Monday, 22 June 2009 by Mike Gogulski crime, war | 8 Comments »
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCsp1atehU
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(YouTube video comment by witness)
shery630
June 20, 2009
Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. (Tehran)
A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a ...
Adam Mueller, Pete Eyre and Jason Talley, Motorhome Diaries crew, have been arrested and jailed in Mississippi.
From Free Keene:
Adam Mueller - Disorderly Conduct and Disobeying an Officer
Pete Eyre - Possession of a Beer in a Dry County
Jason Talley ...
Saturday, 21 March 2009 by Mike Gogulski philosophy | 26 Comments »
Yesterday I spent a couple of hours explaining some of the basics of anarchism to a friend. Let's call her "Jana", since that's a very common name in Slovakia.
That conversation was face-to-face, so there's no record. Here, though, is the ...
The State has guns and men to use them. [...][H]owever, it not only can fail to coerce a rebellious majority, it cannot even stop an enterprising minority of black marketeers and other Counter-Economists. The State must be defeated in each ...
A long-ago colleague writes that she (paraphrased):
will be a) getting her pistol permit, b) stocking up on ammo, c) investing in a HAM radio all by January if the US election doesn't go well.
Naturally, I replied:
If the situation is that ...
Monday, 1 September 2008 by Mike Gogulski police | 1 Comment »
Second Amendment, RIP.
From Seacoast Media, Portsmouth, NH, USA:
Police use Taser on man reported carrying rifle on street
1 September 2008
SEABROOK — Police say they arrested an armed man at his house on Friday, Aug. 29, after receiving a report of a ...
Monday, 11 August 2008 by Mike Gogulski police | 4 Comments »
The horrors of the future have NOTHING on the horrors of the present...
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Monday, 9 June 2008 by Mike Gogulski philosophy | No Comments »
"[A]ny person who actively seeks the power of life and death over just one other human being, let alone millions of people, is deeply, irrevocably damaged in psychological terms."
-- Arthur Silber
"Power is not a prize to be divvied up but ...
One of the great triumphs of civilization touted by liberal-minded thinkers around the world these days is the abolition of the death penalty in most of the planet's "more-civilized" countries, with some notable exceptions. Without question, it is an advancement ...