ICE Accused Of Running Human Experiments On Migrants
This would hardly be unprecedented.
Krystal and Saagar DEBATE: Should Violent Protesters Be Charged With Sedition By Bill Barr?
There is a little too much “law talk” in this segment for my tastes. The ideal situation would be for the center-right, center-left, far-right, and far-left to fight, both in the electoral system/political institutions and in the streets, to the point that none of these can achieve anything […]
Barr told prosecutors to consider charging violent protesters with sedition
By Catherine Garcia The Week During a phone call last week with federal prosecutors, Attorney General William Barr said they should consider charging anyone who committed a violent crime during recent protests with sedition, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal and The New York […]
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Peter McWilliams’ classic from the early 90s. McWilliams himself later became a casualty of the state. The primary cause of police misconduct, mass incarceration, and related issues is overcriminalization, not lack of police “training,” lack of social worker cops, private prisons, or even racism in some abstract sense. […]
Did Trump Justify ‘Extrajudicial’ Killing Of Antifa Activist?
In “Third World” countries, and the US is rapidly becoming one, assassinations of extremists by rival extremists and extra-judicial assassinations of dissidents by the state are both very common. Be prepared for more of this in the future. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the controversial statements […]
The Crisis in Civil Rights Best Books and Articles on Race, Police, and the Welfare State
By Williamson M. Evers Independent Institute
A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism
The problem with “systemic racism” analysis of this kind is that, while not factually wrong on its face, no context is provided. The assumption is that the present system would be fine if only it were less racist, which has the effect of obscuring and obfuscating critiques of […]
The Struggle for Bottom Unity in an Age of Division
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “The most interesting political questions throughout history have been whether or not humans will be ruled or free, whether they will be responsible for their actions as individuals or left irresponsible as members of society, and whether they can live in peace by volitional agreements alone.” -Karl Hess “We’ve got to […]
Where Are the Protestors?
A couple years ago, I was interviewed by a supposed “post-left” podcast that ridiculed my suggestion that anti-imperialism should be the priority issue of North American anarchists on the grounds that the US empire is the world’s leading mass murderer. At the same time, the hosts of the […]
100+ nights of Portland protests – Attack the System podcast
Keith interviews Attack The System co-editor Vince about Portland Oregon’s 100 plus nights of protest. Vince lives in Portland and provides first hand accounts and context for the uprising Discussion includes: 100 nights of protests in Portland Scope of the protests and effect on the city Targets of […]
Amazon Puts Former NSA Chief On Board Of Directors
The circulation of the power elite (Mosca and Mills).
Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State
This book is a must-read or anyone who is interested in how the modern American police state developed. This was originally published in the mid-1990s and describes how drug prohibition has been used as a smokescreen for the development of a large and intense as police state as […]
Edward Snowden Fully Vindicated In Court Ruling
Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door
By Rukmini Callimachi New York Times LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor had just done four overnight shifts at the hospital where she worked as an emergency room technician. To let off some steam, she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, planned a date night: dinner at a steakhouse, followed […]
Andrew Cuomo Says 4,000-Person NYPD Social-Distancing Taskforce Needed Before He’ll Allow Indoor Dining in NYC
The therapeutic police state. By Christian Britschgi, Reason New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said on a press call today that he would not allow indoor dining to return in New York City unless local politicians devoted significant police resources to enforcing social distancing and other reopening conditions. […]
Officer charged in fatal shooting of Black man at San Francisco Walmart
By Jordan Freiman CBS News A police officer in San Leandro, California, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black man wielding a baseball bat inside a Walmart, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O’Malley announced Wednesday. Officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed 33-year-old […]
William Barr: ‘I don’t think there are two justice systems’
I would be willing to concede for the sake of argument that there is only one system and that the system sucks so fuck you Fat Billy, you double-chinned slob. By Katelyn Polantz, Caroline Kelly and Christina Carrega CNN Attorney General William Barr, in an exclusive interview on […]
If It Can Happen In Kenosha…
The natural consequences of half a century of excessive piggishness. By Rod Dreher The American Conservative I don’t know about you, but “Kenosha, Wisconsin” has always been for me one of those place names — like “Duluth, Minnesota,” “Peoria, Illinois” — that convey a certain Midwestern solidity and […]
The Abolition Movement
By Josie Duffy Rice Vanity Fair Long before the internet caught wind of him, Henry Earl was already a local legend. By the time the Charleston Gazette dubbed him a “cult-status hero” and Newsweek called him the “town drunk,” Earl was already known around Lexington, Kentucky, as James […]
There Have Only Been 3 Days Since George Floyd’s Death Where Police Did Not Kill Someone
I’ve generally found that it’s impossible to get accurate data on how many people are killed by police. There is no established mechanism for collecting such data, whether governmental or non-governmental, and those who have tried are relying mostly on police reports, individual witness testimony, and journalistic accounts, […]
Is Police Reform A Fundamentally Flawed Idea?
