Wednesday, June 17, 2009 An American “Yezhovschina”? Maxwell Smart: Are you a psychologist, Dr. Stueben? Dr. Stueben: I’m the president of the psychologist society for mental health and adjustment through fulfillment. Smart: What kind of an organization is that? Stueben: We’re a hate group.Smart (following a double-take): A hate group?Stueben: Oh, in the sense that […]
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Totalitarianism In One City: Shreveport’s Gun-Grabbing Mayor
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Totalitarianism In One City: Shreveport’s Gun-Grabbing Mayor Shreveport’s Big Boss Man, Cedric Glover, and unidentified flunky: According to Glover, an advocate of civilian disarmament, his police have the power to “suspend” the rights of any motorist they stop, and can seize a civilian’s firearms at will. Not that long ago, bigoted […]
A Covenant With Death
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Friday, July 3, 2009 A Covenant With Death Gory, gory hallelujah: A “shock and awe” assault on Baghdad, above; below, right, a “liberated” Iraqi mourns a dead relative. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; […]
The Civil Religion and the Seventh-Inning Stretch (Updated, 7/8)
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 The Civil Religion and the Seventh-Inning Stretch (Updated, 7/8) “Love it! Love it! WE COMMAND YOU TO LOVE IT!!!” Jingoism rears its head at a post-9/11 Major League Baseball game. “There is … a purely civil profession of faith of which the Sovereign should fix the articles…. While [the State] can […]
Beware William Tell’s Second Arrow
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Beware William Tell’s Second Arrow That was indeed a man: William Tell, seen here immortalized in bronze next to a likeness of his son, is a hero not just to Swiss patriots, but to all those in whom the desire for freedom is irrepressible. “You Swiss are so proud of your […]
Too Many (Other) People
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Too Many (Other) People Czar of the Bizarre: John Holdren, long-time militant eco-collectivist, is Barack Obama’s “Science Czar.” He is also on the record advocating totalitarian population control methods, including compelled abortion and mass sterilization through chemical warfare. As a left-leaning Rutgers law professor in the early 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg […]
Child-Snatchers and Life-Stealers — Pt. I
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Friday, July 24, 2009 Child-Snatchers and Life-Stealers — Pt. I The haunted eyes of an innocent man: John Stoll, wrongfully convicted of molesting several children, including his only son, near the beginning of a 40-year prison term. The state managed to steal twenty years of his life before his conviction was overturned in 2004, on […]
Praetorian Presumptions
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Monday, July 27, 2009 Praetorian Presumptions Behold the face of fear and insecurity: Riot police in Oakland, seen here protecting and serving their community. Salt Lake City’s Deseret News, as part of its continuing campaign against rationality, recently published a house editorial condemning civilian ownership of firearms.Bobbing in the puddle of pathos created by the […]