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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...
‘Trooper of the Year’ Sentenced to 17.5 Years for Producing, Distributing Child Porn
by Matt Agorist | Nov 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In 2018, Louisiana State Police Trooper of 18 years, Jason Boyet received one of the department’s highest honors—Trooper of the Year. Fast forward two years, and this hero cop was thrown in a jail cell after being arrested on charges of production and distribution of...
Women Are Responsible For Nearly Half Of Recent Gun Sales
by Steven Woskow | Sep 16, 2021 | Blog
SAN DIEGO— Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study. The preliminary results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, designed by Deborah Azrael of the...
Sam Colt: The Forgotten History of America’s Legendary Firearms Inventor and Manufacturer
by Steven Woskow | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog
Born on July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Connecticut, Samuel Colt played a vital role in American culture and folklore. The inventor and creator of the first handheld revolver, Sam Colt made it possible to have a handgun that could fire rapidly without needing to be...
Cops Sic Dog on Sleeping 13 Year Old Boy, Falsely Accuse Him of Stealing Car
by Matt Agorist | May 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The Cedar Rapids police department was slapped with a lawsuit this week by the mother of a 13-year-old boy who was mauled by a police K-9 as he slept in the backyard. According to the lawsuit, the boy was wrongly accused of being involved in a car theft when he was...
What Biden’s Nomination of a Waco Arsonist Portends For Americans’ Safety
by Jim Bovard | Apr 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
Last week, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the premier federal firearms enforcement agency. Biden complemented that announcement with a call for a national red flag law to entitle...
New Report Continues to Obfuscate Killing of Duncan Lemp
by Jim Bovard | Jan 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Why did a Montgomery County, Maryland SWAT team kill 21-year-old Duncan Lemp, in a no-knock predawn raid on March 12? The county released an official report yesterday stating that a violent no-knock raid was justified “due to Lemp being ‘anti-government,’...
Let’s Talk About Potential Gun Issues
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 4, 2020 | Blog
As I’m typing this it looks to me like Joe Biden is going to take this thing (if I’m wrong, I’ll be first to admit it). A common worry among libertarians/anarchists and even conservatives is that Biden is going to do an executive order (XO) of some sort resulting in...
Don’t Trust ‘Waco Whitewasher’ John Danforth’s Election Advice
by Jim Bovard | Oct 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
Trump’s attack on the debate commission is an attack on the election itself,” blares the headline from today’s Washington Post op-ed page. That article was written by former senator John Danforth, who has been a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates since...
Patrick M. Rose Boston Police Union Leader is Child Rapist
by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2020 | Blog
Boston Globe: Patrick M. Rose, a former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, was ordered held on $100,000 bail Thursday on charges that he sexually assaulted a girl on “multiple occasions” from when she was about 7 to about 12 years old. Rose...
Background Checks Lead to Gun Confiscation in California
by K. Lloyd Billingsley | May 27, 2020 | Featured Articles
Since last July 1, California has required background checks for those purchasing firearm ammunition. As we noted, by December 2019 the state had run 345,000 background checks and rejected 62,000 Californians legally entitled to purchase ammunition, including off-duty...
Are you a fan of Dan Carlin, George Friedman, Stephen Kotkin, and Victor Davis Hanson?
by Sam Jacobs | Apr 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Are you a fan of Dan Carlin, George Friedman, Stephen Kotkin, and Victor Davis Hanson? Good, because we are looking for an American podcast host for The Resistance Library Podcast.
The Mystery Deepens Over The Pre-Dawn Police Killing Of Duncan Lemp
by Jim Bovard | Mar 18, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
Five days after shooting 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in a predawn raid, the Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Department announced Tuesday that the killing was immaculate. Under pressure by media criticism, the police department issued a detailed statement...
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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...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
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