Monday, September 21, 2015 He Wouldn’t Back Down: The Bittersweet Victory of Brian McNelis He wouldn’t back down: Brian J. McNelis, left, with his companion, Leslie White. Brian McNelis was still recovering from a police raid that wrecked his home and threatened to destroy his commercial painting business when he learned that the state intended […]
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To Crush a Cop-Watcher: Prosecutorial Abuse in Ada County, Idaho
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate, Will Grigg Radio
Thursday, March 26, 2015 To Crush a Cop-Watcher: Prosecutorial Abuse in Ada County, Idaho The hardware is impressive, but much of the real damage is done by the prosecutors. The prosecutor at Matthew Townsend’s March 19 preliminary hearing appeared to be auditioning for a Daytime Emmy. Her subsequent performance, and that of her colleagues, […]
When Insulting the Police is a “Crime”
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 When Insulting the Police is a “Crime” Three residents of Arena, Wisconsin posted critical and provocative messages on the Facebook page of the local police department. All of those comments were purged by the officer who administered that page. Only one of them, however, resulted in criminal charges.Thomas Smith was arrested […]
When You Cross the Blue Line, Your “Blue” Life Doesn’t Matter
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 When You Cross the Blue Line, Your “Blue” Life Doesn’t Matter SWAT operators carry out a raid in Desert Hot Springs, California. [Note: An earlier version of this essay inaccurately stated that Heath’s death took place in 2012, rather than 2013. I apologize for the error.] Andrea Heath, a former police […]
Blessed Be the State’s Punitive Priesthood
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate, Will Grigg Radio
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 Blessed Be the State’s Punitive Priesthood Pastor Jay Dennis, who presides over the First Baptist Church on the Mall, a large and growing “mega-church” in Lakeland, Florida, urges his congregation to see police officers as angelic beings bearing a divine commission to impose summary punishment. They are to be obeyed, prayed […]
How the State’s “Justice” System Cultivates Predators like Ibn Hunter
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate, Will Grigg Radio
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 How the State’s “Justice” System Cultivates Predators like Ibn Hunter About to strike: Ibn Hunter winds up to assault a homeless woman. On occasion, government-employed police can solve a crime of violence – assuming that the act is captured on video, the offender makes a point of mugging for the camera […]
Please, Dear Leader — Ban Firearms By Decree
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate
Thursday, October 22, 2015 Please, Dear Leader — Ban Firearms By Decree Dr. Barbara LeSavoy, gun confiscation advocate and Director of Women and Gender Studies at The College at Brockport in New York, may be the authentic embodiment of contemporary totalitarian leftism. She might be LARPing – that is, Live-Action Role-Playing – in the character […]
First, They Came for the Bar Owners….
by Will Grigg | Jul 5, 2019 | Everything Will, Pro Libertate, Will Grigg Radio
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 First, They Came for the Bar Owners…. Mission Accomplished: The shuttered Twilight Room Annex, a casualty of Oregon’s anti-Business soviet. Chris Penner, owner of the Twilight Room Annex club in Portland, Oregon, had bills to pay and a payroll to meet. He called up his business account only to find […]
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Anti-War Blog – The Feed of War
War is content, at least for those who are far from the explosions, acrid smoke and mourning parents. To those closer to the destruction and loss, it’s very real and inescapable. For most of us, the privileged, we peer into it whenever we dare, or should it come...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [Guest] Prof. Glenn Diesen: Trump’s Legacy: The Catastrophic Destruction of the American Empire
A ceasefire can be the start of peace, or it can be the quiet moment when both sides reload. That’s the question driving my return conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen as we dissect the US-Iran negotiations, the sudden focus on a short extension, and the strategic...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: US TROOPS ON THE MOVE + IS TRUMP RESTARTING THE WAR?!
U.S. troops are training for chemical and nuclear fallout while fresh forces and warships surge toward the Middle East, and I can’t shake the feeling that those “routine drills” are happening for a reason. We walk through what the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s...
Adam Smith and Equality of Force
It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the contact that various distant peoples had had with Europeans, following the discoveries of Christopher Colombus and Vasco de Gama. The results, by Smith’s time in 1776,...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [Guest] Lt Col Karen Kwiatkowski: Trump Orders Hormuz Blockade After Talks Fail—Ceasefire at Risk?
A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sounds like a clean, decisive move until you run it through the real world: geography, international law, ship insurance, and the uncomfortable question of what happens when the other side shoots back. We sit down with Lt Col Karen...
Rules for Radicals: In the Beginning w/John Weeks
John and I continue the reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals
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