Sunday, September 18, 2011 Abolish the Police, Arm the Citizens: The “Sagra Model” of Privatized Security No surrender, no retreat: Andrei (l) and Viktor Gorodilov at the bridge.  “What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return […]

Monday, September 26, 2011 “The Dream is Collapsing” “Who knows whether the other half of our life, in which we think we are awake, is not another sleep a little different from the former, from which we awake when we suppose ourselves asleep? And who doubts that, if we dreamt in company, and the dreams […]

Monday, October 3, 2011 The Awlaki Sanction: Who’s Next on the List? The links connecting Anwar al-Awlaki to anti-American terrorism were entirely suppositious, forged through unsubstantiated official assertion. He was, at most, a clerical propagandist who never exercised command authority. For that matter, no evidence has been presented that he ever had an operational role […]

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Steven Pinker’s Statist Gospel Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker, who has said that he never “outgrew my conversion to atheism at thirteen,” has written a theodicy – a tract intended to validate the redemptive power of the Leviathan State. In his new book The Better Angelsof Our Nature, Pinker insists that humanity […]

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 “Rising” to Empire, Falling from Grace The following article is adapted from my contribution to a forthcoming collection of essays addressing America’s descent into imperialism. “If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.” […]

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Let a Thousand “Rogue” Grand Juries Bloom!   Amanda Culbertson has a conscience, which is another way of saying that she wasn’t well-suited to government “work.” Until recently she was employed by the Houston Police Department as a crime lab supervisor. In 2009, she became aware of serious problems with the […]

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Framing Steele: A Case Study of Sovietized American “Justice” Edgar Steele (r.) confers with political activist Paul Venable. Yes, I’d give the Devil the benefit of the law — for my own safety’s sake.  — Sir Thomas Moore, as depicted in A Man for All Seasons When Edgar Steele was told […]

Friday, November 11, 2011 Where Justice Goes to Die Federal Court is in session. Ten years ago, a 21-year-old woman named Tonya Hart was shot to death in a Moscow, Idaho trailer court. Two years later, a local man named David J. Meisner, who confessed to the crime during a recorded police interrogation, was convicted […]

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 […]