Category: Liberty Minutes

Police On Your Doorstep: No Good Will Come Of This

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 13, 2011 Dallas resident Diane Irons was startled to see the police on her doorstep. She was puzzled when they asked her to step out onto her porch. Her bewilderment quickly mutated to fury when she was arrested… more »

The Predator State Targets "Right-Wing Extremists"

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 12, 2011 Last June, a farmer named Rodney Brossart from Lakota, North Dakota got into a dispute with the local sheriff over a half-dozen stray cattle. Brossart was arrested, and the following day three of his son… more »

Making Criminals Out of Innocently Misbehaving Children

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 9, 2011 Like many other grade school-age boys, 9-year-old Emanyea Lockett of Gaston, North Carolina noticed that his teacher was pretty. He made the mistake of mentioning this out loud, not knowing that the… more »

Barney Frank's Only Regret

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 8, 2011 After decades of dutiful service to the tax-devouring class, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney Frank announced his retirement. Frank was a figure out of some of the gamier passages of imperial… more »

Why Don't YOU Try Being Waterboarded, Newt?

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 7, 2011 During a recent town hall-style appearance in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich exploited an opportunity for a cheap applause line by saying: ?Waterboarding is by every technical rule not torture?. [U]nde… more »

Hurry Up and Bomb Iran -- Before They Act Like Reasonable People!

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 6, 2011 The American Enterprise Institute is one of the most prominent of the Washington-based think-tanks promoting pre-emptive war against Iran. Danielle Pletka, who heads the group?s foreign policy section,… more »

The Narcotics Trade: A Public/Private Parnership

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November December 5, 2011 From the Afghan opium fields that are guarded by U.S. troops, to the street-level drug retail networks that are honeycombed with informants and undercover police officers, the narcotics trade is… more »

The Police Have Always Been "Militarized"

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 2, 2011 Prior to 1829, there were no police forces anywhere in the English-speaking world, at least as we understand them today. In that year, Robert Peel, England?s Home Secretary and the former English milita… more »

Don't Help the Police Put You In Jail

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute December 1, 2011 Rick Aleman ran a day care facility in Hanover Park, Illinois. In September 2005, a woman named Danielle Schrik, whose 11-month-old son Joshua was enrolled in the day care, told Aleman that the child had… more »

The Show Trial of Julian Heicklen

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Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute November 28, 2011 Five-year-old Stockton, California resident Michael Davis has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and sometimes proved to be a disruptive influence in his class. Seeking to ?… more »

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