Reason: In April 2017, [Priscilla] Villarreal, who reports near the U.S.-Mexico border, broke a story about a Border Patrol agent who committed suicide. A month later, she released the surname of a family involved in a fatal car accident. The agency that confirmed...
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News Roundup 6/5/20
George Floyd Protests Minneapolis is considering a number of proposals to restructure the city’s police force including stripping money from the police. Another proposal called for disbanding the police. [Link] Customs and Border Patrol used an unarmed Predator drone...
Federal Confiscation Reflects Mission Creep and the Expanding Police State
In 2019, the Transportation Security Administration seized $181,000 in cash from an employee of a Tampa trucking company while he was going through a TSA checkpoint for a flight from Tampa to Cleveland. According to the employee and his employer, the worker...
Inside the Cell Where a Sick 16-Year-Old Boy Died in Border Patrol Care
Ah, you can see right there, he was reaching for his "waistband." https://youtu.be/YN_CXOS3yuc
Episode 294: Former CBP Agent Josh Childress on the Ever Increasing Police State
57 Minutes PG-13 Former soldier and Customs and Border Patrol agent Joshua Childress returns to the show to talk about the ever expanding scope of CBP and ICE's jurisdiction and power. He talks about American citizens getting swept up in this new "war," and how he...
‘Paperz Pleaze!’ – How the Immigration Crackdown is Expanding the Police State
A common trope in American-made, Nazi propaganda movies, was that in their police state, at any moment and for no reason, you could be stopped and forced to show your “papers.” Well, maybe not forced but if you didn’t the implications were obvious. You might be “black...
Episode 230: Former Soldier and Border Patrol Agent, Joshua Childress
71 Minutes Some Strong Language Pete invited Iraq/Afghanistan War Vet, and former Border Patrol Agent Joshua Childress to come on the show. After coming home from the wars, Joshua joined the southern Border Patrol. After hearing podcasts like Thaddeus Russell's and...
News Roundup 9/19/18
The Space Force will cost $13 billion over the first five years. [Link] The US will not permit Canadians who work in the legal marijuana industry to enter the US. Customs and Border Patrol plan to continue to enforce marijuana laws forcefully. [Link] Trump imposes new...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...