If people properly understood the role of police in the American system, they would probably trust anyone standing next to them in the grocery store to have their best interests at heart more than a “law enforcement” officer. There’s an important reason for this....
Justice
Government Intrusion Laid Bare
by Michael Reeves | Dec 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
In Utah, a woman is being charged with three counts of lewdness involving a child and may have to register as a sex offender for the next decade because her stepsons walked in on her while she was topless. Is it the responsibility of government to ensure a moral...
Pensacola: Blowback Terrorism: The problem isn’t ‘radical Islam’
by Scott Horton | Dec 9, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Scott Horton
Florida Senator Rick Scott is lost in the dark. After Friday’s deadly Afghan war-style “green on blue” attack by a Saudi air force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, the senator issued a statement calling the shooting an act of terrorism, and...
Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?
by John Whitehead | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment...
US Citizen Facing 20 Years in Prison for Teaching Cryptocurrency and Blockchain
by Matt Agorist | Dec 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
If the US government suddenly began a bombing campaign on North Korea which killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children, this would be considered an act of war. However, if the US government intentionally targets these same men, women, and children with...
Libertarian Retribution Theory Ep. 127
by Patrick Macfarlane | Nov 30, 2019 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
In this episode, I review Chapter 13 of the "Ethics of Liberty" by Murray Rothbard, "Punishment and Proportionality." I also discuss my plans for the show going forward. Subscribe to Keith Knight's "Don't Tread on Anyone" Episode 127 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is...
Oppose a Disease at its Beginning
by Michael Maharrey | Nov 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
If you give politicians an inch, they’ll take a mile. John Dickinson was one of the leading writers in the early days of the conflict. He insisted that the colonists needed to “oppose a disease at its beginning,” before the sickness could spread. Writing under the...
Send Thanksgiving Greetings to Chelsea Manning, Heroic Whistleblower In Jail
by Jim Bovard | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Working with Wikileaks almost a decade ago, Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided some of the most damning revelations on U.S. foreign policy and military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump’s Justice Department indicted Wikileaks’...