Monday, September 1, 2014 If We Prick the State, Does It Bleed?   Yes, these are Oregon Sheriff’s deputies, “The taxpayers are entitled to everything Mr. Esbensen cost them,” declared Malheur County District Attorney Dan Norris, affected piety suppurating from every syllable, during an August 28 hearing before visiting Judge Gregory Baxter in the County […]

Friday, August 22, 2014 Why “Good Cops” Stay Silent: The Persecution of Officer Adam Basford (Second update, October 23) Officer Adam Basford is in the back row, center. (See updates below) “I can’t get killed for this job,” observed one of Adam Basford’s former colleagues in the Yakima Police Department, explaining why he had refused […]

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Furious About Ferguson? Work to Free Shaneen Allen Whatever we eventually learn about what happened in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, Michael Brown is beyond mortal help. The same is not true of Shaneen Allen, a 27-year-old working mother of two and robbery victim who faces an eleven-year […]

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Making Murder “Reasonable”: How the Ferguson PD Will Whitewash the Killing of Michael E. Brown (UPDATE, August 15) NOTE: In addition to the postscript at the bottom of the page, look for additional updates in the blog section of www.LewRockwell.com.Edward Garner was unarmed when he was shot in the back of […]

Friday, August 8, 2014 Small-Town Praetorianism: Barry Township Rejects Victor Pierce’s Authoritarian “Vision” Victor Pierce bears a resemblance to notorious death-cult leader Jim Jones, which is a tragic accident of nature. He also deeply imbibed the authoritarian Kool-Aid ladled out by the Homeland Security State, and force-fed it to the residents of Barry Township, Michigan, […]

Wednesday, August 6, 2014 “Absolute Immunity”: The Deadliest Weapon in the Prosecutor’s Arsenal “Prosecutors are rewarded for winning at all costs, they have no incentive to seek the truth rather than a conviction, and they are entirely unaccountable when they pervert justice in pursuit of victory,” observes Idaho resident John T. Bujak. “People shouldn’t believe […]

Thursday, November 6, 2014 Offend the Police — Lose Your Job How police deal with “customer” complaints. (See clarification below.)  When an employee in the productive sector offends the company’s customer base, he can expect to the censured, sanctioned, or sacked. Customers who complain about such an employee can expect that their opinions will be […]

Thursday, October 30, 2014 Bust You For It Now, Tax You For It Tomorrow: The Insanity of Marijuana Prohibition   Shock troops of prohibition: Oregon SWAT operatives conduct a marijuana raid. Vale, Oregon “I’m going to be burning weeds today – the right kind, that is,” Bill Esbensen wryly informed me as we met at […]

Saturday, November 29, 2014 Is Disarming a Cop a Capital Offense?   The friendly faces of the San Diego Police Department. The encounter began as a routine traffic stop. It ended with the avoidable shooting death of a young man that the killer described as an act of self-defense.  After the jury acquitted the defendant […]

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 Darren Wilson and the Reality of “Blue Privilege” (A version of this essay was originally published at Photography Is Not A Crime.)  “Any time I’m involved in an officer-involved shooting, be it a fatal one or non-fatal, it is always during my initial investigation listed as an assault on law enforcement,” […]

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 When the Rustlers Wear Badges Sweeney Gillette, a very successful cattle trader from Ontario, Oregon, had barely finished a pleasant chat with his ex-wife when his phone rang. In an agitated voice, Gillette’s attorney reported that he had just been contacted by a Malheur County deputy District Attorney who accused the […]

Thursday, November 13, 2014 They’ll Be Back: PATCON, Oklahoma City, and Jesse Trentadue’s Lonely Crusade for Justice   PATCON’s handiwork: A fireman holds an infant killed in the 1995 OKC bombing. (Updated and revised.)“His name used to be Don Jarrett,” long-time federal asset John Matthews told FBI Special Agent Adam Quirk during a July 9 […]