Category: Liberty Minutes
The Putrid Mess at Penn State
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 11, 2011
Four years before former Penn State Head Football Coach Joe Paterno was told that Jay Sandusky had raped a 10-year-old boy, police had already learned that the one-time assistant coach was preying on chi… more »
The Soviet Show Trial of Edgar J. Steele
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 10, 2011
Larry Fairfax, a man from northern Idaho who admits to planting a pipe bomb on an SUV driven by Cyndi Steele ? and then lying to investigators about the device -- was sentenced to 27 months in prison f… more »
Informants Plus Drones Equals Murder
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 9, 2011
Like many others living in Pakistan, Tariq Aziz was infuriated by the push-button war being waged in that country by Washington, in which missile strikes are conducted by remote-controlled drones operated… more »
Remember When We Lived in a Republic, Rather than a "Homeland"?
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 8, 2011
The U.S. Northern Command, which was created in the aftermath of 9-11, is conducting a massive field training exercise entitled ?Operation Vigilant Shield 12.?
Government Security News reports that t… more »
Blood, Tears, and Tyranny: How European Integration Will End
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 7, 2011
During a recent summit of European leaders in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel presented a stark and ominous assessment of the continent?s ever-deepening debt crisis.
?Nobody should take for… more »
How the "Patriot Act" Turned Us into East Germany
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 4, 2011
Enactment of the so-called Patriot Act ten years ago led to the routine use of what former federal judge Andrew Napolitano calls ?self-written search warrants? ? especially national security letters… more »
The Inexhaustibly Creative Sadism of Our Rulers
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 3, 2011
An American citizen living abroad was kidnapped the secret police and beaten every day for several weeks in a row. He was told to confess that he was a terrorist. Despite the torture, the victim ? who b… more »
Police Corruption: Validating the Worst Stereotypes
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 2, 2011
A little more than a decade ago, the Legal Officers Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police conducted a nation-wide ethics survey of police officers.
Nearly eighty percent of respond… more »
How a Grand Jury Should Behave
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
November 1, 2011
A grand jury in Harris County, Texas is investigating problems with roadside blood alcohol testing vans operated by the Houston Police Department. Months ago, former HPD supervisor Amanda Culbertson discl… more »
Trust Us: We Won't Misuse our Airborne Killing Machine. No, Really.
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
October 31, 2011
Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Officer in Texas describes himself as ?tickled to death? over his department?s acquisition of a ShadowHawk unmanned aerial vehicle. The… more »
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