The only kind of “police reform” that ultimate matters is fewer laws, fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions, and fewer incarcerations. Once again, libertarians are generally to the “left of the left” on this issue (depending on the flavor of libertarian, of course). Too many proposals for “police reform” amount […]
5 Issues that Should Be Part of Efforts to Reform Policing in Local Communities
Most, if not all, of these are generally good ideas although it’s largely focused on the administration of localized policing. Fed pigs and state pigs are just as bad and local pigs, and the policing process is merely the result of actions taken by legislators and enforced by […]
The Cato Institute on Overcriminalization
The Cato Institute, another Republican think-tank that is Koch-funded, likewise makes an indirect case for “civil unrest.” By Tim Lynch Cato Institute Policymakers should Override the old maxim that “ignorance of the law is no excuse” (given the breadth of the criminal codes now on the books, that […]
The Heritage Foundation on Overcriminalization
The Heritage Foundation, a Republican think tank, inadvertently makes the case for “civil unrest.” Heritage Foundation 1. The criminal code should reflect common understandings of morality, rather than political opportunism (such as responding to crises to appease voters). 2. Today, it is estimated that nearly 5,000 federal statutes […]
Kamala Harris Is No Ally to Transwomen
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is, since I have heard ‘liberals’ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as I can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist racist […]
Barr ‘vehemently opposed’ to pardoning Snowden
Associated Press Politico WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr said he would be “vehemently opposed” to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, after the president suggested he might consider it. The attorney general’s comments in an interview with The Associated Press come days […]
On Facebook Banning Pages that Support CrimethInc.com
Crimethinc Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects,1 officially on the pretext that they “support violence.” This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with suppressing social movements […]
Snowden pardon plan draws bipartisan scorn from key defense lawmakers
The Democrat vs Republican thing is just theater intended by the ruling class to hoodwink everyone else. The parties obviously agree on the things that matter, even if they always have the wrong position. By Leo Shane III Military Times The top Republican and Democrat on the House […]
The Infuriating History of Why Police Unions Have So Much Power
By Samantha Michaels Mother Jones As the year 1990 came to an end, a fight broke out during a New Year’s Eve celebration at the Juke Box Saturday Night bar in downtown Minneapolis. A 21-year-old white student grabbed Michael Sauro from behind. Sauro, an off-duty white police officer […]
Kamala Harris Hopes You’ll Forget Her Record as a Drug Warrior & Draconian Prosecutor
With Biden and Harris on the ticket, the Democraps have arguably moved to the right of Trump, or are at least in a dead heat with Trump in terms of who is most “far-right.”
