From the Inferno. Been getting quite the backlash from this one from (other) “pro-choicers” (who seem to miss the point entirely). ________________ Of all the court cases the press have pored over recently, none have fascinated me more than that of John Welden, who recently started a 14-year […]
Say the totalitarian humanist bureaucrats and parasite of the EU. By Eric Margolis Democracy can be so inconvenient. Take Switzerland, the closest thing the world has to a perfect democracy. Switzerland’s eight million citizens vote by referendum on all major issues. The Swiss cantons have made key decisions […]
Counter-Currents Radio To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Robert Stark talks to commentator Charles Lincoln on slavery and the prison-industrial complex. Topics include: How imprisonment replaced slavery The 13th Amendment and the exception it […]
By Jacob Sullum This week a Texas grand jury declined to indict a marijuana grower for shooting and killing a sheriff’s deputy who burst into his home in the early morning to execute a search warrant. Henry Goedrich Magee, who was indicted on drug and weapon charges (the […]
Attack the System Women Against the State February 1, 2014 A panel discussion with M.K. Lords, Becky Belding, Trista Rundatz, and Keith Preston about gender issues in the libertarian milieu, and wider issues facing the libertarian and anarchist movements. Topics include: Topics include: Why anti-state movements attract more […]
By Stephan Kinsella Like everyone, my political and ethical views have evolved over time. From a somewhat racialist milieu in rural Louisiana, I consciously rejected racism when I was in my young teens. From a devout Catholic youth I became a secularist and freethinker at a fairly young […]
PolicyMic.Com Why We Need Prison Reform: Victimless Crimes Are 86% of the Federal Prison Population When we talk about the war on drugs, which is increasingly turning into a real war, we often overlook the fact that the “criminals” involved in the drug trade aren’t actually violating anyone’s rights. […]
The Independent Kansas state sues Marotta for $6,000 in child support for four-year-old girl Heather Saul William Marotta, of Topeka, Kansas, had argued that he had waived his parental rights and did not intend to be a father to the child, who is now four-years-old. He said he […]
By Jesse Walker According to National Review‘s Betsy Woodruff, Hill aides are telling her that “we’re on the cusp of getting bipartisan prison-sentencing reform.” If they’re right, that’s a tribute, as Woodruff’s article shows, to carefully crafted left/right alliances. In this case, the team includes not just the civil […]
Russia Today A federal appeals court has ruled that bloggers and the general public have the same protection of the First Amendment as journalists when sued for defamation. Should the issue be of public concern, the claimant has to prove negligence to win the case. “It’s not a […]
Raw Story A former Texas high school student has come forward with accusations that school officials suspended her for “public lewdness” after she reported that she had been raped in a band room. In her first extensive interview, Rachel Bradshaw-Bean told NBC News that a boy had asked […]
Forbes The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure. Those who support that war might recall Prohibition, a similar deployment of government paternalism, which was wisely repealed 80 years ago this month. Prohibition was the result of misnamed “temperance” crusaders who sought to outlaw the manufacture, transportation, and […]
Disinfo.Com Do basic human rights extend to other animals with human-like cognitive abilities?The New York Times reports: Should a captive chimpanzee have the same rights as a “legal person”? That’s the debate set to unfold after an activist group filed lawsuits on behalf of four chimpanzees, asking the […]
DL Magazine By John Doherty The year is 1920. The US government just prohibited the production and sale of alcoholic beverages under the eighteenth amendment. The aim was to legislate morality, but America would soon learn how impossible that very concept is in reality. An era of complete […]
Boingboing.Com Twelve years ago, when Wendy Whitaker was barely 17, she performed oral sex on a high school classmate who was about to turn 16. The state of Georgia convicted her of a sex crime and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As a registered sex […]
Huffington Post An unidentified Arizona Corrections Officer adjusts the straps on the gurney used for lethal injections at the Florence Death House at the Arizona State Prison at Florence (Ariz.) in this undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, a federal […]
Gawker.Com 1Expand Kalief Browder was just 16-year-old when police officers suddenly showed up and arrested him for a crime he didn’t commit. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island. Now 20, Browder still had no idea why a person he had never met before decided to […]
Another moralistic fad goes bust. The Guardian Sex worker in Soho, London. Photograph: Dan Chung The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 14 November 2009 In the report below about sex trafficking we referred to the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre as […]
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Al-Jazeera Former Williamson County D.A. Ken Anderson makes his way into the courtroom on Monday, Feb 4, 2013, in the Georgetown Courthouse in Austin, Texas.AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Ricardo Brazziell, Pool Former Texas prosecutor and district court judge Ken Anderson agreed Friday to serve 10 days in jail, complete […]
Black Agenda Report By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The Department of Homeland Security is a secretive, lawless, largely privatized police and surveillance agency, with its own prisons and soon, its own drones. Now it’s headed by a black man, a progressive Democrat, a Morehouse man & […]
The Liberty Crier Oh, the hilarity that is the phrase “criminal justice system.” Talk to any defense attorney and they’ll tell you how the deck is stacked against defendants and defense lawyers. The ideal of “innocent until proven guilty” has become little more than a disclaimer tacked onto cop-centered reality shows. Defendants are guilty […]
Examiner Yesterday, Adam Kokesh arrived in federal court for a pre-trial hearing as a result of being arrested at his residence in Herndon, VA on July 9, 2013 for performing an act of civil disobedience on July 4, 2013 in Washington, D.C. Kokesh’s case is expected to go […]
Huffington Post Sixteen years ago, I was arrested by seven undercover cops, handcuffed and dragged out of my own salon in Texas. I was guilty of the “crime” of braiding hair without a cosmetology license. Over the next decade, I fought hard for my civil rights. In 2007, […]
Daily Mail More men are raped in the U.S. than woman, according to figures that include sexual abuse in prisons. In 2008, it was estimated 216,000 inmates were sexually assaulted while serving time, according to the Department of Justice figures. That is compared to 90,479 rape cases outside […]
