Category: Liberty Minutes
The Feds Want Parents to be Terrorism Recruiters
by Will
Liberty Minute for April 24 2014
Parents have a duty to monitor the attitudes and enthusiasms of their children, and report them to law enforcement if they display symptoms of incipient extremism. This is the view of Lisa Monaco, Barack Obama?s Secur… more »
Defense of Property is Domestic Terrorism?
by Will
LibertyMinute April 23 2014
Defenders of the federal crackdown on Cliven Bundy?s ranch pretend that the theft of his cattle is both a legal and reasonable response to trespassing. From a constitutional perspective the Feds have no authority to claim… more »
Federal Rustling is Routine in Nevada
by Will
Liberty Minute April 22 2014
The family of Cliven Bundy achieved world-wide publicity when they and their supporters forced the BLM to relinquish several hundred head of cattle that had been confiscated after Bundy had refused to pay grazing fees to th… more »
"Combatant Children"
by Will
Liberty Minute April 21 2014
It is difficult, if not impossible, for the mind of man to conjure a more depraved expression than ?Combatant children.? That obscenity is inscribed on a plaque found on a monument just north of Preston, Idaho, whic… more »
How a Non-Accomplice Was Sent to Prison for Life
by Will
Liberty Minute April 18 2014
Ryan Holle never sold drugs, never stole anything, and certainly never killed anybody. He was asleep in his apartment when a friend to whom he had lent his car did all of those things. No evidence was ever provided that Hol… more »
Next Time a Cop Tazes an Innocent Person, Shoot Him
by Will
Liberty Minute April 17 2014
Arizona resident Jefferson Duncan was walking by an apartment complex in Phoenix when he and a friend named Jonathan Parker were approached by two off-duty police officers who had been hired as security guards. Despite the… more »
Adding Words, Subtracting Rights
by Will
LibertyMinute April 16 2014
Where the U.S. Constitution is concerned, rights can be subtracted through addition ? in this case, by adding five words to the Second Amendment.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a long-time opponent of t… more »
Bullies Don't Accept Defeat Gracefully
by Will
LibertyMinute April 15 201
When the ATF attacked the Branch Davidians outsideWacoin February 1993, the expectation was a quick and painless victory over an eccentric religious sect and a public relations boost for the scandal-plagued agency. This i… more »
The Western States Revolt Begins
by Will
Liberty Minute April 14 2014
After a week-long standoff in the southern Nevada desert, the BLM announced that it would return cattle that had been confiscated from rancher Cliven Bundy. Mr. Bundy, whose family has operated cattle ranches in southeaster… more »
Imposing Involuntary Servitude in the name of "Tolerance"
by Will
Liberty Minute April 11
Elane Huguenin, a wedding photographer from New Mexico, was arraigned before that state?s ?human rights? soviet for politely declining to provide her services to a lesbian couple planning a ?commitment ceremony.?… more »