Friday, October 19, 2012 A Commissarina Rises: Wendy J. Olson’s Reign of Terror The Commissarina and her Cheka: U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson (center) at a May 10 Press Conference. As the financial manager of the West Coast Auto Company in Boise, Monte Johnson often did business with out-of-state customers. He probably didn’t see anything unusual […]

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Bruce Jessen: The Torturer in the Pulpit Pious torturers at work: Bruce Jessen’s medieval antecedents waterboard a religious “extremist.”  As a newly appointed ecclesiastical leader in Spokane, Washington, Bruce Jessen would have the opportunity to baptize new converts. He would also be expected to interview them regularly to evaluate their understanding […]

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Russell Means: Renegade, Patriot, Freedom Fighter Confined to a barren prison camp in Washington, the displaced Paiute Indians were dying. The Interior Department had promised to send rations, but they never arrived. After being exposed to the elements during the winter of 1880, fifty-eight of them had died – including thirty […]

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 The Death of a Slave-Catcher   Ogden Police Officer Jared Francom was fatally shot during a raid on the home of Matthew David Stewart last January 4. Francom was part of a twelve-man SWAT team attached to the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force, a federally subsidized counter-narcotics squad.  A few weeks earlier, […]

Friday, November 16, 2012 Boise’s Proposed Thoughtcrime Ordinance “Law is concerned with external behavior and not the inner life of man.” — Justice Felix Frankfurter, West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (dissent) Ordinance O-36-12, a proposed municipal “anti-discrimination” measure being considered by the Boise City Council, would do nothing to protect people from acts […]

Monday, November 26, 2012 Predators with Impunity (Update, December 4) If resisting arrest is a crime, does a woman have the right to resist a sexual assault by a police officer? Last May 5th, Magdelena Mol, a young wife and mother from Burbank, Illinois, went to a nearby village called Justice to visit a friend. […]

Friday, March 16, 2012 Meet Officer Michael Reichert: Professional Liar, Pride of the Collinsville PD A liar at work: Officer Michael Reichert (back to camera) harasses Terrance Huff. “Cops lie. Most of them lie a couple of times per shift, at least.” This assessment was offered not by an embittered critic of the police, but […]

Tuesday, December 4, 2012 Michael Reichert and the Road Pirates of Collinsville, Illinois Professional liar Michael Reichert describes how he plants drug evidence in “training” exercises. Michael Reichert is a professional liar and, therefore, a decorated police officer with the Collinsville, Illinois Police Department. Thanks to a video of a recent deposition, Reichert may become […]