Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member or friend breaking the law, they are let go without consequence. Situations that have led to the murder of minorities...
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11/27/18 George Joseph on the Rise in Federal Gun Prosecutions
by Scott Horton | Nov 29, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Journalist George Joseph talks to Scott about the significant ramp up in federal gun prosecutions during Jeff Sessions' tenure, and continuing even now that he's gone. The idea behind his program was to target the "trigger-pulling" criminals, but in reality it targets...
The Second Amendment is For All Races
by Rob Faust | Jul 7, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
“No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms” were the words Thomas Jefferson wrote in three drafts of the Virginia Constitution. There’s a reason for that, it’s a powerful phrase, one with a sentiment that should be remembered and respected by our government. ...
News Roundup 11/30/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2017 | Blog
The US estimates the economy grew at 3.3% in the third quarter. [Link] Philando Castile's girlfriend settles a lawsuit with two cities for $800,000. [Link] Hawaii orders medical marijuana users to voluntarily surrender their firearms. [Link] The FBI attempted to...
The Castile Doctrine: Cops Without Consequences
by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
On June 16, a jury acquitted St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer Jeronimo Yanez of all charges in the 2016 killing of motorist Philando Castile. That acquittal was, in a sense, also a death sentence — not for Yanez, but for future motorists unfortunate enough to...
No Justice, No Peace, Abolish The Police
by Doreen Cleyre | Jun 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
On July 6th, 2016 Philando Castile was stopped by a police officer. Allegedly he was stopped for a broken taillight but a recently released dashcam video from Jeronimo Yanez's vehicle puts this notion in dispute. Instead, it seems like Castile was mistaken for a...
The Acquittal Verdict In The Philando Castile Case Is An Abomination
by Daniel Payne | Jun 20, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
It is a genuinely open question whether an American police officer can do almost anything without suffering criminal consequences. Americans have a profoundly stupid and misguided deferential attitude toward law enforcement, one which presumes that police...
If Cops Can’t Kill Mundanes on a Whim, What’s the Point of Having Police?
by Will Grigg | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog
To the ears of reasonable people, the expression “de-policing” would refer to the process of abolishing police departments – not the exercise of restraint by police officers in the use of lethal force by police officers. The latter would be described as...
What Cops and Slave Overseers Have in Common
by Will Grigg | Nov 26, 2016 | Will Grigg's Freedom Zealot Radio
Philando Castile was killed without cause by a police officer who has been indicted -- but not for murder -- because Castile's life is not considered as valuable as that of the officer who killed him. "Blue Lives" matter just a little more than the rest, owing to a...
Police Accountability and the Killing of Philando Castile
by Bonnie Kristian | Nov 17, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice
In July, just a few miles from my home in St. Paul, Minn., Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, during a traffic stop. A horrified nation watched Castile’s death play out live on Facebook, as his girlfriend had the presence of mind to...
News Roundup 11/17/16
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 17, 2016 | Blog
Second-degree manslaughter charges have been filed against the police officer who killed Philando Castile. [Link] The USA Freedom Act has increased spying on American citizens. The USA Freedom Act requires telecommunication companies to hold the metadata rather than...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
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...
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