The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have […]
Who Goes to Prison Due to Gun Control?
Anyone with half a brain could figure out that increased gun control will primarily be a war against urban minorities like the “war on drugs.” By Anthony Gregory Independent Institute Somehow, left-liberals have associated the cause of gun rights with white racism, when if anything it is gun […]
Keith Preston: Two Mideast refugees held in states on terror charges
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/08/444980/US-arrests-Mideast-refugees-/ US arrests two Middle Eastern refugees on terror charges. (file photo) The United States has arrested two refugees from the Middle East on terrorism charges. The two men who came to the US as refugees more than three years ago were arrested on […]
The War Against the Cowboys: The Oregon stand off and US imperialism
Justin Raimondo puts the Oregon stand off in context. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com As our old republic fades into history, replaced by a voracious global Empire, the division between foreign policy and domestic policy is erased. A conquistador treats his helots on the home front with the same […]
U.S. Attorney General to Allow Police Depts to Keep the Number of Citizens they Kill a Secret
The Obama administration shows how it really feels about the police state. By Jay Syrmopoulos Free Thought Project image: http://tftppull.freethoughtllc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/U.S-attorney-general-keep-police-killings-secret.jpg Washington, DC – In complete reversal of course from the stated position of her predecessor, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the federal government shouldn’t mandate police departments to […]
Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
By Jordan Michael Smith Boston Globe The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor. […]
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Keith Preston: US police brutality is not about black people or homicide
This headline is a bit goofy and misleading, but I actually cover a lot of important ground in the audio interview. Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/29/443626/us-police-brutality-black-lives-matter-gun-violence-racial-inequality/ Police brutality in the United States is not necessarily about “homicide” committed by American cops or even “racial disparity” but has deeper […]
ISIS Attacks are Excuses for Censorship and Disarmament
Truth Axis The Paris terrorist attacks and San Bernardino shootings have ushered in a new era of urban terror. The combined death toll of both attacks was 146 dead with hundreds wounded. The response from American politicians, law enforcement and intelligence departments has varied, but is unified in […]
John W. Whitehead to Appear on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal to Discuss Best-Selling Book ‘Battlefield America: The War on the American People’
In my judgment, this is the most serious domestic issue that the United States currently faces, and one that transcends the normal barriers of class, race, gender, and political ideology. The police state is the enemy of all Americans. John Whitehead is one of the very best writers […]
Towards a New Civil Liberties Union
About a year ago, I published a piece calling for the creation of a coalition against consensual crime laws, which have long been a pet peeve of Libertarians. I was thinking of this earlier when a social media friend made the following observation concerning Libertarians: No one will […]
ID Cards: Solving a Problem that Dare not Speak its Name
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Writing in the Daily Telegraph on the 10th December 2015, two Members of Parliament – Frank Field and Nicholas Soames – regret the cancellation, in 2010, of the previous Labour Government’s identity card scheme. They argue that the threat of terrorism requires […]
Literature in a Locked Down Land
By William T. Hathaway Prisons are one of the few growth industries in the USA today. They are becoming money-making institutions, and profits are rising. New ones are being built and old ones expanded to hold all the new slave laborers being captured. The prison-industrial complex is the […]
Ron Paul: Is Islam on the Verge of Engulfing Western Civilization?
In a better world, Paul would be POTUS. (In an >even< better world, the concept of a POTUS – and other national equivalents – would remain just that.)
Halal & Hypocrisy XIII: Remove Kebab?
New from the Inferno: A tyrannical tale of kebabs and killjoys. The south of France, and one man finds himself deeply disenchanted by the culinary delights on offer in his locale. So much so, in fact, that he took to the press, voicing his determination never to […]
France’s False Choice
Atlantic article from January. Thoughtful overview of Dar al-Islam in the land of the Gauls. Also, rather refreshing to see a mainstreamer who can tell the fucking difference between liberty and democracy! The impressive and inspiring show of solidarity at France’s unity march on January 11—which brought together […]
Cody Wilson – 3D Printed Guns, PC Hacktivism & Cultural Terrorism
An great interview of Cody Wilson by Lana Lokteff. Radio 3Fourteen. Listen here. Cody Rutledge Wilson, a student of law, political philosophy, and social theory, is a USA crypto and free-market anarchist. He is best known as a founder/director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and […]
The Real Issues You Won’t Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates This Election Year
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and you can expect to be […]
The Perils of State Surveillance, by Sean Gabb
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Listen here. Speech to the Traditional Britain Group 24th October 2015 Here is an audio recording made on my mobile telephone and then tarted up in Audacity. A better version will be available soon, but this will do for the moment. I argue as […]
Questions About Gun Control After UCC Shooting
A gunman killed 9 people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg Oregon before being killed by responding sheriff deputies. This is a sad, horrific incident, and my heart goes out to the families of the deceased. President Obama was quick to say that “This is something that should […]
Privatize the Borders!
