Thursday, May 26, 2016 The Leo Soell Doctrine: Palpable Punishment for Intangible “Harm” Two Democratic congressmen, always seeking madder music, stronger wine, and new ways to punish people for holding opinions they despise, have introduced a bill they call the  “Do No Harm Act.” The purpose of that measure is to abolish the religious liberty […]

Thursday, April 28, 2016 Commissar Avakian’s Evil Ambitions (Updated, May 2) Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian bears a strong resemblance to Mikhail Gorbachev. That comparison is misleading: There’s no reason to believe that the former Soviet ruler was ever as passionately devoted to Communism as his doppelganger from the Beaver State. Unlike Avakian, furthermore, Gorbachev […]

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Lavender Leninists and Heretic-Hunters: The Thoughtcrime Prosecution of Ruth Neely Not merely an offender for a word — an offender for words she didn’t say: Ruth Neely. During her years as a Magistrate Judge in Pinedale, Wyoming, Ruth Neely performed dozens of civil marriage ceremonies. State law (Sect. 20-1-106[a]) specifies that […]

Thursday, May 12, 2016 Doreen Hendrickson, Political Prisoner The law is the true embodiment Of everything that’s excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw And I, m’lords, embody the law. The Lord Chancellor, from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe Michigan resident Dorren Hendrickson was convicted of “criminal contempt” and sent to prison for 18 […]

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 Take the Fifth — And Face Life Imprisonment Without a Trial Philadelphia resident Francis Rawls has been in solitary confinement for seven months, despite the fact that he has not been accused of a crime – let alone convicted of one. He may spend the rest of his life in that […]

Thursday, April 21, 2016 Gavin Grimm’s Totalitarian Fairy Tale Faith, we are reliably informed, is the “substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The troubled 16-year-old girl from Gloucester, Virginia who calls herself Gavin Grimm, and insists on being treated as if she were a boy, is acting on something other […]

Thursday, January 14, 2016 Single-Serving Stalinism: The Continuing Persecution of Matthew Townsend The State of Idaho remains perversely determined to steal five years from the life of Matthew Townsend as punishment for publishing a defiant but harmless statement on his Facebook page.  His supposed offense was to criticize Meridian Police Officer Richard Brockbank by name, […]

Monday, January 5, 2015 Bryan Fischer and the Gospel of Genocide America’s Babi Yar: Soldiers dispose of Sioux bodies in a mass grave at Wounded Knee. The Bible instructs us that a dog will inevitably return to his vomit, and a sow will eventually resume wallowing in the mire. In similar fashion, Bryan Fischer of […]

Friday, January 30, 2015 “An Offender for a Word”: Predation and Purgatory in Beaumont Matthew Cherry was twenty-one years old when he found himself in a police interrogation room. At the time, he had the psychological maturity of a bright 12-year-old boy.  Thus it isn’t surprising that Matthew was much too trusting when Beaumont Police […]

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Lon Horiuchi: American Sniper Primed to kill: Law enforcement officers at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, August 1992. Somewhere, a figure clothed in a pseudonym has been tracking the box office returns of “American Sniper” with great interest and no small measure of envy. He may be among the tens of millions who […]

Monday, January 26, 2015 Games Road Pirates Play David Conner, a 43-year-old resident of Redding, California, will spend at least three years in a government cage in Idaho because a State Trooper in Oregon spied an open can of Monster energy drink in Conner’s rental car.  The presence of that foul but perfectly legal concoction, […]

Thursday, February 19, 2015 An Innocent Man: Scott Molen’s Bittersweet Victory   “My Angel”: Scott Molen with his wife Connie (right) before his legal ordeal. “I’m trying not to hate, but rather to enjoy the beauty we can see in life,” observes Scott Molen. That worthy sentiment is all the more remarkable coming from someone […]

Tuesday, January 13, 2015 The “Malheur Mafia” Takes Its Cut   “Who’s the Justiciar here?” “If I don’t have my black robe on, I’m just like anybody else,” Oregon District Judge Gregory Baxter once pontificated from the bench. “But if I am wearing my black robe I expect my orders to be followed.”  Once he […]

Monday, February 23, 2015 SWAT Raids for Mundanes, Taxi Rides for the Elite Scenes from the American Soyuz: More than 120 “door-kicks” take place each day.   Summoned from his slumber by the insistent pounding on his front door, Mark Casterline opened his bedroom window to ask what was wanted. By way of reply a […]

Thursday, February 26, 2015 If You’re Not “Sovereign,” You’re Servile Ultima ratio Regum: Where the State exists, the law does not.   Like most epithets of its kind, the expression “sovereign citizen” is more frequently used than defined. One of the many luxuries the Regime provides for itself is the option of defining criminal categories […]

Sunday, March 8, 2015 Underdogs and Overlords We’re not worthy: Georgia police dog “Tanja” is buried with full honors. A little less than a year ago, Michael Vickers shot and seriously wounded a 10-year-old boy in Broxton, Georgia under circumstances that remain unclear. The victim, Dakota Corbitt, suffered serious and potentially permanent injury to his […]