Speaking with Andrea Mitchell last night on MSNBC, Delaware Senator Chris Coons suggested that the FBI was in possession of transcripts of calls that could not only prove useful in the ongoing congressional inquiries into Russia’s involvement in our 2016 presidential election, but might also demonstrate collaboration between Putin’s government and the Trump campaign. “There […]
By Mark | January 16, 2017
Every now and again, as I’ve written about him a few times in the past, I get an odd call about infamous Ford enforcer Harry Bennett, who built a fortress not far from here in 1930 to protect him from his many enemies. Not too long ago, as you might recall, a man contacted me […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Corporate Crime, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged anti-union, Arthur Brisbane, Battle of the Overpass, Benjamin Stolberg, Black Legion, castles, Ford, Ford Service Department, Gestapo, guns, Harry Bennett, Hitler, intimidation, KKK, labor history, lions, murder, Rouge plant, The Black Legion Rides, tunnels, union busting, unions |
By Mark | August 19, 2016
After our long vacation, the Saturday Six Pack will be back on the air this weekend with poet, activist John Sinclair, the former manager of the MC5. While I’m sure we’ll talk at length about both his time with the “The Five”, and the ten year sentence he received for selling two joints that made […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged '60s, Alan Haber, Ann Arbor Sun, Benjamin Edmondson, Black Panther Party, Bob Rudnick, bummercore, Cash Harrison, CIA, communes, Danny Fields, Dennis Frawley, Detroit Artists Workshop, drug busts, Elektra, FBI, Fifth Estate, Flint, government spying, hippies, informants, Jackson Prison, John Lennon, John Sinclair, John Sinclair Freedom Rally, Kick out the Jams, Kokaine Karma, Leni Sinclair, liner notes, Luther House, marijuana, MC5, Michigan Supreme Court, old hippies, police setups, police stings, pot, Richard Nixon, SDS, Students for Democratic Society, Supreme Court, The Beatles, Tom Hayden, Trans-Love Energies, White Panther Party, yippies |
By Mark | January 26, 2016
Sometimes, on my way home from work, if I can’t find anything else on the radio, I listen to the ranting of WAAM’s Terry “Thayrone X” Hughes. This evening, I happened to tune in during a segment on Obama’s plans to confiscate the guns of America’s self-described “patriots” by exploiting new federal rules intended to […]
Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged AM 1600, Ayn Rand, background checks, Bacon, Cliven Bundy, Constitution worship, Gadsden flag, global climate change, Global Warming, global warming denial, gun confiscation, gun control, guns, homeschooling, mental illness, Obama, Obama is coming for our guns, profiling, proud clinger, Ted Cruz, Terry Hughes, Thayrone X, thought crime, WAAM |
Ann Arbor Catholic priest Ed Fride is in the news today for encouraging his parishioners at Christ the King Catholic Church to arm themselves. In a letter sent out this past weekend to his flock, Fride explained why he carried a weapon, and why the church would likely be hosting more CPL classes on their […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged "cling to guns or religion", anti-Muslim violence, Ave Maria, Ave Maria College, Catholicism, Christ the King, Citizens Alliance for Life and Liberty, Columbine, CPL, Dearborn, druggies, Ed Fride, Father Gabriel Richard High School, Floyd Dent, gun rights, gun violence, guns, guns in schools, Inkster, Jay McNally, Josh Wade, Joshua Wade, Mayberry, mixed metaphors, Muslim, pacifism, police violence, priests, pro-life, racism, rape, rape fantasy, religion, threats, threats of violence, Tom Monaghan, toto, Vietnam, Word of God |
