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“Escalation of Force”: We’re All Iraqis Now
by Will Grigg
Friday, October 4, 2013 “Escalation of Force”: We’re All Iraqis Now “The wicked flee where none gives pursuit,” the Book of Proverbs instructs us. In similar fashion, an imperial elite that cultivates hostility on a global scale lives under the perpetual and well-deserved expectation of retaliation – which is why it perceives everybody as a […]
“Pedro Offers You His Protection”: The Preston PD Gets a Combat Vehicle
by Will Grigg
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 “Pedro Offers You His Protection”: The Preston PD Gets a Combat Vehicle Dude, really? Chief Geddes poses with his department’s new MRAP. Preston, Idaho is a town of roughly 5,000 people that earned brief notoriety a decade ago as the setting for the whimsical film “Napoleon Dynamite.” It is blessedly […]
Rough Men Stand Ready to Kill You in Your Bed
by Will Grigg
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Rough Men Stand Ready to Kill You in Your Bed “We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm,” wrote the late Richard Grenier decades ago. The murderous reality behind that oft-recited authoritarian aphorism – generally […]
The Smell of Fear
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 The Smell of Fear Either as a result of their hyper-acute sense of smell, or an instinctive ability to decipher behavioral cues, dogs have an uncanny ability to detect fear. Owing to the relentless indoctrination they undergo regarding the primacy of “officer safety” and the supposedly all-encompassing threat environment in which […]
“Qualified Immunity”: A License to Commit Criminal Violence
by Will Grigg
Monday, October 28, 2013 “Qualified Immunity”: A License to Commit Criminal Violence Beaten twice, then arrested: Shannon Kanda displays handiwork of the cops who “protected and served” her. Two times on the same night, Shannon Kanda was severely beaten by two male strangers. The first pair of assailants gave her a bloody lip and a […]
Welcome to Deming, New Mexico — Where Police Rape is a Matter of “Protocol”
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Welcome to Deming, New Mexico — Where Police Rape is a Matter of “Protocol” (Updated below) David Eckert was stopped by police in Deming, New Mexico without cause, subjected to an illegal search of his vehicle and person, and eventually forced to undergo what amounts to object rape in the form […]
Gary Raney: Rogue Sheriff, Federal Supremacist
by Will Grigg
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Gary Raney: Rogue Sheriff, Federal Supremacist Heir to Criminal Sheriff David Updyke: Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney. David Updyke, the first Sheriff of Idaho’s Ada County, used his office to operate a criminal syndicate that robbed and terrorized people under the color of “law.” Today, a very similar criminal practice is […]
California’s Gun-Grabbing Einsatzgruppen
by Will Grigg
Thursday, November 21, 2013 California’s Gun-Grabbing Einsatzgruppen “Intimidate and show power”: APPS Agent in full stormtrooper ensemble. “When you are going to take their guns,” observes Special Agent John Marsh, “they are not happy.” “They” are California residents who have been designated as “prohibited persons” by the state’s Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS). Those […]
Officer Safety Uber Alles: Christopher Dorner and the “Rickoverian Paradox”
by Will Grigg
Monday, February 11, 2013 Officer Safety Uber Alles: Christopher Dorner and the “Rickoverian Paradox” The intrepid Captain Phillip Tingirides of the Los Angeles Police Department has come down with a sudden case of “Blue Flu.” This is an oddly selective malady, one that only afflicts police officers. “Sick-outs” are a common police union tactic in […]
Ed Flynn: Milwaukee Crime Lord, Citizen Disarmament Advocate
by Will Grigg
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Ed Flynn: Milwaukee Crime Lord, Citizen Disarmament Advocate Police Chief Ed Flynn of Milwaukee believes that his department is at war with the gun-owning public. In his February 27 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Flynn claimed that “in the last 20 years we’ve been in an arms race” with private […]
Never Trust a Costumed Stranger
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 Never Trust a Costumed Stranger Within the space of seventy-two hours last weekend, three women were detained and sexually assaulted by armed strangers in official-looking costumes. Two of those incidents occurred in Texas, the other happened in Minnesota. The first attack took place on a highway near Carrollton, Texas on Thursday, […]
“No Hesitation”
by Will Grigg
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 “No Hesitation” You know the score… You’re not a cop, you’re little people! LAPD Captain Harry Bryant to retired “Blade Runner” Rick Deckard, who was reluctant to resume his career as a state-licensed killer. Barack Obama’s advertised purpose in visiting Minneapolis on February 4 was to combat the scourge of gun […]
What’s Wrong with Police in Iceland?
by Will Grigg
Thursday, December 5, 2013 What’s Wrong with Police in Iceland? In Iceland, police are mourning the unprecedented shooting death of a suspect. In the United States, police are scandalized by the unfamiliar spectacle of an officer using non-lethal means to subdue and arrest an emotionally unstable man who appeared to be armed. Icelandic police are […]
Drug War “Justice” in Utah
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 Drug War “Justice” in Utah Members of Utah’s most violent gang strike a pose. (Updated and revised) Utah resident Virginia Ward cried on November 18 as she was sentenced to 90 days in jail – and three years of probation — for drug trafficking. This meant that she would join the […]
Of Poker and Plunder: Commissarina Olson Strikes Again
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 Of Poker and Plunder: Commissarina Olson Strikes Again In spite of the fact that he has not committed a criminal act, Boise resident Skinner Anderson faces three years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Wendy J. Olson, the Soviet-grade legal functionary who afflicts Idaho as U.S. Attorney, has wrung a […]
When the Right to Resist Becomes the “Duty to Submit”
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 When the Right to Resist Becomes the “Duty to Submit” Anne Dekins was a loud-mouthed party girl — or at least, that’s what the arrest warrant suggested. Whatever she may have done in the past, Miss Dekins was quietly minding her own business when Officer Samuel Bray found her on […]
Santorum: State Murder as a “Moral Enterprise”
by Will Grigg
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Santorum: State Murder as a “Moral Enterprise” “God did not just give us rights,” pontificated His High Holiness Rick Santorum during a January 17 campaign stop in Lexington, South Carolina. “He gave us a moral code by which to exercise them. See, that’s what Ron Paul sort of leaves out. He […]
The Shadow of Claude Dallas
by Will Grigg
Sunday, January 29, 2012 The Shadow of Claude Dallas Senseless, lawless violence — government reduced to its essence: BLM employee C.J. Ross commits a felonious assault on Nevada property rights activist Ken Greenwell, in Palomino Valley, Nevada, November 13, 2001. Greenwell had staged a peaceful protest of the BLM’s theft of cattle belonging to rancher […]
The Pseudo-Courage of Chris Kyle
by Will Grigg
Sunday, February 5, 2012 The Pseudo-Courage of Chris Kyle Chris Kyle as a Navy SEAL sniper in Fallujah, Iraq. That kind of courage, which is conspicuous in danger and enterprise, if devoid of justice, is absolutely undeserving of the name of valor. It should rather be considered as a brutal fierceness outraging every principle of […]
The Global Land Grab
by Will Grigg
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 The Global Land Grab Retaliation: Peter Doan Van Vuon’s wife examines the rubble of their demolished home. In Vietnam, Peter Doan Van Vuon, a farmer who fought back when police came to confiscate his farm, is widely regarded as a hero. His neighbors have actually considered building a statue in his […]