Thursday, March 5, 2009 Sentence First, Trial Never A hoary truism teaches us that crisis reveals character, rather than shaping it. To the extent the word “character” applies to the government ruling us, that maxim certainly applies with respect to the state of permanent crisis we have experienced since 9-11.The tyrannical practices and powers exhibited […]

Monday, May 25, 2009 The “Water Cure” for Mancow Disease Doing “God’s work” in the Philippines: U.S. troops on a mission to suppress an independence movement inspired by American ideals apply the “water cure” — a form of torture now commonly called “waterboarding” — to a captured Filipino rebel. This method of interrogation proved too […]

Thursday, May 28, 2009 Again, May God Forgive Us The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw [name withheld] who was wearing a military uniform, putting his [male appendage] into the […]

Saturday, May 30, 2009 “Just A Child With A Temper” Caveat lector: This post contains some subject-appropriate unsavory language.Nothing to see here — just move along: Irma Marquez, who was not abused by Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes, recuperates from the non-abuse she didn’t experience at his hands. At the time this photo was taken, […]

Thursday, June 4, 2009 And We, Like Sheep…. Nothing Personal — It’s strictly business: Professional antagonists Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf (not to be mistaken for his more famous cousin, Wile E. Coyote), prepare for a day of mayhem among the sheep. After leading police on a long chase near the same Slauson Cutoff made […]

Monday, June 8, 2009 Cheney’s Revenge: Coming to a Police Station Near You (UPDATED, 6/10) Ryan S. Smith of Niagara Falls, New York, is a 21-year-old ex-con suspected of taking part in a vicious kidnapping and robbery. He is, quite likely, a fairly nasty specimen of humanity. Whether or not that’s the case, he will […]

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 “It’s The Money” Rancher Seaborn Tay (after several of his employees became rustlers): “What do you reckon it is that makes a man go to hell like that?”Faithful Ranch Hand: “It’s the money, Mr. Tay.”Conn Conhager (disgustedly): “The money…. God help us if that’s all it is.”What is it that turns […]

Friday, June 12, 2009 The Tragedy and Farce of Collective Guilt (UPDATED, June 13) Dark Helmet, evil ruler of the Spaceballs: Before you die, Lone Star, there is something you should know about us.Lone Star, intrepid if thick-headed space hero: What?Dark Helmet (with triumphant menace): I … am your father’s, brother’s, nephew’s, cousin’s former roommate.Lone […]

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 An American “Yezhovschina”? Maxwell Smart: Are you a psychologist, Dr. Stueben? Dr. Stueben: I’m the president of the psychologist society for mental health and adjustment through fulfillment. Smart: What kind of an organization is that? Stueben: We’re a hate group.Smart (following a double-take): A hate group?Stueben: Oh, in the sense that […]

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Totalitarianism In One City: Shreveport’s Gun-Grabbing Mayor Shreveport’s Big Boss Man, Cedric Glover, and unidentified flunky: According to Glover, an advocate of civilian disarmament, his police have the power to “suspend” the rights of any motorist they stop, and can seize a civilian’s firearms at will. Not that long ago, bigoted […]

Friday, July 3, 2009 A Covenant With Death Gory, gory hallelujah: A “shock and awe” assault on Baghdad, above; below, right, a “liberated” Iraqi mourns a dead relative. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; […]

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 The Civil Religion and the Seventh-Inning Stretch (Updated, 7/8) “Love it! Love it! WE COMMAND YOU TO LOVE IT!!!” Jingoism rears its head at a post-9/11 Major League Baseball game. “There is … a purely civil profession of faith of which the Sovereign should fix the articles…. While [the State] can […]

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Beware William Tell’s Second Arrow That was indeed a man: William Tell, seen here immortalized in bronze next to a likeness of his son, is a hero not just to Swiss patriots, but to all those in whom the desire for freedom is irrepressible. “You Swiss are so proud of your […]

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Too Many (Other) People Czar of the Bizarre: John Holdren, long-time militant eco-collectivist, is Barack Obama’s “Science Czar.” He is also on the record advocating totalitarian population control methods, including compelled abortion and mass sterilization through chemical warfare. As a left-leaning Rutgers law professor in the early 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg […]

Friday, July 24, 2009 Child-Snatchers and Life-Stealers — Pt. I The haunted eyes of an innocent man: John Stoll, wrongfully convicted of molesting several children, including his only son, near the beginning of a 40-year prison term. The state managed to steal twenty years of his life before his conviction was overturned in 2004, on […]

Monday, July 27, 2009 Praetorian Presumptions Behold the face of fear and insecurity: Riot police in Oakland, seen here protecting and serving their community. Salt Lake City’s Deseret News, as part of its continuing campaign against rationality, recently published a house editorial condemning civilian ownership of firearms.Bobbing in the puddle of pathos created by the […]

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 “You Can’t Do This to People”: Robin McDermott’s Resistance Battle-weary but resolute, American freedom fighter Robin McDermott stands in front of the Springfield, Missouri City Hall, the redoubt of a criminal clique she has been fighting for roughly a dozen years. It is incredible how soon as a people becomes subject, […]

Monday, September 14, 2009 Helot on Wheels What an unalloyed blessing it is to live under a government describing itself as a constitutional republic!Unlike undisguised tyrannies of various flavors, the government ruling us often — but not always — briefly pretends to defer to the written document from which it derives a set of limited, […]

Thursday, May 21, 2009 Accusers as “Victims”: A Case Study The Reign of the Accuser, Salem 1692: Mary Warren, one of six young female “victims” whose allegations propelled the Salem Witch Trials, points the lethal finger of accusation at a village resident. Even a brief acquaintance with contemporary child abuse prosecutions is enough to disabuse […]

Thursday, September 17, 2009 Idaho’s Criminal Injustice System (Second in an occasional series. )His name is Gilligan, but he’s nobody’s “little buddy.” Employed as a prison guard at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in 2007, Timothy Ryan Gilligan, by his own admission, repeatedly had sexual relations with an inmate.Earlier this month (September 2009), Gilligan was […]