

by Will

Liberty Minute September 8 2014   ?What force or guile could not subdue, through many warlike ages, is wrought now by a coward few, for a hireling traitor's wages.... We're bought and sold for English gold ? such a parcel of rogues in a nation!?… more »

"Use It, or Lose It": Feds Abet Police Escalation

by Will

Liberty Minute August 29 2014 In Caldwell, Idaho, a SWAT team was deployed in an effort to arrest a single suspected gang member, who escaped and was arrested later by less dramatic means. Six days later, police in Boise dispatched a SWAT team in an M… more »

"Convert, Leave, or Die"

by Will

Liberty Minute August 28 2014 Following a bitter and bloody sectarian war, the triumphant faction imposed a severe victor?s peace on the vanquished: They could either ?Convert, leave, or die.? New laws were imposed and brutally enforced. Clergy… more »

Diplomacy is not Dictation

by Will

Liberty Minute August 27 2014   In 2003, then-French President Jacques Chirac urged the Bush administration to consider a negotiated solution to the confrontation with Iraq. Blinded by its hubris, the Bush administration ignored Chirac's advice, as w… more »

Vanity, Philanthropy, and Medical Cannibalism

by Will

Liberty Minute August 26 2014   The ubiquitous ?Ice Bucket Challenge? is seen by some as a noble philanthropic enterprise, by others as a harmless example of social media faddishness. There is a sense in which it is also a demonstration of the et… more »

Where is Darren Wilson's Story?

by Will

Liberty Minute August 26 2014   One of the first things every police cadet learns is the necessity of documenting practically everything he does as an officer. This is especially true of any incident involving the use of lethal force.   On August 15… more »

Ferguson: A Gangster State Emissary Kills a Gangster Wanna-be?

by Will

Liberty Minute August 22 2014 What if we perceived the fatal altercation in which Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson as an incident involving an identified gang member and a gangster wanna-be? Wilson was employed b… more »

Police and the "Rapist Doctrine": Just Submit -- It Will Be Over Soon

by Will

Liberty Minute August 21 2014 ?Don?t resist ? it will only be worse for you.? That?s the message of both the rapist and the police officer, as candidly digested by Sunil Dutta, a 17-year veteran of the LAPD who now preaches that doctrine as a… more »

In Memoriam: Rep. George Hansen

by Will

Liberty Minute August 18 2014 George Hansen spent most of his public life as either a politician, or a political prisoner. Both of those roles were defined by Hansen?s implacable and uniformly commendable hostility toward the criminal syndicate and s… more »

Cops Who Kill Don't Deserve the Benefit of the Doubt

by Will

Liberty Minute August 19 2014 It took several days for Ferguson, Missouri Police Chief Thomas Jackson to identify Darren Wilson as the officer who fatally shot Michael Brown. Jackson also released a report suggesting that Brown had committed a burglary… more »