Wednesday, August 1, 2012 The Police: Useless, but not Harmless Lying motto: “To Protect with Courage; to Serve with Compassion” The bad news for Rafael Lopez was that the 27-year-old Iraq war veteran had been robbed and severely beaten by a gang of at least 10 men on the street outside the Aqua nightclub in […]

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Your “Duty” To Protect and Serve the Police Police converge on Cullen Multrie’s home, April 2012   Police have no enforceable duty to protect an individual threatened by criminal violence. A lawsuit recently filed in New Hampshire demonstrates that police are taught to assume that citizens have a moral and legal […]

Thursday, August 16, 2012 “The Threat of Authority”  The evils of obedience: Louise Ogborn is abused on the orders of “Officer Scott” Skepticism, Santayana observed, is “the chastity of the intellect.” In similar fashion, resistance – not compliance – is the default response of a free person to a directive issued by someone acting in […]

Tuesday, August 21, 2012 “This Isn’t America” — You Can’t Say That Here Brandon Raub is abducted, August 16, 2012 Martha Dodd wasn’t particularly happy when her father was appointed U.S. ambassador to Germany in 1933. When the family arrived in Berlin, Martha found the city irresistibly fascinating, and she immersed the tour guide in […]

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Ruby Ridge: The Age of State Terrorism Begins Enemies of the State: Samuel and Vicki Weaver (left and rear-center) pose with Sara and Rachel.   Sara Weaver has forgiven the people responsible for murdering her mother Vicki and younger brother Samuel twenty years ago. Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who shot […]

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 The Triumph of the Reich-Publican Party “There’s nothing American about what just happened,” protested Nevada Republican delegate Wiselot Rouzard after the convention refused to seat the delegation from Maine. “This is the death of the Republican Party.” What Wiselot and fellow Ron Paul delegates had experienced was a memorable display of […]

Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Living in Amerika Not a scene from “Red Dawn”: Local police in Ahaheim, California. When he gazes into the mirror, Lubbock County Judge Tom Head apparently sees the Lone Star State’s equivalent of the Roman military hero Horatius, or perhaps Wang Weilin, the “Tank Man” of Tiananmen Square.  During a recent […]

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Of Bidens and Bikers: Does Anybody Remember Derek Hale? A fragment of folk wisdom dubiously attributed to Bismack informs us that God watches out for “fools, small children, and the United States of America.” During a campaign stop in Seaman, Ohio, Joe Biden’s proprietary blend of foolishness and childishness may have […]

Saturday, September 15, 2012 Rand Paul, Meet Timon of Athens Another triumph courtesy of Washington’s Foreign Aid Program. Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul is flogging what he considers to be a brilliant idea: He suggests that the federal government should take “half of the $4 billion that we’re squandering” on foreign aid “to people who […]

Monday, September 17, 2012 If This is “Christian Patriotism”….  Bob Revere is the Mayor of Mount Columbus, a one-stoplight town in the Rocky Mountains. As a young man, Bob fought in the Vietnam War. He was proud to see his only son, Tom, enlist in the Army, but ambivalent when the 20-year-old was sent to […]

Thursday, September 20, 2012 “Sovereign Citizens” and Government’s Monopoly on Crime Police close in on Jerry and Joseph Kane, May 20, 2012 Robert Paudert refers to May 20, 2010 – the day his son Brandon was killed — as the “worst day of my life, ever.” Given that losing a child is the worst thing […]

Friday, April 27, 2012 Officer Regina Tasca Goes “Rogue” A peace officer on duty: Regina Tasca intervenes to stop a criminal assault. Regina Tasca is a “rogue cop” – and God bless her for it.  Tasca is in the middle of disciplinary hearings that may result in her termination from the Bogota, New Jersey Police […]

Monday, September 24, 2012 How to Kill a Law Enforcement Career: The Case of Regina Tasca Regina Tasca at the Borough Council meeting dealing with her termination.   What does it take for a police officer to get fired?  Regina Tasca, a 20-year veteran officer from Bogota, New Jersey, was terminated by the Borough Council […]

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 The Sacred Cause of “Officer Safety” Robert Pierson, shortly before being illegally detained by Deputy Corry Bassett. “It’s just about being safe.” Thus spoke Deputy Corry Bassett of the Lincoln County, Wyoming Sheriff’s Office as he struggled to justify handcuffing Robert Pierson during an August 11, 2011 traffic stop.  Pierson, a […]

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Remembering the Murder of Donald Scott  “Don’t shoot me! Don’t kill me!” screamed a terrified Frances Scott as heavily armed men broke down the door of her home near Malibu, California shortly after midnight.  Donald Scott, the 61-year-old homeowner, was startled awake by his wife’s screams. Although he was groggy from […]

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 “He’s a Constitutionalist” (SECOND UPDATE, October 16) Detective Rich Perecz assaults Marcella Cruz.  “Bear! There are guys with guns outside!” shouted Marcella Cruz to her husband as she looked out the kitchen window of their farmhouse in Letha, Idaho.  Timidly opening the kitchen door, Marcella – a small, slender, middle-aged woman […]

Friday, October 19, 2012 A Commissarina Rises: Wendy J. Olson’s Reign of Terror The Commissarina and her Cheka: U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson (center) at a May 10 Press Conference. As the financial manager of the West Coast Auto Company in Boise, Monte Johnson often did business with out-of-state customers. He probably didn’t see anything unusual […]

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 Bruce Jessen: The Torturer in the Pulpit Pious torturers at work: Bruce Jessen’s medieval antecedents waterboard a religious “extremist.”  As a newly appointed ecclesiastical leader in Spokane, Washington, Bruce Jessen would have the opportunity to baptize new converts. He would also be expected to interview them regularly to evaluate their understanding […]

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Russell Means: Renegade, Patriot, Freedom Fighter Confined to a barren prison camp in Washington, the displaced Paiute Indians were dying. The Interior Department had promised to send rations, but they never arrived. After being exposed to the elements during the winter of 1880, fifty-eight of them had died – including thirty […]

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 The Death of a Slave-Catcher   Ogden Police Officer Jared Francom was fatally shot during a raid on the home of Matthew David Stewart last January 4. Francom was part of a twelve-man SWAT team attached to the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force, a federally subsidized counter-narcotics squad.  A few weeks earlier, […]