The Predictable “Scandal” at the FDA
By Kevin Carson It’s gradually emerged in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration not only spied on its employees, but did so on a massive scale — collecting tens of thousands of employee emails to one another, as well as to journalists, members of Congress and […]
Slouching Towards Nuremberg?
By Morris Berman Strange things are happening in the United States these days, and every day seems to bring additional scary news. The similarity to the erosion of civil liberties in Germany during the 1930s is a bit too close for comfort. Many will regard this statement as […]
I couldn’t help but laugh at the incongruity.
Prisons as Growth Industry
By Ralph Nader Ever visit a major prison? The vast majority of Americans have not, despite our country having by far a higher incarceration rate per capita than China or Iran. Out of sight is out of mind. Imagine the benefits of the average taxpayer touring a prison. […]
War on Terror/War on Drugs
Hundreds protest over Anaheim police shootings, city officials call for investigation
Fox News Video: Riot breaks out at police station in Anaheim ANAHEIM, Calif. – City officials voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the U.S. attorney’s office to investigate recent police shootings, including one of an unarmed man over the weekend, that have sparked four days of protests and a […]
What Could Be More Anarchist Than Defending the Right to Bear Arms?
News UK news Simon Harwood trial Tomlinson case: Met police tried to hide PC Harwood’s disciplinary record
As Mad Max wrote: “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.” This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest… _______________ The Metropolitan police attempted to keep the disciplinary record of PC Simon Harwood secret from the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller […]
We Are All Terrorists!
From NATA-NY In the July issue of American Free Press, Pat Shannan reports on a recent Homeland Security study that claims to identify domestic terrorists. The AFP article is reposted below, but above Shannan’s writing are three direct quotes from the DHS-funded, University of Maryland-conducted report “Hot Spots […]
Murderous Psychos
Bringing back the military draft is a terrible idea
By Jason Pye Perhaps one of my favorite Milton Friedman stories is when he was served on a presidential commission to look at military conscription. The Nobel Prize winning economist listened to General William Westmoreland, who was givening testimony before the commission. Here’s how it played out: In his […]
Here Come the Draft-Nappers
By William Norman Grigg Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, demands the re-instatement of conscription so that next time Washington commits itself to a needless foreign war “every town, every city [will be] at risk.” “I think we ought to have a draft. I […]
Our Enemy, the Police
Scott Horton interviews William Norman Grigg. Will Grigg discusses Edmund Burke’s notion of “natural society” and “policed society;” why American police forces are servants of the state, not of the people; the botched SWAT raid in Evansville, IN; and how good cops get thrown off the force for […]
I’m Finally Leaving America’s Crazed Police State
By David Seaman Dudes, I’m done with this. I’m leaving the United States today, and won’t be back for a while. I recently visited my childhood hometown and noticed a whole bunch of brand new surveillance cameras at nearly every intersection and street corner; this is just a […]
Handcuffed man shot twice by San Francisco police – witness reports
From Russia Today video still from youtube user sf99er TAGS: Crime, USA Officers with the San Francisco Police Department in Northern California shot a man believed to have a knife this morning, but preliminary reports suggest that the victim was in handcuffs while the authorities opened fire. Police officers with […]
London 2012….. feel safe yet?
Florida cops kill innocent man at his own home
From Russia Today. Talk about a gangland execution! _____________ Hearing a knock on his door at 1:30 am, a perplexed Florida man answered the door to see what kind of unannounced visitors were outside. Holding a gun for security, 26-year old Andrew Scott was instantly shot dead by […]
Because We Care About You… and school sucks
Luna @ A Hopeful Pessimist on truants, prozzies, paternalism, and Social Darwinism. _________ Well, I’m back again. I didn’t intend to take this long to write again, but due to technological troubles, I was offline for awhile, thus making it impossible to post more entries. This is not […]
In Its Mad and Hopeless War on Cocaine, the US Has Destroyed the Lives of Millions of Innocent Farmers in Colombia
By Tessie Castillo What the U.S. government is doing in Colombia has not slowed drug trafficking, but rather, created millions more victims through fumigation and displacement. July 9, 2012 | Imagine for a moment that China, in an effort to reduce cigarette smoking and associated health costs among its […]
Rocky’s Drug War
This passage caught my attention: “I am chagrined, if not surprised, that rural upstate legislators are the primary obstacles to reform. Keeping watch over the largely downstate prison population has become a staple of the regional economy, a degradation to which we have become accustomed. Prison jobs sure […]
The Phony “War on Cops” and the Real War on Us
By Kevin Carson Since early 2011 the mainstream press has expressed moral panic over an alleged “War on Cops.” That panic was sparked by a rash of police killings in January 2011. According to a March Christian Science Monitor article, 24 cops were killed on the job compared to only […]
New Hate Crime Frontiers for the Southern Policy Law Center
By Thomas Naylor Since 1971 the Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC) has fought racism and hate crimes in America, most notably in the Deep South. Particularly during its earlier years when its co-founder, Atlanta civil rights activist Julian Bond, was still involved, the SPLC achieved an admirable record […]
Naked Indiana Man Attacks 3 Cops ‘Ninja Style’, Escapes Taser-Beating
The Police and the Occupy Movement
By Collin Harris As the global wave of rebellion that began in 2011 and eventually spread to the beating heart of Empire, and the new subcultures of resistance it has spawned, continues to grow and diversify, there is an obvious dilemma that will have to be worked out […]
Couple handcuffed, jailed for dancing on subway platform: lawsuit
By Kathianne Boniello First smoking, then soda — now there’s no dancing in New York City. Caroline Stern, 55, and her boyfriend George Hess, 54, claim they were handcuffed for having happy feet on the platform of the Columbus Circle subway station — and spent 23 hours in […]
The Price of Screwing With America
By William Blum I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any […]
A Pig Kills a Dog: Another Day in Life on the Animal Farm
Please sign the petition here: http://is.gd/sxr89J Find more details about the killing here: http://is.gd/xxvNbg
A Libertarian Perspective
Straight from the horse’s mouth
endment.com‘s photo.
