Tag: Will Grigg

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article “Judicially Authorized Rape: The Newest Weapon in the Prohibitionist Arsenal;” the stories of three victims of forced catheterizing by the police; more evidence that cops are habitual liars and shouldn’t be trusted; two cops who were promoted instead of getting prison time for sexually assaulting Stephan Cook; the “qualified immunity” legal exemption for costume-wearing state employees who break the law; and how the US is like a prison environment writ large, where civilians are convicts and cops are prison guards.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article “What to Remember on Memorial Day;” Westward expansion and the 19th century genocide of American Indians; the different negotiating tactics of private and government-subsidized railroads; Dr. Seuss’s anti-Japanese propaganda during WWII; historical revisionism and the sometimes-counterproductive American Indian activism in the 1960s and 70s; and how the state demonizes its enemies to justify their extermination – from 19th century Plains Indians to 21st century Afghans.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article “The Everyday Evil of America’s Torture State;” Daniel Chong’s “accidental” 5 day incarceration during which he was without food or water, handcuffed and in complete darkness; the “Gitmo-ization” of the US justice system; other anecdotes of the cops torturing and killing Americans without being fired or prosecuted; the Michigan State Supreme Court’s unusual recognition of the right to resist unlawful arrest; the realization of Alan Dershowitz’s “torture warrants;” and how the prison-industrial complex profits from expanding the War on Drugs.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article “The Resistance Rises: Restoring the ‘Castle Doctrine;'” why the passage of Indiana’s Senate Bill 1, restoring the right to defend your own home, won’t mean it’s “open season on law enforcement;” how the War on Drugs hastened the demise of both the castle doctrine and Fourth Amendment; how infamous former LAPD chief Daryl Gates helped militarize police forces, pioneering SWAT and DARE; and why, if you legally must submit to a costume-wearing government official acting unlawfully, you don’t have any rights at all.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses how a cattle-trespass dispute between a North Dakota farmer and the local sheriff escalated into a “full spectrum military response,” including a Predator drone used for surveillance, and the arrest of the farmer, his wife, daughter and three sons; the greatly expanded scope and definition of domestic terrorism laws from the post-Oklahoma City AEDPA through 9/11 and the PATRIOT Act; why private citizens targeted by the government always seem to live in “compounds;” and the UAV lobby’s effort to get unmanned drones into police and sheriff departments around the country.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article “Support Your Local Police State;” the history and evolution of policing in the Western world; how grand juries have changed from being tools for citizens investigating government crimes, into the playthings of prosecutors; why mall cops deserve more respect than their government employed counterparts; the difference between a law enforcement officer and a peace officer; and how Occupy Wall Street protesters are treated like “disruptive” Guantanamo prisoners.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses his article “‘Rising’ to Empire, Falling from Grace;” why the “United State” of America is indeed an empire and has the Founding Fathers turning in their graves; why America’s elite are little different than the Soviet Union’s nomenklatura; the strengths and shortcomings of the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements, and how their minor differences keep them divided and conquered; how Oakland police – disinterested in property or violent crimes – found time to nearly kill IVAW member and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen; and redefining political centrism as something resembling libertarianism, rather than the radicalism of John McCain and Joe Lieberman.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses why the American Dream is collapsing; the dollar’s rapid decline since leaving the (partial) gold standard in 1971; keeping the fiat currency game going by waging war – the biggest public works/jobs stimulus program imaginable; how the dollar’s reserve currency status, solidified by dollar denominated oil sales, has let the US expand its empire far beyond sustainability; and why economic troubles often prompt people to scapegoat minorities, rather than directing their anger toward the actual causes.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the AP news story about the CIA/NYPD joint venture into “mapping” minority neighborhoods – essentially domestic spying; rendering moot the prohibitions on domestic CIA intelligence gathering and military law enforcement; why recruiting government informants through blackmail is a sign of creeping totalitarianism; why Americans are not protected by the rule of law, so long as the government can ignore it at will; and why the real threat to liberty is not from terrorists abroad, but from government at home.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the “Character First” program spun off from Bill Gothard’s increasingly popular Christian ministry (or authoritarian cult) that advocates abject deference to a military-style hierarchy in all human interactions; parallels with prewar Germany’s rising authoritarianism; and why true character (like Bradley Manning’s) is revealed through bravely opposing unjust authority, not blindly following orders.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) attempt to include Mexican drug cartels in an expanded war on terrorism; the winners on both sides of prohibition, including the cartels that profit from a huge risk premium and the drug and law enforcement agencies that get increased funding and employment; the Washington Post op-ed chiding Mexico for being too proud to “call in the marines;” and how Texas compensates for budget shortfalls: ramp up “asset forfeitures” near borders, where the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unlawful search and seizure apparently doesn’t apply.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses Obama’s decision to get a UN Security Council declaration of war on Libya – and further marginalize Congress’s exclusive war-making authority; how the United Nations Participation Act, signed by President Truman in 1945, directly challenges the authority of the US Constitution; why the UN is less a peacekeeping organization than a means of consolidating power and applying it against enemies of the “international community;” why bilateral talks work better than UN diplomacy; the hierarchy of authority with regard to international treaties and domestic federal and state laws; and how broad-based legislation like the PATRIOT Act and TARP are quickly used in ways that far exceed their mandates.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the “Red State Fascist” camaraderie protest against Muslims in Yorba Linda, CA; why Sharia law and the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition are equally likely to supplant the US Constitution; and the irony of protesting Sharia in the US, while helping to install it in Iraq.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the connection between Federal Reserve monetary policy and increased food prices around the world; the unprecedented scope of US empire (and the correspondingly large payroll); the Jeffersonian, rather than jihadist, nature of protests in Egypt and beyond; the future of militarist oligarchic government, previewed in Madison, Wisconsin; and why all government unions should be abolished, starting with the police.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse. Archives of his Pro Libertate Radio show on the Liberty News Radio Network can be found here.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses how little has changed since 1967 when MLK referred to the US government as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today;” the incongruence of the US government’s taken-for-granted massive and arbitrary use of violence abroad and the official uproar over the relatively few casualties in the Tucson shootings; conflating “anti-government” speech (aka First Amendment protected dissent) with incitement to violence; and Rep. Peter King’s past support of the IRA and his planned Congressional inquiry witch-hunt for the “Muslim threat” in America.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse. Archives of his Pro Libertate Radio show on the Liberty News Radio Network can be found here.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the popular fear that an all-powerful global Islamic Caliphate is impending – despite the fact nearly all Muslim countries are controlled by U.S.-friendly authoritarian governments, the displacement of ancient Christian communities during the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the resemblance of America’s increasing paranoia about Muslims to German antipathy toward Jews in the interwar period.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate, hosts the Pro Libertate Radio show on the Liberty News Radio Network and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the consequence of successfully resisting law enforcement: escalation of state violence until you are destroyed, cop priorities that place self preservation far ahead of “protect and serve,” the double standards of when a taser gun is considered a deadly weapon and why it is no longer a source of pride for a cop never to have drawn his firearm.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate, hosts the Pro Libertate Radio show on the Liberty News Radio Network and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the police killing of seven year old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in Michigan, how the presence of a “First 48” A&E Network film crew influenced police tactics and priorities, why the media has a statist (not liberal or conservative) bias and how military rules of engagement in Afghanistan are more strict than those governing SWAT raids in the US .

