https://youtu.be/s1HycZUtZUI Patrick talks about a pending Wisconsin class action complaint regarding the lack of sufficient access to public defenders that is emblematic of a larger problem all across the United States. Episode 233 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is...
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A Third of Vets Get Booked into Jail at Least Once
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
A new study from the Council on Criminal Justice finds "roughly one third of veterans report having been arrested and booked into jail at least once in their lives, compared to fewer than one fifth of non-veterans." Military.com reports on the causes for vets getting...
Bill Clinton the Horrible
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 5, 2022 | Blog
If someone has done a full and honest assessment of Bill Clinton's presidency, I would really like to see it. It is stunning how many ills Clinton's two terms in office inflicted, directly or indirectly, on the American people and the world. Some of the worst stuff...
Interviews of Me
by Scott Horton | Dec 19, 2021 | Blog
The Dad Presents: Scott Horton takes on Government Propaganda Yemen Can't Wait ft. Scott Horton and Kyle Anzalone - Patrick MacFarlane Enough Already: Wars on Terror in The Middle East Without a Map w/ Scott Horton State of the World w/ Scott Horton - Eric Brakey The...
Do You Have an Obligation to Obey the Law? – Prof. Michael Huemer, Ph.D.
by Keith Knight | Sep 27, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/guhiKm297DM ... bureaucratic opportunists and unprincipled technicians and would-be technicians find it difficult to engage in any sort of reasoned argument. Argument means principle, and principle is precisely what opportunists are always weak on....
CNN Has Been Taken Over By The RUSSIANS!!
by Scott Horton | Sep 27, 2020 | Blog
Here the obviously compromised-by-Russia CNN "reporters" Jasmine Wright, Rachel Janfaza and Gregory Krieg say there are reasons for leftists to oppose Biden: Progressive activists are wary over criminal justice under a Biden-Harris administration They cite all leftie...
Want To Reform The Criminal Justice System? End The Drug War.
by Steven Woskow | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog
John Stossel at Reason. John interviews Dr Carl L. Hart on the drug war and ending it. Carl Hart is the Ziff Professor of Psychology in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also a Research Scientist at the New York State...
Washington Post: Journalists Beginning to Consider Possibility That Cops Lie About Everything
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2020 | Blog
Suckas, liars, get me a shovel. “The basic [journalistic] principle should be, treat the police like any other source, with the same degree of skepticism as you treat any other source,” said Susan Chira, the editor in chief of the Marshall Project, a digital news site...
FPF #499 – Will Porter on Police Brutality and Looting
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 1, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #499, Will Porter returns to the show to cover the ongoing protests, riots, and police brutality. The protests started after a police officer slowly murdered George Floyd, while three other helped and watched. The protesters demanded charges for the officers....
Episode 415: Attorney Catherine Bernard – Friend to Voluntaryists and Agorists
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 8, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
37 Minutes PG-13 Pete invited Georgia defense attorney, Catherine Bernard, to come on the show. Catherine has made a name for herself by defending non-violent offenders who have been brought up on felony charges for drugs, guns and other "offenses." Her record of...
Bernie’s Big Criminal Justice Plan, Flores Fix, New Tariffs
by Jennifer Monroe | Aug 25, 2019 | Jen the Libertarian
Bernie has got A Plan for reform all the criminal justice things, the Trump administration tries to "fix" the Flores agreement, and hold on to your butts because here come the 15% tariffs http://traffic.libsyn.com/jenthelibertarian/episode118.mp3
Kamala the Cop
by Scott Horton | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog
Mmm. How'd it taste? Tulsi takes down Kamala Harris over her record on criminal justice reform, the death penalty, and the war on drugs -TULSI2020 #DemDebate #Tulsi2020 https://t.co/7XQoiqHThu pic.twitter.com/epf58iQNYI — Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) August 1,...
Child Porn Sharing On Pentagon Computers
by Steven Woskow | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog
So bad congress has to finally act - it only took them a decade. Congress has known for at least a decade that child porn trading on Defense Department computers was a problem. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified 5,200 people “subscribed to websites that...
Realities of the U.S. Justice System Ep. 105
by Patrick Macfarlane | Feb 3, 2019 | Justice, Libertarianism, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHhQEtf9osU I've been practicing law for about 5 months now. Not a super long time, but I've already learned some realities about how the system REALLY works. Check out Thijs van der Linde's new show! Gaius Libertatis Episode 105 of the...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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