Saturday, September 11, 2010 Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures, Dr. Johnson informs us. In a somewhat similar vein,  the Regime’s post-9/11 “counter-terrorism” stings have avoided the official fiction that Muslim terrorism is inspired by a hatred for our “freedom.” The preferred bait to lure marginalized Muslims — […]

Friday, September 17, 2010 Support Your Local Army of Occupation Boys and their toys: Members of the Malheur County (Oregon) SWAT team out having “fun.” “Wouldn’t it be great if it were like this all the time?” commented a pleasant middle-aged gentleman as the two of us contemplated the large gathering of armed men in […]

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 No Law? No Warrant? No Problem! “Do you expect to see any violence here today?” “I certainly hope so.” — Narcotics officer Sgt. Stedenko, aka “Hardhat,” answers a reporter’s question at a drug checkpoint on the U.S.- Mexican border, from the film Up In Smoke. Sal Agro, a 67-year-old man from […]

Monday, September 27, 2010 Liars for Hire: The Alchemy of Provocation   Patsy du jour: Hassoun For reasons the FBI has yet to disclose, in 2009 the Bureau became interested in a young man named Sami Samir Hassoun, who had immigrated to the United States from Lebanon.   Although his family came from a Shia-dominated region […]

Sunday, October 3, 2010 Gaia’s Jolly Jokesters Suetonious records that while attending the Circensian Games the Emperor Caligula was so offended by a public display of support for one of his critics that he exclaimed: “I wish the Roman people had but one neck!”   It’s possible that “Little Boots” intended that outburst as a joke. […]

Thursday, October 7, 2010 Speak No Ill of the County Dictator Early in a dictatorial reign that left millions dead, Indonesian dictator Suharto enacted a series of laws punishing public dissent as “criminal defamation” of state officials. Those laws, which remain in force today, are frequently used to punish activists who publicize police abuses. Similar […]

Friday, October 8, 2010 The Kidnapping of Cheyenne Irish (Third Update, 10/11) The Regime’s youngest political prisoner. “Happy birthday. You’re property of the State.” This is the message that was given to Cheyenne Irish, the newborn daughter of New Hampshire residents Jonathan Irish and Stephanie Taylor, who was literally stolen from her parents hours after […]

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 “Nobody Gets Their Kids Back ” (Major Update, October 14; critical clarification, May 15, 2011) (See updates below.)  The “Petition for Abuse/Neglect” filed on behalf of Cheyenne Irish by New Hampshire’s Division of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) alleges that the baby, who was born on October 6, was “neglected” by […]

Monday, October 18, 2010 Fallujah, U.S.A. While commanding a Marine platoon occupying Fallujah, Illario Pantano gunned down two unarmed Iraqi men during a search of their vehicle. After perforating the bodies of his victims with more than 60 rounds from his M-16 (which means he had to reload), Pantano attached a sign to the corpses […]

Saturday, October 23, 2010 FBI: Bureau of Frame-Ups, Bullying, and Intimidation Calling Card of the Surveillance State. “We’re going to make this much more difficult for you if you don’t cooperate.” This stereotypically thuggish threat issued from a stereotypical thug named Vincent, an FBI agent who was among a half-dozen Feds and local police who […]

Wednesday, October 27, 2010 Imperial Gangbangers  Florida Republican congressional candidate Allen West has been accused of consorting with bad company, in the form of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Whatever else can be said about the Outlaws, they are a far more reputable outfit than the gang Lt. Col. West used to hang with — the […]

Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Slaughter as “Stimulus” Their Fascists, and Ours: Fuhrer, Il Duce, and FDR. Militarism is the one great glamor public-works project upon which a variety of elements in the community can be brought into agreement. —  John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching (1944) The Keynesian welfare state is best described as […]

Sunday, November 7, 2010 “We’re the Government — We’ll Catch You” Band of Brothers, or a band of robbers? U.S. troops in Afghanistan. There is …no human right, natural or Constitutional, that we have not seen nullified by the United States Government.  Of all the crimes that are committed for gain or revenge, there is […]

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 The War Party’s Jihad in Oklahoma A small but passionate segment of the population is sick with worry over the incalculably small possibility that Muslims may someday force their daughters to wear burqas, yet indifferent to the fact that those same daughters can’t board a commercial flight without being virtually strip-searched […]

Saturday, November 13, 2010 Daedalus Shrugged: The Mounting Resistance to the TSA’s Grope Gauntlet The function of any “security” checkpoint, as Richard Ben Cramer observes in his valuable book How Israel Lost, “is to show who’s boss.” “I know of one school headmaster, a dignified older man, who passed the same checkpoint every morning, and […]

Thursday, November 18, 2010 Practicing Airport Security Without A License Dude looks like a lady: Kristina Ross is a MAN, baby! My first question is this: How on earth did this person dream up the pseudonym “Berlyn Aussieahshowna”?My second question is: Why isn’t this person employed by the TSA? A few weeks ago police were […]

Monday, November 22, 2010 Stealing Camp Zoe: The Federal “Forfeiture” Gang Strikes Kids terrorized, dogs killed, a family traumatized: Welcome to Missouri. Mike Johnston’s first hint that something unusual was happening at Camp Zoe was the presence of four police officers at Tiffany Hall, the campground’s dining area. “I wondered if the police might be […]

Tuesday, November 30, 2010 From G-Men to Pig-Men: The FBI’s Stalinist Homeland Security Theater Paramilitary “Security Organs”: An FBI recruitment ad. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”  — George Orwell, Animal Farm […]

Monday, December 6, 2010 Take Pity on Goliath “Oh, it is excellent to have a Giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”  Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, II:2 How does one simultaneously swagger and simper? Is it possible for someone to beat his chest even as his lip quivers in self-pity? […]