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate, hosts a show on the Liberty News Radio Network and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the federal crackdown on the Michigan “Christian militia,” the fundamentally anti-American nature of sedition laws, the domestic origins of ostensibly military tactics like “clear and hold” and why anything resembling a militia is likely to be infiltrated with informants and agent provocateurs.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate, hosts a show on the Liberty News Radio Network and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the current generation of physically and emotionally damaged veterans churned out by the war machine, why “patriotism” no longer means adherence to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, the “cannibalism” stage of US empire, lessons to be learned from illegal immigrants who survive in the informal economy, a vision of an alternate history without Woodrow Wilson and 20th century warfare and why the US “synchronization” of previously separate government functions is a harbinger of totalitarianism.

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Will Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the RAND Corporation’s Army-commissioned study for a militarized “Stability Police Force,” the attempted legalized circumvention of Posse Comitatus and the end of distinction between civilian and military law enforcement, the slippery slope from a civilian criminal suspect to an enemy combatant and the tyrannical reign of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

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Will Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

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Will Grigg, author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses media indifference to police violence, the failed experiment in prosperity via incarceration in Hardin, Montana, the Constitutionalist principles of “Oath Keepers” members, the final looting of America by the rich and the fetishism of government uniforms.

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Will Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate, hosts a show on the Liberty News Radio Network and is the author of Liberty in Eclipse.

Will Grigg

One Party State

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Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the origins and authoritarian tendencies of the Democratic and Republican parties, Alexander Hamilton’s role in quelling the Whiskey Rebellion and his legacy of centralized economic and military power, the carefully orchestrated packaging and branding of Barack Obama as an agent of peace and change, the U.S. Treasury Department’s usurpation of Congressional legislative authority and local law enforcement’s increasing role as tax collectors.

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William Norman Grigg writes the blog Pro Libertate and is the author of the book Liberty in Eclipse: The War on Terror and the Rise of the Homeland Security State.

Will Grigg

Torture and Permanent War

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Will Grigg, founder and editor of The Right Source and author of Liberty in Eclipse: The Rise of the Homeland Security State, discusses the legal underpinnings of the modern American torture regime, the Yoo-Bybee memo which allowed for the torture of terrorist suspects – including to death, the predictable consequences of institutionalizing torture, the sickness of the Congress demanding the Iraqis pay for the reconstruction of their country that this one destroyed and the shame in the refusal of the American people to hold our public servants accountable.

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William Norman Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the founder and editor of The Right Source.

Will Grigg

Picking Fights With, Becoming Like Russia

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Will Grigg, proprietor of RightSourceOnline and the blog Pro-Libertate and author of the new book Liberty In Eclipse: The Rise of the Homeland Security State, discusses the honesty of Ron Paul, his message of restrained government, U.S. instigation of newly increasing tensions with the Russians, the drug wars, torture, the dangerous centralization of police power since 9/11 and domestic “law enforcement”‘s increasing brutality and impunity.

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William Norman Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the founder and editor of The Right Source.

Will Grigg

Will Grigg, editor of The Right Source and author of the blog Pro-Libertate, discusses the claims of the president’s pet Straussians that it is perfectly constitutional for the President to do anything he likes including take over the world and turn America into a nightmarish police state.

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William Norman Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the founder and editor of The Right Source.

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Will Grigg

William Norman Grigg, founder and editor of The Right Source discusses the murder of former Marine Sgt. Derek J. Hale by local Delaware cops, how they and their buddies in the Virginia State Police covered it up, the difference between living in a militarized fascist state and a limited constitutional republic and hopes for a new political realignment centered around opposition to empire and leviathan.

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William Norman Grigg writes the Pro Libertate blog and is the founder and editor of The Right Source.

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