Sunday, August 22, 2010 Is the Muslim My Neighbor? “Pure Religion, and undefiled,” as practiced by an infidel: The Good Samaritan.   As violence raged through Gaza, Esther Najjar feared that her family — which included two young girls — would be the next target of the mob that had just firebombed the local Catholic […]

Friday, August 27, 2010 “Showtime Syndrome” Strikes Las Vegas Bryan Yant during his 2002 coroner’s inquest. “He made me do my job,” insisted Bryan Yant when asked to explain why he gunned down 21-year-old Las Vegas resident Trevon Cole last June in what was clearly an act of criminal homicide. Yant, who is employed by […]

Thursday, September 2, 2010 “Criminals With Badges”: Denver’s Militarized Police   “I been forced to write my own laws, and you violated one in there. I just have to find you guilty of contempt of cop.” Bumper Morgan, Joseph Wambaugh’s eponymous Blue Knight, justifying his brutal assault on a young man who had casually insulted […]

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Gypsies, Tramps and Thugs Would-be murder weapon: Fred Ensminger’s pickup.  “This guy …  just tried to run my husband over!” exclaimed Arkansas  resident Cindy Nelson in a frantic  911 call on July 21. “Oh, my God — he’s shooting at us! Oh, my God!” A few minutes later, Fred Ensminger — […]

Saturday, September 11, 2010 Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures, Dr. Johnson informs us. In a somewhat similar vein,  the Regime’s post-9/11 “counter-terrorism” stings have avoided the official fiction that Muslim terrorism is inspired by a hatred for our “freedom.” The preferred bait to lure marginalized Muslims — […]

Friday, September 17, 2010 Support Your Local Army of Occupation Boys and their toys: Members of the Malheur County (Oregon) SWAT team out having “fun.” “Wouldn’t it be great if it were like this all the time?” commented a pleasant middle-aged gentleman as the two of us contemplated the large gathering of armed men in […]

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 No Law? No Warrant? No Problem! “Do you expect to see any violence here today?” “I certainly hope so.” — Narcotics officer Sgt. Stedenko, aka “Hardhat,” answers a reporter’s question at a drug checkpoint on the U.S.- Mexican border, from the film Up In Smoke. Sal Agro, a 67-year-old man from […]

Monday, September 27, 2010 Liars for Hire: The Alchemy of Provocation   Patsy du jour: Hassoun For reasons the FBI has yet to disclose, in 2009 the Bureau became interested in a young man named Sami Samir Hassoun, who had immigrated to the United States from Lebanon.   Although his family came from a Shia-dominated region […]