In a sickening display of police brutality, reminiscent of countless incidents we've exposed before, a Flint police officer was caught on camera mercilessly assaulting a handcuffed man. What should have been a routine arrest will now cost Flint taxpayers dearly all...
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WATCH: 14 Year Old Girl Held at Gunpoint Over Seatbelt Violation
by Matt Agorist | Feb 27, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the land of the free, if law enforcement witnesses you driving your personally owned vehicle with dark window tint or without your seatbelt on, they will pull you over and issue a citation, otherwise known as extortion. If you refuse to acknowledge this extortion...
Cop Fired For Feeding Homeless Man a ‘Shit Sandwich’ Is Rehired 30 Miles Away
by Matt Agorist | Dec 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In November of 2016, the Free Thought Project brought you the disgusting story of a San Antonio cop putting feces on a piece of bread and giving it to a homeless man as food. For making a literal sh*t sandwich, San Antonio police officer Matthew Luckhurst was fired....
Alabama Cops Jail 82 Year Old Grandmother for Unpaid $70 Trash Bill
by Matt Agorist | Dec 5, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Over the years, the Free Thought Project has reported on many asinine reasons police have used to arrest entirely innocent people who have harmed no one. Frequently, long grass on one's own property or a burnt-out license plate light can get people killed in the land...
Message to Jacobin Magazine: Economic Suppression is Far Worse Than Voter Suppression
by Keith Knight | Nov 27, 2022 | Blog
Imagine two criminals: Criminal 1: Forcibly stopped a woman from having a 1 in 10 million vote to determine the governor of New York Criminal 2: Forcibly stopped a woman from getting the job of her dreams via occupational licensing regulations even though a...
Cop Shoots Unarmed Man in Head, Gets Slap on Wrist
by Matt Agorist | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In December 2017, community members began searching for answers after an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer in an unmarked car who claimed that he opened fire because he had his hand in his pocket. But their victim, 25-year-old Dennis Plowden Jr. was...
Taxpayers Liable After Cops Taze, Beat Elderly Man in His Home
by Matt Agorist | Nov 7, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On Friday, TFTP reported the story of Ruby Johnson—an elderly woman accosted in her home—by SWAT officers acting on bad information. She was innocent and police had no reason to be there. Highlighting the problem with police attacking the elderly, is that Johnson's...
AOC Exposes Herself as a Total Fraud
by Keith Knight | Oct 21, 2022 | Blog
So often Democratic Socialists will claim that private companies are bad because they care not about others but only for their own personal benefit. Want money voluntarily? That's greed! Taking money via taxation with the threat of jailing peaceful people,...
Cop Convicted After Forcing Woman To Give Toddler Son Oral Sex (While He Filmed)
by Matt Agorist | Oct 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Over the past decade, the Free Thought Project has reported on utterly horrific crimes perpetrated by police officers against society's most vulnerable. From children to the elderly, no demographic is left safe. However, a case out of Iberville Parish in Louisiana is...
Joe Biden’s Second Best Day
by Scott Horton | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog
After ending the war in Afghanistan: Biden pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession President Biden will pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, the White House said Thursday, a move toward decriminalizing the drug....
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...
Cops Throw Man Suffering Diabetic Shock in Jail, Watch Him Die
by Matt Agorist | Aug 9, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When he was arrested in February of this year, Gilbert Gil, 67, had committed no crime and had harmed no one. Sadly, however, his innocence offered no protection from the pernicious abuse of the California police state. The nightmare for the Gil family began when a...
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...
Family’s House Burned, 15 Year Old Killed in SWAT Raid
by Matt Agorist | Jul 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An innocent family is homeless and a 15-year-old boy is dead after a SWAT team engaged in a standoff to arrest a suspect for a parole violation. Police are now conducting damage control to avoid taking the blame. Last week, police said they were pursuing a suspect,...
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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...
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
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