It seems that most people even on the far left and far right have a limited perception and definition of what concepts like the “state,” “ruling class,” or “power elite” actually mean. It would also seem that we need a much more modernized and expansive definition of these […]
This is funny. The elite think that they are above the rules they set for the masses.
The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Swithun Dobson and Tim Patton interviews Keith Preston on the left and there relationship with the Police state. Our guest, Keith Preston, is the author of books such as Thinkers against Modernity as well as Attack the System who can be found at […]
Murdered by the state. By Angelina Chapin The Cut A month ago, Andrea Circle Bear gave birth while on a ventilator after catching the coronavirus behind bars. On Tuesday, the 30-year-old died, making her the first woman in federal prison to be killed by COVID-19, according to press […]
–Americans are unlikely to tolerate and extended shutdown, meaning small concession from Governors to give the appearance of progress would be hugely beneficial
Glad to see some left-wing folks questioning the official ruling class party line.
Regrettably, many on the right cannot get over their love for the carceral state and their lust for a man in uniform.
I’m rooting for Lori in this. I think she’s being railroaded. By Maria Pasquini People A federal judge in the ongoing college admissions scandal has responded to Lori Loughlin’s claim that the FBI told Rick Singer to lie about her and husband Mossimo Giannulli‘s knowledge of bribes being […]
Regrettably, many people have a mistaken view of what “crime” actually is. Yes, there is certainly such a thing as “crime” in the sense of harm to others (murders, robberies, rapes, etc) but most “crime” merely involves offenses against the state or other ruling class institutions, not other […]
So much for supposedly “progressive” Oregon and its LGBTQ governor. Seriously, how much evidence do we need that “progress,” “diversity,” and “inclusion” outside of any serious critique of and opposition to the state, capital, or imperialism is worthless? By Conrad Wilson Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday she […]
“Let my people go.” -Moses By Drs. Scott Heysell and Rebecca Dillingham In February, the Diamond Princess cruise ship, quarantined in the port of Yokahama, Japan, harbored the largest cluster of people with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), outside of mainland China. As the […]
Krystal and Saagar look at the latest crime numbers out of New York City with most crimes dropping but burglary rising.
With all due respect to organized crime.
By Sean Collins Vox he Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced late Wednesday that, due to Covid-19 concerns, all of those incarcerated in federal facilities will be under quarantine for the next 14 days. The guidelines come as a growing number of incarcerated people and prison employees have begun […]
“Let my people go.” -Moses By Barbara Bradley Hagerty The Atlantic While millions of Americans shelter in place, one group simply cannot escape the coronavirus: prisoners. Among them are hundreds of people who have plausible claims that they are innocent, whose cases were working their way through the […]
Like so many paleconservative types, Tucker Carlson is excellent on gun rights, but horrible on civil libertarian and anti-police state issues generally (e.g. supporting the drug war, opposing weed legalization, opposing “criminal justice reform,” opposing coronavirus-driven prisoner releases, using standard conservative cop-lover rhetoric, etc.). Coronavirus is causing a […]
Uh, no, Mr. Tobin. Let’s have a coronavirus jailbreak. Jonathan Tobin New York Post No, we shouldn’t release prisoners en masse The coronavirus has hit all New Yorkers hard, but among the places where the contagion is presenting an especially acute problem are the jails. With confined spaces […]
The silver linings keep on coming. The question is: How do we make this permanent? By Adela Suliman, Andy Eckardt and Gabe Joselow NBC News As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, some countries are freeing prisoners to stem the spread of the virus in crowded jails or […]
“Houses Dems” are finally doing what they should have been doing decades ago? By Tyler Olson FOX News Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Bill Barr asking him to “release as many prisoners as possible” as federal prisons work to deal […]
By Timothy Williams, Benjamin Weiser and William K. Rashbaum Some jails are releasing people to stem outbreaks, but critics say it is not happening quickly enough to save lives and resources. The coronavirus is spreading quickly in America’s jails and prisons, where social distancing is impossible and sanitizer […]
A headline I never thought I would see in the Voice of the Ruling Class. By Mary Bassett, Eric Gonzalez and Darren Walker Dr. Bassett was the New York City health commissioner. Mr. Gonzalez is the district attorney of Brooklyn. Mr. Walker is the president of the Ford […]
Silver lining. By Clare Hymes CBS News U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday directed the Bureau of Prisons to increase the use of home confinement among older inmates with underlying conditions as a means to mitigate the spread of coronavirus within the country’s prison system. As of […]
The system wants to suspend habeas corpus.