From Liberty Chat. __________ By Robert P. Murphy — LibertyChat.com contributor Bryan Caplan has become perhaps the leading libertarian spokesman for “open borders,” the term that many people are using to mean that national governments do not place restrictions on the movement of people across the outer boundary […]
Sylvanian Families being stalked by ISIS banned from art gallery
From The Metro. The tragicomedy writes itself! Also, this is the most media coverage I’ve seen Sylvanian Families receive in decades. ________ An exhibition celebrating freedom of expression has become the unlikely victim of censorship – after an artwork which showed Sylvanian Families being terrorised by ISIS […]
U.N., rights groups call on Saudi Arabia to spare man from beheading, crucifixion
CNN.Com A group of U.N. experts has joined rights groups in calling on Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a Shiite man convicted of crimes reportedly committed as a teenager during protests inspired by the Arab Spring. Ali al-Nimr, the nephew of firebrand Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr […]
After Beheading 100 People This Year, Saudi Arabia Joins U.N. Human Rights Council With U.S. Support
This is beyond pathetic. By Justin Salhani Think Progress President Barack Obama, right, meets with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015, in Washington. The State Department has welcomed news that Saudi Arabia will head a U.N. […]
Why Judges and Prosecutors Don’t Care If They’re Right
By Matt Kaiser AbovetheLaw.Com Judge Alex Kozinski has written the preface for the latest edition of the Georgetown Law Journal’s Annual Review of Criminal Procedure. Put simply, it’s a barn burner. He lays out 12 views that are widely held by judges and lawyers to justify what happens […]
A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
Now, this is a reform that the far right and the far left should unite on behalf of. By Tom Mullen Huffington Post Do you lie awake at night in constant fear a fire will break out and nothing will be done to put it out? For the […]
White House Unsurprisingly Will Not Pardon Edward Snowden
No surprise here. By Scott Shackford Reason At the White House’s “We the People” online petition system, 167,954 people demanded that the administration give domestic surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden a “full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing […]
Would Somebody Please Bring Freedom & Democracy To America
The resistance to the Pigs is the primary domestic issue we face in the United States. By John Whitehead PaulCraigRoberts.Org Clearly, the language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. With the government having shifted into a language of force, […]
Who Goes to Prison Due to Gun Control?
An immensely important article from Anthony Gregory. By Anthony Gregory Independent Institute Somehow, left-liberals have associated the cause of gun rights with white racism, when if anything it is gun control that has a racist legacy. In the United States, early gun laws targeted recently freed blacks, and […]
Activist who burned Confederate flag charged with arson
So if a white guy gets charged with arson for burning a Rainbow flag, and a black woman gets charged with arson for burning a Confederate, I guess that’s supposed to show how far we’ve come towards achieving equal (no) rights and equal (non) protection under the law. […]
The ‘Liberal’ Police State: It’s Here, It’s Now
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Wesley Clark, the retired general who almost started World War III with Russia, has a bright idea: why not set up internment camps for “radicalized” Americans in order to stanch the threat of domestic terrorism? Yes, he actually said this, and, what’s more, MSNBC […]
40th Anniversary of Pine Ridge Shootout
By Ed Krayewski Reason Today is the 40th anniversary of the June 26, 1975, shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota between two FBI agents who drove in with unmarked cars and several members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a Native American rights group operating out […]
California State Assembly passes resolution equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism
The Zionist wing of totalitarian humanism strikes! By Annie Robbins and Matthew Taylor Mondoweiss School’s out, but that didn’t stop California’s state assembly from passing Resolution HR35 buttressing a controversial report commissioned by the University of California that accuses students and faculty of contributing to an environment fostering […]
The Deep State
My recent interview with Richard Spencer at Radix Journal concerning the surveillance state. Listen here. NOTES: Rand Paul’s Stand Section 215 of Patriot Act expires The unprounceable name formerly known as Blackwater Keith Preston on Rand Paul Rand Paul signs Tom Cotton’s stupid Iran letter Paul visits Israel […]
A Conversation with President Obama and The Wire Creator David Simon
