Thursday, March 12, 2009 Of Paper “Money” and “Paper” Terrorism Proving his antagonist’s point? Socrates insisted that justice was something other than the “advantage of the stronger” — yet he submitted to an unjust death sentence, thereby apparently validating the idea that citizens have a moral responsibility to submit to officially sanctioned injustice. “Justice is […]
2009
Dismantling The Killer Elite
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Monday, March 16, 2009 Dismantling The Killer Elite Maintaining the pretense of authority: “Nothing to see here! Please disperse!” commands Frank Drebin, Lt. Detective, Police Squad — a special division of the police force. Sometimes the truth is best told through fictional allegory, especially when a dash of comedy is used to make the parables […]
Remembrance of Recessions Past
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Thursday, March 19, 2009 Remembrance of Recessions Past The greatest man I will ever know: My father, L. Richard Grigg, holding his grandson, Jefferson Leonidas Grigg (age 3 at the time), circa 2004.At some point in each visit we pay to my parents’ home I find myself pondering a curious object found in their washroom […]
Liberty and Law, not “Law and Order” (Brief Programming Update, 3/26)
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Liberty and Law, not “Law and Order” (Brief Programming Update, 3/26) With our days as a manufacturing power a wistful memory and the marketing of fraudulent Wall Street “financial products” an infinitely self-replenishing source of national outrage, incarceration may soon become — by default — our leading national industry. The United […]
The Collaborator’s Song (Updated with a brief afterthought, March 31)
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Monday, March 30, 2009 The Collaborator’s Song (Updated with a brief afterthought, March 31) “Avenge me!” Tom Eckert, bloodied but unbowed, gazes through the wire of a “re-education” camp at his sons Jed and Tom following the totalitarian takeover of America in the 1984 film Red Dawn. While that movie depicted a Soviet occupation of […]
DARE and Back Again
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 DARE and Back Again Not an equal “partnership”: The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) logo illustrates the conceit that the state’s instruments of indoctrination (schools) and coercion (police) are “partners” with the parents in molding the character of young people. Sitting through a DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) graduation ceremony is […]
The Ballad of John Singer
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 The Ballad of John Singer ***A brief, inadequate, and highly tendentious summary of the John Singer case. The Singers, sans John: Vicki Singer is second from the right in the back row; below, right, the Singer farm (or, as the media put it, “compound”) as it appeared in 1988. In the […]
The Pogrom That Wasn’t
by Will Grigg | Jul 3, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Thursday, April 9, 2009 The Pogrom That Wasn’t [By way of preface: I’m tired, and by that I mean I am weary at the molecular level. I have no fewer than three partially completed essays — and what promises to be a fairly huge investigative piece — in the works, but domestic concerns have made […]
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Lying Politicians Gonna Lyingly Politick
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day: We remember what happened then [in Nazi Germany], and today, we are witnessing American universities quickly become hostile places for Jewish students and faculty. The very campuses which were once the...
The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
The Prussian Culture of Disobedience
"The German and Prussian officer corps are the officer corps with the greatest culture of disobedience–with maybe the exception of the French. The stories and events that kept alive the virtue requiring an officer–even in war–to disobey an order “when justified by...
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
Sen. Mitt Romney Admits TikTok Censorship is All About Protecting Israel
Of course it is. No one hates free speech more than Zionists. You know, because accurate descriptions of Israel make them look bad.
The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...