Dave Bundy was working at his home in Delta, Utah, when a caravan of at least 20 federal vehicles invaded his property last March. The vehicles decanted a platoon of FBI personnel, some of them clad in a battle dress and carrying assault weapons. In what must have...
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Lavender Leninists and Heretic-Hunters: The Thoughtcrime Prosecution of Ruth Neely
by William Norman Grigg | May 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
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 magistrates, like “every licensed or ordained minister of the gospel, bishop, priest, or rabbi … may...
Road Pirates: Assemble! ‘Desert Snow’ is Coming to Idaho
by William Norman Grigg | Jun 19, 2015 | Featured Articles
It isn’t often that honest people receive detailed intelligence about a planned gathering of violent men who steal for a living and kill with impunity. An event of that kind will occur from August 10-12th here in Idaho. In fact, I can provide the specific address of...
Whether in the USSR or USSA, Politicians Come and Go — But the Security Organs Remain
by William Norman Grigg | May 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Hey, guys, we’ll be here long after you are gone,” gloated a high-ranking CIA official during a hearing of the US Senate’s “Church Committee” investigation of illegal domestic intelligence operations forty years ago. What this meant, according to Peter Fenn, Senator...
Pity the Poor Stormtroopers: Baby Bou-Bou Ambushed Them
by William Norman Grigg | May 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
It was the baby’s fault that he was nearly burned to death in his own crib. Bou-Bou Phonesavanh was barely a year and a half old, just learning to walk, and unable to speak, but those limitations didn’t stop him from engaging in “deliberate, criminal conduct” that...
Protecting the Vicious, Punishing the Virtuous: Marijuana Prohibition and Idaho’s Prison-Industrial Complex
by William Norman Grigg | Apr 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
Josh Tewalt has a drug problem that led to several arrests. Like many others afflicted with that weakness, Tewalt eventually wound up in prison. Unlike most of them, however, he landed on the right side of the bars in the very lucrative position of Deputy Chief of...
Cold War II: This Time, The Commies Are In Washington
by William Norman Grigg | Mar 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
The Regime in Washington is the only government asserting the supposed right to carry out summary executions anywhere on the face of the globe, so we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that it also claims the right to impose “sanctions” on foreign citizens who publicly...
Without ‘Qualified Immunity,’ Would Cops Be So Quick to Kill?
by William Norman Grigg | Jan 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
The story had a familiar beginning, but took an unexpected detour en route to an unanticipated conclusion. Dante Price, a young black man, was trying to visit his girlfriend and infant son at the Summit Square apartment complex in Dayton, Ohio. Price was confronted by...
Darren Wilson and the Reality of ‘Blue Privilege’
by William Norman Grigg | Nov 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Any time I’m involved in an officer-involved shooting, be it a fatal one or non-fatal, it is always during my initial investigation listed as an assault on law enforcement,” explained the St. Louis County Police Detective who inaugurated the investigation of the...
Asset Forfeiture: A Cop Shopping Spree
by William Norman Grigg | Nov 11, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Undercover police monitoring a bar in Las Cruces, New Mexico were giddy with covetousness when they saw a man drive up in a brand-new Mercedes. As city attorney Harry S. Connelly later explained, the cops were delighted to find that the man had been drinking,...
A ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Muslim Problem’?
by William Norman Grigg | Oct 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
We have reached a point in our nation’s descent into psychotic tribalist fear where people of stature and apparent sobriety unabashedly use the expression “final solution” when discussing the existence of Muslims. For ISIS “and those similarly motivated,” insists...
‘Comply Or Die’ is Not The Law
by William Norman Grigg | Oct 6, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
In 1975, as the elected sheriff of Utah’s Davis County, William "Dub" Lawrence helped organize one of the state’s first SWAT teams. On September 22, 2008, his son-in-law, Brian Wood, was killed by that SWAT team outside his home following a 12-hour standoff. After...
Police Have No Right to Shoot Someone Running Away
by William Norman Grigg | Aug 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson, in a press conference notable for its brevity, identified the officer who shot Michael Brown as Darren Wilson, a six-year veteran of his department. Information distributed to the media included reports suggesting that Brown was a...
Is It A Crime To Insult the Police?
by William Norman Grigg | Jul 8, 2014 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Arena, Wisconsin is a village of roughly 800 people, most of whom are white, politically liberal, and materially comfortable. Despite having a very low crime rate, the village has a police department that, like every other, exists primarily to collect revenue.Two...
Obama Wants Parents to be Snitches, Terrorism Recruiters, and Target-Spotters
by William Norman Grigg | Apr 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
According to Lisa Monaco, Barack Obama’s Security and Counter-terrorism adviser, parents have a duty to monitor the attitudes and enthusiasms of their children, and report them to law enforcement if they display symptoms of incipient extremism. In an address to...
Ranchers vs. Regulators: The Clark County Range War
by William Norman Grigg | Apr 18, 2014 | Featured Articles
photo: Will GriggWar came to the Western Range that April, a conflict pitting the forces of order and respectability against a restive band of extremists accused of cheating the government of what it was due. The prohibitively stronger side consisted of regulatory...
The Cliven Bundy Standoff: Wounded Knee Revisited?
by William Norman Grigg | Apr 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
We took away their country and their means of support, broke up their mode of living, their habits of life, introduced disease and decay among them, and it was for this and against this they made war. Could anyone expect less? – General Philip Sheridan, who presided...
The Persecution of Justin Bieber
by William Norman Grigg | Jan 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Though he is adored as a minor deity in the degenerate world of pop culture, when confronted by a member of the State’s punitive priesthood Justin Bieber is just another Mundane. This explains how the alleged singer has found himself charged with the supposed crime of...
Welcome to Deming, New Mexico — Where Police Rape is a Matter of 'Protocol'
by William Norman Grigg | Nov 8, 2013 | Featured Articles
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 of multiple rectal probes, forced enemas, and a colonoscopy. The...
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