From a DHS Bulletin dated November 30, 2022: Perceptions of government overreach continue to drive individuals to attempt to commit violence targeting government officials and law enforcement officers. In August 2022, an individual wearing body armor and armed with...
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Down With Content Moderation!
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
Back when I was involved with Parler, I wrote an article about FaceBook and it’s then-newly anointed Oversight Board. A more apt name might have been Tourqemada, condemning people to a digital inquisition. Free speech frauds did not condemn the concept of this board,...
5/13/21 Jim Bovard on the Dangerous Consequences of America’s Secret Police State
by Scott Horton | May 15, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard discusses the way the American surveillance state has slowly dismantled the fourth amendment, especially thanks to the FISA courts and the way they've enabled legal loopholes for spying on nearly any American citizen. Bovard cites interventions by the NSA...
Police Mistakenly Raid Home of Great-Grandfather, Permanently Injure Him
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Despite police and their apologists constantly reminding us that “if we do nothing wrong, we have nothing to worry about,” innocent people continue to be arrested, beaten, and even killed by police carrying out deadly mistakes. Willard J. King, a Great-Grandfather...
No Warrant, No Problem; How Government Buys Its Way Around the 4th Amendment
by Ken Silva | Feb 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
When the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that law enforcement agencies need warrants before they can request geolocation data from cell phone companies, civil liberties advocates touted the judgment as a major win for privacy. But since then, government agencies have...
Prepare: The Supreme Court Might Legalize Warrantless Gun Seizures
by Matt Agorist | Feb 10, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Last week, the Free Thought Project reported on HR 127, the most tyrannical gun bill ever proposed. The bill would target the poor by forcing citizens to pay $800 per year to possess firearms that they are required to register. It also bans multiple legal guns and...
Federal Police Beat Veteran, Supreme Court May Hear Case
by John Kramer | Feb 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
José Oliva survived the bloodiest year in Vietnam, but he most feared for his life when he was brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack by federal officers in a Veterans Affairs hospital in his hometown of El Paso, Texas that left him with several injuries, two of...
How Privatizing the Roads Would Help Stop Police Brutality
by Tate Fegley | Aug 22, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Advocates of a free society so frequently field the objection “Who will build the roads?” or some variation thereof that it’s become a meme. Much effort has been put into answering this question, including books on the privatization of roads and highways. What has...
The Police Lie All The Time. Can Anything Stop Them?
by Steven Woskow | Aug 9, 2020 | Blog
Mark Joseph Stern at Slate. The bureaucratic state passes laws that make it easy for cops to stop anyone at anytime for minor offences. The system incentives cops to lie and protects them from scrutiny. It is so bad that DA offices are keeping secret databases of...
Qualified Immunity: An Invention of Judicial Activism
by Michael Maharrey | Jun 15, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that shields cops from liability for actions taken in the line of duty unless they violate rights “clearly established” by existing judicial precedent. No statute exists granting qualified immunity. It evolved over time based on...
Her Name Was Breonna Taylor: The Deadly Consequences of No-Knock Warrants
by Brad Polumbo | Jun 15, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
mid the nationwide focus on the death of George Floyd, another tragedy has unfortunately fallen by the wayside. We should not forget the death of Breonna Taylor—or the dire need to abolish the “no-knock” warrants that caused her death, trample property rights, and...
Supreme Court Rules Against Fourth Amendment
by Michael Maharrey | May 12, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The Supreme Court handed down another opinion eroding the Fourth Amendment in a case that should have never gone to the federal court. Kansas v. Glover revolves around a traffic stop by Douglas County Sheriff’s Deputy Mark Mehrer. He pulled Charles Glover over after...
New Lawsuit Asks Whether State Agents Can Trespass and Place Cameras on Private Land in Tennessee
by Andrew Wimer | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
Camden, Tenn.—Terry Rainwaters lives, farms and hunts on the 136 acres he owns along the Big Sandy River in rural Tennessee. It’s clear that the farm is private property, with a “no trespassing” sign on the gate. Yet agents of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency...
Police, Military Begin Door to Door Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Rhode Island — In perhaps the most unprecedented attack on the Constitution on which the Free Thought Project has ever has ever reported, the governor of Rhode Island has announced that the National Guard will begin conducting house-to-house searches to hunt down New...
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ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
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