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Dr. Raskolnikov, I Presume?

Thursday, January 2, 2014 Dr. Raskolnikov, I Presume? Protected and Served to Death: Kelly Thomas A certain percentage, they tell us, must go … that way — to the devil, I suppose…. A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory…. Once you’ve said `percentage’ there’s nothing more to worry about.  […]

“It Stops Today!”

Monday, July 21, 2014 “It Stops Today!” “Every time you see me, you want to mess with me! I’m tired of it! It stops today!” Eric Garner, a peaceful and productive citizen, had suffered years of pointless and unnecessary harassment by the costumed predators employed by the NYPD. He told one of them to leave […]

“It’s Strictly Business”: Inside the Prohibition Racket

Monday, July 28, 2014 “It’s Strictly Business”: Inside the Prohibition Racket In addition to being an engine of misery, corruption, and bloodshed, the War on Drugs should be seen as a multi-tiered criminal enterprise. At the top echelon are found the political figureheads who recite pious bromides. That’s likewise where we encounter the bureaucratic scribes […]

Either Praise the Police, or Shut Up

Monday, October 20, 2014 Either Praise the Police, or Shut Up “Don’t just touch your chin — bang it, man, bang it!” Following Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, members of the Persian elite were required to prostrate themselves before their new ruler. Polyperchon, one of Alexander’s generals, sternly rebuked one of the Persians whose […]

Cannibals with Cutlery

Tuesday, October 14, 2014 Cannibals with Cutlery Armed strangers on the doorstep: Fish & Game Officers raid the Watson home, October 8. (Scott Watson) Carolyn Brewer was startled by the unannounced presence of an armed man in her bedroom. Her mood didn’t improve when the intruder sternly ordered her, “You don’t get up.” That directive […]

“Crush the Seed of Ishmael”: A “Final Solution” to the “Muslim Problem”

Thursday, October 9, 2014 “Crush the Seed of Ishmael”: A “Final Solution” to the “Muslim Problem”   Decapitation by drone strike: A routine act of state terrorism by the US government. We have reached a point in our nation’s descent into psychotic tribalist fear where people of stature and apparent sobriety unabashedly use the expression […]

The Drug War’s Medical Quislings

Friday, October 3, 2014 The Drug War’s Medical Quislings When police dragged Felix Booker, naked and shackled, into the emergency room at the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, they knew Dr. Michael LaPaglia would set aside his Hippocratic obligation to the patient and act as an agent of the State. On at least […]

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