Friday, March 26, 2010 Resistance Imperial impunity: Samurai in feudal Japan were invested with Kiri sute-gomen, “authorization to cut and leave” — a literal license to kill. Yet they were actually more accountable than police in contemporary America. “Time to end this! Enough is enough!” With those words, Officer Troy Meade of the Everett, Washington […]

Monday, April 5, 2010 We’re From the Government; We’re Here to “Help” You to Death They kill not because they want to Because they think it’s right to In some cases Have mercy on them and someday they may Have mercy on you The Mercy Killers Have mercy on you The Mercy Killers….– Theme to […]

Monday, June 21, 2010 The Police State’s “Cardinal Rule”: The Mundane Must Submit British officer: You call yourself a patriot, and a loyal subject to King George? Hawkeye: I don’t call myself “subject” to much of anything. Hawkeye explains the foundational tenet of the American worldview to a self-important armed government functionary offended by the […]

Thursday, June 24, 2010 Maywood, RIP: When Police Kill A City Brent Talmo once lost a job he really enjoyed, but he was eventually able to find a position in the same field, with better pay and greater responsibilities. Sure, he had been a troubled employee, prone to “bizarre behavior” and casual abuse of those […]

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Clemency for Wall Street Criminals, Prison for the Powerless A little help from a passive victim: Why did he hold still? “Who the hell are these people?” “I don’t know. I used to say they were the same ones we’ve always had to deal with. Same ones my granddaddy had to […]

Monday, July 5, 2010 Eminent Domain: We’re All Indians Now (Expanded, 7/6) Less destructive than corporatist politics: A funnel cloud looms menacingly over Peotone, Illinois. Prior to the closing of the frontier in 1890, “Manifest Destiny” was the incantation used by the government when it gave itself permission to steal property it coveted. Today, the […]

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 The Greyhound Station Gulag FEMA camp survivor: Businessman Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria, stands outside the New Orleans Greyhound station that was converted into an open-air detention center following Katrina. Zeitoun was imprisoned under FEMA jurisdiction after being arrested for “trespassing” on his own property.New Orleans resident Abdulrahman […]

Friday, July 9, 2010 Addicted to the Warfare State La Reconquista? BLM travel advisory in AZ. (See corrections and clarifications below, 7/12)  (Updated below, 7/10) Which is the more serious threat to life, liberty and property: The illicit violence practiced by a handful of furtive armed drug smugglers in the Arizona desert, or the increasingly […]