The Downside of Statist Healthcare
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
By David Graeber An Open Letter to Chris Hedges N+1 Magazine In response to “The Cancer in Occupy,” by Chris Hedges. I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who […]
Major Violent Crime Wave Hits Anti-Gun Cities Across America
From Off Grid Survival As crime rates drop around the country, a somewhat predictable but disturbing trend is starting to pop up in big cities across America. In a number of large metropolitan areas throughout the country, where guns are severely restricted, crime is actually increasing. In fact, […]
Austin Man Facing 10 Years in Prison After Photographing Cops Making Arrest
By Carlos Miller Photo by Antonio Buehler It was just after midnight on New Year’s Day when Antonio Buehler spotted a pair of Austin cops manhandling a woman at a gas station during a DUI investigation, so he pulled out his cell phone and began taking photos. That, […]
The answer would be “Hell, no!”
TSA agent spills grandfather’s ashes in confrontation with passenger
rawstory.com David Ferguson A TSA worker at an airport in Florida violated the agency’s policy when she opened a container containing the ashes of a passenger’s grandfather and spilled them on the terminal floor, according to Indianapolis, Indiana’s ABC affiliate station, WRTV Channel 6.
EPA drones spying on the livestock activity of Midwest farmers
.D. Heyes Natural News (NaturalNews) As the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to approve scores of drone applications for a range of federal, state and local agencies, concern among Americans and privacy groups is rising about the use of these drones for illegal surveillance. The latest federal agency […]
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Eric the Withholder
Holder gets a Goading @ TakiMag. _____________________ by Jim Goad The House Oversight Committee voted last week to begin Contempt of Congress proceedings against porpoise-faced Attorney General Eric Holder. Although the vote was a reaction to Holder’s stonewalling in the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal, America’s wormy, mustachioed […]
Navy arrested wrong man as ‘son’ of top fugitive drug lord ‘El Chapo’
aljazeera.com After working with US intelligence for months, the Mexican navy said it believed it had nabbed a big prize in a known Guadalajara narco-haven: the son of Mexico’s top fugitive drug lord. But it turned out they got the wrong man. The man arrested on Thursday as […]
Police Send SWAT Team, Break Into Wrong House (With TV Film Crew) In Response To Internet Troll
techdirt.com Mike Masnick We’ve heard of police very frequently overreacting to things and sending in SWAT teams when they aren’t necessary. We’ve also heard of them sending SWAT teams to the wrong place. But this latest story, found via Radley Balko (who tracks these things like no other) […]
Indefinite detention of Americans blocked by court
By Dean Kuipers Los Angeles Times May 18, 2012 In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued an injunction […]
Anarchists protest outside human trafficking conference
By Nick Smith OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Police are keeping close watch on the Oakland Convention Center. Wednesday afternoon, anarchist demonstrators clashed with officers when they were denied entrance to a conference on human trafficking. Demonstrators, calling themselves “Occupy Patriarchy” gathered outside the convention center to protest the conference […]
Punished for supporting the EDL?
From Spiked. Interview with the PC Stasi’s latest victim. ___________ By Patrick Hayes ‘You hear the things the social workers say, and you just bang your head against a brick wall and think, “Am I actually hearing this? Is this real?”’ Toni McLeod is an eight-month pregnant 25-year-old […]
Men Outnumber Women Among American Rape Victims
James Joyner on the rapecage-industrial complex. From Outside the Beltway. ____________ Christopher Glazer takes to N+1 magazine to argue that we should Raise the Crime Rate. Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot […]
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak declared ‘clinically dead’ by his doctors
From the Daily Mail. Sic semper tyrannis… …or, translated from Latin: good fucking riddance! ________________ Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the ‘Arab Spring last year, has been declared clinically dead by his doctors this evening. State […]
Manga images ‘not child porn’: Supreme Court
Swedish courts in sensible verdict shocker! Read all about it at The Local. I also found this tidbit—from artist Trevor Brown’s blog—interesting… i just received a letter yesterday from a fellow swede saying “…his ex tried to get him convicted for sexual abuse of their child so she […]
Real Resistance
(H) Take note AMERICA! – São Paulo – Brasil. This is what you call resistance!
Rodney King dead at 47
From CNN Rodney King, who died Sunday at the age of 47, gestures to supporters at a book signing event in Los Angeles on April 30. King’s beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked the LA Riots of 1992 after the acquittal […]
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