Thursday, May 12, 2016 Doreen Hendrickson, Political Prisoner The law is the true embodiment Of everything that’s excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw And I, m’lords, embody the law. The Lord Chancellor, from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe Michigan resident Dorren Hendrickson was convicted of “criminal contempt” and sent to prison for 18 […]

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Take the Fifth — And Face Life Imprisonment Without a Trial Philadelphia resident Francis Rawls has been in solitary confinement for seven months, despite the fact that he has not been accused of a crime – let alone convicted of one. He may spend the rest of his life in that […]

Thursday, April 21, 2016 Gavin Grimm’s Totalitarian Fairy Tale Faith, we are reliably informed, is the “substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The troubled 16-year-old girl from Gloucester, Virginia who calls herself Gavin Grimm, and insists on being treated as if she were a boy, is acting on something other […]

Thursday, January 14, 2016 Single-Serving Stalinism: The Continuing Persecution of Matthew Townsend The State of Idaho remains perversely determined to steal five years from the life of Matthew Townsend as punishment for publishing a defiant but harmless statement on his Facebook page.  His supposed offense was to criticize Meridian Police Officer Richard Brockbank by name, […]

Monday, January 5, 2015 Bryan Fischer and the Gospel of Genocide America’s Babi Yar: Soldiers dispose of Sioux bodies in a mass grave at Wounded Knee. The Bible instructs us that a dog will inevitably return to his vomit, and a sow will eventually resume wallowing in the mire. In similar fashion, Bryan Fischer of […]

Friday, January 30, 2015 “An Offender for a Word”: Predation and Purgatory in Beaumont Matthew Cherry was twenty-one years old when he found himself in a police interrogation room. At the time, he had the psychological maturity of a bright 12-year-old boy.  Thus it isn’t surprising that Matthew was much too trusting when Beaumont Police […]

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Lon Horiuchi: American Sniper Primed to kill: Law enforcement officers at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, August 1992. Somewhere, a figure clothed in a pseudonym has been tracking the box office returns of “American Sniper” with great interest and no small measure of envy. He may be among the tens of millions who […]

Monday, January 26, 2015 Games Road Pirates Play David Conner, a 43-year-old resident of Redding, California, will spend at least three years in a government cage in Idaho because a State Trooper in Oregon spied an open can of Monster energy drink in Conner’s rental car.  The presence of that foul but perfectly legal concoction, […]