Christian Post Disgraced American football legend and retired actor O.J. Simpson is reportedly planning to become a televangelist after his release from a five year prison term some time this Christmas. The troubled star’s manager Norman Pardo told The Enquirer that Simpson found God in prison and has been […]
Excellent article by Greg Palast. I agree with every word. On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don’t believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is […]
Alternet “Global Tel* Link. You have a collect call from: ‘Tim.’ An inmate in Shelby County Correctional Facility…. If you wish to accept and pay for this call, dial zero now.” I don’t know how many times I heard the same robotic voice speak these words since last fall. I […]
Authorities have arrested Ross Ulbricht of San Francisco and charged him with running the Silk Road, an online market place for anonymously buying and selling drugs. The site was hosted on Tor, the anonymity network that is thought to be immune to government regulation. In a unsealed criminal […]
Sign the Petition. The prosecution of Bradley Manning starkly contrasts to the US govt’s repeated failure to deliver justice for serious human rights violations committed during counter-terror operations of the past decade. Manning, who released classified information exposing potential breaches of international humanitarian law by US forces, was […]
Following the announcement of Bradley Manning’s sentence of 35 years in military prison, Manning’s civilian defense attorney read a statement from Manning, which will be included in a filing requesting a pardon from President Barack Obama. Coombs also described what Manning was like after the sentence was announced. […]
From Lingit Latseen r by Frank Hopper As the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman was announced on July 13 I couldn’t help thinking about a similar shooting here in Seattle that was also caused by racial profiling, the shooting of First Nations carver John T. Williams by […]
From Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Proposed Next Steps for the National Justice for Trayvon Martin Movement Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Major Action We call for a massive mobilization to shut down either Tallahassee or Sanford, Florida in August or September to: a) present a comprehensive set of structural […]
FreeAdam.Net Here are some news updates for Adam Kokesh for July 11, 2013. I will keep this post updated with any further news that comes out today. Adam was forcibly arraigned very early this morning. He is being held without bail pending a probable cause hearing. Early this […]
USA Today George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter Saturday night. The verdict is the culmination of a case that captured the nation’s attention and will undoubtedly be imprinted in America’s history. For Zimmerman, it means trying […]
The Libertarian Republic Don’t talk to cops! But if you do, this is what you say… It seems like every day we see a new video emerge where a citizen almost immediately surrenders their 4th or 5th amendment rights. Free people need to know their rights in order […]
By Daniel McCarthy The Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (struck down) and California’s Proposition 8 (the court disclaimed jurisdiction) were about the only rulings one could expect from a court of four liberals, four conservatives, and Anthony Kennedy. It would have overturned everything we […]
Russia Today A teenager from Texas could spend the next eight years in prison if a court decides that the sarcastic comment he made during an online argument is enough to convict him of issuing a terroristic threat. Justin Carter was only 18 years old when he and […]
Business Week In its marquee cases on issues such as gay marriage and race relations, the Supreme Court wrestles with the meaning of majestic constitutional phrases—“equal protection of the laws” and that sort of thing. In the cases that matter the most to businesses, however, the justices address […]
CNN Convicted murderer William Van Poyck penned long letters to his sister, Lisa, which she posted on the blog “Death Row Diary.” STORY HIGHLIGHTS William Van Poyck was sentenced to die in 1988 for killing prison guard Fred Griffis Van Poyck became a prolific writer and offered a […]
Think Progress The Steubenville rape case, in which two high school football players were convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl at a party, helped spark a national conversation about consent, victim-blaming, and rape culture. The case gained national attention after the “hacktivist” group Anonymous leaked significant social […]
Dr. Sean Gabb Emma West has finally been worn down. Eighteen months after she was charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment and racially aggravated assault , she has agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress with the original charges being […]
Independent Institute Today the Court decided Maryland v. King, and held that if the police have probable cause to make an arrest for a “serious offense” they may also as a matter of course use a cotton swab to take the arrestee’s DNA. The Court said that this was a legitimate […]
Raw Story The founder of a New Jersey Nazi group insisted his wearing an accompanying uniform should not impact his chances of regaining custody of his four children, WCAU-TV reported on Monday. “I’m going to tell the judge, I love my children,” “Hitler’s Order” leader Heath Campbell said […]
Mike the Mad Biologist Or perhaps I should write persecuted? Recently, I discussed how the poor are prosecuted simply for being poor. The story of Methodist pastor Lorenza Andrade-Smith, who, in ministering to the homeless, sold her belongings and renounced her health insurance, provides a shocking example of […]
People’s World by Albert Bender June 3 2013 Genocide is not too strong a term for what is now happening in South Dakota. The huge, shocking violation of legal and human rights being carried out by the state is tantamount to genocide against the Native American nations, the […]
Unfortunately, this writer is clueless as to the differences between neoliberalism and actual libertarianism and reacts with stereotypical left-wing hysteria when the welfare state is criticized. This article also fails to discuss what is most interesting about Nozick. Yet many of the criticisms of vulgar libertarianism are warranted […]
CBS Seattle An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts. Oregon Public Radio reports that an unidentified woman called 911 during a weekend in August 2012 […]
By Paul Huebl Debra Milke has languished on Arizona’s Death Row here for more than two decades. She’s no stranger to unwanted publicity, nearly all of it being outrageous and libelous. This story all began with Milke’s arrest by a really poor excuse for a cop. Milke’s four-year-old […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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