Anatomy of a Highway Patrol Heist Last June, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals placed its imprimatur on a stunt pulled by the DEA and Oregon’s Deschutes County Sheriff’s Department: The police staged an elaborate phony carjacking in order to seize a car from a suspected drug courier. The driver and his companion were deposited […]

The Robber State Strikes (Updated) There are occasions – and they are coming with increasing frequency – on which the Regime ruling us is laid bare to confront us in the stark majesty of its unalloyed evil. For many of us, such incidents resonate with those awful hours on April 19, 1993, when the Regime’s […]

Monopoly “Money” Bernard von NotHaus, the creator of the Liberty Dollar, is optimistic that he and his associates will have the benefit of “a spectacular trial” for the supposed crime of providing customers with something of value – platinum, gold, silver, and copper coins – in exchange for something innately value-less – the decorated ragpaper […]

The Judicial War On Fatherhood Portrait of a policy failure: Somehow, this young father was left unmolested to raise his two beautiful children. How on earth did such a thing happen?The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. Dick the Butcher, adding his contribution to Jack Cade’s Utopian promises, from Shakespeare’s Henry VI, […]

Pistol-Packing Positivists: Our Enemy in Blue How would you react if you were waylaid by an armed and bellicose stranger who has the means to kill you and your family and the power to get away with the crime? Very few of us would react with the self-possession displayed by 28-year-old Jared Massey when his […]

Let’s … Be Careful Out There (Very Important Update, 11/28) Vancouver, B.C. October 14: Canadian police swarm 40-year-old Polish expatriate Robert Dziekanski and electrocute him to death with Taser International’s renowned “non-lethal” implement of torture. (For the November 28 update, see the bottom of this essay.) The kind folks at Taser International, makers of the […]

Imperial Dread Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take one against our own. I must fairly say I dread our own power and our own ambition. I dread our being too much dreaded…. Sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our […]

The New Conservatism: Chekists and Collaborators A multi-use facility: One of the newly constructed immigration detention centers that could very easily be used to pen protesters, dissidents, or draft resisters. Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo, a Republican presidential hopeful, is the House’s most conspicuous advocate of border enforcement. He is also a stalwart defender of the […]

A Commissar Arises Commissar Andrew Thomas addressing his neo-totalitarian comrades at a gathering of the artfully misnamed Federalist Society.A little more than two years ago, Matthew Bandy of Phoenix, Arizona was a well-mannered and unremarkable 16-year-old boy who displayed a defect common to males of his age: An undisciplined adolescent libido. A little more than […]

His Name is Genarlow Wilson Like practically anybody blessed with a modicum of self-awareness, twenty-year-old Genarlow Wilson of Douglas, Georgia is ashamed of many things he did when he was younger. In his case that sorry assortment includes abuse of recreational drugs, chiefly alcohol and marijuana, and early promiscuity. But unlike most people whose mistakes […]