Monday, September 24, 2012 How to Kill a Law Enforcement Career: The Case of Regina Tasca Regina Tasca at the Borough Council meeting dealing with her termination.   What does it take for a police officer to get fired?  Regina Tasca, a 20-year veteran officer from Bogota, New Jersey, was terminated by the Borough Council […]

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 The Sacred Cause of “Officer Safety” Robert Pierson, shortly before being illegally detained by Deputy Corry Bassett. “It’s just about being safe.” Thus spoke Deputy Corry Bassett of the Lincoln County, Wyoming Sheriff’s Office as he struggled to justify handcuffing Robert Pierson during an August 11, 2011 traffic stop.  Pierson, a […]

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Remembering the Murder of Donald Scott  “Don’t shoot me! Don’t kill me!” screamed a terrified Frances Scott as heavily armed men broke down the door of her home near Malibu, California shortly after midnight.  Donald Scott, the 61-year-old homeowner, was startled awake by his wife’s screams. Although he was groggy from […]

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 “He’s a Constitutionalist” (SECOND UPDATE, October 16) Detective Rich Perecz assaults Marcella Cruz.  “Bear! There are guys with guns outside!” shouted Marcella Cruz to her husband as she looked out the kitchen window of their farmhouse in Letha, Idaho.  Timidly opening the kitchen door, Marcella – a small, slender, middle-aged woman […]

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. […]