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Here we go. By Eric Boehm Reason The Justice Department is using the COVID-19 outbreak to press for sweeping new powers that include being able to detain Americans indefinitely without a trial, Politico reports. The department is asking Congress to allow the U.S. attorney general to ask courts to […]
A silver lining in every cloud. Richmond.Com Virginia state officials are asking law enforcement agencies to avoid arrests when possible, amid calls from civil rights groups about jail conditions amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Secretary of Public Safety Brian Moran said his agency was encouraging law enforcement officers to […]
As well they should. It’s time to demand amnesty for all prisoners except those convicted of serious violent felonies.
By Natasha Maria An awful tragedy occurs, a shooting, a riot, a brawl, and as usual we hear the immediate cry, “Won’t the government do something to stop this?” Yes, yes it will, in fact it wants you to beg them to. Whether it be a mass shooting, […]
https://nyti.ms/2yoozyk Full story at the New York Times.
Press TV. Listen here. Accused child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, is a “flight risk” particularly as he is in possession of a Saudi passport and, therefore should be held without bail, says a political commentator. Virginia-based Keith Preston made the comments in an interview with Press TV Wednesday […]
aragon.black Jun 11, 2019 14 minute read (full) First let’s decentralize history… This month’s thematic has been a real challenge for us and raised many questions in our minds. Why? The history of decentralization is complex and non-linear. But most of all, it is difficult to be considered from […]
In my perfect world, there would be nothing but voluntary communities, and particular communities could be as open or closed as their members wanted. I tend to think that for utilitarian reasons within the current state-capitalist system there needs to be at least some limitation on both immigration […]
Tulsi Gabbard is turning out to be the most anti-statist of any of the presidential candidates (a very low standard to say the least). She has also introduced legislation to end federal marijuana prohibition as well. For many years, I have argued that the central focus of anarchists, […]
Sex trafficking hysteria is the new “War on Drugs.” Like the war on drugs, virtually every category of do-gooder is getting duped once again. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason It’s been nearly a week since Florida police started bragging about their big “human trafficking” bust, an operation that […]
By Hilde Kate Lysiak Orange Street News The OSN was working on a story in Patagonia, Arizona when a law enforcement officer threatened the reporter with arrest unless she stopped reporting the news. The OSN was biking down Roadrunner Lane investigating the tip at about 1:30 pm on […]
By Nathan Mattise ARS Technica AUSTIN, Texas—More than three months have passed since a warrant (PDF) initially went out for Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson’s arrest. That document detailed Wilson’s alleged sexual assault against a female “child younger than 17 years of age” whom he reportedly solicited through […]
Listen here. A court in the United States has confirmed the arrest of US-born Iranian Press TV news presenter Marzieh Hashemi as a material witness in an unspecified investigation. Ms. Hashemi, 59, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on unspecified charges upon arrival at St. Louis […]
US President Donald Trump says hush payments to women he allegedly had affairs with before the 2016 presidential election were legal. Trump said the payments were personal transactions and denied they were a violation of US campaign financing laws. Earlier, federal prosecutors in New York demanded a “substantial” […]
This is a really interesting discussion of the James Fields case that contains a lot of important information on how the US criminal legal system works. Anyone can learn from this discussion, irrespective of political views. Listen here. ————————— This is Rebel Yell – a Southern Nationalist podcast […]
Todd Lewis will be interviewing David Friedman on his work Law Very Different than our Own both his lectures and upcoming book.
Political correctness is the ideological superstructure of the left-wing of capital, and the technology, ideas, and information industries are its substructure/materialist base. By Keith Preston The Myth of the Open Society One of the pervasive myths of our time is that we live in an open society where […]
I highly recommend the video commentaries of Styxhexenhammer666. He offers a refreshingly non-partisan, independent, relatively centrist, somewhat libertarian perspective.
By David E. Berstein Reason In the late 1960s, the ACLU was a small but powerful liberal organization devoted to a civil libertarian agenda composed primarily of devotion to freedom of speech, free exercise of religion, and the rights of accused criminals. In the early 1970s, the ACLU’s […]
This legislation is a very important step forward, though not nearly as bold as it needs to be. Although undoing the police state that has been built up over the past 50 years will certainly take time and require a great deal of comprehensive reform. Not exactly the […]
I invite any system-lovers who may be reading to explain exactly how it is that we don’t live in a police state. By Josh Barnabel Wall Street A team of New York City law-enforcement officers swarmed a Manhattan condominium last month, issuing 27 notices of violations for illegal […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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