Friday, July 24, 2009 Child-Snatchers and Life-Stealers — Pt. I The haunted eyes of an innocent man: John Stoll, wrongfully convicted of molesting several children, including his only son, near the beginning of a 40-year prison term. The state managed to steal twenty years of his life before his conviction was overturned in 2004, on […]

Monday, July 27, 2009 Praetorian Presumptions Behold the face of fear and insecurity: Riot police in Oakland, seen here protecting and serving their community. Salt Lake City’s Deseret News, as part of its continuing campaign against rationality, recently published a house editorial condemning civilian ownership of firearms.Bobbing in the puddle of pathos created by the […]

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 “You Can’t Do This to People”: Robin McDermott’s Resistance Battle-weary but resolute, American freedom fighter Robin McDermott stands in front of the Springfield, Missouri City Hall, the redoubt of a criminal clique she has been fighting for roughly a dozen years. It is incredible how soon as a people becomes subject, […]

Monday, September 14, 2009 Helot on Wheels What an unalloyed blessing it is to live under a government describing itself as a constitutional republic!Unlike undisguised tyrannies of various flavors, the government ruling us often — but not always — briefly pretends to defer to the written document from which it derives a set of limited, […]

Thursday, May 21, 2009 Accusers as “Victims”: A Case Study The Reign of the Accuser, Salem 1692: Mary Warren, one of six young female “victims” whose allegations propelled the Salem Witch Trials, points the lethal finger of accusation at a village resident. Even a brief acquaintance with contemporary child abuse prosecutions is enough to disabuse […]

Thursday, September 17, 2009 Idaho’s Criminal Injustice System (Second in an occasional series. )His name is Gilligan, but he’s nobody’s “little buddy.” Employed as a prison guard at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in 2007, Timothy Ryan Gilligan, by his own admission, repeatedly had sexual relations with an inmate.Earlier this month (September 2009), Gilligan was […]

Monday, September 21, 2009 “Contempt of Cop” (Click to enlarge)(Please note corrections below.)”The police are to the government as the edge is to the knife,” insists sociologist David Bayley, who apparently couldn’t explain why the typical tax-feeder isn’t the sharpest blade in the cutlery drawer.One suitable example is the specimen who ruined what was an […]

Monday, September 28, 2009 A Lighter Damnation: “Clemency” for Veronica Rodriguez and Daryl Buck Out of prison, but still not free: Putative sex criminal Veronica Rodriguez, who served a year behind bars for hugging a 13-year-old boy. In the 1984 HBO movie “Sakharov,” the eponymous Soviet physicist and human rights campaigner is seen addressing a […]