Sunday, May 4, 2008 An American Gulag Sixty years ago a young American named Alexander Dolgun was accosted on the streets of Moscow by a couple of affable fellows working for the Soviet secret police (known at the time as the MGB).Assuming he was the victim of mistaken identity or some innocent bureaucratic bungle, Dolgun […]

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 This Is A Man: The Heroic Intransigence of James L. Woodard “I don’t know your `philosophy’ of life, but I assume you wouldn’t take a man’s freedom just because you can. That’s why I keep sending these letters to you…. I’ve been locked up 3 1/2 years now and it’s been […]

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 One Of These Things Is Just Like The Other How we live now: Riding the subways in the “Land of the Free” in the Year of Our Lord 2008.In late April, the mortal remains of 65-year-old Norman Stamp were interred in Essex, Maryland. Mr. Stamp, a member of a motorcycle club […]

Sunday, May 11, 2008 The Ordinary Face of Everyday Evil Photos courtesy of captivefldschildren.orgHavin’ a good time, guys? SWAT operators wearing Nazi-style bucket-head helmets enjoy a mirthful moment on the YZF Ranch as child “protection” workers prepare to kidnap the FLDS community’s children. What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers […]

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Child Theft, “Concentration Camps”: It’s Happening Here “The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment [he] was born. ” (Rev. 12:4b)*Even before Dan Jessop’s son was born, the State had already made a proprietary claim to […]

Friday, May 16, 2008 The Texas Child Grab: Cowpie ala Mode (Updated) The news was simply too good to hide under a bushel.Arrow Child and Family Ministries, a foster care and adoption agency with headquarters near Houston, “found out today that they will be receiving 80-100 permanent placement children,” exulted the sister of an assistant […]

Sunday, May 18, 2008 Texas Child Grab: Possession Is The Entire “Law” Ready to kill for the State: A sniper takes aim at unarmed parents at the YFZ Ranch, prepared to kill any who resist as their children are stolen by lying, corrupt strangers. “The important thing to understand,” insists former Texas judge Scott McCown, […]

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 The Real Cult Menace (Part One): “Waco” in Slow Motion “I hope very much that others who will be tempted to join cults and to become involved with people like David Koresh will be deterred by the horrible scenes they have seen over the last seven weeks…. There is, unfortunately, a […]

Friday, May 23, 2008 An Ambiguous Victory (Updated) Yes, the Constitution applies even to them: FLDS member Willie Jessop turns away a CPS commissarina who demanded access to the YFZ Ranch to conduct a warrantless search. Mr. Jessop told the finger-wagging shrike to get the constitutionally mandated paperwork together, and he’d let her in.It was […]

Sunday, May 25, 2008 A Bureaucracy Bares Its Teeth Entrenchment: FLDS members at the YFZ Ranch huddle behind padlocked gates while Texas State officials pursue new strategies to make their mass child abduction “legal.” There are many millions of adults who suffer from a peculiar logic disorder I call “Severe Ipse-Dixitism” that leads them to […]