The Heritage Foundation Overcriminalization describes the trend to use the criminal law rather than the civil law to solve every problem, to punish every mistake, and to compel compliance with regulatory objectives. Criminal law should be used only if a person intentionally flouts the law or engages in […]
The people get militant, and the pigs back off. It looks like the protests are working. Lesson learned. By Larry Celona, Dana Sauchelli, Shawn Cohen and Bruce Golding New York Post Officers at slain cop Rafael Ramos’ funeral. Photo: Dennis A. Clark MORE ON: NYPD Hats worn by […]
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 240,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 10 […]
Attack the System Keith Preston on the Left and the State December 29, 2014 Keith Preston discusses the relationship between the Left and the State in a lecture to the H.L. Mencken Club. Topics include: -The Left as a form of moralistic zealotry. -The similarities between the authoritarianism […]
Wonderful! This is indicative of a deep rift between the political class and law enforcement. Severe disunity between the state and its enforcer arm is always welcome to revolutionaries. FOX News Associated Press Hundreds of police officers outside the Queens, N.Y. church Saturday where the funeral of Officer […]
Excellent! The military predictably tends to be one of the more conservative sectors of U.S. society. The more liberal the political class and the state become, the more disaffection there will likely be within the ranks of the military. An added factor is that the military will be […]
This is welcome news. Building dissent within the ranks of the military is crucial because, well, the bottom line is that we can’t have a revolution without substantial support from rank and file military and lower level officers. By J.D. Tuccille Reason Shifts in social attitudes, politics, and […]
By Keith Preston Some historians make the credible argument that major historical cycles tend to turn every seventy years or so. For an example of this kind of analysis, see this piece that was written by Steven Yates after the events of September 11, 2001. What this particular […]
By Professor Steven Yates NewsWithViews.com “Frannie,” he said, and turned her around so he could look into her eyes. “What, Stuart?” “Do you think… do you think people ever learn anything?” She opened her mouth to speak, hesitated, fell silent. The kerosene lamp flickered. Her eyes seemed very […]
It looks like mass democracy is working. By Mark Strauss Expand The good news: For those who are worried that the nation is more divided than ever, there’s finally one contentious issue that a majority of Americans agree upon. The bad news: Most people are okay with the […]
I don’t agree with the random murders of anyone, not cops or anyone else, but if this is true it really is an example of fourth generation warfare within the domestic U.S. A Muslim terrorist takes out a couple of the king’s knights and wins the admiration of […]
The religious right and the PC left united against sex worker rights. By Elizabeth Berstein During a blustery New York City winter in the final weeks of 2008,two very different cinematic events focused on the politics of gender,sexuality, and human rights stood out for their symmetry. The first […]
By Steve Fraser BillMoyers.Com Moyers has a very good interview with the author of this book here. The following excerpt is from the introduction to Steve Fraser’s new book, The Age of Acquiescence. Marx once described high finance as “the Vatican of capitalism,” its diktat to be obeyed […]
By Danny Haiphong FilmsforAction.Org The nascent movement against racist police brutality in the US received a boost of energy from the non-indictment of Eric Garner’s murderers in blue. Thousands filled the streets from New York City to Berkeley, California to protest racist injustice and declare #BlackLivesMatter. In typical fashion, the militarized police and mass incarceration state responded […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on how the US government tortured detainees at Guantanamo and at secret “black sites” all over the world has focused on how they did it: rectal feeding, hanging detainees by their arms, “stress positions,” beatings, etc. The prurience of […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Just as Germany had its V weapons, the V-1 and V-2, so Washington now has its S weapon. If another country does something we don’t like, Washington hits it with economic sanctions. As Iran’s economy shows, sanctions can do a country quite […]
By John Robb Global Guerrillas It should be clear to everyone that the economic and political system that replaced feudal agriculture is starting to fall apart. It’s also pretty clear we need a new system, one that can operate at a global scale and fully embrace the potential […]
The State is the mafia with a flag. Why does the mafia exist? To control territory, monopolize resources, enrich and protect an artificially privileged elite, exploit subjects, and expand its own realm of power and domination. When a gang’s territory is threatened, it responds with extreme violence. How […]
What I’ve been saying all along. The money quote: “The current trends in America, Wall Street getting richer, everyone else getting poorer, politicians of both parties feeding brazenly at Wall Street’s trough, the party of the Left in full blown attack gear not on inequality, which it has […]
A lecture by American Communist Michael Parenti lamenting the downfall of Communism. What I found most interesting about this is how much his rhetoric mirrors that of “Love It or Leave It” types in the West: “Communism: Love It or Leave It!” LOL. I actually agree with many […]
Good article from 2010 about over criminalization in the US. The Economist IN 2000 four Americans were charged with importing lobster tails in plastic bags rather than cardboard boxes, in violation of a Honduran regulation that Honduras no longer enforces. They had fallen foul of the Lacey Act, […]
I used to think the primary obstacle to the victory of pan-secessionist/fourth generation forces in the U.S. would be America’s massive military-industrial complex. However, the more conversations I have with actual military personnel and the more I observe trends in the military, the less I am convinced of […]
Even as the forces of totalitarian humanism continue to become more extreme and outlandish, cracks are emerged. Demographics have doomed the Red Tribe to death. Internal contradictions will bring the demise of the Blue Tribe. The Grey Tribe is up next. By Tim Dunkin Traditional Right If there […]
No surprise here. People are tribal by nature. Most people’s reaction is that “they” (terrorists) did something awful to “us” (Americans). so whatever we do to them is justified. By Christopher Ingraham Washington Post The Senate Intelligence Committee’s five-year investigation into the CIA’s torture of suspected terrorists just […]
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Totalitarian humanist student activism means brownshirting those with whom you disagree. By Robby Soave Reason Another day, another group of insolent students demanding that their university censor a prominent speaker and deprive the rest of campus of the opportunity to learn from him. George Will is slated to […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason “Free speech all the time. Not just when admin says when, where, what about,” read one side of the neon-yellow sign fielded by Ali Cohen, an education major at Coastal Carolina University, during a recent campus rally. On the sign’s flip side: “#BlackLivesMatter. […]
The great thing about the latest torture revelations is that it confirms one of the main things we anarchists are always saying. The state is no different from the mafia. It exists to control territory, protect an artificially privileged ruling class, exploit subjects, monopolize resources, and expand its […]
This is consistent with Scott Alexander’s analysis of the growth of a “Grey Tribe” as a third force in U.S. politics, beyond the “Red Tribe” and “Blue Tribe,” that regards the state rather than either traditional in-groups or traditional out-groups as the primary enemy.Apparently, the Grey Tribe is […]
After watching this, I’m almost convinced Abby Martin could be one of us.
