Today [March 21, 2018] was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users....
Justice
Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Opponents
by Jim Bovard | Mar 17, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
President Trump has said and done many things to appall the friends of freedom. From Trump’s pro-torture comments to his praise of police brutality to his cruise-missile barrage against Syria to his threat to annihilate North Korea, there are ample signs that he...
The Presumption of Innocence: Not Just for the Courtroom
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 17, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice
Journalist Peter Hitchens wrote the following in the connection with the events in Salisbury, England, involving a former Russian double agent and his daughter, but it is worth keeping in mind always: The presumption of innocence is not just a great liberty and...
Cop Hits Woman's Car At 94 MPH, Killing Her Infant. Police Arrest Woman For Negligent Homicide.
by Tim Cushing | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
This is how things go in the US, where law enforcement is treated like a favored religion and everyone who isn't on the inside is just grist for prosecution mills. Here's the setup, via Matt Pearce. A Baton Rouge police officer was arrested Friday on a count of...
Cop Hits Woman’s Car At 94 MPH, Killing Her Infant. Police Arrest Woman For Negligent Homicide.
by Tim Cushing | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
This is how things go in the US, where law enforcement is treated like a favored religion and everyone who isn't on the inside is just grist for prosecution mills. Here's the setup, via Matt Pearce. A Baton Rouge police officer was arrested Friday on a count of...
The War on Opioids Has Become a War on Patients
by Jeffrey A. Singer | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
As Anne Fuqua recently pointed out in the Washington Post, non-medical drug users accessing heroin and fentanyl in the underground drug market are not the only victims in the opioid crisis. Many patients whose only relief from a life sentence of torturing pain are...
Frederick Douglass: Lion of Individualist Liberalism
by Jonathan Bean | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Frederick Douglass, whose bicentennial birthday fell on Valentine’s Day, is one of the great figures in American history, a hero whose legacy is celebrated even by those who might otherwise contest his actual ideas. Illustrating this truth, the New York Times marked...
Social Control Through Trauma. School Lock-Down Active Shooter Drills Are NOT About Safety
by Raeford Davis | Mar 9, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Fordham Law School Professor John Plaff posted a great twitter thread questioning the use of School shooter drills. Go read it first: This post by a schoolteacher is what he is referencing: That's just one squeamish teacher right? Take a moment to watch this ABC...
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