Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has frequently bragged that Florida is in high demand among people looking to relocate. In a new report released this week from the Census Bureau, it seems that he's been correct. According to the Bureau's report: After decades of rapid...
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Cop Admits to Responding to Child Rape Case by Raping 14 Year Old Victim Himself
by Matt Agorist | Nov 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know, police officers are arrested weekly in this country for sex crimes involving children. This is a massive problem but becomes even worse when victims of child sex abuse seek out help and run right into the arms of...
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...
When Giveaways Are Legal, But Commerce Is Not
by Walter E. Block | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Lieutenant Kirk Thibodeaux is a Louisiana state trooper in otherwise good standing. He is a member of the Transportation Safety Services/Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section. While attending a conference on vehicle safety in South Dakota, this officer of the law was...
‘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...
News Roundup 10/25/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 25, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Louisiana police officer Julio Alvarado was videoed slamming a small woman - Shantel Arnold - onto the pavement several times. Officer Alvarado has been named in nine excessive force lawsuits. [Link] Biden delays the release of JFK assassination files for over...
News Roundup 10/14/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 14, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A black Louisiana police officer was fired for speaking out against police abuse. [Link] Facebook will give journalists and activists extra protection from harassment. [Link] Overdose deaths in 2020 were up to at least 99,000. [Link] Great Power Putin says he...
9/3/21 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard and the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Dan McKnight about the effort to pass Defend the Guard legislation, which would block the use of National Guard troops in foreign combat operations without a declaration of war. McKnight gives background on what led him to become involved in political...
Cop Pleads Guilty to Trafficking in Child Porn, Raping Dog
by Matt Agorist | Sep 1, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP previously reported, a police officer from the Bossier City Police Department was arrested in December 2018 for filming unspeakable acts with animals. Officer Terry Yetman, 38, was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of animals—producing the evidence...
Free At Last: Veteran Sentenced to Life In Prison for $30 Worth of Marijuana Released
by Matt Agorist | Aug 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Derek Harris is an honorably discharged veteran who put his life on the line for his country in Operation Desert Storm. His years of service to his country were but dust in the wind, however, to the state who threw him in a cage for the rest of his life for selling...
ACLU Declares Second Amendment ‘Racist,’ Launches ‘War on Bill of Rights’
by Matt Agorist | Jul 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For years, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, has chosen to stand against those who would attack our Constitutional rights. Even the Free Thought Project has been supported by the organization when a California sheriff attempted to force us to delete an article...
News Roundup 4/28/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Louisiana police placed a GPS tracker on a woman’s car. When she removed it, they demanded the tracker back. [Link] In addition to the $2 trillion covid relief bill and the proposed $2 trillion infrastructure bill, Biden now wants to pass a $1.8 trillion bill...
The Success of Bottom-Up ‘Constitutional Carry’
by José Niño | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
Few political movements can boast of success like the firearms movement in the United States. Often overlooked is how before the 1980s there was no concept of licensed, let alone unlicensed, concealed carry in the overwhelming majority of the country. The sole...
Idaho Cop Arrested For Repeatedly Raping Immobile Cancer Patient
by Matt Agorist | Feb 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In one of the most disturbing instances of police sexual misconduct we’ve reported here at the Free Thought Project a retired police corporal was arrested this week for repeatedly raping a woman so sick with cancer that she couldn’t fight back. Scott Wayne McMikle,...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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