Fascism Expert: Don’t Expect Trump To Leave WH, If He Loses
The problem with the perspective that is presented in this interview that it makes it sound like Trump is uniquely authoritarian compared to his predecessors. No one considers Eisenhower, whose administration organized a series of right-wing coups in other nations and whose immigration policies were far to the […]
‘I’m Not Scared’: She Faces Life in Prison After Allegedly Buying Red Protest Paint
By Kelly Weill The Daily Beast Madalena McNeil is accused of buying red paint before a protest. Under aggressive new criminal charges, it could mean she spends the rest of her life in prison. McNeil, 28, was among four people charged Tuesday for their alleged actions at a […]
ACLU calls for dissolving of Department of Homeland Security
The DHS is actually an umbrella organization for dozens of federal police state alphabet soup agencies, many of which existed in various forms prior to the creation of the DHS in 2002. The DHS was originally created to better coordinate the relationship between these agencies, and between the […]
Scott Horton and Tom Woods on Government Police
This is a pretty good discussion of what real “police reform” would look like: end drug prohibition, end random traffic stops, end patrolling, end qualified immunity, allow communities to opt-out of relying on state security forces, etc. Unlike most right-libertarians, they also point out what is wrong with […]
Gross, Sleazy Opportunist Kamala Harris Once Said She Believed Bidens’ Accusers
It’s ironic that in the same year as massive anti-police riots and protests the Democrats, supposedly the “left” party, have a ticket that is arguably to the right of Trump/Pence on “criminal justice” issues. Laura Ingraham is about as sophisticated a political analyst as Alex Jones who generally […]
Joe Arpaio loses bid for his old position as sheriff
Bye. By Tal Axelrod The Hill Former Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio narrowly lost his campaign to get his old job back Friday, ending a nearly successful comeback for one of the state’s most polarizing figures. Arpaio, who held the position from 1993-2017, lost the GOP primary […]
Another Peasant Murdered by the King’s Knights
By Eric July This is Ryan Whitaker. He was shot and killed by the police May 21st in Arizona, and you’ve probably heard nothing about it until you read this post. I just recently found out about it as I was notified by a follower that wanted my […]
Utah protesters face potential life sentence due to “gang” law
I always said that anti-gang laws were not only a violation of freedom of association but would eventually be used as a means of repressing political dissidents. By Li Cohen CBS News Black Lives Matter protesters in Salt Lake City have been accused of splashing paint on a […]
Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong.
The reason Americans have an exaggerated fear of crime is that for decades the System has promoted anti-crime hysteria in order to justify the building of a police state. It is true that crime rates started to dramatically increase in the late 1960s when Nixon introduced the “war […]
Tucker: America was a very different country 7 months ago
Carlson is in his better form in this although he’s still trying to score some partisan points along the way. Now, if he would only criticize Trump’s law and order police state the same way he criticizes medical martial law.
Trump: Tinpot Dictator? (w/ Noam Chomsky)
This is an excellent interview. Chomsky really puts the phenomenon of Trumpism in context in this interview. In recent years, Chomsky has at times gone off the deep end with hyperbolic comments but he doesn’t drop the ball in this one. It is good to hear Chomsky distinguishing […]
Corporations That Back BLM Also Fund the Police
Of course. They’re covering all their bases.
Fox News On Federal Crackdowns, Then Vs Now
Fuck FAUX News. Although the Spiro Agnew-impersonators on FOX are at least entertaining, unlike the boring-as-fuck CNN and MSNBC.
‘Ode to Putin’ appears in Portland from Trump Statue Initiative
I disagree with widespread claims that Trump is somehow Putin’s puppet. The Trump administration has been too hawkish toward Russia (unilaterally abrogating the INF Treaty, for example) rather than not hawkish enough. Russia is just a province in the global capitalist empire in which the US ruling class […]
It’s Time to Abolish the FBI
A proposal for “defunding the police” from the Right though a bit moderate, just like most proposals for “defunding the police” from the Left. By Boyd Cathey Chronicles Now that a federal appellate court has ordered the dismissal of the case against Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, and outgoing intelligence […]
Let’s talk about the Floyd footage and what it changes….
How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone
The availability of surveillance technology increases the urgency of the decentralist project. Death to the Empire. By Kim Zetter The Intercept Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in […]
TrueAnon Host TARGETED By Trump DHS In Bid To Hunt ANTIFA Like Terrorists
The feds are trying to target Antifa by connecting them to the PKK/YPG/YPJ. Krystal Ball details new reporting by The Nation’s Ken Klippenstein that exposes efforts to “target left activists and quash their constitutional rights.”
Two Black moms took their kids to the Mall. Secret Service officers confronted them with guns, they said.
By Katie Mettler Washington Post It was a hot Thursday afternoon, so India Johnson, 26, and Yasmeen Winston, 25, decided to take their babies to splash in the fountains at the World War II Memorial. The women, best friends since seventh grade, parked on Constitution Avenue near the […]
Police bodycam footage shows moment-by-moment arrest of George Floyd
By Martin Gould Daily Mail The terror on George Floyd’s face as a rookie cop points a gun at his head while he sits in his car can be seen today for the first time
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