Law Is Whatever Politicians Say It Is. We Should Respect Laws No More Than We Respect the Politicians Who Wrote Them.

Behind every law are the guns of the state pointed at the citizenry. Law is the justification for the existence of the state and the excuse for the state to use force and incarceration against the people. Laws have nothing to do with justice, fairness, morality, or ethics. They are merely proof that a bunch…

Berners Are Taking Over the Democratic Party One County at a Time

While Perez, Pelosi, Schumer, and other establishment Democratic hacks are posturing, defending Clinton, attacking Russian influence in the election, and ignoring Sanders voters, a quiet revolution is occurring in the grass roots of the Democratic party. The shock troops of Bernie Sanders’ political revolution are slowly and inexorably taking over the party at the local…

Washed in the Blood of the Lamb

When I was a kid in Brooklyn, my family attended the First Baptist Church of the Redeemer in Flatbush. It was a beautiful brick building on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Cortelyou Road. I looked forward to Sundays, a they were the only opportunities I had to spend time with my very first girlfriend,…

Easter: There Is No Lamb of God

Armory editor and contributor Natasha Sainsbury attacks the very foundations of animal cruelty and exploitation in this brilliant analysis Easter: There Is No Lamb of God by Natasha Sainsbury In the days mail I spied a colorful Easter egg shaped flyer for one of the big supermarkets. It was cheerful, had foil wrapped eggs pictured…

We Are Pissing Into the Wind. Time to Change Strategies

Armory contributor Marcia Mueller challenges animal activists to face reality.   Stop Pissing in the Wind by Marcia Mueller We work hard, celebrate every small victory, and then learn daily of still more exploitation and abuse. I read Gary Loewenthal’s statement about the hunting of sleeping bears and the comparison to the chickens rounded up…

Want to Help Animals? Be a Vigilante!

Armory contributor Marcia Mueller challenges animal activists by Marcia Mueller Every day animals are tortured on factory farms and slaughterhouses, baby chicks are ground up alive, wild animals are caught in steel-jaw traps or filled with bullets and arrows, bull are tormented in the corrida, and old, crippled, and sick animals are forced onto trucks…