Before her horrific death last month, Brianna Grier, like so many people before her suffered from mental illness. Occasionally, this mother of two, would need to be hospitalized to get herself back to a state in which she could function. But when police officers...
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Who Was Tony Timpa?
by Keith Knight | Jul 26, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/zQiIPeHLQp4 “Unless it be to do justice on an offender,” Locke continued, no one may “take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.” Long traces out a key implication of...
During Response Training for Civilian Unrests, Cops Beat Fellow Officer to Death
by Matt Agorist | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The mother of a Los Angeles police officer is coming forward this week alleging that her son 32-year-old officer Houston Tipping, was beaten to death by fellow cops during department training last month. Tipping was playing the role of a civilian and was beaten by...
Cops Wake Up Unarmed, Sleeping Man Just to Kill Him As He Raises His Hands
by Matt Agorist | Jun 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The city of Mesa, Arizona settled a lawsuit with the family of a young man who was killed by police in September of 2020. As TFTP previously reported, Angel Benitez was found asleep in a car which was reported stolen. Benitez, for whatever reason, drove away from...
The Harrowing Conversations
by Kym Robinson | May 15, 2022 | Blog
I sometimes coach (MMA etc) cops and military types. They know my opinion on certain things and I am not shy about expressing them. I at times feel a hypocrisy in working with them and have even mentioned that to them. Those few I work with, are "nice" men. Easy to...
End No-Knock Raids So Cops Stop Killing Innocent Homeowners
by Matt Agorist | Apr 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the land of the free—thousands of times a year—American police officers kick in doors, smash windows, deploy tear gas, and explode flashbang grenades all to serve a single, often unarmed, individual with an arrest warrant. These militarized affronts on the homes...
The Communist Party of China Imposes Tyrannical Lockdowns and Deadly Food Shortages
by Keith Knight | Apr 16, 2022 | Blog
(Photo Credit: shimlatimes.in) Here are a collection of excerpts from mainstream sources on the Shanghai lockdowns. **Reminder**: China has one of the highest vaccination rates on the planet at 86.1%. In Shanghai, 25 million people remain locked down as 26,087 new...
Cop Enters Family’s Backyard, Shoots Innocent Father, ‘Sentenced’ to Firearms Training
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project understand, police officers mistake innocent individuals for criminals all the time. Often times, their fear gets the best of them and these folks who have committed no crime and harmed no one, are beaten or arrested...
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The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...