Wednesday, September 2, 2015 Your “Duty” to Protect and Serve the Police If you say something that hurts their feelings, you’re no better than a “cop-killer.” Glenn Beck, acting in his self-appointed role as a punitive populist prophet, has urged his audience to join “hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm,” and “ring” their local police departments in prayer. The […]
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Six Decades of the “Condor”: Washington’s “Counter-insurgency” Strategy Goes Domestic
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Thursday, September 10, 2015 Six Decades of the “Condor”: Washington’s “Counter-insurgency” Strategy Goes Domestic Under William Bradford’s legal scheme, posting this photo would make me a “fifth columnist.” “Our morality has no precedent, and our humanity is absolute, because it rests on a new ideal. Our aim is to destroy all forms of […]
Only “Blue Lives” Really Matter
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Sunday, May 31, 2015 Only “Blue Lives” Really Matter A weeping Brelo reacts to his acquittal. When Cleveland Police Officer Michael Brelo mounted the hood of a Chevy Malibu and fired fifteen shots through the windshield, killing Timothy Russell and Melissa Williams, he behaved in an “unreasonable” and “unconstitutional” fashion. This was the testimony […]
“We Do Not Need You”: The Blue Supremacist Credo
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Thursday, September 17, 2015 “We Do Not Need You”: The Blue Supremacist Credo “I was thrown under the bus for expressing my First Amendment rights,” complained former Surf City, North Carolina Police Chief Mike Halstead following his compelled resignation on September 15. Halstead was ousted after publishing a Facebook post in which he regurgitated a […]
He Wouldn’t Back Down: The Bittersweet Victory of Brian McNelis
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Monday, September 21, 2015 He Wouldn’t Back Down: The Bittersweet Victory of Brian McNelis He wouldn’t back down: Brian J. McNelis, left, with his companion, Leslie White. Brian McNelis was still recovering from a police raid that wrecked his home and threatened to destroy his commercial painting business when he learned that the state intended […]
To Crush a Cop-Watcher: Prosecutorial Abuse in Ada County, Idaho
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate, Will Grigg Radio
Thursday, March 26, 2015 To Crush a Cop-Watcher: Prosecutorial Abuse in Ada County, Idaho The hardware is impressive, but much of the real damage is done by the prosecutors. The prosecutor at Matthew Townsend’s March 19 preliminary hearing appeared to be auditioning for a Daytime Emmy. Her subsequent performance, and that of her colleagues, […]
When Insulting the Police is a “Crime”
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 When Insulting the Police is a “Crime” Three residents of Arena, Wisconsin posted critical and provocative messages on the Facebook page of the local police department. All of those comments were purged by the officer who administered that page. Only one of them, however, resulted in criminal charges.Thomas Smith was arrested […]
When You Cross the Blue Line, Your “Blue” Life Doesn’t Matter
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 When You Cross the Blue Line, Your “Blue” Life Doesn’t Matter SWAT operators carry out a raid in Desert Hot Springs, California. [Note: An earlier version of this essay inaccurately stated that Heath’s death took place in 2012, rather than 2013. I apologize for the error.] Andrea Heath, a former police […]
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