Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Clarence Dupnik’s Death Squad A home invasion in Tucson, Arizona; below, right, its equivalent in Mosul, Iraq.   Why did they use a SWAT team?  If  Tucson resident Jose Guerena was plausibly suspected of narcotics trafficking, why wasn’t he arrested on his way to or from his job at the nearby […]

Saturday, November 19, 2011 Support Your Local Police State Heroic local police at work. “Which is better—to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?” – Attributed to Boston physician Mather Byles, 1770. “Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” Iraqi Wael al-Khafaji asked […]

Monday, November 28, 2011 The Making of a Prison Society “That’s why you shouldn’t bring kids to protests.” This taunt, which issued from the sneering lips of an armored riot policeman, struck Don Joughin with the force of a billyclub as he tried to comfort his children – a three-year-old and a newborn – after […]

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 The Right to Resist: Will Michigan Repeal the “Rapist Doctrine”? “Don’t resist – you’ll just make it worse.” Until recently, the only people expected to make that demand of their innocent victims were rapists and police officers. Fortunately, women are no longer expected to submit to sexual assault, but rather to […]

Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Send In The Drones: The Predator State Goes Domestic “Eventually, we’ll have to put an end to this, one way or another.” Sheriff Kelly Janke of North Dakota’s Nelson County uttered that ominous sentence in mid-September, during what the local media giddily described as a stand-off with local farmer Rodney Brossart […]

Thursday, December 22, 2011 Their Right to Kill, Our Duty To Die: The Murder of Otto Zehm Otto Zehm, a mentally handicapped, 36-year-old unemployed janitor, was beaten to death in a Spokane convenience store in March 2006. “All I wanted was a Snickers bar,” pleaded the battered and bloody man before he was gagged by […]

Thursday, December 29, 2011 Militarists, Drug Warriors, and Heresy-Hunters: The Anti-Ron Paul Axis of “Decency”   Toxic smugness: Google the term “Backpfeifengesicht.” Newt Gingrich, lapsed adulterer, impenitent warmonger, and self-appointed “teacher of civilization,” has excommunicated Ron Paul and his supporters from the ranks of human decency. A similar anathema has been pronounced by left-wing heresy […]

Sunday, January 3, 2010 Neither Sword Nor Shield: Full-Spectrum Civilian Disarmament The wages of civilian disarmament: U.S. troops shovel the mortal remains of disarmed Sioux into a mass grave at Wounded Knee, January 1891. “We need to make it clear,” fulminated Patrick Lynch of the New York City Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “that if someone lifts […]