Mike Nifong: Your Time Is Coming…. No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs, Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, Become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does. If he had been as you and you as he, You would have slipt like […]

To The Gulag, But For The Grace Of The State, Go I A “Crime” is invented: New Hampshire anti-tax activist Russell Kanning is “arrested” — the common euphemism for an officially sanctioned assault — for the supposed crime of handing literature to employees of the criminal syndicate called the Internal Revenue Service. It’s not necessary […]

“Diplomacy” As The Art Of Cultivating Conflict The purpose of diplomacy is to protect our independence and security through means other than war. Those occupying the upper echelons of the Bush Regime define diplomacy as the practice of removing impediments to war. Indeed, for Dick Cheney and his cohorts, manufacturing pretexts for war is the […]

Bloodsuckers In Blue To “Protect” and Siphon: A “Phleboto-Cop” prepares to drain the blood of a “volunteer.”(Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix) During the mid-1980s, a state radio broadcast in East Germany proudly announced a record-breaking national blood drive. In the audio equivalent of fine print could be found the critical, defining detail: “Most of the donors […]

Robin Prosser: Victim of Paternalistic Totalitarianism “Eeet’s naht a TOO-mah!” If it were a tumor, and Arnold’s treatment program included marijuana, the Feds would intervene. Arnold Schwarzenegger suffered a fit of clarity during a recent interview with GQ, creating a small pseudo-controversy quickly cleaned up by a press aide.Asked about drug use during the 1970s, […]

Federal Prosecutors: A Human Pestilence There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. […]

Further On Up The Road By now, we’ve become inured to the grotesque spectacle of Bush Regime appointees behaving as if the rules of reality can be suspended at the whim of the Grand and Glorious Decider. Thus it is with a dull sense of soul-weary duty, rather than with an acute sense of outrage […]

Right and Wrong There’s a short update below.So Pat Robertson, an individual who looks as if he had been given life by the pen of a Disney animator (and speaks as though delivering in earnest lines written as satire by Sinclair Lewis), insists that only Adolf – whoops, I mean Rudolph – Giuliani can defend […]

What’s So “Sinister” About “Liberty, Prosperity, and Peace”? “Setting the realm at rest” through foreign wars: How many of the honored dead whose remains are interred at Arlington really died on behalf of freedom — rather than for the greater glory of the State?The true means of setting the realm at rest is by keeping […]

A “Cunning” Plan, A Wrongfully Convicted Man “Baldrick … are the words `I have a cunning plan’ marching with ill-deserved confidence in the general direction of this conversation?” Edmund Blackadder, from “Blackadder Goes Fourth” Time, the subtle thief of youth — with a corrupt “justice” system as a cohort: Tim Masters as a 15-year-old (left), […]