Category: Liberty Minutes
Beating Somebody Up is a Crime; Handing Him a Joint is Not
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 14, 2012
Police in Boise assert that a criminal syndicate called the ?Slayer? gang was responsible for a series of robberies, assaults, and acts of extortion.
The alleged ringleader, a 53-year-old man named… more »
Drug Prohibition And Forcible Mass Drugging: The Government at Work
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 13, 2012
Representatives from more than a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies assembled in front of the Malheur County Courthouse in Vale, Oregon on September 10 to announce the results of a lengthy… more »
Why Do We Treat Politicians As Celebrities, Rather than Criminals?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 13, 2012
Representatives from more than a dozen federal and local law enforcement agencies assembled in front of the Malheur County Courthouse in Vale, Oregon on September 10 to announce the results of a lengthy c… more »
The Day the Laws Fell Silent
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 11, 2012
Everyone remembers September 11, 2001 as the day the Towers fell in lower Manhattan. Relatively few recognize that date as the day the laws fell silent as well.
Terrorists murdered thousands on that mo… more »
Why Pretend that Government is Anything Other than a Gang
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 10, 2012
Federal prosecutors in San Antonio claim that they have legal cause to seize two homes owned by Sindy Chapa, a professor at Texas State University. Although Chapa hasn?t been charged with a crime, pro… more »
The Prisons we call "Airports"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 7, 2012
A woman who had passed through airport security in Houston was detained by the Transportation Security Administration and forbidden to board the plane as punishment for exhibiting a ?bad attitude.?… more »
The Texas Taliban Makes Felonies out of "Fish Stories"
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 6, 2012
The expression ?fish story? was inspired by the tendency of fishermen to exaggerate their exploits. Lying is always a sin, and when it involves fraud it can be a crime. But is lying about the size of… more »
Lenin's Heirs
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 5, 2012
Vladimir Lenin, the founding dictator of theSoviet Union, digested politics into two simple propositions. The first was that the fundamental political question is who does what to whom. The second was th… more »
The Republican Party's Slave Labor Lobby
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 4, 2012
One of the oddest lines in the 2012 Republican National Platform calls for the Mariana Islands to be exempt from the federal minimum wage. Since the Constitution does not authorize the federal government… more »
The TSA's Porn Cartel
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
September 3, 2012
The 2012 Republican Party platform calls for ?[c]urrent laws on all forms of pornography and obscenity ?to be vigorously enforced.?
That pornography is a soul-destroying vice is incontestable. Whe… more »
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