“The way we treat non-violent drug crimes is problematic, and from a fiscal perspective, it’s breaking the bank.” “It’s draconian, and it doesn’t work,” Simon told the president. That was “The Wire” creator David Simon in a video posted to the White House YouTube channel about the war […]
It Begins! Montana Man Being Prosecuted for ‘Hate Speech’ and Holocaust Denial
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason Via Volokh Conspiracy, a disturbing criminal case out of Montana, where Flathead County resident David Lenio, 28, is being prosecuted for making disparaging remarks about Jews on Twitter and denying that the Holocaust happened. Say what? While this sort of prosecution is common […]
The Redemption of Rand Paul: He stands almost alone against the Surveillance State
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If one of the very worst provisions of the Patriot Act – which the government has erroneously and illegally interpreted to gather the phone records of each and every American – expires, we’ll have Senator Rand Paul to thank. And the truth is, we […]
Another Surveillance Law: One More Step towards the Big Brother State
By Dr. Sean Gabb The Barrister, May 2012 At the beginning of April 2012, the BBC and a couple of newspapers reported that the British Government was considering a new surveillance law. This would allow it to monitor the telephone calls, text messages, e-mails and website visits of […]
Rand Paul and the Tripartisan Case for Optimism
By Lucy Steigerwald Antiwar.Com On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) “filibustered” for more than ten hours against the PATRIOT Act, the USA Freedom Act, and myriad government violations of the Fourth Amendment. He also daringly added some blistering critiques of the US prison state and its racial disparities. […]
Black Officials Fleece Ferguson’s Neighboring Town
Everything will be better when we’ve achieved racial equality among the leadership of the police state, right? By Justin Glawe The Daily Beast Hope for change in Mike Brown’s hometown lies with voters, but just changing the color of government isn’t enough: Just look down the road. Ferguson, […]
How the Police Became Aristocrats
By Paul Craig Roberts and John Whitehead During the time that Western legal norms were evolving in the direction of equality under law, which means the application of the same laws to all social classes, aristocrats answered to different laws than did commoners. Some offenses were not punished […]
Criminal justice is so broken, Democrats and Republicans are working together to fix it
The one thing the Red Tribe and the Blue Tribe agree on is that the police state is out of control. What does that say about the System’s level of perniciousness? The U.S. accounts for just 5 percent of the world’s population, but it houses more than 20 […]
Few Conservatives Take Police Abuses Seriously
By Conor Friedorsdorf The Atlantic There is overwhelming evidence of widespread civil-rights violations and unlawful brutality. Yet the movement’s reflex is still to ignore or deny the problem. Nearly a quarter century ago, the libertarian magazine Reason published an essay on civil unrest suffused with an insight that […]
Sharpton’s Progressivism is Authoritarian Nationalism
Al Sharpton’s calls for a federalizing local police represents the latest trend in totalitarian humanism. By David S. D’Amato Center for a Stateless Society In his call for the nationalization of police forces, Al Sharpton perfectly encapsulates the mainstream left — frequently dead on target in the diagnosis, […]
Baltimore ‘Bloods’ and ‘Crips’ Call Truce and Unite To Fight Police Brutality
CountercurrentNews.Com In a move reminiscent of the Los Angeles gang truce during the Rodney King protests, Baltimore area Bloods and Crips have agreed to put aside their rivalry and focus on fighting rogue police officers. Last Saturday, both Bloods and Crips marched side by side in the Baltimore […]
Baltimore Police: 3 Rival Gangs Uniting to ‘Take Out’ Cops
Electronic Urban Report *Baltimore police say three separate gangs are now working together to “take out” law enforcement officers. In a statement Monday, the department called it a “credible threat” and said members of the Black Guerilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips have formed an alliance against […]
Jeff Berwick on Escaping Amerika
Jeff is interviewed by the inestimable Chris Cantwell for Some Garbage Podcast, topics include: police state savagery, victimless crimes, US foreign intervention, apalling state worship in the west, fight or flight with the US, expatriation, the Anarchapulco conference, police aggression not tolerated in Mexico, Mexico in an economic […]
Is America a Police State? Here’s the Evidence
An absolute must listen. Tom Woods interviews John Whitehead. Listen here. John Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. He established the Rutherford Institute back in 1982 and still serves as President and […]
Lew Rockwell interviews Jesse Ventura
This man, and not Rand Paul, is the logical successor to Ron Paul as the leading figure in the anti-state movement. Listen to the interview here.
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