Wednesday, 15 April 2009 by Mike Gogulski mind control, people | No Comments »
Last July I blogged the story of Sydney Davis of Swindon, England, who was arrested for "possession of an offensive weapon" or some silly thing when police observed him carrying a piece of wood and chasing off delinquent teenagers who ...
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Found in the Norfolk (UK) village of Snettisham in 1985, the contents of a narrow-necked roman pot were found ...
Thursday, 13 November 2008 by Mike Gogulski activism | 10 Comments »
Hmm, maybe the anarcho-syndicalists around here have something up their collective sleeve...
[My translation from original Slovak at the Priama ackia ("Direct Action") website. All errors mine.]
Priama Akcia's call: “We don’t intend to pay for the crisis!”
Activism opportunity in Slovakia ...
Monday, 27 October 2008 by Mike Gogulski philosophy | 2 Comments »
Bravo to Keith Preston of the Attack the System blog for winning the UK-based Libertarian Alliance's £1,000 Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize for best essay, which I blogged about here.
Curiously absent among many libertarian, conservative, or free-market critiques of interventions ...
Sunday, 21 September 2008 by Mike Gogulski people | 12 Comments »
Hey lookie there! Other people do renounce their US citizenship!
From CBS News, 6 October 2006:
Terry Gilliam Sounds Off
Director Of 'Brazil' Says Current Events Parallel His Cult Movie
Visionary director Terry Gilliam, whose 1985 film "Brazil" was a classic tale of terrorized ...
From ABC News:
Day of Reckoning? Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Bank Clerk
Technician in Liechtenstein Turns Over Names of Americans With Secret Bank Accounts
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Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned ...
Ah, merry old England, where a man's home iswas his castle...
From the Daily Mail:
Yobs threw rocks at his house for years. But the father who fought back is arrested
For more than two years, Sydney Davis's house has been under siege ...
Monday, 16 June 2008 by Mike Gogulski war | No Comments »
From The Washington Post:
Britain, E.U. Plan Iran Sanctions
16 June 2008
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday announced plans for new sanctions against Iran and a small increase in troops for Afghanistan, handing President Bush a symbolic boost on the last ...
It is a principle of English common law that if the State is to arrest someone, it must charge them with a crime in relatively short order, or release them. It is known as the habeas corpus doctrine, and has ...