Wednesday, September 9, 2009 “You Can’t Do This to People”: Robin McDermott’s Resistance Battle-weary but resolute, American freedom fighter Robin McDermott stands in front of the Springfield, Missouri City Hall, the redoubt of a criminal clique she has been fighting for roughly a dozen years. It is incredible how soon as a people becomes subject, […]

Monday, September 14, 2009 Helot on Wheels What an unalloyed blessing it is to live under a government describing itself as a constitutional republic!Unlike undisguised tyrannies of various flavors, the government ruling us often — but not always — briefly pretends to defer to the written document from which it derives a set of limited, […]

Thursday, May 21, 2009 Accusers as “Victims”: A Case Study The Reign of the Accuser, Salem 1692: Mary Warren, one of six young female “victims” whose allegations propelled the Salem Witch Trials, points the lethal finger of accusation at a village resident. Even a brief acquaintance with contemporary child abuse prosecutions is enough to disabuse […]

Thursday, September 17, 2009 Idaho’s Criminal Injustice System (Second in an occasional series. )His name is Gilligan, but he’s nobody’s “little buddy.” Employed as a prison guard at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in 2007, Timothy Ryan Gilligan, by his own admission, repeatedly had sexual relations with an inmate.Earlier this month (September 2009), Gilligan was […]

Monday, September 21, 2009 “Contempt of Cop” (Click to enlarge)(Please note corrections below.)”The police are to the government as the edge is to the knife,” insists sociologist David Bayley, who apparently couldn’t explain why the typical tax-feeder isn’t the sharpest blade in the cutlery drawer.One suitable example is the specimen who ruined what was an […]

Monday, September 28, 2009 A Lighter Damnation: “Clemency” for Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck Out of prison, but still not free: Putative sex criminal Veronica Rodriguez, who served a year behind bars for hugging a 13-year-old boy. In the 1984 HBO movie “Sakharov,” the eponymous Soviet physicist and human rights campaigner is seen addressing a […]

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Martial Law Is Their Business, And Business Sure Is Swell (SPECIAL UPDATE, 10/2) The “dream” realized: The Two Rivers Detention Facility, the proudest achievement of Hardin, Montana’s political class. Sure, it’s empty now, but I’m sure those nice men in the black SUVs can do something about that…. UPDATE, October 2Hardin, […]

Thursday, October 8, 2009 Have a Nice Apocalypse! Detroit, Riot City: In scenes better suited to a Third World country (above, and below right), tens of thousands of desperate people assemble outside Detroit’s Cobo Center in the hope of receiving $3,500 emergency welfare aid disbursements. Unemployment in Detroit is nearly 29 percent.An individual in the […]