Monday, January 27, 2014 (No) Honor Among Thugs Like countless other people, Los Angeles resident Sergio Arreola was the victim of criminal violence by the police, and forced to defend himself in court because his assailants were encouraged to lie and allowed to do so without punishment. The Pomona, California police officers who beat Arreola […]

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 “Cooperate” With the Police — Or Be Assaulted in Front of Your Children Post Falls K9 “officer” Andor and his handler.  “See – this is what happens when you don’t cooperate with the police!” snarled Neil Uhrig as he pinned Melissa Miller to the floor of her home. It’s not clear […]

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 How To Kill a Law Enforcement Career: Criticize Revenue Farming The arrival of a 450-ton, 380-foot-long “megaload” of oil refinery equipment near Marsing, Idaho last Christmas attracted the attention of protesters, spectators, and revenue farmers. A few days later it moved on, leaving in its wake scores of people who had […]

Tuesday, January 14, 2014 The Verdict: Murder as an Official Entitlement Support Your Local Police, Orange County Chapter: Anaheim cops respond to an anti-police protest.  “Among other lessons we’ve learned in this trial,” pontificated Judge William Froeberg just before a jury acquitted Kelly Thomas’s killers, “is that violence begets violence.”  This statement was either a […]

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 The Right to Resist — and the Duty to Interpose “Get on the floor! Get on the floor!” ordered the assailant, dragging the college-age victim into a campus building and shoving him to the ground in front of an astonished student. As the vessel of his wrath curled up in a […]

Monday, January 7, 2013 Lights, Camera — Entrapment! Homeland Security Theater in Portland Osman Barre, a Somali-born software engineer living in Portland, Oregon, was concerned that his teenage son Mohamed Osman Mohamud was being radicalized by exposure to jihadist literature. Barre expressed his concerns to the FBI, which quite helpfully arranged for two of its […]

Monday, January 14, 2013 From Undercover Narco-Creeper to Police Chief Craig Kingsbury, the veteran bureaucrat who was recently appointed to head the Nampa, Idaho Police Department, began his law enforcement career by hanging out near schools and buying drugs in what should be seen as an attempt to stimulate the local narco-economy. As a 23-year-old […]

Saturday, January 19, 2013 Put Not Your Trust In Federalized Sheriffs He sold his soul at a steep discount: Richard Rich (l.) displays the badge he earned through collaboration. “You look depressed.” “I was lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.” “You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just noticed, it can’t have been very […]

Monday, January 28, 2013 Why is it a “Crime” to Disarm a Uniformed Aggressor? No, they’re not ETs; they’re JBTs: El Paso County SWAT operators play-act a big drug bust.  Sheriff Terry Maketa of Colorado’s El Paso County has promised his constituents that he “will actively oppose any effort that infringes upon your second amendment […]

Thursday, January 31, 2013 “Gun Violence”: The “National Conversation” We Won’t Have Victim of state-inflicted gun violence: Jose Guerena, Jr. after seeing the dead body of his father.   Gabrielle Giffords, the “surprise witness” at the January 30 Senate hearing on gun violence, was among thirteen people attacked by a deranged gunman in the parking […]

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 “For Your Own Protection” There is no situation that cannot be made instantly and immeasurably worse through police intervention. A splendid illustration of this principle is found in a recent ruling from the the Arkansas Court of Appeals. According to the court, police were entitled to arrest, taze, and beat a […]

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 The Stalinist in the White House In the fashion of Caesar thrice refusing the crown even as he assumed dictatorial powers, tyrants will occasionally engage in self-aggrandizement disguised as self-deprecation. Barack Obama offered a moment of that kind last week when, in reply to a question about the budget sequester posed […]

Friday, March 15, 2013 “Ominous Threats” and Murderous Zeal (A  shorter version of this essay was originally published at LewRockwell.com) “There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat,” warns an unusually strident house editorial by the Los Angeles Times. “They are usually heavily armed, blinded by […]

Sunday, March 24, 2013 Resistance is Dangerous; Submission is Frequently Fatal Resisting arrest is not a crime. It is a common-law right, the exercise of which is treated as if it were a crime.  The act of resistance was transmuted into a criminal offense chiefly through judicial activism, rather than legislation. Courts that seek to […]

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 Welcome to Sulphur Springs, Where the Police Chief is a Murderer Support Your Local Murderer: Chief Brackney of the Sulphur Springs PD. Like many third-world countries, Arkansas is a beautiful place inhabited by lovely people who are burdened with an extravagantly corrupt ruling class. This helps explain, but by no means […]

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 “State Control”: What the UN Firearms Treaty is All About “Comrades! Turn in your weapons!” White House mouthpiece Jay Carney says that the Obama administration will “conduct a thorough review” of the UN’s newly enacted gun control pact “to determine whether to sign the treaty.” The suspense is hardly unbearable, given […]

Sunday, April 7, 2013 Nationalizing Children Commissar for Children: Anton S. Makarenko, depicted in a Soviet Postcard We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. – Instructions given at a congress of Soviet educators in 1918 (cited in Separating School […]

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 When Homeland Security Theater goes Off-Script While police in Watertown, Massachusetts closed in on the boat in which 19-year-old terrorist suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had concealed himself, FBI investigators in Chicago were snapping handcuffs on 18-year-old Abdella Ahmed Tounisi as he attempted to board an airplane bound for Istanbul. He intended to […]

Saturday, May 4, 2013 Sheriff Bradshaw and the Palm Beach County Psihuska “What’s the worst that can happen?” asks Bradshaw about targeting “anti-government extremists”…. “What does it hurt,” asked Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Florida’s Palm Beach County, “to have somebody knock on the door and ask, `Hey, is everything OK?’” The answer to that question […]

Sunday, May 12, 2013 The Persecution of Rita Hutchens Midnight Knock: Bonner County Sheriff’s Deputies invade the home of Rita Hutchens. Sandpoint, Idaho resident Rita Hutchens is an opinionated 57-year-old quilt artist whose work has earned her international notoriety. Given that Hutchens is also an outspoken proponent of constitutionalist views, it’s possible that some people […]