1. Continue to attack all mainstream institutions across the board, until all of the system’s institutions have a single digit approval rating, just as Congress presently does. 2. Continue all dissident movements everywhere, and grow these to the point that they collectively become a majority, and then a […]
This is interesting. A 50 percent plus majority of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana. However, two thirds say it should be a states’ rights issue. How can this be? Because the demographic that is least likely to favor legalizing marijuana is the one that is most likely to […]
Stating the obvious. By W. James Antle III The American Conservative Justin Norman/Flickr Many conservatives weren’t happy with the release of the Senate CIA torture report. They described its release as reckless endangerment at worst, an attempt to distract from the House’s Jonathan Gruber hearings at best. But […]
The recent revelations are nothing new or out of the ordinary. By Darius Rejali Slate.Com “Clean torture” doesn’t leave marks In the 20th century, there were two main traditions of clean torture—the kind that doesn’t leave marks, as modern torturers prefer. The first is French modern, a combination […]
By Bonnie Kristian The American Conservative wtfspvm / cc Darrin Manning’s unprovoked “stop and frisk” encounter with the Philadelphia police left him hospitalized with a ruptured testicle. Neykeyia Parker was violently dragged out of her car and aggressively arrested in front of her young child for “trespassing” at her […]
Accepting Ignorance he first thing to understand that the only true anarchism is a flavour of anarcho-capitalism. This is anarchy fully steelmanned, logicked forward until it could be logicked no more. (This is philosophical anarchism, not bomb-things anarchism. Philosophical anarchism is recognizing each dire ape as responsible to […]
A good critique of PC from a liberal perspective. The money quote: “While the original intent of political correctness may have been good (to encourage tact and sensitivity to others’ feelings around issues of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical abilities, and such), the effect of political correctness […]
It’s interesting seeing these conservative luminaries taking positions on criminal justice that would have been considered moderate-liberal or even left-liberal twenty years ago. I certainly never thought I would see this. The winds of change are starting to blow. RightonCrime.Com As members of the nation’s conservative movement, we […]
This one seemed open and shut.
By J. David Goodman and Al Baker New York Times A Staten Island grand jury on Wednesday ended the criminal case against a white New York police officer whose chokehold on an unarmed black man led to the man’s death, a decision that drew condemnation from many elected […]
This event that took place this past June is a prototype for what there needs to be more of. There needs to be mass protests all over the world against the U.S. and U.N.-led War on Drugs that ties all of the relevant issues together: police militarization, civil […]
CountercurrentsNews.Com The New Black Panther Party has a lot of key differences with the historical Black Panther Party For Self Defense, active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, in spite of their overlapping self-designations. But this is nothing new, even back during the tenure of the […]
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I am very to see the outspoken public opposition that emerged in response to this proposal. And it’s not surprising this proposal emerged in the same state that gave us the Salem Witch Trials. The puritans have merely traded in their Calvinist clothing for a new secular, progressive […]
By Zach Weismueller Reason.Com “I’m a narc. I’ve been a narcotics guy forever,” says San Francisco police chief Greg Suhr. “But I’m just telling you, I’ve always felt bad for the people that were addicted to drugs.” Suhr is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, George Gascon, […]
This piece will probably piss off many anarchists and libertarians, but these arguments are worth hearing. The procedural rights of the accused and due process are as important an aspect of civil liberties as any other. One of the reasons we now have the massive prison-industrial complex is […]
Russia Today At least 15 people have been arrested after a peaceful support rally for jailed hunger strike anarchist turned into violent confrontation with police. Authorities used tear gas and stun grenades to quell rioters carrying Molotov cocktails. As an estimated between 8,000 and 10,000 protesters marched through […]
By Tony Briscoe Chicago Tribune hicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Monday that the department would begin testing body cameras on officers within about 60 days as part of a pilot project. McCarthy offered few specifics at a news conference called to highlight crime statistics, but he made […]
Inquistr.Com Police officers in Austin, Texas, will soon undergo training to help decrease the number of dogs shot by officers. The training will focus on teaching officers how to spot the difference between a dog that is attacking and a playful or curious dog. The department is hoping […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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