On New Year's Eve, Anthony Maclin, 24, was asleep in his car in his grandmother's driveway. He had committed no crime, was not suspected of a crime, and harmed no one. However, none of this was a defense against three police officers surrounding his car, firing for...
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SWAT Raids Innocent Family’s Home, Shoots 12 Year Old Boy in Bed, Covers Up Body Cam
by Matt Agorist | Feb 2, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In their effort to go after people for possessing and selling substances deemed illegal by the state, U.S. law enforcement personnel will lay waste to anyone in their path. As TFTP has reported time and again, even innocent children, including sleeping babies, are not...
Skynet Delayed: Killer Robot Proposal Defeated in San Francisco
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Under intense pressure from grassroots activists, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors reversed course and banned killer robots in the city. The San Francisco Police Department’s plan to arm robots came to light under a police militarization transparency law passed...
WATCH: Homeowner Investigating Break-In Killed by Cops on His Own Property
by Matt Agorist | Dec 7, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night Rajan Moonesinghe was killed by police, he had committed no crime and appeared to be investigating a potential break-in at his own home. Unfortunately, however, the fact that Moonesinghe had harmed no one was of no consequence to the Austin police officer...
The “Greedy Private Property” Deception
by Keith Knight | Nov 26, 2022 | Blog
A "property right" entitles one party to exclude another from interacting with a scarce part of the universe - i.e. to have a property right in my car entitles me to exclude others from driving it to Dallas when I wish to drive it to Phoenix. There is no...
All-Black Militia Leader Speaks Ahead of Sentencing
by Ken Silva | Nov 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It was an incident in Louisville one night in September 2020 that lasted scarcely eight seconds: all-black militia leader John Johnson exited his vehicle, turned on a flashlight attached to his AR-15 rifle, and scanned a downtown rooftop before walking to a nearby...
Cops Handcuff Man for Carrying a Walking Stick Thinking It Was a Gun
by Keith Knight | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog
We should be very grateful to farmers and home builders, because without them we would not have as much food or as many homes. That in no way means we should blindly do whatever farmers and home builders tell us to do. Same goes for any group claiming to...
Cop Convicted for Selling Children Fentanyl Out of Police Cruiser
by Matt Agorist | Nov 1, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When parents of children at Narraguagus Jr/Sr High School in Harrington saw officer Jeffrey Bishop's car parked in front of the school, they likely felt secure knowing that a cop was "protecting" their children. But Bishop was protecting no one. Instead, he was...
Israel Is Sending Robots With Machine Guns to the Gaza Border
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog
Oh, now it's a "border," huh? The “world’s largest open-air prison” gets a new set of guards.
Security Force
by Scott Horton | Sep 27, 2022 | Blog
47 California deputies stripped of guns after failing psych tests in wake of double slaying "The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office has stripped 47 deputies — 10% of the force — of their guns and arrest powers because they failed psychological exams in the wake of a...
Dear Government Supremacists, Self-Ownership Needs No Explanation
by Bryan Caplan | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
Lately I’ve heard libertarians ridiculed because their argument against some law boils down to, “Because freedom.” Why shouldn’t we have inheritance taxes? Because freedom. Why shouldn’t we ban handguns? Because freedom. Why shouldn’t we have an affirmative...
Report: White House Asked Israel to Review Rules of Engagement in Response to Journalist’s Murder
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Aug 18, 2022 | News
The Joe Biden Administration has urged Israel’s military to re-examine its rules of engagement, Axios reported, months after a soldier killed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was fatally shot in the head during a raid despite clearly identifying herself as a reporter.
WATCH: Cops Kill Handcuffed Woman by Dropping Her From Patrol Car
by Matt Agorist | Aug 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
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...
Armed ‘Good Samaritan’ Stops Mass Shooter in Indiana, Long Before Police Arrive
by Matt Agorist | Jul 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
In Greenwood, Indiana, residents who visit the Greenwood Park Mall are not allowed to carry guns. This policy makes the mall an easy target for deranged psychopaths who wish to cause harm to others as they know their victims won’t be able to defend themselves. This is...
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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...
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...
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